NBC Celebrates 'Occupy Wall Street' Protests 'Gaining Ground'
At the top of the 8 a.m. ET hour of Wednesday's NBC "Today," fill-in news anchor Tamron Hall proclaimed: "Today could be the biggest day yet for the 'Occupy Wall Street' protests in lower Manhattan." Correspondent Mara Schiavocampo followed by gushing: "Three weeks in, and no signs of slowing. The 'Occupy Wall Street' protest growing in size and scope."
Schiavocampo touted how the "coalition is growing quickly, as several labor unions have now vowed to join demonstrators in their protests against corporate interests....demonstrations spreading to more than 50 cities, from Boston to Los Angeles." The headline on screen throughout the report cheered: "Gaining Ground; 'Occupy Wall Street' Protests Spreading."
Promoting an upcoming rally by the left-wing group, Schiavocampo declared it "could be their largest event yet." She then observed: "The grassroots movement has no official leaders."
On the April 16, 2009 NBC "Nightly News," the day after nationwide Tea Party tax day protests, correspondent Lee Cowan attempted to discredit the grassroots nature of the movement: "Organizers insist today’s 'tea parties' were organic uprisings of like-minded taxpayers from both parties....But some observers suggest not all of it was as home-grown as it may seem."
Near the end of Schiavocampo's Wednesday report, liberal Washington Post writer Jonathan Capehart offered some advice to the unfocused protesters: "'Occupy Wall Street,' if it wants to be successful, they're going to have to zero in on specific pieces of legislation."
Schiavocampo concluded the segment by passing along a request from the leftist activists: "Organizers are also hoping students will join them in today's events. They're asking college students across the country to walk out of class at 2:00 this afternoon, in a show of solidarity."
Over the past week, NBC has continually pumped up the liberal movement, even suggesting it was the equivalent of the Tea Party.
Here is a full transcript of the October 5 report:
8:02AM ET
TAMRON HALL: Today could be the biggest day yet for the "Occupy Wall Street" protests in lower Manhattan. NBC's Mara Schiavocampo is there with more. Mara, good morning.
MARA SCHIAVOCAMPO: Tamron, good morning. Protest organizers say they are expecting thousands today for a rally and march here in lower Manhattan. The "Occupy Wall Street" coalition is growing quickly, as several labor unions have now vowed to join demonstrators in their protests against corporate interests.
[ON-SCREEN HEADLINE: Gaining Ground; "Occupy Wall Street" Protests Spreading]
Three weeks in, and no signs of slowing. The "Occupy Wall Street" protest growing in size and scope. Hundreds gathering to vent their frustration at big banks and corporations, demonstrations spreading to more than 50 cities, from Boston to Los Angeles. Protesters now joined by some very influential allies.
UNIDENTIFIED MAN: We are powerful, thank you!
SCHIAVOCAMPO: Tuesday, several labor unions, including transit workers and teachers, joined activists for a march to Wall Street. Today they plan to join protesters in what could be their largest event yet, a rally and march in lower Manhattan. The grassroots movement has no official leaders.
UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN: We the people are here to take the power back.
SCHIAVOCAMPO: While their frustration is clear, their goals are not.
JONATHAN CAPEHART [WASHINGTON POST]: "Occupy Wall Street," if it wants to be successful, they're going to have to zero in on specific pieces of legislation.
SCHIAVOCAMPO: A movement still taking shape as it continues to grow. Organizers are also hoping students will join them in today's events. They're asking college students across the country to walk out of class at 2:00 this afternoon, in a show of solidarity. Tamron.
HALL: Alright, Mara, thank you.
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Gaining ground?
Submitted by almostacowboy on Wed, 10/05/2011 - 11:21am.
I have five acres of desert "ground" for L.A.protesters if anyone needs it.
Just sayin'.
I don't recall Tea Partiers being covered like this.
Submitted by NeoKong on Wed, 10/05/2011 - 11:24am.
They were described as terrorists and racists.
They were called violent. They were called extremists and were never portrayed in a positive light.
This is how you know Soros media is involved.
Submitted by MaximusBraveheart on Wed, 10/05/2011 - 11:32am.
They cover good forces as bad and bad forces as good. The media or the mob never point out that ALL the troubles were put in place by crony Government working with crony criminal "capitalists" which are in no way Capitalists but thieves who give largely to the DNC! Not the Rs they falsely accuse. Yes there SURE IS REASON to PROTEST, but against our thieving, bloated Government that sold us out & put us in debt! They gave OUR house away, quite literally, to their crony DNC affiliated friends!
-- Maximusbraveheart -- Is TRUTH knowable? Moral Relativism is the abandonment of Truth. Truth is knowable. Truth conforms to Reality. Reality is observable by evidence & witness in this day & from history. Relativism is Sesame Street play land.
Soros' finger prints are all over this leftwing campaign
Submitted by lrgon on Wed, 10/05/2011 - 4:36pm.
Soros supports these leftist protesters who are critizing the Wall Street Bailouts! Wasn't George Soros a big supporter of the "Bailouts?" http://www.reuters.com/article/2009/01/19/us-usa-economy-stimulus-soros-...
The communist hammer slamming "capitalism" is being waved around by these leftwingers yet few of the MEDIA bother to point this out.This site does a good job of showing the Leninist sympathies of a sizable bunch of the protesters:>>>>
http://thenewamerican.com/usnews/politics/9269-big-soros-money-linked-to...
huh?
Submitted by bertkillian on Wed, 10/05/2011 - 11:33pm.
I can't believe even the old tired Nazi would even support this much stupidity in one place...
Delete double post
Submitted by MaximusBraveheart on Wed, 10/05/2011 - 11:42am.
Don't help fund the complicit media!
-- Maximusbraveheart -- Is TRUTH knowable? Moral Relativism is the abandonment of Truth. Truth is knowable. Truth conforms to Reality. Reality is observable by evidence & witness in this day & from history. Relativism is Sesame Street play land.
Promoting Leftist dissent
Submitted by Galvanic on Wed, 10/05/2011 - 3:52pm.
Remember a top-down effort to counter the Tea Party called the Coffee Party? It was a complete bust.
What has baffled the MSM as well as the Democrats has been the nature of the genuinely self-organized, grass roots TP movement. They've tried to label politicians or conservative celebrities as the leaders of the movement, and that's failed. They have tried to alienate it from the general public by labeling racist and other names; this demonization of the TP has had an effect in public opinion, but not the Tea Parties themselves.
So, now they're trying to counter it with the Occupy Wall Street performance. How much is self-organized and how much is driven by a coalition of labor unions and Leftist groups is open to debate. One indication that it is not a grass roots movement is the fact that different participants have very different explanations for why they are there.
Nonetheless, the MSM is enthusiastically covering this protest (stunt?) in conjunction with the Obama campaign's attempt to portray him as some sort of crusading knight defending the middle class against the greed of the uber-rich.
Will it work? I don't know, but I tend to lean toward it not working. For one thing, it started too late. Autumn is upon us, and that means rough weather in the northern cities. How many will remain camped out on the streets is anybody's guess, but if that's what they want to do and they have permission to do it, they can have at it.
The longer it persists with little or no tangible, or the American Idol contestants.
NPR aired an interview with
Submitted by forest on Wed, 10/05/2011 - 11:26am.
NPR aired an interview with one of the protesters. He said the intent was to destroy the governmental system of the United States and replace it. The NPR stooge had no real reaction except continuing to white-wash the whole thing.
Speaking of white-washing, the crowd seems to be predominantly white, but the media don't feel the need to mention it like they do when covering the Tea Party.
Destroying government of US
Submitted by jon_torlin on Wed, 10/05/2011 - 11:40am.
Funny how they seem to be working hand in hand with the Soetoro bogus administration in doing just that. After all, Soetoro did mention transforming this country and he's pretty much made the Fed Gov't the enemy of the people.
And speaking of enemies of the people, I consider these protestors enemies of the people as well.
-Jon
The TV pictures appear to be
Submitted by billb on Wed, 10/05/2011 - 11:29am.
The TV pictures appear to be a sea of white......rich white!
Where's their demand....
Submitted by almostacowboy on Wed, 10/05/2011 - 3:32pm.
for diversity?
you really don't
Submitted by jimtrees on Wed, 10/05/2011 - 7:34pm.
You might see one black person out there. But, to here some of these college talk, that's not very surprising.
bring it on boys and girl..
Submitted by jkwtrading on Wed, 10/05/2011 - 1:27pm.
bring it on boys and girl.. been planning this fight for sometime now and would like to "mix" it soon. keep sticking your chin out and someone might knock it off.
They should move to Russia
Submitted by hbnolikeee on Wed, 10/05/2011 - 11:32am.
to be close to their comrades and get the HELL out of this country.
Looking Around
Submitted by Utherpend on Wed, 10/05/2011 - 11:43am.
I am waiting for this to come to KY, not sure a bunch of worthless unwashed students living off their parents telling me they want to destroy my economic base is going to go well.
This was all predicted
Submitted by scottyusmc on Wed, 10/05/2011 - 11:44am.
As their hold on power diminishes, the radical underbelly of liberism will react violently and lash out at any and all opposing viewpoints.
NY nights in October
Submitted by kata on Wed, 10/05/2011 - 11:52am.
are going to start to get very cold and it will definately lose the party atmosphere.
Here are their current list of demands - they change daily. If NBC wants to take this seriously all I can say is "lol"
Unions and activist groups will have to herd a lot of stray cats to make this movement work for them. After the weather turns cold and they start running out of people who can afford to send them food... that will be the point of delicate balance where it can be co-opted into something dangerous.
And who is this "their"? The
Submitted by Beukeboom on Wed, 10/05/2011 - 12:13pm.
And who is this "their"? The "protesters" don't have any unified front at all and most of them don't even know what they are protesting. In fact there are many contradictory protest stances within the mobs there.
supposedly this was voted on
Submitted by kata on Wed, 10/05/2011 - 12:23pm.
using facebook questions format - and it now editable in wiki style format. I think they are discovering that this is what pure democracy looks like ;)
OWS Leadership
Submitted by texusmc on Wed, 10/05/2011 - 2:46pm.
Just read over on yahoo news that this is their quote to who is in charge of Occupy Wall Street (OWS)
“Occupy Wall-street” Command structure “a horizontal, autonomous, leaderless, modified-consensus-based system with roots in anarchist thought."
sooooo basically "Mob" rule? And they wonder why it is not spreading as quickly as they want.
reminds me of the line from "Under Siege"
Tommy Lee Jones in “Under Siege” -Yes, of course! Hence the name: movement. It moves a certain distance, then it stops, you see? A revolution gets its name by always coming back around in your face. You tried to kill me you son of a b!@&*... so welcome to the revolution.
My question: who is astroturfing & bankrolling this?
Submitted by drsamherman on Wed, 10/05/2011 - 3:55pm.
I caught Rush Limbaugh's program on the way back from my hospital rounds early this afternoon, and he mentioned that it was a Canadian organization that has been perpetrating a lot of this. If this is true, why in the devil is a FOREIGN organization allowed to make trouble within the US? I know the easy answer: Holder will never do a damned thing about it and O'batears needs the press to pretend people still like him. The idea that the "occupy" movement is spontaneous is ridiculous. If it is just an instant phenomenon, why would they have a registered website for a few months? Nobody in the MSM is smart enough to ask that basic question, because they are too busy trying to make 2011 into 1968.
I am sure you can see Soros
Submitted by Scuba Dude on Wed, 10/05/2011 - 4:06pm.
I am sure you can see Soros pulling the strings and financing the loser libturds if one looks close enough.
THIS: "Demand nine: Open
Submitted by amyshulk on Thu, 10/06/2011 - 8:58am.
THIS:
"Demand nine: Open borders migration. anyone can travel anywhere to work and live."
When I was stationed at GITMO, I failed the PPD test - seems I was exposed to Tuberculosis. I worked with civilians from Haiti, Jamaica, etc. and because they weren't screened like us in the military, they spread these diseases.
Just imagine if they got this demand - it's already happening, a teacher in Texas spread it to students. It's getting worse.
Ronald Reagan
How ironic!
Submitted by CobraMan on Wed, 10/05/2011 - 11:53am.
"labor unions have now vowed to join demonstrators in their protests against corporate interests."
Go ahead, unions, and protest yourself right out of a job. Other than in the government sector, all of your jobs depend upon those corporations. Their "interests" are YOUR "interests," you fools! Of course, you're all union laborers, so intelligence isn't one of your strong point.
The Citizens of each State shall be entitled to all Privileges and Immunities of Citizens in the several States. The US Constitution
Unless you're a fetus. The US Supreme Court
Or Anwar al-Awlaki.
Everyone has a right.....
Submitted by almostacowboy on Wed, 10/05/2011 - 3:36pm.
to be a union member. However, it seems that everyone does not have a right to NOT be a union member. Case in point - home day care centers (http://watchdog.org/2908/fox-news-whose-business-is-it-anyway/).
Of course,
Submitted by Ashrak on Wed, 10/05/2011 - 11:52am.
We expected this to happen, but I'll tell ya what. My local paper, the "oldest" in Illinois, had their editorial board take it a step further. They actually went all "common ground" as if the "occupy" debacle are just like the TEA Parties and really coming from the same sentiments.....
After years of trying to ignore, berate, demean, label as everything from militant to racist, oh and of course FRINGE, now the lying fools who write the editorials in Illinois' oldest newspaper are actually trying to tell us that the "occupy" protests, which they are actively promoting, are really just TEA Parties.........
FFS, just how far will they go embarrassing themselves in front of all future history? How big of a lie will they actually contrive?
I swear. Tell The Truth gatherings at every media outlet building in the country are what is need, imho. The ridiculous heights to which the lies are being told in media today have those writers printing things that even teenagers trying to find an excuse for being late for curfew wouldn't bother trying to offer - because even their young minds understand pure idiocy when they think about it.
Sheesh.
Got a link or something?
Submitted by Kingfish17 on Wed, 10/05/2011 - 2:02pm.
I'd be interested in reading their editorial.
"You can’t go take a trip to Las Vegas...on the taxpayer’s dime." Barack Obama
What they really need...
Submitted by Radical1979 on Wed, 10/05/2011 - 11:56am.
is to demand a working brain.
I can't wait for the cold weather to set in. Should be good.
Soap & deodorant.
Submitted by Beukeboom on Wed, 10/05/2011 - 12:15pm.
Soap & deodorant.
And toilets. There's more hippie crap in the parks than dog crap
Submitted by SickofLibs on Wed, 10/05/2011 - 1:51pm.
at this point. I'm not kidding.
Didn't think you were
Submitted by Beukeboom on Wed, 10/05/2011 - 2:40pm.
Didn't think you were kidding.
I understand it's quite difficult to find public restrooms in much of NYC.
Like "The Ones" campaign,....
Submitted by briefsynopsis on Wed, 10/05/2011 - 12:03pm.
There is intentionally nothing specific about these protesters demands.
There is a much darker truth just waiting to surface,.. and time is short.
What if the Cloward/Piven strategy is in full force here? In order for the Government to take control and effect changes for a complete redistribution of wealth, there has to be a vehicle for the Government to take control.
Stay with me here.
All we need is this movement to spread to about a dozen cities or so,.. then there needs to be a trigger.
What kind of trigger? It doesn’t matter, as long as the perception that violence will spread overwhelmingly if action is not taken then the Federal government can step in and perform all kinds of Constitution suspending tricks for the greater good of us all.
When you can not figure out what the agenda or goal is,.. it is because you are probably reading too much into it.
Create the problem or situation, then offer the solution to the problem or situation.
Wait for it,.. wait for it,.......
Department of Defense
Submitted by HardRightTurn on Wed, 10/05/2011 - 12:27pm.
In order for something like you are suggesting might happen to happen, our military would have to follow orders to attack the civilian population. I was confident that that could not happen when Gates was Secretary of Defense, but with Panetta I'm not so sure.
Posse Comitatus Act.
The Posse Comitatus Act is a United States federal law (18 U.S.C. § 1385) passed on June 18, 1878, after the end of Reconstruction, with the intention (in concert with the Insurrection Act of 1807) of substantially limiting the powers of the federal government to use the military for law enforcement. The Act prohibits members of the Army from exercising nominally state law enforcement, police, or peace officer powers that maintain "law and order" on non-federal property (states and their counties and municipal divisions) within the United States.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posse_Comitatus_Act
To more fully comprehend the Left, one must read “Leftism As Psychopathy” by John Ray, M.A., Ph.D. Caution, it might scare you a little bit.
http://jonjayray.tripod.com/psycho.html
Not sure the Military is essential,...
Submitted by briefsynopsis on Wed, 10/05/2011 - 1:24pm.
For a takeover to be successful all that is needed is a reason.
Does it matter if it is a good reason? No, as long as the Governors of each state are pliable and complacent; as long as the DoJ is is complicit; as long as the Judicial Branch is in check; as long as the Press is silent and cooperative and as long as the people are divided there will be no need for Martial Law.
Remember, Martial Law is military rule and these folks do not want that, what their goal is, and has been is to replace the US Constitution with a more progressive document that gives power to an omnipotent individual, or a “Just Master”.
As long as that Ruler is of their choosing they are happy to play,..
…...what these idiots fail to register is that the last just master they were ever going to have was their parents,....
Obama has fanned this flame...
Submitted by tribchet on Wed, 10/05/2011 - 1:29pm.
It sure feels like Obama is fanning this flame and the MSM is more than willing to assist. Obama clearly rooted in the teachings of Alinsky and known terrorist buddies like Ayers marinated in Cloward/Piven ideology. Dangerous combo.
It will be interesting to see if Obama becomes an adult and acts presidential or whether he continues to divide this country further in order to advance his own cause.
Question,...
Submitted by briefsynopsis on Wed, 10/05/2011 - 1:58pm.
If the President was intent on destroying America,... and everything it is,... and everything it represents,.. would he do anything different than he is doing now?
You must have missed it.
Submitted by jon_torlin on Wed, 10/05/2011 - 2:16pm.
The answer is unequivocally no.
Here's proof: "Transform America" (youtube)
He wasn't talking about electing a black man into the highest office in the land, mainly because he's not a black man. And everything that's happened since then has led up to where we are today. People back then couldn't believe it was by design, but now they are saying as such, including Rush Limbaugh.
Again, the answer is unequivocally no.
-Jon
Danger Will Robinson!!
Submitted by briefsynopsis on Wed, 10/05/2011 - 2:58pm.
The same people that refused to listen to the warnings are now employing phrases like; "Nobody could have known"!, or "If only" to excuse THEIR choice in casting their vote for this idiology.
Bad news for us all is that these people have no intention of going away. If they can not rule, then no one shall be allowed to.
The next year is going to rock a lot of belief systems.
You nailed it, Brief.
Submitted by almostacowboy on Wed, 10/05/2011 - 3:44pm.
Except, everyone could have known. Glenn Beck (I'm not a "fan" but he's been uncannily accurate in his predictions) has been trying to warn America for years that this was coming. I wonder how many of those same people who thought (and still think) Beck is a lunatic are going to "tut-tut. It won't happen to me. I like "__________" (insert mooslims, radicals, Marx, Mao, etc.). I supported their cause."
We DID know
Submitted by jon_torlin on Wed, 10/05/2011 - 3:53pm.
We knew as soon as that video of him talking to Joe the Plumber came out. It was RIGHT there in our faces and people STILL wanted to give him a chance.
But because of the abject ignorance of history, he still got voted in despite all the warnings as well as learning about his history.
-Jon
And it's just gonna get
Submitted by Beukeboom on Thu, 10/06/2011 - 10:13am.
And it's just gonna get worse. Much worse.
In repsonse to Cloward/Piven
Submitted by texusmc on Wed, 10/05/2011 - 2:59pm.
And here is a great response for that.
Howard Phillips, chairman of The Conservative Caucus, was quoted in 1982 as saying that the strategy could be effective because "Great Society programs had created a vast army of full-time liberal activists whose salaries are paid from the taxes of conservative working people."[6]
Left-wing commentator Michael Tomasky, writing about the strategy in the 1990s and again in 2011, called it "wrongheaded and self-defeating", writing: "It apparently didn't occur to [Cloward and Piven] that the system would just regard rabble-rousing black people as a phenomenon to be ignored or quashed."[7]
Full read at the following:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloward%E2%80%93Piven_strategy
I'd love to see a group of conservatives
Submitted by Bodini on Wed, 10/05/2011 - 12:05pm.
"occupy" the areas outside ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, MSNBC, NYTs, WaPO etc... and demand honesty in journalism and an end to Marxist/Socialist reporting. I think the protests should spread to our liberal universities, GE headquarters, ComCast, Disney etc...
no gonna happen
Submitted by jazzact13 on Wed, 10/05/2011 - 12:56pm.
For one thing, we conservatives either have jobs, or are busy looking for one. We'd rather not rely on the gubmnt dole, so our time is spent doing things we need to do to meet our own needs. Put in 40 or more hours a week, and there is surprisingly little time to act like spoiled brats.
Plus, conservatives actually expect other conservatives to behave themselves. It's the left who believes that their agenda is so important that it excuses and even condones bad behavior. It was, after all, the leftist Marcuse who said that the right should be silenced. Conservatives believe freedom of speech applies to everyone, even loonies like Marcuse.
"Thoroughly worldly people never understand even the world; they rely altogether on a few cynical maxims which are not true."
Chesterton, Orthodoxy
I would simply love to see
Submitted by Bodini on Wed, 10/05/2011 - 3:39pm.
the Marxist Media quaking in their "earth shoes" for once. I'm no longer willing to be a part of the "Silent Majority" and am willing to fight fire with fire!
Bodini
Submitted by MrShy on Wed, 10/05/2011 - 2:36pm.
I was suggesting this to Blonde way back when I started on NB, as I'm just a mile or two from midtown Manhattan and the cancerous filth of the whole main MSM hub.
My problem is, I'm a conservie constantly working and paying my rent and bills, and the only good conservie (solid one) friend I have here is a married with child guy who's also very busy, and Scoobs, of course. The two of us should start to rally 20-30 and go down to the NY Times or NBC (30 Rock).
But again, occupying for days and weeks on end is what loser, welfare hippie/hipster punks can do. Not me.
- shy on vinyl
Join Mr. Shy and The 1* Percent
I'm close enough to 30 Rock
Submitted by Scuba Dude on Wed, 10/05/2011 - 3:21pm.
I'm close enough to 30 Rock as it is since I work in one of the buildings that is part of the Rockefeller Center complex.
Saw this quote over at AoSHQ, thought it was quite good.
It's funny how the media is taking this rabble seriously but treated average, hardworking Americans who didn't want anything from the government but to be left alone as terrorists.
Check out the post by DrewM, "Dispatch From Occupied Wall Street". It's quite good.
I totally understand the
Submitted by Bodini on Wed, 10/05/2011 - 3:42pm.
work deal since I'm twice retired and still at it, but I'd be willing to spend a few days outside CNN headquarters in Atlanta just to give them a little taste of their own medicine!
Just heard Mika on Morning
Submitted by amyshulk on Wed, 10/05/2011 - 12:09pm.
Just heard Mika on Morning Joe that say with *these* protests, it could be we are on the cusp of real change, so NOW the people will be heard on these issues - it about made me gak - wth does she think the TP has been trying to say all this time? Unwind the hot mess of crony capitalism, flatten the tax base and remove all the loopholes {just remember to lock the door after} and quit screwing over the middle class!!!
btw Howard Dean was in fine form {NOT} saying the TP is "Not playing with a full deck" and the usual "The R's are holding up the jobs bill" and he thinks Pres. Obama is on fire???
Harold Ford Jr. was on in the next block, and he was AWESOME, calling out the Pres. it was must see tv!!!
Ronald Reagan
Obama's Army
Submitted by HardRightTurn on Wed, 10/05/2011 - 12:19pm.
Obama must be held responsible for the violence and destruction that his base is causing and will cause in the future. He instigated it and he can stop it if he wants to.
To more fully comprehend the Left, one must read “Leftism As Psychopathy” by John Ray, M.A., Ph.D. Caution, it might scare you a little bit.
http://jonjayray.tripod.com/psycho.html
Greasy 90 pound weaklings with piercings
Submitted by Texndoc on Wed, 10/05/2011 - 12:30pm.
And orange and purple hair. Have you seen these jokesters interviewed?!!? Sand fleas on the beach. If the media didn't give them attention, no one and I mean no one would know they are there.
When we protested Vietnam we
Submitted by buddyc on Wed, 10/05/2011 - 12:35pm.
When we protested Vietnam we were not bought and paid for with big money. It was genuine opposition to the war and for me, not the military but the reasons for the war. We protested Johnson, Humphry and Nixon. We were multi racial and multi cultural. Our message came from us not from people and groups with lots of money.
Today I am digusted with our children currently protesting on Wall Street. They have no message. When asked they will only answer that they are angry. That is because they don't want to offend their masters, big unions and big progressive donors, who will define for them what they are protesting. They are being used. They are tools.
Here are some things worth protesting:
1. nothing has been done to the executives at FanMae/FredMac who were paid millions for fraudulent profits;
2. Goldman Sachs and brokerage houses like them made billions on our economic collapse and they still run the Treasury and the Fed. No one has investigated them;
3. college programs, classes, serves are being cut back just like many very worthy state services to the poor because of outrageous salary and benefit packages of federal and state government workers not becuase the "rich don't pay their fair share of taxes".
4. our election system is being corrupted with massive voter registrations of non existent people.
5. 30% of the people in this country pay NO income taxes at all.
6. gas and utility prices are about to explode as a result of discredited science and wealth redistribution policies of this administration.
So, you were out there, doing what
Submitted by UpNorth on Wed, 10/05/2011 - 12:50pm.
Gen. Giap found that he couldn't do on the battlefield, winning the war for the North? In protesting, you and others like you, prolonged the war, resulting in the deaths of American service members.
I suppose you carried a sign that said, I'm against the war, but not the soldiers? Or, were you one of the ones at Nixon's inauguration who threw rocks at American soldiers?
"We were multi racial and multi cultural.". Ah yes, we recall very well, the Black Panthers, the Symbionese Liberation Army, the Weathermen, so true, very multi-racial and multi-cultural.
Just another double standard
Submitted by Dave81 on Wed, 10/05/2011 - 1:17pm.
I guarantee that if a Republican was in the WH, the media would be saying that these protests in some way reflect on the nation's current disappointment with the POTUS.
Don't these young useful
Submitted by TerryWest on Wed, 10/05/2011 - 1:46pm.
Don't these young useful tools see any contradiction re the Unions closing in around them protesting capitalism, corporations and greed?
UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN: We the people are here to take the power back
She's unidentified because she's late repaying her school loans back to the tax payers.
Obama's 2012 Machine in High Gear
Submitted by MrShy on Wed, 10/05/2011 - 3:13pm.
That's all this stuff is. Pretty scary.
This whole "Occupy Wall Street" / "We Are the 99 Percent" (and check out the great spoof here, or in my signature below :)) stinky commie Alinsky crap is the Obama machine at work early for 2012, with every big socialist/progressive name and organization behind it on some level, from Soros to moveon.org to Van Jones to the (real) fat cat crony, Dem-donating/lobbying labor unions, who are apparently getting more involved.
Here's also a good read from a Ron Paul forum, of all places.
A precursor (and they're connected) to Occupy Wall Street, was the Day of Rage earlier this year:
"I have discovered some information that suggests Wade Rathke, co-founder of ACORN and SEIU, announced the Day of Rage on March 25, 2011. I don’t doubt that is true, but haven’t been able to find anything other than someone else quote him – nothing linking to the actual quote. The source for the information seems to come from Canada FreePress. More so I have now discovered new information. It would seem George Soros is connected to the U.S. Day of Rage aka Occupy Wall Street through The Ruckus Society. On the U.S. Day of Rage website. The Ruckus Society receives funding from the Tides Foundation and George Soros' Open Society Institute provides grants to Tides, including a mere $4.2 Million in 2008, the last year figures are available. Several paragraphs down you’ll find more on the hopes for a Robin Hood tax, and rewriting our U.S. Constitution, among other little Marxist dreams, including violence since “fiscal reform” probably won’t do the job."
Soros is just one of the many tentacles, and they're all very much in on the orchestrated game going on here, behind the scenes of this front that is the smelly-college-drop-out-with-no-job-go-tweet-your-friend (to dupe the stupid ones into thinking it's some grassroots movement):
And, sadly, the shameless left wing-controlled media is running with these protests (and the law-breaking and civil unrest by lots of unsavory looking people, but they're painted sympathetically, of course.) All of it is undeserving, with them getting more and more front page coverage from the usual MSM suspects (CNN, MSNBC, NYTimes, etc.) which was only innevitable, as Obama and progressives will always have them in their back pocket, even when it's "shock troop" tactics like taking over public bridges.
Van Jones, the radical communist and truther who Obama couldn't pull off bringing on board, is still very much connected to O and his bid for 2012 (I'm shocked) when you read this part:
Last Aug. 11, former Obama "green czar" and community organizer Van Jones sent out an email to supporters calling for a new plan to "Rebuild the Dream." It called for infrastructure jobs to "rebuild our crumbling bridges" — exactly the line Obama presented in subsequent speeches. [see: his recent speeches directly in front of bridges.]
In the same email, Jones — a self-described communist — called for jailing big bankers and instituting a "tiny fee" to siphon billions from bank transactions "to spend on Main Street job-creation," which are also things Obama favors.
Jones sent his series of screeds using MoveOn.org's server and database. MoveOn.org was the earliest high-visibility support network for Obama during his election in 2008 and is now heavily involved in the Occupy Wall Street actions. Coincidence?
An aside, but not really (seeing as the left is attempting to vilify the latest target, banks, when they themselves created the mess) another good comment I found:
Lefties like Bill Clinton, Bonnie Frank and Chris Dodd strengthened the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) about 15 years ago forcing banks to make more loans to unqualified minorities. These loans created the core rot which led to the eventual collapse of the system in 2007. Banks took the blame (and still do) for a situation caused by redistributionist Congressional policies.
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The purpose of this whole
Submitted by CoolShades on Wed, 10/05/2011 - 2:11pm.
The purpose of this whole "Occupy Wall Street" is just starting to make sense. It was quiet at first garnering little media attention. Almost on purpose. Now the story has legs all of a sudden...This is an orchestrated movement by the Obama re-election campaign. It can't be anything else. Obama has to re-ignite parts of his base again. The ones suffering now due to his economic policy failures: minorities and young impressionable students. While Obama will continue to blame Republicans for the country's dire straights, he needs a "cause" to grab the attention of his vital Democratic voting blocks (which he's lost). The blame Wall Street "campaign" seems to be a perfect scapegoat for Obama's failures and creates an emotional "cause" for his lost base to rally around and build momentum. Timing is perfect with the General election 13 months away.
agree
Submitted by TerryWest on Wed, 10/05/2011 - 2:52pm.
I agree with you, that is what this is about,
The Unions are closing in now that the sheep have gathered in the pen, the admin will make their move.
The Govt controlled media are aware of what this is too, a desperate move and one that could easily back fire.
Yes, the Unions are coming
Submitted by CoolShades on Wed, 10/05/2011 - 3:59pm.
Oh my, yes, the Unions are coming. It will be interesting to see if they are wearing their SEIU or AFL-CIO colors. I'm guessing, in January, after the holidays, we'll begin to see reincarnated ACORN members protesting along with the New Black Panther Party members (without batons this time).
They'll have their batons.
Submitted by Beukeboom on Thu, 10/06/2011 - 10:14am.
They'll have their batons. It's their favorite fashion accessory.
shadyroots.Gov/ media matters.org/ labor unions.net
Submitted by TerryWest on Wed, 10/05/2011 - 2:42pm.
Join us for 'Occupy Wall Street' fall break!
medical tents, water, blankets, free food and entertainment.
Wonder what will occur first:
Submitted by Beukeboom on Wed, 10/05/2011 - 2:57pm.
Wonder what will occur first: the occupation zone being declared a health hazard & people forced to leave or the people get bored and leave on their own.
Anarchists: 1,000+ - Bankers: 0
Submitted by MrShy on Wed, 10/05/2011 - 2:50pm.
One's funny.
The other's funnier and accurate.
:)
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The "Join Mr. Shy and The 1*
Submitted by MaximusBraveheart on Thu, 10/06/2011 - 12:36pm.
The "Join Mr. Shy and The 1* Percent" link above is good. LOL.
-- Maximusbraveheart -- Is TRUTH knowable? Moral Relativism is the abandonment of Truth. Truth is knowable. Truth conforms to Reality. Reality is observable by evidence & witness in this day & from history. Relativism is Sesame Street play land.
MOB WALL STREET
Submitted by Jack Bauer on Wed, 10/05/2011 - 3:41pm.
Last week I was reading a report about the illiterate neo-commies on MOB-WALL STREET, something along the lines: "The smell of urine was pervasive..."
As it always is with lefty mobs.
I know the media have been looking for similarities with the ultra-clean Tea Party.
So I guess that makes the neo-commies the PEE PARTY --- led by Michael Moore-Money Than You
All of the above Mr Obama? --- How about ALL OF THE BELOW, instead.
Jack
Submitted by MrShy on Wed, 10/05/2011 - 3:50pm.
Like.
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shy -- The Pee Party
Submitted by Jack Bauer on Wed, 10/05/2011 - 3:57pm.
Shy -- my main man.
Knew you would. I've posted it a few time on the WashPoo and a few conservatives have picked up on it.
All of the above Mr Obama? --- How about ALL OF THE BELOW, instead.
Not a news network.
Submitted by greatj on Wed, 10/05/2011 - 7:10pm.
N.B.C.and M.S.N.B.C. is a propaganda division of Obama and the Democratic party.Their job is to attack all Republicans and Conservatives.They are vile,hateful,deranged,non objective,dishonest,and mentally and emotionally disturbed.They must be smashed.