Reply #24: I Promise I'm Not Fabricating My Assertion

[Nuclear Unicorn]

...but as you do not know me as a person I suppose that doesn't mean much. That's natural and that's fair. We'll get to know each other eventually and I think things will only improve.

Just out of curiosity: why does there have to be a wall of cameras behind the president? Why is it too hard to believe they are tasefully out of immediate view? Certainly there are many many cameras and these cameras would have been trained not only on President Obama but on both sides of the aisle for the purpose of gatehring reaction shots.

Did the GOP stage this little event? I suppose many things are possible but I don't think the pic in question was if the underlying supposition is to have a pic that would have caused trouble for President Obama. I know I didn't see Wilson on TV during his outburst and there have been threads here on this very forum about how the president remained staid and collected giving the outburst its due attention, i.e. dismissive. If anybody would have sought to have a pic to embarrass the president it would have been the station that didn't even bother to air the speech in the first place.

In short: the outburst may have been planned but I don't think the pic was part of any plan otherwise it would have aired at the time.

That's all I'm trying to communicate.

"I personally think that what may have happened is that Wilson was already creating a ruckus and someone was focused on him because of that, but I do think that the lack of any surprise reaction from his colleagues on either side is interesting."

This too is plausible and I don't think our respective theories conflict with each other.

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