If a soldier gets booed at the GOP debate and no major tv outlet covers it

[dsc]

did it happen? On Thursday night during the GOP debate, Stephen Hill, a gay US Seviceman asked a question at the GOP debate and he was loudly booed by the crowd. Not one candidate criticised this in real time. Now about half of them did. If you google gay soldier booed at GOP debate you find no major network covered it. The Sunday shows (on ABC and NBC) nada. Just imagine if this had happened at a Democratic debate?

[geckosfeet]

1. These repukian blunders better come up during the presidential campaign.

People better ask, why did not you not say something when people cheered for death? Why did you not stand up for an American serviceman?

People want to know.

[WinkyDink]

2. People apparently DON'T want to know.

[Scuba]

3. You don't know what you don't know. n/t

[geckosfeet]

11. Democratic policy makers and campaign managers better air this stuff during campaign season.

[The Straight Story]

4. Maybe they did or did not (did not watch their coverage) but:

As for my part I covered it a lot on FB to the right and those in the middle - the rw ignored it as though it never happened, and those in the middle (who often side with the right on some things) were ticked off and turned off by it.

My old boss in CA was on vacation and posted that he heard it happened and I sent the video, he basically said 'screw em' - he has voted both dem and repub before and plays each election by ear, so far he is not liking the rw. He can be rw on financial and defense/welfare issues, but won't vote for people who boo soldiers (he is a former marine).

Despite what we all may think there are a lot of middle of the road people out there and each time we bring up the issues online and reach them we are helping out more so than the lamestream media.

The old media is dying out to many, it reminds me of Rome at the time of Jesus if you will - a minority who went out and reached out to people one by one working on changing the hearts and minds of people one by one.

They can watch tv news with no input, and then chat with me for a spell (and many others) who actually discuss the issue and debate it with them.

Don't rely on media to get out the message, that is our job - major media failed long ago in being unbiased and looking for truth.

[OHdem10]

5. Where are Republican Leaders with the Leadership Ability

to have quelled the crowd at the time and in appropriate
way made sure people understood this was inapproriate.

This has been the problem in DC for a long time. WE
DO NOT ELECT what I describe as Natural Leaders.
That person(s) with a sense of the moment and hoq to
grab it and control it and in so doing make people
willing to follow him.

[MADem]

6. ....it makes even more wonderful fodder as a clip for a campaign ad!

Glass half full, now!!

You don't want people saying "Oh, that old clip? Yeah, buncha jerks (yawn). Unsurprising."

It would be nice if, in Sep or Oct a year from now, people said "Look at those assholes, can you believe that, booing that soldier--that's reprehensible!!! They really ARE a party of discriminating fuckers, aren't they?"

Put that tool in the toolbox, and whip it out when it can do the most good--eight months to a year from now.

No one--and by "no one" I mean ninety percent of the American population--is paying attention to debates right now, not in the slightest.

The Talking Head shows are still trying to suss out who the GOP nominee will be. That's their focus--the issues are only important to serve to define the GOP candidates. The hosts of these shows desperately want to be the Smartest Guy In The Room, and they don't want to be dead wrong right out of the gate. They're poking, prodding, looking for weaknesses, but they could give a shit about the "issues" right now.

[mucifer]

7. I don't watch the news, but my friend who does told me it was all over the tv media.

I of course have no proof of this.

[Tx4obama]

8. On Friday, MSNBC and CNN did cover the boo'ing story on TV and on web

Here are links to stories ran Friday morning by ABC and CBS:

ABC: http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2011/09/debate-crowd-booed-gay-soldier/

CBS: http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20110698-503544.html?tag=mncol;lst;1


p.s. I think that question should be: Who 'did not' cover the story?.
It seemed to be everywhere - even Bill Maher mentioned it.

[dsc]

9. No nightly news shows no sunday morning shows

had it been dems it would have made both.

[ellisonz]

13. The Sunday morning shows are crap.

[MineralMan]

10. Saw it on the CBS Morning News on Friday.

It was also on the local news on the CBS affiliate. It was a couple of loudmouths, and Santorum didn't know what to do. They showed that, too. It was also in my local paper, the Saint Paul Pioneer Press on Friday morning. It was a small story, and got small coverage the next morning. They aren't likely to run it continuously, I don't think. You may have missed it.

:shrug:

[Motown_Johnny]

12. I thought NBC Nightly news covered it the next day,

but nothing on the Sunday shows.