{"id":2916,"date":"2014-04-02T22:00:36","date_gmt":"2014-04-03T03:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/?p=2916"},"modified":"2014-04-03T13:18:34","modified_gmt":"2014-04-03T18:18:34","slug":"obama-protester-busts-into-jay-levine-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2014\/04\/02\/obama-protester-busts-into-jay-levine-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama protester busts into Jay Levine report"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2924\" style=\"width: 604px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2014\/04\/02\/obama-protester-busts-into-jay-levine-report\/\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2924\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2924\" alt=\"Jay Levine\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Levine-Jay.png\" width=\"594\" height=\"301\" srcset=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Levine-Jay.png 594w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Levine-Jay-300x152.png 300w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Levine-Jay-150x76.png 150w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Levine-Jay-400x202.png 400w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Levine-Jay-200x101.png 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2924\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/a> Jay Levine<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A live report by WBBM-Channel 2\u2019s<a href=\"http:\/\/chicago.cbslocal.com\/personality\/jay-levine\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Jay Levine<\/a> on President Obama\u2019s fundraising visit to Chicago Wednesday was disrupted by a protester shouting: \u201cObama is a war criminal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Levine, chief correspondent for the CBS-owned station, had just begun his report from River North on the 5 p.m. newscast when an unidentified man lunged for his microphone. A second view of the incident was captured by WMAQ-Channel 5\u2019s Mary Ann Ahern, who was reporting live for the NBC-owned station nearby.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>In the NBC 5 video, Levine appeared to take a swing at the protester before the man was wrestled to the ground by others. \u201cI\u2019ve obviously gotten a little reinforcement here from one of the protesters who decided to speak his mind on live TV,\u201d Levine said. \u201cObviously that\u2019s his right to do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Here is a composite video of the two reports posted on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> by Joe Walsh, the former congressman who now hosts a talk show host on WIND AM 560:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"780\" height=\"439\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2UbYF0ibSd8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A live report by WBBM-Channel 2\u2019s Jay Levine on President Obama\u2019s fundraising visit to Chicago Wednesday was disrupted by a protester shouting: \u201cObama is a war criminal.\u201d Levine, chief correspondent for the CBS-owned station, had just begun his report from River North on the 5 p.m. newscast when an unidentified man lunged for his microphone.... <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2014\/04\/02\/obama-protester-busts-into-jay-levine-report\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&#8594;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2916"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2916"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2925,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2916\/revisions\/2925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}