Just another example of the leftist tool that is CNN. Perhaps she should take an even longer break!
Posted on 04/18/2009 10:57:00 AM PDT by Michael Eden
Newsbusters was all over CNN's Fox News-bashing, Tea-Party-bashing, ordinary-American bashing "reporter" Susan Roesgen.
First, the video of her "reporting" - which was in the form of Roesgen attempting to undermine and refute the thousands of tea partiers rather than simply reporting on the event:
For all of her bashing of Fox News as some "rightwing conservative" (and therefore presumably illegitimate) entity, Susan Roesgen had personally TWICE applied with Fox. Maybe her issues with Fox are more psychological and personal than journalistic?
Now for some of the Newsbusters piece:
For all of liberals or Susan Roesgen's "righteous indignation" regarding any harassment (I went to four youtube videos with the title, "CNN reporter gets harassed at Chicago tea party," and none even contained any actual footage of the event) she was clearly so confrontational and so adversarial at this event that she literally welcomed the anger of the crowd. They knew that she wasn't there to report on the event, but to attack it. And all the while on the evening coverage tea party attenders are referred to in a blatantly sexually-suggestive slur.CNN's Fox-Bashing/Fox-Job Applying Roesgen 'Tak(ing) a Break'
CNN's Susan Roesgen has had a rough week, what with all the ordinary American/First Amendment practitioners bashing she so passionately and obnoxiously delivered in her TEA Party reporting.Perhaps it was the sniping at the place she twice applied in 2005 - Rupert Murdoch's House of Ratings, otherwise known as Fox News - that put her over the edge.
Or whether or not her email box was so overwhelmed with what was undoubtedly an endless stream of love letters and fan mail that it caused a server meltdown.
Whatever it was, CNN has announced that Miss Roesgen's "tak(ing) a break."
Two days after Susan Roesgen's much talked-about Chicago Tea Party live shots, we are learning more about what happened off-camera."Not family viewing?" Okay, perhaps not. We are certainly not a fan of the venal tongue, in private conversation or on the air.Sources close to the situation tell TVNewser as Roesgen was reporting her 2pmET live shot for CNN, she heard shouts from the crowd including "Damn CNN" and "Shut up, bitch."
As we now know, Roesgen wrapped up the live shot, saying "I think you get the general tenor of this," that it was "not really family viewing" from an "Anti-CNN" crowd.
Our source says Roesgen received an avalanche of email messages, some supportive, and some "vitriolic with crude insults."
But come, Miss Roesgen, have you watched your CNN colleague Anderson "Vanderbilt" Cooper lately? He of the "It’s hard to talk when you’re tea-bagging" wild pitch on Tuesday? THAT's family viewing?
She is confronted in other Chicago tea party footage shortly after the posted video segment by other tea party attenders who point out that she is handpicking people with the most controversial signs - which did NOT represent the spirit of the event - and then getting in their faces to obtain an emotional reaction so she could claim it "wasn't for family viewing." This amounts to my going to a liberal event and throwing feces at people and then claiming that "the liberals at the event stink."
In the video cited above, Susan Roesgen was asked, "Did you look at THAT sign?" and pointed right next to Roesgen's. The sign said, "Republicans suck too!" And of course she didn't pay attention to it; it didn't conform to her ideological leftwing narrative which portrayed this as a conservative hate-attack against Obama and Democrats. In the background you can hear the participants chanting of Roesgen, "You spin! You spin! You spin!"
The same Susan Roesgen displays her kinder, gentler, supportive side when she interviews leftist demonstrators. Which was precisely how she should have interviewed the tea party demonstrators if she was honest and objective. Another youtube clip accessed via Beltsay Blips shows Susan Roesgen merely calmly reporting on a person wearing a Bush mask with devil horns while carrying a wad of cash at a leftist event, versus her opinionated confrontation of a man who had a sign at the tea party decrying Obama government fascism. She asks, "Do you realize how offensive that is?" Because while graphically representing Bush as the devil incarnate is apparently fine, holding a sign calling her Messiah a fascist is just way over the line.
The funny thing is that, all the while "journalists" such as Susan Roesgen or Anderson Cooper claim that the tea parties were a ginned-up event created by FoxNews, they somehow manage to completely ignore the description of what the event is about from the very people they claim are behind the event.
Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity, Bill O'Reilly, and just about everyone else who have reported or discussed the tea parties on FoxNews have claimed that the parties are NOT about political parties, and NOT about the current taxation climate; but rather about uncontrolled government spending that will necessarily result in higher taxes and a diminished American way of life in the near future and in the futures of their children. They literally create and report as news mutually contradictory straw men.
Susan Roesgen is a disgrace to journalism, and so is CNN for airing that piece. Unfortunately, such leftist ideological propaganda attacks now characterize the news media. Journalism is dead; long live propaganda.
Just another example of the leftist tool that is CNN. Perhaps she should take an even longer break!
Leftist anger, and resentment for their personal failures, knows no bounds. Facts and figures are manipulated to fit the ‘cause’. Contempt and delusion are ingrained so deeply that the basic functioning of even listening to another person’s opinion are quite impossible.
Exactly. When I saw the clip, I was amazed. My reaction is that although Susan R. acted most unprofessionally, anyone can lose it occasionally. That's why there are editors, to screen what actually goes on air. How did the CNN editor responsible for screening not know how awful this would look and let it through?
The answer, of course, is that CNN, and most of the MSM, has been so successful at indoctrinating the masses and pandering to the various noisy special interests, that they've lost all sense of what is appropriate as news.
Not to Mention the FFA should Investigate the CNN license for attacking America with a Propaganda broadcast.
Someone write the FAA and take CNN to court.
CNN is desperately trying to get its leftist audience back.
Sounds to me like CNN is so desperate they’re even using this womans meltdown as a ploy to get viewers. They’ll probably give her a prime spot and let her “interview” more conservatives when the returns.
Well put.
Fox News separates itself (as do several of the other news stations) into “news” and “commentary” programs. Commentary programs include Glenn Beck, O’Reilly, and Hannity, and feature the opinions of the hosts and guests.
The news programs present the news.
Unfortunately, this line is now being blurred even on Fox, but it has been eradicated from the mainstream media. It is now “opinion as news.”
The story of the Chicago tea party was not that Susan Roesgen disagreed; the story was that thousands of people - and many hundreds of thousands across the country - had met in protest of massive and wasteful government spending. Roesgen made the story about herself. And CNN, in this and other footage, made the story about its own naked political bias and willingness to present propaganda.
Somewhat predicted, and Napolitano must have sent her an Advance copy of the DHS memo ?.....Does the DHS memo make Napolitano a CNN lifetime member?
Not to Mention the FFA should Investigate the CNN license for attacking America with a Propaganda broadcast.
Someone write the FAA and take CNN to court.
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It WAS interesting that the Obama adminstration released the DHS memo the DAY BEFORE the April 15 events - citing pretty much anyone who isn’t a liberal as a “rightwing extremist” - and that Susan Roesgen would then use the line about “They don’t like government” in direct allusion to that memo.
And, of course, to your 2nd paragraph, the “Fairness Doctrine” will never include liberal media. That would be fair, and these people don’t give a damn about “fairness.”
In the old days, that's what would have happened. A few people would see the whole "interview" and millions and millions would have seen the edited version. The one where the conservative looks like sh-t.
If it weren't for the internet, she could have pulled off the usual CNN lie.
Thanks God for the internet.
The internet at least gives us a chance to seek out the truth. Because we’re not going to find it by turning on our TVs or reading our newspapers.
At the same time, in my own experience, I have found that liberals dominate the internet, as well, and maybe even more than the other sources. I believe this is because conservatives and independent traditional Americans have 1) jobs, 2) families, and 3) better things to do than waste hour after hour pursuing rabid politics.
Thus the conservatives with “time on their hands” will never match the number of liberals - because liberals are largely the useless eaters who have nothing BUT time.
I’m actually proud not to know this and am actually not sure if I want to know the answer.
But, will someone please explain to me what “teabagging” is and why it’s such a big deal Cooper said it?
I didn’t know either. But I just googled it and got this link:
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_do_you_teabag_your_sex_partner
And now I understand Cooper’s reference: “It’s hard to open your mouth when your teabagging.”
Now I know. Thanks for the mental image, Anderson Cooper.
Mind you, to make such a reference to hundreds of thousands of Americans simply for showing up at an event is clearly completely legitimate journalism.
If he had any moral credibility at all, he would be ashamed of himself.
Boomers know how to use the internet - and they're going to have time on their hands - lot of time. In short - the largest part of our society will soon be conservative older adults.
Thanks for the link.....I’m still proud of not knowing what it was....lol
Older people tend to be more conservative - and the oldest boomer turns 63 this year. And there’s millions coming up behind those 63 year olds.
Boomers know how to use the internet - and they’re going to have time on their hands - lot of time. In short - the largest part of our society will soon be conservative older adults.
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I hope you’re right. But I fear...
The retired generation is now more dependent on the government than workers, and the government is hard at work (e.g. socializing health care) to make them even more dependent yet.
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