The NRA Crowd Did NOT Laugh

[kpete]

The NRA Crowd Didn't Laugh
by Anton Sirius
Fri May 16, 2008 at 02:25:05 PM PDT

Evidence

Here's the AP article about Huckabee's joke:
http://www.startribune.com/nation/19017759.html

Hearing a loud noise and interrupting his speech, Huckabee said: "That was Barack Obama. He just tripped off a chair. He's getting ready to speak and somebody aimed a gun at him and he — he dove for the floor."

There were only a few murmurs in the crowd after the remark.

video from CNN. The silence after Huckabee's joke is pretty deafening.
VIDEO: http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/politics/2008/05/16/sot.huckabee.jokes.obama.cnn

[Glorfindel]

1. Huckabee is scum

Maybe even the NRA knuckle-draggers are able to recognize this fact.

[patrice]

2. If they had laughed, there wouldn't have been an apology from Huckabee. nt

[HughMoran]

3. Is that what he apologized for

I was wondering how he suddenly became relevant.

What is it with Republicans and idiotic bigoted statements?

[chascarrillo]

4. I noted that, and I was frankly astonished.

I mean, after Charlton Heston's comments about lynching Gore (which drew a good bit of cheers) and Ted Nugent telling Clinton and Obama to "suck on" his AK-47s... I'm really kinda shocked that they seemed to be repelled by Huckabee.

This whole election cycle is so Alice in Wonderland.

[Generic Brad]

5. Of course they didn't laugh

They are Americans.

[Ilsa]

7. Exactly! Alot of Democrats know that the tree of liberty

needs to be refreshed with the blood of tyrants and patriots from time to time. Some are NRA members.

[skooooo]

6. when i saw it on tv..i heard a few laughs..nt

[ColbertWatcher]

8. I heard some laughter on another clip. n/t

[Rosemary2205]

9. Yep, that joke flopped big time.

Tough crowd.