Media Mash: End of Occupy Wall Street Edition
Media silence greeted video of an Occupy Wall Street protester vowing to burn New York City to the ground and toss Molotov cocktails into a Macy's department store, yet there was "non-stop media coverage" of the alleged, but never proven, use of the N-word at one Tea Party rally, NewsBusters publisher Brent Bozell noted last night on Fox News Channel's Hannity.
"Look at the violence you're starting to see, the rapes, the assaults... I'm starting to hold the national news media responsible for this as well" as well as New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg, the Media Research Center founder added [video follows page break]:
[T]hey're not telling the truth, they're not telling the American people what's going on and this is being allowed to continue.
If the public, if the millions of people watching ABC, NBC, CBS and reading the New York Times and the Washington Post, if they saw and if they read, if they knew what was going on out there, they wouldn't stand for this. This is, I'm starting to hold the media responsible.
Also discussed on the November 17 "Media Mash" segment were CNN correspondent Dan Lothian's sycophantic question to President Obama at an APEC summit press conference and a new MRC study comparing the media's reticence in labeling the 2008 Democratic primary candidates as liberal with their prolific use of ideological descriptors for 2012 GOP candidates.
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OWS is only a "movement"
Submitted by bkeyser on Fri, 11/18/2011 - 10:54am.
if you consider a movement an expulsion of waste from the larger body.
It'll be interesting to see how vocal these pieces of ... these undereducated college kids and drug addicts, rather, are today. They had their much ballyhooed Day of Action yesterday with at best 10% of the predicted turnout (which will probably be similar to the democratic turnout in 2012, by the way), so now what? The opening bell rang 20 minutes ago, so they didn't succeed in shutting down Wall Street. We're still not communist, so they didn't overthrow capitalism yet. The rich, except those who lost money in MF Global, are likely still rich. And these dirtbags still won't be offered a second interview. So what's the goal?
"What do we want?! _________ When do we want it?! NOW!!"
The silence is deafening.
That is what I have been
Submitted by Gat New York on Fri, 11/18/2011 - 11:04am.
That is what I have been calling it: a bowel movement.
All they accomplished yesterday was to alienate even more people - including parents of little kids.
This is a movement of narcissism more than one could ever imagine. They have no leader and all they say is they want things, they exect things, they have things coming to them. They never once talk about earning anything.
So that makes
Submitted by Quasi-socialist on Fri, 11/18/2011 - 12:52pm.
the clearing of Zuccotti park an evacuation of a bowel movement.
I heard they had to flush twice.
Obama's "fundamental transformation" plan is working!
Submitted by Newsbubba on Fri, 11/18/2011 - 10:59am.
I even read today that Bill Ayers, who Obama barely knows, of course, was teaching Occupy Bowel Movement people how to "do it like your parents did."
Old Van Jones is even warming up in the bull (Shiite) pen to step in at just the right time so that the RBFSOB commies can finally take over the USSA.
The democrats in Congress have pretty much signed on for the ride either directly (like Pelosi and Rangel), or indirectly by just bending over and taking the big one for the Party,
The republicans are still pretending that "Obama is really a good man, but he's just in over his head."
And most of the MSM has decided to "Lean Forward" and support El Duce by keeping the morons who watch only their version of the news totally in the dark, as if they weren't there 24/7 anyway.
Yeah, I'd say Bambi's plan is working just fine!
Are you ready for what's coming, America?
GOP Pretending
Submitted by jon_torlin on Fri, 11/18/2011 - 1:02pm.
I'm getting real tired of the GOP en masse saying that nonsense about "he's a good man, just in over his head." They are SO damn afraid of saying the truth, even Allen West finally said some stuff and a few others as well, but we need MORE of them!
This is Neville Chamberlain all over again!
-Jon
RBFSOB?
Submitted by NJRightWinger12 on Fri, 11/18/2011 - 3:33pm.
Ok, please explain-too many letters for an anagram-isnt that what its called? And yes, Im ALSO tired not only of "our" Republicans, but even the left, saying that O'Bozo is "really a good man, but he's just in over his head"! Hey, people, hes NOT a good man hes talking trash about his own people, saying were lazy, and looking for a fight-who the hell is this dork? Sounds like Hitler ripping into his fellow Germans, who he labeled as "just the Jews"! Well, were "just the Republicans", and you AINT taking away our civil liberties-thats where it all started, kids! Yeah, I SAID it!
And speaking of Hitler, how many wars is this doofus-in-chief getting us into, anyways? If that was a Republican in the White House, he'd be labled a "warmongerer", a "war for oil" guy, etc! But no, hes cool, hip, smart Barry Boy!
Minor correction
Submitted by jon_torlin on Fri, 11/18/2011 - 4:48pm.
Hitler wasn't a German, so the Germans weren't his fellow Germans. He was Austrian. Just like Soetoro wasn't American, he's Kenyan(many examples of him being said as such including his wife Moochelle), which is a scary parallel in history if you ask me, a foreigner becomes leader(dictator in this case) of a great country and then brings it down after nationalizing various institutions like car makers and banks. (Nationalizing just like National Socialists, or Nazi for short).
RBFSOB, Rat Bastard Fascist SOB(You know these last three).
-Jon
After the events of the past
Submitted by Gat New York on Fri, 11/18/2011 - 11:10am.
After the events of the past week in New York City and elsewhere Democrats will be keeping their distance from this so-called movement if it even survives.
However, even with growing opposition amonst Americans toward these protestors, the media will find ways to keep it alive to funnel their liberal narrrative versus the Tea Party Movement.
So we will have to see how this movement tried to transform itself and become relevant. If not, they will be a tiny footnote in history.
And is this really a surprise
Submitted by Snappy on Fri, 11/18/2011 - 12:03pm.
And is this really a surprise to anyone? I have been saying from day one of this debacle that we would see petty theft, violence, rapes and an eventual murder out of the occupy group. Since this "movement" hails from the left it was a given they would get favorable coverage. But, anytime you get a bunch of fools together with no life experience outside of the false narrative and utopian bubble of our college system, throw them all together, then start providing free food, clothing and your own set of rules shunning societies rule of law and the police. The outcome seems fairly obvious.
Life Support For OWS
Submitted by rammingspeed on Fri, 11/18/2011 - 12:21pm.
There's no way these people could have come out on top with this. This insane behavior could never ever gain the support of the mainstream American. And the mainstream Americans are the voters, not the scumbag hippies who turned the street into an outhouse, got drunk and drugged up, and eventually started burning things down to get the attention they really needed.
Let them stay in the streets, let the dildo Democratic politicians who are so inclined continue to support them (Maxine Waters, you go girl!), and it will continue to be absolutely toxic to the Democratic party's election prospects for 2012. And the movers and shakers in the party know it, even if their benefactors who run the New York Times et al are too stupid to think things through.
I see the OWS drones got
Submitted by helomech on Fri, 11/18/2011 - 12:36pm.
I see the OWS drones got their message through to everyone......um, wait a minute-no they didn't; the LibStream media continues to fawn over this bowel movement of a cause; the rest of the country needs to take stock in the fact that their actions were irresponsible and the fact that the illegal presidents thugs helped fund and orchestrate this mess i.e., Soros, ACORN, MoveOn.org and others like this..
And, as a reminder of just how rotten the Occutards are,
Submitted by UpNorth on Fri, 11/18/2011 - 12:49pm.
there is this. I"m sure Clevenaive will show up soon, to tell us these kids deserved this, because they're part of the 1%.
The Occutards are despicable, and so are their defenders.
I don't have children
Submitted by panzerakc on Sat, 11/19/2011 - 12:39am.
but if I did, and I were in the position of those parents trying to get their kids through this pack of hyenas, my kids would be going to school accompanied by Rottweilers!
Occupy Wall Street Using Prostitutes to Deter Rapists
Submitted by HollyW on Fri, 11/18/2011 - 1:55pm.
According to the Daily Rash, Occupy Wall Street organizers have begun using prostitutes in their efforts to deter rapists at demonstration sites. http://www.thedailyrash.com/occupy-wall-street-hires-prostitutes-to-comb...
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Submitted by Free Stinker on Fri, 11/18/2011 - 1:59pm.
What is this? Spam-a-palooza?
/// Sarah Palin Fan since July 11, 2007 /// خال
The media does what they are
Submitted by jessieH on Sat, 11/19/2011 - 10:25am.
The media does what they are told to do, like good little cowards do. They have no free will, anymore.
That's a good point
Submitted by Clevenative on Sat, 11/19/2011 - 2:40pm.
Which explains why they focus on the undesirables and sensationalize the incidents that come out of what happens when a bunch of homeless "dirty smelly" drug addicts (and rapists I hear) roaming the streets of New York take refuge in the masses of a legitimate grass-roots political movement or feel compelled to throw the only thing they have (their urine and excrement) as contribution to the protests over the inequities.
As part of that Fox News narrative, you will never hear it mentioned that many of the homeless and mentally ill wandering the streets of New York are veterans or that some of them have college degrees. According to the “compassionate conservatives”, they are ALL just a bunch of lazy good-for-nothing freeloaders who simply refuse to "pull themselves up by their bootstraps". According to statistics published on Veterans Day last week, vets are over 50% more likely to be homeless than the “average” American. It is estimated that as many as 25% of the homeless are veterans and of the Iraq/Afghanistan vets, 5.5% (1 in 18) are homeless. Logic tells me those figures are much higher in large cities – especially NYC.
None of the corporate-controlled media (or either political party), which are by very definition "the establishment", will EVER fully embrace or portray this movement as "legitimate". It is FAR too much a threat to their status quo - the exact status quo that the protestors are looking to change. That doesn’t mean the GOP won’t continue to try to paint ALL Democrats as “supporters” of the movement, should they even mention an “understanding” for the protests.
They (the MSM) also ignore the thousands of other cities and even small towns across America and the world where the movement goes on without violence or any "if it bleeds it leads" criteria needed for them to consider it "newsworthy".
At any rate, it’s WAY too early to know where this is headed – and definitely to declare it “dead”.
Poor Cleve*
Submitted by cajun2 on Sat, 11/19/2011 - 4:13pm.
You seem to lack the ability to look at anything further away than your nose. Let me try to help you once again.
First. Rape/sexual assault, drug dealing, murder, are all still crimes to my knowledge. Attempts by OWS to hide or cover up these crimes is what is garnering a lot of media attention. In particular of the recent Penn State scandal. Not counting the filth, the disease, the disruption of the lives of those too busy to participate, like working law abiding folks. To ignore the law, the safety of citizens, to keep crime "inside" the movement is not admirable to he media or Americans.
Second, "the focus on undesirables"..... Let me try to explain this one as well. Undesirables are generally considered the lazy, spoiled whiny brats. They are also the mentally ill, drug addicts and alcoholics as well as perverts who have chosen to hide amongst a large crowd. To provide drugs and alcohol to addicts and alcoholics to induce them to participate is despicable. These are mentally ill people. Diseases like personality disorders, bi polar disorders, paranoia have a problem with medications, (ask drsam about this), to encourage them to "self medicate" is dangerous and why there has been suicides and drug overdoses. This equates basically to sheep herding or worse, slavery.
Third, Lets discuss the homeless. No one in this country is homeless. There are those who choose to live in the streets. They are again the mentally ill or drug addicts and alcoholics or serial criminals. They choose not to live in shelters because intoxication is not allowed inside a shelter or documents for identification is also required. Some of these criminals are on the run. So they choose to live in the streets. Also, those who are "in the streets" you should know are not totally without resources. If they are "ill" or disabled, they receive SSI or SS to about $675 a month at current benefits. They are also automatically covered by medicare and medicaid. Some of these people are military. They suffer from PTSD, disablity, or drug and alcohol addiction. They also have resources readily available for help, but due to the nature of their illnesses, generally do not. They are not rational people and can be dangerous.
Fourth...The reason so many mentally ill and addicted persons choose to live on the streets is better access to the medications of choice rather than prescribed medications that go with treatment. The mentally ill are no longer, thanks to the ACLU and APA, forced institutionalized for the professional treatment they need. Facilities for these people is strictly voluntary due to the changes in the law. A person can be institutionalized for a period of assessment but only when arrested for a crime.
Fifth.. The other so called genuine protestors, appear to be as ignorant, naive, or uncaring as you, as long as the agenda reaches success tho we have yet to have a clear picture of the "agenda". The communists, Marxists, Nazi's, Union thugs, gathering and taking leadership all do have a very clearly voiced agenda.
For a group of people who claim to have such grandiose vision for the future and betterment of all citizens is a contradiction to obvious actions by these same people. To take advantage of the ill and desperate is the worst kind of agenda. To openly defy the law is treasonous. That attitude, the end justifies the means, is what garners the negative media attention. When the agenda is more important than the lives and safety of citizens, good or bad ones, is an agenda with far more than just "equality" at the fore.
Look beyond the talking points. Study before you spew your biased misinformed opinions.
C2
Submitted by 26CX on Sat, 11/19/2011 - 6:53pm.
Awesome post.
Having a little nausea
Submitted by Clevenative on Sat, 11/19/2011 - 7:21pm.
The data for my "misinformed opinions" were taken form US government and VA websites. The Rush Limbaugh/Bill O'Reilly spin on the homeless was priceless. (And "homeless" is the word used by the government and the VA whether you believe such a label is valid or not.)
Aside from somehow coming to the conclusion that the OWS protestors are "taking advantage" of the "undesirables", or encouraging lawlessness (shy of peaceful "civil disobedience") , thanks for making my point.
And, aside from the sugar-coated explanation of the problems of the homeless and disabled veterans, I commend you. It's one of the few times I've got into a discussion online and received such a concise intelligent reply where I couldn't simply take any given sentence and cut and paste it into Google and find the entire reply.
You summed it up here...
"Undesirables are generally considered the lazy, spoiled whiny brats. They are also the mentally ill, drug addicts and alcoholics as well as perverts who have chosen to hide amongst a large crowd."
And yet Fox News and the entire right-wing noise machine is painting those people as representative of the thousands of others who are law abiding citizens. That's all I was saying, thank you.
You might not like what they're protesting about, but it's a valid movement about a very valid concern for a vast majority of Americans. Hopefully the message is one that more Americans will begin to understand, and one that we already know most agree with. Most people are not too happy about the return to "business as usual" on Wall Street. If you think they've forgotten the fall of 2008 and spring of 2009 when all this corruption and criminal activity was exposed - and how they "bailed out" the "too big to fail" Wall Street bankers, you're not listening very well. Few people are happy with the status quo that Republicans continue to struggle to uphold - and they know and are demanding they start to pay "their fair share" once again. They are sick of taking the fall for the mistakes of Wall Street, or being the brunt of Republican "cuts" to middle class programs while the wealth inequities continue to widen the income gap.
I'm not so sure about the method of OWS - but I have to admire the creativity and tenacity as they work to overcome each hurdle put in their face. If they can get enough people talking about it in terms other than "a bunch of dirty hippies", it won't be long before the movement has strong support. Thanksgiving and The Seasonal Holidays are always times of deep family discussions about political issues around the holiday table. I'll give it that - til after the New Year - to "make or break" the movement.
If there can build enough of an organized network to overcome the pro-corporate propaganda that comes from the media (and at least one political party), then they will become a movement to be reckoned with. An "American Spring" could very well be on the horizon - and I think most of us (outside most NB regulars) welcome and feel a need for a major change. What we've been playing with - just ain't werkin'.
It makes me wonder how long before ISPs would be forced to block certain domains - just like they do/did in the Mideast or Communist countries like China, N. Korea, Iran, Egypt, and Pakistan. I'm sure the Koch-funded Tea Party "patriots" will have no problem with that sort of trampling of the 1st amendment.
chew a slice of raw ginger
Submitted by kata on Sat, 11/19/2011 - 7:34pm.
or make some tea. Sometimes it helps.
Clevie
Submitted by Radical1979 on Sat, 11/19/2011 - 7:41pm.
As far as the mentally ill homeless, I believe what Cajun was getting at was that if they are homeless it's the fault of the left. It used to be that mentally ill people could be institutionalized without their consent. It is no longer the case. Even if they cannot care for themselves mentally ill people now have the "right" not to live in institutions, and are often homeless because of it. Haven't you noticed the closing over the past 30 or 40 years of mental hospitals? This was not done at the behest of conservatives, but because liberals thought it best.
ISP blocking, an interesting point. Interesting in that it is a democrat, your beloved Obama, who is looking at blocking websites. He is also trying very hard to achieve government control of the internet, and will be practicing this control by testing the "emergency broadcast system". The conservatives, protectors of the free market, are NOT in favor of this. I myself find Obama's continued power grabs extremely frightening.
Again, where is the proof the Koch brothers fund the Tea Party? This is another of your lies you keep repeating with the sad belief that it makes it true, when in fact, it only makes you a repeat liar.
Clevenaive
Submitted by 26CX on Sat, 11/19/2011 - 7:45pm.
You sanctimonious jackass. You should try checking out Cajun2's profile before you start, I mean continue making a total idiot of yourself.
once again cleve*
Submitted by cajun2 on Sat, 11/19/2011 - 7:56pm.
It seems cajun has taken the roll of teacher. First, dont lump me in your bigoted view of the world. I cannot tolerate BOR and I seldom listen to Rush. I dont watch Fox News. I read many official government websites since I am familiar with those various entities. Unlike you, I am able to objectively decifer the information from bureaucratic speak. So dont use stereotypes please. I consider myself quite unique.
Secondly, notice in my post, I differentiated between "homeless" and those who "live in the streets". Shelters are available in every city in the country. There are those who reject shelters because of the "supervision" aspect and rules. They are typically rule benders to begin with so the logic follows they prefer the streets. It is cruel to take advantage of the mentally ill as well as using them resulting in danger to others as long as it furthers the agenda.
It is one thing to protest for change, as did the TEA Party. No agenda is acceptable when it calls for disobedience of the laws. Laws designed to protect its citizens. Push for violence and anarchy removes any well intentioned agenda. Calling for the downfall of Wall Street is the epitome of ignorance of our economy. The rules and regulations that forbid and allow various actions by Wall Street comes from Washington DC. There is the source of ALL this countries difficulties. To select banks and Wall Street as the culprits is another example of naive understanding or outright lies.
You cannot blame Republicans for all our economic ills. The Democrats have had a majority of both houses of congress for 44 of the last 56 years. That fact cannot be fudged by you nor me. Look at the recent investigations of members of congress for "insider trading". The majority of the 73 members noted, 80% are democrats. Notice how Pelosi increased her total income 66% during her 6 years as speaker. She did that on a salary of $280k per year. Looks like I was in the wrong business.
The Arab Spring that you continually bring up shows that it has become a cliche' for you not a true understanding of the meaning. VIOLENCE and INSURRECTION is not the American way. We make the changes in our government the way it should be done in any democracy, the ballot box. Any other method is treason.
And your obsession with the Koch brothers is really a joke. They may be conservatives but no where can I find any documentation that they have spent nor have the organized influence of George Soros. And we know what is his agenda. He brags about it frequently. Look at the list of media outlets totally controlled by Soros. It is frightening yet you worry about NB.
How sad that you are such a mis-informed man. However, to me, your talking points, sound bites, and cliche's are the same as spewed by the lame stream media on a daily basis. That tells me that the media has been bought and paid for like lil trolls.
I have tried to respectfully debate you on real issues for several days. Debate has become an attempt at education and instruction due to your limited understanding of how government and private enterprise works in this country. It has become tiresome and boring as well as an obvious effort of futility.
Because you have not been willing to honestly debate issues but spew bigoted stereotypes, liberal talking point lies, implies that debate is not why you are at NB. It is to incite and insult. There fore, you fit the description of TROLL. Cajun is done with this troll. I now turn you over to THE VET.
thank you ms cajun
Submitted by kata on Sat, 11/19/2011 - 7:33pm.
I understand and respect your connection to this topic and I, for one, appreciate your insight.
Heh.
Submitted by UpNorth on Sat, 11/19/2011 - 3:06pm.
Sleepy tried "a legitimate grass-roots political movement" to describe the Occuturds. Yeah, the following is certainly a "legitimate" movement. The only difference between this Occuturd and Saddam was that Saddam didn't use his own kids for human shields.
UpNorth
Submitted by 26CX on Sat, 11/19/2011 - 3:11pm.
I'm sure C2 would have more than a few choice words for this guy.
Oh, I know she would, 26.
Submitted by UpNorth on Sat, 11/19/2011 - 3:21pm.
How low can someone get, other than this asshat? I'm sure the Caj would have a field day with him, too.
Got it upnorth*
Submitted by cajun2 on Sat, 11/19/2011 - 4:19pm.
Your description of this fellow is accurate. Not only should he be in jail. but where is mommy? If she let that kid go with dad to the store, she also should be charged with neglect. Both should lose custody. What other kinds of "parenting" mistakes have these parents made in this child's life? gggrrrrrrrrrr
Not sure about mom, Caj
Submitted by UpNorth on Sat, 11/19/2011 - 4:29pm.
I read in one of the articles that they are separated. Maybe it was Dad of the Year's weekend, and he didn't want to give up his drinking, just because he had his daughter for the weekend.
He does have 4 previous felony convictions, so he may be looking at a stay at the nearest prison, probably at least until the daughter has a driver's license.
upnorth*
Submitted by cajun2 on Sat, 11/19/2011 - 4:47pm.
It could be that today's parents are so self absorbed, they have no idea how to care for or parent a child since that requires putting the child's needs first.
Look at these parents