Video: McCain heckled in Denver
posted at 2:00 pm on May 27, 2008 by Ed Morrissey
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If they’re still trying to get his goat, John McCain’s opponents failed again. During a foreign-policy speech this morning at the University of Denver, anti-war protesters twice heckled McCain, interrupting his address. After the first interruption, McCain noted that the protesters came to the wrong event — if they wanted a sincere dialogue (via Shawn Wasson):
McCain makes a good point after the first interruption. He holds town-hall conferences at almost every campaign stop. Why not just prepare a question that criticizes with some intelligence McCain’s position on the war? The obvious answer: it takes a lot more candlepower to do that rather than chant, “Endless War!” endlessly. They are afraid McCain will outargue them — and they’re right — so they’re taking the significantly less courageous route of trying to shout him down instead.
Also, as an aside: those griping about conservative bloggers cataloguing Barack Obama’s rhetorical gaffes can remember that Obama himself spreads the spurious “100 years of war” quote attributed to McCain, the same one that fueled this chant.
After the second interruption, McCain just laughs it off, telling the audience that this speech may go longer than anticipated. So far, the temper hasn’t erupted, and the protesters simply look foolish. Neither group can manage to hold up their signs properly, which gives viewers another indication of the goofiness of the perpetrators.
Last point, somewhat connected to the first: why don’t we see these kinds of protests at Obama rallies? Maybe because conservatives can put together coherent arguments rather than mindless chants and mishandled banners.
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Wade on May 27, 2008 at 5:12 PM
T.C. Hero Cheney told Leheay to go Eff himself on the Senate floor too.
Squid Shark on May 27, 2008 at 5:21 PM
This is likely be because you get all your info about his politics from Rush Limbaugh.
Squid Shark on May 27, 2008 at 5:27 PM
“I will never surrender in Iraq.” - McCain’s best line. Unfortunately, Fox’s Carl Cameron don’t want to show it (CNN showed), spinning for Podesta’s CAP
Anita on May 27, 2008 at 5:31 PM
Yeah, well at least Cheney was talking to a Democrat. And if I recall, the circumstances were rather different. If I have it right, Leahy was trying to suck up to Cheney after just having raised a disagreement in public (i.e. for the cameras). In McCain’s case, he showed up in the Senate after not being there for a while and lashed out at a Repub colleague who called him on it when it came time for the issue to be discussed.
BigD on May 27, 2008 at 5:31 PM
I heard a joke on this last week here in PHX on KFYI by the morning host Bruce Jacobs.
The three candidates are walking down the street when they come across several homeless man.
John McCain gives the man $20 and his business card so he can come to his office and get help finding a job.
Seeing this, Hillary stops by the next homeless man they come across and she gives him $5 since she has to keep $15 to cover her administration fees. She then gives the man directions to the welfare office.
Not be out done, Barack tells the next homeless person to be patient because hope and change are on the way.
VikingGoneWild on May 27, 2008 at 5:39 PM
I believe it was to Demint, and Demint is a bit of a jerk so I wouldnt be suprised.
Squid Shark on May 27, 2008 at 5:47 PM
Strange.
If they are so similar, then why are the left-wing operatives trying so hard to being down McCain? If he is so similar to Obama.
You’d think if they were so similar, then the left wouldn’t mind either winning.
Odd.
Maybe you are simply ignorant of the facts.
wise_man on May 27, 2008 at 5:54 PM
He will never surrender Iraq. The democrats already have.
SouthernGent on May 27, 2008 at 6:02 PM
Conservatives teach a man how to fish.
Liberals find someone who has already learned how to fish and is self-sufficient, and make him give some of his fish to the guy who doesn’t know how. Now neither man has enough fish and both are pissed off at each other.
rockmom on May 27, 2008 at 6:05 PM
Fixed!
Rovin on May 27, 2008 at 6:14 PM
I wouldn’t make any sudden or strange moves at any presidential event. It’s really asking for it.
Beagle on May 27, 2008 at 6:28 PM
Der Krieger, Liberals do care–about themselves.
VikingGoneWild on May 27, 2008 at 5:39 PM
That is hilarious.
maverick muse on May 27, 2008 at 6:28 PM
BigD, no offense, but that’s not true. I understand that you have a very personal, visceral dislike of McCain, and nothing will change that, but I wish you would use facts instead of speculation. You could read one of the McCain biographies, or one of the books about Bud Day, for example. Day, who was confined with McCain in Hanoi, says that one of the things they really enjoyed talking about was politics, and McCain turned him into a Republican. Even back then in Hanoi, they both thought that this Governor Reagan fellow was someone who might be good to support in the future, if they ever made it home.
McCain became even more interested in politics while serving as the Navy’s Senate liaison, and he became good friends with many of the Senators. Senator Tower was his big political patron. It’s true that his wife and father-in-law were critical to his career, but he didn’t become a Republican because of that.
Sorry to ramble. I don’t care if people have different opinions from mine, but opinions should be formed on the basis of facts.
juliesa on May 27, 2008 at 6:34 PM
Your assesment is correct.
BTW, Big D, so what if his father in law influenced him.
The argument could be made that Reagan was influenced by Nancy’s father.
Squid Shark on May 27, 2008 at 6:40 PM
That was very effective. The second set of also looked suspiciously like pro wrestlers telegraphing the next move. I mean the second guy they took out was holding his own arm out in front to be led out. WTF???
Nixon brought in fake protesters at Westchester County Airport when Eisenhower finally endorsed him.
Just saying, McCain looked really good in this.
Lonetown on May 27, 2008 at 6:44 PM
Protesters have been ragging him for weeks. I was watching a speech where Code Pink got him.
Squid Shark on May 27, 2008 at 6:46 PM
So that comes out to your Senator John McCain doing only 1% of the, as you put it, “reign down on this nation” as that other one of your Senators would. Why didn’t you just say that was your fear in the first place? Watson is that you fooling around again with your convoluted math when you should be out looking for evidence? I may have to dock your pay. Well if I paid you anything I would have to dock your pay anyway.
Holmes on May 27, 2008 at 7:21 PM
What these clowns fail to realize, never having studied the pre-Socratic philosophers (primarily Heraclitus*) is that “Endless War” is the fundamental state of Nature and the Universe. (*”War is King/Strife is the The Rule[r]“).
They should first contemplate their immune system (endless war for cellular and organism survival) before they start shooting their silly little smarmy mouths off.
Every bite is “war”.
Dinner, and otherwise.
profitsbeard on May 27, 2008 at 7:23 PM
Spoken like someone who doesn’t have one. I have an earned Ph.D., with Distinction, and I am a bit tired of people who so blithely dismiss what it means, and what it took to earn it. I realize that a large number of academics are total ivory tower knuckleheads, but if conservatives want to be considered the group who uses logic and reason, they need to steer clear of this sort of nonsense.
DrMagnolias on May 27, 2008 at 8:09 PM
Being lead out means never having to say, “Don’t taz me, Bro.”
- The Cat
MirCat on May 27, 2008 at 8:35 PM
Gateway Pundit has the info on these “protesters”. Scroll down into the comments for further info.
They are the “usual suspects”-Code Pinkos and leftist whackjobs.
Nahanni on May 27, 2008 at 9:10 PM
John McCain’s comments are right on - I was at the speech with my wife and daughter. I got a great chance to shout down the five groups of protesters as they tried to disrupt the McCain rally.
The items the media missed completely - the crowd shouted down all five groups of protesters.
After the first set stood up, my wife picked up that they seemed to be signaling each other.
My wife noticed a young man in two rows ahead signaling to the young man sitting next to her. He nodded his head and then he took pictures with his cell phone. Shortly thereafter, the man sitting next to her stood up with a protester sign but the man in front of him grabbed the sign and held it down so he couldn’t show it.
The third group of protestors (actually the man signaling to other protesters in the crowd) stood up with the same exact sign. These two were hustled out very quickly and you can actually hear me yelling at them to “get.”
The fourth was spotted quickly, by someone in the crowd right next to me, and was escorted out before saying anything.
The fifth group said something about Iraq but the crowd drowned them out very quickly.
Each time the protestors stood, the crowd chanted “John McCain, John McCain…” This is something the media did not report.
It was obvious they were planted groups of two throughout. Judge them for their actions – they could not even stand up to a pretty vocal crowd – just looking for attention.
Colonel_prop on May 27, 2008 at 9:23 PM
Thanks for the account, Colonel. I could you yelling. Good job!
juliesa on May 27, 2008 at 9:39 PM
A McCain slogan? Thanks to misterpeesea in the Coburn thread: “We’re all Mavericks now!”
onlineanalyst on May 27, 2008 at 9:47 PM
Dr. Magnolias
I realise that as a PhD you have completed a bit more university than I. However, in one of my other lives, this little ol’ engineer had lots of Government technical projects with university PhDs to issue contracts to, supervise, and try to some usable product to the G. I have a very high opinion of many of the PhDs with which I have interacted.
However, there is the other group, in the majority, to which I refer as academic whores. In their own opinion, they can do anything, be experts on anything, and solve any problem - all I had to do was give them a contract. When their results were illogical, not factually supported, with a poor DOE (design of experiment), they told me that they were much smarter than I and had PhDs. All they wanted to do was publish progress reports, not results. Their results, as analysed by a (self procalimed) good ol’ country boy engineer were not worthy of a senior from a good engineering school. Be careful of your degree hubris. One Aerospace company had over 80 doctorates working in union production because they couldn’t make the pay elsewhere. Actually, some of those were pretty good.
Publishing a paper that says nothing under the publish-or-perish doctrine, does not add to the body of human knowledege. The universities are full of PhDs that evaded the draft during Vietnam war, with their anti-war professors giving automatic “As” to keep them out of the draft. Don’t try to BS me with your hard earned PhD unless you really earned it, you published really original additions to the body of human knowledge, and have stayed current in something useful. One interesting thing about PhDs is that once they get it, they never have to prove it again; as opposed to engineers, architects, medical doctors and other artisans that have to keep up and prove it on a regular basis. If they have to use their degree to win an arguement, they are acting like a liberal. Notice how similar this discussion on credentials is the to AGW dialog!
Old Country Boy on May 27, 2008 at 10:08 PM
“I will never surrender in Iraq.”
But I will surrender to the Democrats.
Indy Conservative on May 27, 2008 at 10:26 PM
DrMagnolias on May 27, 2008 at 8:09 PM
A zero grade for humor. You’ve heard about what happens when you assume.
*****
In my graduate school we used the name for the regional mental hospital and the graduate school’s interchangeably. That too being tongue in cheek but an old tradition. Only a joke, for those here sensitive on the topic.
The only PhDs and PhD. candidates which really seemed to give trouble were the insecure ones (e.g. “studies” majors) or those whom quite literally never left college while expecting to be addressed by their students as “doctor” as though they were addressing a patient prepped for neurosurgery.
Old Country Boy on May 27, 2008 at 10:08 PM
Well said. Been there. Seen that. Felt its presence earlier.
viking01 on May 27, 2008 at 10:29 PM
I watched this speech for as long as Fox carried and and thought there were at least three incidents.
I heard you Colonel_prop!
BRAVO!
Y’all were great! I think this is going to be a precedent setting response .. kinda like the passengers on the airliner who wrestle the terrorists to the floor and hold him until he is carted away!
*applause* to you all today who stood up and took charge of the hecklers!
Texas Gal on May 27, 2008 at 10:32 PM
The empty suit still thinks we have lost the war, and to make sure he does not change his mind, is too cowardly to go there and see what our troops are doing.
hunter on May 27, 2008 at 11:35 PM
My only “fear” are the morons that are eating the candy-canes made of koolaid while thinking Obama is the second coming. The empty suit is all the evidence needed.
Rovin on May 28, 2008 at 12:34 AM
You are correct, the humor was (and is) lost on me–and using the “you’re so sensitive” defense when you use breezily dismiss the efforts and accomplishments of others smacks of hubris, itself. If you’ve earned a Ph.D. and wish to dismiss it, you certainly may, but I may also speak up if I don’t appreciate it.
I am well aware of the flaws of many academics (as well as engineers, architects, medical doctors, and other “artisans”). My point is that this wearisome dismissal is hardly worthy of the group who claims superior use of logic, and reason–many times in this very thread.
In my experience, conservatives generally are better thinkers, because the left is so busy feeling–this is certainly true in the academic world. But if conservatives want to make a true difference in our country, they will support the segment of the conservative population who earn Ph.D.s and endure the nonsense so they can enter the academy and fight against the indoctrination that the left would otherwise do unfettered.
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DrMagnolias on May 28, 2008 at 4:52 AM
DrMagnolias on May 28, 2008 at 4:52 AM
You scoff?
I will not impede your right, and perhaps determination, to be offended and insecure.
I’m not dismissing your oak leaf clusters and, er, disdain for the peasants, merely hinting that the self-effacing and modest tend to be more substantial than preening self-promoters. Most of our nations greatest leaders valued humility over vanity and symbolism. A fine example of that would be the stark contrast between George Washington and Jimmy Carter.
viking01 on May 28, 2008 at 2:43 PM
You’re certainly making a number of presumptions (speaking of insecure…) My original point remains: Conservatives are not wise to claim they are the repository of logic, ideas, etc., then breezily dismiss the highest academic degree attainable. The left already likes to claim that they are the smartest people in the room–saying something akin to “We don’t need no book-larnin’” doesn’t exactly refute that effectively.
To acknowledge accomplishments, whether in oneself or others, shows neither insecurity nor hubris–it is a simple recognition of facts. To dismiss oneself (”I’m surprised they let me through”) may be viewed as humility or false humility, depending on the context. To dismiss others is simply rude or, as I recall stating in my original post, wearisome. To insist on pursuing this dismissal when another objects to it, while steadfastly ignoring that person’s points and instead absurdly claiming to know what motivates him/her, smacks of defensiveness, insecurity, or arrogance.
DrMagnolias on May 28, 2008 at 4:12 PM
I’ll pass on the opportunity to answer further “I know you are but what am I?” banter.
viking01 on May 28, 2008 at 7:22 PM
Well, fine then. I’m rubber, you’re glue. :)
DrMagnolias on May 28, 2008 at 7:28 PM
For those who do not know the University of Denver is home to The Josef Korbel School of International Studies. Josef Korbel was the mentor of one Condoleezza Rice. In fact four cabinet members in the Bush administration received degrees from the University of Denver.
jdkchem on May 29, 2008 at 2:03 AM
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