Letters to the Editor
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"One wonders, if McCain aides themselves had written the CNN script, whether it would have been this sycophantic."
Doubtful. The quality of shilling McCain gets for free from "journalists" far exceeds what he pays others for. McCain should stop paying for consultants, ad buys, pollsters, etc.; he doesn't need them. His "base" will take care of that.
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You never know
That sixteen year old girl might be dangerous. She may actually know the difference between Iraq and Iran.
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John McCain, keeping America safe...
...from highschool girls.
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Heckling is the harassement of someone with questions or gibes.
Anyone who asks me a question I don't like can be considered a heckler by me. Since CNN doesn't really like to cover questions that make you think for a minute, I guess it all sounds like heckling to them.
Jack Cafferty should be given Blitzers job.
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Breaking away from "the MSM"
This battle will likely be fought on You-tube. Much like the Clinton sniper fire massacre, rev. wright's speeches, and Bomb-bomb-iran, reporting like this will be ridiculed on line and viewed by millions. Cable news outlets on slow days will pick up the clips to fill time or to discuss the "controversy" about posting such things on the web and eventually the truth will get out.
That being said, I thought "I'm f**king Obama" was pretty funny and I wasn't going to see that on MSNBC, even on Olberman.
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Bullies and their sidekicks
Read the McCain profile in a recent New Yorker, and decide (in conjunction with this incident) if John McCain is anything but a bully, despite all of his verbal abuse being him "just kidding." He's a bully of a different type than the George W. model, who's more the class wiseass (who feels safe to hurl insults and screw up endlessly because his dad is the football coach, or the principal) than a real bully, but a bully nonetheless. Remember the crowd of dim loser hangers-on that would form every schoolyard bully's entourage? That's the press corps, in a nutshell.
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Checking the Dictionary
Heckler: one who asks a question a)you don't want to answer & B)don't want anyone else to hear asked of you.
It's right there in every Republican'ts dictionary. Some things you just know without even looking.
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How'd she get in there?!?!?
Looks like the heckler brought her own mic.
Weird event. I cannot fathom the goal of selling that as a non-campaign event, but... I just don't get this guy anyway, so there it is.
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Good question, though
I've always thought the whole school assembly backdrop was a bit exploitive of students, no matter who does it. Attendance should definitely be fully voluntary, opt-in not opt-out.
I'd also give the vote to 16 and 17 year olds, though. They should get a chance to vote on the wars they will have to fight.
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I guess any unscripted question is heckling
...or maybe the script called for heckling and the performance wasn't quite up to par. Doesn't matter. Just keep repeating "heckling" until everyone believes it.
I hope the Democratic candidate has a lot of cash allocated for negative advertising, because the press is clearly going to be campaigning on McCain's behalf.
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I don't understand
How being a POW makes you a hero. The clip of him giving his name rank and serial number made him look pathetic I thought. I do have tons of sympathy for our POW's but I fail to see how being one is something you'd hold up as making you presidential. Maybe just me, but I'd be more impressed if he'd finished his mission and got himself and his plane home safe.
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Strafer McCain stands tall!
Against heckling by a hundred million decent Americans, many millions of conquered, deperate Iraqis, and all the billions of decent, peaceful people on Earth. What a hero!
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Heckler?
Where the heck did he get that from? The student was never out of line and never shouted obscenities over McCain's answer. Therefore, the CNN "reporter" is distorting the truth.
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R.I.P.
Among this life's losses I mourn is CNN. Honest, it really used to be an actual news network.
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Campaign Events
I suppose this is indicative of the political climate we live in. Campaign events don't represent actual dialogue (if they ever did). "Participants" are expected to ask questions that aren't really questions, but cues for the speaker to begin a monologue relating to a pre-approved topic. Audience members are more props than actual participants. Within this climate, true participation (i.e., an honest question) is perceived as heckling.
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From My Cold Dead Hand
LOL.
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Thrown a Curve
McCain just wasn't expecting an articulate question from a 16-year-old that exceeds those given by 99% of journalists in the MSM. His pathetic response must mean that she was a heckler.
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The fact that there was no heckling
simply demonstrates that our educational system is an utter failure.
Adults don't heckler him either which demonstrates that it has been failing for a long time.
More importantly, why did the officials at the school fail to have this girl tased? They missed an opportunity to make a statement and gain national attention. Once again, our tax dollars wasted.
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Well,
can we please call Acosta a liar, a shameless panderer, a reporter who will do "anything" to make a story look exciting?
And, while we're at it, call McCain an ineffective campaigner who gets rattled by basic, polite questions from teenagers?
If this had been an HRC event, not only would Acosta have reframed his entire story, making the teenager am "outspoken heroine" and HRC a dragonlady. and instead of 20 comments, there would be at least 200.
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Ridiculous
Candidates after Bush do not run for office. They run to be Jesus. No one is allowed to question them. They seem to exist in a world of perfect adulation.
We need a constitutional amendment that all events involving a sitting politician should involve both supporters and opponents.
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She forgot to recite the proper question
"Mr. McCain, your candidancy has the momentum of a run-away freight train, why are you so popular?"
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Who is the real journalist?
I think Jim Acosta just lost that competition to a 16 year old girl.
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continuing naming the journalists who shill, and tilt reportage, for mccain
the media's school-girl crush on mccain having long been acknowledged, i applaud the logical next step of naming sycophants like this on case-by-case instances.
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I thought it WAS a political road-trip
You mean to tell me McCain was just going around being John McHero and nostalgically massaging his roots-ball, and not campaining even a LITTLE bit? Then how DARE that wise-ass 16-year-old girl even THINK about asking him why he was there. DUH. Where was the goddam taser??
Shame on the butt-kissing media hacks and right-wing tools who continue to deify this bullying ignoramous. WAKE UP FOR GODSAKES BEFORE WE GET ANOTHER FOUR YEARS OF THIS INSANITY.