Still not much known about the particulars of yesterday’s “this is how we feed animals” incident at the RNCC — and no one much wants to talk about it.
You’ve probably seen that last night an RNC convention attendee was ejected from the hall for pelting a black CNN camerawoman with nuts and saying the words “this is how we feed animals.”
Follow up reports this morning say actually two people were ejected.
Now, one of the more interesting things about this story is that it broke on TPM. Actually, not quite. We first saw a tweet from David Shuster. Then we got confirmation of what happened from CNN and were the first to run the story. (This morning the RNCC essentially confirmed something rotten had happened.) But you may have noticed that one of the biggest news organizations in the world — CNN — has been remarkably tight-lipped about this. Read More
Convention officials released the following statement: “Yesterday two attendees exhibited deplorable behavior. Their conduct was inexcusable and unacceptable. This kind of behavior will not be tolerated.”
RNC attendee booted after allegedly throwing nuts at black CNN camerawoman, said ‘This is how we feed the animals’
Was it just me or was that hand metaphor from Santorum kind of weird?
Todd Akin’s evolution from apologetic and semi-humbled to defiant and bashing fellow GOPer.
Akin finally admits it’s the Republican party, not the liberal media, trying to kick him off the ballot.
Scenes from the Ron Paul mini-revolt from today on the convention floor and what all the fighting was actually about.