Saw this first over at Firedoglake:
And speaking of ripe targets, even as Bush was booed and people pointed and laughed at Dick "Mr. Potter Blofeld Strangelove Judge Doom Big Lebowski Ironside" Cheney, there was one man particularly beloved by the millions on the National Mall via National Review blogger Yuval Levin:
This was, understandably, a very partisan crowd in which I was badly out of place. The loudest boos, to my surprise, were not for Bush and Cheney, who got plenty, but for Joe Lieberman when he was shown on the huge television screens — more than one voice could be heard shouting "traitor" around where I was standing..
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And I wondered what other witnesses had to say about it. More on the fold ~
James Fallows in the Atlantic notes Joe got extra nasty boos:
In keeping with earlier testimony to the basic good will of the crowd -- as I witnessed it as one of the 2 million or so (my crowd here) -- the "boos" when George Bush or Dick Cheney appeared on the screen seemed almost perfunctory. People felt they had to do it, but their hearts weren't in it. To me, the most spontaneous-sounding and surprising cheers were for (a) Colin Powell, and (b) Jimmy Carter, and the most spontaneous surplus-hostility boos were for ... Joe Lieberman. Just reporting on my part of the crowd.
E.J. Dionne of the Washington Post described the boos as 'boisterous':
But when Sen. Joe Lieberman, who famously crossed the political aisle to support McCain, showed up on the screen, the entire crowd called out with boisterous boos. The Senate Democrats may have given Lieberman his committee chairmanship, but many in his party's rank and file still don’t forgive him.
This from Pam Gaines of Jacksonville:
"(The crowd) booed Clarence Thomas when he came out and booed ... (Sen. Joseph) Lieberman. But, when (Michelle Obama) came out, they gave her a big, thunderous applause and of course when President Obama came out they were just cheering ‘Obama' throughout the crowd, it was awesome."
The Christian Science Monitor says it best:
Newt Gingrich, however, gets scattered boos - though nothing like the venom Lieberman received.
Joe, any groveling you do from here on in can only be described as self-serving. And you'd better do a lot of it.