McCain speech disrupted by hecklers

By GottaLaff

I did manage to catch it live on CNN (MSNBC didn't carry much of the speech at all). It was heckler heaven, meaning, loud, disruptive, prolonged:

[T]he Arizona senator has a busy weekend, including a speech to a Latino conference where he was heckled several times.

Several hecklers disrupted McCain's speech at separate times and were escorted from the room.

A red-headed woman in the middle of the audience, holding a camera aimed at the candidate, stood up when McCain said "I represent Arizona…"

"John you do represent Arizona! And we want a peace candidate!," the woman yelled. "We want a peace candidate! Peace takes courage!”

She was heartily booed and escorted out, but she kept yelling.

"That's a long trip out," McCain said to laughter.

Then he ad-libbed, after she left.

"I’m sure you’ve seen the polls out now about trust and confidence in our government, and the one thing the American people want us to stop doing is yelling at each other," he said. [Laffy Note: He might want to start with himself.]

Five minutes later, two more female protesters jumped up, yelling loudly.

"Your silence is consent to war crimes! War criminal!" one said. Another heckler carried a pink banner that read "McCain=Guerra" — or "McCain=War."

Bi-lingual heckling is indicative of a very smart electorate.

I'll try to dig up a video if I can.