Awesome: Chicago tea partiers confront CNN hack after hit piece; Update: Hack did puff piece on lefty protests in January
posted at 2:05 pm on April 16, 2009 by Allahpundit
A seamless conclusion to the smear job heard ’round the world, thanks to some amazingly fortuitous timing by Founding Bloggers. On a day when the grassroots came out to protest the establishment, it’s fitting that a small indie outfit like FB would end up putting the screws to CNN this way. What’s most striking is how savvy the protesters are about the game Roesgen’s playing: They know exactly why she zeroed in on the guy with the Obama/Hitler sign, and it ain’t because of his grasp of economics. Stick with it until the end or else you’ll miss the astounding nerve of this disingenuous moron, who just spent three minutes on national television sneering at the people around her, to say to the woman who’s yelling at her, “You know, you really don’t need to be so antagonistic.” Content warning.
Update: Here’s something from the CNN vault that Breitbart.com just dug up. Note the final line. Did superhack utter it at any point yesterday?
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I’m thinking that Obama has found his next press secretary – but why pay her directly for the job she already does?
kybowexar on April 16, 2009 at 2:06 PM
This is hilarious! I hope this goes viral…
d1carter on April 16, 2009 at 2:07 PM
Should have just thrown a box of Lipton at her…
John_Locke on April 16, 2009 at 2:08 PM
Absolutely fantastic. As if we needed more examples of media bias … err … media advocacy.
Exit question for the blogger so fond of exit questions:
Does anyone outside the conservative blogosphere really care? We KNOW what the problem is. But nobody seems to give a rip.
BardMan on April 16, 2009 at 2:08 PM
And the “reporter” still has no clue, no clue at all.
coldwarrior on April 16, 2009 at 2:10 PM
It sucks for dumbell reporters when they get hammered by normal humans.
dogsoldier on April 16, 2009 at 2:10 PM
Good for the people to confront that jerk.
What an egotistical, arrogant person. Exactly like an Obama drone.
jencab on April 16, 2009 at 2:11 PM
Was that an argument between a reporter and an American, or between an Obama Drone and an American? What’s the difference?
Vanceone on April 16, 2009 at 2:12 PM
Awesome, indeed! Thanks for posting that, Allah.
flyfisher on April 16, 2009 at 2:12 PM
I’m very proud of that woman who stood up to her. She was obviously angry – but kept her composure and was civil throughout.
Actually, I was rather humbled. I’m not sure I’d have pulled it off even close to that classy – if at all.
kybowexar on April 16, 2009 at 2:12 PM
Yes she does, that’s what is infuriating.
jewells45 on April 16, 2009 at 2:13 PM
That smug look on that creature’s face is…infuriating.
baldilocks on April 16, 2009 at 2:13 PM
I give mad props to the woman for not smacking Susan in the face. The sneering attitude and hand on the hip would have sent me over the edge.
Babino on April 16, 2009 at 2:13 PM
“Are you trying to play stupid?”
Hysterical!
Abby Adams on April 16, 2009 at 2:14 PM
This “reporter” is the very definition of “apparatchik.”
She is a Socialist, who will defend Socialism … while she is a “watchdog” over the government.
Yup … a Socialist watchdog over the government.
OhEssYouCowboys on April 16, 2009 at 2:14 PM
B**** please, whats up with that Hair Helmet? CNN is such a great Comedy Channel.
americaslaststand on April 16, 2009 at 2:14 PM
Does anyone outside the conservative blogosphere really care? We KNOW what the problem is. But nobody seems to give a rip.
Many, many people give a rip but we don’t own large media outlets to get our voices out. The free market is doing the work as CNN, MSNBC, the NYT and others slide into oblivion as their customers and viewers flee.
Bishop on April 16, 2009 at 2:14 PM
It just proves that the culture inside CNN is really no different than the culture inside the beltway. Big government, extract everything they can, then squeeze us some more and then whine (Trent Lott anyone?) when we call them on it. That CNN reporter has *ZERO* understanding of the feeling in the country, *ZERO* understanding of our founding father’s sentiments, and *ZERO* understanding of basic economics. CNN’s ratings show that the average person understands their ideological bent, and firmly *REJECTS* it!
Webrider on April 16, 2009 at 2:14 PM
I’m a gentleman – (Southern-mother trained) but I’m not sure I could have stood there and calmly explained anything to that smug face without violence.
Would not have ever done anything physical, but would have just walked away.
Again, kudos to that woman for facing up to her and talking truth to morons.
kybowexar on April 16, 2009 at 2:15 PM
dude: John Ziegler Arrested for Daring to Ask Katie Couric Questions at Award Event
deidre on April 16, 2009 at 2:15 PM
“You don’t need to be so antagonistic!”
I’m redding out – don’t think I can take these -G loads… gonna puke…
DarkCurrent on April 16, 2009 at 2:15 PM
by the anger in this crowd, and i’m sure in other states, i think things will soon get way more than just “antagonistic”.
Ghoul aid on April 16, 2009 at 2:16 PM
DHS arrests its first right winger
faraway on April 16, 2009 at 2:16 PM
Trust me she wasn’t scared. I was waiting for her to look at the camera and wink right after she said that. As if to say “You see these wingnuts are out of control!”
broker1 on April 16, 2009 at 2:17 PM
Awesome. I think she is that stupid.
becki51758 on April 16, 2009 at 2:17 PM
Class act by that woman. I’m not sure I could have kept my composure with that smug bitch!
And since when does a reporter (*cough! hack!*) argue with a citizen?
I loved it when this lady busted her on her bias shots. This might explain why you only see “white people* at these events. And the raging nutcases!
vapig on April 16, 2009 at 2:18 PM
Bullsh*t. She was trying to misconstrue what this means.
Like Obama, she can’t think off script.
misslizzi on April 16, 2009 at 2:18 PM
Wow. Nice to see that campus police have balls for some things…
That’s disgraceful. I thought college campuses were “free-speech zones.”
Sir Corky on April 16, 2009 at 2:20 PM
That woman who confronted the CNN hack is a jewel. Hurrah!
promachus on April 16, 2009 at 2:20 PM
Any chance someone could start a mainstream channel with a conservative slant to counter ABC, NBC, and CBS? I’m sure there are enough conservatives who could fund the effort. I might actually watch a mainstream channel if so.
txag92 on April 16, 2009 at 2:20 PM
Actually, hope we get her name n all. She’s another Joe The Plumber in the making.
promachus on April 16, 2009 at 2:21 PM
Well done anonymous lady extremist (or average American, as I prefer to call them).
She did a much better and more civil job of it than I would have.
myrenovations on April 16, 2009 at 2:21 PM
Perhaps the helmet-haired skank was auditioning to become Gibbs’ replacement. She has the talking points and condescension down pretty good.
Dukehoopsfan on April 16, 2009 at 2:21 PM
This lady was a class act! I love how she busted her on the “faux-tography* she was panning around with. Explains why so many of these stories seem to show a bunch of spoiled white people.
vapig on April 16, 2009 at 2:21 PM
I don’t watch the Obama propaganda on CNN. Can someone tell me if the second half of that clip was broadcast by CNN.
Normal everyday American smacks down elitist MSN tool.
Gotta love it. More please.
fogw on April 16, 2009 at 2:22 PM
We never would have seen that “Republicans suck too” sign were it not for these people. I hope this video gets some press.
Sir Corky on April 16, 2009 at 2:23 PM
Well, it was in Chicago, Blago does have some influence.
ProudinNC on April 16, 2009 at 2:23 PM
Can’t watch it at school now, but I can tell the video is delicious by the comments.
FontanaConservative on April 16, 2009 at 2:23 PM
The Communist News Network lackey’s Big Fat Lie came at 4:10, “I didn’t say this is about Republicans…” OH YEAH?!?
Well then why the hell did you stridently blather on about how the Tea Parties were a creature of “the rightwing consrvative network, FOX…”
She’s not a news columnist, she’s a Fifth Columnist. Is her last name Quisling?
Kudos to Flounding Bloggers and the nice lady who had the guts to confront this moonbat and pimp-slap her.
CatchAll on April 16, 2009 at 2:23 PM
No! Don’t wish THAT on her! That would be to imply that she is now the target of the full force of the federal government with a personal message from the President himself declaring her public enemy number one! Egad!
vapig on April 16, 2009 at 2:23 PM
ROFLMAO! Surely you jest!
BardMan on April 16, 2009 at 2:24 PM
How does the truth get off the internet and in to people’s homes?
I’ve been reading a bunch of stuff out there this morning and most people believe what Nancy Pelosi is saying about it. How do we fight this willful ignorance on the part of others? How do you stand up to the Speaker of the House who straight up lies?
This one demonstration isn’t enough.
I think we should demonstrate CNN and MSNBC and then call for a boycott until they start telling people the truth.
I mean everyday picket lines! Report honestly!
And yeah that man who had his face splashed all over the country made to look the fool by a polished trained liar, yeah he cried.
Because what is happening in the United States of America in 2009 is a crying shame!
petunia on April 16, 2009 at 2:25 PM
Down goes Roesgen! Down goes Roesgen! Down goes Roesgen!
/She sure got roughed up.
Christien on April 16, 2009 at 2:25 PM
The CNN reporter came in with a bias, got one person’s view, and declared him representative of the “general” group. The reporter’s arrogance is hilarious because it is based entirely on ignorance.
jediwebdude on April 16, 2009 at 2:25 PM
This post absolutely has to go viral
Theworldisnotenough on April 16, 2009 at 2:27 PM
BOOM!
WisCon on April 16, 2009 at 2:27 PM
The Update is the icing on the cake.
This woman has to be fired.
carbon_footprint on April 16, 2009 at 2:28 PM
Compare this CNN incident to this incident where leftists really did rough up a FOX News reporter, it is obvious that people to the right handle situations with reporters in a much more professional fashion: with intellect as opposed to chants and physical abuse.
jediwebdude on April 16, 2009 at 2:28 PM
The last audible line is “Your painting us as bad people!” Exactly! Isn’t that what they do?
Christian Conservative on April 16, 2009 at 2:29 PM
Well I think most black people are still happy with Obama it isn’t a surprise they aren’t protesting. Some will come around but it isn’t our racism that keeps them from protesting it’s theirs.
petunia on April 16, 2009 at 2:29 PM
Thanks for posting this!
My favorite line, “That sign was out of our camera view” about a sign condemning the Republican spending spree. Yeah, right.
dish on April 16, 2009 at 2:30 PM
And contrast this reaction of the Tea Party crowd to Susie CNN to that video of Griff Jenkins getting mobbed at the DNC protest.
carbon_footprint on April 16, 2009 at 2:30 PM
I’m glad I wasn’t there…as it was I wanted to strangle that biatch through my TV…what an obviously biased piece of lefty shitte! Yet people like get-a-clue et al (based on their comments about this on other threads) don’t have the intelligence and/or honesty to see the obvious bias of this reporter, CNN, and the MSM in general, yet in their feable and weak minds FOX News is the biased propaganda media outlet!
If it weren’t so absurd I’d laugh…HA…HA…HA!
Liberty or Death on April 16, 2009 at 2:31 PM
I bet this clip gets better ratings than CNN’s prime time broadcast.
Vashta.Nerada on April 16, 2009 at 2:33 PM
I’ve heard from several people who where at these various Tea Parties that in many cases news helicopters and newscrews on the ground would circle or wait until the Tea Parties were breaking up to begin filming them. Purposely waiting until there were only a few dozen people milling around and this would be the footage that they would show on TV with the talking head in the background stating that “few showed interest” in these events.
This is a huge story and I’ve never seen such manipulation by a supposedly sacred medium. What a tragic waste they have become!
vapig on April 16, 2009 at 2:33 PM
This is definitely golden!
youngO on April 16, 2009 at 2:34 PM
There was HUGE “CNN YOU SUCK” sign at the Atlanta rally on Hannity. It was my favorite sign. Huge and front and center. I wonder if it was in reaction from yesterday.
Joe Caps on April 16, 2009 at 2:35 PM
I watched Susan Roesgen when she was a rookie anchorbabe in San Diego in 1990. She looked and sounded like a deer in the headlights back then, though she was cute and perky. Looks like she hasn’t learned very much in almost 20 years on the air.
rockmom on April 16, 2009 at 2:35 PM
Since when do reporters (oh, excuse me, “Journalists”) debate the subjects of their news stories? And where does that arrogant bitch get the idea that she is any wiser than the people she’s covering? She’s just a blow-dried bimbo who went to journalism school and managed to get a job at CNN.
A splendid example of why journalism is held in such contempt today.
Cicero43 on April 16, 2009 at 2:36 PM
This video makes me unnaturally angry. I’m just SEETHING. I’m now glad I didn’t go to the Tea Party protests here in Chi, because I would have gone off the rails.
Kudos to the woman for keeping her temperament, because I would have just been shouting obscenities.
lansing quaker on April 16, 2009 at 2:36 PM
Go Roesgen! – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Roesgen
Josiah on April 16, 2009 at 2:36 PM
Actually, one of the most vocal in the crowd I was near during the event here was an older, black man (about 60 or so – I’m 45) was actually telling folks that we shouldn’t wait until 2012 – impeach him now.
I’d have loved to seen him with this reporter! Ha! He was very polite, knowledgeable, and I imagine extremely hard to debate with if he’s right.
I could not help myself – I told him he was talking racist. He just laughed and shook my hand.
kybowexar on April 16, 2009 at 2:37 PM
Or it could be that the middle class (and/or rich) blacks are at work like the rest of us. Since almost half the population doesn’t pay any taxes at all (and I bet urban city drones number heavily in that percentage), why would they protest?
vapig on April 16, 2009 at 2:38 PM
My 5′ wife lunged off the couch and screamed at the TV. I was shocked, she usually only yells at me like that.
This CNN report really got alot of people pissed. A couple of the people in my office commented on it which is alot for them to do as they are not politcal at all.
portlandon on April 16, 2009 at 2:38 PM
americaslaststand on April 16, 2009 at 2:14 PM
CNN
C=Comedy
N=News
N=Nonsense
FontanaConservative on April 16, 2009 at 2:38 PM
Next grassroots movement? People for a non biased MSM. That way you can prove the media bias just by the lack of media coverage! They got away with bias on this one (except for this EXCEPTIONAL instance) by calling everyone an Obama hater and pointing out the freaks who inevitably show up at any kind of protest and making them look like the norm. But hiding it at a “we want a fair and balanced media” protest would be difficult to do.
scalleywag on April 16, 2009 at 2:38 PM
One of these two women look like an amateur and it’s not the Founding Bloggers representative.
I never heard of Susan whatever-her-name from CNN. Since CNN’s audience is so small, I would imagine not many people have heard of her.
jdflorida on April 16, 2009 at 2:38 PM
Very, very nice.
Great job, suburban self-employed woman!!!
Daddy-O on April 16, 2009 at 2:39 PM
This is getting awesomer and awesomer.
The revolution has begun.
ballz2wallz on April 16, 2009 at 2:40 PM
Ahhh. No Getaclue. If she comes over, ignore her. We are giving her what she wants, attention, me included. Same with Crapulus.
HornetSting on April 16, 2009 at 2:41 PM
dude, indeed!
Disturb the Universe on April 16, 2009 at 2:41 PM
Damn the internet blockers where I work!
Torch on April 16, 2009 at 2:41 PM
Oops, Damn the video blockers where I work! If it were internet, how could I have posted the above, hell, for that matter even look at Hot Air!
Torch on April 16, 2009 at 2:42 PM
I think you answered your own question. Since when is Obama stingy about throwing money that’s not his own away?
scrubbiedude on April 16, 2009 at 2:42 PM
that was a breath of fresh air…
The more the lefty hacks try to frame the tea parties as a left vs. right sham, the more exposed they are for being completely useful idiots
gatorboy on April 16, 2009 at 2:42 PM
Hillbuzz has some great photos and videos collected of the Chicago Tea Party, if anyone’s interested:
http://hillbuzz.wordpress.com/
lansing quaker on April 16, 2009 at 2:43 PM
Not everybody can piss off the entire crowd that they are interviewing. Well, not everyone except someone from CNN, NBS, CBS, ABC…. I’m sure that newswhores like Olberman and Mathews would have done an equivalent job.
docdave on April 16, 2009 at 2:44 PM
But without a coherent message, wilin’ out on Obama is the only message that gets out. That and the frontin’ about “mainstream” america and bipartisan representation.
Your SNR is very high, there is a ton of anti-Obama noise, and your anti-establishment signal is just swamped.
The teaparties are pretty homgeneously white middle-aged disenfranchised republicans.
strangelet on April 16, 2009 at 2:44 PM
The Ziegler video is a must. It is both hilarious and disturbing. “Journalism” RIP!
d1carter on April 16, 2009 at 2:44 PM
That was some serious ownage. Not only could the viewer have learned a lot more from that video than in what aired on CNN (that it isn’t about just taxes or partisanship but how the money is being spent), but the “reporter” is an absolute liar. she said “i didn’t say it was about republicans or democrats”. Well I guess in her world she was telling the truth since what she technically said was it was a right wing, anti-CNN, anti-government protest.
pshht.
and I love the part where the suburban mom points to the “Republicans Suck Too” sign, lol.
Daemonocracy on April 16, 2009 at 2:45 PM
But it is not a sham.
Show me the democrats in attendence.
strangelet on April 16, 2009 at 2:46 PM
Sure am glad I was not there … probably would have been arrested for smacking that CNN drone. Kudos to the other lady!
Dukehoopsfan on April 16, 2009 at 2:46 PM
I’m telling you folks, this movement is for REAL and it is not being ignored, except by all the right people, i.e. the liberal elite. They are going to get their asses handed to them next year and they won’t know why because their sycophants in the media aren’t telling them the truth.
I just heard a caller to Rush say he was an 82-year-old Army vet who attended his first ever protest, with 500 people showing up in tiny Ashland, Ohio. A female marine read Rush’s father’s speech about the Founding Fathers. This was completely spontaneous and not planned. My own 88-year-old Army-vet dad went to his first protest also, in Panama City, Florida.
People are pissed at ALL the elites in this country. This includes the media elite!
rockmom on April 16, 2009 at 2:46 PM
Heh. The lady got served!
deidre on April 16, 2009 at 2:47 PM
Remember the coverage Cindy Sheehan got in Texas right outside President Bush’s ranch. My God she only had two dogs and 4 other crack heads with her – but there were 112 Net works and camera crews there round-the-clock. The Messiah has been very lucky since the primaries and election and his first 100 days in office – his Teflon suit (for himself and TOTUS) have been knocking down the arrows pretty well. The Tea Parties I believe, along with Glenn Beck, who is and will increasingly be seminal influence in Obama’s eventual downfall – are starting the disaster that awaits all who live in Greek Columned Temples and think of themselves as above the Constitution and the People of this marvelous America!
Cinday Blackburn on April 16, 2009 at 2:48 PM
They haven’t taught objectivity in Journalism courses in quite a while, have they? President Reagan would have loved this. He always said America’s strength is in her people.
kingsjester on April 16, 2009 at 2:49 PM
CNN negseoR talks ass backwards.
Roesger intimated that the internet is “owned” by right-wing extremists. Tell that to Kos and Adrianna.
She struck out with her final loss, cowardly back peddling her condemnation of the Tea Party participants as unfit for CNN family viewing.
“Who sent you?! What group do you represent?” Roesger demands of an intelligent woman.
Good production, Andrew Marcus. And appreciation to Dan Pearson, reminding us all that his fellows got snoockered into helping Obama get elected believing those “Words, just words” to build bridges across issues, both domestic and global.
maverick muse on April 16, 2009 at 2:49 PM
I can’t wait to see this when I get home. This woman had me spitting nails yesterday.
Cindy Munford on April 16, 2009 at 2:49 PM
Well, they were about Liberty… and since most Democrats are begging to become slaves of the federal government, there probably were not too many in attendance.
mankai on April 16, 2009 at 2:51 PM
‘Are you trying to play stupid?’
No, this woman really is that stupid.
HornetSting on April 16, 2009 at 2:51 PM
No, they won’t, and no one should hope they will.
DrSteve on April 16, 2009 at 2:52 PM
CNN Susan Roesgen hypocrisy from Newsbusters:
President Bush “Look-Alike” a Cross Between Satan and Hitler?
Loxodonta on April 16, 2009 at 3:37 AM
Loxodonta on April 16, 2009 at 2:52 PM
“What do you think the internet is for?”
Uh, buying DVDs and iTunes for British dignitaries. Duh.
TMK on April 16, 2009 at 2:53 PM
It deserves a thread of its own.
Disturb the Universe on April 16, 2009 at 2:54 PM
The Susan Roesgenization of CNN:
econavenger on April 16, 2009 at 2:54 PM
This breed of pretentious leftist radiates pseudo-intellectual smugness, revealing an addiction to egotism. You can see the heat lines. Simply analyze the pitch of her voice and delivery when approaching the man with baby. Brushing off sign slogans left and right, thick with arrogance, finally looking over the guy, judging him instantly and barely choking out a question. What a rough day at the office for her to simply cover a conservative event!
I browse The Huffington Post on a daily basis. They made comments with glee to the effect of “you just know this woman wanted to insult and disrespect these rubes further.” They rejoice in her open contempt and needling of the attendees, adding comment after comment about low IQ. Become mindful of this self-worship and group-think. You will soon realize just how much of a leftist’s actions boomerang around to self-glorification. It is a 24/7 love fest, with levels of bigotry and judgment that aren’t tolerated elsewhere.
You can be addicted to alcohol or drugs yes, but these people display addictions to resentment, anger and most of all, ego. Arrogant, cynical leftist drones feed off it like some sort of mutant sci-fi creature sucking on a high voltage line. Ahhhh the glorious power.
Their game is as follows. You’re stupid you’re stupid you’re stupid you’re stupid. LOUD NOISES. Look at the little people crying about taxes when Obama is giving their state 50 billion. Chuckle, lol, what pedestrian dolts! Perhaps the concept of human beings choosing morality and integrity over a meager bribe is lost on them, since they live each day without honor.
If a conservative dares take enough time out of his day to counter their arguments completely, and they realize it, the go-to tactic is to split-hairs on semantics and tone of voice, like octopi inking the water to sneak past the public at large. They do this to Ann Coulter all the time. Owned by history and statistics, the retort is a flippant, oh but little Ann, you are just too venomous sweety and people may not listen. Over to you for the weather Pam! It is a calculated tactic and is quite frankly, disgusting.
This is fist-shaking at the heavens, a refusal to show humility towards the higher good, the worship of man himself.
They adore the mirror. Watch for it, challenge it and take them on.
MarcusBrody on April 16, 2009 at 2:55 PM
I left Chicago over a year ago. Otherwise, I would have been in attendance.
misslizzi on April 16, 2009 at 2:56 PM
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