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Tx4obama

(36,974 posts)
Fri Jan 20, 2012, 04:48 AM Jan 2012

I'm losing track, so let's make a new LIST

Last edited Wed Feb 22, 2012, 10:42 PM - Edit history (4)


of all the 'inappropriate' times the crazy GOPers have cheered and boo'ed at the Republican debates

Here's a few ...

Cheers:

Rick Perry's Executions/Support for the Death Penalty
http://www.mrc.org/biasalert/2011/20110927075902.aspx

Ron Paul was posed with a hypothetical situation involving an uninsured man on death's door. When Paul was asked if the state should let him die without covering his medical bills, a couple of crowd members shouted in the affirmative.
http://www.mrc.org/biasalert/2011/20110927075902.aspx

Herman Cain's sexual harassment: CNBC’s Maria Bartiromo raised the issue of character with Cain, asking the former businessmans whether Americans would vote for him with such character questions on the table. Initially taken aback and gasping a bit, the audience cheered when Cain answered that, "despite what has happened in the last nine days . . . people are still enthusiastic" about his campaign. "They say they don't care about this character assassination. They care about growing the economy." http://www.newsmax.com/InsideCover/Republican-debate-cain-allegations/2011/11/09/id/417506

Gingrich: Child Labor
http://www.addictinginfo.org/2011/12/11/child-labor-applauded-by-audience-during-republican-debate-in-iowa/

Gingrich got a standing ovation for rejecting moderator Juan Williams' comments on race.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/19/gop-debates-2012-audiences-cheers-boos_n_1211827.html?ref=politics

Cheering for waterboarding and torture
http://www.examiner.com/liberal-in-orlando/republican-crowd-cheers-waterboarding-and-torture-video-included

Gingrich's open marriage answer to John King.

Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich Wish Fidel Castro To Hell. Audience applauds 'death'
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/23/mitt-romney-newt-gingrich_n_1225937.html


Boo's:

Gay soldier in Iraq: when a pre-recorded question fielded by Army service member Stephen Hill from Iraq via YouTube, concerning whether any one of the candidates would reinstate the recently-retired "Don't ask, don't tell" policy excluding openly-gay soldiers like himself from the US military, elicited vocal booing from a few audience members...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_Party_presidential_debates,_2012

Perry's relatively moderate immigration stance.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/19/gop-debates-2012-audiences-cheers-boos_n_1211827.html?ref=politics

Audience started booing when Juan Williams uttered the word “Mexico,” in reference to the birthplace of Mitt Romney’s father’s birthplace.
http://www.tuvez.com/videos/wtf-audience-at-republican-presidential-debates-boo-mexico/

Ron Paul 'Golden Rule' Booed at SC Debate
http://crooksandliars.com/karoli/ron-paul-booed-debate-saying-foreign-policy

Sorta like a boo but not quite : Debate Crowd Laughs At Romney’s Self-Deportation
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10178320

Debate #20: Women's Healthcare/Contraception
Arizona Audience Boos Birth Control During GOP Debate
http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2012/02/22/430909/arizona-audience-boos-birth-control-during-gop-debate/


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Liberal_Stalwart71

(20,450 posts)
3. It seems that after Perry's performance on the immigration question, that doomed his campaign
Fri Jan 20, 2012, 11:24 AM
Jan 2012

and he just couldn't regain any momentum.

See, it shows me what I already know about the Republican Party: Its voters are racist, bigoted assholes!

Tx4obama

(36,974 posts)
4. January 23rd debate: Brian Williams asked audience to withhold their applause and verbal reactions
Mon Jan 23, 2012, 10:15 PM
Jan 2012

so there probably won't be anything new tonight to add to the list.

Tx4obama

(36,974 posts)
6. AND here's VIDEO to go along with the list above - The 2012 Debate Audiences: A Tribute
Sat Jan 28, 2012, 03:13 AM
Jan 2012

The 2012 Debate Audiences: A Tribute



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