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Alan Grayson Defends Occupy Wall Street On Rachel Maddow: ‘They’re Doing The One Last Human Thing Left’

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While the Occupy Wall Street movement continues leaderless and clearly with little working in the PR department, former Democratic Congressman Alan Grayson has taken on part of the burden of explaining and defending the movement in public. Having received a standing ovation on Real Time with Bill Maher Friday night, Grayson appeared on MSNBC tonight with Rachel Maddow, arguing that Occupy Wall Street was the logical conclusion to the stagnating economy.

RELATED: Alan Grayson Gets Standing Ovation While Bill Maher Panel Mocks Occupy Wall Street ‘Hippies’

Having introduced the segment with much criticism from the right for the movement, Maddow asked Grayson to respond to much of it, including comments from Glenn Beck that the protesters would “drag us out and kill us” if they could. “I think Glenn Beck is right; it’s only a matter of time before they take him away,” Grayson joked, but kept most of the appearance more somber than his usual fare. Citing Wikipedia to explain “there are only five countries more economically unequal than the United States,” he argued that the problem the protesters faced was that they did see solutions on either side, though particularly among the Republicans.

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“Herman Cain’s solution is ‘get a job,’” he noted, but with 24 million people out of a job, it wasn’t so easy. “What people want is solutions to their problems, and what is either side offering?” With that in mind, and with no other response, Grayson argued, “they’re doing the one last human thing left: they’re going somewhere.”

The segment via MSNBC below:

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  • Anonymous

    Grayson = POS.

  • Chayal Boded

    The results of untreated syphilis.

  • cdnhawk

    and we’re off…a nice start to the conversation

  • Anonymous

    How fun to see “The Lord of the Flies” acted out in a New York park. Is this what the Left calls “performance art?”

  • Anonymous

    Astute and precise comments by Grayson. He´s telling it like it is.

    And now the right wing loons will talk about irrelevant bs without being able to prove Grayson wrong on a single thing he said.

  • Anonymous

    They’re ingenious in their stupidity that way.

  • Anonymous

    In 2010, Grayson was the 11th most wealthy member of Congress with a net worth of 34 million. So naturally his far left followers want to behead him….

  • ganymede

    It’s going to be interesting to see what the rightwingers are going to do as the OWS movement grows by leaps and bounds and even begins to attract some Tea Partiers who have had their eyes and minds opened by current events. You can make all your asinine comments about Grayson and Maddow, but I haven’t read anything on this blog that repudiates anything said in this clip. I actually believe some of the brighter Wall Street types are already starting to think of positive things they can start doing to help the country get out of this mess which they are responsible for, but I’m an irredeemable optimist

  • Anonymous

    Grayson = cuckoo, cuckoo, cuckoo…

  • Michelle

    Is it human to defecate on police cars? Is it human to call for for the beheading, execution, and cannibilizing of successful members of society?   Is it human to spew racism and anti-semitism?  I guess if you are a liberal, the answer is yes. 

  • Anonymous

    God bless Congressman Grayson.  He is one of the few people in Congress leading the charge to audit the Federal Reserve.  Without the Fed there would have been no Wall Street bail-outs.

    URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=cJqM2tFOxLQ

  • Anonymous

    Behead The Rich !!!

    Get out the XX-Large Guillotine…Have you seen the size of Grayson’s head ?? 

  • Anonymous

    ahHHahHAhahHAHahAHHAHhahAHhahHhHAHahHAh…..(wipes tear)

    I sure hope you are right.
    I hope they take a crap on every sidewalk and cop car in America.
    Let them leave their mountains of garbage right on every main street too.
    They can charge the police too.
    That is going to sweep you right into the  White House.

  • Anonymous

    Here’s more video of Alan Grayson:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3MpCbPDa1w#t=00m49s

  • Lloyd C

    you = cocaine addict
    whoislloydc@gmail.com

  • Lloyd C

    why do you hide like a liberal loon?
    whoislloydc@gmail.com

  • Lloyd C

    why do you hide like a union contribution? aren’t you supposed to be better than that if you want to win people over?

    I guess you really do touch kiddies.

    whoislloydc@gmail.com

  • Lloyd C

    neo-kong is as accurate as MSNBC

    whoislloydc@gmail.com

  • Lloyd C

    you = lazier than msnbc. how come? shouldn’t you try to be more accurate than them? it shouldnt’ be that hard now. should it?

    whoislloydc@gmail.com

  • Lloyd C

    michelle, why do you lie like a liberal?

    whoislloydc@gmail:disqus .com

  • Sharpo

    why is levicoultify a pooseyboy ?

  • Lloyd C

    you notice how far right wing extremists lie like liberals?

    shouldn’t far right wing extremists be better than that?

    whoislloydc@gmail:disqus .com

  • Anonymous
  • Anonymous

    it would feed a whole tribe of OWS cannibals for a week!

  • Anonymous

    But Obama and the like say the entire US economy, maybe the entire economy of the whole wide world, would have collapsed without those bailouts!

  • Anonymous

    After they have taxed the middle-class to bail-out Wall Street yet again, they may then turn to bail-out Main Street. However, the challenge at that time will be that the money they bail-out Main Street with will be so inflated that it won’t buy anything.

    Thank you, Federal Reserve.

  • NeverWrong

    Dang, I thought we’d seen the last of this idiot. What’s with that stupid left eyebrow of his? He is like one of them deluxe Jerry Mahoney Dummy’s that can smoke cigs, flutter the ears, wink, make an eyebrow go up towards the sky like only Alan Grayson and Alan Colmbs can do. I guess you really do have to be a dummy to do that.

  • Pablo

    “They’re Doing The One Last Human Thing Left”

    Sex with animals. Grayson is still a lunatic, I see.

    This is the guy who got thumped 56% to 38%, right? So now he’s going to be King of the Dingbats. Brilliant.

  • Pablo

    He’s not in Congress. genius. He got beaten like a rented mule.

  • Anonymous

    And now the right wing loons will talk about irrelevant bs without being able to prove Grayson wrong on a single thing he said.

  • http://twitter.com/Good_Lt Good Lt.

    Actually, crapping in public is what animals do. Crapping on police cars is what animals do. Bumping uglies in public is what animals do. Civilized humans don’t do these things – feral cats and rabid wandering dogs do, though.

    What we’re witnessing is a stupid-fest of otherwise capable and able-bodied people who want to act like animals and not civilized human beings. And they want your pity for this behavior.

    No wonder Grayson likes them.

  • http://twitter.com/Good_Lt Good Lt.

    Grayson is wrong – there’s nothing “human” about this behavior:

    http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2011/10/08/article-2046586-0E481DB700000578-865_634x366.jpg

    It’s as animalistic as can possibly be.

    QED, and thanks for stopping by.

  • Anonymous

    Anything Grayson says is suspect. He’s a walking, talking lunatic.

  • TruDat

    Grayson needs to put on his helmet and get on the short bus.

  • TPRTR

    MSNBC must be having a hard time finding enough crazy moon bats if they have to trod this moron out. This guy is a certified idiot even far left liberals will have to admit this.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Rusty-Boersma/1516044826 Rusty Boersma

    Since the reich wing has no facts to back up their positions, they immediately attack the messenger. They’re fascist that way.

  • Anonymous

    Madcow looks more & more like Brian Williams. Grayson looks like the North end of a South-bound Hank Williams, Jr.

  • Anonymous

    Are you right wingers having a party over here all by yourself? 

  • Guest

    you=chicken F*@$er

  • Guest

    Yeah his astute and precise comments got him a pinkslip in 2010 from an overwelming majority.

    As for his comments…I’d like to see wich five countries he’s refering to. 

    although I know two countries not on that list of econimic unfairness would be somalia or cuba.  Everyone there is on equal econimic footing……that econmic footing of course is zero…..but at least they are all equal and fair. right? 

  • Guest

    Wow, i noticed you replaced the word “right” with “reich”, making a subtle hinting towards Germany’s third “reich”

    What a clever and witty little guy you are, making this play on words.  I used to be a right winger, but since you changed it to “reich” I just cant support a conservative philospy anymore…..can you point me towards the nearest food stamp office please? 

  • Guest

    Yes,… And you can tell this by the lack of feces on the street, garbage thrown on the ground, sex in public, and the existence of a coherent message.

  • Guest

    And now the right wing loons will talk about irrelevant bs without being able to prove Grayson wrong on a single thing he said.

  • Anonymous

    And now the right wing loons will talk about irrelevant bs without being able to prove Grayson wrong on a single thing he said.

  • Go Navy

    You know when the pull this lunatic out of the straight jacket, they need to throw some meat out to the lemmings. Do lemmings eat meat?  LMAO!

  • Anonymous

    Very interesting and funny video on utube.

    LIBERTARIAN VS TEA PARTY
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4BY5ZGurCU

  • Michael West

    Occupy Wall Street

     

    To the rich
    man in his castle [Am]

    To the cops
    who guard his gate [Dm-Am]

    To the ladies
    on Fifth Avenue [Am]

    To the
    fashion fourth estate [Dm-Am]

     

    To the TV
    commentators [Am]

    To the mad
    men buying time [Dm-Am]

    To the
    faceless corporations [Am]

    To their
    lawyers and their crime [Dm-Am]

     

    Chorus:

    I want to
    occupy your heart [Am]

    I want to
    occupy your mind [Dm-Am]

    I want to
    wander deep inside your soul [Am]

    And see what
    I can find [F-Am]

     

    I want to
    know what made you greedy [Am]

    I want to
    know what makes you share [Dm-Am]

    I want to
    know what you would die for [Am]

    And I want to
    take you there [F-Em7-Am]

     

    To the
    bankers and their money [Am]

    To insurance
    companies [Dm-Am]

    To the
    spineless politicians [Am]

    Stealing life
    from you and me [Dm-Am]

     

    To the
    generals at the pentagon [Am]

    To the
    soldiers soon to die [Dm-Am]

    To weapons
    manufacturers [Am]

    Telling
    patriotic lies [Dm-Am]

     

    To the fossil
    fuel companies [Am]

    To auto
    manufacturers [Dm-Am]

    To the food
    and drug conglomerates [Am]

    Selling poisons
    and the cures [Dm-Am]

     

    To the
    ordinary citizens [Am]

    In
    foreclosure bankruptcy [Dm-Am]

    When will you
    rise up singing out [Am]

    In the land
    of the free? [Dm-Am]

     

    - Michael
    West © 2011 Wire Wind Ink

     

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zo2i4qyJet8

  • Anonymous

    “They have their eyes open,” and their pants down! 

    Let’s all go and “crap on a cop car!” 

    It’s the way to join the Occupy Wall Street “movement.”

  • Lloyd C

    why are you a coward? how can anyone take you seriously if you hide like a coward?

    dayoh is lazy like a union member

    whoislloydc@gmail.com

  • Lloyd C

    How can anyone get respect if they don’t post their real name beside their comments?

    whoislloydc@gmail.com

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_U7T5LVIQK7AMIBM5WI765VDVDQ smald4lib

    From the grapes of wrath: Steinbeck: “If you who own the things people must have could understand this, you might preserve yourself. If you could separate causes from results, if you could know that Paine, Marx, Jefferson, Lenin, were results, not causes, you might survive. But that you cannot know. For the quality of owning freezes you forever into ‘I,’ and cuts you off forever from the ‘we.’

  • Anonymous

    But he was a congressman they couldn’t rent. No wonder they had to beat him.

  • AliveStillKickin

    Right…Grayson goy all his money up front because he knew he was GONE come November…..and we didn’t disappoint him!
    ….The Tea Party

  • Porphyry

    How did liar Grayson become an expert on this subject?

    “Republicans want you to die!” No, they want YOU to, Grayson!

  • Anonymous

    tatboy you offer nothing to anyone.  You explain nothing and you understand nothing.  Even a barking dog has more purpose and clarity than you do…

  • Anonymous

    Good, let me help you out here.  I think you mean is that what the person in the pictures appears to be doing is not civilized (voiding is actually quite ‘human’ just like eating, drinking and sleeping.  Please work on your diction so you are understood and don’t look undereducated.

    Next, what is that persons name?  Was he cited for a violation?  What are his political views?  I have not heard one word about him other than the appearance of this picture.  For all I know its your dad on another bender and/or a plant from someone.

    Please get the facts and get back to me (and dont forget to bone-up on that diction).

  • Anonymous

    Damn where were you hysterical people when diction was taught in 5th grade?  Yes all those things you listed are under the rubric of ‘human’ behavior.  What you mean to be aghast at is the fact that those behaviors are ‘uncivilized.’   Not that any statistically significant portion of the OWS demonstrators do or endorse any of the things you mentioned. 

    To state the exception as the rule is a logical fallacy.  In summary: – your logic is false and your understanding of the English language is poor (and those that seem to ‘like’ your comment are likely undereducated and hysterical as well).

  • Lulu

    Ending the FED, ending the income tax, ending the wars? Thats sounds human to me not “global governance” and “global democracy”. That sounds alot like forced theft at the hand of goverment.

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