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Protesters ‘mic check’ Gingrich in Iowa

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By Eric W. Dolan
Wednesday, December 14, 2011

Protesters affiliated with the “Occupy Wall Street” movement on Wednesday interrupted Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich during a speech at the University of Iowa.

“Mic check,” the protesters shouted. “We are here to protest your speech today. We object to your callous and arrogant attitude toward poverty and poor people.”

The protesters also denounced his “vilification of people as shiftless and unwilling to work” and his “disgusting suggestions that we bring back child labor.”

Some of the protesters were escorted out of the room but were not arrested, according to the Los Angeles Times.

The “mic check” is a reference to the system of communication used by the “Occupy Wall Street” protesters in New York City’s Zuccotti Park.

Unable to use microphones because they lack the proper sound permits, the protesters repeat in unison what a speaker says. The speaker begins by saying “mic check.”

The “mic check” later evolved into a form of protest. Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, President Barack Obama, Republican strategist Karl Rove, and Republican presidential Ron Paul have all recently been interrupted by the “99 Percent” movement. Gingrich was previously “mic checked” by protesters in Florida and Massachusetts.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/12/14/protesters-mic-check-gingrich-in-iowa/

Watch video, courtesy of CBS News, below:

"Look at that Clown, he didn't even have a Clue what was going on or why these folks interrupted, talk about being out of touch, Sheeesh!!!"
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20 comments // Protesters ‘mic check’ Gingrich in Iowa

  • Paratus
  • RevKen
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      RevKen  

    • I Love these Mic Check Protests. They do a great job at getting attention for the cause. With a little luck it will also stop the republicans from talking in front of crowds.

    • 1 year ago
  • Paratus
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      Paratus  
    • RevKen:

      Listen to yourself.
      "With a little luck it will also stop the republicans from talking in front of crowds."
      This mic check garbage is all about shutting down opposing views. It's all about mob imposed tyranny. IT is not about freedom. Tells me all I need to know about the "protesters". I am, and have been, right about the left all along.

    • 1 year ago
  • RevKen
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      RevKen  
    • Paratus:

      So let me ask. Did you support the Tea Baggers when they interrupted Town Hall meetings? Was that not a comparable demonstration technique?

      When our government stops listening to us and it comes to the point we have no option but disruptive protests I do not blame the protesters. I blame the government that chooses to turn a deaf ear to us.

      Your post tells me a lot about you. We are all hypocrites, it is a human frailty common to us all. I am to the point in my life that I want to find mine and reduce it. Perhaps one day you will choose to do the same.

    • 1 year ago
  • Paratus
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      Paratus  
    • RevKen:

      And your post told me all I need to know about you. I don't agree with tyrants. You don't seem to have a problem with shutting up a side you don't agree and even look for excuses to justify doing just that. You and your thinking are much more dangerous than republican talking. Had Gingrich been at a town hall meeting and during the course of taking questions had a loud and prolonged disagreement with an OWS protester that would have been fine. What these idiots did is not even close to that. Their purpose was not to speak their mind but to quell opposing speech and you support that. If the Tea Party, that is the Tea PARTY you tyrant, done this it would have been wrong also. Done try to hide behind the higher moral ground, you don't occupy that position.

    • 1 year ago
  • RevKen
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      RevKen  
    • Paratus:

      Speaking out and calling attention to one's views is never wrong. I supported the Tea Baggers when they spoke up. I just happened to disagree with what they said. I applauded them for their actions, I just wish they were more reasonable in their political views.

      You seem to enjoy name calling in your posts. I have found that most people resort to this type of communication when they have either lost the debate or are simply not smart enough to keep up with the conversation. Please feel free to continue with your insults, it only proves your own ineptness.

    • 1 year ago
  • Paratus
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      Paratus  
    • RevKen:

      Hey sport, don't try to take a higher ground and bail in this one. Your post said that with a little luck it will keep the Republicans from talking in front of crowds. Your efforts to use the so-called "majority" to control the speech of the so-called "minority", is tyranny. You supporting this type of behavior puts you right up with the other statist controllers or, tyrants. Now you may consider this "name calling" if you want but it is more of a descriptive. Name calling would have been me saying something such as how stupid you are or similar but since I am not doing this don't get your panties in a wad. As an aside, your "name calling is also referring to the Tea Party as Tea Baggers. Does this sound familiar? Do as I say not as I do seems to be alive and well in your world.
      Any name calling in my posts is a result of the receipt of same from the so-called tolerant, liberal left. I find that they do not do well when served their own dish. Evidently you don't like an accurate description of your position as well. Nice try ken but no cigar to you. Now please feel free to return to pontificating. We DO know the truth about you. As Forrest said, "That's all I have to say about that".

    • 1 year ago
  • RevKen
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      RevKen  
    • Paratus:

      I do not want to stop people from speaking, I want them to choose to stop speaking. Very big difference.

      The Tea Baggers were the first to use this term in reference to themselves. It was only after someone told them the other meaning that they stopped using it. Do you recall the foolish people with tea bags hanging from their hats? Who really cares about them. Their movement has stopped moving and is collapsing as they have proven themselves unrealistic.

    • 1 year ago
  • CalgarC
  • VoyagerFilms
  • Argon18
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      Argon18  
    • Image

    • Maybe Newt needs a visual reference that would be more easily grasped? After all he has been shown to be "hard of listening" with all the results of his actions.

      So one way to stand up and help would be to participate and spread the message, maybe Gingrich would pay more attention to lots of people showing up in those?

      http://www.zazzle.com/we_rise_in_support_tshirt-235192086860517194

      "From Below We Rise To Support The 99%" for the accountability and opportunities that the Occupy movement is trying to bring because "WE are in this together"

      I figured I could do my part and use my skills at graphic design to make T-shirts available so that the people who wore them would spread the message farther to the people that saw them and that could help get more support to bring about a change in the system

    • 1 year ago
  • zoomy1
  • Argon18
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      Argon18  
    • zoomy1:

      I was wondering how many people were going to recognize that. When I heard that phrase used, I figured it would be appropriate to the 99% cause also since it's about income inequality.

      I used the graph that shows how incomes have only risen for the 1% and flatlined for the 99% so that rising from below isn't only about escaping Hollow Earth, it's about breaking free of ecomonic shackles also.

    • 1 year ago
  • Lisayou
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      Lisayou  

    • I hope Newt Gingrich is forced to pay back the millions he reached from the federal mortgage lenders. He helped to bring about the crisis in the American home ownership. Why is he not in jail with the likes of Bernie Madoff?

    • 1 year ago
  • KB723
  • KB723
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      KB723 [removed]  

    • Protesters ‘mic check’ Gingrich in Iowa

      "Look at that Clown, he didn't even have a Clue what was going on or why these folks interrupted, talk about being out of touch, Sheeesh!!!"

    • 1 year ago
  • Argon18
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      Argon18  
    • KB723:

      "he didn't even have a Clue what was going on" because he and all the people that support him have ADHD and don't remember what he's done.

      http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/tue-august-16-2011/indecision-2012---michele-b...

      How quickly they forget even the question *SQUIRREL* since his base has what Stewart called "the same attention span as the dog in UP" If they remembered Newt's record *SQUIRREL* then you would KNOW that he would *SQUIRREL* fail miserably because of all the past scandals and ethics violations that will *SQUIRREL* doom his chances in the general election.

      Gingrich himself was among the 450 members of the House who had engaged in check kiting; he had overdrafts on twenty-two checks, including a $9,463 check to the Internal Revenue Service in 1990.

      Eighty-four ethics charges were filed against Speaker Gingrich during his term, including claiming tax-exempt status for a college course run for political purposes. Following an investigation by the House Ethics Committee Gingrich was sanctioned $300,000.

      Gingrich acknowledged in January 1997 that "In my name and over my signature, inaccurate, incomplete and unreliable statements were given to the committee". The House Ethics Committee concluded that inaccurate information supplied to investigators represented "intentional or ... reckless" disregard of House rules."

    • 1 year ago
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