Best Tweet re: Nut Throwing at RNC

[Coexist]

via TPM

You’ve probably seen that last night a convention attendee was ejected from the hall for pelting a black CNN camerawomen 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 and 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.

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As a side note, one can only imagine how Fox News would be going to town over this had something somehow analogous happened to one of their staffers at a Democratic convention.

and the Tweet of all Tweets

Deen Freelon ?@dfreelon
I'll make the GOP a deal: I won't judge you all by the nut-throwing racist if you don't judge me by every young black criminal out there.

[niyad]

1. excellent

[annabanana]

2. lol.. FOX would be swooning all over the floor and teasing the story

opening and closing every segment for weeks....

[TlalocW]

4. And all the hosts would be eating nuts

Big packages of nuts everywhere, etc.

TlalocW

[Lucy Goosey]

3. Well played, @dfreelon

Way to make a giant, important point in under 140 characters!

[SnowCritter]

5. A convention attendee threw nuts at a black CNN camerawoman

OK - does that mean that the convention attendee was throwing other convention attendees at the camerawoman?

[awoke_in_2003]

6. "this is how we feed animals"...

Wow. I don't even know what to say about that. They are not even pretending anymore.

[Coyotl]

7. At least they provided some guidance to the masses in the assembly