Susan Roesgen is a CNN reporter who was sent to cover the Tax Day Tea Party in Chicago yesterday. She appeared quite angry about the whole thing. The previously little known reporter certainly made a name for herself by her confrontational and barely (if at all) contained contempt for the Tea Party protesters. You can read more about it below, see her photo and see the video of her referring to the protests as ‘anti-government’ and ‘anti-CNN’.
Susan Roesgen
The Tea Party demonstrations across the nation yesterday were a huge success. There are estimates that overall 250,000 people participated at a minimum. The Tax Day Tea Parties throughout the country had to do with many issues. It was about the people of ‘Middle America’ being frustrated about the never ending taxation and the outrageously obscene ‘stimulus package’ that has been forced on us by our representatives who apparently see the money we make as belonging to them rather than us and they just allow us to keep some out of their great generosity.
What the progressives who have taken over our government don’t seem to understand that this is a rage that has been simmering just beneath the surface for a while. The problems that started becoming hard to ignore when the democrats took Congress in 2006. In the last few months, they’ve become impossible to ignore. Its the abandon with which the progressives are spending OUR tax money. Its the dismissive nature in which they address any concerns expressed by the people. Its the way they use government entities to intimidate and quiet anyone who doesn’t agree with them. Take ‘Joe the Plumber‘ for instance. If you say something they don’t like, you will find yourself on the receiving end of an IRS audit or an investigation by the Department of Child and Family Services. Anything to shut you up and serve as a warning to anyone else who has the gall to speak their mind.
This elitist attitude and no-holds-barred efforts to keep the silent majority silent was never more evident than in the ways that the media chose to cover the Tax Day Tea Parties yesterday. The New York Times ignored it. Local stations gave it a brief mention. Apparently, MSNBC made a decision to openly mock it as many of their anchors spent their coverage of the Tea Parties and the participants of the demonstrations making adolescent sexual references. It felt like ease dropping on a fraternity. There was ongoing jokes throughout any reporting on MSNBC about ‘tea bagging’. Ha ha ha. They thought they were hilarious. In one 20 minute segment, some form of the words ‘tea bagging’ was used 51 times. The Tea Parties were called Tea bag parties. The participants were called ‘tea baggers’ and the activities were called ‘tea bagging’.
CNN took a different tack. They sent reporters to at least some of the Tea Parties. Roesgen was at the Chicago Tea Party and apparently wasn’t one bit happy about it. She was belligerent and confrontational with protesters. She asked questions without giving time for answers and spouted out left wing talking points aggressively. She seemed angry to see Obama referred to as a fascist. She declared it wasn’t a family friendly gathering and verbally hammered the man who had the sign. However, Newsbusters has a video of the very same Susan Roesgen covering an anti-Bush rally in New Orleans and seemingly having no problem at all with President Bush being portrayed with horns and a Hitler mustache. Different standards? Lack of objectivity in reporting? Say it ain’t so!
You would think that she would fired, or at the very least she would be chastised for unprofessional behavior and irresponsible reporting of an event. Instead, she’s likely to get a raise and/or a better position. She might even get a job with the New York Times or MSNBC. Then she can make snide little hateful sexual jokes about conservatives to her hearts content.
Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the House and third in line for the Presidency, dismissed the Tea Parties as NOT grass roots, but rather ‘astro turf’. Her implication being the same as we are hearing from all the leftists, progressives and fringe, that this is all a vast right wing conspiracy financed and promoted by some unseen wealthy Republicans. In psychological terms, that’s referred to as ‘projection’, which is basically accusing someone else of behavior and/or thoughts that you are guilty of. You don’t need me to point out the difference in how the Tea Parties were covered as opposed to anti-Bush or anti-war protests. We’ve all seen the hand full of protesters being covered wall-to-wall by the main stream media, with high end polished matching signs, walking in and out of a close-in camera shot to make it appear that there are more of them than there are. Meanwhile, the left insist that the Tea Parties were poorly attended. The point is, if you opened your eyes and saw the events, they were not particularly professional nor particularly well organized. That is just evidence that they are, indeed, grassroots.
These are just a small sampling of the tack the left is taking to dismiss tax paying Middle Americans. We just don’t matter to them and they want us to sit down and be quiet and let them take over our country.
The problem is that these Tea Party are a preview of what COULD come should things continue to go the way they are going. Right now, we are seeing large numbers of people who don’t usually attend protests, who are tax payers, abide by the law, respect property and have jobs, get together to try to have their voices heard. No one is putting their lives or livelihoods on the line. Even at that, its obviously scaring the left. However, we could very well see just what we Americans are made of should the progressives continue to push through massive amounts of radical legislation that goes further than ever before to infringe on the basic rights of American citizens. The slow simmering anger is starting to boil. If it boils over, I guess the rubber will meet the road. When that happens, there won’t be any dissing it.
Its interesting that our representatives really don’t understand Middle America. They really don’t seem to know us at all.
The video of Ms. Roesgen’s rants is below the fold. I’ve also included some links to other related articles of interest.
Here is the infamous video as well as some referrals to related articles of interest.
