Yanno ..... I'm hearing raucous cheering and whistles and applause ...... but the crowd shots ......

[Stinky The Clown]

.... show an all-but-somnambulant crowd doing tennis claps.

Are they using a laugh track?

Is some amphetimized part of the audience hot miked?

[rurallib]

1. I'd swear I heard boos on the radio. - NPR

[marmar]

2. I think there's definitely an audience applause track playing.....

..... Reagan (in his current state) would look livelier than most people in that crowd.

[annabanana]

3. Rove's boys. That's what they're there for. to make a racket. . . n/t

[givemebackmycountry]

4. Stink - remember when they accused the Colt's of pumping in crowd noise...

During the playoffs a few years ago in that 45 thousand seat dump the RCA Center?

There are THOUSANDS of empty seats.

Listening to Droopy Joe, is it any wonder?

[quiet.american]

5. They probably cribbed it from our convention. nt