Posted on 11/18/2016 8:53:08 PM PST by EdnaMode
Vice president-elect Mike Pence was loudly booed by audience members as he walked into the Richard Rodgers Theatre in midtown Friday to watch "Hamilton."
Video posted to social media shows the audience at the Broadway show both loudly clapping and booing as Pence walked into the theater with Secret Service in tow.
"Here's Pence getting booed as he gets to his seats at Hamilton, tweeted an audience member who captured the loud reaction on video. "Everything was calm and then we heard almost a hysterical booing, went on for a long time," Ron Rawlings, who was visiting from Dallas, Texas, told NBC 4 New York. "As my daughter and I stood up to see what was going on, we saw Vice President-elect Pence coming in.
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Like rioting know-nothings in the streets, this will backfire big time. This behavior is the equivalent of desecrating the flag. I expect Trump to come back hard on this. They make it so easy.
Here’s a slightly different account, and I applaud the TExan in the audience quoted in the article:
Also....I don’t think the reports that say that the cast lectured Pence is really accurate.
What I read about their statement is 1) sincere gratitude that he showed up. 2) they ARE afraid that they “won’t be protected”...but 3) they hope he enjoyed the show.
With regards to #2...honestly I don’t find that offensive. I find it childish...but I also find it entirely honest.
The problem with liberalism is that it is a mental illness that effects about half the country and causes them to see the world in these terms. They have literally no rational basis to fear Pence in the way that they do. That is indisputable. YET....it is also indisputable that Trump/Pence will obviously protect ALL Americans from terrorism, and eventually, from crony capitalism, and from those who hate the Constitution. We can’t dispute that they are afraid. That’s just a statement of fact.
What we can dispute is that their fears are grounded in rationality. Their fears are absurd. But such is the work product of liberalism.
In any event...I’m saddened by their statement, but it is NOWHERE nearly as offensive as it could be. I see it as an honest statement of what they FEEL (ugh...)...and I also see it is a small step forward.
At least he was there. And at least the cast spoke to him and thanked him for being there.
That’s better than the assholes that booed our vice President.
Is Pence retarded?
“Hamilton” is stupid.
Secret Service should have gone around to those booing and demanded their names and addresses just for poops and giggles
Are you talking about the WTC Twin Towers?
Another reason for Trump and Pence to boycott Hollywood and Broadway end encourage their supporters to do less likewise!
True. It is in the article.
Most of the original cast has left and the cattle call went out, stating that they ONLY wanted "minorities", which is against the law.
The ONLY white in the cast, is the actor who portrays King George III and does so as a complete and utter idiot.
There isn't music; just Rap and some Hip-Hop.
This play is an ABOMINATION and those who go see it are NUTS!
Well, they're all STUPID MINORITIES, so who cares?
I call this stinker of revisionist history, a POS and its author and the actors too.
Obviously not the brightest bulb in the pack; however, there isn’t anything worth seeing on Broadway now and hasn’t been in decades.
Just heard alittle of it on radio news here. Sounded like the cast member was preaching to Pence about “tolerance”. These leftists are getting wackier by the minute.
That's why "Hamilton" is one of their favorite broadway plays. I've got a lefty acquaintance that wears her "Hamilton" t-shirt daily. Hope she washes it occasionally.
So, why is Pence even going there?
Why is our VP walking into the midst of such a public venue, at such a crucial time as this???
Aaarrrggghhh!!!!
“Why does everyone have to look at the cup half empty..?”
I’m sorry, but I just keep seeing mental images of Ford’s Theater.
Wrong place for our treasured VP to be, at a time like this.
I was once in the theater with Ronald Reagan in attendance - Will Rogers Follies starring Marla Maples - when Act-Up, the crazy gay terrorist group - took over. Keith Carradine, the other star, had to stop the show and kick them out.
Why would Pence want to see this overrated show anyway?
I heard it just the other day from my sister-in-law, whom I wouldn’t have taken as hugely lefty until I heard it... she thinks Christians shouldn’t be selling wedding cakes unless they will sell them to homosexual couples too.
And hence is the problem. These snow flakes want to be protected against being embarrassed somewhere, someplace, that they demand something and get declined. Even if their demand is only a test and they’d never actually want to go to that place.
I guess because it’s at least about SOMETHING from the founding era. Even if it is a wrongheaded something, acted out by a wrongheaded group.
But hey... antique sin is still sin
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