Comments on: AFP: “One reporter giggled at the back” during McCain press conference

By: BizzyBlog » CNN Reporter Baghad Reporter’s Continued Presence Singlehandedly Ends the Debate about Bias at CNN (Updates: Denial, Debunks, Rebunks)

Fri, 13 Apr 2007 17:54:31 +0000

[...] UPDATE 6, April 10: From Hot Air — “McCain says someone was laughing during his Baghdad press conference.” Allah notes: This makes three independent reports of distracting chuckling during the presser: Drudge’s original much-maligned story, which accused Michael Ware by name of “heckling;” AFP’s story from last Tuesday, which cited “giggling” by an unnamed reporter; and now J-Mac himself, who appeared yesterday on Sean Hannity’s radio show to do a little rebunking of Raw Story’s debunking. [...]

By: Hot Air » Blog Archive » Audio: McCain says someone was laughing during his Baghdad press conference

Tue, 10 Apr 2007 12:49:47 +0000

[...] This makes three independent reports of distracting chuckling during the presser: Drudge’s original much-maligned story, which accused Michael Ware by name of “heckling;” AFP’s story from last Tuesday, which cited “giggling” by an unnamed reporter; and now J-Mac himself, who appeared yesterday on Sean Hannity’s radio show to do a little rebunking of Raw Story’s debunking. Hannity volunteers Ware’s name and McCain doesn’t correct him, but even in McCain’s case the knowledge is second hand: apparently it was Lindsey Graham and the rest of the contingent who noticed the disturbance while McCain was answering someone’s question. [...]

By: forged rite

forged rite — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 01:27:38 +0000

Absolutely no problem keep chasing those windmills.

harry on April 3, 2007 at 9:00 PM

You just had to be polite didn’t you? Allright fine, my last comment was rude and i apologize.

By: James

James — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 01:09:25 +0000

I love the screencaps of this guy…you always catch him looking like a muppet…and dang, looks like I wasn’t the first to use muppets in this thread.

By: harry

harry — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 01:00:25 +0000

Absolutely no problem keep chasing those windmills.

By: forged rite

forged rite — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 00:34:14 +0000

That’s all i wanted to know. It’s clear that-

1. You’re insane

2. Michael Ware is your life partner

Either way, i won’t waste any more time on you.

By: harry

harry — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 00:25:21 +0000

laughing and mocking their comments. is not giggled at the back.

Again Drudge indentifies Ware the AFP article does not. Until such time as real, reliable evidence is produced this is a non-story.

We all know what assume really means.

By: forged rite

forged rite — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 00:10:42 +0000

Here's the Hot Air article that's on the front page now in case you've forgotten about it-

Sort of. He denies having said anything at the press conference — but strictly speaking, he wasn’t accused of having said anything. Here’s what Drudge reported: During a live press conference in Baghdad, Senators McCain and Graham were heckled by CNN reporter Michael Ware. An official at the press conference called Ware’s conduct “outrageous,” saying, “here you have two United States Senators in Bagdad giving first-hand reports while Ware is laughing and mocking their comments. I’ve never witnessed such disrespect. This guy is an activist not a reporter.” It sounds like he may have been laughing theatrically when they were talking about walking around Baghdad.

And this is from the AFP story-

I studied warfare. I'm a student of history. If you control the capital city of a nation you have a significant advantage," countered McCain as one reporter giggled at the back.

Are you seriously saying you don't think they may be related?

By: harry

harry — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 23:44:32 +0000

No it has everything to do with EVIDENCE that backs up a claim. This story has gone from “Ware” heckling McCain to a unnamed reporter giggling and coughing. I fully expect it to degenerate to a silent but deadly fart by tommorow.

By: forged rite

forged rite — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 23:34:41 +0000

It has nothing to do with McCain, and everything to with a terrorist sympathizer being passed off as a reporter.

By: protein wisdom

protein wisdom — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 23:31:17 +0000

Random Michael Ware thought, Tuesday, April 3, 5:07 PM MT…

"…you know what I hate? Those little paper umbrellas bartenders are always putting in my Planter's Punches. A MAN doesn't need garnish. Hell, I don't even like that my drinks arrive in a bloody glass. Were up to me, I'd be su…

By: harry

harry — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 23:25:13 +0000

Heckling, to me, is what the old guys on the muppets do. A giggle and a cough is not heckling, heck it aint even interrupting.

Again a story with NO evidence and yet for some reason people need to believe it.

Believe me, McCain is not worth it.

By: ScottyDog

ScottyDog — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 22:51:56 +0000

The Communist News Network should put up the video or shut up.

Ware is a terrorist sympathizer, that is a fact which he cannot dispute.

By: forged rite

forged rite — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 22:48:19 +0000

. I predict that this story dies right here
Zetterson on April 3, 2007 at 5:04 PM

This story was dead the second *doubt* was raised, which was the sole purpose for raising it. Regardless of whether he did it or not, the official MSM story will be that he didn’t.

By: Zetterson

Zetterson — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 21:04:43 +0000

I hate to say it but this story is rapidly becoming a “he said she said” case. If Drudge is now getting info out of jounalists who were there then one is going to say they heard laughing. One is going to say they heard coughing. One is going to say that Helen Thomas farted. I predict that this story dies right here. The election season is young though. The opportunities for repeat disrespectful behavior by journalists will not be few and far between.

By: aengus

aengus — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 20:46:53 +0000

AA meetings are not a laughing matter.

LOL!

By: fogw

fogw — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 20:32:52 +0000

Maybe someone drew a funny little picture on their notepad and showed the person next to them at an inopportune time. I pull this move a meetings all the time, it works like a charm.

JaHerer22 on April 3, 2007 at 3:48 PM

AA meetings are not a laughing matter.

By: Bradky

Bradky — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 20:03:08 +0000

I would write out a tally sheet that had specific phrases or words the meeting attendees were fond of using. Some meetings went very long and this was a way to pass the time as well as train officers in discipline, since they couldn’t laugh or giggle at the risk of getting into much hot water.
I’d imagine reporters see the press conferences like this in terms of some of the personalities they constantly cover.

But then again it could be some nefarious left wing plot…

By: Mary Katharine Ham

Mary Katharine Ham — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 20:00:47 +0000

Hard-Hitting Questions for Romney…

Mitt, why are you so tan?In other obnoxious reporter news, the debate over when and how and where and how much Michael Ware may or may not have laughed at John McCain is ongoing. Did he or didn’t he???…

By: honora

honora — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 19:57:01 +0000

..or perhaps someone had a Pez dispenser jauntily posed…you have to laugh at that!!

By: JaHerer22

JaHerer22 — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 19:48:40 +0000

Someone giggled at a press conference? This is the lamest story ever.

Maybe someone drew a funny little picture on their notepad and showed the person next to them at an inopportune time. I pull this move a meetings all the time, it works like a charm.

By: benrand

benrand — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 19:35:02 +0000

It’ll be like those NYT corrections…buried.

By: unamused

unamused — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 19:32:23 +0000

Be careful Nonfactor. Keep doing what you’re doing and your face may grow to the left too.

By: lan astaslem

lan astaslem — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 19:31:11 +0000

Beware the crazy eyes… Seriously, I can’t watch that guy.

By: unamused

unamused — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 19:28:07 +0000

How does this guy get his face to grow to the left?

I laughed out loud.