CNN beclowns itself

By Michelle Malkin  •  April 16, 2009 12:42 AM


Call the wah-mbulance.

So, the Tea Party protests are “not fit for family viewing” according to one very unhappy CNN reporter, Susan Roesgen, who also fumes over what she calls an “offensive” anti-Obama sign that compares Obama to a fascist. (And yes, I told you this was going to happen.)

But guess what? Newsbusters caught the same indignantly indignant Susan Roesgen covering an anti-Bush rally in New Orleans in which she blithely refers to a huge Bush puppet with horns and a Hitler mustache as a “lookalike.”

She called today’s events “anti-CNN.”

No, just anti-stupid.

CNN earns the Tax Day Tea Party Big Loser Award:

Biased. Busted. Beclowned.

***

Runner-up: Rick Sanchez plays the race card.

Warned you about that, too. Who needs ACORN to do the dirty work when CNN will do it for them?

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  1. #101
    On April 16th, 2009 at 9:56 am, Red State Skeptic said:

    Please cite a source where an FNC reporter argued with a person in support of any administration.

    Are you f’in kidding me? Fox News attaches its brand to right wing protests all over the country as if it was sponsoring them, and you want to make some apples-to-oranges comparison of “when has a reporter ever argued with someone?” Their entire programming is arguing in support of the right wing agenda. Not just Hannity, but Fox & Friends, Megan Kelly, Neil Cavuto.

    It’s saying something that Chris Wallace, who admits in public that he thinks Obama will fail, is the moderate on that network.

    I agree that this crossed the line. But try to keep in mind, this is also the network of Lou Dobbs. Fox doesn’t have even one host who is anywhere near as liberal as Dobbs is conservative and poisonously anti-immigrant.

  2. #102
    On April 16th, 2009 at 9:56 am, Savage24 said:

    Obama Fascist ? Hell no, Marxist hell yes.

  3. #103
    On April 16th, 2009 at 9:57 am, DesertLover said:

    spaceycakes …

    At one of the left anti-war rallies she cimmented that one of the signs showing Bush as Hitler was a “good likeness” … she is just another MSM leftist tool …

  4. #104
    On April 16th, 2009 at 9:58 am, jangar said:

    Maybe Susan was interviewing the CNN “plant”.

  5. #105
    On April 16th, 2009 at 9:58 am, xler8bmw said:

    #98 They have already taken the ammo by cutting down on it’s production by melting the cases instead of refilling them and reselling.

  6. #106
    On April 16th, 2009 at 9:58 am, happy2behere said:

    How does she KNOW the offensive sign was a tax resistor or a plant? Did she do the job of a journalist and FIND OUT?

  7. #107
    On April 16th, 2009 at 10:00 am, xler8bmw said:

    #100

    Yes, he is a fascist! Marxism is the next step in it’s phase of government rule.

  8. #108
    On April 16th, 2009 at 10:00 am, Red State Skeptic said:

    Fox news chose to report the movement. It’s news.

    Are you seriously trying to say that calling the events themselves the “FNC Tax Day Tea Parties” does not go beyond plain reporting of them?

    Are you saying that deploying a reporter to proclaim, “Guys, when are we going to wake up and start fighting the fascism that seems to be permeating this country?” does not go beyond reporting of the tea parties?

  9. #109
    On April 16th, 2009 at 10:01 am, jangar said:

    RSS – Seems to me FOX identified a market for their brand of journalism and it is thriving quite well. How’s yours doing?

  10. #110
    On April 16th, 2009 at 10:02 am, bear1909 said:

    DIE-NOW-Snore Media…..

    We will look back fondly on the erection of Barry Soetoro as “El Presidente” as a time when We The People broke out of the Government Media complex’s imposed political order.

    Here in Berkeley, the status quo imposes $300 parking fines for the unfortunate out of towner who parks next to the blue handicapped zone.

    The status quo expresses outrage over the impounding of abandoned vehicles belonging to unlicensed illegally imported Mexican nationals who “go home for a bit” (only to find their car gone and have no way to get to work to do the jobs no American wants to do).

    The status quo salivates over eased travel restrictions to Cuba so they can go visit their rancid revolutionary hero and get Cuban made Che posters.

    My point is: they are clueless- the rot and corruption of their socialist way of life is “unsustainable” (their favorite sacred word to criticize anything with which they disagree). The Golden Goose is refusing to lay any more eggs.

    Sometimes I think these “smart” people don’t really know where their tofu comes from.

    Their “vision” (hallucination?) is a reaction to a “scary” (they love to use this word to describe anyone who is sober) world where there are monsters under their bed that voted for Bush and “deny” climate change “realities”.

    The impending collapse of our distribution networks and supply chains that deliver their “Fair Trade” Palestinian olive oil and FARC extorted Colombian Supremo blend coffee is not even on their radar.

    But hey! We need La Raza and ACORN grease balls to “organize” the poor. Infrastructure no longer means roads, transportation networks, and supply chains— it has been co-opted to mean Peoples Temple type “communities” where the poor are led by their collective nose to pre-ordained political ends that serve only drug addicted megalomaniacal alcoholic narcissists who are so insulated from reality that they believe their own gas about “who we are dealing with and what I am capable of”.

    Barry “Pizza Lover” Soetoro is a case in point along with Michelle, the first Black Marie Antoinette to grace a Washington soup kitchen.

    Let em march themselves straight “off the cliff”. Soros is going to die of natural causes in due time. He’s 78 and the aura of decay is palpable. He sure wishes Gore-dough had won in 2000: that woulda had him enjoying his cake at age 70 with a tad more lead in his pencil.

    And just think about how over the last 8 years Nancy Pelosi Galore has been mainlining botox treatment to keep those otherwise Jabba the Hut eyelids from exacerbating her blind melon chitlin “vision”. She can’t stop injecting the stuff now or she’ll miss the big bang of her “rule” of the HOR.

    The little irrelevant laughable “tea parties” ripped a hole in the GMC battle ship. More than half the country’s taxpayers are on board. And as fewer of us consume the swill of the maintstream media each day, the less control the GMC has— as evidenced by Homeland Security’s recent ham fisted lunge into Third Reich parlance— and the more it “believes” that “Americans dont care” about their freedom.

    Let em believe what they want to believe. In the meantime, history will favor the bold and the righteous—never the old self-righteous.

    Bear1909 out.

    PS: $1914.71 poorer after filing federal at 11:57:13 Pacific Standard Time on Tea Party Day.

  11. #111
    On April 16th, 2009 at 10:03 am, PhredE said:

    “Dobbs is conservative and poisonously anti-immigrant.”

    Dobbs is anti ILLEGAL immigration. If you watched his program regularly, you’d know that he has advocated increasing legal immigration levels for the most part. He is adamantly opposed to loopholes and the lack of enforcement that has made our immigration system both the most generous in the world and also a complete joke.

  12. #112
    On April 16th, 2009 at 10:05 am, stillontheroad said:

    FSS — Live with it, the LSM has been doing it for years. As long as their pap is part of your world view I guess you have no complaints?

  13. #113
    On April 16th, 2009 at 10:07 am, xler8bmw said:

    Are you seriously trying to say that calling the events themselves the “FNC Tax Day Tea Parties” does not go beyond plain reporting of them?

    Are you saying that deploying a reporter to proclaim, “Guys, when are we going to wake up and start fighting the fascism that seems to be permeating this country?” does not go beyond reporting of the tea parties?

    Considering you apparently get all of your news from Media matters I am not surprised of your comment.

    He stated both parties committing fascism unlike the CNN reporter who claimed it was anti-government right wing people who attended.

    And if you would take the time to look up the meaning of fascism he is absolutley spot on about the current ideology in DC.

    CNN was completely incorrect by stating it was only anti-government and right wing people at the event.

  14. #114
    On April 16th, 2009 at 10:08 am, walterc said:

    Ma favorite part ws when she asked the guy if he knew he was getting a $400 tax credit. He should have said, “if I rob you of $10 and then give $4 of it back to you, are you going to be happy about it?” And it’s too bad she didn’t give him a chance to respond to her “land of Lincoln is getting 50 million in stimulus money” comment. That’s the point lady, I don’t want the land of Lincoln or any other dead president to get stimulus money that won’t stimulate anything and that my grandchildren’s children will have to pay back to the communist chinese government!!

  15. #115
    On April 16th, 2009 at 10:10 am, jangar said:

    bear1909 – I’d mow your lawn for free if we wuz neighbors!

  16. #116
    On April 16th, 2009 at 10:11 am, DBNinKY said:

    Save your equivocations, RSS, MSNBC crossed the line of objective journalism long ago.

    Given the anti-conservative, left-advocating comments and attitudes from the likes of MSNBC’s Olby, Maddow, Mitchell, Shuster, Matthews, Brewer, O’Donnell, etc, FNC’s on-air talent could recite RNC talking points the year round and never come close.

  17. #117
    On April 16th, 2009 at 10:12 am, xler8bmw said:

    #112

    Correct. Again if you’re going to these thing they need to be prepared for these kind of questions. He went aff into a liberty/Lincoln rant that made no sense.

  18. #118
    On April 16th, 2009 at 10:14 am, PhredE said:

    “the likes of MSNBC’s”…

    Right. Oh, you mean that cable news network running at 10% market share? Who are they? I don’t watch ‘em – not do 90% of Americans either.

  19. #119
    On April 16th, 2009 at 10:18 am, DBNinKY said:

    Now you know what Fox news looks like to those not to the wingnut family born.

    Better to be a wingnut than a lefty lugnut. ;)

    While CNN was running this segment, Fox ran a segment with a “reporter” saying, as news, not commentary, that Obama is a fascist.

    Still watching Fox News I see – good for you! Are you still listening to Rush?

  20. #120
    On April 16th, 2009 at 10:19 am, ArizonaNeanderthal said:

    Susan Roesgen and Rick Sanchez are the very epitome of why the former Clinton News Network is not doing well.We looked at CNN for a few minutes last night to see how they were covering the Tea Parties. I am not sure what show it was but it was basically and ad for Obama’s policies.

    Patronizing fools need to find a real job.

  21. #121
    On April 16th, 2009 at 10:21 am, Red State Skeptic said:

    RSS – Seems to me FOX identified a market for their brand of journalism and it is thriving quite well. How’s yours doing?

    It’s great that Fox, Rush Libaugh and Michelle Malkin have such a huge following of disaffected white people to validate. More power to them. Just don’t complain about other networks’ bias when you live in a paper house.

  22. #122
    On April 16th, 2009 at 10:22 am, EL Rider said:

    I was in the Chicago crowd taking photos of Roesgen as she pulled that stunt. I wrote about it and posted photos and video here:

    http://flyingdebris.blogspot.com/2009/04/acorn-didnt-need-to-attend-chicago-tea.html

  23. #123
    On April 16th, 2009 at 10:23 am, PKAmmoTroop said:

    On April 16th, 2009 at 10:00 am, Red State Skeptic said:

    Fox news chose to report the movement. It’s news.

    Are you seriously trying to say that calling the events themselves the “FNC Tax Day Tea Parties” does not go beyond plain reporting of them?

    Are you saying that deploying a reporter to proclaim, “Guys, when are we going to wake up and start fighting the fascism that seems to be permeating this country?” does not go beyond reporting of the tea parties?

    Yup.

    Kind of a stupid question actually,you do realize that this entire movement started on the antithisis of news reporting: CNBC?

    I find it incredibly hilarious that the top rated news source in the nation chooses to report fairly on a national story and the left is desperately checking spelling and punctuation in a foolish effort to justify their desperate wails of “Liar” and foolishly duluding themselves that they’re correct. Meanwhile the entire left is stupidly ignoring NBC’s and CNN’s pathetic, foulmouthed, stupid, arrogant insulting of your fellow citizens. Rather than demanding that NBC and CNN get rid of these clowns because they’re making the left look like a bunch of low rent Howard Sterns, they’re reveling in the insipid stupidity of the (horrifically failing) NBC and the dead last place CNN.

    You need to get over it Red State Septic: you lost, we won. You elected what you thought was a father figure and got a Joseph Stalin. We on the right now have a president who’s statesmanship makes George W. Bush look and sound like Abraham Lincoln.

    Now if you don’t mind, we have a country to save. Lead, follow or get out of my way.

  24. #124
    On April 16th, 2009 at 10:26 am, spaceycakes said:

    bear1909–how’d you get to pay so little?! We sent in nearly $3000…

    and RSS said:

    don’t complain about other networks’ bias when you live in a paper house.

    and WTH does that even mean?

  25. #125
    On April 16th, 2009 at 10:27 am, PKAmmoTroop said:

    On April 16th, 2009 at 9:10 am, lgm said:

    Fox ran a segment with a “reporter” saying, as news, not commentary, that Obama is a fascist.

    I suppose it would be commentary, because it’s obviously not really news… we’ve known he was a fascist for quite a while now.

  26. #126
    On April 16th, 2009 at 10:27 am, xler8bmw said:

    On April 16th, 2009 at 10:21 am, Red State Skeptic said:
    RSS – Seems to me FOX identified a market for their brand of journalism and it is thriving quite well. How’s yours doing?
    It’s great that Fox, Rush Libaugh and Michelle Malkin have such a huge following of disaffected white people to validate. More power to them. Just don’t complain about other networks’ bias when you live in a paper house.

    See we can’t take you seriously because you couldn’ help yourself by saying “disaffected White people” follow Rush , Fox and Michelle.

    Unfrotunately you’re completely inaccurate in your statement. There are many people of different ethnicies that follow all of the above.

    By stating that kind of racism shows your no better than the people you denigrate!

  27. #127
    On April 16th, 2009 at 10:28 am, red dish said:

    Please forgive if this has already been posted, but Founding Bloggers dot com has video of a REAL interview after the CNN camera was turned off. And the so-called reporter was “Schooled” by an angry suburban housewife who got the true message of the tea parties across, and slammed the ‘reporter’ bias while she was at it. Brilliant!

    http://www.foundingbloggers.com/wordpress/2009/04/founding-bloggers-exclusive-our-footage-of-the-cnn-chicago-tea-party-throwdown/

  28. #128
    On April 16th, 2009 at 10:29 am, ajmontana said:

    jangar said:
    bear1909 – I’d mow your lawn for free if we wuz neighbors!

    Ha! we have soap box for that!
    inside joke but thanks for the opening. 8)

  29. #129
    On April 16th, 2009 at 10:29 am, bear1909 said:

    jangar! the high point of mowing day would be lunch!!!!! ROFLMAO i am a great cook. and i only serve DUNKIN DONUTS ANTI-ISLAMIC cawfee.

    :lol:

  30. #130
    On April 16th, 2009 at 10:29 am, Attica said:

    She asked “What does that have to do with taxes?” in response to a comment about Liberty. In other words she asked “What does Liberty have to do with taxes?”

    She also said “I don’t think this is family viewing.” in response to him repeatedly saying “ma’m?” So, to her “ma’m” is not “family viewing.” I don’t know where she grew up but “sir” and “ma’am” wasn’t just “family viewing” it was required vocabulary.

  31. #131
    On April 16th, 2009 at 10:30 am, bear1909 said:

    hey aj!!! now you know Soap dont mow. that’s reserved for YOU KNOW WHO!!! ROFLMAO

  32. #132
    On April 16th, 2009 at 10:30 am, Salt said:

    On April 16th, 2009 at 10:21 am, Red State Skeptic said:

    It’s great that Fox, Rush Libaugh and Michelle Malkin have such a huge following of disaffected white people to validate. More power to them.

    Why play the race card, RSS? We can probably agree that unbiased news is hard to find anywhere. Arguing nonstop between who is more biased gets us no where closer in getting objective news. However, pulling the race card just seems like lashing out.

    Just don’t complain about other networks’ bias when you live in a paper house.

    …and liberals will do the same, right?

  33. #133
    On April 16th, 2009 at 10:31 am, jrlingreenbay said:

    On April 16th, 2009 at 10:21 am, Red State Skeptic said:
    …It’s great that Fox, Rush Libaugh and Michelle Malkin have such a huge following of disaffected white people to validate.

    Are we sure that RS Skeptic isn’t a psuedonym for ‘Rich Sanchez’? Seems the racist questions are rampant on the left.

  34. #134
    On April 16th, 2009 at 10:38 am, Chief RZ said:

    Biased since the 1980s. Too bad, they started out as a balanced cable news station.

  35. #135
    On April 16th, 2009 at 10:38 am, WarEagle82 said:

    But, lgm, IT IS news and NOT commentary. Obama is a fascist. Where have you been?

    On April 16th, 2009 at 9:10 am, lgm said:
    Now you know what Fox news looks like to those not to the wingnut family born. While CNN was running this segment, Fox ran a segment with a “reporter” saying, as news, not commentary, that Obama is a fascist.

  36. #136
    On April 16th, 2009 at 10:38 am, zeroangel said:

    Oh snap!

    Very poor form on your part RSS. Those darn white people, indeed!

    PS. You are aware that Lou Dobbs wife is Mexican-American, yes?

  37. #137
    On April 16th, 2009 at 10:41 am, DBNinKY said:

    So, the Tea Party protests are “not fit for family viewing” according to one very unhappy CNN reporter, Susan Roesgen, who also fumes over what she calls an “offensive” anti-Obama sign that compares Obama to a fascist.

    What Roesgen did was inexcusable and akin to attempted child endangerment.

    She seems to want the man to go into a rage while he is holding his child.

    Roesgen appears to be taunting the man holding his two year old daughter in order to illicit an emotional outburst for her exploit on CNN – an outburst that would portray Tea Party participants as unhinged to the point of endangering their children.

    The interview was unprofessional, tasteless and beneath CNN.

    CNN should issue an apology and release Ms. Roesgen from her contract so she can do her hit-piece style of reporting where it is expected – MSNBC!

  38. #138
    On April 16th, 2009 at 10:42 am, Red State Skeptic said:

    You need to get over it Red State Septic: you lost, we won.

    Just wanted to reflect on this line for a second ………… ahhhhhhhh!! Keep it comin’!

  39. #139
    On April 16th, 2009 at 10:42 am, bear1909 said:

    Making women proud world-wide, Susan “Cream Cheese” Roesgen blorted repeatedly on less than national tv (CNN- the regional leader in, well you know, NADA), her complete lack of basic education and dire need of government assistance to do her job.

    She reminds me of the mini-van driving “caring” lefty moms here in the Berkeley Unified School District who “know what you really care about”. So gross! I mean scary!!!

    CNN cant have it both ways on climate “change” (is there such a thing as climate “hope”?) Here they foment the highjacking of legit science to build hysterics over penguins and polar bear deaths (are they extinct, or just really on vacation in Cuba?) and warn about the carbon footprint and the perils of methane gas clouds. YET! CNN allows the mass-gasifications of one Susan “Lil Snoozie” Roesgen to cloud the airwaves with as little concern for the “environment” as Al “Goiter” Gore shows on his non-stop global speaking “tour”.

    Hypocrisy is such a thread bare term these days. But the sound of it does explain Susan “Do These Shoes Make My Butt Look Big” Roesgen’s self-absorption because she hears “Hip-Ocracy”.

    The Left is so, like, cool. You know, like Barry What’s His Real Name?

  40. #140
    On April 16th, 2009 at 10:42 am, PhredE said:

    “It’s great that Fox, Rush Libaugh and Michelle Malkin have such a huge following of disaffected white people to validate. ”

    Sounds a lot like racism to me…

  41. #141
    On April 16th, 2009 at 10:43 am, ajmontana said:

    Face it, the lame stream media screwed the pooch on this one. We laugh at you tools trying to argue this to your whinny snivveling spin. ahahahahahhhaha fools! 8)
    Laugh I tell ya laugh! funnier than a barrel full of monkeys.
    (no disclaimer needed)

  42. #142
    On April 16th, 2009 at 10:45 am, bear1909 said:

    MON-KEYS!!!! MON-KEYS!!!!! MON-KEYS!!!!!

    did i make the DHS watch list yet?

    MON-KEYS!!!! MON-KEYS!!!! MON-KEYS!!!!!

    “shakin in the bushes boss!”

  43. #143
    On April 16th, 2009 at 10:45 am, cicerokid said:

    It’s not my fault I was born white.

  44. #144
    On April 16th, 2009 at 10:45 am, Red State Skeptic said:

    Unfrotunately you’re completely inaccurate in your statement. There are many people of different ethnicies that follow all of the above.

    You do realize that 90% of McCain voters were white, right? And that if he hadn’t been McAmnesty before the campaign it would be more like 95%?

    Just keep trying to convince yourself that your views have any appeal to people of color.

  45. #145
    On April 16th, 2009 at 10:46 am, Salt said:

    On April 16th, 2009 at 10:28 am, red dish said:

    Interesting find, red dish. Thanks for the link.

    It’s funny how Susan’s certainty turns to doubt when she tries repeatedly to trap the suburban mom but the woman fails to fit into Susan’s stereotype.

    Also humorous: Susan protesting that the woman doesn’t have to be antagonistic. Ah, the irony.

  46. #146
    On April 16th, 2009 at 10:48 am, ajmontana said:

    Seriuosly, How’s Odopey working for ya now? lmao

    or should I say President Pelosi?

  47. #147
    On April 16th, 2009 at 10:50 am, DBNinKY said:

    Just keep trying to convince yourself that your views have any appeal to people of color.

    Tell that to the anit-Prop 8 crowd in California! When it comes to mainline social issues – religion, ethics, morality, etc. – conservative values are a-racial.

  48. #148
    On April 16th, 2009 at 10:50 am, Red State Skeptic said:

    “It’s great that Fox, Rush Libaugh and Michelle Malkin have such a huge following of disaffected white people to validate. ”
    Sounds a lot like racism to me…

    I know, right? Like what else could explain the fact that the GOP’s largest constituency by far is white southerners? I’m glad you’re with me on this one.

  49. #149
    On April 16th, 2009 at 10:51 am, zeroangel said:

    RSS:

    You do realize that 90% of McCain voters were white, right?

    Umm… so?

    Just keep trying to convince yourself that your views have any appeal to people of color.

    In an ideal world this statement would be as absurd as “keep thinking your views appeal to anyone with blonde hair.” Unfortunately, we don’t live in that world. However, I still don’t see what your point is because 10% of McCain voters apparently were “people of color.” (Isn’t that phrase a bit un-PC?)

  50. #150
    On April 16th, 2009 at 10:52 am, zeroangel said:

    RSS:

    To add, so are you saying that this 10% are basically “Uncle Tom’s”?

  51. #151
    On April 16th, 2009 at 10:53 am, FilmLadd said:

    On April 16th, 2009 at 10:45 am, Red State Skeptic said:

    Just keep trying to convince yourself that your views have any appeal to people of color.

    I do not adjust my philosophies of individual liberty and freedom to suit the amount of melanin you happen to have growing in your skin.

    This is not a marketing campaign for cosmetics, this is a campaign to maintain and regain freedom in this nation, man’s last best hope on earth.

  52. #152
    On April 16th, 2009 at 10:54 am, cicerokid said:

    You can’t turn this thread into a racial issue, zero. You cannot divide and conquer.

  53. #153
    On April 16th, 2009 at 10:54 am, PhredE said:

    “I know, right? Like what else could explain the fact that the GOP’s largest constituency by far is white southerners?

    Support your generalization with another generalization…sigh.

    I’m glad you’re with me on this one.”

    Uh…what? Actually, I’m not. I am an Independent in spirit and in detail – and register and vote as such.

    It is because of Democrats like you, that I abandoned the “D” party a couple decades ago.

  54. #154
    On April 16th, 2009 at 10:56 am, zeroangel said:

    cicerokid:

    You can’t turn this thread into a racial issue, zero. You cannot divide and conquer.

    Ummm… what? I was responding to RSS.

  55. #155
    On April 16th, 2009 at 10:57 am, Salt said:

    On April 16th, 2009 at 10:54 am, cicerokid said:

    You can’t turn this thread into a racial issue, zero. You cannot divide and conquer.

    Why are you blaming zeroangel? I believe you meant to address RSS.

  56. #156
    On April 16th, 2009 at 10:58 am, RTater said:

    Thumbs up to FilmLadd.

  57. #157
    On April 16th, 2009 at 10:58 am, Salt said:

    Red State Skeptic, what have you got against white southerners?

  58. #158
    On April 16th, 2009 at 10:59 am, FilmLadd said:

    Back to the topic:

    July 4th Tea Parties need to be held IN FRONT OF NEWS STATIONS AND NEWS PAPERS.

    We are WASTING OUR EFFORTS holding these protests outside of city halls and in city parks – the local media is too lazy to cover that.

    Give the “4th Estate” a REAL July 4th. PARTY IN THEIR PARKING LOTS!

  59. #159
    On April 16th, 2009 at 10:59 am, zeroangel said:

    Salt:

    cicerokid seems to have gotten caught off guard for a minute. Apparently he seems to think I am a liberal because of some other viewpoints I might have *smile*.

    Knee-jerk reaction, no apology nessecery *wink*.

  60. #160
    On April 16th, 2009 at 11:01 am, FilmLadd said:

    On April 16th, 2009 at 10:58 am, Salt said:

    Red State Skeptic, what have you got against white southerners?

    He watched Mississippi Burning with Gene Hackman on t.v. so thinks he knows what the South is like these days.

  61. #161
    On April 16th, 2009 at 11:02 am, Red State Skeptic said:

    Red State Skeptic, what have you got against white southerners?

    Since I am one, nothing at all. Just sayin’.

  62. #162
    On April 16th, 2009 at 11:05 am, zeroangel said:

    RSS:

    Since I am one, nothing at all. Just sayin’.

    You aren’t getting off that easy. I generally like a great deal of what you have to say here and appreciate the counter-viewpoint (one I often agree with) but you were wrong to trot out the race thing. You were doing just fine until you pulled that one.

  63. #163
    On April 16th, 2009 at 11:09 am, bear1909 said:

    I want to see the genitalia stats re McCain voters.

    I mean how can you not see the “gender” (gander?) dynamics here?

    It is just so typical of “you men” to completely ignore “gender” in all of this.

    OH! And i want to see the “where I put it” stats. It is just like you “HATER-O” sexuals to ignore THAT dynamic too in your obsession over race.

    /sarc off.

    Dudes- really… the only relevant question about the racialist term “white” is “What does it mean to be white in America?”

    If we are going to label everybody, might as well take it to the deeper level of what it is used for and how it works. Otherwise, it is pointless. We all have our experience of being “something” in America. But that is just useless subjectivity when it crowds out what we do share— freedoms that are the envy of the World (except the Soros’ of the world).

    All the “group membership” frothing does is cloud the vision of an American people who would otherwise be exempt from the Marxist infiltrators who use race, class, gender, and homosexuality to divide, conquer and subjugate freedom loving people the world over.

    Bear1909 out.

  64. #164
    On April 16th, 2009 at 11:18 am, John Deaux said:

    On April 16th, 2009 at 10:00 am, Red State Skeptic said:
    Fox news chose to report the movement. It’s news.
    Are you seriously trying to say that calling the events themselves the “FNC Tax Day Tea Parties” does not go beyond plain reporting of them?

    Are you saying that deploying a reporter to proclaim, “Guys, when are we going to wake up and start fighting the fascism that seems to be permeating this country?” does not go beyond reporting of the tea parties?

    He’s a commentator on Fox Business News, not a reporter.

    On April 16th, 2009 at 10:21 am, Red State Skeptic said:

    It’s great that Fox, Rush Libaugh and Michelle Malkin have such a huge following of disaffected white people to validate.

    What exactly is wrong with being white? Why do I need to make sure I have cornucopia of races at an event to make the message relevant?

    the GOP’s largest constituency by far is white southerners?

    You mean white southerners like Bill Clinton, James Carville, and Jimmy Carter?

  65. #165
    On April 16th, 2009 at 11:19 am, WarEagle82 said:

    What? Oh, stats! I thought you were asking to see something else…

    Thought you were “pulling an Anderson Cooper” there for a minute…

    For the record virtually all of McCain’s supporters have genetalia. Hope that helps.

  66. #166
    On April 16th, 2009 at 11:20 am, ajmontana said:

    What exactly is wrong with being white?

    what if you have a great tan?

  67. #167
    On April 16th, 2009 at 11:20 am, Red State Skeptic said:

    You aren’t getting off that easy. I generally like a great deal of what you have to say here and appreciate the counter-viewpoint (one I often agree with) but you were wrong to trot out the race thing. You were doing just fine until you pulled that one.

    Thanks. Obviously I’m not “just sayin’.” Obviously, GOP snatched the racists from the Democrats after LBJ did the Civil Rights Act and Nixon used his “southern strategy” to play to the bigots. And obviously, the legacy of getting white southern votes by rejecting welfare and affirmative action for African Americans, and now by doing everything to obstruct the naturalization of illegal immigrants.

    I’m not saying you have to be racist to have any of these views. I don’t think Goldwater or Nixon or Reagan or either of the Bushes were racist. However, it cannot be denied that the mission of Republicans in the post-Civil Rights era, including that of Nixon and Bush Sr. was to consolidate power and brought white southerners into the GOP fold by seeking out to appeal to the segregationists. While the policy of the GOP is arguably race-neutral, its appeal is undeniably in part race-based. Which arguably isn’t any different from the appeal of Democrats.

  68. #168
    On April 16th, 2009 at 11:22 am, spaceycakes said:

    What exactly is wrong with being white?

    When you find out, John Deaux, help out a sistah, will you?

  69. #169
    On April 16th, 2009 at 11:23 am, battleaxe said:

    CNN just planted some guy right out of a trailer-park UFO sighting story right by the cameras, then interviewed him to get their point across. If this movement is going to make it onto primetime leftist TV with any shred of dignity intact, it will have to get enough spokespeople with a 10 second soundbite capability surrounding the CNN cameras to crowd out the plants.

  70. #170
    On April 16th, 2009 at 11:25 am, zeroangel said:

    RSS:

    I am not denying that white racists generally lean toward Republicans. However, the party stances themselves aren’t racist.

    In the same fashion, black racists lean Democrat. Does that make the Democrat party stances racist?

    I think you understand this though since you said:

    Which arguably isn’t any different from the appeal of Democrats.

    So, all that said, what exactly was your point in saying this:

    It’s great that Fox, Rush Libaugh and Michelle Malkin have such a huge following of disaffected white people to validate.

    ?

    Why did you even add the “disaffected white” part? could it be just a cheap shot meant to devalue the opinions of commenters on this board?

  71. #171
    On April 16th, 2009 at 11:28 am, Southpaw said:

    I said yesterday that I was in a good mood on April 15 for the first time that I can remember. Then I did my taxes. Through a quirk, (was actually overpaying last year), I discovered that I will be getting $1000 back from the US gov.

    So now, all you Obama sycophants, a little lesson on how all this works:
    Money is tight for people this year, so the Coachella Music Festival was looking pretty doubtful for my friends and I. Since the government is giving my money back, I am going to spend my own money and treat my friends. Tomorrow, it’s of to Indio to see Paul McCartney and then a night of dancing at the Trance stage. Woohoo.

  72. #172
    On April 16th, 2009 at 11:30 am, spaceycakes said:

    awesome, Southpaw. How hot is it in Coachella already?

  73. #173
    On April 16th, 2009 at 11:30 am, ajmontana said:

    Southpaw, we must be neighbors. 8)

  74. #174
    On April 16th, 2009 at 11:31 am, zeroangel said:

    The new home buyers credit saved my a$$. I got back somewhere to the tune of $4000 (when I was expecting to have to OWE $4000). Yippee!

    I am spending it all on myself and my family (or more accurately, debts). *smile*.

  75. #175
    On April 16th, 2009 at 11:36 am, ajmontana said:

    ot-
    Spaceycakes, windy and cold yesterday, but today looks like el perfecto weather. 8)

  76. #176
    On April 16th, 2009 at 11:36 am, WarEagle82 said:

    So RSS thinks all the racists are Republicans. In fact, I suspect he means all racists are conservatives and all conservatives are republicans but that is another discussion.

    So, evidently RSS believes Louis Farakhan, Jeremiah Wright, Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson are conservative republicans since they are obviously racists.

    Insanity isn’t optional for leftists. It is MANDATORY!

  77. #177
    On April 16th, 2009 at 11:37 am, Red State Skeptic said:

    In the same fashion, black racists lean Democrat. Does that make the Democrat party stances racist?

    Like Seinfeld said, “if I like their race, how can that be racist?”

    Why did you even add the “disaffected white” part? could it be just a cheap shot meant to devalue the opinions of commenters on this board?

    I find it pathetic that white people, who by definition begin life in the majority and hold the keys to city just about everywhere, find so much to be pissed off at in government. I find it pathetic that they turn to Fox, Rush and the rest to validate their fury at this cruel, cruel world.

    In my mind, the fact that there is no left-wing equivalent to Rush or Hannity (at least in popularity) is a good thing.

  78. #178
    On April 16th, 2009 at 11:39 am, Flyoverman said:

    A journalist asks a person a question and then interrupts him in mid-answer, because she is clueless as to the point he is making and takes the answer personally. Then she loses all sembelence of professionalism.

    What’s even more interesting is that her management supports her conduct. She, CNN, lgm, RSS all share a common trait; the utter refusal to discuss the issues and criticisms being raised.

    I am yet to see any of these hard charging leftists present any kind of viable argument as to why President Obama’s budget is fiscally responsible, based on emprical data, historical precedent or any other logical model.

    They can lambast our color, our values, our sexual orientation, or mental stability, etc., etc., etc. BUT they will not address the issue.

    Last week during a thread on global warming I gave lgm eight questions to address about global warming. he responded to other’s comments later in the thread. Even though it was self-evident he had to have read my post he refused to even acknowldege it.

    There is only one reason why he didn’t. The answwers to those questions blow the premise of man made global warming right out of the water. Better to remain in denial and run off a cliff.

    Organizations like the Flat Earth Society depend on that kind of thinking; and frankly so does the entire Liberal Left.

  79. #179
    On April 16th, 2009 at 11:43 am, zeroangel said:

    RSS:

    Like Seinfeld said, “if I like their race, how can that be racist?”

    So, your arguement is that the Republican party hates blacks and the Democrats like them. Why not the Republican party likes whites and the Democrats hate them?

    Black racists (those that hate white people) gravitate toward Democrats. This doesn’t make the Democrat party racist anymore then white racists gravitating Republican makes the Republican party racist.

    You know this though, you have said as much:

    I’m not saying you have to be racist to have any of these views. I don’t think Goldwater or Nixon or Reagan or either of the Bushes were racist.

    I find it pathetic that they turn to Fox, Rush and the rest to validate their fury at this cruel, cruel world.

    So, it’s OK to be a proponent of small-government if you are black, but if you are white then you are pathetic?

  80. #180
    On April 16th, 2009 at 11:45 am, xler8bmw said:

    On April 16th, 2009 at 10:45 am, Red State Skeptic said:
    Unfrotunately you’re completely inaccurate in your statement. There are many people of different ethnicies that follow all of the above.
    You do realize that 90% of McCain voters were white, right? And that if he hadn’t been McAmnesty before the campaign it would be more like 95%?

    Just keep trying to convince yourself that your views have any appeal to people of color.

    Your point is what 90% of BHO voters were black. HHHMMMM entitlements maybe!

    Keep talking you just give us fodder to keep making you look foolish!

  81. #181
    On April 16th, 2009 at 11:48 am, Flyoverman said:

    However, it cannot be denied that the mission of Republicans in the post-Civil Rights era, including that of Nixon and Bush Sr. was to consolidate power and brought white southerners into the GOP fold by seeking out to appeal to the segregationists.

    RSS, that ascertian is Bolshoi to quote the Russians. Take a look at the roll call vote for the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The numbers do not lie.

    Besides, ancient history alert, what does that have to do with the fact that Obama’s fiscal plan is statistically unsupportable?

    You want to support it? Don’t rail about who was a racist in 1964. ADDRESS THE ISSUE that fermented the tea parties. Do the math and show me it works. Obama and Geithner can’t, Pelosi and Reid can’t. The Amazing Kerskin can’t. Maybe you can prove their position and save the day.

    Knock yourself out.

  82. #182
    On April 16th, 2009 at 11:50 am, PhredE said:

    “Like Seinfeld said, “if I like their race, how can that be racist?”

    If you like, or hate, anyone because of race – you are a racist.

  83. #183
    On April 16th, 2009 at 11:51 am, WarEagle82 said:

    Funny, I didn’t know Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, Louis Farakahn and Jeremiah Wright were conservatives and republicans to boot. All I know is that they are racists!

    What is this nonsense about racists=republicans or racists=conservatives!

    Get a grip.

  84. #184
    On April 16th, 2009 at 11:53 am, 30 pcs of silver said:

    Well, I just don’t know where I fit in anymore. :-(

    /sarc

  85. #185
    On April 16th, 2009 at 11:53 am, zeroangel said:

    If you like, or hate, anyone because of race – you are a racist.

    Indeed. RSS, you are digging yourself a hole. Best thing to do would be to back away from the race thing now. You could have saved yourself a great deal of embarrasment if you only said:

    It’s great that Fox, Rush Libaugh and Michelle Malkin have such a huge following of disaffected white people conservatives to validate.

  86. #186
    On April 16th, 2009 at 11:53 am, xler8bmw said:

    On April 16th, 2009 at 11:51 am, WarEagle82 said:
    Funny, I didn’t know Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, Louis Farakahn and Jeremiah Wright were conservatives and republicans to boot. All I know is that they are racists!

    What is this nonsense about racists=republicans or racists=conservatives!

    Get a grip.

    Idiot Al said yesterday the pirate (terrorist) were Somila’s voluntary coast guard. That alone besides the other moronic stuff should give a clue of what kind of idiots RSS and his ilk are!

  87. #187
    On April 16th, 2009 at 11:57 am, ajmontana said:

    “Somali wanna cracker?”
    Dennis Miller

  88. #188
    On April 16th, 2009 at 11:57 am, Southpaw said:

    On April 16th, 2009 at 11:30 am, spaceycakes said:
    awesome, Southpaw. How hot is it in Coachella already?

    Looks perfect for tomorrow evening. High of 88 in the daytime.

    On April 16th, 2009 at 11:30 am, ajmontana said:
    Southpaw, we must be neighbors.

    Yep. 1 hr. drive from the San Jacinto valley, through the San Jacinto mountains, past Idylwild, then down into Palm Desert and over to Indio.

  89. #189
    On April 16th, 2009 at 11:57 am, DesertLover said:

    aj … beat me to it … :lol:

  90. #190
    On April 16th, 2009 at 11:58 am, happyscrapper said:

    Your point is what 90% of BHO voters were black. HHHMMMM entitlements maybe!

    Or could it be merely because Obama is black? I would guess that at least half of the blacks in this country who voted for Obama, had NO CLUE as to any of the issues, but voted entirely based on his race. If that isn’t racism…what do you call it?

  91. #191
    On April 16th, 2009 at 12:00 pm, b-cat said:

    On April 16th, 2009 at 11:53 am, 30 pcs of silver said:
    Well, I just don’t know where I fit in anymore.

    /sarc

    That is what they’re trying to do. They thrive on confusion and bitterness. They demand UNITY from their minorities. No one is allowed to think for themselves.

  92. #192
    On April 16th, 2009 at 12:01 pm, zeroangel said:

    happyscrapper:

    Now, please don’t jump down my throat, by I think it is important that we are fair. It deserves to be mentioned that many people likely voted against him because he was (half)black.

  93. #193
    On April 16th, 2009 at 12:08 pm, Salt said:

    On April 16th, 2009 at 12:01 pm, zeroangel said:

    happyscrapper:

    Now, please don’t jump down my throat, by I think it is important that we are fair. It deserves to be mentioned that many people likely voted against him because he was (half)black.

    Correct. I believe that’s the point we’re hitting. Being explicitly for or against someone because of their race is racism.

    Being white doesn’t automatically make you privileged and it certainly does not mean that you must remain silent about government.

  94. #194
    On April 16th, 2009 at 12:10 pm, Red State Skeptic said:

    RSS, that ascertian is Bolshoi to quote the Russians. Take a look at the roll call vote for the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The numbers do not lie.

    I am talking about after 1964, when white southerners left the Democratic party (at least nationally) in droves for obvious reasons. As I have pointed out before, the 1964 vote was more about region than party. True, more Dems voted against because the the South was overwhelmingly Democratic. Also true, the GOP proceeded to do anything it could to pick off those Southern Dems.

  95. #195
    On April 16th, 2009 at 12:12 pm, zeroangel said:

    Salt:

    Yes. We agree on this issue.

  96. #196
    On April 16th, 2009 at 12:12 pm, right4life said:

    am talking about after 1964, when white southerners left the Democratic party (at least nationally) in droves for obvious reasons

    this is such obvious BS and lies..ever hear of ROBERT KKK BYRD??? HMMMM???

    you libs entire life is a lie, and its all you can do because you’re very nature is a lie. pathetic.

  97. #197
    On April 16th, 2009 at 12:14 pm, right4life said:

    the democRAT party has been, and still is the party of racism.

    the racism isn’t so obvious now, its the paternalistic, patronising sort of racism…ie people of color can’t make it without the democRAT party taking care of them…

  98. #198
    On April 16th, 2009 at 12:15 pm, ahraley said:

    The man is making a statement about “Liberty,” then the CNN goof ball asks, “What does that have to do with taxes….”

    Mark Levin should have a field day with that one.

  99. #199
    On April 16th, 2009 at 12:18 pm, right4life said:

    I find it pathetic that white people, who by definition begin life in the majority and hold the keys to city just about everywhere, find so much to be pissed off at in government. I find it pathetic that they turn to Fox, Rush and the rest to validate their fury at this cruel, cruel world.

    this is pathetically stupid. and racist.

    do you ever have an independent thought, or just parrot DNC talking points?

  100. #200
    On April 16th, 2009 at 12:21 pm, RogerCfromSD said:

    RSS, you are an idiot. A racist idiot. A worthless, racist idiot.

    You can take your racist insults and shove them up your bum.

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