Black CNN camerawoman says RNC members threw peanuts at her

[Monkeyleg]

A CNN camerawoman says that RNC visitors threw peanuts at her and said "that's the way we treat animals around here".

I really question the validity of this story. I've only seen it published on lefty websites and MSM outlets. I would think that something like this would get coverage at Fox, the WSJ, or somewhere else.

Story is here

[Perd Hapley]

The two white people were immediately removed from the Tampa, Fla., convention arena by security officials on Tuesday....

GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney's campaign said Thursday that it has apologized to CNN for what happened.

"We find it absolutely deplorable. We condemn it in the highest possible way," said Russ Schriefer, strategist for the Romney campaign. "That behavior is just reprehensible."

Very interesting how the statement from the Romney campaign is called an apology, when the quoted statement doesn't apologize at all. It condemns. Calling it an apology gives the impression the Romney campaign was responsible, or that the offenders were part of Romney's campaign staff. Very interesting.

[RocketMan]

Video, or it didn't happen.

[drewtam]

Video, or it didn't happen.

This.

Democrat Congressmen made the same kinds of charges a couple years ago during anti-obamacare rallies in Washington. Video later provide the allegation was false.

[cassandra and sara's daddy]

apparently it was brought to the attention of security by other folks and they got tossed.  it happened i believe and it was handled  promptly

[Jamie B]

apparently it was brought to the attention of security by other folks and they got tossed.  it happened i believe and it was handled  promptly

Agreed. Video, while helpful, is not a requirement for truth.

[cassandra and sara's daddy]

nice to see something handled quickly and appropriately   though a beating might have been nice

[MillCreek]

I saw a subsequent interview of the camerawoman, and she did not blame the Republicans.  She said it was a Southern thing from her being a black woman.  She said that she had lived in the South all her life and was quite familiar with Southern idiots.  Or words to that effect.

[Monkeyleg]

Video, a statement from a named witness, a statement from the security people, or something that verifies it happened.

This reeks of the same tactics drewtam mentioned with black congressmen and the Tea Party.

[Blakenzy]

Meh, rude dumbasses exist everywhere. This is neither news, nor an extraordinary event. If they say it happened, it very well could have. The issue is how it is spinned and for whose benefit.

[cassandra and sara's daddy]

Video, a statement from a named witness, a statement from the security people, or something that verifies it happened.

This reeks of the same tactics drewtam mentioned with black congressmen and the Tea Party.

all of the above exist   if one wanted to look  the "it didn't happen" has an al jones flavor

[cassandra and sara's daddy]

http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/08/cnn-camerawoman-nuts-speaks.php

http://content.usatoday.com/communities/onpolitics/post/2012/08/cnn-camerawoman-not-surprised-by-racial-attack/1#.UES9_yLdcv4

http://www.tampabay.com/blogs/media/content/cnn-camerawoman-called-animal-rnc-says-should-be-wake-call-black-people

[Hutch]

  [tinfoil]This just has to be agents provocateur, doesn't it?  Add that to Todd Akins jackassery, and put it on my paranoia tab.

[Perd Hapley]

the "it didn't happen" has an al jones flavor

   Waiting for confirmation that a reported event actually happened makes one a conspiracy-monger, now?

[cassandra and sara's daddy]

   Waiting for confirmation that a reported event actually happened makes one a conspiracy-monger, now?

ignoring days old confirmation and roleplaying conspiracy is an al jones favorite

[Monkeyleg]

CSD, two blog links and a link to a USA Today story that used a blog as a source does not constitute "confirmation". I can post a blog story about how it didn't happen, and Fistful and drewtam can do the same. Voila--confirmation that it didn't happen!

This was the RNC presidential convention, for crying out loud. The woman supposedly pelted with peanuts was a camerawoman, which suggests to me that she had the means to record the event just by pushing a button. I would think there would have been other still or video cameras nearby.

[roo_ster]

CSD, two blog links and a link to a USA Today story that used a blog as a source does not constitute "confirmation". I can post a blog story about how it didn't happen, and Fistful and drewtam can do the same. Voila--confirmation that it didn't happen!

This was the RNC presidential convention, for crying out loud. The woman supposedly pelted with peanuts was a camerawoman, which suggests to me that she had the means to record the event just by pushing a button. I would think there would have been other still or video cameras nearby.

That is what I was thinking.

Still, coulda happened.  If it did, she deserves a lavish apology from the perpetrators. 

These days, though, I am no longer crediting such claims until I see the proof.  Too many crying wolf or arranging the outrage themselves for the attention.

[RocketMan]

That is what I was thinking.

Still, coulda happened.  If it did, she deserves a lavish apology from the perpetrators.  

These days, though, I am no longer crediting such claims until I see the proof.  Too many crying wolf or arranging the outrage themselves for the attention.

Exactitorily (one of my favorite made up words).  There are many opportunities for an aggrieved party to document an abuse like this under those circumstances.  Certainly too many at the RNC convention with hundreds of cameras of all kinds scattered around the venue and thousands of people all over the place as potential witnesses.
I'm betting she was not isolated or alone at the time, so for the event to go unwitnessed is just not believeable to me.  I've done the TV camera gig at large gatherings before.  You're with other camera people, on an intercom system talking to crew, there is a floor director and other support folks nearby.  She could/should/would have mentioned this to someone else as it occurred, and that would have provided some sort of documentation of the event.  There were probably even bystanders around just attending the convention that would have seen it happen.
This thing does not pass the smell test for me.  Hence my 'video or it didn't happen' comment.

[cassandra and sara's daddy]

CSD, two blog links and a link to a USA Today story that used a blog as a source does not constitute "confirmation". I can post a blog story about how it didn't happen, and Fistful and drewtam can do the same. Voila--confirmation that it didn't happen!

This was the RNC presidential convention, for crying out loud. The woman supposedly pelted with peanuts was a camerawoman, which suggests to me that she had the means to record the event just by pushing a button. I would think there would have been other still or video cameras nearby.

you don't think the rnc rep confirming and apologizing is enough?
i see
what would be sufficent?
the
the rep confirming that it happened and that they were ejected is insufficent too?
This kind of behavior will not be tolerated," convention spokesman Kyle Downey said in a statement.

[cassandra and sara's daddy]

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

[Monkeyleg]

you don't think the rnc rep confirming and apologizing is enough?
i see
what would be sufficent?
the
the rep confirming that it happened and that they were ejected is insufficent too?
This kind of behavior will not be tolerated," convention spokesman Kyle Downey said in a statement.

No, I don't see it as necessarily a confirmation any more than I see companies paying out to settle nuisance lawsuits as admissions of guilt. It's possible that she heard about this, apologized whether she knew it to be true or not, and hoped it would pass.

I'm not saying it did not happen. I'm saying it's possible that it did not happen, and I think that because with all of the cameras and cell phones with cameras at the convention, for the event to not be recorded is almost implausible to me.

[roo_ster]

No, I don't see it as necessarily a confirmation any more than I see companies paying out to settle nuisance lawsuits as admissions of guilt. It's possible that she heard about this, apologized whether she knew it to be true or not, and hoped it would pass.

I'm not saying it did not happen. I'm saying it's possible that it did not happen, and I think that because with all of the cameras and cell phones with cameras at the convention, for the event to not be recorded is almost implausible to me.

What ML wrote.

[cassandra and sara's daddy]

ah and you imagine the rnc guy acknowledged and apologized because....?

[kgbsquirrel]

ah and you imagine the rnc guy acknowledged and apologized because....?

He just explained that to you! This is exceptionally obtuse even for your normal level of willful ignorance. Seriously, are you being paid to be the APS pet troll or something?

[MechAg94]

ah and you imagine the rnc guy acknowledged and apologized because....?

The repubs apologize for anything regardless of fact. 

Either way it appears that the proper action was taken according to the stories.