CNN Activist Reporter Brings Her Pitchfork

What we need to do is to follow the exchange that took place in Asia Minor at the beginning of the century. The Greeks living in Turkey had to move back to Greece and the Turks that lived in Greece went back to Turkey. We can create a national web site that will accomodate these type of exchanges. Say you are a Demorat that lives in Plano Texas. Why not relocate in a state where you will be with other liberals and socialists. I live in the liberal state of Florida and I want to be with my conservative, and now presumed “right wingers”, colleagues of the state of Texas. Let’s use a model like Harmony(the one that matches couples) and we can create an exchange that will split this country into two and let us live in peace. President Obama already predicted this split and that is why he quoted Lincoln on his speech on election night. So, let’s be pracmatic and both parties agreed on that and let’s move on. So, I don’t have to watch stupid CNN reporters, who has a job in the private sector, earning money in a private enterprise because of capitilism! This CNN reporter is a product of Capitalism and Christian upbringing. She is so out of it and represents the left, has no argument and gets angry and violent when they cannot come up with a logical argument. Her type are mentally sick and I don’t want to have anything to do with the likes of her. Yes, 56 million voted for this current type of government but remember 46 million did not. And to get ride of us is not going to be easy, we stand for Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness. What do you stand for CNN reporter?

BTW, FOX didn’t trigger this, it was the Santelli rant on MSNBC or their business channel, can’t remember but, give credit where credit is due.

Missy, here’s the WSJ historyp-trace of development:

So who’s behind the Tax Day tea parties? Ordinary folks who are using the power of the Internet to organize. For a number of years, techno-geeks have been organizing “flash crowds” — groups of people, coordinated by text or cellphone, who converge on a particular location and then do something silly, like the pillow fights that popped up in 50 cities earlier this month. This is part of a general phenomenon dubbed “Smart Mobs” by Howard Rheingold, author of a book by the same title, in which modern communications and social-networking technologies allow quick coordination among large numbers of people who don’t know each other.

In the old days, organizing large groups of people required, well, an organization: a political party, a labor union, a church or some other sort of structure. Now people can coordinate themselves.

We saw a bit of this in the 2004 and 2008 presidential campaigns, with things like Howard Dean’s use of Meetup, and Barack Obama’s use of Facebook. But this was still social-networking in support of an existing organization or campaign. The tea-party protest movement is organizing itself, on its own behalf. Some existing organizations, like Newt Gingrich’s American Solutions and FreedomWorks, have gotten involved. But they’re involved as followers and facilitators, not leaders. The leaders are appearing on their own, and reaching out to others through blogs, Facebook, chat boards and alternative media.

The protests began with bloggers in Seattle, Wash., who organized a demonstration on Feb. 16. As word of this spread, rallies in Denver and Mesa, Ariz., were quickly organized for the next day. Then came CNBC talker Rick Santelli’s Feb. 19 “rant heard round the world” in which he called for a “Chicago tea party” on July Fourth. The tea-party moniker stuck, but angry taxpayers weren’t willing to wait until July. Soon, tea-party protests were appearing in one city after another, drawing at first hundreds, and then thousands, to marches in cities from Orlando to Kansas City to Cincinnati.

As word spread, people got interested in picking a common date for nationwide protests, and decided on today, Tax Day, as the date. As I write this, various Web sites tracking tea parties are predicting anywhere between 300 and 500 protests at cities around the world. A Google Map tracking planned events, maintained at the FreedomWorks.org… Web site, shows the United States covered by red circles, with new events being added every day.

The movement grew so fast that some bloggers at the Playboy Web site — apparently unaware that we’ve entered the 21st century — suggested that some secret organization must be behind all of this. But, in fact, today’s technology means you don’t need an organization, secret or otherwise, to get organized. After considerable ridicule, the claim was withdrawn, but that hasn’t stopped other media outlets from echoing it.

I did read your link, sometimes my memory lasts a bit less than a nanosecond. Very good article.

Looks like they finally pried a comment out of Obama, he had no idea about the tea parties yesterday, probably more up to speed with what’s going on in Europe.

He’s putting us in two camps, Republicans that he couldn’t win over anyway and those going through dire times that he can help.

Doing what? Throwing more money at them, if that is his intention, he’s missing the whole point.

Pelosi thinks it was astro-turfing backed by those big money anti-tax cabals. First thing that came to my mind when she mentioned astro-turfing was David Axelrod and my, my, that’s how we got Obama, but now she thinks it’s a bad thing.

nice post sara, I hadn’t seen that. Talk about rediculous.

wow – now that was objective reporting – it was so completely obvious that she had her mind made up that I fail to see how she can even call herself a reporter.

and the guy with the fascist comment blew a grand opportunity – give a reason for cryin’ out loud!

@Missy:

Kiran Chetry has done a complete turn around since leaving FOX, didn’t even recognize her when I first viewed the video, she’s definately gone over to the dark side.

@Shirley:

I don’t know who that was in the studio but it didn’t look like Kiran Chetry to me

Lol….my copy and paste was apparently in error. I believe the reporter is Kyra Phillips.

Corrected.

Uri,

DON’T blame capitalism and Christianity for this “journalistic” piece of crap! Ms. Kiran Roesgen (KR) deliberately chose to call the protest “anti-government”, when in reality the protesters are against excessive government. NOBODY I know believes in anarchy, but most of them agree that government is too big, too inefficient, and too intrusive. What right-minded person would find fault with people for protesting what they see as exorbitant excesses? True capitalists recognize the benefit of good government practices, especially those that attempt to ensure fair competitive markets in which people *voluntarily* exchange goods, services, and currencies. And contrary to popular belief that free market capitalism depends on the notion of comparative advantage (when each party believes to have benefited from a transaction more than the other party), true free market capitalism is also achieved when each party believes a given transaction has been equitable to both parties.

Likewise, Christianity is founded on the teachings of Jesus Christ, and is particularly concerned with treating others with the respect for one another. Jesus’ overturning the tables of the “money changers” was a lesson to others not to take undue advantage of others.

Otherwise, I agree with most of the rest of your posting. I seriously doubt that most liberals would want to live in a socialist state if industry is allowed to choose between a capitalist state or an adjacent socialist state. I’d wager that most industry leaders would choose to operate in a capitalist society. I believe that most industrious people would choose to live in a nation in which their labors are rewarded, whereas most lazy people would fake disability and then choose to live in a nation whose motto is “from those according to their ability to those according to their need.”

Please don’t misinterpret my meaning. There are truly disabled individuals who are unable to function well enough to provide for themselves. Such people can seek help from voluntary, charitable institutions. Unfortunately, our society provides too much reward for sloth. THAT, my friend, is the great sin, and is neither condoned nor accepted by Capitalists or Christians. In theory, true Socialists demand each person to work to his/her ability, and is even possible in very small populations, where sloth cannot be concealed. In larger populations in the real world, there have always been a small group of individuals who manage to abuse even the fairest and most idyllic Utopias. If history is to be a predictor of the future, it seems to me that most industrious individuals will always prefer the higher risks and higher rewards of Capitalism over the lower risks and lower rewards of Socialism, whereas the least industrious will prefer the coddling environment of Socialism over the more demanding environment of Capitalism.

Which do YOU prefer?

Jeff V

I have to nit pick the headline. It doesn’t look like this CNN reporter brought a pitchfork. More like the broom she flew in on.

Remember what Goebbels said, when you control the media you control the conscious of the people. A lie can become the truth when repeated enough and with the right enthusiasm.

From Tom Elia:

Update: Here is the bio on the CNN reporter in this video, Susan Roesgen, whose resume indicates that she cut her journalistic teeth on the coverage of stories such as Hurricane Katrina, the Minneapolis bridge collapse, and the “Jena Six” story.

Interestingly, all of these stories had significant amount of biased coverage, as has been well-documented in other places.

Perhaps someone will check out her coverage of these events. It will be no surprise to see a certain, well, slant to her coverage of those stories as well….

Update II: And … just like that!

I wonder how offensive Susan Roesgen thought it was when the left was calling President Bush a Nazi, Baby Killer, Fascist, etc. etc.

@Scrapiron,

I’ve been dying to bring up a certain interesting coincidence concerning Nancy Pelosi’s name and certain physical “features,” but figured I’d look like a real heel if I set the whole thing up. However, since you made the necessary reference:

“Now you know what the goattee is”

it’s no wonder to one of the nation’s largest immigrant communities that Nancy Pelosi should have any hint of a goatee, sideburns, or other “furry” outcroppings. Her last name (Pelosi) in Italian means “Hairy.”

Sometimes it comes in handy to know a couple of other languages.

Jeff V

Hi Jeff,

Thank you for reading my blog. Sorry if you misunderstood my comments. This is what I meant:
Even if she is Jewish, she has been raised in America where we have lived under a capitalist system with Judeo-Christian values(until recently). She should be grateful and thankful to be able to prosper in this country, to have a job and to earn a good living because of this system.

And then she turns around and acts like that on TV. She has the right to do that but it did not show well on her but maybe at CNN she got a raise. Still, she needs to understand that she is who she is because of the country where she has been raised and given these opportunities. She has a debt with this society and she is acting un-American!. Freedom is not for free.

Imagine if she grew up in Saudi Arabia. First, she wouldn’t be on TV unless she was covered; Her son, husband or father would have to drive her to work. Moreover, she wouldn’t be talking to this man since he is not her husband. Finally she would have never be who she is today.

Most Americans, hard working ones that love and respect people, would have never acted this way. What a shame to her parents! She could have been so much more than a liberal TV announcer for CNN.

PS: Her taxes are going to go up so much more than mine next year, specially with that new CNN pay raise she got yesterday(she will pay for it, let’s hope)

@joe:

And the dolts at MSNBC and CNN have been giggling about teabagging all week, they aren’t even pretending to be professionals.

No wonder FOX womped them in the ratings last night.

@MataHarley

I think the teabaggers have got a point and the rallies is good local action at it’s best but it would be easier if they hadn’t focused on teabags – as it does having an amusing (or disgusting!) metaphor. Did they even have teabags back during the times of the Boston Tea party? I remember suggesting doing something based on the Trojans and using that title for a game until it was pointed out to me that Trojans mean something else in the States.