Comments | obama_2008: Some surprisingly decent "teaparty" coverage by CNN

cieldumort in obama_2008

Some surprisingly decent "teaparty" coverage by CNN

Apr 15, 2009 22:58

H/T: America Blog

CNN's Susan Roesgen:
Teabagging is "a party for Obama bashers" and
"highly promoted by the right-wing conservative network Fox"

I hope America is getting
a good look at the teabaggers...

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right-wing propaganda, taxes, teabags, economic issues

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kill April 16 2009, 04:07:24 UTC

Sadly they will blame her OBVIOUS LIBERAL MEDIA BIAS for the fact that she moved on when they couldn't form coherent thoughts and had repeated themselves a third time.

That poor little kid.

cieldumort April 16 2009, 04:21:37 UTC

Tax day always seems to bring out the crazies.

Yeah, I felt really sorry for the kid.

kill April 16 2009, 04:41:59 UTC

My favorite are the idiots on Facebook who are posting, with their full names visible, "I just decided not to file."

cieldumort April 16 2009, 04:54:38 UTC

Hah!!

I see Darwin Awards

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op_tech_glitch April 16 2009, 04:41:39 UTC

I can't effing wait till Olbermann gets his fangs into this.

(I actually haven't had cable or access to decent online video for about 10 months now, but the MSNBC transcripts tend to be more than enough.)

cieldumort April 16 2009, 04:59:13 UTC

Damn skippy!

I'll see if I can't find some Olbermann clips about it this week or next and post links to them here.

op_tech_glitch April 16 2009, 05:18:31 UTC

I'll still need to go get on a decent terminal to watch 'em, but it should be well worth the effort.

buff114 April 16 2009, 06:46:34 UTC

OMG Olbermann has done a great job, he is so freaking funny!

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cieldumort April 16 2009, 06:30:19 UTC

If you listen closely, it sounds like the reporter was likely more reacting, rather than egging them on. Also, there were hecklers in the background. And almost without a doubt, some people in there were shouting things like "Fox News Fair & Balanced, CNN Liberal Media!" (As was done frequently to various media outlets, particularly MSNBC, during the campaign).

CNN gave them the time of day, I am guessing, because had they *not* covered it, Fox News et. al. would have manufactured headline stories about that libruhl media not reporting on "real" news.

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cieldumort April 16 2009, 06:52:42 UTC

Eh. I suppose so. But then, I wasn't there, and if I had been stuck in that crowd... Hell, I would have wanted to cram the mike right up their...

;D

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rrainey April 16 2009, 06:01:42 UTC

I knew these "Tea Parties" were just anti Obama rallies. I want to tell these people, "Get over it, you LOSS!" Sheesh.

cieldumort April 16 2009, 06:30:41 UTC

yano?

rrainey April 16 2009, 06:39:24 UTC

Huh?

cieldumort April 16 2009, 06:51:15 UTC

Oh, sorry.. ("Yano" -> yes, you know?)

chrisondra April 16 2009, 06:27:52 UTC

...

¿

The idiocy.

cieldumort April 16 2009, 06:31:55 UTC

I'm not sure if my head hurts from laughing too hard, or trying too hard to make some sense of their answers.