“Hillary Rodham Clinton ducked a thrown shoe, expressed surprise, cracked a couple of jokes that drew applause and continued her keynote speech on stage in front of a Las Vegas convention audience.

Moments later, still in the stage spotlight, the former secretary of state reflected calmly on what she called “an atmosphere and attitude in politics” that she said rewards inflexibility and extremism.

“That is not the way democracy works,” Clinton said as she fielded apologies and questions Thursday from Jerry Simms, the outgoing chairman of the host Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries.”* Jimmy Dore (The Jimmy Dore Show), Desi Doyen (Green News Report) and Dave Rubin (The Rubin Report) break it down.

*Read more here from AP / ABC News:
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/object-thrown-hillary-clinton-speech-23280934