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(H/T: Memeorandum.)
UPDATE: The first commenter said, "Dude, that was harsh." Harsh, my ass. Ed Driscoll has video of the idiotic and unprofessional spaz act this loser pulled at the Chicago Tea Party, which needs to be shown to every TV news wannabe in college who takes Intro to Broadcasting.
Lesson One: How to F*** Up Your Career.
Let me explain something about "media bias." I have an opinion about that no-talent bitch, Susan Roesgen, but if I were assigned to write a news story about Her Evilness, that story would be straight-out Joe Friday: "Just the facts, ma'am."
The opinions I spew here on my own time are one thing. When I'm paid to report news, that's something else entirely. The stronger my opinion, the greater my professional obligation to report like Joe Friday.
But that's the printed word, OK? National TV news is different. And when it's live TV news . . . Look, here's the transcript:
SUSAN ROESGEN: (Reading some of the signs held by protesters) Uh, let's see... 'Drop the taxes,' 'Drop socialism.' OK. Let's see. You're here with your two-year-old and you're already in debt. Why are you here today, sir?That's not reporting, you dumb bitch. What do you think this is, The McLaughlin Group? Who died and made you Eleanor Freaking Clift? You're just a third-string talent in the Chicago bureau. When you are sent to do a live news report about a protest, it's not your job to get into arguments with the protesters.
MAN: Because I hear a president say that he believed in what Lincoln stood for. Lincoln's primary thing was he believed that people had the right to liberty, and had the right...
ROESGEN: Sir, what does this have to do with taxes? What does this have to do with your taxes? Do you realize that you're eligible for a $400 credit...?
MAN: Let me finish my point. Lincoln, Lincoln believed that people had the right to share in the fruits of their own labor and that government should not take it. And we have clearly gotten to that point.
ROESGEN: Wait, wait... Did you know that the state of Lincoln gets $50 billion out of the stimulus? That's $50 billion for this state, sir.
I've covered all kinds of crackpot protests over the years, including one absurd protest for The Worst Cause In The World, animal rights. (When I get a petition from the Orangutang Caucus or a press release signed by a spotted owl, I'll be willing to consider the possibility that these creatures have "rights." Until then, STFU, you idiots.)
Get the story. I have wandered among the Marxists, the spokesmen for Hamas front groups, Code Pinkos, Maoists, NARAL, union goons -- you name any disgusting constituency of the Left, I've covered them. And it never once occurred to me that I should argue with them.
Give 'em enough rope, see? They don't know me from Adam's housecat. If I bother to introduce myself as a reporter, I'm just asking simple questions and taking notes. Let 'em talk and, the nuttier they are, the more you're nodding along:
"Mmmm. Yes, I see. And when did you discover this scientific fact about fire not melting steel?" . . . Right. Wow. I didn't know that. I guess the administration doesn't want people to know, huh?"Just the facts, ma'am. Joe Friday. And the neutral, objective fact is that I wouldn't hire that wretched idiot Susan Roesgen to clean the toilet in my newsroom.
Dude, that was harsh. Completely called for, but harsh.
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bye Susan. I'd like the Fries well done, thx
ReplyDeleteOk - now that little rant made my day. Honest to gosh Stacy - that is almost word for word what I said at the dining room table after the "incident". Now if I just knew where to put commas, I'd almost be as smart as you.
ReplyDeleteWhen a Southern gentleman calls a woman something like that... I know things are bad. Not a criticism of you! No kind of lady, that one. No kind of lady at all. One more reason to have nothing to do with CNN. Oyster out.
ReplyDeleteNot harsh at all. Every day in every way there's just more to love at The Other McCain.
ReplyDeleteBTW: I think you should get on this breaking McCain story --
http://americandigest.org/mt-archives/driveby/is_there_a_blessed_event.php
And I say that as a reporter of the facts and not some slavish link troll.
That's a long response to a short comment. Did you have that prepared beforehand? You're good, McCain!
ReplyDeleteShe got what was coming to her. Now I really like the photoshop over at No Sheeples here! That is classy in the extreme.
ReplyDeleteI really hope (for her sake) that she gets a new gig, somewhere in the "flyover country"Bible Belt where she is forced to mingle with average, generally conservative folks and learns that they really are really notall just a bunch of knuckle dragging mouth breathers....
ReplyDeleteDude, it took you a month and a half to get worked up? This is so over, and so is she.
ReplyDeleteI'm sure she'll land on her feet. I hear that the Huffing-and-puffing-ton Post is looking for more unhinged-Liberals (is there any other kind?) to join their swelling ranks (or is that rank swellings?).
ReplyDelete@Robbie,
ReplyDeleteLeave Meghan McCain out of this. The topic is sufficiently dim, and you threaten to bring on a Dark Age.
She's still not as bad as the Fox (KTTV) producer who brought a shill to a GOP meeting in LA so he could get a racist quote on camera...
ReplyDeleteThat was satisfying. Screw this dumb b-eye-itch and that other brainless &*m bucket-Megan McCain.
ReplyDeleteIm suprised they didnt give her a promotion. Reporting the "news" is not something anyone in the MSM seems to be concerned with anymore.
ReplyDeleteBravo- well done. MOre, More, More!!!!
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