That Didn't Take Long… ABC Reporter Attacks National Tea Party Convention Leaders During Press Conference (Video)
Posted by Jim Hoft on Friday, February 5, 2010, 2:56 PM
You just knew before this weekend was over that the mainstream media would insert itself into the story.
The presss conference was packed today at the National Tea Party Convention but not everyone acted like they were glad to be there.
The media elites could only sit on their hands for so long. After biting his lip for twenty minutes New York-based ABC reporter John Berman ripped into the National Tea Party Convention leaders at their press conference today. John was visibly upset after attending former Rep. Tom Tancredo’s speech last night at the conference. Instead of confronting Tancredo, Berman attacked the organizers of the event and demanded they speak for the former representative. Berman also attacked organizer Mark Skoda for not listing the names of the board members of a newly formed organization after Skoda said he would have the names listed by the end of the week… Funny, Berman’s never been this hard on Team Obama?
John Berman did not look happy to be there today:
He kept that scowl on his face for most of the meeting.
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Published May 24, 2012 at 8:46 pm - 60 Comments
Dack Thrombosis commented:
ABC ran a story last night about the Tea Party. They made sure to interview some dude that showed up in a kilt. Nothing like trying to make the movement look ridiculous on national television.
myna commented:
LOL! Bergman is feeling elitist. Maybe he could not stand being with little people, heh?
Wyatt Earp commented:
Not surprising. The MSM makes the news now instead of reporting upon it.
kansas commented:
WTF is it going to take to get some integrity into journalism?
Chisum commented:
Hey Berman. Prune juice. Try some.
KR commented:
CBS’s online poll: Majority give BO an “F” on first year.
Bergman not happy with American’s opinions.
KR commented:
Bergman=Berman
BigAlSouth commented:
Berman looks like he just peeked into a window into his future and he ain’t liking it.
Opus #6 commented:
I thought the lamestream media didn’t know about the Tea Party. When did that change?
Daniel commented:
Kansas #4:
A complete and total loss of viewership.
Ladue Pundit commented:
First the Tea Party movement was completely ignored.
Then it was a fad. New Jersey, Virginia, Massachussets.
Now they’re on to Plan C: destroy.
Bring it, MSM, we are waiting for you.
Robert commented:
The news media is the enemy of America. Every time they grill conservatives and fail to even question liberals they are committing treason, because the unchecked advancement of liberalism is destroying the fabric of america..
There is nothing wrong with grilling conservatives, but you have to so the same to the other side. By failing to do this, the media acts as a willing and knowing conduit for partisan governmental power. In so doing, they are abusing the trust of the American people.
gus commented:
Berman seems a little upset at being part of the irrelevant PRETEND MEDIA.
Bobbi commented:
Am I off base in suggesting that maybe Tancredo should not have been the keynote speaker, given his known racism?
justdont commented:
hehe chisum, #5
ahahaha
gus commented:
Robert. I you were to be a judge in the Mrs. USA pageant and your wife was a contestant.
Who would you vote and root for.
Same with the OLD MEDIA. 99% of them are libs. THEY SEE THINGS AS LIBS, not as REPORTERS.
non_dhimmie commented:
Why does the Tea Party have to comply at all with the MSM….They have not asked O one question worth a salt in three years…….
No Man commented:
The appropriate respones to liberal propagandists’ questions is, “Next question.”
I love Bill, but . . . I keep fantasizing Mr. O’Fair and O’Balanced used the Palin question deck on Obama.
Never happened.
Auntie Em commented:
John Berman sounds like he inhaled helium before asking a question. Ha…wormy.
anonymous commented:
The Republican conservatives are not happy with the Tea Party right because these group voted for the moderate Republicans. That why we don’t want to see Palin run for President in 2012. We don’t know what Palin is getting into with these Republican Rhino’s like McCain and Mitt Romney. The moderate Republicans are hurting the Republican conservatives. They should joined the Democratic Party. Just what Rush Limbaugh said, “Don’t go moderate. Go conservative. That’s what wins. Reagan proved it”. I agree with Rush.
Militant Conservative commented:
The dogs bark but the wagon train moves on. LOL
Let the MSM piss and moan We are the power in this country. They are our servants not our masters. MSM your just irrelivant now.WHAAAAAAAAAA!
nope.. commented:
Bobbi,
No, Tom Tancredo is not a racist.
No; anyone who doesn’t agree w/ the administration and the DC insiders is not a “racist”.
Tom Tancredo did an INCREDIBLE job to help expose/tried to reverse the complete lack of border security during Pres. Bush’s term.
He was treated poorly by the intrenched GOP; to left wingers he is the devil. Those two facts, alone, should tell us all what a patriot he is.
He is a hero to me for his courage and persistence. The Tea party group was right on target to have him!!!
BurmaShave commented:
“Berman also attacked organizer Mark Skoda for not listing the names of the board members of a newly formed organization”
Once the list of the board members’ names are made available, how long will it be before their divorce records (if any), driving violations (if any), unpaid tax liens (if any), etc. (if any), etc. (if any) will splashed about the Liberal media and blogosphere? It sure is easy to understand why John Berman is impatient.
Koblog commented:
Hey Berman, if the Tea Party is so irrelevant, why are all you MSM types there?
Fred commented:
I noticed CNN isn’t calling the Tea Partiers the vulgar homosexual term ‘teabaggers’ anymore.
I wonder, their viewership is down so much, congressional elections are coming, and they have no one to watch, to bias their minds against candidates of their choice, does that have anything to do with it? But their viewers and their family members watch ‘news’ elsewhere, where they are not called ‘teabaggers’….
Robert commented:
The MSM is still a powerful entrenched institution. As long as we don’t have at least one of the original 3 broadcast outlets and a few major newspapers on our side we are at a severe disadvantage. Also, they can and do continue to put out their biased garbage and it does do harm to everything.
Just think. Rangel gets to continue on, and ACORN, and the Black Panthers, etc. Obama (by way of Gibbs) is challenged only by Jake Tapper at times. Any of the rest are doing so only for self-preservation and not because of any journalistic integrity.
The only MSM really challenging Obama are some of the columnists on the far left who are disappointed that we are not a bona-fide Communist dictatorship by now.
The liberal media is every bit the danger to the Republic that powerful liberal politicians are, if not more so. And, we need to expand and support efforts to correct that situation.
Toads commented:
This is the most mind-blowing article I have ever read about how feminism is a cloak for leftism, and how many conservatives unwittingly propagate leftism by being ‘chivalrous’.
jim commented:
We really should quit referring to these people as “elite.” They’re clowns and frauds, and the ones on cable TV are mostly idiots.
Chef Mojo commented:
Kilts? Ha! That’s a feature, not a bug! Nothing like having hard fighting Scots-Irish types in your political movement to keep it going in the right direction.
Don’t tread on us!
Tootoo commented:
The left wing media cannot focus on their failed president, b/c he is a failure. His economy = Fail; his speeches = fail, his claims = fail; he is arrogant.
So what does the failed left-wing media focus upon?
Tea – Party patriots. They have no clue, no fuel , no idea. The media are scared, their president is 10000% FAIL!
tysm commented:
who cares what Bergman, Berman, ABC, MSM or any of these lib progressives whores say, think, or do. Ignore them all. Press on. Always attack. Never relent. Never pause. Attack. Attack. Attack.
T commented:
“Berman also attacked organizer Mark Skoda for not listing the names of the board members of a newly formed organization after Skoda said he would have the names listed by the end of the week”
Berman should have to wait until Holder provides his list of the names of the 300 so-called terrorists tried in civilian courts. That list was requested by Sen. John Kyl last year. As always, . . . crickets chirping in the lamestream media.
Bobbi commented:
Nope. Thanks for clarifying that. I guess I got “duped”.
I’m not for amnesty either.
Jim commented:
Bergman, ABC wants a job working for President Obama. He will say and do things to curry favor to get the job.
Les Nessman commented:
When the MSM attacks the tea partiers, they have to be prepared with some sharp retorts like “Gee, Katie, it would be nice if you would ever do your job and ask these tough questions about the President” or ” Gee, Berman, it would have been nice if you would have also asked these tough questions when Barack was a candidate”, etc… and say it nicely, with a warm smile.
Ken Hahn commented:
Berman’s actions are completely in character for his profession. Even a pampered lapdog will growl if it feels its master is threatened.
czekmark commented:
So they had to send a leftie reporter to cover the tea party conference. Wait a minute. Are there any reporters in ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN who are not lefties?
ogee commented:
Yeah, they never saw over 2 million Tea Party protestors on the white house lawn carrying signs and causing gridlock on the city.
bastiches commented:
For those attending Tea Protests this year, a modest suggestion:
Bring a cheap video camera and interview the journalists present. Be courteous and friendly, this is key. No sense giving them extra B-roll of an angry protester, right?
Some questions that might be interesting:
Why did you become a journalist?
Whom did you vote for in the last election?
To which party are you registered?
Have you donated money to a candidate before?
I suspect you won’t be able to get a straight answer for all of them. I’d press them in a cheerfully annoying way.
If they want to ask questions they think will damage conservatives then we should turn the tables.
Paul A\\\'Barge commented:
F*ck you, Berman.
Mike commented:
Employers won’t hire and bankers won’t lend because they don’t know how much Obama’s socialist agenda will cost them.
1. Health Reform Bill’s real cost is $2.5 trillion over 10 years.
2. Cap and Trade Carbon Tax will cost everyone $2,000 to $3,000 more for electricity.
3. Stimulus Bill $787 billion plus interest equals $850 billion democrat slush fund.
4. Omnibus Spending Bill is $410 billion with 8,000 pork barrel projects.
5. Obama tripled 2009 spending from $467 billion to $1.4 trillion.
6. 2010 Defense Spending Bill is $636 billion with 1,800 pork barrel projects.
7. Obama’s 2010 spending budget is a record $3.6 trillion.
8. Obama’s 2011 spending budget is a record $3.8 trillion.
9. Obama wants to freeze some 2011 spending for discretionary programs. This is around $13 billion. Not much of a spending freeze, just smoke and mirrors to hide spending increases and to confuse people. Obama is very good at that.
10. The national debt is $12.3 trillion. Can our children and grandchildren repay it?
11. Congress voted, December 24, 2009 to raise the debt ceiling to $12.4 trillion.
12. Congress voted, January 28, 2010 to raise the debt ceiling $1.9 trillion to $14.3 trillion.
13. Obama’s administration is made up of 1960s leftist radicals, big government socialists, Chicago thugs, union bosses, liars, and incompetent boobs.
14. Investigate ACORN, SEIU, CZARS, Apollo Alliance, Van Jones, Jeff Jones, Anita Dunn, Mark Lloyd, John Holdren, Susan Crawford, Kevin Jennings, Valerie Jarrett, Ron Bloom, David Axelrod, Wade and Dale Rathke, and Andy Stern.
Bill commented:
The Obama’s throw a party every three days in the White House.
First Couple hosted no less than 170 parties and social events through December 3 of 2009. And that does not even include the 17 parties and 11 open houses – feting more than 50,000 guests
http://www.thefoxnation.com/culture/2010/01/14/sacrifice-wh-throws-party-every-three-days
Taxpayers pay $101,000 for Pelosi’s in-flight ‘food, booze’
Speaker’s trips ‘are more about partying than anything else’
January 29, 2010, By Bob Unruh, WorldNetDaily
“http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=123472″http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=123472
Congress Went to Denmark, You Got the Bill
CBS News’ Sharyl Attkisson Follows the Money from Copenhagen to the U.S. Taxpayer, Total Cost $1.1 million
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/01/25/cbsnews_investigates/main6140406.shtml?tag=dis
Jim C. commented:
“First they ignore you. Then they ridicule you. Then they attack you. Then you win.” (misattributed to Gandhi) http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Mohandas_Karamchand_Gandhi#Misattributed
Rob De Witt commented:
Why the hell is everybody so intimidated by somebody like that?
That snotty little lisper held an entire room full of people captive simply because nobody had the necessary to laugh at him or tell him to STFU. Instead of receding into analysis paralysis about what somebody else somewhere else wouldashouldacoulda, why don’t all y’all just realize that this little twit is ridiculous?
Laughter, loud, long and helpless every time Little Miss Muffet starts up her s**t. Barbie Boxer, Keith Overbite, Missy Mathews, Bawney Fwank, Stuart Smalley, the two Nancys – Pelosi and this guy – all of ‘em would default to just stampin’ they little foots and turning red, I guarandamtee you.
Hasn’t anybody in this country learned how to deal with a 2-year-old?
Damn, people.
Galt commented:
I heard the WABC radio “news” earlier this evening and it led with a vicious attack on the Tea Party — complete with the standard obscene smear. It was a hit piece from beginning to end.
I doubt Pravda had as much zeal when it denigrated the enemies of the Soviet state.
It’s clear they mean to destroy this movement. It’s rather shocking how easily the “enlightened” will line up against liberty.
Chisum commented:
OT
Did you watch Hannity tonight? I do believe that he showcased our own NC Cop.
Ken, awesome! We’re very proud of you!
Niceguyfinishinglast commented:
Kilts? What’s wrong with kilts? Women love kilts! Kilts = FREEDOM!! (in more ways than one;).
Don’t forget, a great founder of what much of America stands for was Adam Smith, a Scot. And I would think that Tea Partiers would be happy to have a kilt wearing Scot at their rallies (okay, Smith never wore a kilt in his life, and would have looked down on the barbaric heathens that did, but still…)(and I’m not getting into the argument of when the kilt was actually first used)
Conservative Phantom commented:
Hey, it’s the weekend so here’s a totally disrespectful video mocking President Toonces:
http://tinyurl.com/yged8f6
Enjoy.
Werner commented:
The leftard MSM never like anything so independent and common-sensical as the Tea Party Movement. They all advocate for Big Government and more taxes. To them, any group of people who support small and responsible government is considered “evil”.
jjhart commented:
Since when is a question and attack? Why a speaker at the convention asked for a literacy test (like the blacks had to take before they could vote) is a valid question. I guess you tea baggers don’t like looking in the mirror.
yourworstnightmare commented:
Attaboy, jj, keep reminding us how post-racial everything is now.
Can you even see a mirror with those, uh, “teabags” in your face?
Charles Collins commented:
The fact is – the tea parties are a very flyover phenomena, despite the fact they also take place on the coasts.
The mainstream media cannot understand why people are upset with the massive spending (which is the unifying concern) because Beltway folks love having lots of money to spend – and don’t ever really think about where it comes from.
Jim commented:
I say let the MSM keep going bashing tea partiers. They think they are changing the minds of people. Their plan has one fatal flaw, the fiscal conservative theme of the tea parties resonates with 60% of the electorate. They just rally more people to our cause with each and every attack. It used to bother me when they made fun of us in the news, well just wait until after November a-holes! We are the majority, and after 2012 congress and the White House will look a lot different.
Galt commented:
“…well just wait until after November a-holes!”
That WABC radio report last night did get me angry, but you have wisely reminded me that comeuppance is best served cold.
In the past, the MSM could denigrate the mean old conservatives and freedom-loving Americans just assumed the barbs were aimed at others — some archetypal luddite who probably deserved the abuse.
Now Americans can see it all too clearly: the MSM means to disparage them, their rights, and everything they value. A ruling class vs a rabble. Keep it up MSM: you are clarifying the issues more clearly than you realize.
g2loq commented:
The religion of piss has some very special fine tuning in store for this dude’s circumcision …
JoeS commented:
Was Rahm Emmanuel feeding the questions to ABC Berman on his Blackberry? It really helps the President. Maybe Berman can set up a teleprompter.
Note to Rahm: Spell things phonetically! These guys are really stupid.
“Kore – Man”
How do expect a community organizer who went through college on affirmative action to know hard words like Corpsman? Yeah, I agree, he SHOULD know about these heroes, but he is too in love with his own wonderfull-ness to look at the truly heroic things others.
Chris commented:
WHERE WERE ALL OF THESE “CONCERNED” PEOPLE WHEN THE COUNTRY WAS BEING DESTROYED BY BUSH/CHENEY & THE REPUBLICANS? TAX CUTS FOR THE RICHEST 1%; LYING US INTO WAR (IRAQ DIDN’T ATTACK US ON 9-11); DESTROYING OUR CIVIL LIBERTIES (SPYING ON U.S. CITIZENS W/OUT WARRANTS); DESTROYING OUR STANDING IN THE WORLD; SENDING US TO THE BRINK OF A GREAT DEPRESSION (THAT OBAMA HAS HELPED PREVENT); ALLOWING NEO-CONS TO DICTATE FOREIGN POLICY (MORE WARS AND NATION BUILDING); THE APPOINTMENT OF ALLITO AND ROBERTS TO THE SUPREME COURT (NOW ALLOWING CORPORATIONS BUY POLITICIANS EVEN MORE THAN THEY ALREADY DO); 9-11 (YES, THIS HAPPENED ON G.W. BUSH’S WATCH), THE DISGUSTING RESPONSE TO HURRICANE KATRINA; OUTSOURCING THE PURSUIT OF BIN LADEN (BUSH HANDED THIS OVER TO THE AFGAN FIGHTERS); OUTSOURCING THE SECURITY FORCES IN IRAQ (ALLOWING BLACKWATER TO RAPE AND PILLAGE W/OUT OVERSIGHT); WAR PROFITEERING (HALIBURTON AND OTHERS-”WAR IS GOOD BUSINESS”); I COULD GO ON AND ON, BUT I’M JUST GETTING MAD THINKING ABOUT IT.
AS YOU CAN SEE, OBAMA INHERITED THIS MESS. SO IF YOU ARE A PART OF THE PROBLEM AND NOT THE SOLUTION, OR YOU VOTED TWICE FOR BUSH…….SHUT THE HELL UP!!!
TexEd commented:
What’s “ABC?”
Chisum commented:
Oh look, another wildly misinformed troll named Chris.
Please, please, please, send smarter trolls.
Oh, and Chris, using all-caps doesn’t make you seem smarter.
Ray Walker commented:
A local investigative reporter was doing a story on grocery store products and talked about StarKist tuna had reduced the size of the can and raised the price to the retail stores. How many people know that Starkist Tuna is owned by the husband of comrad polosi who got a favorable waver for union dealings for that company within the past few years. Guess how much that hurt us who are trying to stay off a beef diet.
Joe Camel commented:
Hey Chris, I bet you as much money as you like that under the “Bush” tax cuts that you got a cut, just like anyone who “pays” taxes.
i have bet all of my leftist people who I am around that I will lay $1000 on the table if I can examine their tax forms to prove they did not get a cut…and truthfully, I never got a taker. Quit sulking about the rich, and make your own way dude….Not everyone will be rich, does not mean that you don’t keep working toward betterment on one’s self.
gus commented:
Chris, you CAPS LOCK is stuck on stupid.
Just like you.
Everyone got a tax cut under Bush and Treasury revenues boooooomed.
You didn’t like that? I mean more tax money means more losers like you can have new shoes and have your tooth fixed.
averagemelon commented:
Go away Chris. We are very tired of explaining your allegations AGAIN.
Quit the class. You are too far behind to catch up.
Klemkadiddlehopper commented:
ABC is a radical wing of the Dem Party. No news in that realization. Just remember that ABC has media cousins who are equally determined to bury most of us…hopefully just politically. Little CNN and MessyNBC are also in that harness pulling that cart full of Constitution lovers to the Dem Guillotine.
I have changed my disposition this week, even though I continue in the throes of resisting a third party movement with all my sanity; but Palin has a chance; and she’s making every effort to be consistent in her philosophy.
Obviously, these strange Obamists occupying the seat of government have critically bruised the old Republic. Since there’s no Ronald Reagan to assume the seemingly impossible
task of preserving freedom and the union, I’ll make an effort to take Palin seriously.