Tue Jan 24, 2012, 02:05 PM

CNN Will Allow Applause At Jacksonville Debate; No 'Shouting Or Booing'

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/24/cnn-will-allow-applause-a_n_1228430.html

NEW YORK -- Newt Gingrich won't have to worry about the audience being completely quiet during Thursday's debate in Jacksonville, the final primetime face-off before the Jan. 31 Florida primary.

CNN allows the audience to applaud the candidates, but in a statement to The Huffington Post, a CNN spokesman explained that some types of behavior will not be permitted.

"As we have done in the past, CNN will ask the audience to be respectful of the candidates," a CNN spokesperson said. "We have always said that if audience reaction such as shouting or booing interferes with the debate or with the candidates' answers, we will ask the audience to refrain."

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In response to Gingrich's complaints Tuesday, the Romney campaign blasted the Daily News' famous "Cry Baby" front page from 1995, along with the subject line: "A picture is worth 1,000 words."

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8 replies	Author	Time	Post
CNN Will Allow Applause At Jacksonville Debate; No 'Shouting Or Booing' (Original post)	highplainsdem	Jan 2012	OP
i wasn't booing	Enrique	Jan 2012	#1
...throwing shoes. LOL!	yardwork	Jan 2012	#7
"we will ask the audience to refrain" ...	meegbear	Jan 2012	#2
This image should be posted often	cyberswede	Jan 2012	#3
why? They don't want repubs to look bad?	ecstatic	Jan 2012	#4
Wait, I thought Newt was characterizing it as a free speech issue	gratuitous	Jan 2012	#5
What a shame on Republicans that any such thing needs	MineralMan	Jan 2012	#6
What about fake masturbatory actions?	Uncle Joe	Jan 2012	#8

Response to highplainsdem (Original post)

Tue Jan 24, 2012, 02:08 PM

Enrique (22,597 posts)

1. i wasn't booing

I was saying "Newwwwt".

Also, you didn't say anything about throwing shoes.

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Response to Enrique (Reply #1)

Tue Jan 24, 2012, 02:28 PM

yardwork (37,074 posts)

7. ...throwing shoes. LOL!

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Response to highplainsdem (Original post)

Tue Jan 24, 2012, 02:17 PM

meegbear (24,632 posts)

2. "we will ask the audience to refrain" ...

Yeah, that'll stop 'em.

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Response to highplainsdem (Original post)

Tue Jan 24, 2012, 02:23 PM

cyberswede (11,271 posts)

3. This image should be posted often

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Response to highplainsdem (Original post)

Tue Jan 24, 2012, 02:26 PM

ecstatic (18,598 posts)

4. why? They don't want repubs to look bad?

I think we should be allowed to see more of their true colors.

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Response to highplainsdem (Original post)

Tue Jan 24, 2012, 02:26 PM

gratuitous (49,292 posts)

5. Wait, I thought Newt was characterizing it as a free speech issue

He was all bent out of shape, because without cheering throngs, Newt goes from the Colossus of Georgia to the Pillsbury Doughboy. He said the audience was being denied its free speech rights. But isn't it a denial of free speech to allow only cheering, and not booing or catcalls? Help us, Newt! Give us back our right to heckle you like the charlatan you are!

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Response to highplainsdem (Original post)

Tue Jan 24, 2012, 02:28 PM

MineralMan (53,795 posts)

6. What a shame on Republicans that any such thing needs

to be said. I'm going to watch the SOTU tonight, just to see if any of the teabagger members of Congress shout something. Otherwise, I'd read the transcript in the morning.

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Response to highplainsdem (Original post)

Tue Jan 24, 2012, 02:44 PM

Uncle Joe (24,997 posts)

8. What about fake masturbatory actions?

Thanks for the thread, highplainsdem.

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