From what their own left-wing media, which is 95% of the American media, showed, the Wellstone tribute looked like a nazi party rally in Nuremberg. If there were tender and quiet moments of respect, they chose not to show it to me, or the rest of the nation.
The leftists are now so sick, they have to wait for a book by a party hack to learn what it was they saw with their own eyes. The klintons have completed the Stalinization of the democRAT party and its auxilliaries.
Keep in mind that the only channel outside of Minnesota that aired the Wellstone memorial in its entirety, live, was C-SPAN. (IIRC, the news channels aired a bit of it and then pulled out for most of it because it was so embarrassing. If anything, they were trying to COVER UP what was obviously an orgy of hate.) There was no spin, no analysis. They turned their cameras on, aired the whole event without a word, then turned off their cameras and went home. That is where the outrage started: With regular people watching on TV the exact same thing, and ONLY the exact same thing, that people in the arena itself were seeing. The public outcry began instantly, long before any news media, left or right, had a chance to even begin to "interpret" it for us.
Go back and look at the original FR live thread, Mr. Franken, and then tell us we were all duped by "the right-wing media" (a concept which is laughable in itself) when we were already outraged before any news organization had said a word about it.
Maybe the quiet "respectful" moment came when they played "Love Train". I doubt that it was when they booed Trent Lott. Certainly "the fix was in" in the planning stages when they told Dick Cheney not to come. Hey, funerals of dead politicians, it's what VPs do. Just ask Albert Gore Junior (the real Jr. in election 2000).