Another Reason to Skip CNN and MSNBC

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CNN and MSNBC really are a bunch of tools.

Cable Anchors, Guests Use Tea Parties as Platform for Frat House Humor

Some tidbits from the article:

For thousands of Americans, Tax Day was a moment to protest what they see as bloated budgets and a pile of debt being passed on to their children.

For CNN, MSNBC and other media outlets, it was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to use the word "teabagging" in a sentence.

So when the anti-tax "tea party" protests were held Wednesday across the country, cable anchors and guests -- who for weeks had all but ignored the story -- covered the protests by cracking a litany of barely concealed sexual references.

"It's hard to talk when you're teabagging," (Anderson) Cooper explained. Gergen laughed, but Cooper kept a straight face.

The protests, (MSNBC's David Schuster) explained, amount to "Teabagging day for the right wing and they are going nuts for it."

He described the parties as simultaneously "full-throated" and "toothless," and continued: "They want to give President Obama a strong tongue-lashing and lick government spending." Shuster also noted how the protesters "whipped out" the demonstrations this past weekend.

Brent Bozell, president of the conservative Media Research Center, said the media coverage was "insulting," reacting specifically to CNN reporter Susan Roesgen's combative interviews with Illinois demonstrators in which she declared that the protests were "anti-CNN" and supported by FOX News.

"I've never seen anything like it," Bozell said. "The oral sex jokes on (CNN) and particularly MSNBC on teabagging ... they had them by the dozens. That's how insulting they were toward people who believe they're being taxed too highly."

If anyone thinks the orally charged remarks on mainstream cable were just a coincidence, MSNBC's Rachel Maddow's segments over the past week with guest, Air America's Ana Marie Cox, would dissolve all doubt. Their on-air gymnastics, dancing around the double entendre of the week, looked like live-action Beavis and Butthead.
By one count, the two of them used the word "teabag" more than 50 times on one show. And on Monday, Cox even let the viewers in on their joke -- referencing Urbandictionary.com, a site which offers a number of colorful definitions for the term "teabagging."

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They CNN missed the point. Taxation without representation is what started this Republic. When over 300,000 folks give up their busy schedules to come out and protest. Its not a media event its news!
Unfortunately the same attitude shown by MSNBC and CNN is shared by Congress and the Senate. Our modern day Royalty is as blind as the King of England in 1775...
Its not just the economy stupid. Its being taxed to death!

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What is CNN?