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Posted on 03-31-2008 at 08:14am
Presidential noise
Filed Under (Baseball, Government & Politics) by nedwilliams on 03-31-2008

Enclave Mike reports on the President’s “remarkable,” negative reception at opening day in DC. Mike writes:

Watching baseball’s stateside opening game between Washington and Atlanta on ESPN, and I can’t remember hearing as many boos of a president throwing out the first pitch as I heard tonight directed at George W. Bush. I honestly heard more booing than cheers during the ovation. It was remarkable.

I dunno, Mike . . . the guy sitting next to the cameraman certainly was booing, but I hear a lot of support for Dubya in this video of the event.

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Comments

Southern Beale on 31 March, 2008 at 2:04 pm #

I heard a LOT of boos on the radio version … but, don’t they always boo the president? Seems like this is nothing new … or at least, nothing new with Bush.


democommie on 1 April, 2008 at 6:17 am #

Two things.

The pitch was high and outside (despite the “homer” call by the ESPN guy) and I just wish Keith Olberman had returned to ESPN for just that one night.

Oh, darn, a third thing. I read a few comments (there were nearly 800) under the video you linked to, Ned Williams: they didn’t seem to be all that supportive of the pretendsident. Bill Clinton has certainly been booed at public events (both during and after his eight years in the WH); perhaps a good old fashioned “applause meter” like they used to use during “The Ted Mack Amateur Hour” should be used as a picture-in-picture in any public event involving the POTUS.


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