CNN anchor Campbell Brown introduced a segment on Thursday’s Election Center program by contrasting the "[p]eople all over the world dancing in the streets" over the election of Barack Obama to the "really, really angry" reaction of conservatives, which she then labeled "right-wing rage." A graphic with the same label flashed on-screen, accompanied by a picture of Obama smiling.
During the segment, which aired just after the bottom-half of the 8 pm Eastern hour of the CNN program, CNN correspondent Joe Johns played an audio clip of conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh as an example of such "rage." Limbaugh, who reacting to the appointment of liberal Illinois Representative Rahm Emanuel as Obama’s White House Chief of Staff, called Emanuel a "good old-fashioned Chicago thug, just like Obama is a good old-fashioned Chicago thug," and gave an anecdote about how Emanuel used a steak knife to demonstrate his own anger towards Bill Clinton’s enemies after the 1992 election. Johns’ reply after the clip: "So if you were thinking the country is now unified, think again. There are still deep divisions."
The CNN correspondent then continued by stating how "[s]ome conservatives say the message that brought them to victory in Congress in the 90s is still viable. Remember, they rode in on a wave of pushing things like smaller government and less spending. It was a return to an update of classic Grand Old Party themes." He then played a clip from David Keene of the American Conservative Union, who outlined how Republicans strayed from conservative principles over the past six or eight years.
The full transcript of the segment from Thursday’s Election Center:
CAMPBELL BROWN: We all saw the pictures on election night. People all over the world dancing in the streets. But some Americans, particularly conservatives, have very different feelings about President-Elect Obama. Many of them feeling really, really angry right now, and Joe Johns has been listening to what can only be called ‘right-wing rage.’ And Joe, tell us what these conservatives are saying.
JOE JOHNS: Well, Campbell, there is a certain amount of hand-wringing and that is to be expected. There are those who are already comparing this to the early 90s when Bill Clinton won. As everyone remembers, Republicans regrouped, and it wasn’t long before Newt Gingrich and his conservative army swept to victory in the House. And guess who’s also hammering away at the Democrats -- conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh, blasting both Rahm Emanuel and Barack Obama hours after the polls closed.
RUSH LIMBAUGH: He is [a] good old-fashioned Chicago thug, just like Obama is a good old-fashioned Chicago thug. On the night of the Clinton election, Rahm Emanuel was so angry at the president's enemies that he stood up at a celebratory dinner with colleagues from the campaign -- Rahm Emanuel grabbed a steak knife and he began rattling off a list of betrayers, and as he listed their names, he shouted, ‘Dead! Dead! Dead!’ And he plunged the steak knife into the table after every name. This is not a bunch of people that are going to [govern from the center] --
JOHNS: So if you were thinking the country is now unified, think again. There are still deep divisions. Some conservatives say the message that brought them to victory in Congress in the 90s is still viable. Remember, they rode in on a wave of pushing things like smaller government and less spending. It was a return to an update of classic Grand Old Party themes.
DAVID KEENE, AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE UNION: All those lines got blurred during the course of the last six or eight years. Republicans in Congress began to act like the Democrats that they’ve gotten rid off in the 90s. The president began to spend money like he was Lyndon Johnson, and the result was that voters began to get very upset. So, yes, you have to go back to your basics.
JOHNS: That, of course, was David Keene of the American Conservative Union. But make no mistake, this whole thing would be rehashed a thousand times before there’s another election. Campbell?
BROWN: All right. Joe Johns for us tonight. Joe, thanks.
—Matthew Balan is a news analyst at the Media Research Center.
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how interesting
November 7, 2008 - 13:31 ET by candanceI don't recall this kind of reporting when Bush won in 2000 or 2004. If a lib calls Bush a Nazi they're being truly patriotic. If a conservie calls Obama a thug they're full of rage. Nice to know how things work.
Got one thing to tell ya Campbell: "the voice of dissent is the truest voice of partiotism."
I'm a typical white person.
Glad to see you know the
November 7, 2008 - 14:11 ET by motherbeltGlad to see you know the rules, candance.
"the voice of dissent is the truest voice of partiotism."
Isn't that what lefites said when they were busy trashing everything about President Bush and this country?
exactly MB
November 7, 2008 - 14:32 ET by UndercoverConservativebut you watch, criticism of "their" President will not be tolerated. The Media will not celebrate every single whining voice that has sh*t to say about Bush.
Criticism of the President will not be praised as patriotism, but made criminal under such easily-redefinable "crimes" as "hate speech" and will carry an actual penalty. You won't hear untold thousands claiming they're being "repressed"-they will be truly repressed and their voices silenced, or drowned out under the ridicule and media labels like "anger" and "rage".
And it's already begun.
"to call an illegal immigrant an "undocumented alien" is the same as calling a streetcorner drug dealer an "unlicensed pharmacist".
"You spend your money anyway you want and respect other's rights to do the same"
46%
November 7, 2008 - 13:39 ET by cvgbuckeyeThere are 46% who are still rational, free Americans MS. BROWN! We are not "peoples of the world dancing in the streets".
Do you think those "dancers in the street" have American interests at heart or are they rightly celebrating an election of a President that signals a critical weakening of the Leader of the Free World, MS. BROWN?
Are they celebrating a 250 year Democracy that has now bowed at the alter of Marxist Socialism, MS. BROWN?
I think we all know the answers MS. BROWN!
other "dancing in the street'events"
November 7, 2008 - 14:35 ET by UndercoverConservativeThese same street dancers also partied when thousands were burned alive and crushed under the cowardly attacks of the WTC, and those sailors destroyed on the USS Cole.
So now we have a new barometer, a new measure of the distress level of America-measured in "street dancers" per kilometer. The more the evil, the more the minions dance.
"to call an illegal immigrant an "undocumented alien" is the same as calling a streetcorner drug dealer an "unlicensed pharmacist".
"You spend your money anyway you want and respect other's rights to do the same"
You are just proving her right.
November 7, 2008 - 16:25 ET by ChumlyFrom all I have read on Newbusters since the election, you are all just proving Ms. Brown right. And, you are all an example of why Obama won the election. Most of us in this country are tired of the vitriol coming from the far right. It is sources like NewsBusters bloggers that is helping divide this country. You are not uniters, you are dividers. And, the comment about socialism just indicates that your sources of "news" and information is quite limited. Your are getting disinformation from Fox and Rush.
Cultures from all over the planet used to love the United States. And, they want to love us again. Bush (with the help of people like you) have tarnished our image and reputation. We can now hope to get our good reputation back.
America is built on fiery
November 7, 2008 - 16:36 ET by dtaAmerica is built on fiery discourse. We have a controlled revolution every 4 years. Sometimes the revolution suceeeds, sometimes not. Be proud of this heritage and don't be discouraged.
Some here are discouraged and mad, and while understandable, that is part of democracy. My own view is that every now and then, the generational memory lapses and we have to have another Carter before people snap back to what works.
Chumly
November 7, 2008 - 16:58 ET by cocodrieYou're even dumber than when you were partners with Tennessee Tuxedo. Better get back into the cartoon business.
How nice, a drive-by troll
November 7, 2008 - 16:48 ET by El__KabongYou are not uniters, you are dividers.
What do you mean by being a "uniter?" Agreeing and supporting everything the "one" does and says? That's ridiculous. I wholeheartedly disagree with his policies... doesn't mean I don't like him.
Cultures from all over the planet used to love the United States. And, they want to love us again.
If those cultures don't like us, then they don't like us. They don't have to like us. And we don't have to like them. If they "want to love us again," that's up to them, not us. We are who we are... proud Americans.
"Proud member of the 4 percent... the other 96%... may God help them."
"Cultures from all over the
November 7, 2008 - 16:58 ET by TruthMonger"Cultures from all over the planet used to love the United States. And, they want to love us again."
WRONG (as usual)
I was around for the cold war (and so was this troll - which makes him either a complete dunce, or a bald-faced liar - hey, is it possible to be both? with this guy I think so!:)
Chumly... You must be
November 7, 2008 - 16:56 ET by Clear thinkerChumly...
You must be insane. Have you spent time at the liberal blogs? Those people are serial killers compared to the cutesy stuff that goes on here. We are not the haters. We try to be the educators and that is why we get called names. Lefties just cannot accept T-R-U-T-H.
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Look at the tone of the replies to my post
November 7, 2008 - 17:42 ET by ChumlySo...you are all just bantering about with cutesie stuff? Look at the tone of the replies to my post. It is all just cutesie stuff when there are no dissenters here. When a dissenter comes along then WHAM! Then the discussion gets even more unreasonable. Again, I say the tone I see on NewBusters contributed to the right's downfall. Well, that and destroying our reputation around the world and nearly bankrupting our nation.
Chumply, bankrupting our nation?
November 7, 2008 - 18:17 ET by jefflebowskiDo you remember those tiny institutions called Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae? Run into the ground by Democrats Barney Fwank and Christopher Dodd....Obama too. Guess you forgot about that.
Jeff Lebowski
www.angrywhitedude.c...
Dissenters we don't mind.
November 7, 2008 - 18:29 ET by R D HelmMindless dim talking-point regugitaters we do mind.
And as far as the right's "downfall," I wouldn't be popping the cork on the old bubbly just yet.
Something tells me Obama is going to fall flat on his face, and that right quickly, as I doubt he has the knowledge, nor the skills even remotely required to deal with the real world, not the world of make-believe that you nose-picking, booger-eating liberal bedwetters reside in.
-Dave
Resist the Obamafuhrer.
You are way off
November 7, 2008 - 18:59 ET by ChumlyRemember the topic of the post we are all commenting on. It had to do about one of your bloggers whining about Ms. Brown saying there is rage on the right. Look at all of the other blog posts on NewsBusters since the election. Lots of rage. Lots of rage in this thread.
You are way off when you say that people here don't mind dissenters. Most of us get absolutely bashed by you all and don't want to hang around for just more of the same smears. It is just like the conservative way of running a campaign. All smears and fear, and no substance.
Look at my original post on this thread. It had nothing to do with talking point regurgitation as you say. All I said is that some of you are proving Campbell Brown correct. That is not a talking point. Just an observation.
:-)
November 10, 2008 - 20:35 ET by R D HelmIts soooooooooooo easy.
-Dave
Did this country just elect Obama/Biden, or was it Soros/Ayers?
Chum...Used to love the
November 7, 2008 - 17:05 ET by bigtimerChum...
Used to love the US...are you insane...you may want to tell all the people from other countries that are in line legally that want to be citizens and all the illegal aliens the same damned thing you simpleton.
"America isn't the problem...America is the solution." ~ Rush Limbaugh
Big T, you are one of the
November 7, 2008 - 18:11 ET by ChumlyBig T, you are one of the worst offenders here big time. I have had "discussions" with you in the past and old Scott McClellen (former White House Press Secretary for Bush) vindicated me on every point that we were discussing about the Bush Administration when he published his tell-all book.
And, quoting Rush Limbaugh as if he were a source of wisdom is very embarressing.
he's much better than "huge
November 7, 2008 - 18:16 ET by TruthMongerhe's much better than "huge $$$$ publishing advance? I'll write whatever ya want!" McClellen:)
Chum...do not act as if I
November 7, 2008 - 18:17 ET by bigtimerChum...do not act as if I don't remember you well...I do...and as always, you are as important to me now as you were then...
....Nada.
"America isn't the problem...America is the solution." ~ Rush Limbaugh
Why do you put so much stock in...
November 7, 2008 - 18:20 ET by MightyMouthWhat the disgruntled ex-Bush staffers have to say? They got fired! Of course they are going to try and cash in right? Loyalty be damned!! Did you see Tony Snow(RIP) try that?
"There are two types of people in this country; those who provide freedom and those who enjoy it." MM says...
Chumly, the only time the world has ever "loved" us...
November 7, 2008 - 18:22 ET by R D Helm...was when we were busy saving their asses from tyranny. Of course, once that was over, most all of the world returned to hating us again.
Jihad Jimmy was almost as big a wuss as CIC than Obama is going to be, yet Jimmy managed to resurrect a 1400 year-old conflict that had essentially laid dormant for some time.
I could care less about what the rest of the word thinks about this country, as they are going to resent us no matter what. I prefer they respect us.
If you want to live in a country the world loves, move to France.
Oh, and be sure to take an Engish-Arabic translater along with you.
-Dave
Resist the Obamafuhrer.
twins or stepford wives
November 7, 2008 - 13:43 ET by totalkaosdaveTotalKaosDave
Why does Campbell Brown in this picture, lok just like Claire Shipman in the picture of the previous story? Are they twins or stepford wives? Are lefty news gals really pod people? Is there some mad scientist in a cave in Africa making...sorry, I won't go there...
eerie, isn't it?
November 7, 2008 - 23:39 ET by mom_roxThey look like sorority sisters - perhaps from Delta Nu Gamma?
The Axis of Taxes: Obama, Pelosi and Reid (source unknown)
Is this really promoting "healing", Campbell?
November 7, 2008 - 13:54 ET by Scout FinchSuch a negative tone, girl. How about the real rage--you know...the rage against the media for being little more than a PR wing of the Obama campaign? Can we expect to see you cover that in a special segment???
The stupidity of these
November 7, 2008 - 13:57 ET by krendlerThe stupidity of these on-air babbling airheads and mimbos - with their talking points and "memes" and "narratives" and never-ending spin-jobs - is astounding.
Gee, so we're not all unified now? I thought we were told we were unified Tuesday night with all the journalists literally crying on the air and announcing that divided America had been healed because we'd elected a 1/3 of one term senator (aka The Savior) as president.
Remember we are the "enemy"
November 7, 2008 - 14:11 ET by ahusserand the lie of "unity" will be just that a lie. The demonization and marginalisation process against Republicans/the right will continue as it has against other groups throughout history. (Catholics in Elizabethan England for example). A couple of hysterical moments and we all could easily become "enemies of the state". No matter that you may feel that my assertions are absurd or that it could not happen here. All the factors that led to this bizarre person's election as the president are absurd also yet it did happen. We need to be aware and not credulous.
"...no civilization, no matter how rich, no matter how refined, can long survive once it loses the power to meet force with equal or superior force." - Bernard Knox
This is a joke right?
November 7, 2008 - 14:02 ET by IamTinmanHow many ear numbing times in the last 8 years did we hear the left whining that "dissent is not disloyalty" and "how dare you question my patriotism/" when they refused to fund our soldiers in harms way and were called on it?
Now they get 1% more votes than George Bush in 2004 and claim such a mandate that anyone who questions their plans is unpatriotic. Well screw em! The right of dissent is enshrined in the constitution which at least up to now is the law of the land.
...I just can't WAIT to
November 7, 2008 - 17:00 ET by TruthMonger...I just can't WAIT to patriotically DISSENT LIKE HELL for the next 4 years - who's with me...? ooo doggies
TM... I'm with you on
November 7, 2008 - 17:05 ET by Clear thinkerTM...
I'm with you on this one. And liberals are about to find out that we can be VERY PATRIOTIC!
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...So am I TM! "America
November 7, 2008 - 17:12 ET by bigtimer...So am I TM!
"America isn't the problem...America is the solution." ~ Rush Limbaugh
JOHNS: So if you were
November 7, 2008 - 14:07 ET by motherbeltJOHNS: So if you were thinking the country is now unified, think again. There are still deep divisions.
Right, Joe, and the divisions are certainly the fault of all those angry right wingers, who just won't flock to the Obama's banner.
If they would just reach across the aisle, there woulnd't be any divisions, right???
Get with the program
November 7, 2008 - 16:14 ET by KC MulvilleThe first sign of intellectual bankruptcy is the demand to get with the program.
I never understood how people can utter such empty phrases like, "Obama can bring us together." Take a moment, my fellow conservatives. Other than their urging us to join into their unity (meaning "resistance is useless"), what has Obama done to bring you together? To bring me together with you? Or them? He claimed to be willing to listen to you. Then he appointed Rahm Emanuel.
Is he going to listen to us when we explain why he can't threaten Pakistan? He's already told us that he wasn't going to listen to the one person who knows what he's doing over there - General Petraeus. Instead, he's simply asserted that he's the president, and they're going to have to listen to him. Will he listen to us about the Freedom of Choice Act? He says he's going to sign that on Day One - does that inspire any conservative to think that Obama will give a crap about what we say?
Look, let's not kid each other. Obama won. He's going to do what he wants to do. Fine, that's how majority rule works. But let's not fall for the ridiculous assurance that we should be unified behind him in return for him "listening" to us. Like Jesus said to Judas, "Do what you're going to do, and do it quickly. And don't annoy us by trying to pretend that it's anything but what it is" (John 13:27 ... OK ... it's a little loose in the translation, but it captures the meaning I think.).
Where are the burning cars??
November 7, 2008 - 14:11 ET by wizardjrIf The Obomination had lost there'd have been Watts redux. The right wing "rage" amounts to being PO'd and saying so. Oh my. The horror of it all. </sarc>
I read somewhere that
November 7, 2008 - 14:12 ET by MillerTimeWarpGeorge Takei used to be married to Campbell Brown, but couldn't take her bad habit of biting her toenails (all that rage), so he went gay.
Discuss
I would rather be a Conservative nut job, than a Liberal with no nuts and no job
Call me what you will
November 7, 2008 - 14:16 ET by chiefpayneI will NOT give Obama a pass on ANYTHING. I do NOT like him as President and find it horrifying that the people of the US voted for a socialist for President.
I will continue to blast him every chance I get...PERIOD!
I look forward to
November 7, 2008 - 17:03 ET by TruthMongerI look forward to DISPARAGING HIM OVERSEAS every chance I get...
I dont want to be unified
November 7, 2008 - 17:52 ET by ahusserI dont particularly want to be "unified". Whatever that entails. It probably really means they want us to surrender.
Bingo! Obama Teacher
November 7, 2008 - 17:54 ET by Clear thinkerBingo!
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This is the rage Ms. Brown was talking about
November 10, 2008 - 14:23 ET by ChumlyYou all are just proving Campbell Brown correct. So, why even post this blog topic? This is all just very small stuff. Very petty.
Perfect Example
November 10, 2008 - 14:21 ET by ChumlyThis is a perfect example of how out of touch you all are and how little value you add to our political system.
You say you do not like him as President when he has not yet been President. And, labelling him a socialist when he is not is just mind boggling. Putting the tax on the richest 5 percent of us back to where it was when Clinton was President (when we had a surplus, and everyone was doing well financially) is not socialism.
Lets face it...you all helped elect the (arguably)worst Administration this nation has ever known. A leader with one of the lowest approval ratings in our history (where were they both during the campaigns?) And, now you can't stand it to see an intellectually superior person in the White House, elected by the "Real America", not the 1950s America. You have to put our nation before your extremist ideology.
Our country has shifted and you are now farther to the right than you think, while Obama is a lot closer to the center than you think.
I hope you do your bashing for valid screw ups. When the left bashed Bush and Co., it was for lying us into war, taking our resources away from the war on terror to fight in Iraq, awarding no-bid contracts to their buddies, tapping our phone lines against the law, being an open proponent for torture (masively besmirching our reputation), outing a Federal Agent (a traitorous offense) and other valid screwups against our country.
chumly...another fact-challenged liberal
November 10, 2008 - 14:39 ET by LionKingValerie Plame was not an undercover agent and she was outed by Dick Armitage...where is he? Walking around a free man.
Bush lied about what...WMDs?
II. There is a long list of WMD found in Iraq
Worst administration? Really. Let's see under Clinton. 3 major attacks against the US, no response -- emboldened terrorists. Refused to take Bin Laden into custody when offered. Enron, MCI, etc. falsely reported earnings under Clinton admin, Bush admin had to clean-up the mess. Bush admin had to deal with remnant terrorists from Clinton that caused 9-11.
Also under Clinton: Waco, Oklahoma City, and Elian Gonzalez. How soon they forget? I haven't even mentioned Paula Jones, Jennifer Flowers, and Monica Lewisnky yet.
Chumly, you prove yourself to be disingenuous and ignorant.
Get USED to it
November 7, 2008 - 14:17 ET by chiefpayneBecause I will comment how I don't like his ideas, his ideology or his past.
And I will NOT stop commenting...PERIOD!
I see the media learned nothing
November 7, 2008 - 14:27 ET by IgnatzJFahrquarThese are the headlines while Putin rekindles the Cold War and Israel is pissed about B Hussein wanting to talk to Iran??? What morons.
You want to know how B Hussein's will handle foreign policy? Go no further than my favorite video. Just swap out Madie with another Liberal hack and it'll apply just as well.
"All generalizations are false, including this one.” Mark Twain
FIRST OF ALL,AT WHAT
November 7, 2008 - 16:06 ET by patmac49FIRST OF ALL,AT WHAT TIME DID IT BECOME NECESSARY TO CLEAR WITH ISRAEL ANY FOREIGN POLICY DECISIONS WITH IRAN...THEY ARE A SOVEREIGN NATION AND NOT PART OF THE US..I AGREE THAT TALKS WITH IRAN SHOULD ALWAYS CARRY THE MILITARY OPTION BUT ONLY WITH THE USA INTEREST AT THE FOREMOST..AND DO NOT TELL ME THAT BOTH INTEREST ARE THE SAME..THEY ARE NOT
Before this election we
November 7, 2008 - 15:11 ET by Ruths husband BenBefore this election we were warned (threatened) by the media that if we didn't fall in behind the Obamessiah there would be race riots all over America. We, who can not stomach socialism were called racists and worse.
Well lookie here. We lost, there is little thuggery going on (a couple of isolated dough-heads to be sure, but for the most part- nothing). But according to CNN, we are not even permitted to still believe this man is unfit to serve and to be pissed about it happening.
If the shoe was on the other foot and the Big 0 had lost, do you think they would be condemning the race rioters? Or would they be saying, "Well, I certainly understand their frustration."
No Campbell, it's disgust.
November 7, 2008 - 16:47 ET by JPR1Rage is for liberals.
Lucky for you your guy pulled it off. Otherwise you'd have seen rage in its basest form.
Yeah, for us it's disgust, we'll deal with it.
Unify means...
November 7, 2008 - 23:40 ET by ScrapironSlow Joe Biden thinks to unify means to split into three parts and in his proposal for Iraq.
Unity my A**, I'm ready for war. Just kidding, no rage, just get back at them. Revenge will be sweet as we give Hussein the same respect the democrats gave GWB. Four years of comedy in the mist of a disaster will get us through it. Too bad the lefties won't have any reason to exist anymore. Suicide's will skyrocket.
You can tell every troll who comes along these days is a CNN (no news, 24-7 propaganda) viewer.
Old, Retired and glad of it.
"really, really angry"
November 8, 2008 - 00:23 ET by TN Mom"really, really angry" reaction of conservatives, which she then labeled "right-wing rage."
CNN's Campbell Brown is just really, really angry that 56 million voted AGAINST her guy, obama.
...or perhaps Campbell Brown is still really,really angry that NBC passed her by (as replacement for Katie Couric) and took Meredith Vieria instead? hmmmmmm??
Oh, and the Left-wing is Soooo Gracious and Mature.
November 8, 2008 - 12:40 ET by farstar99These Nazis invented hypocrisy.