Condoleeza Rice withdraws

It's OK for a group to shout down Rice at a commencement,
It's not OK for a group to shout "you lie" at a State of the union address,
It's not OK for a group to shout down a woman at a local meeting.

IMHO, the act of "shouting down" should be a punishable offense, regardless of who the speaker is. It's mob mentality, it's rude, and it's counter productive.

'Course I'm basing this on the fact that I was taught it's rude to interrupt. Someone that feels 'rude' is a good way to make a point would surely disagree.

"OK" seems to be relative for you... It's whatever you want it to mean--at the time.

Got it.

Nobody that matters wrote: It's not OK for a group to shout down a woman at a local meeting.

IMHO, the act of "shouting down" should be a punishable offense, regardless of who the speaker is. It's mob mentality, it's rude, and it's counter productive.

Eric Cantor Booed, Heckled By Tea Partiers In His Home District

Tea party activists heckled and booed House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) Saturday at a GOP event in the congressman's home district.

Republicans in Virginia's 7th District gathered Saturday at a convention to elect a new committee chairman for the district. According to vote totals by conservative blog The Bold Elephant, incumbent chairman and key Cantor ally Linwood Cobb narrowly lost his reelection bid to tea party-backed Fred Gruber.

Tea party activists touted Gruber's victory as a bellwether of the showdown between Cantor and his primary rival, Dave Brat. An economics professor at Randolph-Macon College, Brat is challenging Cantor from the right, picking up endorsements from a number of conservative groups. As Politico reported last month, Cantor's camp has taken the challenge seriously despite Brat's slim chance of victory.

I guess teabaggers will interrupt anybody and anything they don't want to hear. Hence, one of many reasons I would never be interested in going to a teabagger meeting. (That, plus the fact that there is NOTHING that a teabagger has to say that I would be remotely interested in hearing.)

Gee, slightly off topic here BUT....it would be very interesting to understand.....how many of
the posters on MMT were young adults during the VIETNAM WAR ERA?......because "polite" was
an incongruous term in THAT era.....JMO....I do believe Rice was gracious in her declining the
position, BUT the "echo's" of Bush's WMD stance are difficult to put aside....Bush/Cheny/Rice
are the trifecta that brought forth the whole sale slaughter of our brave men and women and
CONTINUES to this day.....how many YEARS later......the Middle East is our problem now and
extracting ourselves from it's "tribal" traditions is next to impossible.....and let's take this
one step further.....the broken bodies,minds and spirits of our VETERANS have been discarded
by our government (the expose' of the VA's woefully lacking process is NOW laid bare for all
to see).......THIS is why Rice was NOT welcomed, the fallout of the FALSE intel is STILL painfully
sore and raw......JMO

So it's also not OK for a Tea party member to shout someone down.

I'm trying to keep up with you here, LJ. If you could give me some guidance as to when shouting someone down would be the right thing to do, I'd appreciate it. I need to know when mob mentality is the proper way to run an event.

Rice wasn't shouted down. She listened to the fact that she was not welcome and didn't put herself in that position.

The teabaggers seem to have no such concept. They'll shout down anything they don't agree with...including their own House Majority Leader . As for guidance, I guess you'll have to work that out for yourself.

I didn't say any of it was the "right thing to do"...I said it was "free speech"--and it is. Just because you are free to do something doesn't mean you should--a concept which teabaggers, armed separatists, Sovereign Citizen wackos, and armed militias overwhelming don't "get."




#tooinformedtovoterepublican

While I agree that there are boors on the right, I believe you're guilty of overlooking equally boorish behavior from the left.

Rice backed out when the opposing view threatened to shout her down. In my mind, the threat is nearly as boorish as the act.

Yes...insert standard [they did it too] here: _

LadyJazzer wrote: The teabaggers seem to have no such concept. They'll shout down anything they don't agree with...including their own House Majority Leader . As for guidance, I guess you'll have to work that out for yourself.

I didn't say any of it was the "right thing to do"...I said it was "free speech"--and it is. Just because you are free to do something doesn't mean you should--a concept which teabaggers, armed separatists, Sovereign Citizen wackos, and armed militias overwhelming don't "get."

I stand by my statement.... You let me know when you find a video of liberals shouting down a woman in a wheelchair...




#tooinformedtovoterepublican

Why should the wheelchair make a difference?

LadyJazzer wrote: The teabaggers seem to have no such concept. They'll shout down anything they don't agree with...including their own House Majority Leader . As for guidance, I guess you'll have to work that out for yourself.

I didn't say any of it was the "right thing to do"...I said it was "free speech"--and it is. Just because you are free to do something doesn't mean you should--a concept which teabaggers, armed separatists, Sovereign Citizen wackos, and armed militias overwhelming don't "get."

I stand by my statement....




#tooinformedtovoterepublican

Obviously.

Like a brick wall.