Darth & Dumbsfeld heckled at CPAC

[marmar]

Watch: http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/02/paul-supporters-hijack-cheney-rumsfeld-reunion.php?ref=fpb


One of the delights of covering the Conservative Political Action Conference in the New Media Age is reading the tweets of right-wingers appalled at the bad behavior of the libertarians with whom they are supposed to be in coalition. At issue is the merciless booing and heckling endured by former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and former Vice President Dick Cheney as the latter presented the former with CPAC's "Defender of the Constitution" award. No, you truly cannot make this stuff up.

I'll spare you a disquisition on the irony of Rummy as a defender of the constitution, lauded as such by Darth Vader. You know all about the torture, all about the war waged on false pretenses, so let's skip to the good parts. That would be the show put on by people assumed to be Ron Paul supporters, who have traditionally made a strong showing at CPAC.

The booing began before Rummy event took the stage, when David Keene, founder of the American Conservative Union, the organization that produces CPAC, announced Rumsfeld's award, together with Brad O'Leary, author of The Audacity of Deceit, a book presumably about his love for President Barack Obama. The booing was so bad that it was almost impossible to hear O'Leary comparing Rummy to James Monroe.

But when Cheney was announced as the surprise guest who would actually present Rummy with the award, things got genuinely rowdy. "Draft-dodger," one heckler shouted. "Show me the shekels," another yelled, which sounded like an anti-Semitic twist on the theme." I head the shout but didn't see who it came from; Slate's David Weigel tweeted that the guy was hauled out of the hall by security. .................(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.alternet.org/newsandviews/article/471845/watch%3A_right-wingers_heckle_and_boo_rumsfeld_%26_cheney_at_cpac/

[Canuckistanian]

1. "Show me the Shekels!"

:rofl:

[brewens]

2. Is it possible to wire and ground yourself to shock the crap out

of anyone that touches you? Wouldn't that be cool for a heckler to do that! WTF is some right-wing security boy gonna do then?

[Poboy]

3. recommend

[pacalo]

4. They love to use a lot of pomp when they're marching to the podium, don't they.

Sounded like a Tina Turner song used for Cheney's grand entrance.

And all I could think of during the audience's USA! chant was:

USA invades illegally! USA kills innocent people! USA loves war criminals!

What an embarrassing display.