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(UPDATED) Founding Bloggers Exclusive! Our Footage Of The CNN Chicago Tea Party Throwdown
April 16, 2009 | 166 Comments
UPDATE II: We have posted an in-depth video report which examines the Chicago Tea Party from the inside out. It includes the video CNN has forbidden us to show to you. Check it out.
UPDATE: Obviously we hit a nerve with CNN because they forced YouTube to pull the video down, along with all of the comments people posted. Some other YouTuber (who we do not know and are not affiliated with) grabbed the clip before YouTube yanked it. That clip is embedded below.
At today’s Tea Party protest in Chicago, CNN’s Susan Roesgen found herself in some hot water with an angry crowd when she became belligerent with a protester.
CNN shut the segment down quickly, with a few editorial insults toward the Tea Partiers thrown in for good measure.
“I think you get the general tenor of this. It’s anti-government, anti-CNN since this is highly promoted by the right-wing conservative network Fox.”
Founding Bloggers was on the scene, and we have footage of the schooling Susan Roesgen received from angry attendees after she signed off.
Below is the corpse of the clip we uploaded to YouTube, that CNN had yanked.
Previously:
BREAKING! Chicago Tax Day Tea Party Pictures!
FINAL UPDATE: Our original clip which CNN fraudulently forced YouTube to take down in a vain attempt to silence us, has been restored!! Click here to see the coverage CNN tried BUT FAILED to disappear.
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I’m the girl in the red fleece and the brown pants. “You’re trying to tell them it means we’re bad people!”
This woman is nuts. Reporter: “We looked at every sign that was in our field of view.” BS. That was in CNN’s field of view on the damn TV, so it’s bs that she did not see it.
And when she said, “I didn’t say this was about Republicans or Democrats.” She was SO FULL OF IT! She brings up the right-wing, conservative Fox News endorsements, not to mention the Obama Bashers, and she expects us to believe she didn’t want to make it about Rs or Ds??
I like your video, and I was there behind you. That guy standing there while the woman took Susan Roesgen to task spoke to her and the group as well. Did you get video of that. I really liked how he framed things. She was antagonistic with everyone and acted like she was listening, but you could tell she could not wait to get out of there! Mice problems my ass!
-Robin
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great job gang! Please send that vid to any blog that posted about that nutcase reporter.
a fantastic day our rally in Harrisburg PA
was wonderful. now lets get some Whiskey Rebellions going at the historic locations!
Thanks FB for all the work you do.
I was there and this woman didn’t come close to correctly reporting the event.
One angry guy may have ruined this for all of us. This is the image millions of people will have of our viewpoint. Nice work, buddy.
We conservatives are new at this protest business, but now we know. If you see an interview in the future of this type, approach the guy during the shooting and tell him he’s falling into a trap.
Great video. As hot of an item as this is becoming you should attempt to have this video played on national television, maybe Hannity or Oreilly. They have large audiences and through your efforts we can show what bias really is and how our protests were misrepresented in the MSM.
Thanks. Lets get this out there. It is the only way we can take our country back.
The problem is, as some understand, the MEDIA carries the Democrats party line; all of it in extreme detail. The media will NEVER give fair and balanced accounts of conservative gatherings or events.
The media will ALWAYS run the scam of FREEDOM of THE PRESS, (So they can tell ONLY what they want to tell. If you correct them, then it’s censorship or oppression. The libs love those two words – it makes them out to be the victim).
Until you get a balance in the world of Media, you are running up hill. The Dems continue to sit back and giggle.
You need to start holding these Media types to “responsible reporting”, make them LOSE their credibility for the distortions they broadcast.
CNN is just ridiculous. What a pity that the average CNN viewer will never see this video, because they believe all the lies that CNN is feeding them!
The lady, taking this so called-reporter on, did a great job.
I was standing in that crowd taking photographs, Susan from TASS, er CNN was a joke. She clearly had an agenda to make people attending that event look bad so she found the guy with a picture of Obama made up as Hitler and then interupted an interviewee with tax advice. What the? Taking tax advice from a journalist could lead to prison. Ms. Roesgen is also clearly not bright enough to understand either the link between taxation and freedom or the reality of the current fiscal situation.
I posted some thoughts and photos of the incident yesterday but I will embed your video and link to this page, thanks for the great follow-up video!
http://flyingdebris.blogspot.com/2009/04/acorn-didnt-need-to-attend-chicago-tea.html
My Coke Zero came out my nose when she said that the woman didn’t need to be antagonistic, but it was sooo worth it. The CNN reporter says that others don’t need to be antagonistic?? Kettle, this is pot. You’re black.
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Great Video. It clearly shows how biased this reporter is. She is a clear representation of CNN in general although MSNBC is probably worse.
All of you people are freaking out now that Democrats are in power, even saying that Reps are bad too. Where was this while Bush was in office? You people are as (or more) disingenuous as you claim CNN to be. When Bush was in office questioning the administration was “unpatriotic”. Republicans created the mess we are in, that Obama is trying to fix and you are all just pissed because you lost. Democrats and Liberals watched and cringed for 8 years while the right-wing shredded the constitution, broke US and international laws (see 4 supreme court judgements as evidence here) and gave away the store to corporations. Democrats certainly aren’t perfect, but I will take them everytime over the reich-wingnuts.
BTW the stimulus contained one of the biggest middle-class tax cuts in history, it is only those making over 250K a years who will pay more. So Republicans all voted against a huge tax cut, why are there no signs calling John Boehner the anti-christ? Oh, right I forgot IOKIYAR- “Its OK if your a Republican”.
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Wow.
Roesgen is such a blatant advocate, but more, she is miserable hypocrite.
One minute, twenty eight seconds …. as far as I got [I know, more follows. But revulsion is (and I haven't had breakfast yet/tyvm)].
MSM = More Sh*t (shoved in) Mouth
IDGE – What plane of reality do you exist on? If I recall correctly, it is Congress that makes the law that we peons must goosestep to not the president. Silly me, I thought Congress was “ruled” by the Democrats for the past few years. Let’s see here. I can’t remember all the cast of characters involved but I do recall Barney Frank and Maxine Waters assuring us that Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae were solvent and Bush and the GOP were unnecessarily calling for oversight. Guess you suffer from CDS. Oh, by the way, I am not a Republican. I am a proud Right-Wing Extremist.
Idge, you’re a dem talking point. Do you have the ability to think for yourself? Apparently not. Your need to see someone about your BDS, it’s taking over your ability to reason for yourself. Keep blaming BOOOOSHH and see where it gets you. You’d rather swallow more kool-aid than look at the facts not reported by the drive-by media. Keep drinking the kool-aid.
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We need to have sponsor letter writing parties–get together and write the sponsors of these biased networks and tell them we will not buy their products. If all the people who think CNN and MSNBC are mouthpieces of the Democratic Party and decided not only NOT to watch these networks but got together to write the sponsors, perhaps we could drive these networks out of business unless they changed their business models.
I have just finished my seventh season as an office manager for one of the two major tax preparation chains in the US. Back in ‘03,(my first season) I was a Democrat. Believed in the theory “Gov’t should take care of the people…” Fast forward—> Over the last 7 yrs, I have watched in sheer disbelief the ABUSES AND EXPECTATIONS OF THE CLASS WHO PAY NO INCOME TAXES, AVERAGING BETWEEN 2-6 W2′S PER YEAR, MAKE AROUND 15-18K, AND WALK FROM MY OFFICE WITH MID-TO-UPPER RANGE 4 FIGURE TAX REFUND CHECKS, while others who are outside of the above profile making around 40K p/y or more, are sweating whether or not the IRS is going to accept the monthly payment plan I just set up for them because they owe the US Treasury. Obama is NOT THE ANSWER. The REPUBLICAN party is NOT THE ANSWER. The DEMOCRATIC party is NOT THE ANSWER. So long as the current DC residing SENATORS & REPRESENTATIVES are making 6 figure salaries in their jobs as “representatives”, the circus will continue. I AM NOW INDEPENDENT of either political party.
P.S. It breaks my heart, and almost my spirit, to know that my boss, Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner, is a tax cheat. It eats me inside out that Senator Rangle, Chmn House Ways & Means Committee (The committee that WRITES THE RULES that make up the US Tax Code) fails to report on his tax returns (filed a couple years back) RENTAL PROPERTY INCOME. That’s tax basics 101, people. It’s the exact same thing as knowing red, blue and yellow are the traditional primary colors…
This Susan Roesgen is acting as a commentator, lambasting the TEA partiers rather than just reporting what is there. I was interviewed by the local news here at The Peoria TEA Party and they just asked “Why am I there?”, “Where did I hear about the TEA Party?” and “What do you hope this accomplishes”? And the news reporter actually let me answer his questions without interjecting his opinion or as this witch is doing, campaigning for Obama right there.
I think also Gateway Pundit has a compare and contrast of Susan Roesgen at an anti-Bush rally where Bush was portrayed as Hitler, but browbeats the TEA Party attendees for their signs.
CNN is the Commie News Network.
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Chester White, I for one am heartened to see that other people are angry with Government spending.
Our politicians need to hear from us. They need to know that we are serious and that we are angry with being spent into poverty.
We need to be angry enough to not let this go! If this is just a one time event the pols will not take it seriously and will continue to spend our nation into hopeless debt.
I’m 67 and never have been to a political rally, except this one was a must. I guess my my wife and myself are Fascists, racists and tax cheats.
Keep up the good work.
One thing that stands out to me is in all of the Tea Parties there were no Afro American to be seen! This is not a racial matter but don’t these people object to loosing their portion of their incomes. Is this a deal breaker only to whites? Does anyone have an answer for me? Great work Founding Bloggers! It’s a good thing you were there! We see that we can’t count on CNN!
Great work FB.com…this CNN hack is THE PERFECT example of media bias…you should hyperlink this video as a textbook example on wikipedia’s “Media Bias” section, a section that is in real need of concrete citations and examples.
Miss Roesgen’s inability to be a professional, set aside her personal feelings and simply report the news will probably get her noticed over at MSNBC…perhaps she can be Keith Olberman’s sidekick on “Countdown to No Ratings.”
@Carole
I’m black, and was at my town’s tea party. There were some other there too, although I wasn’t really trying to count the number.
only need 34% time for a 3rd party!
Thanks for posting this video. I was following the story and hoped that someone got “the rest of the story” on video.
“I guess my my wife and myself are Fascists, racists and tax cheats.”
Herb, that could qualify you both for Obama’s cabinet.
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Great work. This is exactly what we need to do, every time. Bring your cameras and follow the news crews. Watch the watchers.
These teabaggers are idiots.
Nasty folks, too.
Roesgen’s floor show was another benefit to come out of the tea parties. If there was ever ANY doubt that CNN is biased liberal mouthpiece, that doubt is completely gone. CNN is a national joke to anyone with a brain.
what a hatchet job. journalism is dead.
Excellent reporting! CNN and others could take lessons.
Quote”John Doe (nom-de-guerre) on April 16, 2009 11:41 am ”
Thanks for your perspective on the tax system.
People need to understand that these ‘refunds’ are nothing more than another form of WELFARE.
The Earned Income Credit, child tax credit, etc… is a WELFARE PAYMENT.
Paying 0$ in taxes all year long does not amount to a refund in those 0$.
This is all INSANE.
But people like handouts. It’s evidently easier for people to give up their freedom for a handout rather than work for their freedom & keep it.
What a condescending and bitter shrew this Roesgen lady is. I like the fact that she has a bad dye job on her hair. It does not make her look particularly cool and her tightly wound manner and pinched features while she treats Middle America like a calvacade of evil is very amusing to watch. I think people like her are womderfully smug while being amazingly stupid.
It is CNN.
The leading propaganda outlet for the administration and the DNC. What did you expect? The reporter is a known fool, her past conduct and comments have shown her lack of ethics. She has consumed the DNC Koolaid and facts mean nothing to her.
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This is fantastic! Great work Founding Bloggers. This video has to go viral bigtime so the whole world can see what clowns these people are.
Carol, yes in nevada at the Park on Russel Road. all citizens were represented., Hispanics, Blacks,whites, asians, Dems (a few union members).
IDGE – What was your AGI?
Did you send a check in yesterday or get a refund?
Did you get a homestead or mortgage exemption?
Seriously…you filed a 1040EZ, right?
Is this not an American right? Is CNN serious? Are all these people on the Dept.of Homeland Security Risk Assessment as terrorist now?
I’m proud of all of you!
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CNN stands for “Clinton News Network”. They are a shill for the Obama Administration.
How can CNN claim that people upset at how their tax dollars are being wasted are “anti-government”? If you’re mad that bananas cost $.59/lb, does that make you anti-food? If you’re upset that gas is over $2/gallon, does that make you anti-transportation?
No! It makes you a good and smart consumer. We SHOULD give a damn at how Congress spends our money. We are the stockholders of the Country, and we need to elect a new Board of Directors!
CNN Reporter Gets Taken To Task by Chicago Tea Party Crowd…
An agenda-driven, cocky CNN reporter gets called out by Chicagoans. (via Hot Air and Founding Bloggers, who made the video)
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Who was the old man? He looked like some kind of ringer to me, screwing the interview even more than the reporter did.
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There is a principle as old as the world, that can be summed up in this simple sentance:
“You can only have JUST SO MANY FLEAS ON THE DOG.”
An organism can support -some- parasites. When the population gets too large, the organism gets sick and eventually will DIE.
In this last election, the parasites just took over.
There is a principle as old as the world, that can be summed up in this simple sentence:
“You can only have only just so many fleas on the dog.”
An organism can support -some- parasites.
When the population gets too large though, the organism gets sick and eventually will DIE.
Guess what? The parasites just took control…
In this last election, the parasites just took over.
Whups. Sorry for the double post..
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When will these quasi-journalists at CNN,NBC,ABC and CBS learn that, we don’t want their ideologies, we just want them to do their job, and that is to tell us the news.
good job guys!
I’ve linked to your post from Teaparty Watch on Jeremiah Films site.
Keep up the good work.
I was so disturbed by this video and CNNs Anderson Cooper for making fun of the protesters and “teabagging.” I am trying to start a BOYCOTT of CNN advertisers. I would like to start with Anderson Cooper’s show and I plan to record his show tonight and write down every advertiser and then I am sending the following letter. Please join me in this boycott. Here is the letter I am sending:
Dear….
This is to inform you that I will be boycotting your company. I cannot spend my dollars on a product that is advertised on Anderson Cooper’s show. Anderson Cooper shows a lack of integrity and professionalism. Across the country, hundreds of thousands of American citizens showed up at tea parties to protest wasteful government spending. Instead of actually reporting on the events, Anderson Cooper thinks it is appropriate to use the term “teabagging”, which is also a sex act, and relate it to the people who are protesting. In one segment, he states: “I don’t know how you can talk when you are teabagging.”
We are everyday American citizens with families and concerns about where our government is taking us. We are concerned about the size of government and the debt we are incurring. We do not think this is a laughing matter. We are tired of how the media does not do their job anymore. CNN has one of the lowest cable news ratings. In these down economic times, I am careful where I spend my money and it will not go to anyone who advertises on this station, especially during Anderson Cooper’s show.
It’s a shame the first guy got so frustrated that he also got so angry. I can understand how he felt, however, when he realized this reporter was trying to make him look stupid. He was completely unprepared and didn’t know how to react to her tactics, which isn’t surprising since most of the protesters are first-timers.
It’s telling how CNN never showed any footage after the first section. Too many signs and people talking that contradicted the image they wanted to portray.
I am sick and tried of the biased network CNN. CNN is just jealous of Fox News because FOX has higher ratings. I am 18 years old and my future and my children’s future is going downhill because of Congress and President Obama. Obama and Congress is stealing my money and when I have kids their money too. I hope these tea parties last till the government gets rid of taxes and listens to the American people.
Exactly how was the guy holding the kid doing anything other than speaking his mind? He is correct in what he says.
The funny thing is is that CNN is wondering “why do our rating suck”?
I have a plan to pay for the things liberals want: all Obama supporters and those on the left drinking the Kool-aid send all their tax refunds back to the govt. Since they like paying taxes, they wouldn’t mind forking over their refunds, right? I know so many people who tell me how they love Obama but are wondering how they can increase their tax refunds. Let the govt keep it so they can provide those wonderful govt services being demanded by the left.
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I can’t believe that women from CNN I mean really do they really want to go out of business. I know that across the board people are mad at the wastfull spending from our gov. officials and the lady that was at the rally was 100% correct it wasn’t just Republicans, I am an independent and I was at a rally in San Diego (It was great). I think that next we need to just fire all of Congress and the Senate all the way just so they can realize that we are the ones in charge. Even if they aren’t that bad or didn’t vote for the spendulas package, I mean really they can run again. It is just that they all think that there job is always going to be there and they can do whatever they want to and we will still vote them in. I think that Dems, Republicans and all of the citizens of the USA should show every last one of them who is boss.
Really what do they think we are stupid the moneys they are spending has to be paid back. When I don’t have money I sure don’t go out and borrow so that I can have everything that comes in front of me. I mean to find out what causes a pig to smell (really).
LETS GET RID OF ALL OF THE SO THEY KNOW WHO IS BOSS.
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Could it be that Mizz Whatser-hoozits has narcissistic personality disorder with a heavy coating of passive aggressive behavior ??
Has CNN been trolling for cheap staff in these budget weary day ?
She made herself the story. But the kool-aid slurpers will defend her to the death.
Hi guys! Great turnout in Erie, PA, 500 souls with tons of banners, signs and inside a brewery/train station! Erie Times-News did an objective news cover of the tea party, which was a relief for me.
I wanted to bring up a major tip here for this blog and others to fetch; “Norm” the gentleman that she interviewed, called in to Mark Levin’s show tonight. He was not irate; he was baiting her on purpose on the Lincoln remark, he stated, because he knew that topic would flip her over. He knows that Obama is being portrayed as a Lincoln, which is not the case. To make the story short, he KNEW what he was doing.
He said he knows that nationalized healthcare won’t work b/c he works at a hospital and sees for himself the shortcomings of Medicare. My DH said that hospitals would be run like our DMV’s.
Mark Levin could not be more happier and more proud of him, and promised him his book, signed personally by him.
If anybody gets the audio clip of the phone conversation from the Levin Show, it is a must to listen to, because it brings to full circle this CIRCUS.
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I didn’t go to any Tea Party protests, but I would have if I could have.
I had to work that day. Fifteen hours. I am a healthcare worker, so I am really a target for the obama syndicate.
I saw a funny bumper sticker that said something like “millions of people attended Obama’s inauguration. Only nineteen missed work”.
I would bet you that the turnout would have been much greater had not the taxpayers had to work long hours to pay their taxes as I do.
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Awesome: Chicago tea partiers confront CNN hack after hit piece; Update: Hack did puff piece on lefty protests in January
http://hotair.com/archives/2009/04/16/awesome-chicago-tea-partiers-confront-cnn-hack-after-hit-piece/
What CNN Didn’t Show of Roesgen’s Chicago Tea Party Interviews
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2009/04/16/what-cnn-didnt-show-roesgens-chicago-tea-party-interviews
Standing up to a CNN clown
http://michellemalkin.com/2009/04/16/standing-up-to-a-cnn-clown/
Susan Roesgen: Fox News Regular
http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser/cnn/susan_roesgen_fox_news_regular_114204.asp
This is no longer about Dem and Rep!! The government in general is using us like puppets.. Dem and Rep alike has done this to us and the American people are too blinded by the act that they are performing that they don’t see it!This is the time to come together as a nation and fight for our right to be free and not have our every move controled by a government that is only interest in making their pockets fuller!! This New World Order will be the death of everything that we hold dear! All over the world people fight to come to America and become part of us because they know we are the best place for oppurtunity and advancement.. What the government wants to do is take that all away! Mark my words.. We will be so much worse off if Obama and the gov succeeds in their plans.. you’ll be wishing we could come atleast back to this time before everything TRUELY calapsed!
So all you people that are complaining about taxes and you wanted to voice your opinion.
Great.. now how do you propose to solve the situation we are in now?
Yes you can get rid of all politician etc.. but what next?
What concrete solutions do you propose or are you just complaining?
To the above complaining, courage and action are what founded this great nation. The solutions are simple; throw the bums out and start a political party that really belongs to and listens the people; not a bunch lobbyists. Introduce a FAIR flat rate tax; term limits on congress, the Senate and the Supreme Court Judges. Most of these officials started out with high ideals and high hopes but were corrupted by the system, the lobbyists and the career politicians. “Power corrupts and absolute Power corrupts absolutley.” Thomas Jefferson said, ‘no one should make a career of politics’; the founding fathers meant we should have a government of rotating officials composed of everyday citizens. And don’t cry ‘but they (the citizens don’t have the experience’); our founding fathers weren’t experienced in governing either and they did a great job. Much better than our current crop of corrupt politicians.
I am an independent that has voted for both parties at one time or another; I wanted who ever I thought would do the best for our country. If this makes me a right wing extremist; so be it
Well there are alternatives to the main two parties but I wonder how many of the above have voted for them?
At every election people have the power to change the system but they choose not to.
How is sympathy/understanding expected, when they feed the very system that they complain about?
In reality most people are too scared to vote for an independent, so its not really a solution.
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susan roesgen is an ignorant woman she and her studeo counterpart are left wing fanatics that are responsible for calling vets terrorist. so her call the tea party a rightwing conservative fox network i never say any from fox only a stupid socialistic female who was on the most socialistic and communistic news network (cnn). this reporter makes my glad i gave up the democratic party and became a CONSTITUIONALIST i am a vet and i believe in the Constitution and the bill of rights and the decleration of independance. does any one else? i know that susan roesgen does not!!!!!!
If this was two years ago, all you’d be hearing on Fox News would be,
“Why do these people hate America?”
“Why do they want the terrorists to win?”
“How can you question the President about anything when we have troops overseas?”
Now Fox has become the biggest cheerleader of this.
I have no problem with the protesting, but with the hypocrisy of Fox and it’s coverage.
Henceforth from April 15, 2009, let it be know that CNN is no longer a news media and cannot be trusted or counted on. CNN is a disgrace to free press.
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I think we ALL agree that Susan Roesgen’s behavior was unacceptable and she should be fired! Now lets ALL do something about it. Call CNN and make a complaint. The number is 404-827-2600. I called to complain and also told them I would be contacting all their sponsors and tell them I will not do business with them. Lets hit them where it hurts-their pockets!
“I didn’t go to any Tea Party protests, but I would have if I could have.
I had to work that day. Fifteen hours. I am a healthcare worker, so I am really a target for the obama syndicate.
I saw a funny bumper sticker that said something like “millions of people attended Obama’s inauguration. Only nineteen missed work”.
I would bet you that the turnout would have been much greater had not the taxpayers had to work long hours to pay their taxes as I do.”
God bless ya, Jim. I know hundereds of others that were at the TEA parties share your sentiments. True, if like the moonbats we did not work for a living, there might have been 10 times the folks showing up. Me, I requested the day off work over a month ago and was glad to get it.
Just take time out of your busy schedule to vote these bastards out of office come November who have enabled Obamunism to bring America to her knees.
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Great site! Even more entertaining than Fox Forum!
Reporter got hammered by fools spouting nothing, and getting mad when she didn’t put more anti-rants in their mouths. Dude, you are carrying a sign that says the pres. is a facist. What does that mean? Oooohhh, ambush journalism! That was in the first part of this clip. What’s it all about? Big government, taking our future, huge taxes! Ok, what that have to do with higher taxes? Did you know about the current tax cut? That doesn’t matter, big government, taking out future, huge taxes! Repeat!
Agreed Mike D.
A platform was provided to argue the case and there was nothing. The guy couldn’t explain why he thought the President was fascist apart from ‘Oh he just is’. Huh? Is that supposed to convince me? This make me think that most of the people who are holding signs don’t truly understand what they are saying.
Has everyone forgot that the mess were in was due to the last eight years?
I was brought up to not critise if I couldn’t suggest a better way. Well I haven’t heard nobody actually give a solution to the problem we are facing today.
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People need to write the sponsors of MSNBC (LIKE GE) and not only tell them you have purchased their products in the past show them and when you buy new buy somewhere else that does not support the CNN’s and MSNBC’s that is where you will make change in their pocket book when you turn them off and boycott their sponsors……and prove you have boycotted them by buying elsewhere. Conservatives notoriously are the NUMBER ONE purchasers of American made products if their companies support the CNN and MSNBC liberalism of America and the redistribution of money and helping foriegn intersts over American then why? Boycott means more to these liberal execs and chic reporters in their penthouses than all the indignant letters and emails in the world (although they help!).
Just so everyone on the site knows, the video posted on youtube has been taken down due to a claim by CNN.
Maybe you should edit out that first part so they can’t do that again.
I had been regularly commenting on it until about ten minutes ago when it got stripped. The comment total had just about hit 3k, not bad for only being posted about 24 hours ago.
I’d like to see this, but YouTube has made the video unavailable:
“This video is no longer available due to a copyright claim by Cable News Network, Inc.. ”
Methinks someone doesn’t want their reporter exposed for the kind of person she is.
Video has been removed by CNN’s claim of copyright violation. :(
Don’t know if you’ve noticed, but CNN had Youtube remove the video, citing “copyright violations.” Any chance you could rehost it?
Too bad the clip is gone. I didn’t realize CNN shot it; I thought it was someone here.
If CNN didn’t shoot it, how did it infringe their copyright? Are they trying to protect their dumb interviewer?
The video is gone because of a copyright claim by CNN?
Pierre
CNN just pulled this video due to copyright.
bastages
A note about my previous comment:
A quick Youtube search for “CNN” reveals about 88,000 clips that have not been removed for the aforementioned “copyright violations.”
The video is no longer playing. Can you cut the CNN clip out and just have the “aftermath” that you filmed? I’m glad I saw it before CNN sabotaged it, but I wanted to share with friends.
After 200,000 views, it’s taken down due to copyright issues!!! Let’s fight this…put it up somewhere else!!! THEY’RE TRYING TO SILENCE US YET AGAIN!
It wasn’t shot by CNN was it? Are they making a claim on the basis of the video containing a CNN on air personality?
Pierre
If this is a video recorded by some founding blogger guys and not recorded by CNN’s camera crew how could anyone (presumably CNN) claim copyright on material they had no part in recording. It is obscene that people with no affiliation or copyright ownership of this material can make a fraudulent copyright claim to have the material removed and in effect censored. Unless the Founding Bloggers have lied in claiming this material as their own recording, I would encourage them to contact you tube regarding this video’s removal, make claim to their ownership rights to this video as the original recorders of said footage, and demand the video be returned to public viewing as well as the original request to remove the video using a fraudulent copyright claim. If CNN is indeed behind the claim and the claim is false, perhaps an official complaint to an appropriate entity for fraudulent claims and a civil lawsuit could make them think twice before pulling a stunt like this again.
Saw the 1:28 piece posted elsewhere, its still on youtube so CNN has no copyright issue with a video of their reporter lecturing some protester. The video filmed by someone else which shows one of CNN’s precious reporters being criticized? That they have copyright issues with.
I am not surprised at the CNN reporter. CNN is incapable of listening to anything that contradicts their Washington butt sucking views! I attended the Moscow Idaho tea party and met people from all walks of life and yes some of them were democrats that want cogress out of their wallets! We the people of these United States are fed up with spending and scared to death about what is happening to our economy. We have every right to speak our opinion in this country and we should expect respect from the media. When she said this was not good family viewing I was ill. Our families are being directly effected by the current spending spree in Washington, and families need to view! I will never again watch CNN, MSNBC, NBC, or ABC for any kind of news, I now see first hand how twisted they truly are!
Good job holding CNN’s feet to the fire. This video was reported in our Broomfield 912 group after we went to the Tea Party in Denver. I watched the view count climb from 20,000 to 152,000 in a couple days. I’ve seen this reported on Hannity, and now O’Reilly. UNFORTUNATELY, YouTube has now pulled the video because of copyright claims by Cable News Network. When the media becomes the story, can they still claim a copyright on their own idiotic reporting? See if you can put it back up. We’ll download it and send it all over the internet. You guys rock!
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Western journalism is becoming a real shame…
But we are living the same thing here in Québec (Canada).
If you think that what you earn should be entirely yours, you’re a right-wing and fascist extremist. And they will tell that your actions and your thoughts are inspired by right-wing party.
It’s the same thing if you think that politicians are using the power of the State to force people to follow their example of what is moral and what is not with laws to criminalize what you are if you don’t follow the model.
You guys have to get this up on BitTorrent. Let it go viral!!! The more CNN tries to squelch it, the more people will spread it. Get a tracker up and tell us where it’s at, and we’ll get it spreading! Post it at the912project.com, and you’ll access to over 500,000 users in no time. :)
Great job on this video! Can you post the raw footage to get around the CR issue? They probably had it pulled because of the mixed in CNN footage.
Where can I find this video now that its been pulled by CNN, every site is linking to the youtube video. Heck, I’ll donate some bandwidth to host it even.
Notice that the dozens of You Tubers with the orginal CNN video haven’t been shut down.
I am sure they were ALL given permission from CNN to post that clip. /sarc
Just edit out CNN’s original footage, give your own coverage a snazzy title, and post it as a “Video Response” to all the CNN-approved copies of the as-aired clip currently hosted on Youtube. They won’t be able to touch you.
The video and also a back up link to Founding Bloggers can be found on http://antimullah.com – permalink:
http://noiri.blogspot.com/2009/04/cnn-communazinetwork-anti-citizen.html
as part of an article on Obama and tea parties.
I thought that a REPORTER was supposed to REPORT the news, not interpret it. I thought that a reporter wasn’t supposed to serve as a spokesperson and apologist for the current administration.
She tells a man out of work that his state is going to get 50 Billion Dollars — as though he should jump for joy. THAT’S TAXPAYER DOLLARS. HARD-EARNED. It’s not money privately provided by Congress and Company. NO. It’s OUR money. Or rather — it’s backed by the promise of our labor — and the labor of our children and grandchildren.
It is NOT her job as a so-called reporter to ARGUE WITH THE MAN. It’s her job to LET HIM SPEAK. Not speak for Congress herself. Not speak for Leftist Idealogues herself.
I remember a textbook I had to read to keep my teacher’s certificate. I kid you not. The book informed me that my principle responsibility in the classroom was NOT TEACHING MY AREA OF EXPERTISE — NO, NO, NO! My principle responsibility was — and I quote — “SOCIAL ENGINEERING.” I threw the book across my little apartment living room. It was a terrible wake-up call to me.
Like so many, I have realized that our American Republic is in serious jeopardy.
Make no mistake.
SOCIALISTS DO NOT HATE MONEY. In fact, they love to spend other people’s money. In fact, socialists love power — as well as money.
As those of us who gathered at Tea Parties across this land — as well as many who couldn’t be there, but were there in Spirit — this movement is not about Democrats or Republicans. It’s all about the Constitution, the negative impact of Big Government on societies past and present, and the derisive disregard by our so-called “representatives” of most of us who pay taxes.
As for calling Obama a fascist, well, Susan, check your history. Fascists were quite popular in the 20s and 30s. The first fascist of the 20th Century — and Mussolini’s idol — was Woodrow Wilson. Check out the excesses of his administration.
Mussolini was well-liked for years, even here in the US. Why??? Because he put in place social programs “for the people.”
Only one problem. They love their power more than they love “the little people,” the ones too ignorant to agree with everything they do and say, the ones too ignorant to raise their own children (better let the State do it, says Hillary), the ones too ignorant to know what’s best for them, for their children, for their future.
They love power more than anything.
Fascists always are on the “left,” as are communists, national socialists, etc. And, sooner or later, they run out of other people’s money (with apologies to Ms. Thatcher).
There is a revolt going on right now, Susan, and you can’t even smell it, can you? We’re FED up, my dear.My husband, after 22 years in the media, finds it difficult to believe that even CNN would put up with such drivel and sophomoric “reportage.”
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IDGE, I agree. Bush and the Rs did contribute to the dismantling of our constitutional republic. But you say we conservatives are hypocrites for not protesting then, primarily because we wanted Bush to have strong domestic support while waging a difficult foreign war. I can understand your confusion, but you must realize it was a difficult paradox for us. Many of us, myself included, and many of the conservative talking heads, did profoundly disagree with Bush, and openly said so. I recognized his problem with the constitution during the McCain-Feingold debacle.
But there were two problems. First, most people’s image of the right comes to them from a false stereotype created by the propaganda machine of the left. If you didn’t listen consistently and objectively to conservatives using their own voice, you never heard about the internal conflict Bush was creating within the right. We liked his pro-life moves, we liked a strong national defense, and we liked free-market initiatives when he came up with them, because we could correlate these to our constitutional values. However, actions he took which blatantly conflicted with the constitution, such as the manner in which he started the war, McCain-Feingold, and immigration Amnesty, were causing substantial turmoil among us.
Nevertheless, the terrorist constituency overseas was watching, so what could we do, discredit our own president while he tried, with some effectiveness, to defuse a mortal threat to our safety? As long as the war was credible, this had a paralyzing effect on constitutional conservatives. We were getting seriously mixed signals, and did not want to endanger the success of our mission in Iraq by pulling down the political pants of our president in the middle of a war. That is to give aid and comfort to America’s enemies. Not good.
To compound the problem, genuine, knowledgeable constitutionalists were too few in number to make any kind of effective protest, and the rest of the conservative community was (and remains) as unskilled in the technicalities of constitutional law as the rank and file left. What has activated the protests, finally, is what I will call the “clear and present danger” syndrome. The constitutional and human negatives of the war did not present an immediate threat to the vast majority of work-a-day Americans. We could watch it on TV and root for a winner, us. The constitutional values trashed by McCain-Feingold got people stirred up who had a clear and immediate stake in the loss of free speech rights, but most of the rest of us could easily ignore the increased political silence in the days just before an election.
But when a unified Democratic Congress rubberstamped the most astounding increase of national debt ever, when it became obvious that whatever tax relief might be offered in the short term would be swept away by a tsunami of cost of living increases and the hyperinflation that inevitably must follow such massive deficit spending, when it quickly became obvious that Team Obama’s program would have the near-term effect of converting us from a free-enterprise system to a system of nationalized, centrally planned, socialized everything, people got it. It was clear, easy to grasp, and presented an immediate danger to the well-being of every American parent, child, and grandchild. Now it’s about all of us, so now we all care. That’s not a bad thing. That’s a good thing.
BTW, it is about taxes, because that’s precisely what deficit spending is, taxation through deliberate currency devaluation. The “under 250K” gimmick is a shell game for the dull-witted, designed to trick middle and lower class Americans into thinking they are safe. It’s just those evil, undeserving rich people who are going to be hit. Well, first of all, my ethical system informs me that a person is entitled to the fruits of his labor, so it is immoral to compel the false equality of socialism. It is a form of theft. Second, the reason this Tea party event is intimidating to Team Obama is not because they are afraid of a bunch of peaceful, middle-class ant-tax cranks, but because it signals an awakening, a realization of what the con is really about. Without an ignorant audience, he will find it much tougher to sell his snake oil.
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The Woman in the video has a response here.
I am a Chritian talk show host and I had journalism classes and training in school for two years. I can say with out any reservations that what this CNN reporter displayed was an example of poor journalism. She let her emotions and bias overwhelm the “story.” That is a big no-no. If she was doing an opinion based talk show, that might have been a little different. However, she was a field reporter covering an event. I must say that I’m not surprised though. I watch CNN with some regularity as well as MSNBC and I can tell you that they are hiring journalists who posses poor training and technique. Why? The only conclusion I can come up with is that they have shifted from news delivery to propaganda and consequently those principles of proper journalism are irrelevant. They want sound-bites not facts or truth; drama rather than reality. They are news organizations in name only, not in practice. “Cable Not News” perhaps?
A general distrust of one’s own government is the true food of patriotism. A blind trust in the media is the drink of fools.
Hello, This is Fearblocke on youtube I hope your not mad I yanked your video yesterday before CNN Censored you. It was just to much of what we needed to prove the Myth of the left – the tea partys were Republican and not Dem’s….. when it was both in my town and all across the country were alot of Angry Dem’s attending to. Mad as hell ;)
You guys are amazing! Thank you for reporting “THE TRUTH”.
I left the video in tact as the origenal.
Mark
http://www.theidolworld.com
Interesting but I do have to wonder where these protesters were when Bush was in office increasing the defense budget and wasting taxpayers money on the Orwellian War on Terrorism. This was certainly just as much if not more of an abuse of executive and federal power so where were the teabaggers then? Something looks very suspicious about this inconsistency to the general public and despite claims that it isn’t about the two parties, that’s why it is reported this way. Had the protesters been out protesting the Iraq War and how it wasted taxpayer money and increased fed power then you wouldn’t have reporting like this. Although the CNN reporter is clearly terrible and the teabagger protests are a good thing but I’m just saying there needs to be the same protests when Republicans wastefully increase the defense budget for half-assed wars. Without those efforts too the message will always seem slanted and dishonest to a lot of people.
RE: Carole Sluis on April 16, 2009 12:21 pm
“One thing that stands out to me is in all of the Tea Parties there were no Afro American to be seen! …”
One black lady walked past me at the Denver Tea Party and asked, “What’s this protest about?” I answered, “The government and its focus on spending, spending, and more spending.” She looked at me blankly, and I reminded her “Government gets its money from taxpayers.” She looked surprised and agreed, “That’s right” and walked away saying “Government gets its money from taxpayers”.
So, maybe we added One More Who Finally Understands!!!!
Anderson Cooper deserves a smug ass whooping. For him to be fired is letting him off easy.
But he is zeroing in on the idiots that listen to his stupid show. These clowns are the same ones who trash Fox equipment, vandalize republican headquarters and all that happy horsesheet.
But, I gotta admit, one poster above had a good point and was bashed with totally irrelevant arguements. If there were any protests during Bush’s watch, the were REGULARLY accused of being unpatriotic. Protests are what this country is about. Even when its a bunch of “lets talk it out” pantywaists. They may be wrong, but its their RIGHT to be wrong.
CNN only pulled the video of the CNN footage claiming copyright. The video containing the CNN footage plus the Founding Bloggers material is substantially different from the the solely CNN clip.
CNN was focused on the protesters while the FB story focus was the CNN reporter and her after-action interaction with the protesters. In that way, FBs use of the CNN footage would constitute fair usage and is not subject to copyright infringement.
Besides, the original CNN clip is still available at less frequented pages.
FYI, I have posted about CNN’s copyright claim here:
http://copyrightsandcampaigns.blogspot.com/2009/04/cnn-makes-copyright-claim-on-video.html
Wonder when we’ll see Susan on the air again? CNN is 6 feet down already, but they keep digging deeper.
I don’t understand how CNN can claim copyright on video YOU shot?? That sounds like a story to me!
Can anyone tell me how to “grab a clip” off of YouTube?
Old CNN is dead.
The CNN we’re seeing on TV is a zombie.
This report, Roesgen, is a zombie.
JOURNALISM IS DEAD IN AMERICA.
WELCOME TO GESTAPO AMERICA.
HAIL TO OBAMA, THE KING OF CNN, NBC, ABC, CBS, PBS, THE BLACKS, THE JEWS, THE PRO-ABORTION CATHOLICS, THE GAY LOVERS, THE TEABAGGERS INCLUDING ANDERSON COOPER, …., AND OF COURSE, HIS FAITHFUL SERVANTS, UAW, SEIU, AFL, CIO, WFC, ACORN, CAIR, ACLU, MOVEON, CODEPINK, DSA, CPUSA, … BIG BANKS, FREDDIE/FANNIE MAE LOBBYISTS…. AND LAST BUT THE GREATEST… GEORGE SOROS AND HUFFINGTON.
OR SHOULD I SAY, OLD AMERICA IS DEAD. COMMUNIST AMERICA IS THE THING OF THE FUTURE.
MAY LUCIFER, THE GOD OF ALINSKY, PROTECT OBAMA AND NOT ALLOW HIM TO BE BETRAYED BY HIS PALS: HAMAS, IRAN, CHAVEZ, PUTIN AND CASTRO.
The reporter seems like she would be better off with FOX. Not siding with CNN, but it is very unlike CNN reporters to behave that erradically. That’s probably the most jarring part of the video. Nice job foundingblogger.
Got narcissism?
http://dweebisis.blogspot.com
I think CNN would concede that it doesn’t own copyright in the footage shot by Founding Bloggers. But the video at issue had *both* CNN footage and Founding Bloggers footage. There’s no way to send a DMCA notice pertaining to only part of a video. But, as I explained in the post I linked to above, I believe Founding Bloggers’ use of the CNN footage was fair use, and that CNN’s takedown notice to YouTube was improper.
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I used to be a Kool-aid drinker of DateLine, MSNBC and CNN until I attended one of the TEA parties in Virginia. This was my first time protest of any kind. I was proud to stand with my fellow Americans and stand up for the FAIR TAX.
I have seen my income dwindle as I hired employees for manufacturing jobs and try to make a change in their lives by giving them a solid work ethic. But then something happened and I couldn’t understand why my business went away. What happened was a Dateline story (that they had worked on for over 18 months) to follow their agenda and not report but a bare smidgen of the truth. What should have been reported was a company that actually beat the Federal Trade Commision for only the second time in New Jersey state history! What should have been reported is that there is a working device that boosts fuel economy on cars/trucks with gasoloine engine by more than 50%.
However, just like CNN, Dateline reported their version of the truth and now the device will remain buried in history as another commentary to keep Government and Corporations in power. The real story was so buried by the press that it only was listed in two places. To read the real “Reporting” see the following link.
http://pesn.com/2009/02/13/9501523_Dennis_Lee_victorious_against_FTC/
Don’t be a Kool-aid drinker. Seek the truth! If we Americans do not choose to change things, then our country will surely fail.
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The guy with the 2 year old really has no clue about history. Lincoln was a racist tyrant who invaded and then decimated the South with terrorists like Sherman. PLUS, he started a fiat currency called “Greenbacks”. We won’t even get into his insane tax ideas and his love for Marxism.
RE: Carole Sluis on April 16, 2009 12:21 pm
It has always been the leftists who have used minorities in order to gain power,while claiming to be for them ,they are actually using them for their nefarious agenda,there are plenty of examples in history.We have no way of winning as long as the mass Media is controlled,have any of you wondered about the
unanimity of opinion of all major media outlets?Is that a coincidence or a well planned agenda?
“Fair tax” is an oxymoron. That is the same thing as saying “fair theft”. Whether it is called taxation, emanate domain, or asset forfeiture, it is still theft, not to mention they murder the ones who resist paying.
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I would have to say that for CNN- this is far from egg on their face. Who are the teabaggers, now?
Nice job embedding. Thanks!
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Classy. Holding your 2 year old while shouting the f word at a woman.
How come none of you family values types are commenting on that?
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@IDGE
Where was I when Bush was starting this crap? I was writing and calling not only the elected officials of my state (MO) but ever state the borders it as well. I did not want any bail out. There is no such thing as too big to fail. I was against TARP, I was against PORKulus, and I am sure as hell against everything ‘The One’ stands for. Call it Marxism, Socialism or Facisim.. but it is not what the United States stands for. Its time for another amendment to the Constitution… small government, flat tax, and NO bailouts or handouts. No more welfare queens, no more non-humanitarian foreign aid, no more printing money which is devaluing our dollar, no more pork.
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Video: CNN’s Susan Roesgen at a Tax Day Tea Party…
On the hilarious Jim Treacher’ blog, I found a serious plea to upload a copy of the following video created by Founding Bloggers (yes, that’s my copy below): CNN is abusing copyright law to strong-arm YouTube into removing the clip. CNN’s embarrasse…
Make no mistake, CNN was prepared to have Susan go out there full of hateful accusations. She has scarred the image of reporter in a big way. A reporter’s job is to cover the news, not MAKE the news. This is a shameful display of a woman who has totally lost control of her emotions. An ethical reporter would NEVER have presented him/herself in that way. It’s rather telling this video. I’m sure at that point Susan was fearing for her safety. She deserves not only to be fired but it should be mandatory that she apologize to the American people.
Monday’s Links…
FoxNews Blogs: ABC’s shameful ‘20/20’ experiment. Founding Bloggers: CNN attempts to censor bloggers exposing CNN’s hypocrisy. Wall Street Journal: Some Minnesota absentee ballots more equal than others…….
And this is what you teabaggers are proud of?
Holding your 2 year old while shouting the F* word at a reporter???
Hypocrites.
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The next time around, people should bring foam bats and paintball guns.
Maybe then the media will get it straight. Plus, I think the symbolism would be a bit more understandable for the idiot media reporters.
But hey, I’m evil.
That woman makes me sick! I cannot believe how she lies to the woman that just schooled her! What an embarrassment to CNN and to herself. She needs to get a good look around, so that means taking her head out of her anus…see what Main street’s all about.
So let me see…..
I guy explaining how Lincoln stood for Liberty is not fit for Family Viewing but crude jokes about “Teabagging” are ….
Who’s the target audience… The Manson Family.
Yet another imbecile who thinks Lincoln stood for liberty. Only someone “educated” in a government school would worship Lincoln.
Listen to this jerk in the first 10 seconds of the not-aired video. With his kid in his arms, shouting the f word at this lady. sheesh…nice face to put on your movement.
Divided we fall..
We are dividedby so many artificial fractures , btw all created by those people
who pull the strings of our gubermint.
George Carlin called it what it is: We have owners…. nothing more.
Do not watch this video if you are happy living a lie –
cause you cannot handle the truth
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjZ2zPT7XUc&feature=related
I had to spend the day our TEA Party was happening taking my elderly father to doctor appointments. However, my daughter-in-law went to one with my 2 yr. old grandson, and this “right-wing extremist” grandma couldn’t have been prouder. Great job getting the truth out there.
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I think that Susan did us all a service by her behavior.
Most journalists would cover this story to give the same impression, but would keep their own mouths shut to maintain an appearance of impartiality.
At least she is wearing her stance on her sleeve so that we can all plainly see the kind of bias and political opinion which is held in MSM newsrooms.
Would she be comfortable with her actions if she was at conservative Fox, where the newsroom zeitgeist is much different than that of CNN? The response after “back to you” is not “why are you being such a bitch Susan?” It is an expression indicating her agreement that those crazy protesters are out of line.
Anyone remember the coverage of a leftwing protest with the same tone that wasn’t on Fox?
Nor do I.
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