ABC Enters Full Cheerleading Mode for Leftist Protests ‘Growing in Size and Diversity’
ABC stepped up its promotion Sunday night on behalf of the far-left protesters, which they failed to label, making a special effort to explain and frame their grievances – a service they never provided to the Tea Party. “Tonight, the anger spreads,” anchor David Muir hailed in teasing World News on Sunday night. “Those Wall Street protests now going global. This evening here, we learn about the lives behind the protesters here in this country, showing up in cities coast to coast.”
Muir pointed viewers to a sign he liked: “Look at the images coming in tonight, spelling out the anger. This sign in New York, ‘The rich get bailed out, the poor get sold out.’” He relayed ABC’s goal, “We ask a simple question: What’s happened in the lives of the Americans who’ve joined these protests. What was it that set them off?”
In the lead story, reporter Cecilia Vega championed: “The anger is in Las Vegas, the protests are huge in Houston. The frustration is in Portland. The outrage has spread all the way to Anchorage, Alaska. This is a group of protesters that is certainly growing in size and diversity.”
She stressed how in Manhattan she saw “a number of people come out who’ve never been here before, from senior citizens to people with their children.” Vega showcased soundbites from a man with a kids and an Iraq war veteran.
Following Vega’s piece, Muir guided her to agree the protesters really do have an understandable agenda: “So many people have said that this movement has lacked a central message, but it seems to be turning a corner. We’re hearing more and more people echo one another.”
Vega agreed, describing the agenda in the most innocuous way: “Yeah, as you said, entering the fourth week now. And it really is. There’s a central message here. It’s the economy. It’s a frustration with the economy, it’s a frustration with the lack of accountability and the inequality in the economy, as you heard so many different voices in our story.”
Afterward, ABC News political director Rick Klein insisted: “For Republicans, it is a little awkward for them to be criticizing the Occupy Wall Street gatherings when they cheered the populism of the Tea Party a few months ago.”
NBC didn’t lead with the protests on Sunday night, but still aired a full story. Anchor Lester Holt touted their relevance:
What began with a small disorganized protest on Wall Street here in lower Manhattan has now entered its fourth week, swelling to nationwide demonstrations against what protesters call corporate greed. The grassroots campaign is gaining steam through the use of social media and lawmakers in Washington and on the campaign trail are starting to weigh in.
In the subsequent NBC Nightly News story, reporter Ron Mott maintained “these protests have been largely peaceful and their messages of economic inequality, social injustice and peace over war are beginning to take root in the nation’s political debate.”
From Friday night: "NBC: Occupy Wall Street Like an ‘Arab Spring,’ is ‘Drawing Historical Comparisons’"
From the top of the Sunday, October 9 World News on ABC:
DAVID MUIR: Good evening. It is great to have you with us this Sunday night. As we come on the air here, protesters are now beginning their fourth week of protesting right here in New York. South of here on Wall Street. But with a huge difference: this occupy Wall Street movement is multiplying not only in cities across this country, but now around the world. Look at the images coming in tonight, spelling out the anger. This sign in New York, “The rich get bailed out, the poor get sold out.” In Cincinnati today, this image, as 500 people rallied there. And overseas this evening from Dublin, demonstrators gathering along Ireland's Wall Street, just outside the central bank there.
And so tonight here we ask a simple question: What's happened in the lives of the Americans who’ve joined these protests. What was it that set them off? We begin here with ABC's Cecilia Vega.
CECILIA VEGA: The anger is in Las Vegas, the protests are huge in Houston. The frustration is in Portland. The outrage has spread all the way to Anchorage, Alaska. This is a group of protesters that is certainly growing in size and diversity. It definitely tends to be on the younger side, a number of college students who say they're not going anywhere soon. But on a Sunday after, we’re also seeing a number of people come out who’ve never been here before, from senior citizens to people with their children. Like Tom Eck and his kids. He’s been camping out for two days, one of his sons for two weeks. They came close to losing their home last year.
TOM ECK: It's hard to get -- afford food sometimes. I almost lost my house last year and I know a lot of people thathave lost their house.
VEGA: And Will Hopkins, a 30-year-old veteran of the Iraq war.
WILL TOMPKINS: This is a group of people who are upset about the way business is being done and with good reason.
VEGA: Protests continue today in the nation's capital. One day after marchers, including some anti-war groups, stormed the National Air and Space Museum. Guards pepper sprayed the crow and shut the museum down for the day. The camping and marching near Wall Street goes on and the people, some of them familiar faces, keep showing up.
What’s it going to take for this to stop, for guys to go home and go back to their lives and to walk away from all these marches?
MAN: Well, I hope that we continue to make the country better.
MUIR: And Cecilia Vega joins us here at the desk in New York. So many people have said that this movement has lacked a central message, but it seems to be turning a corner. We're hearing more and more people echo one another.
VEGA: Yeah, as you said, entering the fourth week now. And it really is. There's a central message here. It's the economy. It's a frustration with the economy, it's a frustration with the lack of accountability and the inequality in the economy, as you heard so many different voices in our story. So many people are bringing their personal stories to this, these marches, whether it's a lack of a job or the fact that they’re facing a foreclosure.
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Go ahead, destroy capitalism,
Submitted by LAM SON 719 on Mon, 10/10/2011 - 3:30am.
Go ahead, destroy capitalism, destroy Wall Street and then destroy the welfare office because there are no more checks.
There will ALWAYS be welfare checks
Submitted by TheHistorian on Mon, 10/10/2011 - 4:52am.
Ben Bernanke will just keep the printing presses running so that the welfare checks are still printed. We are headed for a future like Zimbabwe, with 10,000 percent inflation, and the government being 97.8 percent of the GDP. That is the future which Obama wants for this country. And these puerile dolts are with him on it. Voters, THIS is Obama's base, not the hard-working Americans. These dependents are what community organization is all about.
Dennis Prager
Rings in their noses.
Submitted by AR72 on Mon, 10/10/2011 - 5:25am.
These protesters are getting lead around by the rings in their noses and they don't even recognize that it's by those who are keeping them down in the first place. The POTUS, labor unions, and Democrat party sympathetic corporations have exasperated this class warfare while convincing the "99%" that it's Wall Street's fault. Classic Stockholm Syndrome! You also have to love how the Tea Party is now being blamed for being hypocritical when it comes to this movement. Did I completely imagine the way the left wing media has treated Tea Party supporters as treasonous traitors at worst and heretics as best these last two years?
bad news for incumbents
Submitted by MidAmerica on Mon, 10/10/2011 - 6:40am.
The protesters will undermine obama's reelection chances even further. The casual news consumer just sees the country in more chaos and will look for a stronger leader to take his place.
Unless Obama and Biden take
Submitted by motherbelt on Mon, 10/10/2011 - 7:06am.
Unless Obama and Biden take the side of the protesters, ramp up their attacks on corporations, and pledge to "spread the wealth around."
Don't forget, Communism had a lot of proponents at the beginning....that Robin Hood thing sounded pretty good to the masses. A lot of idiots in this country, having no grasp of history, just might fall for it. And they'll probably think that approach could work here, with the "right" people in charge this time.
except
Submitted by kinijane on Mon, 10/10/2011 - 8:02am.
Every news report on this action that interviews the people on the street, not one
of them knew why they were there or what they were protesting. Its mind blowing
that the news, Obama and people like Moore support and encourage this. They
at least need to have an agenda.
Just watched Joe Scarborough actually defend these people
Submitted by Texndoc on Mon, 10/10/2011 - 7:13am.
"We have to break apart these banks."
Well, I couldn't be more thrilled. Wasn't there talk once of Senator John Cornyn actually encouraging Joe Scarborough to maybe run for the Senate from Florida as a Republican? This should kill forever that talk. Michael Moore would have the same shot of being elected ANYTHING Republican as Joe Scarborough.
They would had been broke apart,
Submitted by Boudin on Mon, 10/10/2011 - 7:53am.
If they would had been allowed to file for bankruptcy.
What a bunch of idiots.
Submitted by motherbelt on Mon, 10/10/2011 - 7:45am.
And I don't mean the protesters.
ABC News political director Rick Klein insisted: “For Republicans, it is a little awkward for them to be criticizing the Occupy Wall Street gatherings when they cheered the populism of the Tea Party a few months ago.”
No, it's not, Rick. It's easy.
Presidential candidates Cain and Gingrich, along with Reps. Eric Cantor and Paul Ryan are speaking out against them. And they're speaking out against an administration that is encouraging them, in order to further their own agenda of taking over more private industry.
These pom-pom elites embarrass themselves by comparing this bunch to the Tea Parties.
The Tea Parties gathered, listened to speakers who made sense, cleaned up after themselves and went home to their jobs and families.
They didn't camp out anywhere, creating disgusting conditions. Defecating on a police car....what does THAT have to do with Wall Street? This is a rabble taking the opportunity to throw tantrums about virtually anything they have against anyone, anywhere.
And no one was PAID to show up and protest at a Tea Party. Leftists can't do anything without their rent-a-mobs.
But back to the government siding with the protesters... Her Former Speakerness Pelosi says
“I support the message to the establishment, whether it's Wall Street or the political establishment and the rest, that change has to happen,
BTW, Nancy, these are your constituents. You must be so proud.
The protesters are asking government to dismantle our capitalistic economy, you twit, and you think that's something that has to happen?????
Maybe this is why some are predicting the collapse of the US in 2012.
All I can say is: Pray if you got 'em.
Typical media spin. Its
Submitted by Reaver on Mon, 10/10/2011 - 8:32am.
Typical media spin. Its “awkward” for republicans to criticize the occupiers but there is nothing awkward about the democrats and the media heaping praise on them after spending two years attacking the tea party. Do these people even listen to themselves? Funny how they never complete the sentence.
By the same token, shouldn't
Submitted by kareling on Mon, 10/10/2011 - 7:45am.
By the same token, shouldn't it also be awkward now for Democrats to demonize the Tea Party?
I love how the media gushes about the "ordinary folks" who never protested anything before turning out for this thing. Yet they denounced Tea Partiers for the same thing by whining, "Where were these people during the Bush years when government spending was already out of control?"
And why aren't the Eck children in school?
angry protesters?
Submitted by Agnostic on Mon, 10/10/2011 - 9:31am.
Remember when protesters being angry was a bad thing in the media and a reason for politicians to disassociate themselves from the rabble?
Just like the story line changes depending upon the R or the D after the name - a socialist protest is all gold and glitter regardless of the amount of feces laying about (literal and figurative).
ABC
Submitted by NewLife56 on Mon, 10/10/2011 - 7:50am.
ABC (A)nything (B)ut for (C)ountry
Check out the sites that are telling whats going on at these so called protest..Orgies..People crapping on the street..Trees..LSD making a comeback..etc
Lets just hope ABC that any of your children aren't in this.
Iranians approve!!
Submitted by motherbelt on Mon, 10/10/2011 - 7:57am.
Why?
General predicts the protests will "topple the capitalist system"
What was it that set them
Submitted by jkwtrading on Mon, 10/10/2011 - 9:08am.
What was it that set them off?”
Duh Dopey...3 years of obama and any sane man will go nuts. I am Surprised it took them so long.
What set them off?
Submitted by motherbelt on Mon, 10/10/2011 - 9:36am.
Here's one good example
Here's another
The 3rd World Monster Attacks
Submitted by aposematic on Mon, 10/10/2011 - 9:12am.
As the 3rd World Monsters ruling over their slaves continue to rape and kill their citizens of any possible future potential, America's Government has for almost a Century grown into a Monster of the same scope raping the present and potential futures of its citizens. OPM (other peoples money) is perilously close to the bottom of the barrel and the freeloaders are mad and protesting the Banks for refusing to continue to increase their credit limits. The wake up call for many is the realization that the party is over. What these idiot freeloaders don't acknowledge or seem to understand is that the American Government's Politicians have stolen so much of the American peoples' wealth to make themselves rich while wasting some on ridiculous fantasies in the name of fairness to keep the public from noticing they were being raped of their earned wealth and future potential. And since 2007, the Democrats put that stealing of the peoples' wealth on steroids by hugely increasing borrowing against all of our futures to keep the stealing party going. The people producing now have realized they need their own earned assets to support their own families and can no longer afford to support the growing freeloader class. The fed continually adding zeros to the money supply in a desperate attempt to keep the stealing going has accelerated America toward that sudden stop that devaluation and hyper inflation endemic of 3rd World status has proved devastation to the 3rd World Nations in epic proportions. The keg is empty, the pot all up in smoke. The fantasy that is the American Left is colliding with reality head on and our futures can be likened to one of those terrible B rated horror movies where the villain never dies and repeatedly rises up to kill his woefully inept and gullible screaming victims again, and again, and again...
"We're hearing more and more people echo one another."
Submitted by SickofLibs on Mon, 10/10/2011 - 9:22am.
Yeah, and it's really really weird:
This is a must-see.
World-class losers.
Submitted by motherbelt on Mon, 10/10/2011 - 9:27am.
SoL, I saw that yesterday, and had a good laugh.
These people are seriously wack.
The only thing missing is "I, state your name"....response: "I, state your name......"
Don't understimate their stupidity, MB.
Submitted by DumbCanuck on Mon, 10/10/2011 - 9:37am.
I'm pretty sure these hand-puppets must have fell for that at one time during their 'assembly'.
"There... Are... Four... Lights!"
Good morning SoL
Submitted by cocodrie on Mon, 10/10/2011 - 9:45am.
Thanks. Would you happen to know if there was a consensus to move the assembly to Guyana?
Jesus Loves You so much He died for you
Now who could have seen this coming?
Submitted by DumbCanuck on Mon, 10/10/2011 - 9:44am.
“So many people have said that this movement has lacked a central message, but it seems to be turning a corner. We’re hearing more and more people echo one another.”
Right! I'm pretty sure we're going to start getting press releases very soon, now.
Obama loves this! This is how he thinks he's going to win in 2012 -- by using the economic mess that HE created, to divide the people, and have them pitted against one another -- where the successful are damned for their success, so their wealth must be redistributed in favour of those who haven't done anything to to merit the wealth.
“These protests have been largely peaceful and their messages of economic inequality, social injustice and peace over war are beginning to take root in the nation’s political debate.”
Sure they are... for now! Iran is now referring to these protests as the "American Spring". I'll give it another couple of months before full-fledge riots break out.
"But on a Sunday after, we’re also seeing a number of people come out who’ve never been here before, from senior citizens to people with their children."
Right! Let's teach our kids how to escape from handcuffs. (I saw that this morning on FandF). Let's show these kids how to behave, like having orgies, doing drugs, or using the streets as toilets. I saw a picture of a sign imploring people not to smoke because "it smells like in a really bad way here!" As if there's a 'good way' to smell? (HT, Motherbelt)
Mind you... there's some messages that I can actually sympathize with. I do believe that the bank bailouts were wrong (crony capitalism), ending the fed, and 'question everything', as I'm sure many conservatives do, but I heard some pundits classify the movement as "bi-partisan", and I can't believe that conservatives would endorse other aspects such as redistribution of wealth, and the destruction of capitalism. Now I hear some unions like SEIU are getting involved. This is not going down well.
Remember now... Glenn Beck has been warning about this for the last year and a half while he was still on the air at FNC. Can anybody honestly and sincerely be surprised by any of this?
"There... Are... Four... Lights!"
Krugman is right.
Submitted by motherbelt on Mon, 10/10/2011 - 10:13am.
But that's NOT a compliment.
They haven't acted with an IOTA of the class and dignity that the Tea party has.
Numbers
Submitted by dmaley1714 on Mon, 10/10/2011 - 10:28am.
You know these demonstration are in the hundreds maybe a couple of thousand at best. You will not see one report on the actual size. The press is blatantly hiding how small these protests really are.
George Stephanopalous can't help himself
Submitted by Scottyb4292 on Mon, 10/10/2011 - 10:49am.
The State-run media anointed Obama in 2006 and they just can't help themselves in supporting him again. But the nation has learned a lesson. Voters can see that they were tricked and they won't be tricked again. All these glowing reports on the Occupy movement shows is that the State-run media cannot be trusted to reflect reality. They are driving nails into their own coffins and the future of their businesses.
Meanwhile, the Solyndra and Fast & Furious scandals are moving closer to indictment while the State-run media tries to ignore them.
Rick Klein
Submitted by Dianne93101 on Mon, 10/10/2011 - 1:38pm.
I like you Newsbuster ppl but let's be fair by including important details such as this:
Rick Klein added at the end of his commentary, "keep in mind David that it has been President Obama's economy for nearly 3 years now"
That's not necessarily cheerleading for Obama.
Middle-Aged Man Who Lives with Parents Protests Parents Wealth
Submitted by HollyW on Mon, 10/10/2011 - 4:01pm.
A middle-aged North Carolina man who still lives with his wealthy parents, traveled with his buddy (who also lives with mom and dad) to New York so they could protest against people like their parents. http://www.thedailyrash.com/many-middle-aged-wall-street-protesters-stil...
parody site spam
Submitted by kata on Mon, 10/10/2011 - 4:19pm.
drive through please.