CNN joins Fox News in airing objectionable protest signs
September 12, 2009 5:53 pm ET by Media Matters staff
From CNN's live coverage of the September 12 protests:
"BURY OBAMACARE WITH KENNEDY"
"STALIN CALLED...HE WANTS HIS POLICIES BACK!"
Previously:
Didn't the president win back then? Plus, didn't Santa Anna beat them at the Alamo?
The reporter is facing toward the camera... so she is potentially blameless?
But the CNN host (who's on at the time slot shown?) one would think might be willing to speak up?
But then again... these stupid little poorly timed protests (8 years too damn late) are not actually mini gatherings for the hateful racists scum of our society... so its okay.
I think we need to see these signs. We're adults and can take it, unlike the tea baggers.
Oh, wait...
There weren't any then!
That producer may have selected people for the background. I feel certain any Fox producer would select the most inflammatory protesters to be there.
Could that have happened with CNN?
Or, maybe, only the inflammatory fringe element attended the rally so the signs only reflect that rhetoric.
Or, maybe, the signs were provided by the organizers. (A possibility since there don't seem to be any glaring misspellings.)
just protesters are drawing attention by gathered toward where the cameras are ...
I hope they lose their jobs (and insurance) and get dignosed with cancer a week later. Let's see what they think of the prospect of "Obamacare" then!
How someone can be so pationate about defending a system that, for the most part, SCREWS THEM I have no idea.
It's is completely irrational.
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You need to change your name or redo some of the content. Why would you wish such ills upon a group of 'passionate' people that only differ in their opinions from you?
Tsk, Tsk. Where IS the love or even just the nice eddie?
X's & O's from your pal,
Proudconservative
And come one... I think you realize, as most people undoubtedly do, that it's not about wishing ill upon someone to punnish them for disagreeing with me or just becasue I don't agree with them.
What I wished upon them happenes to countless people in this country every day. Maybe if they UNDERSTOOD this [and there's no better way to truly understand something that to experience it first hand] they wouldn't be so keen on keeping a system that would then go on to screw them over financially and otherwise leave them to die.
If I am "wishing ill upon" it's so they see the utter insanity in the policies they're defending. THEY [basically] are wishing ill upon people in hopes of what? That their guy wins the next election? That we don;t become socialists? (They don't even know what that means!) Keep a few dollars more a month in taxes? (Taxes 98% of them probably wouldn't pay anyway?)
If they had any idea what they were talking about, they'd be a hell of a lot more supportive. Of what Obama's propsoing here. Well, there's two ways for that to happen: The media can infomr them. (Yeah, like that will happen!) Or they can have a good hard taste of the bad medicine they're pushing.
Seeing as how they're motivated by nothing more that bland hate, greed and misinformed wrath, and I'm trying to 18,000 lives a year and keep 60,000 more from bankrupcy (75% of them with health insurance!) Those I wished ill upon are ACTUALLY PERPETRATING many times the harm that I wished upon them rhetorically.
And there's hypocrisy in wishing someone would get a taste of their own medicne - a taste of the worst problems coused by the system they advoctae for.
That's what I believe anyway.
Hugs & Kisses from yours truly,
Niceguy Eddie
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And there's NO hypocrisy in wishing someone would get a taste of their own medicne - a taste of the worst problems caused by the system they advocate for.
That 'no' is kind of an important word, no?
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It isn't exactly the same, since he was pointing out the rhetoric, rather than letting it fill the background but; the effect was the same. They were seen on T.V.