If it were possible for CNN to fall into 20th place, that's too high for them. MSNBC should be down there with them. They are an embarrassment to hacks and frauds everywhere.

Yeah, if Fox is right wing then CNN is clearly the state TV news apparatus, how sad. If you work for CNN realize you are not a journalist. BTW – I went to a tea party and heard nothing from Fox before I went and the tea party I went to had nothing to do with Fox. She's clearly jealous over their better ratings.

And they wonder why nobody watches their pathetic little networks any more – they insult and demean half the country, then they should expect to be turned off in droves.

This is what you get when the media goes full retard. Who needs them?

I saw the video clip on The O'Reilly Factor. I was outraged! I could hardly believe what I saw… then I remembered CNN… Of course! It was an epiphany. "Let's try to up our ratings by acting like Bill Maher or Jon Stewart." Yeah, Americans are smarter than that. I wonder why Fox News ratings are up… They aren't willing to play off a peaceful protest as "Right-Wing Conspiracy" and "a threat for Right-Wing instigated terror." This is why newspapers, like the New York Times, are failing: they aren't willing to report the actual news. Plus they make the honest citizens reading them feel like they are nuts who are instigating riots. Who wants to read that rubbish? I say this: No taxation without PROPER representation! HEY NEWSWEEK, PUT THAT ON YOUR COVER!

Family viewing thru the labored teabag innuendo , nudge nudge wink wink .
Thanks alot CNN for clearly marking the limits of what really is family viewing and you ain't it !!

the US media is corporatized…..especially the turkey neck creeps on FAUX News masquerading as "cultural warriors"…turkey-necked Billdo Lielly paid MILLIONS IN A SEXUAL HARASSMENT SUIT to silence his victim (the transcript of his call is SO DISTURBING, describes his perverted thoughts and actions)…Dickie Morris is a bloated PERV who was fired by the Clintons after he was busted hiring hookers to SUCK ON THEIR TOES! Newtster whores around on all his wives while they are hospitalized and pays no childsupport…..the 4th estate in the US is dead and I'm stuck with Thomas Jefferson's maxim: "I would rather live in a country without government than a country without newapapers." Remember the deficits ballooned $2TRILLION under Ronnie Raygun, $1 Trillion under Bush I, $500 billion under Clinton (BUT HE GOT A BLOWJOB!, and $5.5 Trillion under dick cheney's administration…you sheeple are laughable ignoramuses.

"Amerikkans" made your bed, so sleep in it….BOW DOWN to your corporate warlords and the military-industrial complex, you sold your souls for tax cuts for the rich…you all whored your vote out to the corporate warmaking machine….fools

What the hell was that?!! Journalism? Not.

Funny how it was cool at CNN to be "anti-government" last year, but this year it's an inconceivable sin.

You're kidding, right? Your post is surely a parody, right? Or are you really the guy with the grim reaper costume and the skull mask that I see at every commie protest where a Starbucks gets burned down.

It's truly mind boggling. First we have Anderson Cooper and his family-friendly usage of "teabagging" and then a "reporter" declaring that an anti-tax demonstration is not suitable for family viewing. These people are vile. That's the only word to describe them. The only thing that keeps me from losing it is seeing the panic in their eyes as they try to diminish these protests as they're occurring less than 3 months into Obama's presidency.

WOW you are an idiot….don't hurt yourself patting yourself on the back…I don't take joy at profitting from death and destruction "Funeral Guy"…you republipunks got us in this mess…where was your voice of "dissent" during the 8 years of rampant deficiti spending, waging of an illegal war of aggression, and the raping of the US COnstitution (1400 signing statements by chimpie and dickie saying they did not have to obey laws passed by Congress compared to the 700 signed by ALL previous administrations)..your ignorant ilk disgust and repulse me you bootlicking brown shirt LOSER

True. Fox News was nowhere to be found at the Piscataway, NJ Tea Party. In fact, the only media there was a local radio station (not talk radio). It certainly wasn't a bunch of rich people in Mercedes' and Bentleys showing up; very regular people. I don't know where the meme that this is "astroturf" funded by rich people came from, except that it must be projection from the left (their protests are largely funded by the unions and well-funded left-wing groups).

are you referring to fox or cnn? your argument easily goes both ways.

"Gee a discussion of Abraham Lincoln wanting Americans to have freedom is no longer fit for "Family TV" but Tea Bagging is… "

Exactly what I thought.

CNN of course. Fox doesn't insult their audience, any portion of it.

agreed – i watched that segment and felt what i believe was my absolute limit with the MSM. i was completely disgusted. if she had shown that kind of blatant contempt for the unwashed, professional grievance mongers out and about during the war protests, she wouldn't have made it back to the newsvan before she was fired.

typical…can't win with logic or stick to the topic at hand, so you just start calling people names. stay classy, ltrain!

I'm so frustrated right now. Is she for real? The guy was providing a well-informed answer in a civil manner, and that's not "family TV"? But Anderson Cooper's "teabagging" comment is? What the hell?!

Irony, waffling and hypocrisy are taught as part of the curriculum at CNN school.

But apparently not journalism. I would fire this women before she returned to the office. Not even for political reasons, just because she clearly has no idea how to do her job.

Speaking of full retard.

Ever heard of nuticals? They sell them for dogs and leftists.

I live in California so I'm well acquainted with the idiots you speak of. To be honest, I'm just tired. I'm tired of seeing this crap in my face under the guise of "journalism." When did yellow journalism make a comeback? And when did the masses decided to legitimize it? I've never been an activist type, but this kind of stuff is just the motivator to make me get really loud and angry.

I'm thinking someone went off his meds ….

You might want to investigate the this new fangled spellchecker thing they've come out with … handy.

I'm sick of it too. But I'm even more frustrated that Republicans just accept this as the normal state of affairs. They don't even seem to understand that they should be fighting this, much less who they should be fighting or how to fight them. If they can't do this, then they need to step aside and let someone who will fight back take over.

A friend of mine pointed out that the MSM created Obama and has a financial interest in the continued adulation to sell their papers and get viewers. I don't disagree but think it is greater than that. They are personally vested. Their egos are on the line and they cannot fathom why the mouth-breathing, knuckle-dragging rubes aren't falling into line and accepting the proclamations of the Fourth Estate as gospel. You can practically see the spittle flying out of Susie-Q's gaping maw. Even setting aside that journalists should keep their basis out of sight, this level of invective isn't about ideological differences. She's irrelevant, she knows it and cannot tolerate it.

Wow! Her comments almost make her seem as if she's working for the government… or this administration. Coming after someone who protests a trillion dollars of taxes being levied upon him without his consent. In what bizarro world have we been transported to?

Um…..Ltrain? just how many comprise an "ilk"? Just askin'

Hi, Andrew..it's "Z"! The People's Republic of Santa Monica gathering was fairly well attended for The People's Republic, but we had to get there late, it was just breaking up and we only drove by and honked, I hate to admit. My favorite part of the CNN video is her saying "But, you get FOUR HUNDRED DOLLARS!" I guess the moral of that story is "Who needs CHARACTER and PRINCIPLES when you're going to be given FOUR HUNDRED BUCKS, huh?" geeeeZ

Roesgen….. cable idiot
LTrain……….villiage idiot

I don't recall ever seeing any "reporter" engage in a "debate" while reporting. I'm sure it's happened but I just can't think of an incident. Truly an amazing piece of "journalism." So glad to see such objective reporting. Since I seldom watch CNN thanks Andrew for linking this.

Donna, the left calls 'em "strap-ons". They're available in the Earl Grey, Pekoe, and Oooooooh-long models. Most of the lefty-castrati don't leave home without 'em.

oppressive government? give me a break. Hysterical nonsense every bit as idiotic as the Bush-is-a-Nazi crowd. Enforcers of government mandated conformity? How so? Give me some examples of how the big bad Stalinist Obama regime is forcing you to conform. For 8 years you guys were all about expanding executive powers but now it is the dawning of a totalitarian America. You brought this on yourselves. Careful what you wish for.

That high?

I'm an optimist.

For serious! Where the h*ll was the objectivity on that one! She asked the guy a question, and when he had a point to make, she cut him off and told him he was wrong! That wasn't journalism, that was a rare insight into the hatcheting process they normally call "editing". Someone please kick this lady in the groin.

$5.5 trillion under Bush. Uh-huh. Where do you get your facts, the Daily Worker? But of course: "BOW DOWN to your corporate warlords and the military-industrial complex, you sold your souls for tax cuts for the rich…you all whored your vote out to the corporate warmaking machine" Wonder where that sort of deranged, spittle-flecked rhetoric comes from?

Hippie douche.

The Homeland Security department is tracking all of our irate "chatter" right now. But it's okay, tapping and spying on domestic citizens was only something Bush did, but now that Obama's doing it, it's okay.

That is why I am now saying "No taxation without PROPER representation!" Now what is proper? That is the question, but maybe term limits is a start.

why is it every troll insists on CAPITALIZING EVERY FALSE ACCUSATION? My guess is a short attention span. The funniest part of this post is the constant harping on "perversion", and then deriding people for disliking the fact that Clinton was fond of blow-jobs from his office staffers. But they just never get it wasn't the sex, it was the lie under oath.

So, as for the rest of this anarchist twaddle, let's flag it under comedy and move on.

I've seen less hostility in a combat zone. "What does Lincoln have to do with taxation?" Duh! This twinkie tried to make that guy look moronic, then her other brilliant comment " but, we're getting 50 billion here in Illionois from the stimulus." To cut to the chase, how can we start to return to sanity, when were faced with the core problem – money and greed. As long as they're getting theres', screw the taxpayer.
But when John Q Public started making sense, she ran the other way, back to the other guttersnipe in the studio. Yeah, it looks like Ted Turner still has his insane influence on the hiring process. Journalism is dead.

It makes you wonder if these people, especially the news division managers, ever actually look at what they do on camera. When they do, it's probably for nothing more than a hair/make up critique.

I would have said "Grand Inquisitor" instead of commentator. So of course the man couldn't respond, since nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition (Sorry, Monty P.).

I guess we could also see how far you guys can get into Too Much Information territory without triggering the filters.

I note with sardonic interest that CNN's site doesn't have a contact link to its ombudsmn, so that there's nowhere to complain about this "reporter's" abominable breach of journalistic ethics.

She should never work in news again. Maybe she can get work as Cooper's teabagging partner.

So change blogs. If we repulse you, why do you come here? You aren't going to change our minds with your mindless, illogical, nonsensicle rants and pernicious name calling. So go away. But in the process of leaving, be blessed, be well, seek wisdom, seek Jesus. Hell is someplace you don't want to spend for an eternity. Nothing but love for you.

"Maybe she can get work as Cooper's teabagging partner. "

Or as an Obama teleprompter programmer. Not a lot of difference.

We've been fighting the filter for so long over things that should never have been filtered in the first place that we can't help ourselves. We're like little kids saying "poo poo" in front of mom and dad to see if they'll tell us to stop.

I think we tried that last night. But now that you mention it. What does it mean to [CENSORED BY HOMELAND SECURITY].

Must be pretty lonely in your mom's basement. Maybe you should ask her to run out and get some more foil to wrap around your head. And I love the phrase "war of aggression". As opposed to wars of passivity? Wars of cooperation? You do realize you are a prime example of the archetypal loser in this country? A failure who has no talent and blames the "man", the "system", "corporate masters", "military-industrial complex" for his own inadequacies. A pathetic little non-entity who channels his impotent rage via leftist politics. Well, if it makes you feel better that is something I guess. The same way a screaming monkey who flings his excrement must feel a sense of purpose as well.

She told the guy he was getting 400 dollars like he was a bum living under a bridge. Oh Boy! 400 bucks Thank you "Dear Leader"
Gimme a Break! The guy was in my hometown Chicago. Four hundred dollars gets you a friggin' parking space for "almost" a month! Thanks for nothing Barry!

Charge of the Light Brigade?
MOON LANDING!

I guess WORLD WAR III might get the left a little overly sensitive, huh!?

If you're innocent, you have nothing to fear. Now tell us about this Abraham Lincoln person. Wait. No. You're guilty. Bring the kindling and the torches.

I haven't seen that much biased interviewing since the Scud Slut Christine Amanpour was running interference for Saddam Hussein (he was the other Hussein).

Thanks for going and standing up for what's right Andrew! You and the rest of the proud Americans who were able to attend.

I'm going to try that in my next Answer to Criminal Complaint. First Affirmative Defense: My client is INNOCENT ! ! ! ! Second Affirmative Defense: Opposing counsel is STOOPID ! ! ! !

The fact that it IS only 3 months into this nitwits presidency is probably scaring the holy buhjeebers out of these clowns. YAY!

Big thanks to Evan Sayet and Victoria Jackson for speaking at the Van Nuys protest.

It was quite a lively and impressive turnout.

I don't understand. It's not as if she called him a white bastard who should get some more drugs for his little bitch of a daughter. She has nothing to apologize for—or does she?

We've been far too civil for far too long. We've talked about this before. I'm not afraid of a good shouting and shoving match, if that's what they want. Being civil to these political journalist hacks is like trying to explain calculus to an attack dog. Either they should get right back in the faces of these jerks, or at the very least say "I don't talk to leftist reporters who will talk over what I am trying to say and then later edit out anything that might be dangerous to your cause. Take a hike, CNN."

Careful or we'll all end up on Eric Holder's enemies list. Signed, Anonymous in San Francisco.

She's just a CNN working girl. A pro. I'm guessing you can get a date with her, cheap.

There you right wing racist guys go again with your racist comment about "journalistic objectivity." I expect to see an apology to Jamie Foxx forthwith.

Another reason for watching The Fox News Channel. Their ladies are a whole lot more attractive, and need less time doing their hair and makeup. I'm not counting Great van Susteren in the group.

I would, but I'd have to watch CNN to find out who the sponsors are. That's just asking too much.

Don't feel too bad. Tom Brokaw used to be a charming newscaster on a local station I watched as a teenager in L.A. Look at what a pompous windbag he became. And don't forget, no matter how bad things get for other cities, San Francisco will always be there as the all-time champ (chump?),

The MSM is basically state run media now. They helped Obama get elected and they are covering up for him wherever he goes. Hence, his failed Euro trip where he got almost nothing in return for all his promises and apologies is called a huge triumph. And these protest are ignored or called a collection of crazy people.

Now you know, people, for a fact that the MSM is not working in your interests at all. They do not care about reality, only the agenda. A pox on all their houses.

Can't wait for the video Andrew. What a day! I had visions of news video of an indoor rally in Cali from yester-year – back when we still had a MSM grounded in journalism as a profession – The Prop 13 Jarvits hoopla. I earnestly pray we are enjoying as deeply profound an american movement in the making.

Of course the SINN (Seriously idiotic News Network) display of arrogance was hardly a shocker. I have a Creative suggestion for the South Park folks – or any other inclined wanna be's – how about digitally enhancing the above video – with a bit of 'commentary' by the babe in the fathers arms – via some of the renowned adolecent site gags South Park's legendary for.

AS DAD is shifting his babe in arms while fending off the offensive CNN doberman – babe makes a Cartmanesque political statement for his/her generation – by PUKING A RIVER OF GERBERS SPLIT PEA IN THE B*^#@&S FACE!!!!

I love this!

The MSM know how to cover the typical lefty protests — Code Pink gathers a dozen people to their cause — illegal immigration rallies — global warming, er, cooling rallies — but when the Right decides to protest? They're FREAKED OUT by it.

And scared.

"B-b-b-but, you guys are conservatives! Shouldn't you people be at work and making money to fund our entitlements?"

Dude, relax!
All that screaming, you're gonna get a aneurysm.
Your former enchanted showed up at my local rally, and they were madder than me! And I define attack speech around here. The local pinhead statist minion screamed all about no people of color being at the rally, as the CBS affiliate played tape of the nice black seriously bent former Obamaite lady in the background, a la "Baghdad Bob"!
I can see why you're all upset; the sharks all smell the blood, and you all pick now to flail around in the water shouting, "Look at us, we're in real trouble!!"

I'd call Ms Roesgen a media whore, but then I'd have to apologize to whores everywhere. The whores are merely peddling their flesh; Ms Roesgen is peddling the last shreds of her and CNN's integrity.

Brother, if you were at my rally here in Albuquerque…
its not fear…its total "all in" hysterical PANIC!
Albuquerque had 10,000 people lining BOTH sides of Montgomery for MILES…you can't get 10,000 voters together for anything around here, even with BOOZE…yet here were all these constituents everywhere; and not a Congressional Representative or Senator ANYWHERE to be seen…
The lib Mayor got shaky, called out the local gendarmes, who spent three hours standing around with the most curious look of befuddlement at all the nice, well behaved people, who kept asking them if they needed water, seats, shade, etc.
And who brings the vitriol? The extremely few Obama robos and teleprompter worshipers, who spent all their time in such boorish behavior the cops had several "talkings to" them about deportment.

Beware, though: The ACORN nuts are already firing up the Twinkie School Buses and kicking up their sign-ons by threatening their aid checks. Prepare to see the counter-protests jump off…they are going to have to counter this somehow, and quick.

"The right isn't known for protesting anything."

This is what I was telling my wife. Most people on the right don't go to protests because
a) it's not their style
b) they have to go to work

So, when you see a big group of right-leaning people marching on the sidewalks and holding signs, you must have really pissed them off.

Little lili billy won't go home. But you can't push billy 'round, billy won't go. Try telling everybody, but, oh, no. Little lili billy won't…go home.

I love that song. Hang around, billy.

The media doesn't wade into a sea of G20 anarchists the way they do a group of "right-wing extremist terrorists" because they're too cowardly. This video is the perfect example, especially when the news distorter throws it back to the studio gal who chucklingly agrees and dismisses the nationwide events. The Cowardly New Network will never roar.

Calling her a two bit hack is an insult to otherwise entertaining two bit hacks, she made Baghdad Bob look like Morrow.

What he said. ^

You seem fine to me. And I've been beaten up by better clowns than these.

Hey LTrain,

Where was your dissent during the 8 years of the Clinton administration when there was not even 30 consecutive days where a cruise missile was lighting up a hospital or an F-18 was not destroying a school because that is where Sadaam liked to keep radar arrays and missile launchers.

Or do you only oppose death and murder when someone has to go on the ground and deal with the enemy personally. W decided to end the conflict and takeSaddaam out. You evidently think it was OK to bomb Iraq for the rest of Saddam's family line would stay in power. By the by where was your protest of the American military action in Haiti. I guess an elected govrnment in Iraq is bad but a communist dictator in Haiti that is good. I think you are a hippiecrit.

As for your spending comments. Dude get serious. Your side has spent more than W's whole second term in four months. Get a clue.

Hey Lincoln is just still a controversial figure. That's all. I mean hey if she thought Lincoln was too wild for family TV. Lord knows what would have happened if the guy started quoting Ben Franklin.

Small Mercy there.

Amy, think of it this way: the Tea Parties were far larger than anyone really expected, so large that even CNN covered them – and in this case it totally backfired on them. Even Obama (well, his Wormwood, Gibbs) issued a statement in response. For the insatiably immodest "I-gotta-be-adored" rock star Obama, today had to hurt. The success is in the numbers, scale and exposure.

Hi Amy,

Ranting and Raving is exactly what this blog is for so feel free.

There is something we can do and the politicians cannot stop us from beginning the process. IT is called ammending the constitution. We need a speed limit on taxes. The Fair tax is a good idea but it won't really stop overtaxing. They will just raise the fair tax to higer and higher levels hoping that you do not realize the rise in prices comes from taxes.

I would recommend a limit to how much any one individual can be taxed. No more that 1/3 to the federal go vernemnt and that includes any tax including the 15.3 % everyone pays in social security tax. A similar limit for the local government. We can begin the petition process for this and pressure the politicians to accept it. And we can keep trying until we get it passed.

Just a thought.

Ahem do you think she has the stones for it. er …. nevermind I don't want to know.

yeah, so there you republipunks, yeah deficit spending, yeah, trillions……yeah and just for added emphasis or because I'm functionally illiterate I'm gonna capitalize the US CO in US Constitution. Yeah, so there…..

"LTrain….time to come in now"

"But, mom…."

Keep up the pressure, get more people involved alongside you, stand up to the tyrants, and they WILL move!

You didn't get the memo? Even I got the memo….
LOL!
Stay Frosty, Ken, there's more coming…

Was it really something other than hot chicks? Man, I gotta pay attention, or something. Giggity, giggity, goo..

In all seriousness, next tea party you attend, if you see a CNN camera or some CNN jerkweed with a mic looking for comments: Pretend they aren't there, just like you would at home.

This "reporter" seems more representitive of the likes that worked for Goebbels than a journalist in a free society.

And they wonder why their viewed as an apparatus of the state rather than a legitimate news source…

Very good point. A narcissist created in an Affirmative Action environment has personal problems when he is not adored by all the masses. As far as Gingrich…..who cares. Gingrich is pabulum.

Keep it up!!

I am not joking. Is there some sort of mailing list? Did someone start a Facebook group?

Isn't it about time Big Hollywood gave us some forums so that we could discuss things like organizing team parties without having to use the comments section of some random post?

I'm curious mr. cranky libtard? Has all this talk of tea bagging reminded you that it's been awhile since you were in a relationship? LOL…

I know I did!

Connie, I also recognized Susan Roesgen from WDSU Channel 6 in New Orleans from a few years back. I was so angry to see how she acted unprofessionally. It makes me wonder if she injected her bias in the local New Orleans news stories when she worked there. That kind of reporting scares me and it seems to be too common these days. It seems the Truth does not matter to people such as Ms Roesgen.

I would have been more shocked if the CNN reporter had been conducting an actual act of journalism. It should be no surprise to see this, and it's a good example of why Ted Turner is mad about his hijacked network. This tea party stuff is only the beginning, I fear. People who think they throw around history by name dropping Presidents like Lincoln and Reagan without a clear understanding of who they were or some specific context scare me. This means you, Barack Hussein Obama. Lincoln was a hugely partisan Republican–is this the context of how you are like him? You're a Democrat. It surely isn't the "Honest Abe" part…
The President isn't the problem. It's the losers in Congress who have simply been there too long. They could have signed away all their powers in the "stimulous bill" and because they didn't take the time to read it, wouldn't know. We need a new Congress, and we need to throw these dangerously inept incumbents out.

Yes the "State of Lincoln" (one of the 57 no doubt) is getting $50 Billion of the governments money. Why are you all worked up about taxes. They have nothing to do with each other. Man, you Neo-Con-warmonger-water-boarding-dead-constitution-homophobe-polluting-tea-wasting-extremist-familymen are stupid.

hey did anyone else notice Phil Spector's Barak Obama Rocks pin?

Just one point of clarification, remember that Lincoln only freed slaves held in states, or parts of states, in rebellion against the United States. He didn't end slavery throughout the entire country with that document.

Susan Roesgen would get flustered on a sunny day. She behaved like she was reporting from war-torn Iraq. The guy had a baby in his hands, for crying out loud. When she didn't get the answer she wanted, she got angry. No doubt she'll probably get promoted at CNN.
http://the100mostannoyingthings.blogspot.com/

Pathetic behavior like this is the reason Big Hollywood and Pajamas Media exist and will thrive. And only make us all better, Andrew. Thank God for new outlets like yours.

This is all wonderful stuff folks. A prime example of the effect of pushing back on these worthless leftist ba$tards. Like I’ve said their a mile wide and a millimeter thick and their agenda is now fully exposed. They’re screwing with the achievers in this country, or “messing in their own beds,” if you will. To put it in terms stupid leftist myrmidons can understand , tax payers. Everyone needs to follow up that impressive showing with an e-mail or a phone call to your representatives, senators, congressmen, etc. and say, “hell no.” Let’s keep that amazing fervor going and inform Washington who the boss is. Viva-la-revolution!

Look, the man is obviously white and obviously not an Obama supporter. Any sensible human being functioning as a reporter has ever right to react to a racist the way she did. We should all be proud of her….

(if you can't get the sarcasm in the comment, you should have…)

Officially the funniest thing i have heard in the last 24 hours.
Even the dem in cubicle next to me laughed.

CNN should be flooded with correspondence demanding that slag's resignation. Any organization that calls itself a news organization has no business employing a partisan shill like that woman.

I can't recall FOXNews sending people out to left wing protests and harassing them, can anyone else? And if so, imagine the liberal backlash afterwards……just disgusting…..

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She was scared by a guy in glasses holding a 2 year old.
I can't even imagine her reaction if you started to throw things at her.

Maybe if we brought paper mache giant heads we could have garned the media's respect?

If CNN had ANY integrity left after Cooper, they would fire this disgusting phony.

Yesterday before I ran out to my Tea Party, CNN was doing a story, and the promo said "Who is behind these 'Tea Parties? Is it REALLY a grassroots effort?"

CNN couldn't believe a bunch of people angry about the future of their country organized this — they thought some insidious GOP was pulling the strings … unreal.

I also am outraged and furious at the reporter's blatant disregard for the man's right to voice his opinion. If she had given him a chance, he might have said that he was not in favor of "Lincoln's state" getting the stimulus money that is NOT a stimulus for the economy but a back door for socialist programs. I agree, that woman should be fired, but she will probably be given a Pulitzer Prize for courageous reporting under supreme duress. Sheesh!
Also, I tried to find an e-mail address to CNN but could only find the blogs. I want to address THEM personally. Has anyone found that?

Also, can we please stop acting like FNC is not part of the MSM when they're the highest-rated cable news network in the nation? If that's not mainstream, what is?

the ironies abound. It;s amazing how many liberals knew what 'teabagging' meant- 4 continents and 37 countries later WE never heard of it…

I can almost smell the patchouli oil and BO….

What's the matter couldn't find a hemp shirt to match your purse?

Go back to the rest of your dirty feet people, the adults are talking….

… you have no intelligence to bring to the discussion. Thank you for proving the point about liberals – no thought, no intelligence, no logic and completely unable to form a coherent sentence or idea. Poor baby.

Let me finish that thought for you….

"I'd respond intelligently but…..I'm too busy being teabagged by my blow-up doll of Anderson Cooper…"

They also work on the iPod Touch.

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So…..

Someone feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, but did Susan Roesgen basically just cop to CNN being a left wing media mouthpiece? Because she said that they were anti-CNN and that it was a right wing protest. Kind of sounds like she's implying if you're right wing then you're against CNN, and the only reason that would be is if CNN was left wing.

Just sayin….

You're correct about Roesgen stating CNN"s left orientation…but in CNN's collective mind they are mainstream. Bernard Goldberg explained this phenomena in "Bias".

CNN is staffed by liberals who have been surrounded by like-minded people so long that they honestly think everyone should love the Dear Leader and all His programs. They do not realize there are a lot of people who disagree with CNN and its liberal slant.

When the MSM is confronted with evidence that a lot of Americans don't support the "progressive" viewpoint, CNN, NBC, et al do not see it as a difference of political opinion; they view things like the Tea Parties as heresy, and treat them accordingly.

And, yes, I agree with the poster who said Roesgen is angling for her own hour-long show on MSNBC.

Hear Hear!

ya got me there… I do love my blow up dolls.

With idiots like this woman, we don't have to whine about the liberal biased media anymore. She did more to prove it in that couple of minutes than we could have done in years. Thank you Susie!

Behold the Libtarde mind at work: shameless lie piled on shameless lie, coupled with smug junior high school derision.

No point addressing this farrago of fabrications, but at least let me respond to "coherent, honest budget;"

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

I don't think it's possible for you to.

I'm with you on that. The press will NEVER give a Republican the same amount of respect as they do with a Democrat. Look back at when the Republicans took over congress in '94. I used to get up and watch CSPAN and Gingrich and Daschle would have morning press conferences. The press would tear Gingrich up and press him with follow ups trying to screw him up (which never worked because reporters aren't that smart) and would never follow up with the same questions to Daschle. Newt even brought pictures for the dim press to visualize what he was talking about. But their eyes glazed over with the amount of knowledge that was being presented to them. That proved it to me then where they stood on the spectrum. Reagan knew this and went right past them. Republicans should come to the same realization and bypass the press.

Amy – Read the fair tax book before commenting on it please – That was a simplistic explanation give so people like you could understand it.

Keep reading your talking points. Maybe someday you'll be able to think for yourself. As a conservative, I always hope that you'll reach your true potential without government intervention.

The elitist media can't get their heads around this phenomenon because THEY didn't start it and didn't hype it. Now they have to cover it or look stupid. THEY don't have any figurehead to interview – no politician they can label and then attack. There is no easy narrative they can use to tell us who the good guys are and who are the bad guys. Poor reporter-ette has to wade into the unwashed and interview someone, he gets out three words and reporter-ette sees a flaw in his still incomplete sentance,. "What does Lincoln have to do with taxes?" she interrupts. Oh is this a debate? Guess so. Now reporter-ette interupts again. Obviously she has chosen one of the uninformed members of the crowd who doesn't know that he is getting $400 back from the givernment! ( I'm keeping that typo! The Givernment. Love it.) Anyway $400 must be a lot of money to this angry neanderthal. And why isn't he pleased that the State of Illinois is getting billions of Federal money?

I'm sure this shallow CNN nag was asking antagonistic questions to the others in the crowd trying to get a good "angry" soundbyte.

You noticed that too? Or when 5 Code Pink uglies show up for a protest, the press makes it sound like a serious turn in American opinion.

1,000 + people at tea party in our Midwest town. Never before felt such a kinship with our Founding Fathers. But also never before felt such a threat of takeover of/by our government.

Oh I dunno, how much does a teabag cost, and probably 99% of the people who tossed or mailed or did whatever with them already had them in their pantries. No cost to anyone there (and certainly not spending someone else's money).

It's interesting you know that much about the budget that's being presented when even the people who signed it don't know what's in it. Especially the earmarks that the government admits will not be trackable.

And people WERE complaining about the Bush spending (but you don't watch the actual NEWS station, so you can be forgiven for not knowing it). The problem that people have is the level of spending with little to no assurance of a return on it. Nobody is saying McCain wouldn't be doing the same thing – if he had been elected and tried doing the same level of spending Obama is, the result would be the same. The same people would be on the streets protesting. I don't want the next generations beholden to China, paying their entire lives to pay back Obama/Bush/congress outrageous spending.

Nobody's protesting having to pay taxes, there is real fear about what the government is getting us into.

It's funny too, that you provide a link to the Daily Show while criticizing Fox News. If that's where you get your information from, then it's understandable that you don't know what people are thinking and obviously don't care.

And you obviously consider yourself to be quite the wit. I'll bet you think you're great fun at parties.

Mmmmm, PIE!

Excellent comment, Franco.
And love your typo: givernment!

The reporter said the rally was anti-government and Anti-CNN. This was a huge slip on her part. Pull back the curtin and CNN is really GNN (Gov'ment News Network)
she ought to be fired for letting us peek in.

Just noting two news stories today:
1. Obama ignores tea parties.
2. White House orders name of Jesus covered while Obama speaks at Georgetown.

Plus an older story:
3. U.S. President bows to Saudi king.

Teabaggin! Teabaggin! Teabaggin!

"You oppose the stimulus plan, but then demand your equal share of government money."

- Demand our equal share of the government money? No we don't, I don't want any damn "government money" and you know why, because it's not the government's money in the first place, it's our money that the government goes and wastes. What they can't squeeze out of us they borrow from such friendly people as the PRC, what they can't borrow they print. Yeah that's worth your $400 that CNN Sally there was talking about, or your $16 bucks a week.

"You spend 8 years in power, take a surplus and throw it away," – 9/11 had something to do with the surplus being "thrown away," instead of insulting Republicans why don't you send a bill to Osama, I'm sure he'll be happy to address your concerns on this issue.

"start a needless war" – Which needless war would that be? Afghanistan or Iraq? You never know you could be one of those Code Pink morons that think we should have sent the FBI to get Bin Laden instead of the military so I have to ask. If you mean Iraq then you apparently think it's fine for a country to breach cease fires, shoot at our aircraft, kill their own citizens at will, pay for terrorist attacks in Israel, and kick nuclear inspectors out whenever they feel like it. I'm glad you're not my neighbor, you'd probably offer a V-8 and a dolphin free tuna sandwich to the guy robbing my house too.

"that our children's children will still be paying for," – Don't try to fool us, you don't have children or grandchildren, replacements for your blow up doll don't count. And no you're still not allowed to marry it. People who actually have living, non-imaginary, children are worried about paying for the deficit, you know the one that Obama has made greater in 3 months than Bush did in his 8 years.

"push through tax cuts for the wealthy" – Yes the wealthy got tax cuts, along with every other person in the country. But that's not good enough for you people, you want to stick it to 'the man' and tax 'rich people' even more, because that'd be fair. So where does 'rich' start, I've seen 5 different definitions of 'rich' from Obama and still no hard figures on the new tax code.

"and remove the checks and balances of our government and economy," – Since when is the government nationalizing businesses a check and/or balance of the economy?

"but then cry foul when a coherent, honest budget (that actually includes the money going to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan) is presented to you." – Coherent and honest? You can actually associate those words with anything that comes out of Congress right now? You're further off the deep end than I imagined. Under Bush the war was funded by supplemental bills not included in the regular budget, it wasn't hidden, it was separate, why was it separate? To keep money grubbing political hacks from attaching their pet projects to funding for the war.

What an inane little troll you are.

Hear! Hear!

Hey cvh! Nobody gives a $hit!

I think you just sold Robert Byrd on an iPhone. I don't know whether to congratulate you or just say doh really loudly.

we still cannot figure out why people who just would never abide by any thought process that eminates from this site continue to visit- particularly when it is to give a list of standard left wing DNC talking points… your rebuttal is, of course, accurate-
however they have no interest in exploring the dialogue. Is it a desire to control debate, stifle dissent, or waste their time because of not having a life? Would any of our heavy hitters wade into Daily Kos just to stir up a hornet's nest?

just asking…

Hey CD! Nobody gives a $hit!

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Go back into your hole like a good little commie

I went to the Sacramento Tea Party on the west side of the capitol and what a hoot that was. Took me an hour just to find a parking place – when I finally got there talk about a cross section – a grandmother with her granddaughter who wanted to pet my dog – Harley guys – when I saw one with a "Patriot Guard" patch on his jacket told him he was doing God's work for bringing some peace suffering families of loved ones at funerals –

Funniest guy was a guy in a beekeepers outfit (completely with net over hat) with sign saying "taxes are stinging me to death"

One thing that was painfully obvious at this rally – well, 2 things – crowd was well behaved and no garbage left on the ground.

He had me going until the link. Anyone who quotes Jon Stewart as the voice of reason, well… HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Also, I thought the R word was verboten now. Is it ok to use it again?

We have a lot of work ahead of us. The left is pissed because they think they shld be the only ones that protest. I cannot wait for July 4th! I hope CNN tries that crap again!

Four to six. Three makes a consipracy. Seven or more make up an extremist group.

Good to know! Thanks for the info.

heard it was low attendance & a sausage fest to boot.

I don't have enough patience to read Marx. I will give you credit. You are comedy relief.

I don't get it either, I don't mind debate, I do mind idiocy and that seems to be what we get from the left. But it's typical, they claim to be the big proponents of people's rights and yet they're the ones that immediately go Brownshirt as soon as someone they don't like shows up to speak. Look at what happened to Tancredo, which is just the most recent in a long string of free speech suppression by them.

They claim to want debate, but as soon as they could get it all they want to do is shut up, shut down, and turn away anyone that might give it to them. That's in the really real world, when it comes to internet trolls I think it's a combination of that, plus simply having no life.

Shameless. This video should be required viewing in schools. And as for that $400 – every American should be insulted.

How about a nice class action lawsuit for sexual harassment for MSNBC and CNN with their all day dirty joke t.bing….the innuendo, so clever, so cool, just like their hillbilly leader.

I say, let the media keep marginalizing the real people who participate in these Tea Parties. All they serve to do is steel the resolve of the people attending & lose more viewers. One thing about news & media, it is a trust business, your audience has to trust that you are being legit in reporting. Once you lose an audience member you NEVER get them back. The people who CNN, MSNBC, etc marginalize by their childish "teabagging" jokes & by their browbeating interviews of Tea Party attendees are people who will never be relying on CNN, MSNBC, etc for news again. Lost forever.

This video got my blood boiling much the same as most people here, but what is even more scary is that a so called Reporter from CNN doesn't even attempt to hide the obvious bias. We who frequent blog sites like this have learned to be sensitive to bias over time and we can see it where most Americans do not. However, I wonder what makes CNN feel that they no longer have to even cover it up anymore. The media correctly predicted and assissted an Obama Presidency, even while many of us including myself just couldn't believe that any person possessing a degree of common sense would actually vote for him. Well, we were wrong about that. So this actually makes me even more concerned because if CNN feels free enough to do this, it tells me that they feel that this is something they believe most Americans are going to be with them on.
Finally, while it is true that she is a hack, one thing that struck me most about this was when she first cut the man off and I believe that the point she was going to make is that "are you aware that 50 Bazillion (?) of this money is going to your own Home state? WHAT?! I have NO IDEA how that was supposed to thrill this guy or score any points! 50 bazillion dollars of illegally confiscated money from hard workers is going to be distributed to various causes completely without any accountability by corrupt bureaucrats, and of course NONE OF IT will benefit the tax payer whatsoever. This is truly scary stuff when the most basic and simple concepts are not understood by those in positions of power and even moreso by a majority of Americans.

"I confess!!!"

Ah… The Commentary Notnews Network and their comatose twinkie is not so surprising to me. They went to the same scholo of journalism as Dan Rather and Katie Couric at the Can't Be Sane network. Peas in the same pod. Sorta like Pod People…. Weird, strange and a good belly laugh.

I don't view CNN anyway so it's not a great big deal. I do think this article and blog is really great for pointing out their little charade though. I love Big Hollywood and Andrew has a hit in my book. ! Keep up the good work!

Yup. In a combat zone the punishment for self-deception is swift and very harsh.

Hey, Ltrain–what's the "L" stand for?–LOONEYTUNES?–'cause that's what you sound like with your incoherent, mean-spirited, hash of a rant…….hey, wait; you've gotta be a LIBTARD, now I get it. Just spray all the conservative names you can, then cover them with your EXTREMELY LAME humor; Billdo leilly? Are you putting me on? THAT'S supposed to be clever & hip? You must be the steadyer of Obamamoron's T.V. PROMPTER, a job I'm sure you would undertake with huge gravitas, 'cause he's 'THE ONE', right? Get some much-needed counseling, Ltrain, then get a (conservative) life, you loozer—-MARKRITE

Is it safe to say the only people sucking on Obama is CNN and their ilk?

they only have them when they log in to websites or carrying signs that call Bush and Conservatives names. Chances are good most libs of today would have ran at the sight of the British while true Patriots stood there and fired their weapons.

QUESTION (While admitting that I am so addicted to BH I am using the computer at my friend's eye Dr – waiting to take him home with dialuted pupils) – anywho, we all know that most of the MSM is biased and not even trying to feign objectivity – but in this age does it even matter anymore? Even before the Internet reached critical mass, I remember Reagan getting slimed day after day – and yet – he seemed to talk right over the MSM and reached the people.

Does anyone really care what CNN says anymore? Does it make a difference – other than angering us? I suppose a good argument could be made for their reaching "undecideds" – and the constant pounding of GW Bush for 7 years certainly didn't help him – how much uinfluence do you all think the MSM has any more?

They certainly resent talk radio -

Hey you know what? I SWEAR to you that in my immaturity, I am completely BIPARTISIAN.

If there was an organized labor union walk out over at the FUDGE PACKING PLANT…I would make fun of that too. And, really people please!!! WHO WOULDN'T?!?!

Hey you know what? I SWEAR to you that in my immaturity, I am completely BIPARTISIAN.If there was an organized labor union walk out over at the FUDGE PACKING PLANT…I would make fun of that too. And, really people please!!! WHO WOULDN'T?!?!—

That woman is not a professional TV journalist. She is a disgrace to the profession. She must be fired, tarred and feathered and be run out of town.

I was at the Chicago Tea Party. I didn't initially see the snit 'interviewing' the protester but I caught a small crowd gathering around something and could see a woman looking like she was really telling someone off. Then I heard chants of "go home CNN". When I saw the clip last night, I knew that's what it was about.

If I had been there when the know-nothing-know-it-all dared to tell us Illinoisans 'don't you know the state of Lincoln is getting $50 billion dollars from the stimulus', I would have said…

don't YOU know you're standing in the county with the highest sales tax in the nation? Don't YOU know our governor has just proposed the biggest tax increases in 40 yrs.? Don't YOU know our governor criticized the last governor, the one impeached and indicted, for running up the deficit ($11.6 billion) while promoting budget gimmicks that hid the real cost of programs? Don't YOU know the US Treasury is not gifting $50 billion to Illinois but billing the taxpayers?

BTW, I sent an email to CNN and suggested that the next time they send a reporter to Illinois, they should inform themselves about what is going on there and why people are fed-up so their reporters don't make such damn fools of themselves.

All of this pretend indignation about the "Teabagging" jokes are so transparent. Seriously.

If there is one thing I'm MORE convinced of than the fact that Obama is NOT the Manchurian Candidate… its this: IF there was an organized labor union walk-out over at the fudge packing plant, you can bet there'd be plenty of people here making fun of that. Come on, just admit it!

It still was a good speech and good ole honest Abe got around to it didn't he

Obama's new med plan will allow you to have a pill to clear that up though

I'm pro union and I also come from a union family (My grandfather was one of the founders). you get the prize for missing the point entirely.

i love the picture Andrew Breitbart used here… how old is that? vain much? that dough boy is at least 50 lbs more then that now. awesome, why not just use your Senior picture in high school? haha.

EXCELLENT, Madelyn!

Those that can't get a job at Media Matters or Moveon.org get one trolling for HuffPo and Kos.

And those who can't troll for HuffPo and Kos. become POTUS. . . (at least in 2008)

You can comment directly to Susan at:

susan.roesgen@turner.com

You are right – her career is over. We can no longer trust the press. Just turn off the TV since CNN isn't "suitable for family viewing"…I would never let my kids watch it unsupervised, frankly I prefer not to have it at all. Most of us are understanding of paying taxes for normal services like army, navy, federal court buildings, etc. For me, the tea party was really a "reckless spending" protest; I don't want Govt. debt to enslave my children and prevent them from being able to pay for essential services when they are adults. Congress needs to undo the fake stimulous!!

That's exactly why we've got to speak-up louder and more often! July 2nd just happens to be the 100th anniversary of the Constitutional amendment that gave Congress the power to tax income…what a perfect day for another tea party!

Thanks for the video and post Big Hollywood. Keep getting the TRUTH out!!

Gee if they;re all as sick as you say, you should feel right at home.

Good one dude, so sorry my finger didn't release from the shift button in time…still doesn't make your GED compare to my level of education…Sooooooorrrrrrrryyyyy

Bill, how many chins do you have? I'll bet waaaaay more than one….am I right?

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