WTF! CNN news crawl characterizes Obama's education speech as controversial.

[Fridays Child]

What was controversial about it?

[Ian David]

1. "My goodness... he's black." n/t

[Winterblues]

3. Exactly...The speech was not controversial, the fact a black man gave it is..

:shrug: Doesn't take a lot of smarts to figure that one out.

[redqueen]

2. LOVE the spin they're pushing on the trigger...

:rofl:

These corporatist parasites are so damn transparent...

As for the 'controversial' nature of his speech... well the 'pukes said it was, so it was. That's the enduring mystery of the so-called 'liberal media'.

[Christa]

4. Looking for sensation

and not finding any, it has to be labeled controversial.

[kirby]

5. It created a controversy...

But the speech was not. That is the problem with trying to deliver news in 6 words or less.

[NOLALady]

6. I know.

The speech was controversial because the GOP and their enablers said so. Well, also because the speech was given by the scary black man in the white house.

[liberal N proud]

7. The loonies didn't want him to speak

That was the controversy.

Not the content but rather, his speaking to the children at all.

[slingsam]

8. This is the Comcast Headline on their home page right now

Obama Gives Controversial Speech

President Barack Obama challenged the nation's students to take pride and ownership in their education.

Pep Talk Avoided Politics





IDIOTS!!!!

[corpseratemedia]

9. attend school= Black Radical Communism

but if Reagan (a former New Dealer Pinko) talks to students, *that* was OK

msm speaks to the dumb reactionary crazies hoping they'll go postal and do their dirty work for them, then they get to report on it: "who'da thunk??"

[catbyte]

10. Why, oh why

does CNN put a clip of that nutjob on tv? Isn't that the moran who Barney Frank refused to debate, comparing her staggering intellect to a dining room table?

I'm past disgusted today with all this rightwing foaming at the mouth about Obama's speech to school kids and the traitor bastards Hoyer and Baucus. I can actually feel my blood pressure rise... :grr:

Diane

Anishnabe and proud

[Trillo]

11. Nice screenshot I'd guess the message is trust the republicans.

"Hope" and "Snowe's compromise" versus Obama's "controversial" speech.

Those messagings scroll by so quickly, they're probably not often consciously registered.

[Rex]

12. CNN works for big biz, not the citizens of America.

At least they got rid of Glenn Beck!

[truedelphi]

13. CNN, the nation's premier channel as directed by the Ministry of

Propaganda, knows good propaganda techniques like putting a text message on a scrawl, where it often is subconsciously noticed.

[Liberal In Texas]

14. They of course meant the fact that he gave it at all was controversial.

But you knew that.

[Cha]

15. Want to ask them? Contact numbers..

CNN-
(404) 827 – 1500
Comment line: (404) 827 - 0234
(From grasswire
fax: [phone].
CNN NEWS DIRECTOR Kim Bondy. 404 827 1500. fax. [phone]
CNN NEWSROOM 404.827.1500 . 404.827.1500. [e-mail]
Call Anderson Cooper at 1-866-NY-AC360

Everyone at CNN is listed individually on this page: http://www.cnn.com/feedback/cnntv /

[ddeclue]

16. CNN's Dumbed down definition of controversial:

con·tro·ver·sial (kntr-vûrshl, -s-l) - 1. any subject which produces interesting YouTube video clips that we can show on CNN instead of actually researching and acting like journalists. 2. any subject over which a tiny minority of persons who hold bizarre points of view disagree violently with the vast majority of people who hold rational points of view - e.g. The notion that "the earth is round" is controversial.



Actual definition:


con·tro·ver·sial (kntr-vûrshl, -s-l)
adj.
1. Of, producing, or marked by controversy: a controversial movie; a controversial stand on human rights.
2. Fond of controversy; disputatious.

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contro·versial·ist n.
contro·versi·ali·ty (-sh-l-t, -s-) n.
contro·versial·ly adv.

[glinda]

17. start a petition and circulate asking for CNN to apologize for lying and misleading people.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

18. Whether CNN is an actual source of real news is controversial

[Fridays Child]

20. Yep, that sums it up, nicely.

:hi:

[GrantDem]

19. The only thing that was "controversial" is the rightwing maniacs that went into a frenzy.

Into a frenzy over the President telling school children to work hard and stay in school.