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Dan Rather: Driving Force Behind Wall Street Protests 'Is a Woman Operating Out of Her Apartment in New York'

By Noel Sheppard | October 09, 2011 | 13:04

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Dan Rather on this weekend's "The Chris Matthews Show" exposed the person that is believed to be behind the Occupy Wall Street movement.

"The real moving force behind this, what's happening in the Wall Street protesters and the efforts to spread it around the country, is a woman operating out of her apartment in New York" (video follows with transcript and commentary):

CHRIS MATTHEWS, HOST: Welcome back. Dan, tell me something I don't know.

DAN RATHER: The real moving force behind this, what's happening in the Wall Street protesters and the efforts to spread it around the country, is a woman operating out of her apartment in New York. She's brilliant with the internet. She goes under the nom de plume of Grim. And Grim is the real leader of this movement operating out of her apartment. She is internet savvy and whether it succeeds or fails she's the key.

MATTHEWS: She’s Madame Defarge.

RATHER: Exactly.

MATTHEWS: Katty, from “Tale of Two Cities.”

What Rather chose not to share is that Grim is "an independent media maven." As Mother Jones reported Friday:

This week, Mother Jones tracked down and spoke with the two activists behind the 99 Percent sensation, whose identities have remained unknown until now. The blog is the creation of a tenacious 28-year-old New York activist named Chris. (He asked that his last name not be published because he works full time for a small media outlet.) Chris has also been busy managing logistics, including food drives, for Occupy Wall Street in Lower Manhattan—so about two weeks ago, he started sharing the blog's increasingly demanding curation duties with a friend in the cause, Brooklyn-based nonprofit worker and independent media maven Priscilla Grim.

Here's how Grim described herself:

Priscilla Grim: I worked for nonprofits for 10 years, have studied online media in school, and I am currently in grad school studying information science. I helped to organize online actions pre-MoveOn.

Here's how Chris described himself:

I am 28 years old, college educated, full-time job, part-time freelance job, and I volunteer to feed the hungry and needy every Sunday. I live in New York City. I wear a tie to work, unless it's Friday. I am an anarchist, though my belief is that anarchism should be more about building things up than tearing things down.

Now that Rather has given this more attention, it will be fascinating to see if the rest of the Occupy Wall Street-loving press reports that the two people behind this movement are an anarchist and an "independent media maven."

Stay tuned.

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It sounds like the buffoon

Submitted by LAM SON 719 on Sun, 10/09/2011 - 1:14pm.

It sounds like the buffoon don't understand the meaning of anarchy, what is built up when all expect to live for free/ Two morons no doubt living off their parents.

Non, je ne regrette rien. "You aren't angry because I might be a racist, you're angry because you know I'm right".
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Well, heck

Submitted by panzerakc on Mon, 10/10/2011 - 4:41am.

if you don't like the meaning of words, just make up your own!

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Brought to you by Mary Mapes and Lucy Ramirez.

Submitted by drsamherman on Sun, 10/09/2011 - 1:23pm.

If we fact-check Dan, I think we would find a Soros-funded organization called AdBusters as one of the driving forces behind the "Occupy" movement. Of course, perhaps he had Lucy Ramirez and Mary Mapes verify the facts before he ran the story.

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Oh, so now you like the bloggers?

Submitted by CobraMan on Sun, 10/09/2011 - 1:40pm.

"She's brilliant with the internet."

Wow, Dan, when did you change your mind about the effects the internet bloggers, like this woman, can have on society? I seem to remember how you denigrated internet bloggers after they exposed your "TANG memos" for the fakes that they were. Back then they were all nothing more than a bunch of ignorant fools who were irresponsibly stoking fear and derision amongst the population. Now at least one of them is "brilliant." Has something happened recently that changed your mind? Or are you just a hypocrite?

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.

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Curses!

Submitted by IrateNate on Sun, 10/09/2011 - 2:55pm.

"I would have gotten away with it, too, if it weren't for you darn meddling kids!"

flashback:
http://www.aim.org/special-report/myths-memos-and-dan-rather-a-nation-re...

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The longevity of the Occupy Wall Street protests rests . . .

Submitted by Galvanic on Sun, 10/09/2011 - 1:42pm.

. . . not with two New Yorkers working out of their apartments. Whatever control they may or may not have had over it is no longer a matter of importance. The professionals have stepped in -- labor unions, leftist orgs, etc. -- and they will feed it as long as they have the $$$ to sustain it.

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Yep, just another expenditure

Submitted by Boudin on Sun, 10/09/2011 - 1:53pm.

That the Union members have NO say in. These member had better wake up and get rid of the cretins running the show, before their pensions and benefits are completely gone

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hey!

Submitted by kata on Sun, 10/09/2011 - 1:43pm.

There's a lecture on Marxism being held by Slavoj Zizek in Liberty Square if you hurry Dan.

Give Peas a Chance. ☑ ABØ in 2012
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Never, never trust an aged liar.....

Submitted by jmigyanka@msn.com on Sun, 10/09/2011 - 2:35pm.

...just remembering your Bush lies.

JMigyanka
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LOWS

Submitted by HardRightTurn on Sun, 10/09/2011 - 3:15pm.

Ne'er-do-well would be a step up for the LOWS - Losers Occupying Wall Street.

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

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Dan Rather

Submitted by dmaley1714 on Sun, 10/09/2011 - 3:18pm.

I guess he does not have access to the internet if he thinks some lady or one guy is behind this.

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/video-exposing-occupy-wall-street-was-or...

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but wait there's more

Submitted by kata on Sun, 10/09/2011 - 3:34pm.

Zuccotti Park owned by multinational private company Brookfield Office Properties. One of the Board of Directors is the lady friend of Mayor Bloomberg : Diana Taylor. What the heck? Could all that fist shaking be... show?

Give Peas a Chance. ☑ ABØ in 2012
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In the spin-o-rama that

Submitted by celator on Sun, 10/09/2011 - 4:06pm.

In the spin-o-rama that occupies Rather's mind, Al Gore's Amazing Internet does not exist until Rather reports it as news.

"This is not your mother's Democratic Party"--Andrew Breitbart, CPAC, February 2012
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Shut up Rather! It's nothing

Submitted by rbosque on Sun, 10/09/2011 - 4:39pm.

Shut up Rather!

It's nothing but a bunch of drugged-out hippies that crawled out of their mom's basement.

"It may be true that you can't fool all the people all the time, but you can fool enough of them to rule a large country"......Will Durant
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Independent media maven?

Submitted by kevinsmith5 on Sun, 10/09/2011 - 9:33pm.

Her linked in profile looks more like she's a person that is relying on there spouse's income to play at "work".

http://www.linkedin.com/in/priscillagrim

Wonder what her husband does? Stock broker? Banker?

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So NOW Rather thinks the net

Submitted by amyshulk on Mon, 10/10/2011 - 3:35am.

So NOW Rather thinks the net is useful? That brilliant people utilize it to get the word out on their issues - kinda like Palin has been doing?

The government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.
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ChickaBOOMer: Grim Reaper

Submitted by StewartIII on Tue, 10/11/2011 - 4:21pm.

Grim Reaper
http://chickaboomer.blogspot.com/2011/10/grim-reaper.html

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