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Reporters from MSNBC and Fox News were disrupted by attendees at the Values Voters Summit during a live broadcast from the event.

Rachel Kolb

[http://www.heraldtribune.com/article/20090919/ARTICLE/909191056/-1/NEWSS... >Many news sources following the Values Voters Summit have called the event [http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/19/us/politics/19memo.html?hpw >proof that the conservative Christian right is not over yet. Some news sources, however, ran into problems reporting from the summit.  
  
The summit, hosted in Washington, opened on Thursday and will run through Sunday and includes [http://www.valuesvotersummit.org/schedule >speakers such as former Miss California Carrie Prejean, 2008 Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee, and actor Stephen Baldwin.  
  
Some news reporters from [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqMfMCwKqpc&feature=channel >MSNBC and [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqMfMCwKqpc&feature=channel >Fox News, that were broadcasting live from the summit, were harassed by attendees, and Fox News went so far as to cut their live broadcast short.  
  
Tony Perkins and the conference's media director [http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26315908/#32921379](<a "http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26315908/#32921379")](<a "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqMfMCwKqpc&feature=channel")](<a "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqMfMCwKqpc&feature=channel")](<a "http://www.valuesvotersummit.org/schedule")](<a "http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/19/us/politics/19memo.html?hpw")](<a "http://www.heraldtribune.com/article/20090919/ARTICLE/909191056/-1/NEWSSITEMAP")
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