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More CNN: Roesgen interviews protester who calls Obama a fascist
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More CNN: Roesgen interviews protester who calls Obama a fascist posted at 5:37 pm on April 15, 2009 by Allahpundit Send to a Friend | Share on Facebook | printer-friendly Turns out the TV Newser clip I posted earlier picked up halfway through the segment. Here’s the full segment, replete with crack reporter Susan Roesgen naturally gravitating towards the guy holding a poster with a Hitler/Obama photoshop on it. Golly, who would have thought the media would single out the kookiest kids in the crowd in order to paint the whole movement as some sort of nascent militia — especially hot on the heels of DHS’s heavy breathing about right-wing ...
Obama a 'fascist'?
Ben Smith's Blog —
Democrats point out that some of the tea party rallies today are getting a little heated — such as this one in Chicago, where a CNN reporter pushes a protester to explain why he's calling Obama "fascist."
As Democrats learned on the early end of the Bush presidency, there's a risk in getting too vitriolic when you're dealing with the president of the United States. And as some McCain-Palin supporters learned last fall, anti-Obama rhetoric has its limits.
CNN Reporter Tries to Discredit Peasants Protesting Her Dear Leader
Weekly Standard Blog —
Via Hot Air, CNN reporter Susan Roesgen tries to make a guy holding an Obama-as-Hitler photo the face of the Tax Day tea party protests:
You've got to love how Roesgan expresses the same level of indignation toward the completely reasonable guy with his child. (I'm still searching for footage of Roesgen dressing down lefty protesters with Bu$Hitler signs. It's got to be out there somewhere. Right?)
As Allahpundit and Michelle Malkin have noted, it was completely predictable that the media would focus attention on the nutty fringe that comes along with any protest. (I believe that the ...
CNN Reporter Seeks to Discredit Peasants Protesting Her Dear Leader
Weekly Standard Blog —
Via Hot Air, CNN reporter Susan Roesgen tries to make a guy holding an Obama-as-Hitler photo the face of the Tax Day tea party protests:
You've got to love how Roesgan expresses the same level of indignation toward the completely reasonable guy with his child. (I'm still searching for footage of Roesgen dressing down lefty protesters with Bu$Hitler signs. It's got to be out there somewhere. Right?)
As Allahpundit and Michelle Malkin have noted, it was completely predictable that the media would focus attention on the nutty fringe that comes along with any protest. (I believe that the ...
CNN's Susan Roesgen: Taking Hackery to New Heights
The Corner on National Review Online —
Wednesday, April 15, 2009 [image] CNN's Susan Roesgen: Taking Hackery to New Heights [ Mark Hemingway ] 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 ...
More Fun With CNN's Obama Mouthpiece Susan Roesgen
The Jawa Report —
April 16, 2009 More Fun With CNN's Obama Mouthpiece Susan Roesgen Oh, it's so beyond the pale for a protestor to call Obama a fascist and to compare Obama to Hitler. The left never , ever , ever , ever , ever , ever , ever did or would do such a detestable thing. EVER. Plus, for laughs, here's the crown jewel of Barack Obama's personal cable news network, MSNBC, not comparing President Bush to a fascist over and over again (with Howard Dean and his newly scrubbed short-medium term memory) Beyond the pale, teabaggers. FOR SHAME, YOU TERRORIST KILLBOT RIGHTWINGURZZZ! By Good Lt. at April 16, 2009 07:13 AM | | l ...
LAT’s Rainey: (Shouted) Fox News Is A Bunch of Shills! (Whispered: Yeah, MSNBC Is Too) (Absent: Any Reference to CNN)
Patterico's Pontifications —
How can you tell when a journalist is firmly on one side of the political spectrum, and not doing a very good job of hiding it? When left and right are doing the same thing — and the journalist slams the right, while giving a slight rebuke to the left.
For example, L.A. Times media columnist James Rainey has a piece about the tea parties that starts off with a four-paragraph slam at Fox News:
It’s a real team effort over at Fox News.
You’d expect conservative commentators like Glenn Beck and Sean Hannity to be hyping today’s wave of anti-tax “tea parties.” But Fox personalities labeled ...
4/16: Tea Party Hangover
Blogometer —
April 16, 2009 4/16: Tea Party Hangover Tax Day has passed and the "tea party" protests are over, but conservative bloggers are still buzzing with excitement. Righty bloggers are portraying the coordinated demonstrations as a "smashing success" ...
Second Wave of Tea Parties 4/18/09
blonde sagacity —
If you couldn't make it to any of Wednesday's Tea Parties (because you're a Conservative with a JOB), there is another round scheduled for tomorrow. The MSM seriously downplayed Wednesday's turn-out numbers (we knew they would), so we should try to build the numbers so they can't be ignored... Here is a compilation of the best signs if you need some ideas (This is just a few, Read them all here: • $11 Trillion and climbing – Now that’s a lot of change! • 3 Simple Words: WE THE PEOPLE • Born Free, Taxed to Death • Can We Bankrupt The Country? YES WE CAN • D.C. = District ...
Tea Party Fallout: Independents Turned Off, GOP Worried
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed —
It's been two days now since angry conservatives hosted a series of tea parties across the country, and the fallout has some Republicans nervous.
While the anti-tax sentiment of the protests may have been sincere, the images pulled from the events have been mostly offensive, embarrassing, or politically problematic. It is a development that has tripped up the GOP before. The rallies outside McCain-Palin events included some of the same bile that was seen at the tea parties: charges of fascism, terrorism and other malicious criticisms leveled at Barack Obama. And it did the Republican ticket little good in its efforts to bring moderate voters to the cause.
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