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By Colin Campbell 6/19/12 6:14pm

episodes in heckling

A plan playing a harmonica at yesterday's event. (Photo: YouTube)

Turner Campaign Accuses Gillibrand of Disrupting Patriotic Sing-A-Long

Congressman Bob Turner, a candidate for the Republican primary for the U.S. Senate, thinks the Democratic incumbent is responsible for for his wild and weird campaign event yesterday where several hecklers and a random harmonica player disrupted kids singing “Proud to be an American” in protest of the song being switched out in favor of a Justin Bieber hit at a kindergarten graduation ceremony.

The Turner camp claims that the presence of a man who positively identified himself as a tracker for Senator Kirsten Gillibrand at the event — but otherwise remained completely silent throughout the entire affair — is evidence that the mayhem was planned by her campaign. Read More

By Colin Campbell 4:42pm

episodes in heckling

One of the hecklers on the left and the army of children on the right. Bob Turner is somewhere in the middle.

Bob Turner’s Patriotic Anti-Bieber Protest Turns Chaotic in Coney Island [Video]

Who knew a conflict that pits Justin Bieber against “Proud to be an American” could be so contentious?

For those not paying attention, a kindergarten decided to switch out the famously patriotic song with Mr. Bieber’s “Baby” for a graduation ceremony a week or so ago, causing a number of Republican officials, like Rep. Michael Grimm to lash out at the decision. Today, another one of those officials, Congressman and U.S. Senate hopeful Bob Turner, held a press conference adjacent to the school in question where he sung “Proud to be an American” with a swarm of small children waving flags.

Well, not everyone thought that was a swell idea.

“You Republicans come go to a Republican area and do that, we don’t do that here,” one of the several hecklers yelled out early on. “This is ridiculous, this is sad. This is so crazy. This is sad.” Read More