The way President Obama is treated in much of the media, particularly conservative media, was the topic on hand for Joy Behar this week as she mans the 8 Pm hours at Current TV. Discussing radio host Barbara Espinosa calling the President a "monkey" and the Daily Caller's Neil Munro, Behar and her panel argued they were different types of racism, with Marc Lamont Hill saying that Munro was being racist, but "I don't think he necessarily knows he was being racist."...
- 6/21/2012
- by Frances Martel
- Mediaite - TV
Move over, Neil Munro. When Dave Chappelle performed a show at The Paramount Theatre in Austin, Tex. on Tuesday, he was largely unable to get through his set due to hecklers mercilessly interrupting the legendary stand-up comic.
Chappelle had booked the Paramount show only hours before, and sold out the 1,200 seat theater minutes, as is common for the comedian. Since abruptly leaving "Chappelle's Show" in 2006, citing mental exhaustion, he has stayed largely out of the media spotlight, performing mostly unpublicized gigs in New York City and Los Angeles.
Chappelle asked to be booked at the Austin theatre after a well-received show in Dallas that weekend.
Comedian Paul Varghese opened and specifically instructed the audience not to heckle Dave, who just last year made headlines for a refusing to tell jokes at a show in Miami after being heckled and videoed by fans.
As reported by Austin 360, the show was first...
Chappelle had booked the Paramount show only hours before, and sold out the 1,200 seat theater minutes, as is common for the comedian. Since abruptly leaving "Chappelle's Show" in 2006, citing mental exhaustion, he has stayed largely out of the media spotlight, performing mostly unpublicized gigs in New York City and Los Angeles.
Chappelle asked to be booked at the Austin theatre after a well-received show in Dallas that weekend.
Comedian Paul Varghese opened and specifically instructed the audience not to heckle Dave, who just last year made headlines for a refusing to tell jokes at a show in Miami after being heckled and videoed by fans.
As reported by Austin 360, the show was first...
- 6/20/2012
- by The Huffington Post
- Huffington Post
The incident in which The Daily Caller reporter Neil Munro heckled President Obama in the middle of remarks on an immigration policy change has led to renewed discussion of the pattern of disrespect directed at our first black President. On Tuesdsay night's edition of Current TV's week-long Joy Behar Show preview, actress and activist Janeane Garofalo diagnosed the problem, telling host Joy Behar that, despite the popular narrative, "We are not a post-racial society."...
- 6/20/2012
- by Tommy Christopher
- Mediaite - TV
Martin Bashir hosted a panel segment on Tuesday discussing The Daily Caller reporter Neil Munro’s interruption of President Barack Obama’s press conference last Friday. One of MSNBC’s panel guests said that Munro’s question to Obama was indicative of his “white supremacist ideology" and opined that Munro’s question implied that he, an Irish immigrant, felt he was more “legitimate than a Hispanic immigrant” and that being white is itself more “mainstream."...
- 6/19/2012
- by Noah Rothman
- Mediaite - TV
Stephen Colbert thinks President Obama deserves some of the blame for Daily Caller reporter Neil Munro interrupting him mid-speech Friday as he announced a new immigration policy. Munro told the Daily Caller that the reason he shouted a question at Obama in the middle of his speech was because "it's hard to know when he's about to end." Colbert agreed, saying Obama's long pauses can feel like endings. Colbert also showed a clip of himself -- dressed like Munro -- showing up at the White House to heckle Obama. And he used...
- 6/19/2012
- by Tim Molloy
- The Wrap
Tucker Carlson made his first TV appearance last night since Daily Caller reporter Neil Munro heckled President Obama during his immigration policy speech, and he had some explaining to do. On last night's/this morning's Red Eye, Carlson argued that "a lot of journalism is unseemly" and told the panel he was still "proud" of Munro, though failed to convince Andy Levy of why that behavior was appropriate.
- 6/19/2012
- by Frances Martel
- Mediaite - TV
Ed Schultz's Monday night panel tackled the incident last week that created an immediate media frenzy: The Daily Caller's Neil Munro interrupting President Obama's remarks about his new immigration policy. Schultz noted Tucker Carlson's comparison to Sam Donaldson's "heckling" President Ronald Reagan. Donaldson rejected this parallel, pointing to underlying racial motivations. That topic of racism dominated the segment.
- 6/19/2012
- by Meenal Vamburkar
- Mediaite - TV
Neil Munro, who truth-to-powered Barack Obama last Friday, and then got backup from Tucker Carlson and the Daily Shouter Caller about the importance of demanding transparency from elected officials, is, um...not taking questions. Via Erik Wemple:
Enthused by the Daily Caller’s approach to accountability, I reached out this morning to Munro in search of an interview on Friday’s events. The response:
Sorry. Too busy with health-care, etc. Thanks, Neil
Indeed. Perhaps Wemple should try following Munro around and yelling questions in the middle of the man's sentences?
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Enthused by the Daily Caller’s approach to accountability, I reached out this morning to Munro in search of an interview on Friday’s events. The response:
Sorry. Too busy with health-care, etc. Thanks, Neil
Indeed. Perhaps Wemple should try following Munro around and yelling questions in the middle of the man's sentences?
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- 6/18/2012
- by Evan McMurry
- Celebsology
Like many journalists in America, Don Lemon was not pleased with Daily Caller heckler Neil Munro's decision to start shouting at the President in the middle of the announcement of his new immigration measure. On his program last night, Lemon went after Munro for his "hissy fit" before the President and asked his boss, Tucker Carlson, to explain how he could be "proud" of Munro's behavior. Lemon then took it a step further, asking how Carlson would have felt being heckled during his brief stint on Dancing with the Stars.
- 6/18/2012
- by Frances Martel
- Mediaite - TV
On Friday, The Daily Caller's Neil Munro made headlines when he interrupted President Obama during his remarks about his new immigration policy. While Tucker Carlson praised and defended Munro, others weren't so kind, including Reliable Sources' Howard Kurtz. On Sunday, he spoke to Current TV's Cenk Uygur as well as The Daily Caller's Matt Lewis, who wasn't keen on criticizing his colleague.
- 6/17/2012
- by Meenal Vamburkar
- Mediaite - TV
Bill O'Reilly rather strongly reprimanded Neil Munro, a now-infamous reporter at Tucker Carlson's The Daily Caller, for interrupting President Obama in the middle of a speech announcing his administration's new policy shift on the deportation of young immigrants. He said that Munro was "absolutely wrong" to interrupt Obama, and even if a person does not like a particular president, they should have enough sense to respect the office they hold.
- 6/16/2012
- by Josh Feldman
- Mediaite - TV
On Friday, President Barack Obama made a speech from the White House Rose Garden announcing a change in immigration policy, but before he finished his remarks, reporter Neil Munro from The Daily Caller interrupted him with a question.
Obama told Munro to hold his question. Later in his speech, when Obama felt that he had answered Munro's question, he said, "The next time I prefer you let me finish my statements before the question... I didn't ask for an argument. I'm answering your question."
Munro later released a statement regarding the incident. "I always go to the White House prepared with questions for our president. I timed the question believing the president was closing his remarks, because naturally I have no intention of interrupting the President of the United States. I know he rarely takes questions before walking away from the podium. When I asked the question as he finished his speech,...
Obama told Munro to hold his question. Later in his speech, when Obama felt that he had answered Munro's question, he said, "The next time I prefer you let me finish my statements before the question... I didn't ask for an argument. I'm answering your question."
Munro later released a statement regarding the incident. "I always go to the White House prepared with questions for our president. I timed the question believing the president was closing his remarks, because naturally I have no intention of interrupting the President of the United States. I know he rarely takes questions before walking away from the podium. When I asked the question as he finished his speech,...
- 6/15/2012
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Pop2it
A reporter from the Daily Caller website interrupted President Obama during his Rose Garden announcement of a new immigration policy. Neil Munro shouted out a question while the president was still delivering his prepared remarks, drawing a sharp rebuke from a peeved president. “Excuse me, sir,” Obama said. “It’s not time for questions, sir. Not while I’m speaking,” Obama said. Watch the exchange below.
Obama’s response and his subsequent exchange with Munro lit up the Twittersphere, which mostly criticized Munro for heckling. (According to an account from the Associated Press, Munro asked “Why do you favor foreigners over American workers?...
Obama’s response and his subsequent exchange with Munro lit up the Twittersphere, which mostly criticized Munro for heckling. (According to an account from the Associated Press, Munro asked “Why do you favor foreigners over American workers?...
- 6/15/2012
- by Jeff Labrecque
- EW.com - PopWatch
In the aftermath of Daily Caller reporter Neil Munro's clownish outburst in the Rose Garden Thursday afternoon, MSNBC contributor Jonathan Capehart ably explained to the ignorant likes of Tucker Carlson, the difference between shouting impromptu questions after an event, and interrupting a President during remarks. Guest Julian Epstein asked the inevitable question "Would the right-wing presss be doing this if we had a white president there?"...
- 6/15/2012
- by Tommy Christopher
- Mediaite - TV
On Friday (June 15), President Barack Obama announced a tweak in immigration policy in an announcement broadcast live from the White House lawn. But before he had a chance to get out his entire statement, the President was interrupted by a man yelling something unintelligible just off camera.
Here's what happened.
President Obama was in the middle of announcing his new policy to loosen rules surrounding deportation for illegal immigrants who grew up in the U.S. when a man now identified as The Daily Caller reporter Neil Munro yelled out, "What about American workers who are unemployed as you import workers?"
"Excuse me sir, it's not time for questions sir -- not while I'm speaking," said Obama, effectively shutting him down. For a moment. Later in his speech, Obama refers to his heckler saying, "The next time I prefer you wait for my answer."
"I didn't ask for an argument,...
Here's what happened.
President Obama was in the middle of announcing his new policy to loosen rules surrounding deportation for illegal immigrants who grew up in the U.S. when a man now identified as The Daily Caller reporter Neil Munro yelled out, "What about American workers who are unemployed as you import workers?"
"Excuse me sir, it's not time for questions sir -- not while I'm speaking," said Obama, effectively shutting him down. For a moment. Later in his speech, Obama refers to his heckler saying, "The next time I prefer you wait for my answer."
"I didn't ask for an argument,...
- 6/15/2012
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Pop2it
And so our level of national decorum slips a bit more: A reporter for Tucker Carlson's Daily Caller interrupted President Obama mid-speech Friday to heckle him about immigration -- and received a presidential scolding. The entire exchange -- notable for the extreme breach of etiquette on Munro's part -- appeared on live television. Also read: 'Game of Thrones,' HBO Sorry About Bush's Head on a Spike Obama was talking about a policy that would allow children of illegal immigrants, in some circumstances, to avoid deportation. The Daily Caller's Neil Munro decided his question...
- 6/15/2012
- by Tim Molloy
- The Wrap
CNN chief White House correspondent Jessica Yellin weighed in on President Barack Obama’s interruption by Daily Caller reporter Neil Munro during a Rose Garden press conference on Friday. Yellin told CNN anchor Brooke Baldwin said that it gave the President an opportunity to “show emotion” and “sound passionate” about the issue of immigration. “And that’s what so many of his supporters have been saying we need from – they need from him right now,” Yellin concluded.”...
- 6/15/2012
- by Noah Rothman
- Mediaite - TV
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