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Cheney Heckled Today! OPEN THREAD

Crooks & Liars has the video, also shown on CNN.

Dick Cheney was speaking at the University of Tenn. for the groundbreaking of the Howard Baker Center, when people started heckling. I couldn’t hear what they were saying, but it didn’t stop the VP.


Update [2005-11-15 13:22:6 by susanhu]: I called the city editor of the Knoxville News Sentinel who directed me to this report (sub. only) just up on their site:

Anti-war protestors twice tried to disrupt Vice President Dick Cheney during a speech today honoring Tennessee statesman Howard H. Baker Jr. at the University of Tennessee. …

At one point during Cheney’s remarks, two women shouted, “War, what is it good for?”


Another pair of protesters answered from different part of the arena. Police hustled both groups outside.


A few moments later, three protesters raised a green and white sign demanding “Peace Now.”


“Stop the war!” they shouted.


They, too, were escorted outside. Police took the names of the protesters but did not arrest them. …

About 50 protesters, most of them appearing to be college age, demonstrated outside the arena. Several carried signs, including one that read “Honor Baker, Impeach Cheney.”


I also called our Brenda Stewart who told me that Knoxville is in a “very red county.” Brenda sent me links to TV station coverage — WBIR TV: “About a half-dozen peace protesters shouted, ‘War, what is it good for?’ They unfurled a banner reading ‘Peace Now’.” … OPEN THREAD!

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