I attended the Tea Party in Sacramento, CA so I missed most of the live coverage of the event by the networks. I’ve been trying to catch up in the past couple days because I was curious how it was represented. Given the coverage leading up to the event by the media elite, I wasn’t expecting much and they didn’t fail to deliver.
Here was angry CNN’s Susan Roesgen right in the thick of it selectively targeting particular signs to portray the Chicago Tea Party as a Fox News and right-wing organized event to bash Obama.
Clearly Susan left her journalist integrity at home that day to make room for her political agenda. Her interviews were plainly antagonistic attempts to provoke a confrontation. When the interviewees didn’t take the bait and the crowd no longer approved of her brand of character assassination, she signs off from what she could only describe as an angry, anti-CNN mob. Pot meet kettle.
CNN’s Anderson Cooper finally couldn’t resist joining MSNBC’s David Shuster for some tea-bagging.
Now, I get the joke and I get that both these “hard news” networks are after John Stewart’s Daily Show viewers but you’d think the executives at MSNBC and CNN would at least hire real comedians if they want their networks taken seriously. Hearing these two repeat the same joke over and over again was like watching Rodney King’s smackdown again… which I think all have seen enough.
Again, no big surprise from the media elite which seems stuck in either the anger or denial stage of the Kubler-Ross cycles of grief when it comes to “we” the people. These elitists couldn’t connect with the common man even if their ratings depended on it… oh wait they do. Despite trailing significantly behind Fox News in every conceivable time slot these guys still can’t pass an opportunity to call attention to how their competitor gets the average American.
I’d refer to them arrogant, dismissive, and even derisive but apparently that’s a description only fit for Americans.
