Ummm....hey! CNN! Her "job" is not to "call it as she sees it."
Her job is to report the news. That's it.
Posted on 04/16/2009 7:15:38 AM PDT by SeafoodGumbo
CNN's Susan Roesgen: Taking Hackery to New Heights
This video with CNN anchor Susan Roesgen is pretty unreal. She attends the Chicago tea party, picks some wacko out of the crowd and tries to argue with him about whether Obama's a fascist (and even then the guy with the ridiculous Obama-as-Hitler sign comes off more willing to engage in discussion than her), then she talks to a guy who seems perfectly reasonable and rudely cuts him off multiple times. She then attacks Fox News, ranting that the crowd is anti-CNN and says that the tea party is not "family viewing." Of all the leftist protests I've covered over the years — and I've covered many of them — I have never seen a reporter enter the fray and act personally offended by the many, many examples of outrageous behavior at a protest. There's little to be gained by it, and it's simply not professional. What Roesgen is doing is doing here pure hackery. Even as grandstanding, she fails. She goes about things with all the subtlety of a brick through a window, and in the end it appears she's just an angry jerk.
Of course in 2006, Roesgen felt a bit differently regarding President Bush, according to this Newsbusters report:
A protester wearing a George W. Bush mask, complete with a colored in Hitler-esque mustache and red horns attached to the forehead was deemed a Bush "look-alike" by reporter Susan Roesgen ... It was then that the demonstrator wearing the Bush mask was highlighted on camera, while Roesgen narrated, "But while a look-alike showed up with a wad of cash, Mr. Bush did not." The "wad of cash" in the demonstrator's hand was actually several phony dollar bills mocking the Bush administration.
Roesgen didn't bother angrily confronting that protester who compared the President to Hitler when Bush was in office. No, she used them as a prop to illustrate her story. Double standard much?
Of course, this is the same Susan Roesgen whose report on Obama speaking at Notre Dame observed that Obama "leans pro-choice" and later said to Wolf Blitzer, "Can you believe that, Wolf, they’re actually praying that God will change the heart and mind of President Obama to make him pro-life?"
Even The Daily Show singled Roesgen out for special ridicule for her desperate attempts to make herself part of the story when she was covering the floods in Fargo. Note to CNN: Take Roesgen out behind the woodshed and mercifully ablate her career before she embarasses you any further.
Got any of those bumperstickers?
CNN says she did her job and “called it as she sees it”
Should be: “Obama Spokesperson Susan Roesgen”
She does not qualify as a reporter or as a journalist. And she needs to take an anger management course.
sw
Why those EVIL BASTARDS!!!
Ol' Bitter Susan is a dried up old whore who also happens to regularly tongue-bathe The Zero's "teabag" on a regular basis. Just callin' it like I see it.
FMCDH(BITS)
I already sent a letter to CNN demanding that she be fired. I premised it on Reporters report the news not make the news. I also said it was an embarrasment to CNN and gave the impression that CNN supports the left wing agenda.
I’m sure Susan the propagandist will be honored with some award for her work.
CNN, MSNBC, and the rest can rant all they want to. They know Fox is beating the pants off them, and they’re flummoxed about what to do.
Media Bistro report for Tuesday, can’t wait to see Wednesday’s. In younger demographic, Beck is doing as well as Hannity or Greta, and he has an awful timeslot.
http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser/ratings/the_scoreboard_tuesday_april_14_114156.asp#more
In the dictionary a “reporter” is defined as...
a. a a person who makes authorized statements of law decisions or legislative proceedings b. b a person who makes a shorthand record of a speech or proceeding c (1). c (1) a person employed by a newspaper, magazine, or television company to gather and report news (2) . (2) a person who broadcasts news
Susan was none of the above when reporting on the teaparty protests.
I cannot. It isn’t repeatable, but thanks for trying.
Ummm....hey! CNN! Her "job" is not to "call it as she sees it."
Her job is to report the news. That's it.
I saw the video and I'm sure she got Brownie Points from management at CNN..
a la Kattie Curic for the slash up job on Sarah Palin. The media is pretty brazen these days. They will have to build a new addition over there to house these new awards. Just call it the Joseph Goebbels Wing.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.