WaPo Hails How 'Occupiers Confront Seats of Power,' Buries Assault Arrest In 9th Paragraph
Yesterday's "Occupy Congress" push by the Occupy D.C. protesters resulted in four arrests at the U.S. Capitol and a lockdown at the White House after someone lobbed "an object similar to a smoke bomb" over the White House fence.
If such disturbing incidents accompanied a Tea Party protest, the harsh reaction by the Washington Post would be predictable and, indeed, to an extent justifiable. But Washington Post reporters Annie Gowen and Katie Rogers painted the protests in a generally positive light in Metro front page article, "Occupiers confront seats of power."* Indeed, Gowen and Rogers buried deep in their article the fact that one of the four protesters arrested was charged with assaulting a police officer.
Later, Gowen and Rogers described an instance of trespassing as "guerrilla theater":
Deb Van Poolen, 42, an organic farmer who is living in the Occupy camp at Freedom Plaza, glowed as she described the guerrilla theater she and others pulled off in the office of Sen. Carl Levin (D) from her home state of Michigan. The costumed Occupiers staged a play with mock terrorists and a mock 'Levin' behind bars before real police arrived and warned that they would be arrested.
As icing on the cake, Post editors grouped Gowen and Rogers's gushy piece with a pro-Occupy column by left-wing Post writer Courtland Milloy, who hailed Occupy's plan to "stay in the public's face.
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*The online headline reads, "Handful of protesters arrested during ‘Occupy Congress’; march moves from Capitol Hill to Supreme Court to White House"
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Lights are on, but no one home.
Submitted by JeffC... on Wed, 01/18/2012 - 1:35pm.
That should be the picture on every anti-Occutard ad this year.
Now that we know how the press covers a minuscule protest, how will they cover the big Pro-Life march coming up?
I'm sure, in the name of "balance," the NOW gang will get their usual half of the coverage.
Captionfest posterboy for the year 2012
Submitted by upcountrywater on Wed, 01/18/2012 - 2:32pm.
Maybe it's a good thing we are stabbing Canada in the back on Keystone XL pipeline.
Nuthun like 147 per barrel of moslem oil...Bankrupt the nation and start over.
You Didn't Build That.
Canada
Submitted by Unsane on Wed, 01/18/2012 - 8:35pm.
Canada is the biggest loser in all of this. Building a pipeline to the Pacific to sell the oil to Asia isn't going to be as apple-pie easy as Rush Limbaugh makes it sound...Canada has their own environmental lobby, and its native populations are also going to bat against that proposed pipeline.
"CONSUMED DEMOCRACY RETURNS A SOCIALIST REGIME" - Slayer, "Fictional Reality", from Divine Intervention (1994)
Yes Pipelines are years away, tanker unit trains are ready now.
Submitted by upcountrywater on Thu, 01/19/2012 - 1:03am.
Set up some massive loading docks near the ocean, and off it goes to China. I wonder how much Canadian oil transits Nebraska by rail now?
Many miles of pipe cross Nebraska already
I heard a fun little bit of data on natural gas... it can be turned into gasoline. I have no clue as to how expensive or efficient that process is.
You Didn't Build That.
Well, the railroads are flexible.
Submitted by UpNorth on Thu, 01/19/2012 - 1:18am.
I'm sure that the CN, Union Pacific, BNSF and others can run unit trains to Texas. They've got some experience transporting coal to power plants already, and that business is probably going to get smaller in the near future, too.
Build the loading docks for oil in Minnesota and North Dakota, and run the unit trains south. But, I'm sure the NIMBY syndrome will strike up there, so we're still stuck buying oil from people who would much rather behead us than sell us oil.
On oil shipped by train:
Submitted by Unsane on Fri, 01/20/2012 - 10:05am.
Not as cost-effective as a pipeline or else there wouldn't be so much talk about building pipelines from Alberta to the United States and the Pacific coast (and on to the world's biggest scapegoat).
"CONSUMED DEMOCRACY RETURNS A SOCIALIST REGIME" - Slayer, "Fictional Reality", from Divine Intervention (1994)
⇒ Pipelines
Submitted by Cool Arrow on Fri, 01/20/2012 - 10:16am.
You're right. Trains don't even come close to the efficiency and safety a pipeline provides. Can you imagine 600,000 bbls of oil being delivered to Texas daily by train?
Unsane, The Pipeline is banned, what are you going to do?
Submitted by upcountrywater on Fri, 01/20/2012 - 10:36am.
One can also ship by truck.
Yes pipelines are the best delivery method for gas and oil.
Heck the pipe guys are grinding up coal mixing it with water and delivering it by pipeline.
Of course the best method to get oil by pipeline is to ban the O'bowboy, from office.
You Didn't Build That.
Fire him
Submitted by Unsane on Fri, 01/20/2012 - 12:59pm.
Well, as I glance at my watch and see that it is 1200 20 January 2012, I am thinking to myself...fire the idiot who stopped this pipeline, effective exactly one year from now.
"CONSUMED DEMOCRACY RETURNS A SOCIALIST REGIME" - Slayer, "Fictional Reality", from Divine Intervention (1994)
That look and that face scream meth.
Submitted by UpNorth on Wed, 01/18/2012 - 2:43pm.
His parents must be so proud. /sarc
If you want to have some fun w/ the Occutards, check this site:
Submitted by SickofLibs on Fri, 01/20/2012 - 1:09pm.
Here, I play the part of fellow Occcutard "Bill" who always has inside information.