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Posted on 01/15/2003 6:10:57 AM PST by Bloody Sam Roberts
Did ABC censor a crowd’s disapproval of George H. Bush? The former president — and father of the current president — delivered a taped message at the American Music Awards on Monday night, and sources who were there tell The Scoop that the crowd booed him.
WHEN THE BAND Alabama received the Award of Merit, the elder Bush’s face appeared on screen. “I’m very proud to be part of tonight’s tribute honoring one of the most highly successful bands country music has ever known,” said the former president, but his image was met with a loud chorus of boos. One source says Randy Owen, the lead singer for the band, was “pretty shaken” by the crowd’s reaction.
The boos from the crowd, however, were not audible in the broadcast, leading some to believe that they were deleted by censors. “To be honest, I can’t tell you,” a spokesman for ABC told The Scoop, who referred the question to a spokesman for the production company.
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Oh! I know! I am reminded of the situation which Hillary Clinton found herself in at Madison Square Garden last year at a concert honoring the policemen and firefighters who gave their lives on September 11, 2001.
It seems that the rebroadcast of the event by VH-1 had the boos edited out.
Sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.
But it's a sorry sauce, indeed. The point of NEWS organizations is to report what happened. Period. I find it hard to believe that ABC edited boos for Bush (unless it was to AMPLIFY them), but if they did, it's just as wrong as removing the Hillary boos.
But it's a sorry sauce, indeed. The point of NEWS organizations is to report what happened. Period. I find it hard to believe that ABC edited boos for Bush (unless it was to AMPLIFY them), but if they did, it's just as wrong as removing the Hillary boos.
The awards show wasn't a news program. It was entertainment.
Hey, what's up with these double posts?
Being booed by firefighters and police officers who daily risk their lives for a better America is a little different from being booed by a bunch of show biz bimbos and crackheads who hate the country that has made them wealthy. The police and firefighters were censored so hillary would not be embarrassed. ABC censored the booing of President Bush to avoid the embarrassment or controversy of broadcasting a program with an audience of reprobates and scumbags.
As for me, I have never watched one of these "award" shows and I don't give a rat's behind who wins what award. I'm sure I've never even heard of most of whoever the big shots are who are on the ballot or who might prance up on the stage and give some kind of stoned out, half-wit anti-American speech to their fellow bimbos, crackheads, and brain dead fans.
I no longer even listen to music coming out of Nashville, much less New York or Hollywood. Screw 'em. I listen to "Texas Music" from the likes of Pat Green and his ilk. Like the song I played on the way to work today, "West Texas Holiday" which is about loading up the pick up each September with guns, ammo, and beer and going bird hunting. The song says "if it flies, it dies" and if the birds don't fly, you can just shoot rabbits with a .22. Just the kind of stuff to give PETA and all that over-commercialized, politically correct New York-Hollywood-Nashville bunch a good case of constipation. You know who I mean, the kind of a$$holes who would boo the President.
I agree with that. All news in now "managed" to fit one political agenda or another. You cannot believe what you see and hear. It should scare the hell out of everyone.
Richard W.
If I were George H. Bush, I would consider it a badge of honor to be bood by the likes of them.
It looks like I might as well incude you in that also-- along with the crack heads and bimbos.
Sources tell me that these people "needed killin'"
You are correct. But it's not about the booing. It's about the editing.
Well said.
I would be nervous if the crowd at the AMA cheered for George H.W. Bush.
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