RNC attendees throw peanuts at black camerawoman

It was talked about in one of the convention threads. CNN has confirmed it, but said they will not make further comment. Wonder why the big, bad, libural, lamestream media would cover this up?

And there's this:

www.harpers.org/archive/2012/08/hbc-90008805

A Troubling Chant on the Convention Floor

An unscripted moment happened late this afternoon that caused the assembled mainstream media to turn away in the hope that it would disappear. As I was standing in line for a sandwich next to an Italian and a Puerto Rican correspondent, a controversy was unfolding on the floor. The RonPaulites, whose furious devotion to a single idea have made them the Ellen Jamesians of the right, were protesting a decision by RNC officials not to seat members of the Maine delegation, which was split between Paul and Romney supporters following rule changes made just prior to the convention. There were energetic shouts of “Aye!” and “Nay!” as a Puerto Rican party functionary—Zoraida Fonalledas, the chairwoman of the Committee on Permanent Organization—took her turn at the main-stage lectern. As she began speaking in her accented English, some in the crowd started shouting “U.S.A.! U.S.A.!”


The chanting carried on for nearly a minute while most of the other delegates and the media stood by in stunned silence. The Puerto Rican correspondent turned to me and asked, “Is this happening?” I said I honestly didn’t know what was happening—it was astonishing to see all the brittle work of narrative construction that is a modern political convention suddenly crack before our eyes. None of us could quite believe what we were seeing: A sea of twentysomething bowties and cowboy hats morphing into frat bros apparently shrieking over (or at) a Latina. RNC chairman Reince Priebus quickly stepped up and asked for order and respect for the speaker, suggesting that, yeah, what we had just seen might well have been an ugly outburst of nativism.

At least half a dozen respected Latino pols are scheduled to talk later on at the convention. I doubt any of them will generate a clip like the one that might be playing wall-to-wall tonight in San Juan and southern Florida.

It's not getting traction because getting upset about there being racists at a GOP convention is like getting upset there are whores in a whorehouse?

I posted it last night in the RNC thread. At the time there were no follow-up reports.

I get that this is a small fraction of people in the grander scheme of things, but really?! What makes these people feel confident enough to chant and/or throw things? Is it because they believe they are with other like-minded people?

The nuts incident is just so disturbing I don't have words for it.

And here I am being the devil's advocate for the U-S-A chant - are we sure they're not chanting towards something else? Maybe something was happening on the floor when they were chanting? If they're chanting U-S-A to the Puerto Rican woman...geography fail. And also deplorable.

Link or it didn't happen.

That, or the opposite. OMG, it was only 2 people! (2 people representing their home state's GOP.) You can't paint everyone in the GOP with the same brush!

What about the Romney spokesman who opened fire with an AK-47 on a schoolyard full of black and Latino orphans and nuns?

What? You want a source for this?

Here, I did your work for you.

www.baynews9.com/content/news/baynews9/news/article.html/content/news/articles/bn9/2012/8/26/deputies_rnc_protest.html

ZOMG MACHETE! Which he didn't brandish.

And sticks! ZOMG sticks!

Lady, you're getting all sorts of side-eyes from me today.

Having a machete tied to your leg and not using it against anyone is totally worse than throwing food at a human being and calling her an animal.

ETA: And of course, not having a six-month emergency fund is worse than both of the above situations.

Yeah, I'm not sure why a machete is such big news (seriously, I had to go several links down to find a non-biased source [I'll let you guess which side has been playing this up]), when I'm sure several convention people were wearing guns on their person.

Unless, are guns banned from the convention as well?

There was a man arrested, but I don't think anyone knows if he was a dem or whatever. Given that he argued that he was allowed to carry what he wants, it sounds more like a repub to me