MSNBC Guest: Would A White President Get Heckled?

Real Clear Politics ^ | June 15, 2012 | Julian Epstein

[Bubba_Leroy]

"This is just so unprecedented and outrageous, that you have to ask the question, would the right-wing president be doing this if we had a white president there?" MSNBC guest and Democratic strategist Julian Epstein said on the channel this afternoon.

"I think it's a very important question because I think this is the first African-American president. We've never had a white president been told by the opposing party to shut up in the middle of a major address to the Congress. We've never had a president like this heckled so disrespectfully. We've never had this otherness afforded to any other president and I think the right wing has some explaining to do because to me it's patently obvious," he said.

[Bubba_Leroy]

No one could possibly oppose The Won based on the fact that he is a socialist Hugo Chavez wannabe. Anyone who opposes him must be a racist.

[driftdiver]

yeah they never did that to Bush

[knittnmom]

Did I miss something - I thought the reporter asked a pertinent question? Why is that “heckling”?

[andy58-in-nh]

We've never had a president like this heckled so disrespectfully.

I guess he must have been unconscious for George W. Bush's entire term in office. Or maybe he's just unconscious.

[Hodar]

MSNBC Guest: Would a White President Get Heckled?

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2009/09/10/flashback_democrats_boo_bush_at_2005_state_of_the_union.html

[knittnmom]

yeah they never did that to Bush

Or Kennedy, Nixon, Reagan, etc.

[Internet Walnut]

Nah, they just threw shows at Bush.

[bitterohiogunclinger]

“I think the right wing has some explaining to do because to me it’s patently obvious,” he said.”

It’s patently obvious he’s an idiot.

[RC2]

We need to start calling it as it really is. Not African-American but Arab-American.

[Red Badger]

Nah, a white president would NEVER be heckled!...........

[Slings and Arrows]

[Internet Walnut]

Nah, they just threw shoes at Bush.

[allmendream]

How about throwing a shoe at the President? Would a white President get a shoe thrown at him?

[MrB]

Absolutely ridiculous.

In order to postulate that opposition to 0bama is race-based,
they would have to assert that we’d support his Marxist policies if he were white,
and we’d oppose a strict black conservative.

absurd

[Servant of the Cross]

First, it was a reporter asking a question. Hardly 'heckling'.

Here's one example of W handling an actual 'heckler'

[donna]

I personally saw President Nixon heckled during a speech in Phoenix back in the day.

[SMARTY]

The proper question is:

Was there ever a white President who was NOT heckled?

[RC one]

Bush had a shoe thrown at him and liberals thought it was great. They lowered the bar to where it is now.

[deener]

Does anyone remember ABC reporter Sam Donaldson? He made a career out of yelling out questions to Ronald Reagan at every opportunity.

[Democrats hate too much]

"Nah, they just threw shoes at Bush."

Hahahaha