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The Spectacle Blog
DES MOINES —Debbie Wasserman Schultz ended her speech at the Iowa State Fair early after she was heckled by angry liberals this afternoon.
The chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee was speaking at the Des Moines Register’s Iowa Soapbox and was accusing Republicans of threatening Medicare when a man in the audience — apparently a disgruntled liberal — began shouting, “Obama put Medicare on the chopping block, Debbie!” The man continued shouting at the Florida congresswoman, expressing a growing discontent among the left about Obama’s debt-deal compromise with Republicans. The heckler also shouted, “Stop caving in to Wall Street!”
Democrat loyalists in the audience responded to the man’s heckling by chanting, “Debbie! Debbie! Debbie!” Amid the shouting Wasserman Schultz quickly brought her speech to an early conclusion, declaring Democrats would sweep to victory in 2012, and left the stage before the end of her appointed 15 minutes at the popular street-corner style event at the Iowa State Fair.
As Wasserman Schultz left the stage, she was pursued by a liberal activist wearing a Catholic Worker T-shirt who also interrogated her about the debt-deal compromise. The man said to her, “Your actions don’t back up your thoughts.… Obama was the one who put cutting Social Security and Medicare on the table,” to which Wasserman Schultz responded, “That is not true and you know it.”
The confrontation between the liberals and Wasserman Schultz came a day after Mitt Romney was heckled by a leftist in the same venue.
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simon templar| 8.12.11 @ 4:29PM
It really is stunning how ignorant and misinformed liberals are..this guy is so stupid he does not realize that his democrats put Medicare on the choppping block for destruction via Obamacare and 500 billion is already slated to be cut from the program by the democrats.
It's incredible. It is a case of dem propaganda contradicting itself, falling over its own feet, and imploding.
Conservative Bob| 8.12.11 @ 4:33PM
She is a low watt bulb....
solidground| 8.12.11 @ 5:12PM
The liberal anthem: Entitlements forever, entitlements as far as the eye can see and a machine can count. Entitlements, entitlements, entitlements. We want our entitlements. Who cares about some stinkin' deficit? We're entitled to our entitlements.
Oldefarte| 8.12.11 @ 5:25PM
Rumor has it that she's possibly scheduled to pose for the Playboy centerfold in an upcoming issue. Any truth to that????
RUFUS LEVIN| 8.12.11 @ 7:03PM
vomiting in my mouth at the thought.....only thing worse would be nude twosome with Pelosi....
RUFUS LEVIN| 8.12.11 @ 7:23PM
Wonder if the roof and the carpet match?
Oldefarte| 8.13.11 @ 1:11PM
If so, a weedeater would comes in handy, no doubt!!!!
c. j. acworth| 8.12.11 @ 6:33PM
At least the Libs in Iowa are equal opportunity hecklers.
beebop| 8.13.11 @ 5:54AM
My thoughts exactly.
Lullabys, Legends and Lies| 8.12.11 @ 6:54PM
Maybe Hugh Hefner will make her his new 20 something year old girlfriend? Yeah, yeah I know, she's 20 something at least two times over now, but Hugh doesn't know that, he's like 90 now!! He can't even stand on his own anymore!! And as long as she doesn't speak when he's around, he might believe she's 20 something too, but if she opens that yap of hers, even 90 year old Hugh will tell her to get out!! Her voice is, ummm, "interesting", to say the least, is that a native Florida accent? It's sounds more like a Brooklyn one to me? She sounds exactly like the female version of her old "Best Friend" Anthony "the Wiener" Weiner, and he's from Brooklyn. Have you ever noticed, that you never see the two of them together at the same time? Just sayin'!!
Oldefarte| 8.13.11 @ 1:14PM
Can you imagine if she and Anthony teamed up and produced children [they would be cursed for life]!!!!!!
martin j smith| 8.13.11 @ 8:54AM
Showing how luny the LEFT is great but how about one insy binsy little project; WIN THE ELECTION !!!!!!!!!!!!! ?
I have the sense that there is a bit too much "in fighting" in this Ioway kaukus and not enough
of these issues: How I as President will change
things for the better ? Why even Lefties should vote for a righty--whats in it for them ? Whats the program to fix our economy ? OK that is what we need to hear more of. And skrew FOX NEWS TOO !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Leon| 8.14.11 @ 5:25PM
DWS will be taken down this election cycle. There is a great candidate, Karen Harrington who will defeat her. www.firedebbie.com
LanceSackless| 8.15.11 @ 10:32PM
Wait wait...Liberals attacked Romney earlier...and now one of their OWN?
These people are CRAZY!!!
shia| 10.18.11 @ 10:42AM
what happened to the Liverals are they die or?i think i just read before i conclude..
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