Hillary Hecklers in NH Radio Station Plants

Pretty much everyone gives the credit for Hillary's narrow win over Barack Obama in New Hampshire to her two 'humanizing' incidents: first, the Reverse Muskie "choking up" incident; and second, the heckling incident when two gentlemen yelled "Iron my shirt" at Hillary, prompting a considerable amount of sympathetic coverage for her as being a "victim of sexism". The first event was contrived, staged, and effective. The second was also effective for Hillary, so much so that I thought that it was also staged by her campaign. Reinforcing that feeling was the fact that no major news outlet followed up on who those two guys were, which I found extremely suspicious - it's almost as if they didn't want to know if it was staged or not.

Well, someone did follow up on the hecklers. And they found out that they were plants - part of an idiotic radio station stunt. Had the networks reported that, it's doubtful that the incident would have had as much of a sympathetic impact as it did on the vote.

Then from the folks over at HotAir.com, we get some further sleuthing. After some speculating that it might have been a Hillary plant, the tipseters at HotAir tracked down the truth. It's a simple radio stunt.

It turns out the guys who the Daily News named work for Boston station WBCN 104.1 FM, and are members of the Toucher and Rich Show.

So much for real political protesting, eh? But it amuses me that few news outlets bothered to do the leg work to find all this out and went ahead to report this incident like it was legitimate. It did give the MSM a chance to show Hillary looking PC by claiming she was being confronted by examples of "sexism" run wild, though. So, maybe that is why they didn't want to look into it too hard. It would destroy the illusion of Hillary's "strength" and place the focus on a radio stunt.

And as for Hillary's tears, I found this on Townhall.com this morning. Enjoy.