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(Some Guy)   Reporter: "You're not a professional heckler?" Woman who heckled Giuliani: "No." Reporter: "You're not a plant?" Woman (points at a plant): "No; THAT'S a plant"   (wbztv.com) divider line
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DeadZone
2007-08-21 7:49:28 PM  
What's a plant?

It's a green thing that grows and makes fruits and vegetables. But that's not important right now.
 
floor9
2007-08-21 7:52:26 PM  
DRTFA, but are the Republicans now claiming that anyone who heckles / disagrees with / doesn't like one of their candidates is a plant by the left?
 
Wabash
2007-08-21 7:55:53 PM  
floor9: DRTFA, but are the Republicans now claiming that anyone who heckles / disagrees with / doesn't like one of their candidates is a plant by the left?

Anything to keep people distracted from the real issues.
 
jbuist
2007-08-21 7:58:34 PM  
I used to wor in a greenhouse with a kid that's borderline 'tarded.

Lady asks him: Do you have any Hens and chicks?
Him: No, ma'am, we don't sell barnyard animals here. Only plants.

I still laugh, and that was like a decade ago.
 
POAC
2007-08-21 8:07:16 PM  
floor9: DRTFA, but are the Republicans now claiming that anyone who heckles / disagrees with / doesn't like one of their candidates is a plant by the left?

Yes, and what that tells you is that the republican party is either currently, or will be shortly, investing heavily in hiring PR firms that pay professional hecklers to disrupt democratic rallies.
 
DeadZone
2007-08-21 8:37:28 PM  
floor9: andidates is a plant by the left?

It's the VAST left wing conspiracy!
 
Hal B. Sure
2007-08-21 8:43:20 PM  
Katherine's question has been criticized by some pundits as inappropriate.

Stay on target!
 
brap [TotalFark]
2007-08-21 8:45:31 PM  
Whoa. Swing and a miss with the knuckleball.

Give that gal a job as a reporter ASAP. No-one else in America seems up for the job. Everyone seems to expect an underhand softball nowadays. You'd think the war was a bake sale.
 
mediaho
2007-08-21 8:57:55 PM  
"I'm very frustrated by the media. I think maybe they want to maintain access, so maybe they're selling their soul for access and not doing their job."

Everyone knows it.
 
whatshisname [TotalFark]
2007-08-21 9:36:11 PM  
Me: "The punctuation in that article was confusing"
 
Thrag
2007-08-21 9:40:44 PM  
DeadZone: What's a plant?

It's a green thing that grows and makes fruits and vegetables. But that's not important right now.

You know what really scares me about the future is that one day Airplane references may truly be obscure. I fear that some day a well meaning but young and uncultured doctor is going to take my Airplane jokes as signs of early onset dementia. Next thing you know I've been involuntarily committed and in between rounds of meds I manage to talk to the other inmates only to discover the guy in the bed next to me was committed because nobody got his Holy Grail jokes, and across the hall there's some perfectly sane farker whose only defect is using too many lines from Mel Brooks' films that nobody recognized any longer.
 
GodsTumor
2007-08-21 9:41:57 PM  
Like Rush... Anyone who calls him out is a seminar caller!
The Libs sit around and try to outsmart him. Right!
 
LincolnLogolas
2007-08-21 9:59:50 PM  
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"A plant? I thought men like you were usually called a fruit."
 
Falcc
2007-08-21 9:59:53 PM  
Thrag: DeadZone: What's a plant?

It's a green thing that grows and makes fruits and vegetables. But that's not important right now.

You know what really scares me about the future is that one day Airplane references may truly be obscure. I fear that some day a well meaning but young and uncultured doctor is going to take my Airplane jokes as signs of early onset dementia. Next thing you know I've been involuntarily committed and in between rounds of meds I manage to talk to the other inmates only to discover the guy in the bed next to me was committed because nobody got his Holy Grail jokes, and across the hall there's some perfectly sane farker whose only defect is using too many lines from Mel Brooks' films that nobody recognized any longer.

This is what's really wrong with out country. Everyone is too stupid! We need to make sure everyone has seen REAL comedy. These stupid cookie cutter family comedies are ruining America.
 
lilbjorn
2007-08-21 10:05:57 PM  
floor9: DRTFA, but are the Republicans now claiming that anyone who heckles / disagrees with / doesn't like one of their candidates is a plant by the left?

Well, really, how could anyone possibly disagree with the Republicans without being paid to do so?
 
generaltimmy
2007-08-21 10:10:27 PM  
Yeah, we know that this stunt woul dbe below what politicians would do.
 
mediaho
2007-08-21 10:12:02 PM  
generaltimmy: Yeah, we know that this stunt woul dbe below what politicians would do.

What "stunt?"
 
Clarky
2007-08-21 10:12:39 PM  
I seriously don't think that a politician can answer straight questions from the people anymore. They are just too used to getting the question list and saying which questions they will answer and which ones they won't. The media doesn't help this because they are afraid of being black-balled by a candidate or politician. They want to keep their ratings so they wont ask the questions that need to be asked. That is why the mainstream media sounds like complete idiots.
 
Stopheles
2007-08-21 10:14:01 PM  
POAC: floor9: DRTFA, but are the Republicans now claiming that anyone who heckles / disagrees with / doesn't like one of their candidates is a plant by the left?

Yes, and what that tells you is that the republican party is either currently, or will be shortly, investing heavily in hiring PR firms that pay professional hecklers to disrupt democratic rallies.


Well, they did that in Florida in 2000, after all...
 
MrGMan
2007-08-21 10:24:08 PM  
floor9: DRTFA, but are the Republicans now claiming that anyone who heckles / disagrees with / doesn't like one of their candidates is a plant by the left?

If you consider George Stephanopolous a Republican, then perhaps so...(Did RTFA)

"When George Stephanopolous said I was a professional heckler, that was crazy, because I don't recall every (sic) heckling anybody"

...seems this lady also asked a question to Al Gore about his opinion on Clinton's "personal misbehavior."
 
LocalCynic
2007-08-21 11:01:07 PM  
MrGMan: ...seems this lady also asked a question to Al Gore about his opinion on Clinton's "personal misbehavior."

And? Since when is asking someone a difficult question a bad thing?

I don't even see how it's logical to point to that as evidence of "heckling." Is there some rule that you only get one shot to ask a public official a question, and after that you become a professional questioner or something?
 
rat_brain_flies_plane
2007-08-21 11:42:44 PM  
Wow someone said that she was a reason why the New Hampshire Primary should be taken away!

What moron said THAT??

Fielding questions from people you hope to one day serve is baaad mmm kay...
 
OurManFlint1
2007-08-22 12:24:38 AM  
Question: Mayor Guiliani, what are your thoughts regarding your daughters support of Barack Obama's candidacy?


Guiliani: (If I had coached him) I'm proud that my daughter has the guts and character to make up her own mind, rather than being a drone to my wishes. That being said, when I was her age and of her experience I would have liked Obama too, but Americans need idealistic and realistic leaders who understand that running a country takes a lot more than a great image and nice sound bites. Ask her when she's got a few kids and pays half her income in taxes...
 
xrayspx [TotalFark]
2007-08-22 12:41:44 AM  
FTA:
"The best thing I can say is kind of leave my family alone, just like I'll leave your family alone."

You know, unless you're a guy, and you and some other guy want to get married, or like, adopt a kid, you know, then screw you...
 
helix400
2007-08-22 12:59:48 AM  
floor9 DRTFA, but are the Republicans now claiming that anyone who heckles / disagrees with / doesn't like one of their candidates is a plant by the left?

Then try RTFA.

George Stephanopolous who led a charge against her. Yes, one of Bill Clinton's campaign advisers.
 
Smart Ass
2007-08-22 2:15:14 AM  
"No, this is a plant (pointing to a nearby plant pic of Al Gore), I'm not a plant."
 
Smart Ass
2007-08-22 2:35:12 AM  
floor9: are the Republicans now claiming that anyone who heckles / disagrees with / doesn't like one of their candidates is a plant by the left?

Thats Republican, singular NOT plural.
Rudie is a Republican in name only.
Besides, she was asking about his family.
Heck, no one could even ask about a former Presidents Easter "Sunrise Services", remember?
Mention 'Chelsia' and you were ridiculed.
 
captainktainer
2007-08-22 6:02:42 AM  
helix400: floor9 DRTFA, but are the Republicans now claiming that anyone who heckles / disagrees with / doesn't like one of their candidates is a plant by the left?

Then try RTFA.

George Stephanopolous who led a charge against her. Yes, one of Bill Clinton's campaign advisers.

You didn't RTFA. You read more into it than there actually is. The woman mentioned George Stephanopolous because she asked an uncomfortable question of one of George's friends on the campaign trail, in an earlier election. The people "leading the charge" against her are right-wingers like yourself and fascists like Giuliani's camp.
 
Manfred J. Hattan
2007-08-22 8:51:39 AM  
Is she related to Brendan Sullivan?

/obscure?
 
Ex Parte Gilligan
2007-08-22 9:07:54 AM  
Maybe she was a professional heckler?

NPR: New Hampshire Town Hall Meetings Lures Outsiders (new window)
Morning Edition, August 22, 2007: When people talk about New Hampshire's first-in-the-nation's primary, they often stress Granite Staters' skill at vetting would-be presidents because of frank candidate-voter interaction at town hall rallies. But the meetings have become magnets for provocateurs everywhere, making residents feel as if their unique forum is being hijacked.
 
aegisalpha
2007-08-22 10:28:48 AM  
She's just asking questions "New Hampshire style" I don't see the big deal. I do wonder what "New Hampshire style" is.

/maybe it's like doggie style only boring
 
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