Posted By Vicki McClure Davidson on April 20, 2009

By Vicki McClure Davidson * Frugal Café Blog Zone

CNN is flexing its puny media muscles and is trying to bully YouTube to remove the embarrassing video of reporter Susan Roesgen attacking conservatives at the Chicago Tea Party, even though it is not their property.

It was videotaped by Andrew Marcus of Founding Bloggers, who just happened to be standing nearby during the initial diatribe with Roesgen. Once CNN’s camera stopped, his continued. You remember, the nasty incident on Tax Protest Tea Party Day where Roesgen stomped all over and sneered at Americans’ right to free speech and peaceful assembly. The one where she targeted and viciously marginalized average people at a tax day tea party protest in Chicago. This is America, Susan. Not Cuba, not Russia, not Venezuela, not China. We still have freedom of speech here, whether you like it or not, you socialist Obama-cheerleading pinhead.

But, the embarrassing video doesn’t belong to CNN. So, there is no violation of copyright or intellectual property. Shucks, CNN… what now?

Founding Bloggers: (UPDATED) Founding Bloggers Exclusive! Our Footage Of The CNN Chicago Tea Party Throwdown. It’s a great article. Be sure to read all the comments on this post. Many are from people who WERE THERE when Susan went ballistic, and they offer additional information, from their perspectives, about the hostile interviews. How cool is that?

Sidenote: The politically biased and nasty Susan Roesgen has applied not once, but twice, to work at FOX News. She was turned down. So, maybe she’s still feeling that “sour grapes syndrome” which compelled her to arrogantly attack the top news station as well as the tea party attendees in Chicago. Guess you can kiss off ever working at FOX, Susan. Following her attack, the blogosphere went into high gear, sending Susan countless emails describing how despicable her reporting was. CNN announced two days later that Susan would be taking a break.

What? A break? Is she in hiding? Until the anger of millions of Americans dies down, that is? Sorry. Too late, CNN. Your irresponsible reporter shouldn’t be “taking a break,” but instead be “standing in the unemployment line.” Right next to those other in-the-gutter liberals: that scary, deranged hate-monger Janeane Garofalo and the nasty-dirty-mouth, beauty-queen-hating misogynist Perez Hilton.

I’m embedding the two controversial videos again (the first is CNN’s, the second, belongs to Founding Bloggers and is the video that CNN is trying to scrub on YouTube). They could both be toast by morning, who knows? Media bias, alive and well in America…

To read my original post, click here for “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.”

The third video with Shep Smith is included just because it makes me laugh every time I watch it.

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, taped and uploaded to YouTube by Founding Bloggers):

Disgraceful.

Shep Smith Responds to CNN’s Susan Roesgan Whining about “Anti-CNN” Crowd and FOX Network

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.

Related stories and posts:
World Net Daily: Scrubbed! CNN yanking tea party ‘embarrassment’ – Demands YouTube remove video of fed-up citizens berating reporter
Power Line: Hiding the Evidence
Just Americans Making Ethical Statements Weblog: CNN Attacks Free Speech; Does Not like the “Bad Press” their Reporter Created
Scared Monkeys: CNN Tries to Hide Tea Party “You Tube” Video Evidence Showing CNN & Reporter Susan Roesgen Are Liberal Hacks
Michelle Malkin: CNN’s cover-up and “fair use” abuse and $%^&*!!: Civility and tolerance in the Age of Obama 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?
The Barton Bulletin: No Media Bias Here; CNN Reporter Berates Tea Partyers
TVNewser: CNN Reporter at Chicago Tea Party: It’s “Anti-CNN Since This is Highly Promoted By the Right-Wing, Conservative Network Fox”
David Bossie, Big Hollywood: Sound of Silence: Hollywood Hypocrisy on the First Amendment
Unequal Time: Join the ‘bucket brigade’ to keep Roesgen tea party video alive
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: Question Democratic Authority? Not! and Big Hollywood Crew Joins Tea Party Protest
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
Eject Eject Eject, PajamasMedia: What Media Bias Really Costs the Republic
NewsBusters: Blogger Targets Malkin, Coulter with Sexist Sleaze
Obama Exposure: Janeane Garofalo: ODS Expositor You are a Racist and So Are All of You Tea Party Folks!

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