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The Art of Professional Heckling
As recounted in our story about Randall Terry's attempt to use the Supreme Court nomination hearings on Judge Sonia Sotomayor as a springboard for his comeback, a young man named Joseph breathlessly recounted, at a training session for Terry's acolytes, his planned disruption of the commencement address President Obama delivered at Notre Dame University in May. Guess who turned up again at Judge Sotomayor's hearing?
Here's the video of Joseph's performance at Notre Dame...
...and at Tuesday's Senate Judiciary committee hearing on the Supreme Court nomination...
You can get a closer look at Joseph’s hearing hecklefest in the video at this link.
Tagged as: supreme court, randall terry, sotomayor hearing, antiabortion protesters, sotomayor hearing heckler
Adele M. Stan is AlterNet's acting Washington bureau chief.
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