CNN camerawoman says peanut incident could just as easily have happened at DNC.

[brewens]

Bullshit! She needs to be hammered to reveal just who and how they got to her. Why would she say something like that otherwise?

http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2012/08/30/patricia_carroll_cnn_camerwoman_who_had_peanuts_thrown_at_her_gives_first_interview_to_maynard_institute_.html

[annabanana]

1. Su-u-u-u-u-ure it could.

Let us know if it does.

[Scuba]

2. Easily? Yes. Likely? No way.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

3. Wow! Their fake "fairness" has actually come to this. nt

[flobee1]

4. BULLSHIT!

and dems would mock injured vets with purple heart bandaids?
BULLSHIT

[HopeHoops]

5. She was being polite. The GOP carefully screened entrants to be party-line fascists.

The DNC lets in a lot of people without such screening, but I can't see anyone going there for the purpose of doing something so racist, petty, and disgusting. Kudos to Patricia Carroll for being so gracious about it, but that was just flat out racist hate in a forum that promotes it. The "big tent" has an unwritten sign that says "whites only".

[mucifer]

6. Things like that could happen in Chicago.

There still is a lot of racism here. Yes, less than 25 years ago during the election of Mayor Harold Washington when it was downright scary.

That said, I don't think those racist democrats will go to the convention to cheer on President Obama. But, some of them are still in our party.

[Whisp]

7. Cooper 'both sides do it' must have got to her

or her employer CNN, NO DOUBT made her say this because it is BULLSHIT.

The kind that Blitzer and Cooper and those sling all day long.

[valerief]

8. And she said that with an NRA gun to her head. nt

[jberryhill]

9. "she needs to be hammered..."

Have you remembered to put in your entry for the "most bizarre response to a victim" sweepstakes this year?

She seems to be saying that she has lived in the south a long time, and it is her belief that individuals of any population sample will include those who engage in racist behavior.

I have no fucking idea why you believe she "needs to be hammered" or of what you think that activity consists, but if she is failing to live up to your standards of what an African American woman in her position should do, and therefore needs to be punished or harassed in some way, then I would kindly suggest that maybe you consider throwing peanuts at her.

So, "she needs to be hammered" does she? Are you bringing the rope?

[brewens]

13. Yeah right. I mean questioned thoroughly about why she would expect that at the DNC.

That statement of hers needs to be explained. I would think someone at CNN gave her an ultimatum to tell us the usual "they do it too" thing.

[jberryhill]

14. She didn't have to speak to anyone about the incident

And for you, and others in this thread, to attack her the way you have, merely proves what she said.

I guess you don't think she's entitled to her opinion, because it doesn't conform to what you believe she is supposed to think or say.

[NYC Liberal]

10. Sure. Maybe if a racist, right-wing nut went to the DNC for some reason...

[progressivebydesign]

11. She must be referring to the staff of Fox News covering the DNC. otherwise, NEVER gonna happen.

Seriously... her comments baffle me. Sorry that this happened to her, but I have YET to experience ANY racism from any Democrats I've been around. Ever. Guess when you work for CNN, who keeps trying outfox Fox, you get a bit twisted in your perceptions. Hell.. she could be a republican for all we know. But her comment is just nonsensical.

[Zoeisright]

12. Oh my god. What an idiot.

She sounds really stupid.

[jberryhill]

16. Perhaps you'd like to line up to throw peanuts at her

It's irritating when African Americans don't do what they are supposed to do, innit?

[Jamaal510]

15. I think that what this lady meant was that

this peanut-throwing incident could've happened anywhere in general, and that the one idiot shouldn't symbolize the mindset of everyone else at the RNC. It's kinda like when I was robbed at a bus stop, and my mother told me that a person could get robbed whether they are in the 'hood or in some suburb.

[TroyD]

18. I know what she means, but . . .

That essentially gives cover to the Republicans.

It uses the fallacy of false equivalency that the media so often engages in. It's obvious there is much more racism in the Republican Party, and so she's essentially minimizing that fact by saying it could have happened at the DNC too.

[WI_DEM]

17. No, she shouldn't be 'hammered' about anything. Just leave her alone.