1. Mediaite
  2. Gossip Cop
  3. Geekosystem
  4. Styleite
  5. SportsGrid
  6. The Mary Sue
  7. The Jane Dough
  8. The Braiser
Advertisement

Why America Is Doomed: We Riot For Waffle Irons And Disgraced Football Coaches

video
» 94 comments

Even as political violence rocks Tahrir Square, epicenter of the Arab Spring, and the Occupy Wall Street movement struggles to retain its momentum, a decidedly lower-stakes variety of unrest has taken hold of average Americans. Call it the Doorbuster Revolution. Following a day of media-stoked hype over deeply discounted retail goods, unruly Black Friday shoppers have been pepper-sprayed at least twice, rioted over waffle irons, and now, as MSNBC reports, tased into submission.

That is not to say that authorities have acted properly in every case. According to news accounts, for instance, off-duty police security personnel pepper-sprayed a crowd at a North Carolina Wal Mart because they mistakenly thought a fight had broken out. In another incident, a shopper sprayed fellow bargain-hunters in order to keep them away from her desired merch. In a viral video shot at a Wal Mart in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, there was no security in evidence as shoppers decimated the store’s supply of $2 waffle irons like a school of agitated piranha.

Now, MSNBC is reporting that police tased a shopper, who was allegedly drunk, in an Alabama Wal Mart today:


The common thread in these stories is the gusto with which these crowds have swallowed the Black Friday consumerist hype, hook, line, sinker, and rod. Sadly, this is nothing new, and in fact, we live in a time and place in which we must count our blessings that the rush for bargains hasn’t resulted in death this time.

It’s true that this country has a long history of protesting about things that matter, but what makes these incidents so telling is their spontaneity. Protests like the Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street are active expressions of a set of premeditated priorities. These hysterical shoppers, though, are reacting to Pavlovian stimuli that reveal a more visceral, and far less noble, set of priorities.

In much the same way, the spontaneous protesting and rioting that attended the firing of Penn State head football coach Joe Paterno was a real-time expression of support for a man who covered up the alleged rape and sexual assault of children, out of loyalty to his football team. While the rest of the world fights for freedom, we fight for JoePa and XBox.

Sure, there’s plenty of blame to go around. From the sounds of it, the retailers behind this Black Friday hype aren’t doing nearly enough to keep shoppers safe, and it’s probably a happy accident that this hasn’t been worse. Anyone who has ever been in a crushing crowd situation can tell you that there’s a fine line between a non-lethal, slapstick-fueled incident, and tragedy. As I mentioned before, the national news media have contributed greatly to the hysteria, then reaped the “rewards” of the “crazy shopper” stories that ensued.

However, at a certain point, a grown-assed person has to be able to look at their reflection in the Wal Mart window, as they jostle with the waiting throng for a shot at some cheap shit that was made possible by the decimation of our own manufacturing base, and say “What the eff am I doing here?”

You’re all being fed your own lost jobs, and rioting over the privilege. It’s like some kind of consumerist Soylent Green. It took years of frustration and despair, along with a healthy amount of organizing, to get people to Occupy Wall Street, and only a cartoon Rollback happy face to get even more people to Occupy Wal Mart. Just as Newt Gingrich told the Wall Street Occupiers to “take a bath,” let me be the first to tell the Occupy Wal Mart-ers to take a pill.

Follow us on Twitter.

Sign up for Mediaite's daily newsletter.

Email Twitter Facebook Digg Reddit Stumble Upon Yahoo Buzz LinkedIn Tumblr Delicious
  • Tim Tebow

    What’s wrong with pepper spray at the big box? Are you guys against competition?

    Commie pinko kooks!

  • http://twitter.com/FurryWolfen Joseph Greene

    Nice touchdowns last week Tebow lol

  • http://twitter.com/jtanglewood76 realist

    You know what is REALLY old?  The constant prediction of America’s doom due to the annual morons buying X-Box’s, microwaves and plasma TV’s at 50% off.  It’s an easy target, but it’s been going on for decades now and despite every year’s predictions of doom, it clearly hasn’t lead to the end of America each year. Stupid Drudge Armageddon 2012 idiots.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Mary-Bechthold/1380381077 Mary Bechthold

    Wow.

  • PaulG85

    I love murder mayhem and destruction. Let the good times roll. You remember that scene in The Dark Knight where Alfred and Bruce Wayne were discussing the Joker’s motives and how to take him down, and Alfred said “some men can’t be bought, bullied, reasoned or negotiated with, some men, just want to watch the world burn”?

    I am one of those men.

  • Anonymous

    I think people are taking the fake, right-wing-paranoia-created War on Christmas literally.

    And these are Christians that are committing these crimes!

  • lazzzlo

    Nice headline!  Give over to hyperbole much?

  • I.Babel

    I could barely read your article with all the Best Buy and PS3 ads rolling over the page… 

  • lazzzlo

    But will America’s doom be epic?

  • Anonymous

    America is doomed unfortunately for many reasons, not for some wacko using pepper spray. 

  • Pablo

    All this supposedly horrific income equality and we’re still trampling each other for crap nobody needs and will barely ever use.

    We are the 1%.

  • http://gawker.com/5482474/the-mysterious-case-of-toure-praising-raped-slaves-for-seducing-massa Touré’s insane mf cousin Phd

    Attention shoppers!

    We have a Blue Light special for one hour only on……Pepper Spray!

    Two for the price of one!

    Plus the first 15 shoppers will be given one night’s free lodging in Zucotti Park under a deluxe foreign made vinyl tarp!

  • Bob

     These crowds look oddly similar to the fools at teabagger rallies.

  • Liberals In Space

    Our doom is eminent because of black pathology and president homeboy. Pepper spray is a welcome positive sign when blasted correctly in liberal eyes.

  • http://gawker.com/5482474/the-mysterious-case-of-toure-praising-raped-slaves-for-seducing-massa Touré’s insane mf cousin Phd

    moved

  • http://gawker.com/5482474/the-mysterious-case-of-toure-praising-raped-slaves-for-seducing-massa Touré’s insane mf cousin Phd

    The new Walmart in town is right across the street from a ginormous
    landfill that is the size of a ski resort mountain. I’m one of those
    kind of guys that likes to mess with people and get them thinking so one
    day as I was walking in the store I said to this guy “It was really
    nice of Walmart to build the store so close to the landfill since all
    this stuff is going to end up there eventually”. His reaction was
    priceless.

  • Anonymous

    There was no violence at Tea Party rallies. These people obviously vote Democrat. “Gimme, Gimme, Gimme”

  • http://www.facebook.com/larry.foard Larry Foard

    There is no better commentary on the double standard. Constitutionally protected protest is put down with extreme force. Put down a text on a lawn someplace, an army of riot cops shows up. Yet when its time to make money for the elite, anything goes. When these cases go to court, how will Mayor’s explain to the judge that camping waiting for Walmart to open is ok, but camping to protest trillions of dollars of fraud is not. That far exceeding the safe occupancy of a large building where thousands could burn to death is ok, but that a tent represents a hazard so serious that it overrides all constitutional rights. I can’t wait to see the look they get from the judge…

  • Anonymous

    He must have not prayed hard enough.

  • Anonymous

    Just curious – how many people actually read the article before they start commenting?

  • FunnyTonyMase

    That sounds like anti-consumerism, Pablo.

    Are you planning on joining an Occupy Wall Street drum circle?

  • Tito Esposito

    It’s probably ok to camp out at Wal-Mart, because the store is private property and the owner of the property is cool with it. But hey, let’s not let facts interfer with your story about the epic struggle of, uh, the people, against their capitalist oppressors.

  • Anonymous

    I must say, I’m really starting to come around to Tebow, the on-field version.  Fun kid to watch, but I still think the commenter has more talent. 

  • http://gawker.com/5482474/the-mysterious-case-of-toure-praising-raped-slaves-for-seducing-massa Touré’s insane mf cousin Phd

    Many Walmart stores allow overnight RV camping:
    http://twitter.com/#!/rvwalmart

  • Anonymous

    Tommy says with 500 words what you could say with a few.

    The phrase Americans sometimes act like morons is all you need here.

    As for America being doomed,Lefty liberals writing long winded peices on what should be an unbiased site are on the doom list.

    You don’t have to go outside the DC beltway to find our doom.

  • TobDee

    No violence? Those idiots tote guns! They’re redneck thugs.

  • us995

    the only violence i remember is when the union thugs beat up the handicapped guy selling American flags

  • us995

    the only violence i remember is when the union thugs beat up the handicapped guy selling American flags

  • Anonymous

    or sprayed hard enough  .. (speaking of pepper spray)

  • Anonymous

    when someone turns to god, I see ignorance

    when a kid writes his own autobiography.. while still a kid.. I see arrogance

  • Anonymous

    except the spitting in congressman’s face, or the signs saying, ‘we came unarmed this time”  .. eh ? OR the ones who actually showed up at political rally’s or near the president with their guns.. eh?

  • Anonymous

    I’d say it’s far more likely that you’re a pasty-faced little poof with bad skin and someone else’s eyebrows who beats off to Rosie O’Donnell photos.

  • Anonymous

    Or Jesus doesn’t really give a shit about Football.

  • Anonymous

    Right wingers traitors to the nation, isn’t that treasonous?

    Tea Party Nation warns small businesses to not hire anyone so it will hurt Pres Obama’s re election

    http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/tea-party-nation-urges-businesses-stop-hiring-order-hurt-obama

    Politics, power, before the well being of the country and its people.

    Treason

  • us995

    left winger fleabaggers try to destroy black friday how that helps Obama with friends like these loons he don’t need enemy’s

  • fyonalon

    The woman with the pepper spray clearly thought she was using a vegetable product.  Obviously a Fox news follower.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_YS5LLXFMGXTP6ZKNPHPSBDVU3M Temple

    Um, I would actually watch the video before I made more foot-in-mouth comments.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_YS5LLXFMGXTP6ZKNPHPSBDVU3M Temple

    No violence? Would you like to bet some money on that?
    Just because YOU are ignorant of it, doesnt mean it didn;t happen. And you didnt know it happened because you get all your “news” from FauxNews- And what the hell would you except watching a “news” source that makes people more misinformed the more they watch it, has a clear and deliberate bias, and HELPED ACTIVELY CREATE AND PROMOTE THE TEA PARTY LUNACY!?!?!? If you would make a gentleman’s agreement that you will never comment with such ignorance on another website again, I will provide u with MULTIPLE videos and reports of violence involving tea party members, both in and not in rallies, as well of plenty of signs threatening violence and violent revoltuions.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_YS5LLXFMGXTP6ZKNPHPSBDVU3M Temple

    You forgot the ACTUAL violence and fist fights.
    And its great, because if you actually watch the unedited video of their favorite example of “union thuggery” you will see it shows quite the opposite… Fox News: Brain-washing your grandparents…. 

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_YS5LLXFMGXTP6ZKNPHPSBDVU3M Temple

    supposed? id learn to read a graph before wasting time with commenting

  • Anonymous

    I think that it is very shameful day for the american history.
    http://www.chumphonfocus.com/forum/member.php?240666-Aviana

  • Pablo

    “Supposedly horrific”. I’d learn to comprehend a sentence before wasting time replying to it. Also, I’d learn to punctuate and capitalize appropriately.

  • Pablo

    You don’t think Occupy is anti-consumerism, do you? All they want is more stuff.

  • Missgirl

    She is a vegetable product.

  • Missgirl

    She is a vegetable product.

  • Bc1071a

    Walmart RULES:  First In–First Pepper Sprayed?  The Greeter failed to check out the “mob” for guns, knifes and of course if they had any money.  I have a new theory that Walmart was market testing their Urgent  Care to see if anyone would use it.  To Walmart’s credit, imports appear to stack higher and are packed in known toxins for security and to stop shoplifters en route to the checkout stands.  The Walmart Recycle Center ala Japan’s Nuclear Waste Dumps are up and working.  What is dumped in Japan, floats to the USA.  A machine separates, fish, seals, whales, Hawaiians before washing ashore in CA.  The new symbol of WMR is seaweed green;  A peaceful Company at heart.

  • Pablo

    Your link says nothing like what you describe. When you have to lie to defend your position, your position isn’t worth defending.

    Stop lying and grow up.

  • Todd

    America is also doomed Tommy when hacks like you ignore rape and sexual assault at the OWS because it may hurt your political agenda. You douche.

  • Csinate

    You shouldn’t be drinking Kool-Aid while teabagging your boyfriend.  It freezes your brain which does not allow you to think.

  • Csinate

    I just like to comment even if I don’t read the article.  I just say shit about anything whether it pertains to the article or not so I can feel a relationship with the other commenters.  And when I get a reply I then feel that I have a new buddy that I can correspond with for the rest of my life on a daily basis with long rambling ideas that may come to mind that I think will be of interest to my new buddy.  I like run on sentences and hate punctuations.

  • Cecelia

    Right, Tommy…

    And when people do protest “things” based upon their ideas of freedom, you liberals scratch your heads and bemoan the fact that these hicks are so brainwashed as to decry entitlements and other goodies that would be of direct material help to them.

    Speak for yourself, Mr. Gimme…

  • SammyC

    Is this that American exceptionalism that republicans accuse Obama of not promoting?

  • Vladimir998

    There were no violent acts committed by Tea Party people.  None.  No arrests by police of Tea Party people.  None.  Those are the facts.  Deny them all you like, but in this media environment, which is so obviously hostile to the Tea Party, it would have been impossible for such things to have gone unreported.

  • Cecelia

    Only if you’re silly enough to define it as the utter national preclusion of human foibles. 

  • Anonymous

    “shoppers decimated the store’s supply of $2 waffle irons like a school of agitated piranha.”

    I for one would like to speak up for the oft misunderstood piranha. Anybody who has visited South America in the last few years realize that waffles are the staple of the well schooled piranha. To compare Black Friday shoppers to these valiant, self reliant swimmers is an insult….besides, no self-respecting piranha would be seen dead with a $2.00 waffle iron. They usually shop at the more upscale stores in Rio……

    Is it Happy Hour yet?

  • Anonymous

    like Obama???

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_IV7Q3RVQDO3MCMFC446A4ZLUMI Sidhecat

    Let’s not forget the child stalking, murder, firebombing, heads on pikes, destruction of property, shutting down of seaports, defecating on the sidewalks, jerking off in public, having sex on the sidewalk, calls to kill all the Jews and my favorite, calling for the violent overthrow of the country, not that Tommy wants to talk about that either.  Not enough, how scabies,  dysentery, TB, bunches of STD’s. and the new kid on the block, Zuccotti Lung.

    Call me when someone finally collects on that million dollar prize for the video about the tea party thing when Nancy “The Hammer” deliberately pranced her happy ass through those protesters to pick a fight, fortunately that did not happen.  She was hoping for violence that day, well now she has it, from her own crew. 

  • http://twitter.com/Brett_Cottrell Brett Cottrell

    The CDC warned about a drug called Black Friday that makes you buy tons of useless junk.  America’s hooked.
    http://brettcottrell.blogspot.com/2011/11/black-friday-drug-that-makes-you-buy.html

  • Anonymous

    I believe journalism is doomed because we allow the inept like Tommy Christopher… It would be pointless to even finish this sentence.

  • Michelle

    And because some people riot to have their debt relieved while the rest of us work hard and pay off our debts. 

  • http://www.rawstory.com MarkusGarvey

    who cares what a spammer thinks….

  • Anonymous

    BINGO!

  • Ccgibsonjr

    America doomed!  You kidding me? JEEZ!!!
    Read just a little of this great country’s history.  Start with “A Magnificent Catastrophe” by Edward J Larson.  Follow up with “The Summer of 1787″ by David O. Stewart.
    Then say we are doomed.  JEEZ!!!

  • Anonymous

    I’m guessing you’re a grown man or you wouldn’t have an article published but still going by Tommy?
    That would make you a redneck. Rednecks would line up and pay money to watch store fights- is that how you got information for this article?

  • Fred

    man people lose their minds over these game systems and stupid phones…. oh and i forgot Twilight hell gotta show that on 5 screens for the masses to go see a stupid teenage vampire warewolf whatever movie

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_YS5LLXFMGXTP6ZKNPHPSBDVU3M Temple

    I repeat: YOUR IGNORANCE DOES NOT DISPROVE OR PROVE SOMETHING. If you, or the 2 people who liked your comment, would like to put your money OR your commenting privileges where your mouth is, I will agree to do the same, and present you with multiple pieces of evidence, including videos, of multiple examples of violence perpetrated AND threatened by the tea party. (I have done this before. There is a betting house who will hold wagers in escro for 12%.) I am a man of my word and would expect you to do the same. However, I dont wish to take advantage of the ignorant so I would recomend you spend a few mins on google before accepting. 
    However I suspect someone who has been brainwashed by Fox News (and was dumb enough to trust it in the first place) and who cried that they were “Taxed Enough Already” in protest of a president who had lowered nearly everyone’s taxes and led to taxes being at a post-wwII low. (Forbes did a hillarious survey which showed that TEA PArty supporters knew next to nothing about, and were incredibly missinformed about, taxes. This showed that the TEA party is unmoored from reality- as u appear to be- and trully based on an irrational fear and hatred of Obeezy.

  • Anonymous

    We are doomed because of Presstitutes.

  • Rjstreng

    remember all the tea baggers and their misspelled  signs??..LOL 

  • Anonymous

    “Doomed” is too strong a word but the Black Friday videos filmed across the country do indeed look scary.

  • Bob

    and you forget about the teabgging Glenn Beck fan who tried to shoort up the Tides Foundation, citing the FOX News host and teabagger favorite as his inspiration.

  • Bob

    Nope. Dumb, fat, boomers in Arkansas – definitely teabaggers.

  • http://twitter.com/runforfun54 Ilene K

    What are you, like 12?

  • http://twitter.com/runforfun54 Ilene K

    Wow, you have a short memory – or maybe it’s a case of demential, or fox news burnout .. a simple Google Search would suffice. http://gawker.com/5501717/tea-party-vigilantes-out-for-liberal-blood

  • http://twitter.com/runforfun54 Ilene K

    Yep, the 1% who don’t give a crap about anyone but yourself. 

  • http://twitter.com/runforfun54 Ilene K

    We are doomed … we’ve become a people of “me, me, me, me.” Thank you baggers – thank you GOP – the party of Greed, certainly not the party of the little people.  

  • http://twitter.com/runforfun54 Ilene K

    What the hell are you talking about? Who the heck is rioting to “have their debt relieved”?  Wow, what are you smoking? 

  • Anonymous

    Clever, my compliments.

    Purveyor

  • Anonymous

    Would the earth better off with, or, without people?

    Are human beings part of eco-system, or, extraneous?

    As a species, do humans fit in the cycle of life the way other species do, are we parasitic?

    Purveyor

  • Pablo

    Right, not like the people out moaning that they don’t have enough stuff…for themselves.

  • Pablo

    No, it’s the entitlement mentality that represents Obama’s base.

  • Anonymous

    I used to think that Liberalism was a disease contacted in the environment but new information and a different way of looking at the disease has led me to believe it may be genetic.  You constant rants against fox news is a sign that I am on the right track. 

    A gentleman on Mediate was explaining why there are so many ugly hate filled liberals. I think,

    I understand his theory and its may be an answer to the rants of the likes of Rail. Let me see if I am understanding this correctly, your are saying that the law of natural selection, where only the fittest, brightest and strongest will live to procreate has been artificially interfered with by an unnatural occurrence which altered the natural law. This event that interfered with this led to mutations in the chain and as a result, we have people of lesser intelligence and physical beauty being produced. Each succeeding generations would have less intelligence an more physical blemishes, hence ugly liberal women with low intellect.This is not gender explicit. Harry Reid, Chuck Schumer, there are numerous others. (the above paragraph is my understanding of his theory)

    My next question from a scientific stand point,what event interfered with the natural selection law. I know from my experiments with white mouse the law of natural selection does not apply where incest is practiced. The offspring of an incestuous relationship carries with it weak genes and when bred with a member of the same genetic family, the weaker gens dominate and their off springs are weakened intellectually and many are deformed physically. . Each succeeding generations has less intelligence and physical defects. You reach a point where the offspring will not live and the family tree dies out. The law of natural selection is restored. This ties into research, that I am documenting. 

    There has been a study of two thousands liberals and two thousands normal thinking, (conservatives), people. As a result of this study,  it is proven, and documented that the right wing subjects have an average IQ of ten points higher than the liberals. At this time, there is no explanation for the discrepancy between the two groups   I will have the scientist factor in insect an compare the two groups background. Could liberalism be tied to incestuous behavior that has weakened the minds to the point that logical thought is beyond their capability.

  • Anonymous

    I see signs in your post traces of ignorance and arrogance. “But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.-Thomas Jefferson,”( Notes on Virginia, 1782.taken from no belief website) How is a man belief in God any of your concern? The arrogance of a liberal to think their belief is superior and criticize one who has a different set of values. 

    I do believe we have the freedom of the press and anyone has a right to author his autobiography. Are you liberals now wanting to tell a person when to write and what to write.How is this a liberal business? I can not believe your ignorance and arrogance but you are a liberal. 

  • Anonymous

    Your name calling shows that you should not be allowed to post on an Adult site. Do you have any thing of valuable to add to the discussion?  I will clear up a  point  for you, union thugs viciously attack a vendor at a tea party event. Union thugs invaded neighborhoods. Union thugs took over a a port in the state of Washington. The OWS viciously attack our policeman. The union President put a contract out on our representatives. Lives are in danger because of liberal Marxist thugs. You come here and say that this violence is ok. I have to fear you also. 
    Because of Obama, Holder, and union thugs we have to arm ourselves. We do not know when an OWS is going to come to our house and rape our children. They controlled it in the camps but now they are scattered and are a danger to the public at large. The words of Thomas Jefferson (taken from J Petries collection of Thomas Jefferson quotes.) will tell you that all citizens have a right to carry guns and will explain to you why it is necessary.   ”The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government.” “Laws that forbid the carrying of arms…disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes… Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.” (Quoting Cesare Beccaria)”The beauty of the Second Amendment is that it will not be needed until they try to take it.”

  • Anonymous

    I used to think that Liberalism was a disease contacted in the environment but new information and a different way of looking at the disease has led me to believe it may be genetic.  You constant rants against fox news is a sign that I am on the right track. Are you available for an interview, we will be discrete and your name will be protected. You offered some great insight.A gentleman on Mediate was explaining why there are so many ugly hate filled liberals. I think,I understand his theory and its may be an answer to the rants of the likes of Rail. Let me see if I am understanding this correctly, your are saying that the law of natural selection, where only the fittest, brightest and strongest will live to procreate has been artificially interfered with by an unnatural occurrence which altered the natural law. This event that interfered with this led to mutations in the chain and as a result, we have people of lesser intelligence and physical beauty being produced. Each succeeding generations would have less intelligence an more physical blemishes, hence ugly liberal women with low intellect.This is not gender explicit. Harry Reid, Chuck Schumer, there are numerous others. (the above paragraph is my understanding of his theory)My next question from a scientific stand point,what event interfered with the natural selection law. I know from my experiments with white mouse the law of natural selection does not apply where incest is practiced. The offspring of an incestuous relationship carries with it weak genes and when bred with a member of the same genetic family, the weaker gens dominate and their off springs are weakened intellectually and many are deformed physically. . Each succeeding generations has less intelligence and physical defects. You reach a point where the offspring will not live and the family tree dies out. The law of natural selection is restored. This ties into research, that I am documenting. There has been a study of two thousands liberals and two thousands normal thinking, (conservatives), people. As a result of this study,  it is proven, and documented that the right wing subjects have an average IQ of ten points higher than the liberals. At this time, there is no explanation for the discrepancy between the two groups   I will have the scientist factor in insect an compare the two groups background. Could liberalism be tied to incestuous behavior that has weakened the minds to the point that logical thought is beyond their capability.

  • Anonymous

    Arrogance, rudeness and stupidity are the dominate traits of a liberal. I am sure that this information you posted is valuable and required all your brain power to produce these words of wisdom. Get some rest.I am sure you used up all your reserve energy producing these words of wisdom. 

  • Anonymous

    And then there were the occupy San Diego folks who flash mobbed Wal Mart, filled 75 carts with merchandise and then left them in the ailsles….creating chaos, which is of course the real reason for OWS, chaos and anarchy.  And, they have a compliant and supporting media who defend their absurd acts.

  • Agfa_10

    I beg to differ, it is not the people who cause the doom, it is the people’s representatives, “GOVERNMENTS” AT DIFFERENT LEVELS” who condone violence anarchy and demolition of law and order, somehow it all started when the the White House initiated government to be run by “CZARS”  who have not responsibility to the people………

  • Vdieterman

    I really resent the teaparty and the occupy Wallstreet mob as being referenced as the same thing.  The teaparty has a specific goal, to stop the government form overspending, and held peaceful rallies to promote and achieve their goal.  On the other hand, we have the occupy Wallstreet mob that has no one discernable goal (just ask 2 or 5 and get 2 or 5 different answers) other than to get a free pass on the debt they’ve incurred, and they disturb the peace, harrass the local police officers,  deffecate on our flag and police vehicles, cause riots, rape and assault their own and others.  They see themselves as noble, but they are a public and health nuisance. 

    As to the nut jobs who will pepper spray each other for a cheap price on merchandise, I would have to agree with the writer.  Locally we had a woman who pepper-sprayed a 14 year old kid who cut in line in front of her.  It would have ticked me off as well, especially knowing how some of these 14 year olds talk and act, but, come on, isn’t that assault?  Ridiculous. 

    And the Penn State bs, I wonder if those students who rioted would have been so supportive if it had been one of their little brothers or sisters that had been molested?   Just more of the “protect the old boys and their status quo” and it is a sad statement to the mentality and yes, the morality of our country. Anyone who had any knowledge of the crap that was going on and didn’t follow up is almost as guilty as the coach who commited the actual acts.  When a freakin’ football program is placed above the well being of children, it’s time we stop and think about where we are going-it’s definitely not in the right direction.

  • Pablo

    Since when do you give a shit about anyone but yourself and the people you so fervently hate?

  • Anonymous

    A fine man doesn’t find out one of his coaches is buggering children, and do nothing for 12 years.

  • david r

    There has always been a little schizophrenia in American culture.  Work hard.  Piss it away on a Buick.

  • Cytech

    Projection. Seems to me that everything you hate about yourself you call other people. Now stop sniffing your mom’s panties and get a life, jewfag.

  • Anonymous

    It’s fun how you don’t put the #Occupiers, with their Molotov cocktails, window breaking, and general swarm behavior into the “riot” box. Why, someone who didn’t know any better might think you weren’t being entirely objective on the topic!

  • Anonymous

    all anyone has to do is read the comments HERE and it supports the thesis of this entire article. Let me explain it so the average “Joe” can understand:
    When COMMON PEOPLE whom have DIFFERENT BELIEFS, VALUES and OPINIONS can’t get along because they are too busy FINGER POINTING like little children instead of shutting up and looking at the BIG PICTURE then YES, yes indeed this country is in DEEP TROUBLE.

    Divide and conquer; works EVERY TIME

© 2012 Mediaite, LLC | About Us | Advertise | Newsletter | Jobs | Privacy | User Agreement | Disclaimer | Power Grid FAQ | Contact | Archives | RSS RSS
Dan Abrams, Founder | Power Grid by Sound Strategies | Hosting by Datagram