The Hot (Sex) Occupy Story: WaPo Tells of Protester 'Cuddle Puddles' and 'Occubabies' on the Way
The cold weather may have really cut into the crowds "occupying" two public spaces in the nation's capital, but The Washington Post doesn't care about crowd size. It's still publicizing some sort of protest juggernaut, like a ski resort manufactures snow when none has fallen. The Post's Sunday front page was dominated by the headline "LOVE AMID THE TENTS." The biggest "news" of the day was casual sex, hippie-style.
Post reporter Annie Gowen proclaimed that "As the Occupy movement enters its fourth month locally, it has spawned two full-service camps, more than 100 arrests and an ongoing constitutional debate over the right to free speech on federal land. But a combustible combination of youthful energy, enthusiasm for shared ideals and tight living quarters has given rise to something else: Romance. Lots and lots of romance." The bolded part was italicized and sprawled above a four-column picture taken inside a tent looking out.
The Post also puts its photographers and videographers on this manufactured publicity line. We get captions like "Occupy D.C. protester Jacque, right, embraces his wife, Turtle, outside the Franklin School at 14th and K Streets NW."
A two-minute video apparently gets its news value from watching Occupiers play "Red Rover, Red Rover" in the park. Sam and Sara talk about how they don't go on dates, but are really fulfilled by organizing a "community G.A.," which no one explains.
Gowen's front-page somehow tries to find newsworthiness in a smattering of smooches among revolutionaries:
More than a dozen couples have emerged after three months of outdoor living, including one pair who got engaged over the holidays. As with Occupy encampments on Wall Street and across the country, there have been many more casual hook-ups, bruised hearts and unofficial entanglements.
Medics at both D.C. protests routinely hand out condoms. At McPherson Square, there are also pregnancy tests — at least one of which has come back positive. Indeed, Occupiers are beginning to joke that a string of Occubabies may appear come June...
Occupiers say that friendship forged during the movement can turn into something more in an instant, sparked by a lingering hug or a flirtatious glance. At McPherson, the exhausted and chilled protesters often fall asleep in group "cuddle puddles," which are supposed to be platonic. Until they’re not.
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Romance????
Submitted by motherbelt on Mon, 01/09/2012 - 8:17am.
I do not think it means what you think it means -Inigo Montoya
As with Occupy encampments on Wall Street and across the country, there have been many more casual hook-ups, bruised hearts and unofficial entanglements.
Not to mention rape and attempted rape. They must just be incurable romantics.
But let's not talk about that. Let's focus on the true "romantics" who got engaged after three months in a tent.
Great minds, MB.
Submitted by Newsbubba on Mon, 01/09/2012 - 8:23am.
I was typing away at the same time apparently.
Agreed
Submitted by Galvanic on Mon, 01/09/2012 - 10:27am.
Not unlike the entertainment industry, the MSM Post is using the words romance and sex interchangeably. This should probably come as no surprise when one looks at the stories and characters in film, music, and television.
The premise of the sexual revolution was to separate sex from love. Human beings need not be burdened by emotional attachments in order to enjoy the physical pleasure of sex. OK.
But now they have redefined sex as love itself.
For those romantics who met at OWS, all the more power to them. No doubt there are some genuine romances there.
But let's not get carried away, MSM.
Ditto
Submitted by Restless Legs on Mon, 01/09/2012 - 11:05am.
Wow, Galvanic. I was just about to write the same thing. I am so tired of liberals implying that any act of consensual sex is "love" or "romance." I teach at a college, and I can tell you that the media have done a very good job teaching young adults that sex is nothing more than a game to be played. Morals? Who needs morals?
Romance?
Submitted by Newsbubba on Mon, 01/09/2012 - 8:26am.
Only the liberal media would call wallowing in the mud with some babe named "Turtle" romance!
This is almost as funny as the crap that was going on in San Francisco in the 60's and early 70's. When they write, "The biggest 'news' of the day was casual sex, hippie-style" exactly what kind of style is that? I seem to recall from the 60's that most of the hippies preferred to do it rolling in the dirt with flowers sticking out of various body parts. of course, it had to take place after not having bathed for at lest a couple of weeks so that the "natural odor of loooooooove" was wafting up around them.
The press thinks that these whore dogs are demonstrating for "Free Speech?" Please! They're demonstrating for the same thing today that they have always demonstrated for; "free sex and more drugs, dude."
"... and the beat goes on"
Can it be long before Cher shows up to join in.
Newsbubba, at least those two
Submitted by motherbelt on Mon, 01/09/2012 - 8:30am.
Newsbubba, at least those two are married! Notice how this Annie gal only pays lip service to the seedy underside of gratuitous sex.....er....free love.
Garofalo?
Submitted by RealVet on Mon, 01/09/2012 - 9:10am.
LOL. Would "Turtle" be covered in tatoos, smell like the $hithouse on a tuna boat, and look a lot like Janeanne Garofalo?
Could be
Submitted by HockeyKid on Mon, 01/09/2012 - 2:51pm.
they call her "Turtle" 'cause once she's on her back, it's hard for her to get off it?
Just askin'.
"Beauty is only skin deep, but liberal's to the bone." - me
Next will be a feature story
Submitted by NC Boy on Mon, 01/09/2012 - 9:37am.
On how Jacque got Turtle to come out of her shell.
Ahhhh, ...
Submitted by Newsbubba on Mon, 01/09/2012 - 12:07pm.
... is there a pun buried in there somewhere, NC?
BTW, anybody on this thread a Turtle? We need to petition the ho Turtle to quit giving the club a bad name, if that's possible.
Speaking of names, will we
Submitted by Kenny Bunkport on Mon, 01/09/2012 - 1:42pm.
Speaking of names, will we get a spate of "Moonbeams" and "Starshines" in a few months?
Probably a lot of Zuccotti's and Oakland's, Kenny.
Submitted by UpNorth on Mon, 01/09/2012 - 9:22pm.
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The Spahn Movie Ranch was also a 'full-service camp'
Submitted by SickofLibs on Mon, 01/09/2012 - 8:27am.
Nothing gets me in the mood like wet clothes, body stench and rats scurrying over my sleeping bag.
It breeds!
Submitted by P. Aaron on Mon, 01/09/2012 - 8:30am.
God help us all!
even worse
Submitted by Free Stinker on Mon, 01/09/2012 - 9:03am.
I suspect 90% of these children will be aborted.
Liberals will call it a win-win. We'll just call it murder.
/// Sarah Palin Fan since July 11, 2007 /// خال
18 Years From Now...
Submitted by Clinkin on Mon, 01/09/2012 - 8:43am.
Oh great, more welfare, food stamps and mindless political slogans.
AND, ....
Submitted by Newsbubba on Mon, 01/09/2012 - 12:11pm.
... more free cell phones!! They'll come in handy when you're trying to get the voters "organized" to vote early and vote often.
https://www.safelinkwireless.com/EnrollmentPublic/Home.aspx
"Can it be long before Cher shows up to join in. "
Submitted by Clinkin on Mon, 01/09/2012 - 8:54am.
Thanks a lot Newsbubba. I just lost my breakfast.
One more thing
Submitted by RealVet on Mon, 01/09/2012 - 9:08am.
Gaack! Sexual encounters by two people who haven't had a shower or changed their skivvies for months on end and who (no doubt) smell like a bowl of sardines.
All that's missing is the Abortion Tent" and the fetus dumpster.
Occupods
Submitted by Jersey Girl on Mon, 01/09/2012 - 9:08am.
How do I love thee, let me count the STD's on the march across the country.
Ugh, leave it to the msm to glamorize these bums.
Turtle? Allan Colmes was
Submitted by ant on Mon, 01/09/2012 - 10:24am.
Turtle? Allan Colmes was there?
An interesting conversation
Submitted by CobraMan on Mon, 01/09/2012 - 11:08am.
Here's an interesting conversation a few years in the future:
Mommy, who's my daddy?
Just some guy I met at a protest.
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.
There's a
Submitted by misterbee241 on Mon, 01/09/2012 - 11:47am.
big difference between love and lust. They dont know the difference. But then, neither did their hippie parents.
"Cuddle puddles"?
Submitted by CO2Maker on Mon, 01/09/2012 - 11:56am.
"Cuddle puddles"? That means that they ALL get to sleep on the wet spot!
Red rover? **Red** rover? "Red rover, red rover, send your money right over!" Marxism among the ruins.
Occubabies? Move over, Nadya, here come the Occumoms.
Sam and Sara????
Submitted by Seashell on Mon, 01/09/2012 - 5:31pm.
Speaking of Red Rover and thus Sam and Sara, what is with that guys side-burns? Sooooo 1970's.
I always felt kind of weird
Submitted by LinTaylor on Mon, 01/09/2012 - 12:18pm.
I always felt kind of weird growing up, and still kind of do now on the cusp of my 28th birthday, because I always felt that there was a difference between love and "whoever's within arm's reach"; between lovemaking, sex, and f***ing. I guess if I hung around with more liberal people, they'd be brow-beating me into having mindless sex, kind of like how my ex-girlfriend's best friend tried to get her to dump me and have meaningless sex with some guy just so she could experience it (she didn't, if you're curious).
Translation?
Submitted by mandrake on Mon, 01/09/2012 - 2:02pm.
I've read that several times and I still can't figure out what you're talking about. Put it terms a 60 year old could understand.
Mandrake
Submitted by LinTaylor on Mon, 01/09/2012 - 2:12pm.
I'm simply saying that, unlike many people my age, I recognize that there's something deep and emotional behind the act of physical intimacy. The example cited was that someone was urging my girlfriend to end our meaningful relationship so she could have meaningless sex, for no reason other than "to see what it's like".
Well, that, and I'm pretty sure the girl in question just plain doesn't like me.
So what are they gonna do...
Submitted by gmaniac1 on Mon, 01/09/2012 - 1:50pm.
use the baby as a door stop the next time they fight with police during one of their illegal protests?
Not a doorstop
Submitted by CO2Maker on Mon, 01/09/2012 - 3:15pm.
A human shield. They've done it before in other places.
Puttin' the kids on train
Submitted by ant on Mon, 01/09/2012 - 7:46pm.
Puttin' the kids on train tracks too, to stop trains leaving port in Oakland. I guess it's true, "Revolutions tend to eat their own children..or risk them in horrible accidents."
I know I was being coy but unfortunately what you
Submitted by gmaniac1 on Wed, 01/11/2012 - 10:17pm.
both posted is all too true. However, the media treats them as heroes for doing such dastardly deeds and any criticism is defending by the Occupiers being misunderstood.
It's become apparent, that the "journolists" writing this
Submitted by UpNorth on Mon, 01/09/2012 - 8:44pm.
crap, are illegitimate offspring of Abbie Hoffman, Bill Ayers and the rest. They yearn for the "good old days, dude".
5 years from now, these people will make a Nobel Prize winner of some research scientist as he or she finally identifies the previously unknown, drug-resistant strain of STD incubated by the Occutards, and passed on to their offspring, aged 5, who now stands either 8ft 9 inches tall and is blind, or stands 2ft 3 inches and has two shoulders and no head.
Meanwhile, mom and dad, living in Spokane, Wa. and New Rochelle, NY, respectively will still be demonstrating for free college and debt forgiveness, and the execution of anyone involved in any way with "banking", and a 'living wage, regardless of employment status".
"Occubabies"??
Submitted by PrairieSky on Mon, 01/09/2012 - 9:19pm.
Oh joy...Another generation of unhinged, unwashed, irrational hippie libnuts in the making.
Goody.
"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction...It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them (our children) to do the same." ~President Ronald Reagan