Call the wah-mbulance.
So, the Tea Party protests are “not fit for family viewing” according to one very unhappy CNN reporter, Susan Roesgen, who also fumes over what she calls an “offensive” anti-Obama sign that compares Obama to a fascist. (And yes, I told you this was going to happen.)
But guess what? Newsbusters caught the same indignantly indignant Susan Roesgen covering an anti-Bush rally in New Orleans in which she blithely refers to a huge Bush puppet with horns and a Hitler mustache as a “lookalike.”
She called today’s events “anti-CNN.”
No, just anti-stupid.
CNN earns the Tax Day Tea Party Big Loser Award:
Biased. Busted. Beclowned.
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You know I did see one sign that I did think stepped over the line a tad and it went something like...
Taxpayers
Obama's
Jews
For
The
Ovens
I had heard that this was to be a non-partisan event.
But with signs like...
Chains
We
Can
Believe
In
or...
Obama
Bad
Ass
Mistake
America
run counter to a non-partisan uprising.
The staggering numbers that turned out, say for example 500 or so in Philadelphia will surely cause Congress & the President to re-think the error of their ways.
Viva Le Revolucion!
Doug, sorry, but I don't see anything in those signs that mention a party at all.
And, again, you are changing the subject (obvious bias by this particular reporter of this particular network).
Again, I reject my supposed role as defender of CNN and their lack of journalistic ethics.
So, using these three signs or any others of a representative sampling seen around the country at this fomenting groundswell you don't see it as being just a teensy weensy bit slanted to the "right"?
Now I grant you I didn't see any signs that said Republicans think Obama screws baby goats or anything as blatant as that.
However I don't think it's unreasonable to assume someone holding a sign portraying Obama as one bad ass mistake, or implying that the President was pitching taxpayers into figurative crematoriums a la Auschwitz was pretty much possessing a politically conservative point of view.
Tell you what though. As soon as I hear these tea patriots start railing against the US Corporations that have moved their headquarters off shore thereby avoiding $100 Billion in annual income taxes and taking the jobs with them and then standing in line for taxpayer bailouts when they lose their ass on their ill advised high risk dumbfuck investments which helped lead us to this shitstorm we are now in then I PROMISE I will stand with you.
And rain or no rain I'm betting more than 500 in Philly would too.
I think you missed the point(well I don't think you missed the point, just thought you could outflank us) of what Sean was saying Doug. The point was that the reporter was trying to paint a picture of how inapropriate the "Tea" party protests were because of the Obama bashing yet it was okay for her to give Bush bashing a pass. I'm gonna give you the benefit of the doubt too. You would never be so arrrogant as to think that would fly over our heads.Hehe.As far as the big corporations well, again I think your lack of understanding of what "We" are about is obvious. We support all companies big or small. We don't support bailouts. As you said if they make some dumbfuck investments then yea they should fail. But go back and really read what and how you wrote that. It's almost as if you're anti-corporation.I think I know you better than that but a little sad that you don't know "Us" better than that. We didn't like everything that Bush did and we didn't like everything that McCain supported but we voted for them because as a party we tried to weigh the pros and cons of each parties philosophies. We knew that probably sixty to seventy percent of the time they would support/ uphold conservative values. With Liberals we really didn't support anything they stand for. The tea parties weren't so much about taxes as just being pissed off and trying to get back to our core values and uniting and next election regaining the majority so we can really bring about change. You don't understand Doug. Neither does rac. Thats ok. I know you guys will make stupid infantile remarks like what change, illegal wars, raping the constitution,bigotry, throwback to the salem witch hunts etc. Its ok. We can handle it because like I said before, you either get it or you don't. Remember, "Need to know" hahaha.
I hope the tea parties have an effect on Washington DC, but I doubt that it will. As an ex-con mobster on TV put it today, we're not up against normal politicians, we're up against the chicago mob.
Sean, if it makes you feel any better, Ashton Kutcher just whipped CNN's ass in a Twitter challenge. That will teach those libs.
Matt,
not really anti-corporation, At least not until, to use your terminology, they attempt to "outflank" their legal & moral responsibility to pay their share of income tax. Now what that share may be is surely open to debate but I think we're all in agreement that it shouldn't be zero. Not if their intent is to do business here. This really goes more to the point I was trying to make that these tea parties in my opinion were mis-directing some of their energy at low income wage earners that pay no real income tax. If the premise is there that unless everyone pays than no one should pay then until some of these artful dodgers that call themselves responsible corporations start paying their fair share then I guess we're all off the hook. Worrying about some dickhead making 20 grand paying his fair share in income taxes is fools gold. And it does serve to deflect blame from the real culprit. A gluttonous Federal Government and their corporate masters.
To your other point about the blatantly obvious political bias of the CNN "journalist". Like I said, not my job to defend CNN.
Happy Friday everyone!
The federal government does need money to carry out its responsibilities (like national defense - after all it costs a lot of bucks to make so many millionaires out of service men). Doug, I agree that the real root cause of the problem is the government spending way too much on things they have no business in.
But, the 20K workers who pay no taxes are the enablers to the glutonous feds. They don't pay taxes, they are promised "tax breaks" or "credits" and so they vote for democrats. They think it is perfectly wonderful for the government to seize more money from the greedy rich and the corporations who are loath to pay their "fair share".
This is what we are truly protesting and this is what must be stopped.
If Dave didn't spend all his money on booze, gambling and wild woman he might very well be a millionaire soon.
And Sean, are you implying that the working poor of this nation are all Democrats? Do you have any statistical evidence to support this or did you just make this up? If you like I would be happy to research this one for you too.
RAC I guess I have made that assertion - fair or not - although I'm not saying that all of them are democrats, just most of them. And of course, not all democrats are the working poor. You have to leave room for Streisand, Baldwin, Pannatiere, Spielberg and the rest who point their fingers at the rest of us while hiring tax accountants and lawyers to find ways for them to pay less. (do ANY of them ever pay more? do ANY of them ever not take deductions?)
I would to see exit polling that asked "who'd you vote for" and "how much federal income tax do you pay" and "do you think it is OK to raise the taxes on corporations and rich people".
Well, our current president paid over $900K in state and federal taxes on $2,656,902 in income. His tax rate was 32%. I guess that means not all rich Democrats are sluffers when it comes to paying their fair share.
You do pose an interesting idea with your polling question. It is difficult to find clear demographic data (religion, income, etc) when it comes to voting preference. I suspect the data would be a lot less skewed than you presume.
"Cons[ervatives are] finding out why I generally don't like protests on my side," Daily Kos founder Markos Moulitsos said in a post-tea party tweet. "[T]hey bring out the wackos."
Just for the record...I actually went to a tea party and the people there were both democrats and republicans. They were a cross section of ages, cultures and races. Their words were not offensive, but they were frustrated and angry. People are SICK of big government and outrageous taxes (remember I live in California).
It is unfortunate the mainstream media chose not to meet people on that level, but rather minimize their feelings and vilify the right-wing conservatives.
Did any of you go?
I went to the TEA party in Manchester, NH. I expected a couple hundred people, but there were more like two thousand. Some had signs about Obama, but most were about the bailouts, taxes, big government, etc. The speakers didn't just focus on democrats, either, but rather about our responsibility as citizens to manage our government, not the other way around.
Of the people, by the people and for the people.
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