TV Feed of Pope's Speech Catches Threat to Throw Shoe at 'His Head'

Matthew Balan | September 24, 2015
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[More in the cross-post on the MRC's NewsBusters blog.]

On Thursday, the New York Post, Mediaite, and several other online outlets reported that CNN's live feed of the Pope's address to Congress caught a woman saying off-camera that she wanted to "take my shoe off and throw it at his head" moments before the pontiff entered the House chamber. The threat was also caught on the audio of MSNBC and Fox News (though on-air personalities were also speaking at the same time), as well as ABC's local Washington, DC affiliate, ABC 7.