Crowd boos mention of Ted Kennedy at Rep. Schakowsky’s health care event.
By on Sep 1st, 2009 at 2:43 pm
Crowd boos mention of Ted Kennedy at Rep. Schakowsky’s health care event.
Josh Kalven of Progress Illinois went to Rep. Jan Schakowsky’s (D-IL) town hall meeting last night, “where over 2,000 people showed up, packing a high school auditorium and spilling onto the sidewalk outside.” One of the most disturbing moments of the event came right after the opening of Schakowsky’s introductory speech, when she said, “You know, Ted Kennedy had said that this was the great issue of his life.” Some audience members applauded her, but there were also a loud amount of booing…just days after Kennedy passed away. Watch it:
At a recent event in upstate New York, Rep. Eric Massa (D-NY) asked for a moment of silence to remember Kennedy. Many attendees shouted throughout the 10-second memorial.
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Wow.
I’m glad the cheering drowned out the losers.
September 1st, 2009 at 2:45 pmThose that booed are simply disgraceful.
May they live in happieness when they get their
September 1st, 2009 at 2:47 pmlife ending cancer or other horrific disease.
Compassionate conservatism, eh?
September 1st, 2009 at 2:48 pmall i can say is that this is a disgrace.
September 1st, 2009 at 2:49 pmThese Conservatives are pigs. All they have is hate.
September 1st, 2009 at 2:49 pmSmall wonder, given the right-wing’s penchant for incivility.
September 1st, 2009 at 2:49 pmThis is so rude and disturbing. Ted Kennedy fought every day of his life for ordinary Americans. I salute him and his contributions! Clearly, manners were not taught to these people, along with simple human decency.
Thanks, Teddy for all you did. Some of us remember and are grateful for your service to this country.
September 1st, 2009 at 2:51 pmStay classy, Republicans.
September 1st, 2009 at 2:53 pmClassy. Really classy.
September 1st, 2009 at 2:58 pmHere’s a little insight into “tenthers,” “birthers,” and the booers at this townhall:
Right of Passage
September 1st, 2009 at 2:58 pmThis comment has been voted down. Click to read.
aaronk says:
September 1st, 2009 at 2:58 pm
Here’s aaronk and his great big BUT.
**eyes rolling**
September 1st, 2009 at 2:59 pmJust poor ignorant people who has not a original though in there empty heads thinking though.
September 1st, 2009 at 3:00 pmI bet a 30 watt light bulb puts out more light then these people have in there whole head.
Go fu(k yourself, aaronk. You’ve proven your troll mettle on this issue already.
September 1st, 2009 at 3:00 pmGood health care policy in republican minds is democrat-cleansing.
September 1st, 2009 at 3:01 pmI noticed that the boos seemed to be much louder for the mention of Ted Kennedy than for the rest of the Representative’s message, but I too am glad to hear people cheering his name for a change.
Let Quinn & Rose be the idiots for slandering his name; there’s no need to drag his name in the mud right now.
And let’s show all of the boobirds that we’re better than them. If a Republican figure dies, we need to be respectful of their name and not do what conservatives say we would do if Kennedy were a Republican figure.
September 1st, 2009 at 3:01 pm“Crowd boos mention of Ted Kennedy at Rep. Schakowsky’s health care event.”
[Shaking my head] Small minds of small people. Very disrespectful.
September 1st, 2009 at 3:02 pmAnybody remember the boos when St. Reagan died? When Nixon died? When William F. Buckley died?
Me, neither.
September 1st, 2009 at 3:03 pmaaronk says:
I think it is very distasteful so soon after his passing, however I am not surprised. For the same reasons that Teddy is a hero to the left, he is a demon to the right.
He’s right folks, Kennedy cared about the poor, the needy, the weak. He faught for those people. Of course the right thinks he’s a demon.
September 1st, 2009 at 3:04 pmJust more proof that it’s a waste of time to talk to these people. Why take any of them seriously?
September 1st, 2009 at 3:05 pmSP Biloxi says:
[Shaking my head] Small minds of small people. Very disrespectful.
yes i agree.
if there brains were fuel they would not have enough fuel to power a piss ants motorcycle to do a figure eight in side a cheerio hole.
September 1st, 2009 at 3:05 pmHead of nail, meet hammer.
September 1st, 2009 at 3:09 pmDo we know they are conservatives? They could just be idiots, or a$$holes, or pinheads or some other less than human being attempting to show that they have no heart.
Nevermind, I just answered my own question.
September 1st, 2009 at 3:09 pmFor the same reasons that Teddy is a hero to the left, he is a demon to the right.
Says quite a bit about the right. The champion of the poor and downtrodden. Yeah, that is real demon material.
September 1st, 2009 at 3:09 pmWe’re not surprised, either, aaronk.
This is what a large part of the Right has become. It’s predictable as the tides these days.
September 1st, 2009 at 3:10 pmHey Aaronk, go to Seven-Eleven and have a Big-Gulp of Shut the F up.
September 1st, 2009 at 3:16 pmHow funny are THESE people?
They do alotta talking ’bout THAT bible, but sounds like it’s just a prop to many republicans!!
They hold it when they attend Sunday services and dust it off on the bookshelf, but do any of these compassionate conservatives ever READ the bible?
ANY BIBLE?
September 1st, 2009 at 3:19 pmThe level of ignorance and incivility of these people is simply remarkable. I wonder how many of these people realize that they have greatly benefited by the works of Ted Kennedy. A sponsor of Medicare, Medicaid, Clean Air, Clean Water, etc… The list goes on and on. How many of their sons and daughters have had improved education, have access to higher education, safer streets etc… None of these would have been passed with out the tireless work of Ted Kennedy. I wish that their brains would be as big as their mouths and think before they speak. Where is their Christian ethic? I am disgusted.
September 1st, 2009 at 3:20 pmcome say it to my face, erronk
I dare you
September 1st, 2009 at 3:21 pmAnd just think…this is precisely why “overzealous Republican staffers” (translation: Bush administration officials) were always so intent on denying entrance at public events to people who they thought might be capable of creating a disturbance to show their disagreement with then-President George W. Bush, even though there was usually no evidence of any actual intent to do so.
Yet, according to many of the very same people who’ve been showing up at events like this and creating a ruckus, this administration is supposedly the one which poses such a threat to democracy and freedom of speech?
Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight…hypocrisy much?
September 1st, 2009 at 3:22 pmNothing new from the tenthers,birthers and liars………
September 1st, 2009 at 3:22 pmStay classy, Illinois.
September 1st, 2009 at 3:23 pmDaddy-O says:
I didn’t boo when Nixon or Reagan died, but I certainly gagged at the platitudes spoken at their funerals.
September 1st, 2009 at 3:27 pmAren’t modern conservatives just adorable? And, they can’t seem to understand why the majority of Americans just don’t agree with them.
September 1st, 2009 at 3:29 pmthis is the face of compassionate conservatism. take a good hard look at ‘em, america before voting for their “party” again.
September 1st, 2009 at 3:31 pmNever underestimate the power of corporate influence on social issues when it involves profit margin or captive customers.
The most disturbing part of this is those booing, disrupting and disagreeing would support health care reform if it had been presented in a clear & timely manner.
They can never change our opinion of Ted Kennedy.
They CAN change the outcome of health care reform.
September 1st, 2009 at 3:31 pmThis comment has been voted down. Click to read.
I bet the people that booed all consider themselves Christians.
September 1st, 2009 at 3:33 pmaaronk says:
ralph, I’m not a Teddy fan, but I have been respectful to him.
Hmmm,
September 1st, 2009 at 3:34 pm‘I won’t miss him at all’ comes to mind…
Stay classy wingnuts. The deeper you dig your grave, the deeper we bury the GOP. Keep it up.
September 1st, 2009 at 3:36 pmThose conservatives have got some real class.
Fcuk the Republic Fascist Party
September 1st, 2009 at 3:38 pmReal conservatives and real republicans would never even reconize the hateful wingnuts who have taken over that party.
September 1st, 2009 at 3:39 pmOh, really?
If that’s “respectful”, I’d hate to see how you treat people with disdain.
You’re an a$$hole, aaronk. Plain and simple. Your pretense at “respectful” might fool some for a while, but you will always reveal the truth of your nature, given enough time.
September 1st, 2009 at 3:44 pmaaronk, like all the other wingnut crazies will just lie to make his point, and pretend that its the truth.
September 1st, 2009 at 3:52 pmSo much seeming concern for a fetus but once born, put them in orphanges! Feed them ketchup! No welfare for single mothers! No health care for the poor! Compassion in not in the Republican DNA.
September 1st, 2009 at 3:52 pmClassless buffoons.
September 1st, 2009 at 3:58 pmIts like they were raised on mustard and biscuits unnnh huhhh
September 1st, 2009 at 4:05 pmaaronk – you’re a pig – now go crawl into your little piggy pen with all the rest of the “compassionate conservatives”, and just STFU – moron!
September 1st, 2009 at 4:06 pmWell played, Ralph.
September 1st, 2009 at 4:09 pmRemember in the last 8 years when prominent republicans died and everyone afforded them a degree of respect ?
You’ve got to remember that Civility only applies to repubs.
September 1st, 2009 at 4:10 pmThese people have an emotional IQ that wouldn’t rate a respectable earthquake.
September 1st, 2009 at 4:12 pmSince the Republicans and all their minions have managed to either pee or crap on everything honorable and decent in this country while proclaiming their respect for America, one has to conclude that they all slept though the class period in school that defined what respect is.
September 1st, 2009 at 4:12 pmI live in Schakowsky’s district and it is overwhelmingly Democratic and quite liberal. It is hard to believe that these hecklers are locals from the district. However, you can be sure she will support the health care bill.
September 1st, 2009 at 4:19 pmTed Kennedy cared deeply for ALL Americans, even those too stupid to realize it….
September 1st, 2009 at 4:28 pmI wonder how many buses, vans and autos with out-of-state license plates were in the lot at Schakowsky’s town meeting.
September 1st, 2009 at 4:37 pmThis is the absolute WORST face of the American people. Moral, sane Americans need to stand up and drown out this nonsense. We need to carpet bomb them with TRUTH and civility! An oxymoron to be sure but appropriate language for this situation I think.
September 1st, 2009 at 4:45 pmThis comment has been voted down. Click to read.
CG
I’m sure contributions like yours above will have people switching sides in no time.
Keep’em comin’ – the Conservative Movement needs you now more than ever.
September 1st, 2009 at 5:07 pmMore of the poor are children.
September 1st, 2009 at 5:10 pmwell nellre – everone knows that children are the laziest among us…
but once the heroic “conservative guy” gets his way, through the might of his money and the moral force of his money, we won’t have that problem any more, because he’ll put them all back to work in the textile mills, just like in the good old days.
September 1st, 2009 at 5:19 pmconservative guy – another pig – go FCUK yourself dickhead
September 1st, 2009 at 5:30 pmI am soooo fcuking sick of Republicans! I do believe America is rapidly falling apart……..and it all has to do with stupidity.
September 1st, 2009 at 5:38 pmThese people who are low enough to boo a deadman are going to burn in hell. How low can you go to attack a man who clearly can’t defend himself. That’s what the Republicans party has come to. They claim to have family values, but they wouldn’t know a value if it walked up and slapped the shit out of them. These people are just like the German people in the late 1930 when Hitler and his henchmen came to power. Most of them claim to be Christian, but then go again the teaching of Jesus, who was love and peace. I want my country back!!!!!!!!!!! They are a bunch of militaristic idiots who are all cowards and never served a day in uniform.
September 1st, 2009 at 5:49 pmAdd THIS to the lies, distortions, threats,Deceptions, hyperbole, and treason…all caught on tape….
and File it under the “Rope of August”.
September 1st, 2009 at 6:04 pmThese people are learning all these lies from Fox News and Limbaugh and Savage. Maybe they need to be held accountable for the lies and propaganda they spread which are causing the disintegration of our political system.
September 1st, 2009 at 6:23 pmWhen Dick Cheney dies, no one is going to cry outside of a select few people. Pretty much the same for George W. Bush. You really have to work hard to get the animosity brewing in the hearts of so many.
The far right proposes tolerance, but has yet to show what it says it is taught by the teaching of the Bible. I blame the schisms in Christianity and the false teachings for the sake of profit for leading so many astray. Moral values should be examples and leadership, not hollow words and verses repeated over until they are a shell of a concept that is just ink and not a standard of value. Just because you can repeat the words doesn’t mean your bark makes you any more of an Alpha, male, female or dog. And that’s not god for a dyslexic.
September 1st, 2009 at 6:29 pmJust think. As long as a white guy was the president, these horrible people kept it all in. Now that we have a black president all their seething, simmering putrid vitriol comes spewing out. They were among us all the time and we didn’t know it. It’s like a horror movie.
September 1st, 2009 at 6:33 pmSenator Hatch said that Ted Kennedy repected all people regardless of their political views.I’m not as forgiving and tolerant as TK.
September 1st, 2009 at 7:35 pmStay classy GOP.
But is anyone really surprised? The day Senator Kennedy died, the right wing was screaming Chappaquiddick. Not that they came close to spelling it correctly or knew what the hell it even is (it’s an island off of Martha’s Vineyard you ding dongs). And they “cried” for Mary Jo Kopechne, like they care one ____ about her. Just a name to beat Kennedy with. They are just vile and disgraceful.
September 1st, 2009 at 9:06 pmconservaTROLL
Havent you killed yourself yet you worthless ignorant punkass troll? No one in their right mind takes anything a stupid putrid piece of garbage like you has to say. Just STFU and let the adults talk
September 1st, 2009 at 11:37 pmFirst off, this is beyond sad. It’s straight up bullshit. Personally, I try to stay out of modern politics and all the stupidity it causes, and this is a perfect example of why.
Secondly, not all Republicans are this bad, thank God. Some of them are actually decent, respectable human beings. They’re just not loud and obnoxious like these fu<ktards. I say anyone who has the indecency to boo even the simple mention of a person’s name just because of differing political opinions, so soon after their passing, should be, in my opinion, drug out into the street and shot.
And lastly, CG: damn you to Niffleheim.
September 2nd, 2009 at 3:49 amwhile i feel bad for his family— i personaly don’t feel Ted was worth all the hype, he may have be a senator, but he still got up and and put his pant’s on one leg at a time. i can say i’m very glad he was never my senator
September 2nd, 2009 at 9:08 pmi aint you says:
And I can say I am very glad a moron like you was NEVER one of us
September 2nd, 2009 at 10:15 pmThis just shows what utter trash conservatives really are.
September 3rd, 2009 at 2:30 amvery thanks for article!
September 4th, 2009 at 10:42 am