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Apr 15 2009, 6:18 pm by Chris Good

'Not Really Family Viewing'

An ugly scene in Chicago: a CNN reporter confronts tea party protesters in Chicago, arguing with them. She declares it's "not really family viewing" before signing off.

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Comments (4)

Endless Ike

Is this lady mental?

The 50 Billion dollars is this guy's entire point!

The money doesn't just come out of thin air, and it needs to be repaid plus interest!

jesus h. christ, there's a reason these people usually read off teleprompters

slag

All these people are mental. Apparently, if you shout fascism enough, that makes it so. And if you have no responsibility for solving any problems in this country, you can complain about 50 billion dollars all day long without having to say what you would do differently to address our economic crisis.

Waste of energy all around.

snowman

The reporter was unnecessarily aggressive with that man, but that video cuts out a loon she interviewed before. Full video here

24AheadDotCom

There's actually a bit more to this story than the post would indicate. In addition to the CNN reporter picking out the looniest person in the crowd in order to help her hit piece as pointed out by "snowman", a couple people in the crowd later confronted the reporter. That wasn't shown on CNN:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6xWGvdRQ9Q

The original posting of that video was pulled after an obviously bogus (c) complaint by CNN (peekURL.com/ztoydze).

Prior to CNN trying to cover their tracks, I commented on just how stupid the protests were here:

http://24ahead.com/hotair-unwittingly-shows-futility-stupidity-perniciousness-t

The end of that links to a much more effective and intelligent plan than holding street protests with loopy signs.