Fox host predicts GOP 'mayhem' when Obama accepts nomination
Barack Obama announced on Monday that he would accept the presidential nomination at Denver's Invesco Field -- a stadium which can seat 76,000 people in the stands and more on the field -- rather than at the much smaller Pepsi Center where the rest of the Democratic convention will be held.
At Fox & Friends, this announcement set off frenzied speculation about all the ways in which something might go wrong with this gesture by Obama to recognize the legion of small donors who have been the driving force in his campaign.
"On that day in August in Denver, there's a 30% chance of rain," Fox analyst Andrew Napolitano began. "What will they do!"
"I'll tell you who this is causing the biggest headache for," acknowledged co-host Alisyn Camerota. "Our bosses, the news media, that has been checking the audio and testing lights and building sets at ... the convention center ... for the past year. And now, if they have to scramble ..."
However, host Steve Doocy offered the most dramatic scenario. "They're apparently going to make huge blocks of tickets available just for -- run-of-the-mill Coloradans," he stated, somewhat dismissively. "All the tickets are free -- although a lot of party insiders are going to be there. You've got to figure that Republicans and noisemakers and troublemakers are going to do their best to get in there in a large block, so the moment that Barack Obama is there, they're going to try to do a -- little mayhem."
"I don't know if you even have to show ID to get in," Napolitano agreed. "These guys have to pack this place, because if they don't, it's going to be a letdown."
"The big question," concluded Doocy, "is, of course, if there are a bunch of people with John McCain signs out there, will the mainstream media even show those dissenters? Probably not."
With that image -- of supporters of John McCain as "dissenters," equivalent to left-wing anti-war demonstrators, who might suffer the fate of being ignored by "mainstream media" like Fox News -- Doocy ended.
This video is from Fox's Fox & Friends, broadcast July 8, 2008.
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