NPR: "Nothing to look at here, folks"

"Nothing to look at here, folks"

Should pro-Clinton/anti-Obama protestors get a little out-of-hand during the Democratic Convention, Clinton staffers, working alongside Obama's floor organizers, plan to dispatch a 40-person "whip team". According to Politico, the group will roam the floor, looking for potentially embarrassing demonstrations. When they spot one, the idea is to move in front of it and block any unsavory activity with lots of Obama signs. Organizers say the whip team will not try to persuade delegates to vote one way or the other. They simply want to "foster the image of a unified front".

To all you kazoo-blowing, air horn-toting Clinton lovers out there, heads up.

-- Sean Bowditch

4:51 PM ET | 08-21-2008 | permalink

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That's good old fashioned American freedom of speech right there. Isn't it?

"How could we allow something like this without pumping our fists?"

-Eminem

Sent by Jody Sol | 5:25 PM ET | 08-21-2008

Of course it's allowing for freedom of speech, it's just the 'whip team' being louder and clearer, oh and it's the noise of the kazoos and air horns they be worried about. That and a lot of hot air.

Sent by platonicform | 4:53 PM ET | 08-22-2008

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