It boggles the mind, literally.
No...what boggles the mind is people like lilMike and some silly
Orlando blogger who go to great lengths to negate the facts.
It's after 3:00 am and I have to get up early for another fun-packed day tomorrow (CPAC FLORIDA!) but I want to put this on the record now about an incident that happened at tonight's Republican debate. It's important that the truth is shared, because I have already seen liberal bloggers and some people on Twitter completely distorting what happened.
The debate included video questions that were submitted on YouTube, and one came from a soldier serving in Iraq who is gay and asked about the candidates' opinions on don't ask don't tell. There was audible booing after his question...however, please note that it was not the crowd booing. It was only one or two people.
I was at the debate, in the audience on the right hand side about halfway back (here's my tweet of the video screen that was right in front of us). The person who booed was just a few rows in front of us. The booing got an immediate and angry reaction from nearly everyone sitting around him, who hissed and shushed at him. Lots of loud gasps, "Shhhh!" "No!" "Shut up, you idiot!" etc.
OK...first. Were the booer's in the crowd? Then, yes, Ms. Rump, the crowd booed. Second, there was an immediate and angry reaction from those around the booer's? Hmmm....
It's been a long time since my high school AP physics class, but a quick Google search confirmed my memory on how sound waves travel:
As sound waves travel through a medium [like air], they lose energy to the medium and are damped. The molecules in the medium, as they are forced to vibrate back and forth, generate heat. Consequently, a sound wave can only propagate through a limited distance. In general, low frequency waves travel further than high frequency waves because there is less energy transferred to the medium. Hence the use of low frequencies for fog horns.
A loud male voice on a concrete floor will travel well. In this case, the booing echoed and resonated off the floor and carried clearly the approximately 100 yards up to where the cameras and microphones were, while our hissing and shushing did not travel as well.
lol...she's sooo tired at 3am after burning effigies of Obama all day long...yet Ms. Rump was still able to come up with some cockamamie scientific theory about how the booer's chants resonated throughout the OCC, yet her and her friend's words chastizing him/her/it didn't?
Really, Ms. Rump?
Not only that, but she had to come back yesterday and try to defend her words
again after being reamed in the comments section of her first post!
What get's me (and I made this comment on Ms. Rump's blog; whether it's posted or not is another story) is one: The issue isn't whether one or one hundred people booed, the issue is that a soldier whose job is to keep the lifes of those in that audience secure was shown disrespect, gay or not. There was no "Thanks for serving our country" from the dias or audience, there was no immediate condemnation from the debaters (hell, now Ms. Rump says the debaters didn't hear it??), there was stone silence following the catcall.
and two: The issue is a trend towards the bizzare behavior exhibited by not only the Republican candidates, but their audiences over the past three "debates". There is no defense of applause over the execution of innocent people, there is no defense of applause over someone yelling "Let him die!", and there is no defense of showing disrespect to a member of our military.
