Two GOP delegates threw nuts at a black CNN camera woman and taunted her saying, “This is how we feed animals.” They were ejected, but shortly thereafter the Romney campaign, the GOP and CNN threw a blanket of secrecy over the incident and more than 24 hours later, the secrecy is holding.
Nearly 24 hours after an ugly incident in which two attendees at the Republican National Convention in Tampa were ejected after throwing nuts at a black CNN camerawoman and saying, “This is how we feed animals,” remarkably few details about the particulars of the incident have emerged.
CNN, convention organizers, the RNC, and the managers of the venue itself have all either declined to provide more information about what exactly happened or have referred questions to one of the other entities involved.
I get why the GOP doesn’t want to broacast the fact that its delegates are bunch of racists motherfuckers. But CNN? Why would they be playing along with this news blackout? What would induce a cable news channel to not report the news?
A commenter at TPM suggests that CNN is waiting until a similar incident happens at the DNC, so they can run a “see- they all do it” story. That actually sounds plausible.