We Have a Winner! Most Inane 'Human Mic' Footage Yet, Courtesy of Rachel Maddow
A much-trumpeted "innovation" from Occupy footstompers is the so-called "human mic" whereby people in a crowd parrot the words of a designated non-leader to amplify his or her message.
Examples of this creepy phenomenon abound, including this one helpfully provided by Occupy cultist Rachel Maddow on her MSNBC show last night (video clip after page break) --
MADDOW: The human mic is an Occucy Wall Street innovation. In the absence of a microphone it's a means of communicating to a large group of people.
UNIDENTIFIED OCCUPY SPEAKER: Mic check!
PROTESTERS: Mic check! (echoed by second group of protesters) Mic check!
SPEAKER: We amplify each other's voices!
PROTESTERS: We amplify each other's voices! ... We amplify each other's voices!
SPEAKER: No matter what's said!
PROTESTERS: No matter what's said! ... No matter what's said!
SPEAKER: So we can hear one another!
PROTESTERS: So we can hear one another!
Unfortunately for Maddow's viewers, that was all she showed from this specific example of the human mic at work. Fortunately for NewsBusters readers, I have obtained a transcript of the remaining echo chamber discourse cited here. Consider yourself forewarned: this might be a parody, though it's hard to tell --
SPEAKER: Once again, we amplify each other's voices!
PROTESTERS: Once again, we amplify each other's voices!
SPEAKER: No matter what's said!PROTESTERS: No matter what's said!
SPEAKER: No matter how drug-addled, insipid or insane!
PROTESTERS: No matter how drug-addled, insipid or insane!
SPEAKER: Providing it complies with all speech codes!
PROTESTERS: Providing it complies with all speech codes!
SPEAKER: Regardless of who says it!
PROTESTERS: Regardless of who says it!
SPEAKER: Unless it's some old white guy who works on Wall Street!
PROTESTERS: Unless it's some old white guy who works on Wall Street!
SPEAKER: Or Sarah Palin!
PROTESTERS: Or Sarah Palin!
SPEAKER: In which case we rethink our opposition to capital punishment!
PROTESTERS: In which case we rethink our opposition to capital punishment!
SPEAKER: For thought criminals!
PROTESTERS: For thought criminals!
SPEAKER: And their corporate lackeys at Fox News!
PROTESTERS: And their corporate lackeys at Fox News!
SPEAKER: Who can't be allowed to say whatever they want on the people's airwaves!
PROTESTERS: Who can't be allowed to say whatever they want on the people's airwaves!
SPEAKER: No matter what they say!
PROTESTERS: No matter what they say!
SPEAKER: This is what democracy looks like!
PROTESTERS: This is what democracy looks like!
SPEAKER: Good gosh, have we missed lunch?!
PROTESTERS: Good gosh, what did he say?!
Maddow also talked the human mic being used by protesters to interrupt speeches by Ron Paul, Michelle Bachmann and Karl Rove, as well as President Obama that day in New Hampshire. After airing footage of Obama's interrupted remarks, Maddow also showed a news photo that included one of the protesters handing Obama a note --
MADDOW: A close-up shot of that note shows that it's the script that the human mic interruption protesters were trying to use when they interrupted the president's speech in New Hampshire today. You have this guy essentially delivering a confrontational message to the president of the United States, but look at this, this is an amazing photo. Look at the look on the kid's face and look at the looks on the faces of the people around him up that close with the president. It's kind of an amazing campaign shot from that AP photographer, his name is Charles Dharapak. This is one of those ones that probably goes into the awards' short lists.
Unmentioned by Maddow what was the close-up of the note revealed. Among its contents was this demand -- "You must stop the assault on our 1st ammendment rights."
Seeing how Maddow once insisted the Constitution has no preamble, maybe she didn't notice.
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A kid?
Submitted by Bobbygn on Wed, 11/23/2011 - 7:59pm.
Racjel Bonehead says "look at the look on the kid's face." That guy was past 45 years old.
More like ...
Submitted by Jack Coleman on Wed, 11/23/2011 - 8:15pm.
... the Occupy accountant
Glad I wasn't sipping my OJ
Submitted by PeskyDane on Thu, 11/24/2011 - 8:39am.
Glad I wasn't sipping my OJ when I read this.
Charles Dharapak
Submitted by kata on Wed, 11/23/2011 - 8:01pm.
the same guy that "caught" Ms. O shopping at Target.
A kid?
Submitted by Bobbygn on Wed, 11/23/2011 - 8:02pm.
Rachel Bonehead says "look at the look on the kid's face." That guy was no kid unless her idea of a kid is past 40 years old.
Anything mouthed by Maddow...
Submitted by KyWriter on Wed, 11/23/2011 - 8:12pm.
...is both inane and creepy. Er, I'm talking about words, of course.
Now is this an innovation?
Submitted by Quasi-socialist on Wed, 11/23/2011 - 8:15pm.
Or did they just watch Monty Python's Life of Brian?
"You are all individuals." "We are all individuals"
LOL.. forgot about that. Spot
Submitted by celator on Wed, 11/23/2011 - 8:32pm.
LOL.. forgot about that. Spot on.
Their group recitation is more than a little freaky. Members in cults behave exactly in that way. Braindead. Reminds me of adults watching Sesame St, and repeating the alphabet in that same sing-songy way. Gives me the creeps.
also LOL.... me too
Submitted by MidAmerica on Wed, 11/23/2011 - 9:26pm.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVygqjyS4CA
re: open mic night, or...
Submitted by Hog_Flambe on Thu, 11/24/2011 - 12:54am.
as scripture cites " ... there is no new thing under the sun..."
Bloody repetes....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlBiLNN1NhQ
PS Rick is Mrs Premis and Mrs Conclusion rolled into one.
Enjoy the parade...
"This is probably one of those that goes into...
Submitted by Quasi-socialist on Wed, 11/23/2011 - 8:19pm.
the who gives a rip file.
Be sure young Rachael has
Submitted by cristo on Wed, 11/23/2011 - 8:37pm.
Be sure young Rachael has some talent, but it's not judging photography. This whole "mic check" thing is so kindergarten, so "row, row, row your boat," so freakin' juvenile, it's like findin' Arthur Godfrey's picture in a Cracker Jack box.
Wardrobe
Submitted by Tjexcite on Wed, 11/23/2011 - 8:43pm.
Not watching Maddow on TV but was she missing a shirt. The youtube video might not do the colors right but it look like that jacket goes all the way down and it is skin in the v-neck line all the way down as well. She knows here target audience and they dig that sort of thing from someone like her or something.
My first thought was
Submitted by motherbelt on Wed, 11/23/2011 - 11:44pm.
My first thought was EEEEWWW! then I thought it was a flesh-colored T-shirt. But it's not.
My rods and cones have been seriously traumatized!!
I haven't been that creeped out since Hillary decided to show her breastbone.
Haha.
Submitted by ant on Wed, 11/23/2011 - 9:01pm.
Okay, who let the TeaParty guy sneak onto the Occupy stage?
Brilliant!
Submitted by Jack Coleman on Wed, 11/23/2011 - 11:14pm.
You nailed it, ant
When you have nothing good to say about odick
Submitted by Vonu on Wed, 11/23/2011 - 9:33pm.
Mention AWARDS.
The mic check is soooo
Submitted by balboa on Wed, 11/23/2011 - 10:30pm.
The mic check is soooo stupid. Along with those ridiculous hand gestures. Daily Show and Colbert skewered these beautifully.
The Madcow does it again.
Submitted by Pinetree3 on Wed, 11/23/2011 - 10:48pm.
The Madcow does it again.
Sorry....
Submitted by notinstl on Wed, 11/23/2011 - 11:29pm.
...but those morons "mic check" is just a rip off of Garrett Morris on SNL....
but their willingness to repeat anything also shows they can be controlled by anything.....sheep
The speaker is mocking them
Submitted by Al Teal on Thu, 11/24/2011 - 1:03am.
That is pretty funny. The repeaters think that they are exercising their right to free speech while their stupidity is being mocked by a wannabe comedian.
I saw this
Submitted by Mike009 on Thu, 11/24/2011 - 3:02am.
I wittnessed this technique being used at an Occupy rally in downtown Washington DC in front of a bank a couple weeks ago. It was creepy to watch a bunch of zombies mindlessly repeating what the rally leader was saying. It was like something you'd see in grade school. Must be some new indoctrination technique.
It is something from grade school.
Submitted by The Vet on Thu, 11/24/2011 - 3:22am.
It is the way children annoy each other. Repeat everything another child says as a way to annoy them.
That's rich!
Submitted by Injest on Thu, 11/24/2011 - 5:13am.
is the so-called "human mic" whereby people in a crowd parrot the words of a designated non-leader to amplify his or her message.
"human mic"? Ya mean the bobble-headed, useful idiots?
or
Chanting without any rhythm? Cadence?
SPEAKER: Who can't be allowed to say whatever they want on the people's airwaves!
PROTESTERS: Who can't be allowed to say whatever they want on the people's airwaves!
News flash for the idiots “Cable” is not on the peoples airwaves because it's on cable, that's why it's called cable!
"You must stop the assault on our 1st ammendment rights."
now that's rich!
Proof that American exceptionalism still exists!
Submitted by Crash on Thu, 11/24/2011 - 8:19am.
Wow, what an innovation ... a super-sized-organic microphone!
And now it comes with an echo feature to make it sound even more like a stupid liberal mob. Amazing!
What's next Rache moving pictures?
Soon they'll be making them
Submitted by ant on Thu, 11/24/2011 - 11:26am.
Soon they'll be making them cheaper in China.
Does Maddiw or anyone else
Submitted by eaglewingz08 on Thu, 11/24/2011 - 9:05am.
Does Maddiw or anyone else belueve this nut would have been able ti get within ten feet of the President if this "heckling" weren't pre-arranged with the campaign?
Secret Service
Submitted by Mike009 on Thu, 11/24/2011 - 2:04pm.
I was wondering about that. So the Secret Service just lets someone in a crowd hand stuff to the President?
Shopped
Submitted by Dave81 on Thu, 11/24/2011 - 9:20am.
Does anyone else think the close up photo of the demands looks very poorly photo shopped?
OWS protestors use the human mic except when?
Submitted by okiehawk44 on Thu, 11/24/2011 - 12:31pm.
SPEAKER: Unless it's some old white guy who works on Wall Street!
Isn't George Soros all four of those things?
1. Old
2. White
3. Male (guy)
4. Operates a hedge fund on Wall Street
Yeah these OWS types are really our best and brightest huh?
Bullhorn
Submitted by Mike009 on Thu, 11/24/2011 - 1:58pm.
How much can a portable bullhorn cost? I think "mic check" is more about manipulating a mob than the lack of a microphone.
Has Rachel Madcow
Submitted by SingingHawk on Thu, 11/24/2011 - 8:03pm.
ever said anything intelligent? If he had a brain he would be dangerous (and no "he" was not a typo).
Mic check?
Submitted by adamsmith on Fri, 11/25/2011 - 10:36am.
If this doesn't prove that ALL LIBERALS ARE LEMMINGS, I don't know what does. This Mic crap that Manly Maddow loves is the ultimate proof that thinking among the left is a groupthink exercise. No wonder they hate individual liberty so much, they don't know what to do with it. They should all just move to Cuba or Venezuela, they would flourish there. This country and its Constitution do not fit their needs. They're just too stupid to figure out they believe in Socialist lies....Useful idiots....