If you’re going to try to pretend you have a unified party at a national convention, it’s important to downplay any dissent and curtail any protest.
If that doesn’t work, you fence them out – keeping them from ever setting foot inside the convention.
But what if they make it inside? Your options are limited. So when Bernie Sanders supporters begin heckling the speakers, chanting and railing against the Democratic establishment, what can you do to keep them from making it on prime time television?
You can turn out the lights.
And so that’s exactly what they did.
As the Washington State delegation began to protest, the DNC had the lights shut out on them. Here’s what the area looked like:
Lights off on the Bernie hecklers. See that dark patch? They shut the lights off on them. pic.twitter.com/QtwYxtQbug
— Alexander Panetta (@Alex_Panetta) July 28, 2016
Here’s another view, from the darkened area:
DNC puts lights out on Bernie supporters, literally pic.twitter.com/JQ128M01La
— J.L.W. (@JlwYenom) July 28, 2016
Undeterred, delegates used their cellphone lights when the overhead lights were turned off.
Some delegates using their phones as lights. Overheard lights were turned off during protest chants #DemConvention pic.twitter.com/soPK6no8Mk
— Bridget Bowman (@bridgetbhc) July 28, 2016
DNC has turned the lights out on the chanting WA Bernie delegates, so they’ve turned on their cellphone lights. pic.twitter.com/Ef1JcPk758
The leftist media will never report this. You’ll never hear George Stephanopoulos ask Donna Brazile or Hillary Clinton about it. But that’s how the Democrats operate. Silence dissent, shut down debate, and turn out the lights to hide it all.
Source: The Federalist Papers Project
