Has anyone EVER shouted over a moderator in prez debate??

[KelleyKramer]

I think they have had nationally televised presidential debates since Eisenhower, at least since the Kennedy-Nixon debate in 1960.

Has anyone, any candidate or incumbent EVER shouted over a moderator in US presidential debate??


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[skooooo]

1. LMAO!!!

Someone needs to put up a clip of that!

[dogtag]

2. Charlie looked pretty sweaty for awhile...like he wanted a striped shirt a

a whistle. Even worse, it looked like he would have to step in and break it up.

[KelleyKramer]

13. But he never did..

He never did stop him.

The first 'the rules are off' moment in the history of prez debates.

[Iceburg]

3. Like MS Knox said "The rules didn't seem to apply to Lt. Bush"

[KelleyKramer]

6. He proved that tonight, didnt he!

nt

[Iceburg]

14. More than once Kramer!

[zeemike]

4. I have seen a bunch of them

But I have never seen that.
And the media will let him get away with it

[Out the Parasites]

5. Just goes to show Bush doesn't respect anyone...that was terrible

I couldn't believe he did it...absolutely could NOT TAKE DIRECTION - Charlie should have pulled the mic. I can't wait for Charlie's recap...of course people are going to ask him what he thought about Bush dissing him.

[Digit]

8. Aw, he thinks he is above all of this stuff.

Like nobody has the right to question him on anything or impose any rules.

[Touchdown]

18. Gibson should take lessons from O'Reilly

"Mr. President...SHUT... UP!"

[Bread and Circus]

7. Lowest, ugliest moment that I've ever seen....

and Bush is likeable??? cmon !!!!! What horseshit!

Since when is a dictatorial asshole likeable?

[Shopaholic]

9. Yeah, but is the media talking about this?

Or they talking about the Kennedy slip-up or that really strange comment he made about green eye shades or whatever that was about?

[w4rma]

10. disrespectful. And Gibson sat there at took it like the well-paid wuss

he is.

[KelleyKramer]

12. That was really the kicker!

First I saw Bush do it.

Then when Gibson let him get away with it.. We were all like.. WHAT, he's going to let that GO??!"

[carpetbagger]

11. Quayle used to do it.

Both in 1988, where they kept pestering him over what he'd do if Bush kicked it until he opened the JFK Memorial Pandora's Box, and then in 1992.

[noamnety]

15. The press is already mocking him

MSNBC was reporting that the press room already wanted to do a story on Bush's anger problems before the debate ... they will have a field day with this.

[KelleyKramer]

16. He is not the Emperor is he??

It was BushCo that demanded the 32 page written 'procedure' rules.

After the first debate, the same crew was crying fowl about Kerry taking a pen from his suit pocket.

What if Kerry shouted down the moderator and took over the debate?

[ThoughtCriminal]

17. Reagan I think

was the "I paid for this microphone" line from a debate?

Edit:
Yes. Account here:
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dallas/washington/elections2004/stories/012104dnpolflash.5cba5.html

[KelleyKramer]

19. Reagan never shouted a moderator down

Reagan never did that.

Hell, friggin Nixon never did that!!

No candidate or president ever did that.


Until tonight, when we saw George W Bush at his finest.

[uncertainty1999]

20. Well, Bush had to stop Gibson from bringing up the back-door draft issue!!

Gibson was just about to ask about reservists in Iraq - probably about staying in the combat zone for horribly long periods of time -- and that is when Bush steamrolled him. Gibson dropped the question in light of the outburst. Bush's outburst might NOT have been uncontrolled emotion oozing out but rather had been COMPLETELY what Bush wanted to do to derail the question.

[allalone]

21. gibson should have pulled an oreilly

and turned off shrub's mic

[Carolab]

22. People seated behind *

(in the clip) were laughing--did you see that?