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.”
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
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.
Take a moment to purge your mind of politics and instead consider a world where two planets together orbit two stars, which in turn orbit each other.
Okay, now back to work.
Simple question: were the two “attendees” who got booted from the GOP convention last night delegates or not? Our reporters have been working this story hard since last night and no one will say. Not CNN. Not the RNCC. No one will reveal any details about what happened.
Here’s a clip from our latest story that lays out the key questions …
It remains unknown whether the two attendees were delegates to the convention, which state delegation they were members of, whether they were forcibly removed from the arena, whether their convention credentials have been revoked, or whether they will be back in attendance today.
Ron Fournier follows up on calling out the Romney campaigns appeal to race hatred in a new article at National Journal.
Anyone else want to step up?
No question. The Romney campaign has doubled down. All in on the race/lazy/dependency groove from here on out. No going back.
In private they’re all but bragging about it — specifically their run of welfare-centric commercials which they’re running at a red hot clip in swing states all across the country. It’s working, they say. The fact-checkers can go screw themselves.
More on the main event shortly.
TAMPA, Fla. — Is Ann Romney a “modern feminist” or a traditional, doting housewife? Even her own daughters-in-law couldn’t decide as they introduced her at a “Women for Mitt” event here Wednesday morning, painting her as both a new-school crusader for women, and an old-school instructor of household upkeep and pie-baking.
Their conflicting accounts reflect a broader struggle within the party to define the would-be first lady — they want to make Ann Romney all things to all women, whether that means she’s an ambassador to working women with whom she has little in common, or the “conservative ideal of a woman whose strength lies in running her home.” Read More