2016 Postmortem

stopbush

(24,396 posts) Fri Oct 21, 2016, 12:09 PM Oct 2016

WTF? MSNBC Has Al Smith Audience Booing Hillary as Loudly as Trump?

Just saw the opening of Andrea Mitchell's show. Two clips from last night were shown - Trump's "crooked Hillary/Watergate commission" joke and Hill's Statue of Liberty joke. In both instances, the audience was heard to react unfavorably.

I have seen the Hillary clip at least 10 times, and this was the first time I heard the audience reacting poorly. There were no outright boos as there were for Trump, but this playing of this video had a much higher gain on the audience reaction, almost like their sound was boosted. That made any groans much more present than they were during the event or in any other airings of this clip I have seen up to now.

Is this an attempt to create a false equivalency, to make it seem like the audience reacted equally badly to Hillary as they did to Trump? Seems like it.

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WTF? MSNBC Has Al Smith Audience Booing Hillary as Loudly as Trump? (Original Post) stopbush Oct 2016 OP

I watched it live and there were no notable boos then. blm Oct 2016 #2

Probably enhanced the sound so as to attract more viewers and more $$$$$'s for MSNBC. RKP5637 Oct 2016 #3

Andrea Mitchell Hates the Clintons Blue Idaho Oct 2016 #4

No one booed Clinton Gothmog Oct 2016 #5

I noticed some murmuring after the first half of that joke...but laughter after the second half. writes3000 Oct 2016 #6

I believe the audience was doing a low "oooh" noise for the Hortensis Oct 2016 #7

That was my take on it too. I was screaming today when they called it booing... Assholes! winstars Oct 2016 #8

Poor little bad losers, but would have had me yelling too. Hortensis Oct 2016 #9

Bloomberg reported NO boos for any of HRC's jokes. Hortensis Oct 2016 #11

Change the channel when Andrea Emails comes on. sarcasmo Oct 2016 #10

blm

(113,061 posts)

2. I watched it live and there were no notable boos then.

Reply to stopbush (Original post)

Fri Oct 21, 2016, 12:12 PM

Oct 2016

This had to have happened in the production room Andrea uses.

RKP5637

(67,108 posts)

3. Probably enhanced the sound so as to attract more viewers and more $$$$$'s for MSNBC.

Reply to stopbush (Original post)

Fri Oct 21, 2016, 12:14 PM

Oct 2016

Blue Idaho

(5,049 posts)

4. Andrea Mitchell Hates the Clintons

Reply to stopbush (Original post)

Fri Oct 21, 2016, 12:15 PM

Oct 2016

I would not be the least bit surprised if she altered the news footage to fit her bias. She stopped being a "journalist" a long time ago.

Gothmog

(145,264 posts)

5. No one booed Clinton

Reply to stopbush (Original post)

Fri Oct 21, 2016, 12:15 PM

Oct 2016

writes3000

(4,734 posts)

6. I noticed some murmuring after the first half of that joke...but laughter after the second half.

Reply to stopbush (Original post)

Fri Oct 21, 2016, 12:19 PM

Oct 2016

If a microphone was placed in a different part of the room, they might have picked up more of the murmurs, etc.

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)

7. I believe the audience was doing a low "oooh" noise for the

Reply to stopbush (Original post)

Fri Oct 21, 2016, 12:19 PM

Oct 2016

Hillary's very pointed joke about Trump's disregard for the statue's symbolism of freedom, enlightenment, and welcome. Approving a hard hit, not booing.