Obamus Interruptus

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http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/OTUS/reporter-interrupted-obama-thought-finished/story?id=16581638
The Daily Caller's Neil Munro implausibly claims that he never meant to cut off the president and thought he was finished speaking.


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http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2012/06/15/rep_cummings_racism_has_something_to_do_with_obama_interruption.html
Rep. Cummings: Racism "Has Something To Do With" Obama Interruption


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Julian Epstein: MSNBC Guest: Would A White President Get Heckled?
"I think it's a vert important question because I think this is the first African-American president. We've never had a white president been told by the opposing party to shut up in the middle of a major address to the Congress. We've never had a president like this heckled so disrespectfully. We've never had this otherness afforded to any other president and I think the right wing has some explaining to do because to me it's patently obvious," he said.

Sam Donaldson, Chris Wallace To Conservatives: You Lie

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Conservatives have defended the actions of Daily Caller reporter Neil Munro by claiming that his shouted questions to President Obama yesterday are no different than what veteran ABC News anchor Sam Donaldson used to do when he covered the Reagan White House. On Friday, Munro repeatedly interrupted Obama during his announcement of an immigration policy change that will potentially exempt hundreds of thousands of young undocumented immigrants from deportation and allow them to legally seek work in the United States. But Donaldson rejected that comparison.

As the Washington Post reported, Donaldson "didn't approve" of the confrontation:

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"I never interrupted any president while he was making a formal presentation of any sort. You don't do that, do you?" said Donaldson, who titled his 1987 memoir "Hold On, Mr. President!"

Not that Donaldson ever let them slip away quietly. But he would wait until a president had finished his remarks, he said. And if the chief executive turned away without answering questions, Donaldson would fire away.

Donaldson was also famous for shouting questions as the president walked to and from his helicopter.

Indeed, Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace, who covered the White House alongside Donaldson as a reporter for NBC, agreed that what Munro did was "outrageous."

Wallace stated on Fox News' Studio B:

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WALLACE: I covered Ronald Reagan for six years with Sam Donaldson. We used to scream our lungs out asking questions, but we always waited until the president had -- any president had finished speaking. The idea that you would interrupt the president in the middle of prepared remarks and shout a question -- I don't think the guy should be allowed back in the White House, you know, on a press pass.

Later, during an interview with Washington, D.C.-based radio news station WTOP, Wallace added that Munro "was way over the line":

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WALLACE: The role of the press is to ask questions of the president, to get answers, but you don't interrupt the president in the middle of a statement. I covered the White House, Ronald Reagan for six years -- I was there with Sam Donaldson. Nobody would say that either of us lacked aggressiveness when it came to questioning the president, but we didn't interrupt while the president was still talking. This was way over the line.

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Tucker Carlson praises heckling reporter
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Asshole:

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‘Joe The Plumber’ Blames Gun Control For The Holocaust

Samuel “Joe The Plumber” Wurzelbacher, the 2008 campaign microcelebrity and Ohio congressional candidate, has an interesting theory about the Holocaust. Yesterday, Mr. Wurzelbacher released a campaign web video in which he blamed the Holocaust and the Armenian genocide on gun control laws.

He forgot to blame "Darwinism" and "the gays", too.

Heretic wrote:

Asshole:

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‘Joe The Plumber’ Blames Gun Control For The Holocaust

Samuel “Joe The Plumber” Wurzelbacher, the 2008 campaign microcelebrity and Ohio congressional candidate, has an interesting theory about the Holocaust. Yesterday, Mr. Wurzelbacher released a campaign web video in which he blamed the Holocaust and the Armenian genocide on gun control laws.

Holy crap, we have a Sharron Angle without tits.

edge540 wrote:

Heretic wrote:

Asshole:

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‘Joe The Plumber’ Blames Gun Control For The Holocaust

Samuel “Joe The Plumber” Wurzelbacher, the 2008 campaign microcelebrity and Ohio congressional candidate, has an interesting theory about the Holocaust. Yesterday, Mr. Wurzelbacher released a campaign web video in which he blamed the Holocaust and the Armenian genocide on gun control laws.

Holy crap, we have a Sharron Angle without tits.

Or a Sarah Palin with facial hair
The Myth of Nazi Gun Control

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He forgot to blame "Darwinism" and "the gays", too.

And also slavery:

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Ohio congressional candidate and living 2008 campaign artifact Samuel “Joe The Plumber” Wurzelbacher released a video yesterday in which he cited gun control as a contributing cause for the Holocaust and the Armenian genocide. After The Politicker published a story about the clip, we noticed many angry responses from people who were offended by Mr. Wurzelbacher’s claim gun control can be blamed for the Holocaust. We reached out to Mr. Wurzelbacher and got a call back from his campaign spokesman, Phil Christofanelli, who said “there’s nothing offensive” about the video and discussed how gun control may have led to slavery in the United States too.

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“Well, blacks weren’t allowed to own guns in the south, that’s a historical fact as well,” said Mr. Christofanelli. “So, it would seem that the argument would apply there as well.”

Fucking muppets.