Desperate CNN: Hey, those Tea Party nuts aren’t so bad after all. Please, please tune in!
They’re more than a year late and a dollar short. After incessant mockery, vulgar epithets, and condescension, desperate, ratings-starved CNN is now sending me e-mails touting the fact that one of their producers is saying nice things about Tea Party activists. From CNN’s publicity department:
Hi there,
I thought this might be an interesting post for you– a behind-the-scenes piece about the Tea Party and how the stereotypes don’t tell the full story. Let me know if you need anything else!
Reporter’s notebook: What really happens at Tea Party rallies
“Let me know if you need anything else!”
Yeah, I need an airsickness bag.
Don’t bother clicking on the link. The last place anyone should go to find out “what really happens at Tea Party rallies” is the network that sent out hysterical Susan Roesgen out last April to sneer at Tea Party activists in Chicago. Remember? Who can forget:
That is CNN.
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Related: Mirabile dictu! The Associated Press discovers minority Tea Party members and the vitriol they face for straying from the liberal plantation.
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If you’re gonna call Tea Party activists RAAAACISTS…
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Well, redemption is always possible, especially if the ratings are low and the network sees the light…
Hey CNN, how’s that hope and change working out for you? Still in last place I bet.
Too little, too late.
It won’t make any difference at our home about cnn. We only watch Fox. The only way I know about the other networks is from posts what their people say. It appears to me, I am not missing anything by not watching!
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Shame no one will see it…
This sounds strangely similar to the attempts McLame and Grahamnesty are making to try to convince us that they are conservatives.
No thank you on both subjects.
I don’t even have CNN, MSNBC, CNBC, NBC or HLN selected as channels I get on my direct tv.
Non issue for me.
I don’t know, there’s always MSNBC to round out the bottom tier. What’s below ground level? Muck?
I love how the staff at MSNBC thinks that the Tea Party movement is full of nuts.
MSNBC is the best example of flakes and nuts since I toured Kellogg’s.
I was going to post this link yesterday, but none of the threads seemed appropriate.
Shock, the tea party movement has black people! MSM swoons.
Check the link – we still have the hot women. Ok, shallow, but hey…
Death spiral.
If you think about it, the low man (or should that be “person”) on a Totem Pole is below ground level!
http://georgestorry.com/images/totem3.jpg
If Democrats would allow the blacks off of the plantation, they’d realize how conservative most of them are.
Seriously. If you look at the general attitudes of blacks, you’d find they are anti-abortion, anti-gay rights, pro military (so many of our nation’s finest are black), anti-amnesty, and they love God like no other ethnic group.
The D’s think all they have to do is tell blacks that they are ‘giving them’ something from the government and the R’s don’t want to ‘give it to them’ and blacks will be liberal.
Wait until the immigration debate comes up and the leading African American race baiters realize that there will be more Mexicans than blacks to compete for all the government handouts. And while Mexicans haven’t been here as long as the blacks, many have found success instead of victimhood.
CNN positive??? Yeah, maybe… When I see that PMSNBC and OLBER-DUMMY start to praise the TEA PARTY folks, well, that’s when dogs will be sleeping with cats, and the END is indeed near!!!
CNN is desperate ..getting hammered by 1960′s sit-com reruns on the ‘TV Land’ channel is not fun …
Re-runs of “Good Times” and “The Brady Bunch” have ratings equal to or better than prime-time CNN! ha! That’s awesome.
Come to think of it, I’d rather watch a re-run of “Sanford and Son” than Olbertard or Rachel Madcow anytime.
Hearing Redd Foxx call that one cop a “honkey” makes me laugh. And when he tells Julio to get his Puerto Rican goat out of his living room? Ha! Comedy gold!
You are an Iron Women of great restrain Michell….Oh if it only been me. My mother raised me better but my father said Nail the Punk. A gender issue I guess
Then again if four or five of us were to go to CNN to see what they mean it could double their ratings. Hope and Change–the channel.
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Tea Party movement has black folks and they pay a greater price than most:
Black conservative tea party backers take heat
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….Oh if it only been me.
I do have something…
If it’s possible, could you stop being lame?
LOL … why?
Truth will set you free.
Ha! I don’t even peruse CNN anymore.
Ever since they ran Dobbs off and in keeping people like open borders advocate, illegal alien apologist and DUI driver Rick Sanchez around I’ve decided early morning 30 minute infomercials are a more palatable alternative. I’m glad Glen Beck got the hell away when he did. I’ve noticed the Fox is picking more former CNN people as they jump ship.
Obama and friends will not be happy. Remember? CNN is a “real” news organization according the Obama administration. They are nothing like that highly watched, highlty rated Fox News Channel.
Sorry CNN. Tossing a crumb to the Tea Party after all you’ve done to degrade and marginalize them is pointless.
Nope not going to tune in period!!!! Stick it commie news network! I can get all the news I need off the internet…
Just goes to show that survival trumps ideology every time. The other side of the coin is GE, AARP and other major corporations jumping on the Obamacare bandwagon.
It may take a while but being right matters. If we stick to the facts and refrain from embellishing our arguments with over-the-top rhetoric, the majority eventually comes around to our way of seeing things.
Our message resonates with the majority of Americans because we are stating our case clearly and consistently and they realize that we are just like them.
Our opponents (one-party elitist government) are selling cancel while we are selling the cure. It takes a smaller marketing budget to sell the cure.
What’s that expression? Oh yeah
Schadenfreudelicious
Too little, too late. Desperate people do desperate things. Fool me once…
In know, but they use cliche’s when describing us.
BTW, as Sarah Palin has become the new face of RINO-ism, it interesting to note how she is similarly being accepted by the MSM.
Our cause is under serious threat of being fragmented by these interlopers (Palin, Rove, Gingrich, Armey… and maybe even Bachmann if she continues to call these useless mini-Tea Party protests with little advance notice).
Good thing I am here to set you free from mere facts and set you on the course of Hispanic PC-even for those of us who reject it:
“Yes DUI, spousal abuse and gangbanging are generally disapproved of BUT those are Gringo/Imperialist/racist/jingoist values which you must not force on the Hispanic male. The Macho is not a lesser value and must not be denigrated.”
I tried that line with my father once. Being a ” Gringo/Imperialist/racist/jingoist” wannbe he slapped that attitude right out of me. Coconuts are hard shelled they is, oh yea. Susan Roesgen and the CNN clowns could use a bar of soap across the teeth-not as punishment but as a reminder we were told. Even mother coconuts are hard shelled.
Maybe, but consider that a relentless and strident partisan approach just attracts enemy fire. Two can play the political camoflage game.
But I agree guys like Armey and Graham are no asset in the press for real conservative change.
What, you mean they aren’t still devoting 24/7 coverage to Michael Jackson?
This is far too little, too late and I have to note the link provided still reports the lies about the supposed racist slurs as fact. The only time I ever see CNN is when I am at the airport and I have to divert my eyes to avoid having my IQ lowered 10 points. They should just officially join Organizing for America so they can more openly root for the Dems and receive some of that Obama stash to bail them out.
Consider this too: We have to actually repair and redesign government to achieve our goals, liberals merely have to grow government to achieve theirs. A much easier task.
Well, being the kind of guy who never takes anyone’s advice to not read something, I clicked the link to the CNN piece. Wish I really hadn’t because the guy spent the first two paragraphs reiterating the charges of racial epithets being hurled as the congressmen went in to vote on obamacare before he started on the “well, maybe they’re not so bad afterall” bit. He was, in my opinion, completely missing the point rather pathetically.
I still love that video, especially the comment from the young woman at the end “Your trying to tell them we are bad people.”
Any desertion from Obamamania is a good thing.
Red Rover, Red Rover, CNN come over
Gosh! If they continue doing truthful, unbiased news they might actually overtake the Cartoon Network’s ratings!
The reaction of Michael Steele to Hughley’s statement on CNN last year (March 09) was all I needed to see of Man-of-Steele in action:
Yeah, CNN is wonderful to watch. It was a joy to see Hughley claim that the Republican party consisted of Nazis, and Steele just sit there and nod his head almost in agreement. –sarc.
Last time I watched CNN for real. I had only stopped on it because I saw Steele on it.
Did they take Breitbart up on his $100,000 offer? They reported the “racist remarks incident” as if it happened.
Their intentions haven’t changed.
Beware the wolf in sheep’s clothing!
Hmmm… CNN… CNN… who are they again?
“Beware of Romans bearing gifts.”
At least the people at CNN are smarter than the Dumbocrats in D.C. The idiots in Washington are sloooooooooow learners.
I check out MSNBC, especially on election nights, just for the pure comedy of having Olby and Chrissy sit next to each other and try to be civil. I can’t find a reason to look at CNN.
It could be that they know that they can’t get away with smearing us any more (see Breitbart’s expose on the eggs of Searchlight) or maybe it is an epiphany. I am willing to wait for any emerging pattern before condemning CNN’s effort. The true test is what they say in the early hours of any breaking story. Will it be “the narrative” or the truth?
CNN’s attitude reminds me of endless criminal trials: the dude insists he did not do it but as soon as he is convicted he repents.
Yeah, and telling most of the people in this country they’re unAmerican and racist that’s great election strategy too.
From CNN:
Now that the Tea Party has gone main stream, where is a white, male, middle aged, flag waving, bigoted, gun toting, Christian, fringe of society, right wing extremist, like me going to go to blow off steam?
Trojan horse and all…
Sorry, I can’t help it.
CNN: the same people who went out of their way to tell Republicans how wonderful McCain was. Oh yea, they are ready to embrace us. /sarc
“Leopards can’t change their spots.”
How’d I do on that one Dexter?
rollin’ on dubs, mofo
grandma knows some tricks.
In this post, Michelle linked to Hot Air’s story about how the Associated Press discovers that black tea party members exist.
Today, Ed Morrissey has a post up that mimics this post, What CNN saw at the Tea Party, but he recently updated it with a must-see link:
The White House staff on their lunch break?
I said last year that it was going to be MONEY that forced these MSM conglomerates to show both sides. Their ratings are tanking, liberal media is a nogo in America. They may be politically minded, but their bottom line is the bottom line. If it takes crappyratings to make them start speaking the truth, then so be it. at least, this one time, they are speaking the truth.
On April 7th, 2010 at 2:46 pm, Dexter Alarius said:
Rosegun is not the only dogmatic leftist at CNN. CNN is a ferociously antiIsrael network. Christine Amanpour was interviewing a guest when the subject of waterboarding came up. Amanpour became apoplectic. She yelled at the guest: “Waterboarding! That’s what the Israelis do”. The interview had nothing to do with Israel but in Amanpour’s disturbed and fevered brain, torture and Israel are the same. Then there is Rick Sanchez, who has his own victims in Miami to atone for. Sanchez was interviewing an antiIsrael zealot last week when it turned into a lovefest of antiIsrael venom. CNN is just a basket case. It ratings are beneath the toilet and it has to rely on the superannuated Larry King to beat out Cspan 2 in the ratings.
On April 7th, 2010 at 5:36 pm, Mainah said:
They are NOT speaking the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.
I am not giving them a pass on this:
Show us pictures of the signs, and let us judge for ourselves. I’m not taking their word for it. Sorry, but they have cried wolf too many times.
That is not truth, that is B.S.
Andrew Breitbart offered up $10,000 to anyone who could show proof of the claims that racial slurs were hurled at Democrats on their way to vote for Obamacare. No proof was ever presented, but yet CNN repeats the lie as if it were fact.
This CNN piece has a little bit of truth in it, and that is at least a step in the right direction, but the lies it continues to spread as truth negate any redeeming value in this piece.
It’s time for the MSM to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. Otherwise, they absolutely deserve to go bankrupt.
Reporter’s notebook: What really happens at Tea Party rallies
By Shannon Travis, CNN Political Producer
… like the people you work with and for at CNN, Mr. Travis?
I guess kissing the O-Butt gives CNN access but it doesn’t give them ratings or pay the bills!
On April 7th, 2010 at 5:46 pm, Marc said:
It starts with Ted Turner.
He can’t stand Christians or Jews.
LOLOL last one out permanently at CNN when they close the doors like AirUnAmerica, please turn the lights out. oh, sorry, the power will already be turned off for non-payment of the utility bills, so you won’t have to worry.
you choose sides, you might find out your side is shrinking. along with your relevance, revenue and venomous staff (who insult average citizens every day). oh the horror. LOLOL
Money talks. When you’re losing ad money because your ratings are so bad, it may be time to “test the waters” of conservatism to see if it’s better. Demonizing a movement that is more and more popular won’t bring in the money. But, their reputation is already shot…too little, too late. Nothing short of a major shift of opinion would be the only way and they won’t reconsider that.
Take a look at the chart here to see what the makeup of the Tea Party is (at least according to Gallup). Not a statistical difference between the Tea Party makeup and the makeup of Adult Americans.
talk about too little….too late!
I guess they realized they were screwed when Cartoon Network got better ratings. Too little, too late.
Is CNN and MSNBC still on the air? I haven’t watched them for a couple years now. Last I heard the Cartoon Network had higher ratings than those two “news” channels.
Prince: “$”
Here she come, the most popular girl
In the whole wide world 2day
U don’t know if she would but what’s good if she’d come & look ur
Way
U’re standing over there tryin’ 2 b gangsta coppin’ ur favorite lean
U give her the head nod
O my god you’re the craziest thing
She’s ever seen but ur
[Chorus]
Dancing
And she’s loving you all night long
In ur little world she’s ur best girl
It’s all money
Ain’t nothing wrong
Ur dancing and she’s loving you all night long
Funky dolla bill it’s real you’all
Easy come, easy gone
Where you go everybody wanna know
So they can put it in a magazine
Next 2 the ad 4 the latest fad
In black hair care – vaseline
With this car these rims this grill you’ll b
The illest on the scene
Whatever whatever all you need is ur music
And you’ll b a party machine and you’ll b
[Chorus]
Dancing
And she’s loving you all night long
In ur little world she’s ur best girl
It’s all money
Ain’t nothing wrong
Ur dancing and she’s loving you all night long
Funky dolla bill it’s real you’all
Easy come, easy gone
On April 7th, 2010 at 8:04 pm, CWinNY said:
Exactly.
The Tea Parties are real, grassroots America.
False charges of racism by whites, along with real racism by blacks, helped Obama get elected. Prior posts I wrote about this:
While the real racism of blacks strongly supporting Obama has continued (as Rasmussen demographics have shown), the false charges of racism by whites don’t stick anymore.
Shhhh. Don’t saying anything, but we were instrumental in creating and spreading those stereotypes. – CNN
The last time I watched either was in the middle of the 2000 election recount.
I was tuning back and forth between Fox and MessNBC to see how differently MessNBC reported things, and tuned over to CNN once. In the middle of some major announcement on the other channels, CNN had some typical, pseudo-intellectual talk show on some crap.
Haven’t watched either since.
Work it Nana!
Didn’t Ted Fonda have something to do with CNN originally? That right there would be reason enough to never tune in. For how ever many days this Crap News Network has been on the air is how many days I haven’t watched it. I don’t see any reason not to extend that for another day. It’s highly likely I’ll make the same decision again tomorrow.
Well, this senior won’t dance to some rapper, but put on some disco and this guy (with a good partner) will entertain his 2 teen grandkids with some good latin disco moves. Go farther back and watch some boogaloo, skate, jerk, mashed potato and twist.
Go even farther back and I can still do the moves to some big band music, though it was before my time.
CNN earned a nickname among troops in Iraq as the “Communist News Network”. It was famous (infamous?) for several things but none of it having to do with reporting the truth from Iraq. They could have, they had the personnel, the equipment, their forted up private villa they had access to the stories that they didn’t tell you. The ones where US troops engaged in random acts of being Americans helped ordinary people in Iraq. The ones that might have helped save an American life or two had they been reported and if nothing else would have told you how really and truly amazing our troops really are. They could have told you about what really was going on in Iraq but didn’t. They didn’t tell you how Al Qaeda in Iraq kept its hold on sections of the country through terror and acts so terrible they seem like works of fiction. They never explained the byzantine politics of Afghanistan or that Hamid Karzai is the problem there and not the US or that ISAF has a very convoluted structure where there is no unity of command and where if a unit gets into trouble it may or may not receive help from a nearby allied unit because that unit has to wait for a decision from its own national commander and his government before lifting a finger. It has the resources to tell you that we’re using contractors who make tactical decisions they’re not qualified to make like where an FOB will be located because we lack the capacity (equipment, personnel) in logistics and engineering to locate our bases where we need them and not where a contractor can do so and still turn a profit. They haven’t ever explained that the Taliban isn’t a monolithic structure but rather a loose not quite confederacy of charismatic warlords armed with far better equipment than they ought to have access to. I wonder has CNN ever looked at where the money came from?
Communist News Network; The least trusted name in News.
Blacks don’t just attend Tea Party rallies, they speak at them and are running for office. A great example:
Here is YouTube video of Bill Randall speaking at the July 4, 2009 Tea Party in Raleigh, NC.
A “Tea Party Candidate” is not a candidate who is endorsed by the Tea Party movement…
A “Tea Party Candidate” is a candidate who has personally endorsed, supported and contributed to the Tea Party movement, long before it became “mainstream”.
Bill Randall, NC-13 candidate, speaking at speaking at the July 4, 2009 Tea Party in Raleigh, NC, PART TWO.
Other Bill Randall Tea Party videos.
CNN has already burned their bridges with me. As long as Fox remains on the air (Duh Won hasn’t shut them down, yet, a la his buddy Hugo), I’m covered.