Videos: CNN’s Susan Roesgen at the Chicago Tea Party: I’m Not a Real Journalist, I Just Play a Nasty, Anti-Conservative One on TV
Posted By Vicki McClure Davidson on April 17, 2009
By Vicki McClure Davidson * Frugal Café Blog Zone
It’s heating up.
During the Tax Day Tea Party protest in Chicago this week, CNN’s Susan Roesgen verbally attacked and/or marginalized several people at the event.
One man had a small protest sign that showed Obama dressed as Hitler. She proclaimed it offensive. “But, he’s the president of the United States!” she said, horrified. “But, he’s a fascist,” he said. Sadly, the poor man was flustered and couldn’t quite articulate himself as to why he believes Obama is a fascist. And Roesgen did her best, like a hyper little pug dog, to keep him off balance.
However, in January 2006 at a different protest, Roesgen was obviously amused by a protester who wore a huge Pres. George W. Bush mask with a Hitler moustache and devil horns. Roesgen had no objections, no horror at all to the mocking of our former president as a cross between Hitler and Satan.
The two separate events are combined in the first video below. Political bias from a CNN journalist, viewed side by side. Chocolate is good, but video is forever, Susan. You gotta love YouTube…
Susan Roesgen’s Tale of Two Hitlers
On the flip side:
CNN’s Susan Roesgen Compassionate Tone When Covering a Left Wing Protest
Roesgen “went the distance” to marginalize Americans at the Chicago Tea Party.
It’s On! Showdown Between CNN Reporter & Chicago Tea Party Guests, “Party for Obama Bashers” (longer version) | April 15, 2009
And now, what CNN didn’t air following this attack on the father holding the baby at the Chicago Tea Party (not PG-rated language):
Shep Smith Responds to CNN’s Susan Roesgan Whining about “Anti-CNN” Crowd and FOX Network
Disgraceful.
Hostile and dismissive—a popular MSM tactic: ask a question of someone, and if the person makes sense and is articulate but conservative, interrupt him with irrelevant pro-stimulus package points, chide or mock what he’s saying, drown him out by getting louder, or just walk away. Here is one citizen’s homemade commentary video about Roesgen’s unprofessional behavior.
Commentary on Susan Roesgen’s Death to CNN and Journalism, by xpandergt
Ms. Roesgen, it would be prudent for you to start updating that résumé. There is a growing anger at this type of gotcha journalism, that which sets up to mock and disenfranchise more than half the country (conservatives are TV viewers, too, in case you’ve forgotten).
I know of at least one group spearheading a boycott campaign of CNN’s sponsors because of the news station’s blatant hostility toward conservatives or anyone who attended one of the 800 tea parties in America. You’ve landed yourself in the hot seat with a lot of folks, Susie Q, and it isn’t gonna end well.
If you feel compelled to contact her to let her know your feelings about her lack of journalistic integrity, or just to say “howdy,” here is the pertinent stuff:
Susan Roesgen
C/O CNN
435 N. Michigan Ave #715
Chicago, IL 60611
(312) 645-8555
Her email address seems to have been either disabled or changed… If you’d like to email CNN about its unprofessional “journalists,” please try these other email addresses:
CNN Executive Vice President Ken Jautz: ken.jautz@cnn.com
Philip Kent, the Chairman & CEO of CNN: phil.kent@turner.com
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UPDATE: Just Reported, April 17: NewsBusters: NewsBusters: CNN’s Fox-Bashing/Fox-Job Applying Roesgen ‘Tak(ing) a Break’ LOL – who would’ve thought CNN would care more about ratings and profits than a repugnant, politically biased, antagonist Obama cheerleader? Wonders never cease. Read the NewsBusters piece.
ANOTHER UPDATE: CNN is trying to bully YouTube to remove the embarrassing video of Susan Roesgen, even though it is not their property. It was videotaped by Founding Bloggers, who just happened to be there during the initial diatribe. So there is no violation of copyright or intellectual property.
From Power Line:
It is hard to avoid the inference that in this case, CNN was motivated not by a desire to protect its intellectual property but by a desire to avoid embarrassment caused by the unprofessional performance of its reporter. In today’s world, though, it just isn’t possible to track down all copies of a video and suppress them, when the video relates to a matter of broad and legitimate public interest. That CNN is willing to make the attempt reveals something, perhaps, about its attitude toward the public’s right to be informed.
World Net Daily: Scrubbed! CNN yanking tea party ‘embarrassment’ – Demands YouTube remove video of fed-up citizens berating reporter
Power Line: Hiding the Evidence
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Related tax protest tea party stuff about Roesgan, as well as the “potty mouths” of other TV news guys (conservatives drive them nuts), and Fox News the champ in news ratings:
Michelle Malkin: CNN’s cover-up and “fair use” abuse and Standing Up to a CNN Clown and An Army of Tax Revolters — and a warning to fair-weather Republicans and What is the difference between Anderson Cooper and Matt Taibbi?
TVNewser: CNN Reporter at Chicago Tea Party: It’s “Anti-CNN Since This is Highly Promoted By the Right-Wing, Conservative Network Fox”
Big Hollywood: CNN Anchor Bombs on ‘Celebrity Jeopardy’
Gateway Pundit: Dem Leaders Say Tea Party Protesters Are “Neo-Nazis, Militias, Secessionists and Racists” and Gutter Journalism: Angry Mainstream Media Reporters Use Nasty Sexual Slang to Describe Tea Party Protesters (video) and FOX News Beats CNN, MSNBC, Headline News… Combined
Andrew Breitbart, Big Hollywood: Big Hollywood Crew Joins Tea Party Protest and Question Democratic Authority? Not!
Jim Blaszik: MSM babies and others reactions to the Tax Day Tea Party
DianeJ’s Weblog: Tea Party Movement: True PATRIOTS
Vets On The Watch: We, Too, Can Go Behind The Scenes
UrbanGrounds: FOXNews Destroys All Other Cable News Programs
The Angry White Guy: CNN taken to task
Pajamas TV: Tea Party Command Center Wrap Show
Atlas Shrugs: OBAMA ADMINISTRATION: “Treat [tea party] protestors as potential terrorists”, Citizens carrying a copy of the U.S. Constitution, labels it “political paraphernalia.”
Sister Toldjah: Note to David Shuster and Anderson Cooper: GET A ROOM
Flopping Aces: Susan Roesgan’s ‘cutting room floor” moments…
Greg Gutfield, Big Hollywood: Daily Gut: Angry Chicks Against Ladies
Daily Woof: Spreading the Word on CNN Douchebags
American Digest, Dispatches from the New America: Hint to James Wolcott: When You Look Like the Spawn of Jabba the Hut and Mr. Toad, Don’t Advertise TV Appearances
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