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Democrats lose control of presidential event
CNN ^ | 7/19/15 | Chris Moody

Posted on 07/19/2015 7:43:18 AM PDT by ek_hornbeck

A town hall for liberal activists featuring two Democratic presidential candidates was interrupted by dozens of demonstrators on Saturday who shouted down the contenders and demanded they address criminal justice issues and police brutality.

Former Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley and Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders planned to attend a public sit-down interview with journalist Jose Antonio Vargas in front of a left-leaning crowd here at the annual Netroots Nation conference, a gathering of progressives, when the tone of the program shifted just a few minutes into the event.

O'Malley was answering questions from Vargas on stage when dozens of boisterous conference attendees flooded through a side door and shouted down the White House contender.

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TOPICS: Politics/Elections; US: Maryland; US: Vermont
KEYWORDS: 2016election; berniesanders; blacklivesmatter; election2016; hillaryclinton; hitlery; joseantoniovargas; martinomalley; maryland; netroots; netrootsnation; omalley; paultardation; paultardnoisemachine; racepandering; randpaulnoisemachine; randsconcerntrolls; vermont
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The demonstrators started shouting and booing again when O'Malley said: "Black lives matter. White lives matter. All lives matter."

O'Malley later apologized for the remarks, telling This Week in Blackness, a digital news site, that he "meant no disrespect" to the black community.

O'Malley apologizes for the mistake of suggesting that the lives of non-black human beings might matter too. No wonder he's only in single digits against Hillary! Hopefully he's learned his lesson - in the Democratic Party, only "minorities" and their demands matter.

1 posted on 07/19/2015 7:43:18 AM PDT by ek_hornbeck
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To: ek_hornbeck
O'Malley was answering questions from Vargas on stage when dozens of boisterous conference attendees flooded through a side door and shouted down the White House contender.

Hitlery's Brownpantsuits perhaps?

2 posted on 07/19/2015 7:45:04 AM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: ek_hornbeck

Such is the eventual end for all panderers. Those being pandered too eventually get around to getting more noisy about their particular plaints. They don’t understand the finer points of triangulation, equivocation, duplicity and outright lying for convenient. All they know is they want their sh!t.


3 posted on 07/19/2015 7:45:09 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: ek_hornbeck

The natives are restless.


4 posted on 07/19/2015 7:45:12 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (Henry Bowman where are you?)
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To: Gaffer
Such is the eventual end for all panderers.

Pandering is a bottomless pit - there's no limit to the demands of a coddled pet constituency, or a would-be coddled pet constituency (i.e. watch the Democrat and GOP front-runners out-pander one another on the illegals issue).

5 posted on 07/19/2015 7:48:18 AM PDT by ek_hornbeck
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To: ek_hornbeck

“Protesters” always shout “We want communism and we want it now”

Where are the good guys shouting “We want Liberty and Freedom and we want it now?

Now pardon me while I get back to the latest news on FR.


6 posted on 07/19/2015 7:48:55 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (For those who understand, no explanation is needed. For those who do not, no explanation is possible)
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To: ek_hornbeck

The monster of their own creation is now turning on them for saying something truthful.


7 posted on 07/19/2015 7:49:23 AM PDT by cripplecreek (Sad fact, most people just want a candidate to tell them what they want to hear)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom
Where are the good guys ...
Ah, this was a Dem political event. There are NO good guys.
8 posted on 07/19/2015 7:51:00 AM PDT by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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To: ek_hornbeck
Ready-made campaign meme for Republicans: #OnlyCertainLivesMatterToDemocrats

Too bad the GOP doesn't have the spine to run with it.

9 posted on 07/19/2015 7:52:04 AM PDT by Arm_Bears (Biology is biology. Everything else is imagination.)
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To: ClearCase_guy

Netroots Nation = Zombie Convention


10 posted on 07/19/2015 7:55:13 AM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: Arm_Bears

Didn’t trump make an issue of it? I know someone did. Just can’t put my finger on it.

Glen Beck did, but that is not who I am thinking of.


11 posted on 07/19/2015 8:01:50 AM PDT by cableguymn (We need a redneck in the white house....)
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To: ek_hornbeck

http://twitchy.com/2015/07/18/illegal-alien-moderator-of-netroots-nation-explains-chaos-we-cannot-silence-women-of-color/


12 posted on 07/19/2015 8:04:37 AM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: Arm_Bears
Too bad the GOP doesn't have the spine to run with it.

Most of the GOP is too busy pandering to Hispanics to notice. There's something really pathetic about watching Republicans try to play the Democrats' race panderer game, the Democrats have been doing it so well and so long that it's amateurs vs. professionals.

13 posted on 07/19/2015 8:05:34 AM PDT by ek_hornbeck
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Useless idiots are just that. They are too stupid to really understand that their leftist handlers are those that they should be bowing to. So, the emotional useless idiots turn on everyone. What is also interesting is that useless idiots recognize that they get more attention by protesting the leftists because the leftists will pander to them, so this becomes more escalated, kinda fun to watch.


14 posted on 07/19/2015 8:06:30 AM PDT by ForYourChildren (Christian Education [ RomanRoadsMedia.com - Classical Christian Approach to Homeschool ])
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To: ek_hornbeck
"All is going according to plan." - Calypso Barry


15 posted on 07/19/2015 8:09:15 AM PDT by Paine in the Neck (Socialism consumes EVERYTHING)
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To: cableguymn
I know someone did. Just can’t put my finger on it.

Perhaps you are thinking of Kathleen McCartney, president of Smith College, who got in trouble by sending an e-mail with the subject line "All lives matter" to everyone on the Smith campus back in December 2014.

She was forced to apologize for her insensitive and racist words.

16 posted on 07/19/2015 8:09:20 AM PDT by Steely Tom (Vote GOP: A Slower Handbasket)
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To: ek_hornbeck

Like they lost control of the KKK and black panther party this weekend? One would have thought they’d wait until the convention to bring the base together.


17 posted on 07/19/2015 8:09:31 AM PDT by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: Gaffer

Deadly accurate.


18 posted on 07/19/2015 8:09:44 AM PDT by relictele (Principiis obsta & Finem respice - Resist The Beginnings & Consider The Ends)
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To: ek_hornbeck

Given a choice between Democrat and Democrat-lite, voters on the dole will choose Democrat every time.


19 posted on 07/19/2015 8:10:03 AM PDT by Arm_Bears (Biology is biology. Everything else is imagination.)
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To: ek_hornbeck

Are they eating their own, or have we got our own band of infiltrators working mischief? Either way, good.


20 posted on 07/19/2015 8:10:14 AM PDT by JimRed (Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed & water the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS NOW & FOREVER!)
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