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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI'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: CNBCs 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 Romneys fathers 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 Romneys 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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I'm losing track, so let's make a new LIST (Original Post)
Tx4obama
Jan 2012
OP
Wasn't there much cheering for an electric fence on the border with Mexico as well?
sinkingfeeling
Jan 2012
#2
It seems that after Perry's performance on the immigration question, that doomed his campaign
Liberal_Stalwart71
Jan 2012
#3
January 23rd debate: Brian Williams asked audience to withhold their applause and verbal reactions
Tx4obama
Jan 2012
#4
Raine
(30,540 posts)1. GREAT list
I'm sure they'll be plenty more to add in the coming days, sadly.
sinkingfeeling
(51,278 posts)2. Wasn't there much cheering for an electric fence on the border with Mexico as well?
Liberal_Stalwart71
(20,450 posts)3. It seems that after Perry's performance on the immigration question, that doomed his campaign
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
so there probably won't be anything new tonight to add to the list.
Scurrilous
(38,687 posts)5. K & R
Tx4obama
(36,974 posts)6. AND here's VIDEO to go along with the list above - The 2012 Debate Audiences: A Tribute
The 2012 Debate Audiences: A Tribute
Tx4obama
(36,974 posts)7. Debate February 22, 2012 GOP boo'ed: Women's healthcare/contraception n/t