CNN's 'Anti-Government' TEA Party Reporter: Obama as Hitler? 'Offensive' - Bush as Hitler? 'Look-Alike'

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CNN reporter Susan Roesgen became a pseudo-"journalistic" anti-hero yesterday for her obnoxiously belligerent interview of one Taxed Enough Already (TEA) Party participant and her overall assessment of the more than 750 events around the country as amongst other derogatory things "anti-government." 

But in another segment, she delved into rank hypocrisy the likes of which we rarely find even in the woefully biased liberal media pantheon.

In it she sought out another TEA Party participant who had a mocked-up sign in which President Barack Obama is melded with Adolf Hitler.  She immediately began arguing with this gentleman as well; amongst the things she angrily said were "Why be so hard on the President of the United States with such an offensive message?" and "Do you realize how offensive that is?"

We will admit that portraying President Obama as Der Fuhrer is a bit over the top.  But Miss Roesgen's sensitivity to being "so hard on the President of the United States with such an offensive message" seems only to arise when the Hitler-izing involves Democratic Commanders-in-Chief.

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Not So Offensive to Miss Roesgen's
Sense and Sensibilities
Let us flashback, shall we, to January 13, 2006.  When the very same Miss Roesgen filed a report on a New Orleans post-Katrina protest.  In which she proffered:

"City officials aren’t the only ones wondering when federal money will materialize. Catholic school girls marched on Jackson Square. They and their teachers say more money is needed to fix the levees, and they hoped the President would stop by after his meeting with business leaders. But while a look-alike showed up with a wad of cash, Mr. Bush did not." (Video here)

The "look-alike" to which Miss Roesgen referred is pictured at right.  As in Bush with an Adolf Hitler mustache (and Satan devil horns). 

Miss Roesgen did not chastise the porter of the giant BusHitler cranium for being so offensively hard on the President.  Quite the contrary; she obviously saw him/her/It as furthering the story she wished to tell.  So she directly referenced him/her/It in her alleged "news" report.

Oh what a difference a Party makes for Miss Roesgen's hyper-sensitivity to Presidential affronts.

H/t Adam Weiss for the video kick-in.

—Seton Motley is Director of Communications for the Media Research Center and Contributing Editor for NewsBusters.org.


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Ms. Roesgen's antics (along with Anderson Cooper's) were a grotesque travesty of news reporting. CNN defense of her makes them a grotesque travesty of a news network

The "Mainstream" Media: By liberals. For liberals.

another benefit of these

another benefit of these tea-parties - further expose' of our disgustingly corrupt MSM:)

somebody email this to CNN for mega spin

government is the communists capitalism

 Thanks for posting on

 Thanks for posting on this, Seton!

I linked to the old NB blog in another thread (h/t Michelle Malkin who referenced it) but it deserves its own thread.

You'd think they'd realize by now that the Internet is out there, and Google, etc....and their words don't disappear into the ether; they can be researched.

Not that it matters to them....

They might say "Wow, that sucks!"  But at least they'll say "Wow!"  -Duff Goldman, the Ace of Cakes

And the sheep are eating it up

I know several people who are buying into this media propaganda about the "evils" of "these idiots and racist Obama haters" who are attending these "Fox News-sponsored Tea-bagging parties". Obama is "The Messiah" and he is NOTHING like Bush. He talks well, they say. Bush was an idiot and blah, blah, blah. But they were real Americans standing against the last Administration and now WE are anti-American AND racist AND fools AND kool aid drinkers AND Nazi Party Members and on and on, because we won't follow in behind The Great O. These rallies are unAmerican and hate driven, they yell at me. The hypocrisy and stupidity is running wild, people!

Don't forget the editors

The reporter's bias, hostility, and disrespect is obvious. No need to comment on her behavior, since it speaks for itself.

But I don't want to skip the editors. This wasn't one reporter's view. Some producer and editor put her there, knowing full well what she was going to do. That's why they put her there.

This was CNN as a whole, displaying contempt for these citizens protesting. CNN is happy when citizens protest, so long as the protest is liberal - but when conservatives protest, they go out of their way to frame it negatively.

Remember this the next time the media claims to give a damn about you. Remember this the next time they promote their right to free speech; they've proved that they care about their own free speech, but no one else's. Remember this the next time they claim to report the news without bias.

this twit

Doesn't realize how fortunate her choice was, some people would have slugged her.

I would really be curious

to see any footage of how CNN reporters questioned Cindy Sheehan and Code Pinkos when they were protesting.

Couple of days ago

Tweety was asked point blank by a guest: "How come you aren't out there protesting--you are for the common people." Despite the lack of evidence for that assertion, the funny part was Chris looked shocked--me, do something, but I wasn't told to do that!

 I missed the coverage--my cable co dropped everybody as an econ move and we all got dishes yesterday and don't even get me started on that.

this reporter needs to drop her mic

and pick up her counter-demonstration sign and step to the other side of the sidewalk (or whatever the legal designation for number of yards between counter protestors.)  She had no business "interviewing" people.  She's harrassing them.

What the guy SHOULD have said is that Duhbama is a facist...

BECAUSE Duhbama wants to start up HIS version of HITLER'S SA.  Of course, IF he would have pointed THAT out, that particular interview would have wound up on the cutting room floor at Communist News Network.

 

If it weren't for double standards, liberals would have NO standards at all.

All the guy had to say was

All the guy had to say was that obama is controlling private business, which is the textbook definition of fascism.

Cup of Reality

I am just sad that she didn't find a person at the rally that could have point out to her about CNN bias and the fact that Socialism is not an American Ideal. 

I would have turned the question around on her and asked if she supported a goverment that is going to spend 3 times more than the Bush Admin and then say they are for change.  Or who is paying all the bills that BO is raking up, is it the American people, so we have a right to say we don't like what they are doing on Capital Hill.

"For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and armed militia is their best security."

Nice detective work, Seton

I await the rebuttal from our NB devil's advocates (aka, "liberal-bias deniers").

<crickets>

<crickets>

To be honest, I don't

To be honest, I don't believe Roesgen deserves all this attention. What an ignorant hack. It appears she was hired for her looks. That's the only explanation that makes sense. A high school student could have done a better job covering the rally. Be that as it may, why is it that chicks like her feel they need to defend the honor of the Dear Leader? How emasculating is that? 

Further, it's laughable for example, to compare the sort of fawning coverage on the likes of CNN for the illegal immigrant rallies to the Tea Party rallies. In the case of the illegals, we have people giving status to those who have broken the law. In the case of the Tea Party coverage, we have the MsM demonizing honest American citizens who are merely defending the Constitution. Or how about the sympathetic treatment of Cindy Sheehan - who anyone with a scintilla of intellectual honesty would consider a certified nutjob. Who in the mainstream media ever asked her whether or not she thought the things she had to say about Pres. Bush were disrespectful?

IMO, the MsM coverage (or lack of coverage) of the Tea Party phenomenon is by far the most blatant and ignorant example of media bias to date.

 

Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of the tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men. - Ayn Rand

I had no idea what she looked like, so I...

checked her out.  She looks a little bit like Dana Perino, only not quite as nice looking.  If CNN can hire this woman for her looks, then I urge Fox to hire Perino, not only her looks, but also for her intelligence and for her talent.  Come on Fox, what are you waiting for?  Jim Webster

Remember the anti-Bush

Remember the anti-Bush march in NYC the day before the Republican convention? Bush was portrayed as evil in every way possible. I don't remember CNN asking the protestors if they thought it was offensive.

example: http://tiny.cc/Oqrx7

 

jwm45...

 "I don't remember CNN asking the protestors if they thought it was offensive."

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Nope, they sure didn't.  Partly because they were demonstrating along with the others.  Well, on the INSIDE, anyways.  Far be it for them to show their disapproval OUTWARDLY, as that would lessen their journalistic credibility.

 

 

You can destroy the Constitution when I'm dead and gone.  Until then, back off liberal jackasses.

What "right-wing extremist"

What "right-wing extremist" protesters - i.e. American Citizens - should do is bring pictures of Bush hating signs to show these media-hypocrites whenever they feign offense at pictures of Adolph Obama.... 

...which is not "over the top" - btw, because both Hitler and Obama are socialists who believe in government control of everything - even the thoughts and beliefs of the people - as their agendas and the DHS report prove - if any further proof was needed...

Given the ubiquitous and

Given the ubiquitous and relentless Bush/Hitler comparisons of the last 8 years, I find her feigned cognitive dissonance amusing, to say the least.

PeskyDane...

 "Given the ubiquitous and relentless Bush/Hitler comparisons of the last
8 years, I find her feigned cognitive dissonance amusing, to say the
least."

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Ouch!  I had to look those words up to understand what you said!  

Well spoken, PeskyDane!

 

You can destroy the Constitution when I'm dead and gone.  Until then, back off liberal jackasses.

Pesky, Well, Bush, yeah,

Pesky,

Well, Bush, yeah, of course, but Obama... 

The "Mainstream" Media: By liberals. For liberals.

Viva la teaparty!!

The left will try to point us out as lunatics.  As said at the Dallas Tax Day Tea Party yesterday, "We will be called haters.  And we are!  We are haters of big spending liberal politicians!  We will be called racists.  And we are!  We are members of the human race!  We just prefer those who are responsible!

The tea party movement will continue to grow as the conservative sleeping giant is now fully awake and hungry.  Feeding time is November 2010.  

Angry White Dude

www.angrywhitedude.c...

I havent heard of a single arrest

All the coverage I have seen seemed very civil and organized. We have some very good folks on our side, makes me very proud.

Feeding time is November 2010.   

 And I cant wait to eat

"Television is a freak show" Bernie Goldberg

She is a typical Liberal. Why should anybody...

be surprised.  Because of people like her, I stopped watching the main stream media years ago.  No one, except a masochist, likes to slapped across the face while watching what is supposed to be "news reporting".  To quote Rush, "These people are hideous" and I agree.  Jim Webster

Oh come on, this is indeed

Oh come on, this is indeed mostly to do with the new regime.  Sure, we weren't happy with the Bush-Paulson bail out, but it has gotten ridiculous and besides, it simply isn't about bail outs, but the massive spending that belittles anything that happened under Bush, concerns about the erosion of our economic system/country and possible curtailment of freedoms.

One of the 34% who thinks George W. Bush was a great President. One of the 61% who wants to bring back the stock and pillory (yep...approval for Congress now at 39%...do you believe that!?).

I thought Bush's lookalike

I thought Bush's lookalike was Alfred E. Newman.

Watch the 2006 video to see the true extent of the hypocrisy.

CNN's Roesgen not only aired some guy wearing a Bush/Hitler/Satan mask
but used that guy as a prop to take potshots at Bush's distribution of
federal aid in 2006. She even compared the Bush/Hitler/Satan guy
favorably but saying "at least he brought money"

The only problem is that

The only problem is that man who said Obama is a fascist should have been able to argue his point better than a 10-year old. If I were to hold that sign I'd have had my talking point ready.

"Obama is a fascist because he is taking away our freedoms, while pandering to those who helped get into power. Like many fascists these people will do anything to keep power, and will rise to any criticism."

I keep telling my friends, just wait. There is going to be a law passed, and the media will jump up and down to support it, which will make it a crime to mock the president.

 

 

 

PiN... Oh I wouldn't be

PiN...

Oh I wouldn't be surprised one bit if that didn't happen...seems like we already have that law in there now anyway with the way the msm acts now...

...one thing about it...the msm will jump up and down and support this law like you say...but they will be the first to break it 24/7 if a real Conservative republican ever makes it to the Bully-Pulpit in '12.

...and of course they won't have to obey those same laws anyway...no repercussions whatsoever.

Agenda matters.  

Doubling down on stupid is not a particularly good idea. ~Andrew Breitbart

Oh the horror, someone

Oh the horror, someone compared the president to hitler..

Get over it bitches'.

A nice documentation of

A nice documentation of left-wing BDS.

Michelle Malkin

Michelle Malkin covered this blatant hypocrisy on her Web site as well, giving credit to NewsBusters for uncovering the 'Bush as Hitler Lookalike' clip from over 3 years ago. 

Love seeing NewsBusters credited for their body of work.  The average viewer isn't going to remember a supposedly impartial reporter thinking the comparison of Bush to Hitler is a big joke.  But thanks to NewsBusters, all one has to do is see a reporter make an a$$ of themselves on national television, search the archives and say, 'oh yea, she was an incompetent a$$ years ago too!'

Make no mistake, people who think it is appropriate to compare ANY of our leaders to Hitler are juvenile clowns.  Last I checked, neither Bush nor Obama created a holocaust.  Criticizing ideology is fine, hyperbolic comparisons are not. 

What Roesgen doesn't realize is that by finding the Bush/Hitler comparison to be nothing more than a lookalike, but the Obama/Hitler comparison is just too much to bear, and 'offensive' to so many people, she is no better than the man in that video clip.  She is at that low level.  Problem being, she is supposed to be a journalist, a professional.  Unfortunately, with yesterday's reporting Roesgen demonstrated that she is neither. 

On the other hand, here's hoping Susan Roesgen keeps providing biased comedy bits for those of us who realize that CNN is nothing more than a perpetual punchline anyway.

Rusty

Roesgen

Jessie R. Hamby            Let her rant & rave. Once an idiot, always an idiot.      WE, the PEPOLE will still be here after CNN is dead & gone.

Roesgen, Olbermann, Maddow, Matthews, Cooper, Couric

are just a few of the card-carrying members of the LIBSTREAM media.