Media Mash: Occupy Wall Street Edition
The media despised the Tea Party in its infancy, but now that they're trying to boost the "Occupy Wall Street" (OWS) movement, they're describing the latter as a liberal version of the former, without actually reporting on the hard-left Marxist underpinnings of the protests.
NewsBusters publisher Brent Bozell and Fox News's Sean Hannity discussed the media's coverage of OWS plus the media's bias against rising GOP candidate Herman Cain during an October 13 "Media Mash" segment on FNC's "Hannity." You can watch the full segment in an embedded video below the page break.
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Coast Guard woman spat on in Boston.
Submitted by motherbelt on Fri, 10/14/2011 - 11:21am.
In typical hippie fashion, sooner or later the ire turns on those in uniform.
Who says these people are not trying to relive the 60's?
The Coast Guard in Boston confirmed that a woman in uniform was harassed and spat upon near Occupy Boston protesters.
The woman was walking to the train and said protesters spit on her twice, called her foul names and even threw a water bottle at her.
I thought this was about Wall Street, greedy corporations and capitalism!!
Brent is right.
Submitted by NeoKong on Fri, 10/14/2011 - 11:35am.
The news network have decided to act as PR and as spokespeople for the OWS movement and are desperately trying to sanitize it and present it as some new and powerful emerging political force instead of large unorganized groups of kids, slackers and bums. Let's be honest. If they did as Brent has suggested and just wade into the crowd and just show who is there and only use their words their whole narrative of this glorious and noble revolution would collapse instantly.
What the networks are doing is actually manipulating the news to fit a more sympathetic narrative but the truth is that they have to overlook 90% of the people who are there just to find anyone who is presentable.
Occupy Philly
Submitted by DontFeedTheTrolls on Fri, 10/14/2011 - 12:08pm.
Here's a link to a local (Philly) 'occupation' with some questions asked of the protestors by some Temple Republican students and a local talk show host (Dom Giordano).
Enjoy!
Occupy Philly
Submitted by DontFeedTheTrolls on Fri, 10/14/2011 - 12:10pm.
delete duplicate
I know these blogs are
Submitted by coin of the realm on Fri, 10/14/2011 - 7:21pm.
I know these blogs are considered to be liberal here, but the data presented in the charts is neither liberal nor conservative, it is factual. It tells a story of the unprecedented and almost unreal accumulation of wealth and pay at the top 1%. It shows cause and effect with deregulation and financial speculation. It shows the large gap between executive pay and the rest of us. Most importantly it shows the reasons that OWS is protesting as well as why the majority of us support them. They are not a fringe group nor are they interested in ending capitalism. Nor is it anything worth mentioning that rich people support them since the movement is not about eliminating opportunities to get rich. It is about reigning in the extremes that inevitably occur in an unregulated un controlled free market environment. Lets not kill the market , lets just change the rules so it is a game that more of us can play.
It is about the egregious excess at the top 1% without risk or accountability. They do well, they get money by the ton. They do poorly, they get more money by the ton. Those top players are the socialists in that sense. They have privatized success for themselves only and they have socialized risk by making all of us pay if they fail.
Why should we continue to support the current state of affairs at our expense?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/james-kwak/13-bankers-in-4-pictures_b_5378...
http://www.salon.com/2011/10/14/what_do_the_1_percent_actually_do/single...
Give me control of a nation's money and I care not who makes her laws. Mayer Amschel Rothschild
Want some emails to paw through?
Submitted by kata on Fri, 10/14/2011 - 7:32pm.
Far more interesting than Sarah Palin's I'm sure.
Get back to us about the nobility of the OWS when you're done.
Coin*
Submitted by cajun2 on Fri, 10/14/2011 - 8:00pm.
I'm going to give you a very simple analogy. The city ( pick one) traffic lights are out. What do the drivers do? They show caution and follow established rules of the road. You and other liberals want big government to control the successful corporations to support more government so we can have more regulations over corporations. That is destroying capitalism and a poor solution to our problems. Your thinking would be to take all the cars off the streets til the lights come back on.
The problem with banking and financial regulations, taxes, spending, deficit, and growing government is from the beltway, not main street and not wall street. We have 535 congressmen that are elected to represent the people, follow the constitution, and enact policies for the betterment OF the people. Instead, for decades now, we have a distinct class of Americans that reside in the beltway who have chosen to ignore the people, ignore ethics, ignore the constitution for their benefit, power, and enrich their richest donors. So basically Congresscritters have become royalty who only serve the almighty $$$$.
Our focus should be getting those 535 mega millionaires out of Washington DC. Replace them with true representatives who will make the needed changes in our financial regulations, tax structures, and government regulatory agencies that have accrued power instead of establishing fair and balanced opportunities for everyone, not just the rich friends of the politicians.
Occupy Wall Street makes no sense to rational thinking people because the basic premise of the protest is to destroy the very thing that makes our society prosperous enough for these people to even exist. You can't throw the baby out with the bath water. These protestors have no idea of the underlying theme of the organizers of this protest. It is not to "redistribute the wealth", it is not to "tax the rich". It is to destroy the very free market system that makes America the prosperous nation she was at one time in order to create "a global economy" that Soros has been pushing his entire megalomaniacal life. He intends to do this through the unions, Obama, and now "useful idiots" in the street.
If you look at "poverty" in the US, and then look at poverty in other countries, refugees living and starving in camps, if you know anyone who is truly hungry, then you as well would show the same disdain for these spoiled brats in the street.
Now, try a little harder to stop repeating the commie lies and start looking around you without a jaundiced vision. Dont look from the elitist tower down upon true patriotic hard working Americans who ARE the heart of this country. The problem with your links that you posted is again because of your skewed vision. There are 27.2 million small businesses in this country that employ 67% of all working people. And realize that when you take down the "big corporations" you will be building an environment that will destroy those smaller businesses. Also, keep searching for information about taxing the big corporations and you will find that if the government seizes every $ and every corporate asset, we will still be $24 Trillion short of paying off our debt.
You can nit pick all you want. You can break down the 65,000 pages of the tax code, you can quote Fortune 500, but you are missing the essential and basic ingrediant of our economy. FREE ENTERPRISE. Destroy that and there is no more United States of America. If that is not your goal, then you are not paying attention. If that is your intended goal, then prepare for a fight.
I think that we are talking about the same things here
Submitted by coin of the realm on Sat, 10/15/2011 - 3:10am.
You write, 'The problem with banking and financial regulations, taxes, spending, deficit, and growing government is from the beltway, not main street and not wall street. We have 535 congressmen that are elected to represent the people, follow the constitution, and enact policies for the betterment OF the people. Instead, for decades now, we have a distinct class of Americans that reside in the beltway who have chosen to ignore the people, ignore ethics, ignore the constitution for their benefit, power, and enrich their richest donors. So basically Congresscritters have become royalty who only serve the almighty $$$$.'
Yes, you are correct and saying the same thing I am but from a different angle. Congress and most of the executive branch only serve the $$$$$. Those $$$ come from the extremely wealthy, wall street investment banks, banks and large corporations. That is the problem. All the money flowing from the top 1% and their corporate vehicles is calling the shots. Our reps do as they are told by the money. They do not implement business killing taxes and regulations against those monied interests but rather do whatever those $$$$ want. That is the crux of the issue and the reason for OSW and your anger. They, we, want pour country back and we want it run in the interests of most of us, not the big $$$$.
Our debt came from all the money being funneled to those interests and they don't really seem to give a hoot about Americans unless they need m ore of our money to cover their screw ups. noone wants to bring down capitalism or business, just reign it in by getting control back from the corrupted corporatism that controls our government with it's huge $$$$$ spent buying congress and writing laws that make it easy for them to do as they please without consequence.
Give me control of a nation's money and I care not who makes her laws. Mayer Amschel Rothschild
Wrong again Coin*
Submitted by cajun2 on Sat, 10/15/2011 - 1:35pm.
Read my posts again. And read other posters. Look up the sources of the money supporting Obama and this OWS groupies. They are not big corporations. They are the UNIONS, socialist/communist/marxist activist groups. Even anti-semetic groups from other countries. That cooperation and the amount of $$$ tells me that they are not looking for "fairness" in the corporate world, they are looking to DESTROY our corporate world. A strong significant difference that you seem unable to grasp.
One group of Americans recognize the needed changes in tax structure and political hacks and choose to do so through the legislative and electoral process. Others, like your OWS are but useful idiots not recognizing that there are other entities out to totally destroy our free market system even if it means violence, destruction of property, and a President willing to help them by usurping our constitutional process while inciting the violence.
Big corporations don't scare me as much as a President willing to totally transform our society with the help of those who have openly declared their intentions for decades. People like Piven, Soros, Ayers, Trumpka, Van Jones, now those are the ones we should be protesting because they have openly preached anarchy for decades and are closet friends of our dear President. Get the idea now of the "transformation" he was talking about???
Changing the tax code is something we can all agree on. The TEA Party is willing to work on that through the election process which started in Nov 2010. We will do it again in Nov 2012. No destruction, no violence, no threats, no pooping in the streets. Which group do you support? Those willing to put property and lives at risk who are being financed and encouraged by our enemies? Or those willing to follow the law with the quiet majority respectfully?
It really is that simple and it amazes me that our younger generation can be so narcissistic and unaware that they can so easily be manipulated. How sad.
hard to be right
Submitted by coin of the realm on Mon, 10/24/2011 - 12:23am.
When you refute my arguments with a mishmash of theories accusations and made up facts.
You should know a few basics at a bare minimum. Like osw is a global grassroots movement and is not pro Obama. Nor is it driven by a political party. Obama is as much as anyone, a part of the problems these people want to redress.
Give me control of a nation's money and I care not who makes her laws. Mayer Amschel Rothschild
"inspired" by ...
Submitted by kata on Mon, 10/24/2011 - 2:28am.
Canadian anti capitalist grassroots (AdBusters). Funded by Progressive Socialist grassroots (Tides Foundation) - and monetarily organized by Sandinista grassroots (Alliance for Global Justice).
But you just keep believin it.
Excellent clip
Submitted by DaMav on Fri, 10/14/2011 - 10:11pm.
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Clueless. Just clueless and wandering aimlessly.
Submitted by drsamherman on Fri, 10/14/2011 - 10:27pm.
The iStink Occupy Philly parasites must be an especially stupid subspecies of "Hippius incompententus" incapable of giving a rational explanation of their positions beyond a vegetable-like, vacant "...huh...??"
I apologize for the umpteenth time for repeating what my beloved father would have said, but, "Get a shower, a haircut and a job!!"