Susan Roesgen, the hack who harassed tea party goers, was a driving force behind the flawed Jena 6 narrative that circulated the MSM cesspool back in 2007. The level of professionalism which made her famous on tax day has clearly been par for course in Roesgen's career. Patterico has uncovered the extent of her involvement pushing the absurd and reprehensible racially charged narrative:
Susan Roesgen, the CNN reporter who mocked tea party attendees in Chicago, is the same reporter who spread myths about the racially charged “Jena 6″ case in Louisiana, in which six black teenagers were charged with attempted murder for the beating of a white student.
The case gained national prominence because of the racial issues involved, and Susan Roesgen was at the center of publicizing the controversy, and perpetuating several myths about it. Roesgen’s bio says that Roesgen
became the first national TV reporter to cover the tumultuous “Jena 6″ episode in that Louisiana town.
Make sure you follow the link to Patterico to see a video of Roesgen's so called "reporting" and the actual reporting that refutes her claims. Also, be sure to check out NewsBuster's extensive log of Roesgen's abominations.
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I read this today at
April 20, 2009 - 20:50 ET by TN MomI read this today at patterico. Great article! CNN's Susan Roesgen should never be allowed to 'report' the news. Ever!
Fits right in . . .
April 20, 2009 - 21:06 ET by CpickeringRoesgen's reporting fits right in with CNN's chief international correspondent, Christine Amanpour's reporting from the Gaza. If you want to report something that didn't happen, just stage it!!
cp
April 20, 2009 - 21:44 ET by TN MomRoesgen's reporting fits right in with CNN's chief international correspondent, Christine Amanpour's reporting from the Gaza. If you want to report something that didn't happen, just stage it
and Wolf Blitzer's special fake halogram!
or Rick Sanchez stating
April 20, 2009 - 21:50 ET by TN Momor Rick Sanchez stating that Progressive Policy Institute is 'middle of the road'....
CNN the most trusted name in news?
Eh, no. NO.
Journalism is no more
April 20, 2009 - 21:51 ET by 10ksnookerActivisism has replaced journalism, for the worst.
Doesn't it figure that it's never the only time.
Never let the facts get in the way ...
April 20, 2009 - 21:56 ET by metaphorsbwithuRoesgen may have been the first, but the entire media followed the template from the beginning, linking an incident that occurred in September, as I recall (the "noose" incident), with another (the beating of a student who had no involvement to the previous incident) which occurred three months later.
The media implied that one incident immediately followed the other, and most people who followed the story probably believe that to this day.
There was, in fact, no link, but being accurate in explaining that fact would have discredited the story-line the media wanted to promote.
metaphorsbwithu
Jena 6
April 20, 2009 - 22:11 ET by JarnSince the events there, the mother of Michael was implicated in a shovel assault incident regarding drug use at her home from what I understand. The original article was published on the Alexandria Daily Town Talk but for some reason it has been pulled. Google turns up the link to the article but it's 404. Go figure.
The boy's biological father shoved down a court appointed attorney and spit in her face.
Other indications that the boy had sexually forced himself on a young girl while underage has been heard of in recent months.
Lots of things about the members of the Jena 6 that have NEVER made it to the media.
"racism" at the tea parties
April 20, 2009 - 22:31 ET by EugeniaThis Susan Race-baiter in an earlier installment of her "reporting" on the tea parties kept harrassing a lady at the rally saying she didn't see
"not one African-American here." So her agenda was multi-fold. I hope she slunk away never to be seen as a "reporter" again.
CNN
April 20, 2009 - 22:34 ET by rightwingidiotCrappy Non News
You don't think the nuts
April 20, 2009 - 23:19 ET by nwahsSo, you don't think the nuts she was interviewing ( the foul mouthed hyperventilating father who was using his child as a prop, or the Federal Reserve Conspiracy theorist) had anything to do with it? Would you allow any one of those people into your home if you didn't own a gun? She was in the mist of wack jobs - crazy people.
Let's waste time, chasing cars, around our heads
how about you back that up backward shawn
April 20, 2009 - 23:25 ET by candanceWhich part of his segment was foul mouthed? As I recall, he was in the middle of quoting Abe Lincoln when she pulled the mic away to start a debate with him.
Methinks that if a Fox News reporter stopped you after six seconds and started arguing back, you would probably lose your temper as well.
As far as having his child there, you better provide some proof that you've complained about lefties doing the same. Otherwise that's a partisan accusation.
And yes, I'd invite them into my house and offer a pot of coffee. In fact, I attended the tea party in my city and felt pretty safe there. You should consider making friends with a few conservatives - then maybe you will no longer be afraid of that which is different.
good point
April 20, 2009 - 23:28 ET by Stephen GutowskiWell said
I'm friends with conservative
April 20, 2009 - 23:36 ET by nwahsJust not crazy, tin foil hat "conservatives."Branch Davidians make me nervous.
Let's waste time, chasing cars, around our heads
and there it is
April 20, 2009 - 23:40 ET by candanceNorman = David Koresh
You are officially a hateful troll.
More pathetic
April 20, 2009 - 23:46 ET by UnsaneGood Shahinshah, you aren't exactly imbued and imprisoned by hateful stereotypes much, are you? "Branch Davidians"?
If ever we needed proof you cannot debate honestly or in a civil manner on NB, this is it right here.
"CONSUMED DEMOCRACY RETURNS A SOCIALIST REGIME" - Slayer, "Fictional Reality", from Divine Intervention (1994)
Hateful stereotypes?
April 20, 2009 - 23:52 ET by nwahsDid you miss the part of the video I linked to with Obama portrayed a Hitler and the guy repeating over and over, Obama is a fascist? Did you miss the Tea Party lesson plan that stated to leave politics out of it?
Let's waste time, chasing cars, around our heads
Yes, hateful stereotypes
April 21, 2009 - 00:03 ET by UnsaneThey were all wrong. Your God, His Majesty The Shahinshah, is not a fascist. He is a Socialist. (There is a difference.) And here's betting you were all bent out of shape at the intense, vile hatred directed at Bush! What say YOU about Bush being called a fascist, a Nazi, Hitler, and such?
Did you miss the Tea Party lesson plan that stated to leave politics out of it? How do you manage to leave politics out of a political protest?
"CONSUMED DEMOCRACY RETURNS A SOCIALIST REGIME" - Slayer, "Fictional Reality", from Divine Intervention (1994)
Yea...
April 20, 2009 - 23:27 ET by Stephen GutowskiTotally dude. Not wanting your children to be in debt up to their eyes sure is the sign of a wack job.
Wel using the kid for a prop
April 20, 2009 - 23:33 ET by nwahsUsing the kid for a prop didn't help, but the total melt down at not being able to hold center stage was a pretty good clue of a wack job.
Let's waste time, chasing cars, around our heads
yeah, that was it..
April 20, 2009 - 23:39 ET by candanceNot holding center stage, that was it. Susan Roesgen listened to him for all of ten seconds, promptly declared it not safe for family viewing, and ended the segment.
But no, he shouldn't haven taken offense to that....
Not another word about Bill OReilly talking over people. Not. one. more. word.
Do you EVER think for yourself?
April 20, 2009 - 23:43 ET by UnsaneCurious, nwahs, do you do any independent thinking or do you always just vomit the same tired talking points? Or are you vomiting them on behalf of some sponsor?
"Using the kid as a prop". Yeah, as if Leftists don't EVER do that! Besides, I don't think the man was. In fact, the fact the man had his kid with him is a testament to a point i made here and elsewhere last week:
Conservatives make for the worst revolutionaries. That's because conservatives have no professional class of protesters. Protesting is not a career choice conservatives want to make. Either they are too busy working to protest, or taking care of families to protest, or both. I suspect the gentleman there was taking time out of a busy day there to attend the Tea Party; exercising his First Amendment right to "Peaceably to assemble and to petition the government for a redress of grievances" (something that nwahs probably believes does not ever apply to conservatives).
In fact, taking this further, it tells me a lot when you can bring your children to an event like this. There is no way in hell you could to a Leftist protest, unless you want to subject your children to CS and the worst sort of human debris.
"CONSUMED DEMOCRACY RETURNS A SOCIALIST REGIME" - Slayer, "Fictional Reality", from Divine Intervention (1994)
So its a revolution?
April 20, 2009 - 23:48 ET by nwahsBut if you want money for people with minds that hate
All I can tell is, brother, you'll have to wait
Let's waste time, chasing cars, around our heads
A mind that is very full of hate
April 21, 2009 - 00:09 ET by UnsaneBut if you want money for people with minds that hate Ah, a Beatles fan. How nice.
Minds that hate...like yours? You being filled with absolute rage that not everyone worships your God? You filled with absolute rage that these EVIL conservatives DARE protest or have their voices heard, much less are allowed to BREATHE?
Like your constant demands conservatives SHUT UP? Like your demands that conservatives leave the GOP and lose whatever voice they have left so you can have TWO Leftist parties in America?
Sounds like you are the hateful one here...
"...but if you go carrying pictures of Chairman Mao, you ain't gonna get anywhere anyhow..." (well, in your case, pictures of His Majesty The Shahinshah, but that kinda wrecks the meter)
"CONSUMED DEMOCRACY RETURNS A SOCIALIST REGIME" - Slayer, "Fictional Reality", from Divine Intervention (1994)
Have to Wait?
April 21, 2009 - 08:57 ET by UpNorth"But if you want money for people with minds that hate
All I can tell is, brother, you'll have to wait". Hey Shawn, why wait, ACORN isn't waiting and they're getting $6Billion, with a B.
And they're one of the more hateful leftie groups. Witness their visits to private homes in Conn. and the left comments on kos, du and like-minded sites.
Ahh
April 20, 2009 - 23:55 ET by misterbillIt takes one to know one, sometimes!!!!
You truly are backwards Shawn!!!
using child as prop
April 21, 2009 - 07:18 ET by SickofLibsGee, where in the world have we heard that before? Lib Talking Point #23 perhaps?
How about maybe he had to bring the kid (who was obviously too young for daycare) because his wife was, say, working?
And just like JTP, he didn't run up to Roesgen and beg to be "interviewed."
Roesgen was indeed a
April 20, 2009 - 23:48 ET byRoesgen was indeed a proponent of this story. However, according to Paterico the nooses weren't racial? B. S.
I too doubt whether there was a "whites only tree", I doubt this because I'm very sure I've heard some of the non-white students talk about sitting there before. So I clearly see this as her "liberal license" shall we say? LOL. However, to pretend that the people who placed the nooses had no racial animus requires you to be in their head and believe the story of people who are being investigated for a hate crime. The first thing any attorney worth his salt is gonna tell them is, "Hey, kid, you're lookin' at big numbers unless you come up with a NON-HATE related excuse for the noose". If you believe that, "Yo tengo una puente para vender, está en Brooklyn, Nueva York , contiene vistas maravillosas!"
Ha!
April 21, 2009 - 00:14 ET by UnsaneNooses, you say? I place that on the hate-filled Leftists and Socialists.
Why do I say that? Because I witnessed similar things happening at the San Antonio Tea Party. (Specifically, one Leftist was seen carrying a clearly racist sign. The Rightists chased him off. We all knew why he was there. For the use of propagandists like yourself.) But all it showed me is that the REAL racism is not on the Right, but rather, on the Left.
It is also extremely amusing to be lectured on hatred from those who follow a political philosophy which has hate as its foundation.
"CONSUMED DEMOCRACY RETURNS A SOCIALIST REGIME" - Slayer, "Fictional Reality", from Divine Intervention (1994)
So, I'm a "propagandist" for
April 21, 2009 - 02:03 ET bySo, I'm a "propagandist" for pointing out a logical flaw in an otherwise decent story? Perhaps you're just too stupid to read properly. I was not opining ( and could care less about) the political affiliation of the "noose hangers", rather I voiced opinion about their reason for hanging said noose. But as is typical of ideological morons everywhere, here, there, or the Daily kos, you just attack what you're too dim to understand.
There is no one on this blog or anywhere else more conservative than I am. I am the one always pointing out the ways in which "Christianity Lite" has LIBERALIZED the bible. From the false baptisms of the Catholic church, WHICH WERE LIBERALIZED in 250 AD to LEAVE OUT THE NAME OF JESUS!
So, that's me. But jeez, disagree with one blogger who is trying to excuse racists who HUNG A G.D. NOOSE and I'M THE BAD GUY!
Christian?
April 21, 2009 - 06:36 ET by CpickeringTell me Acts 2_38, what does the G.D. in "G.D. NOOSE" stand for? Certainly not what I read it to mean!!
I use a rope
April 21, 2009 - 08:29 ET by general companyWith a Noose type knot on both ends as a handy tool. I use it often, am I a racist too Acts. Do the folks of color whom help me with my work, are they suffering from Stockholm syndrome. BTW, many craftmen whom have worked with me now carry this same tool. My Grandfather showed it to me, and I have shared it with many folks. BTW before you go there,, my Grandfather was as close to a Saint as you can get.
I think it is pretty darn clear who the bigot is here.
My Gov. thinks I am dangerous, so be careful
"Television is a freak show" Bernie Goldberg
yeah it's pretty clear
April 21, 2009 - 08:43 ET by candanceActs doesn't want to talk about the fact that months after the noose incident, the "Jena 6" beat a white kid nearly to death, and when investigators said "you're looking at big numbers here so you better come with an explanation," they used the noose as a way to say the white kids deserved it.
*yawn*
April 21, 2009 - 08:19 ET by candancePeople plant "racist" evidence against others all the time. Madonna Constantine did it at Columbia University. Donald Maynard did it in Baltimore.
Unless you're here to argue that those duke lacrosse boys really were guilty...
Unsane wasn't trying to excuse any racist behavior. He was debating if there was any racism involved. And you are now doing a common logical error called begging the question. It goes thusly:
That was a horrible display of racism!
But the investigation found that it wasn't...
No need to investigate this display of racism!
It's a bit like asking unsane if he ever stopped beating his wife.
Incidentally, I'm not sure if Jesus appreciates you using GD to make a point. Unless your point is that the piece of rope used in the event is itself so full of sin that it is banished to hell, which I'm doubting.
Keith used to resort to profanity too. Sometimes the mask slips off a little, huh?
Silliness
April 21, 2009 - 08:58 ET by UnsaneSo, I'm a "propagandist" for pointing out a logical flaw in an otherwise decent story? Perhaps you're just too stupid to read properly. I was not opining ( and could care less about) the political affiliation of the "noose hangers", rather I voiced opinion about their reason for hanging said noose. But as is typical of ideological morons everywhere, here, there, or the Daily kos, you just attack what you're too dim to understand. If anyone is too dim to understand anything, it is in fact you. I actually attended a Tea Party and what I observed at the San Antonio Tea Party is an immutable fact. That you cannot wrap your mind around that is not my fault. And because you cannot begin to question that, you question my ability to read - which much of the NB community knows better than to do that - refer to me as an "ideological moron" (I suppose being wishy-washy is high virtue?) - and say I am dim?
Racism is a fairly serious charge. Unfortunately the charge is also bandied about in such a way that when I DO hear it lofted, I have to question it from hundreds of angles. It is used in such a way that it is to the detriment to anyone who is suffering from such stupidity. But does the Left think of that? Nah.
There is no one on this blog or anywhere else more conservative than I am. I will translate that as you are too ashamed of your real ideological bent. And how can that be, anyway? Surely you don't want to be dragged down to the level of the "ideological morons", do you? I am the one always pointing out the ways in which "Christianity Lite" has LIBERALIZED the bible. From the false baptisms of the Catholic church, WHICH WERE LIBERALIZED in 250 AD to LEAVE OUT THE NAME OF JESUS! So what? Save that for your religion blogs - I for one couldn't care less about this. Besides, not all conservatives are Christians, and vice versa.
Further, I have read your previous posts and they suggest to me otherwise about your ideological bent anyway.
So, that's me. But jeez, disagree with one blogger who is trying to excuse racists who HUNG A G.D. NOOSE and I'M THE BAD GUY! A Christian even using the initials "G.D."? Interesting. Again, racism is a very serious charge in this day or age. Were they genuine racists, or were they racist Leftists looking to lay down some red herrings in order for some good old-fashioned agitprop that you have fallen hook, line and sinker for?
"CONSUMED DEMOCRACY RETURNS A SOCIALIST REGIME" - Slayer, "Fictional Reality", from Divine Intervention (1994)
didn't you know unsane?
April 21, 2009 - 10:04 ET by candanceThe technical wording used in a water baptism has everything to do with reading the minds of a bunch of kids in Louisiana.
I bet she's been kicking
April 21, 2009 - 07:37 ET by SickofLibsI bet she's been kicking herself in the head for missing out on the Duke Lacrosse slimefest.
It's not surprising.
April 21, 2009 - 12:01 ET by Mike76It's not surprising she acted the way she did during her "coverage" of the tea parties and the Jena 6 case. It's standard operating procedure for anti-whites like Susan Roesgen.
I'm assuming I'm not the only one who has figured out that liberals aren't against "racism," they're against white people.