Shrieks of “Heavily edited!!!” in 5…4…3…2…

Robert and BFD heading to Occupy Fire Island this weekend as soon as Robert can assemble his Ellie Light wardrobe and pack his BVM statue .

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=H-AG9GtcruA#!

What Breitbart doesn’t realize is that he’s not going to scam away a whole protest. This isn’t some government official who’s going to get fired because you get FOX to play some BS footage of people yelling or some kids talking about socialism. 

I actually love all of this media hate and viciousness, it shows how scared you are, which tells me that this OWS thing might actually work.

Why would anyone trust this clown?

Ummmm….why is the guy who called Pelosi a “bitch” and Garofalo a “sympathy f*ck” still allowed on a FOX outlet?

Oh that’s right….Hank Williams Jr. is unavailable.

There is very little media hate of OWS. Nor is there much hate from the Right on this situation too.

I frankly love the exposure of the Left crazies. Let it last until the election.

Why is Pelosi allowed to go on Sunday morning talk shows to lie about a spitting incident.

Please show me that footage. I’ve been waiting for months.

lol you’re retarded.

These clowns should get a new propaganda specialist. 

And BFD, Garofalo is what Andrew called her.  He’s welcome on my teevee anytime.

These clowns should get a new propaganda specialist. 

And BFD, Garofalo is what Andrew called her.  He’s welcome on my teevee anytime.

Bolling and Breitbart. That’s two, two douchebags in one. (I recognize this post is not at all helpful in building a better dialogue but lets face it, it’s Bolling and Breitbart so who cares)

Andrew is so awesome. Sounds like a winging baby. 
Hey Eric, Why don’t you go down there and ask these questions.

Sooooo…. No surprises here. Bolling and Breitbart, neither of them very smart, are again dumbing down everything to try to manipulate viewers. They argue that some protesters are socialists therefore all protesters are socialists… and unchecked capitalism is the ideal good therefore any attempt to correct social problems that arise because of the market is evil therefore everyone protesting is an evil, stupid hippie out to destroy America. 

Of course there are unions at these protests. That’s not even news. The unions have announced it themselves and it’s already been in the papers in NY. As someone who has seen the NY protest firsthand, I can say that it’s not astro-turfed. A mix of progressives, neo-hippies, blue collar workers, socialists, naive kids and out-of-work and middle-aged ordinary people, but not astro-turfed. Also, there are no organizations dictating the message like Freedom Works, which was somehow quickly formed and headed by a former Republican leader, did for the Tea Party. 

That all the bullshit coming from Fox and the right-wing sound machine would eventually piss off enough people who can see through the obfuscations, selective editing and dumbing down isn’t surprising, nor is it surprising that the Repubs are scrambling to discredit the protesters before more people start noticing that, no what your political views are, they have a point about the corruption on Wall Street and the corruption of both parties. 

The protests aren’t perfect, but they’re a hell of a lot better than the pure right-wing, foam-at-the-mouth crap (the stop the Socialist/Hitler/Muslim Obamabots sending me to a death camp crap) coming from the Tea Party. At least the protesters recognize the real problem now. 

Where is stonedpark3 to tell us ,”what libbies we are skippy?”

Thanks for proving that 7.5 million developmentally challenged Americans are better than you.

The Occupy Wall Street movement is the biggest joke out there. As a conservative, I’m loving it. I hope it stays alive for months.

Do share with me the tea party photo of someone going #2 on a cop car though. You can’t make this Occupy stuff up.

Yeah, you’re right. I guess one guy taking a crap on a cop car is much worse than dozens of Tea Partiers holding up racist signs, including one of the main organizers: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S38VioxnBaI

http://www.mediaite.com/online/tea-party-leader-that-claimed-no-slurs-now-famous-for-n-word-sign/
I guess Teabaggers spitting on lawmakers is cool too. Just don’t criticize Wall Street, because doing that is a joke.

What’s the problem?

Thanks for your thoughtful reply. It really added to the conversation. 

“Do share with me the tea party photo of someone going #2 on a cop car though.”

I’m pretty sure Paul Revere shit all over Massachusetts as a signal the British were coming.

What do you think “#1 if by land and #2 if by sea” means?

Please  show me actual footage of this spitting incident. I’ve been waiting for this footage for months. Lefties always send the same video over and over that doesn’t show any spitting. So if you have a new video to show, please do so.

Also, I didn’t mention the other horrible stuff that the Occupy Wall Street folks have done, but hey, if you want to support people that sleep under tarps so be it.

I just recognize it for the joke that it is.

You’re the one using crude language – you might want to work out that pent up rage.

I thought maybe you tell me what the “real problem” was. I was mistaken.

The first is self-identified “Roger Fraser from Chicago, and happy to be here!”

I found him yelling “revolution now!” as I was rollerblading amongst the anti-capitalism H8 chanters.

“This is what we need more of here in America. This kind of street
heat brought against those kind of folks [the participants at the Koch
conference] to win this country back.”

I asked him, “What do you mean by ‘revolution’?”

Fraser answered, “Revolution! You know what I mean. What’s happening now in Egypt. Same thing needs to happen here.”

In 1994, a revolutionary named Roger Fraser
from the Chicago area was listed on a “Membership, Subscription and
Mailing List” for the Chicago Committees of Correspondence, an offshoot
of the Communist Party USA, though maybe that was a different
Communist-leaning “Roger Fraser from Chicago.”

The second is Bonnie Reiss, the owner of an erotic-ware shop in Palm Springs, “Sensuality, A Store for Her.”

Hartsock’s video showed Reiss reacting to his question, “After we impeach Clarence Thomas, what do we do with him?”

Reiss responded, “String him up… and his wife too…”

These “protesters” discredit themselves. No scrambling is necessary. Just point a camera any direction in the middle of the crowds…any ows crowd, any city, any day. These are gatherings of a bunch of people lacking any real inner drive. They were told to show up, so they did, not even knowing why. Well some did…they answered a craiglist add to protest for $$$. They are being told what to think and say, and what sign to hold up.
“The protests aren’t perfect”. A joke right? Mencius, I’ve been to an ows “sit-in”, lay-in”, whatever. Have you been to a Tea Party? How about an ows? If and when you do, tell them to clean up themselves first, then clean up after themselves. Not perfect. I’ll be laughing all day over that one.  In the end, this will result in a 2012 republican sweep, as the electorate reacts in revulsion to this display of laziness, and slovenliness. I am to happy that many democrat politicians have already linked their party to this movement. This is wonderful news. I hope many more follow Nan Pelosi’s example.

Fraser answered, “Revolution! You know what I mean. What’s happening now in Egypt. Same thing needs to happen here.”

Should we advocate murder like people on your side are doing?

The rightwing gets more and more stupid when it starts relying on Andrew Breibart for accurate reporting. He sort of reminds me of a rightwing Al Sharpton, although Al’s episode with lying (Tawana Brawley) happened many years ago and I’m sure Al has his regrets about that. Breitbart’s lying and dissembling is well known (Shirley Sherrod, etc), and he’s still at it. I live in Manhattan and have been down to Wall Street a few times and the reality is that the majority of protestors are ordinary working citizens who are fed up with the control Wall Street has over our lives. The right will do everything possible to minimize OWS with provocateurs like Breitbart doing their best, but it looks like this movement is spreading like wildfire to the point where I’m sure that some of the brighter minds on Wall Street are taking notice. BTW, I’ve met many Ron Paul Libertarians and Tea Party people down at these events, and they seem supportive, and they’re definitely not Socialists.

Then you can produce this photograph of Paul Revere performing said action.

I’ll wait.

HEY!!! The Toilet from Wisconsin is BACK!!!!

Did you finally recover from the news that that Dope Palin wasn’t going to run? SHOCK!!!

It’s good your back! You posts are always great when you take into consideration that you’re unemployed (the summer job at the fair ended, eh?) and that you such a loser you still live at home with all your degrees!!!!

HILARIOUS!!!! Keep em’ coming Toilet!!!!

The real problem is that Mencius thinks that Occupy is legit.

“BTW, I’ve met many Ron Paul Libertarians and Tea Party people down at
these events, and they seem supportive, and they’re definitely not
Socialists.”

BS.

Contraire. your post is very insightful. It reveals the level of intellect of the typical liberal. If you haven’t already, I think it would be good for you to go occupy Wall street.

Who’s that, Obama?  I know, right???

Hold it, hold it! Is there an invesment banker in the house? Why yes, I think there is…LOL Nancy Pelosi, you’ll remember is all behind the protestors railing against evil corporate banksters! What a fraud. And what dupes that follow the democrats. Liberal before country!

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi’s husband, a real
estate developer and investment banker, stands to make millions of
dollars in a previously undisclosed residential real estate project in
California as a partner with the father of a woman Mrs. Pelosi helped
become ambassador to Hungary, records show. Paul F. Pelosi’s investment
in Russell Ranch is worth at least $5 million and possibly as much as
$25 million in a deal put together by his friend and longtime business
associate, Angelo Tsakopoulos, patriarch of a multimillion-dollar real
estate development firm…

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/oct/10/pelosis-disclosure-belated-in-husbands-land-deal/

Ron Paul supporters lean Left.

The repeal of Glass Steagall. The steady watering down of banking regulations. The revolving door system of former bankers staffing the regulatory posts. The banking industry pouring more and more money into both political parties. The lack of consequences for the people who played the largest part in the economic crash. The members of the largest banks that keep finding their way into every presidential administration. The politicians who write the banking laws who become lobbyists for the banks as soon as they’re out of office.

I could go on but you get the point.

Then Obama political advisor Patrick Gaspard group he used to work for, Working Families Party, is linked with the Occupy Wall Street;http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2011/10/shocker-obamas-top-political-advisor-directly-linked-to-occupy-wall-street-protests/

I went to my local “Occupy…” protest and they didn’t even know why they were there. There were only a handful of “protesters”,

I’m going to go out on a limb and assume that, because we are pretty unlikely to agree politically, you think I’m going to tell you something about how Wall Street is evil so you could reply with some sort of scoffing remark about how I’m a commie using the Internet and shopping at Wal-Mart. Maybe I’m wrong in presuming your answer, so please surprise me. 

If you’re asking what role Wall Street has in the pretty evident problems currently, it’s pretty simple. Collectively, the financial sector accounts for more of our GDP than it ever has historically. It has eclipsed blue collar jobs and other positions typically held by the middle class, and while many lower-tier employees on Wall Street are middle class, most are not. These businesses have certainly helped provide the credit needed for technological innovation, and they’re certainly not 100 percent corrupt, but they have reached a point where, because of campaign finance and tax loopholes, they have inordinate influence over politicians. They specialize in making money out of money, even creating fake (but legal) stocks they know will fall in price just so they can short them. That’s rigging the system. 

I don’t think making money is bad, and I don’t think every protester on OWS thinks making money is bad. The real problem is that Wall Street firms broke the rules because they can afford to pay the fines or buy the politicians to get out of trouble, but exercising that power is detrimental to the country. It not only resulted in TARP and the subsequent stimulus (which wouldn’t have been needed at all if Wall Street didn’t mislead and lie to consumers, all while keeping their money offshore and even breaking U.S. sanctions) but it also led to the businesses pouring more and more money into distracting voters with non-issues meant to malign anyone who would call them out for their corruption.

As I said, not all of the firms are corrupt, and the ones that are aren’t doing anything that isn’t expected of them. They are trying to maximize their profits, only doing so without any checks and balances hurts the middle class and the poor. 

of course it is edited–
it is conservative spin just like there is liberal spin..
i just wish lil andy would come out of the closet..
that is my biggest problem with these guys..
andy is 100% gay –he creates mountains out of mole hills and the only reason he has any air time at all is fox news–just like beck..
anywhere else on the planet–these guys are jokers..closet homosexual jokers..
i dare any one of you REAL men to watch lil andy and tell me–he is straight—you cannot …

i had said before and i will say it again—why are conservative straight men so much more gay than liberal gay men?
that is the question of the times~

You have lot of posts, but have only been snide and ignore when asked what policies you do not like from huntsman.

Why?

why are you a coward?

whoislloydc@gmail.com

Yeah, let’s wait and see about that “Republican sweep.” Keep in mind that not only have the OWS protests grown very rapidly (it’s arguably bigger or well on its way to being bigger than the Tea Party movement) now that the Republicans had their chance to show their cards, but the only politicians more popular than Obama are the Republicans in Congress. Check out how the Republicans are polling in Congress and then tell me how big of a sweep they’ll have. 

..also, andy likes his booze too much.

y so srs?

Google “Ron Paul” and “Occupy Wall Street” and you’ll see for yourself that Ron Paul fans have shown up at the protests calling for an end to the Fed and that Paul himself has called the protests legitimate. It’s not hard to research on your own. 

WCinWI is a real special lady. 

Don’t make me get the hose!

“Please  show me actual footage of this spitting incident.”

Please show me a photo of you first getting laid.

If you cant I will know you are a still a virgin.

Short-bus special

Ed Schultz also had a segment where he featured one of the people at the movement. Turned out the person used to work in the banking industry.

You can’t make this stuff up.

If it looks like a Sherrod, and smells like a Sherrod, then it must be a Sherrod.

What did you do with the $100,000 reward offered for proof of the spitting ??

What did you do with the $100,000 reward offered for proof of the spitting ??

Shirley Sherrod and Breitbart – want to run fact check on that? 

lol

lol

“Following up on Digby’s superb post below, it’s worth pointing out just how delusional the conservative base that makes up 30-40% of the country really is, and why no amount of consciousness-raising will reach them or make them change their minds.We are the 53% is supposed to provide a counterpunch to the now famous and emotionally powerful We are the 99%. 53%, for those not steeped in the conservative closed information loop, refers to the number of Americans who pay federal income taxes, to be contrasted with the supposedly lucky duckies among the 47% of Americans who don’t.The fact that the bottom 47% of Americans are too poor to pay federal income taxes doesn’t bother conservatives. Nor does the fact that even if they did, they have so little income that it wouldn’t do much for the federal budget if they did. Nor apparently does it bother them that by making this argument they are playing “class warfare” of the middle class against the poor, and essentially advocating for raising taxes. That was supposed to be against “conservative” beliefs, last I checked.Most of all, the bottom 47% pay all sorts of other taxes, including sales, social security and payroll taxes that end up taking up as great a percentage or more of their income as the total tax burden for any other group. So the idea that 47% of Americans are skating by on the backs of 53% of Americans is ludicrous in the first place.All that aside, however, the Republican activists who were responsible for We are the 53% have faced in a choice in the stories they chose to tell. They could choose to tell the stories of the well-to-do (mostly from older white males), which would come off as tone-deaf, arrogant hectoring. Or they could choose to tell the stories of hardworking people struggling to get by who still hold onto conservative beliefs about the economy.They have chosen to do a little bit of both, which is smart from a messaging point of view. But the irony is that in doing so, they put the lie to their website, because many of the people in the photos aren’t in the 53%. They’re part of the 47%.Unless she’s making a heck of a lot off drawing cartoons, this person probably pays no income taxes. As an unemployed homemaker seeking work, this person is part of the 47%, not the 53%. This person either pays no income taxes, or has a higher-wage job than he admits. And there are others besides.These are people so steeped in their own conservative bile that they call themselves part of the 53% without even knowing what the “53%” means in context, to say nothing of why the statistic is bogus.As for the rest of people there who believe they accomplished everything in their lives on their own and thus have no need of that outdated concept called empathy, I would refer them back to this. Not that they would listen, of course. They, like those who imagine themselves to be part of the overburdened 53%, are impervious to progressive arguments and consciousness-raising. And they will fight our movement with every breath of their being, right alongside the plutocrats.”

“Following up on Digby’s superb post below, it’s worth pointing out just how delusional the conservative base that makes up 30-40% of the country really is, and why no amount of consciousness-raising will reach them or make them change their minds.We are the 53% is supposed to provide a counterpunch to the now famous and emotionally powerful We are the 99%. 53%, for those not steeped in the conservative closed information loop, refers to the number of Americans who pay federal income taxes, to be contrasted with the supposedly lucky duckies among the 47% of Americans who don’t.The fact that the bottom 47% of Americans are too poor to pay federal income taxes doesn’t bother conservatives. Nor does the fact that even if they did, they have so little income that it wouldn’t do much for the federal budget if they did. Nor apparently does it bother them that by making this argument they are playing “class warfare” of the middle class against the poor, and essentially advocating for raising taxes. That was supposed to be against “conservative” beliefs, last I checked.Most of all, the bottom 47% pay all sorts of other taxes, including sales, social security and payroll taxes that end up taking up as great a percentage or more of their income as the total tax burden for any other group. So the idea that 47% of Americans are skating by on the backs of 53% of Americans is ludicrous in the first place.All that aside, however, the Republican activists who were responsible for We are the 53% have faced in a choice in the stories they chose to tell. They could choose to tell the stories of the well-to-do (mostly from older white males), which would come off as tone-deaf, arrogant hectoring. Or they could choose to tell the stories of hardworking people struggling to get by who still hold onto conservative beliefs about the economy.They have chosen to do a little bit of both, which is smart from a messaging point of view. But the irony is that in doing so, they put the lie to their website, because many of the people in the photos aren’t in the 53%. They’re part of the 47%.Unless she’s making a heck of a lot off drawing cartoons, this person probably pays no income taxes. As an unemployed homemaker seeking work, this person is part of the 47%, not the 53%. This person either pays no income taxes, or has a higher-wage job than he admits. And there are others besides.These are people so steeped in their own conservative bile that they call themselves part of the 53% without even knowing what the “53%” means in context, to say nothing of why the statistic is bogus.As for the rest of people there who believe they accomplished everything in their lives on their own and thus have no need of that outdated concept called empathy, I would refer them back to this. Not that they would listen, of course. They, like those who imagine themselves to be part of the overburdened 53%, are impervious to progressive arguments and consciousness-raising. And they will fight our movement with every breath of their being, right alongside the plutocrats.”

And the the documented douche baggers showing up at rallys holding up racist signs tryin to make us look bad. I was there and saw it.. I promise we are not at the cess pool they call a protest.

Why would you compare a well organized – very limited (a couple of hours) rally by the tea party to this mess?  What do you hope to gain, legitimacy?  Not going to happen.  The tea party knew what the hell they were doing and didn’t cost anyone any money.  These idiots are hurting the cities and making a mess and scaring away customers.  Ask them what they are protesting and you get any kind of crazy, nonsensical answer.  The left attempting to legitimize them, makes them desperate and stupid.  

90% of the people shown are tattoo covered drugged out fools.  Who the hell wants them for anything?
If they went in to apply for a job with rings sticking out of every part of their faces and tattoos all over, they wouldn’t even get an application, cause they’d scare the crap out of every one working around them, and they would be awesome in customer service.

Grow up.  You want to look like an unmade bed – you go ahead, but don’t expect me to take you and your “issues” seriously.   

Yes, I do just people by their appearance.  If they have no respect for their appearance, why the hell should I?

Where did you come up with those lies? lol

Oh and about the spitting – made up lie, you prove it and you’ll be richer.  Then you can quit with the envy.  

Just don’t make up crap.  So you have no legitimate excuse for the “love in” – fine – neither do they.
But lying about the tea party and the phoney signs that were never at any tea party is dumb.

So you’ve really had some of the Fox Kool-Aid, eh? Are you still mad the Beatles had shaggy hair? I guess Limbaugh, who was caught illegally possessing pain meds and Viagra, is an alright drug user since he carefully quaffs the little bit of hair he has on his overripe head but the fact that some of the protesters have dreadlocks or piercings absolutely means that they all are just camping out because it’s Woodstock and they want to score some acid. 

I’ve seen the NY park. It’s not a very large or comfortable place to sleep in every night. I don’t think they’re choosing to “party” there when they could just go somewhere else. Maybe… just maybe… they actually believe what they say. Maybe… just maybe… some of them are normal folks who came down to protest, or recent college grads. Could it be (gasp?) that Fox likes to show only the protesters most likely to fire up their viewers, rather than give an accurate portrayal of what’s going on more broadly?

wow!

wow! just WOW!

Ron Paul supporters lean Left

-ToiletinWI

That must be why Ron Paul has won a couple of straw polls in wingnutistan conventions and has no appeal but plenty of ridicule from LBRULS and gNOpigs.

WOW!

Question for Fox News watchers: Who is dumber, Eric Bolling or Andrew Breitbart?

So far the wingnutariat has pretty much held its peace, often speaking sanely about people with whom it profoundly disagrees. For which it is to be commended.

I’m not sure how well that’s going to hold up if OWS is successful, by which I mean the occupation settles in for the long haul and continues making life complicated for the masters of the universe. Hopefully no violence, but it’s a volatile situation.

As for the “exposure” you mention, I prefer “display.” To the vast center-left, OWSers are inspiring in a way that blowhard teepers can’t begin to match. I’m happy to show America who stands where and on what. OWS makes it that much more likely that, come November 2012, the people will hand the wingnutariat its ass, without instructions on reattachment.

write in candidate:  steve doocy

So, you want to have sex with Breitbart, joe? He’s kinda married. I think you’re out of luck.

Do you see any evidence that the “masters of the universe” are being inconvenienced in the least? Do you think they’re strolling through Zucotti Park?

Indeed. The spirit and intellect of the left…

Do you mean the election where Palin becomes POTUS?

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Here’s the video: http://dailycaller.com/2010/03/24/did-emanuel-cleaver-really-get-spit-on/

Mencius lied, credibility died.

As someone who has seen the NY protest firsthand, I can say that it’s not astro-turfed.

Who’s paying for all the free food? And why is WFP hiring people to occupy?

If you showed me a picture of you getting laid, I’d swear it was Photoshopped. I’d be right too.

The root of all your problems is the politicians. Protest DC.

You know that “Republicans in Congress” won’t be an option on the ballot next November, right?

Maybe… just maybe… they actually believe what they say.

And what is that? What do they want, and why can’t they tell us?

The right will do everything possible to minimize OWS with provocateurs like Breitbart doing their best, but it looks like this movement is spreading like wildfire to the point where I’m sure that some of the brighter minds on Wall Street are taking notice.

Absolutely! I’m going long on Flexi-Cuffs and Lysol.

My, what a lovely a wall of stupid.

Traffic disruptions, courier blockages, lunch orders that never go through, and — most importantly — uncertainty . . . yep, they’re inconvenienced, all right.

Isn’t be married the cover up for most of the closeted republican gays?

Larry Craig is married too.  As is Ted Haggard.  What’s your point?

I agree.

Yes, but only because it’s true. Brightphart never engages in journalism, as you well know.

Not every crime is caught on camera, Bidet. In fact, most aren’t. If it weren’t so, who’d watch NCIS or Law & Order? “Here’s comes the picture! Gotcha!”

Perhaps you are unaware there was no photography in Revere’s day?

you say that like being gay is a bad thing? I thought you lefties were all inclusive? Sounds like someone is a homophobe!

Just more proof that liberals are the real racists, homophobes, bigots, haters….etc….

In case you haven’t noticed, Paulie, D.C. is also the subject of protests. As are many cities. It is a wide-spread movement. And, unlike the T-Partee, it will have a decades-long impact. Remember the CR Movement and the Peace Movement energized an entire generation. The T-Partee, entire assisted living centers.

Obama’s America!

BACK IN THE USSR!
——————————-

At least there’s hope for black Americans now through Herman Cain:

Like the underground railroad of old, Herman Cain will lead today’s black Americans off another Plantation – called the Democratic Welfare State!For years blacks have voted almost exclusively Democratic, believing the Left-Wing Media’s “GOP is Racist” spin on every story.So what has 60 years of Democratic Loyalty done for America’s black communities?Is drug use down? Crime any better? Family units any better? Jobs any better? Schools any better? Random violence any better? Is your quality of life any better? Simply put, are you better off now, having voted almost exclusively for Democrats over the past 60 years, than  other demographic groups around you who DIDN’T vote exclusively for Democrats?Herman Cain is leading the Freedom March off today’s Democratic Welfare Plantation!

Actually, Jeff, that may well be true. I haven’t been to the NYC protests, but the Austin protest has T-Partee and Libertarian participants. I understand you are skeptical about the T-Partee participation. Just remember, some people, some members of the T-Partee actually believed the economic talking points. They aren’t all simply social conservatives with no economic agenda. And, although you are undoubtedly far too dense to understand, this movement is against the exact same evil about which Libertarians have railed for decades.

Impossible for Jeff. Way, way too lazy and too illiterate.

In other words, the segment confirmed the legitimacy of the protests?

No, you didn’t.

I love the way that you didn’t actually counter any of that argument, you simply did a bit of ‘arrogant hectoring’ as the previous post suggested you would.

You really shouldn’t chastise others for their math when you clearly don’t understand the argument. To simplify it for you 99% is far greater than 53%

Fox Business News =/= Fox News

Fail.

Are you really deluded enough to think that those who want social justice are too stupid to take opportunities that are offered to them?

Just because we make money from the existing system does not mean that we approve of it or that we don’t want to change it so that it is better for the majority (the 99%)

You really shouldn’t chastise others for their math when you clearly
don’t understand the argument. To simplify it for you 99% is far greater
than 53%

1. 99% of the public does not agree with you.

2. 53% will throw your President and his destructive party out of office next year so that we can finally get the country back to work after years of failed progressive “experimentation.”

Unusual for the Right not to make stuff up.

Amazingly, even if someone once worked in banking that does not preclude them from wanting a fairer society where the 99% get a fairer deal. In fact, it shows how bad the system is if someone who used to be in banking is joining with the protests.

Not sure if you read his comment or you’re just trolling, RRE.

Even you are starting to sense that this stupid temper tantrum is wearing thin.

The coconut doesn’t fall far from the tree.

Bullsh*t. If a Republican – say Bush – were in office, his face would be on the placards. All of them.

Obama and his failed policies really aren’t the target here, and it’s evident. It isn’t a protest of government. It’s a protest of “Wall Street.”

Capitalism and the free market system are the targets. Oh, and “greed.”

The protesters want free money from other people and forgiveness of debt they incur, but they’re not “greedy.” It’s only the other person who is “greedy.”

CNBC =/= MSNBC
Fox Business News =/= Fox News

Fail

Excellent analysis.

Tell us how destroying capitalism is “better for the 99%.”

He can’t cite any polling, since polling methods do not employ Liberal Logic.

Don’t forget Maxine Waters.  You may recall she’s under House ethics investigation for directing TARP money to her hubbies bank.

I’m not arguing with the list, but I do want to deal with one factor – “repeal of Glass Steagall” factor – that gets raised a lot, to the point where it’s gained the status of a mythological monster. 

It’s important to understand that the reality does not quite match the myth.I suspect most everyone who raises the Glass-Steagall Act appreciates it for its most notorious cause – the Great Wall Street Crash starting from 24 October 1929 – and its best known effect, a bundle of provisions effectively setting up a distinction, or wall, between two types of commercial activities we associate with what we see as “banking”:

(a) Savings, like stuffing excess cash under your mattress or in a safe on the wall, except with a government-guaranteed insurance covering it being lost or stolen up to a certain amount, and 

(b) Loans, like giving a family member or friend or neighbor a loan with some form of interest on it that reflects the risk that it might not be paid back,and that this wall was torn down by Bill Clinton in 1999.The true picture is more nuanced. For starters, there was not one, but two Glass-Steagall Acts:1. The G-SA of 1932 mostly focused on the expanding the powers of the Fed so that it could deal not just with its original mandate of fighting inflation, but also deal with a new mandate against deflation – which these days we tend to refer to as the “full employment” mandate, the one which many progressives in particular complain that the current Fed ignores.I think the reason it gets ignored partly stems from the fact that the two mandates are aimed at  the Economy, but using a blunt tool – Currency.a) the (Anti) Inflation mandate, which the Fed can do fairly effectively with a few relatively simple tools, mostly involving controls of the amount of U.S. currency in circulation in U.S. banks. The tools aren’t absolute or perfect, because an awful lot of U.S. currency doesn’t circulate through banks (Think mattresses, wall safes, small denominations that get used again and again to buy pizza and beer etc until it wears out and is handed in to get replaced, but most of all, the underground, unregulated cash and financing markets, including but not restricted to criminal activities, such as narcotics, but also large legitimate transactions where currency is used as a kind of fudge factor to equalize barters & swaps -with that last part being particularly important over the years after G-SA 1932 to support an argument against keeping G-SA 1933, andb. the (Anti) Deflation mandate, which the Fed can do somewhat less effectively with the same tools, except in reverse, aimed at increasing the amount of U.S. currency in circulation in U.S. banks – which gets conflated with a knock-on or secondary effect, namely anti-deflation of the ECONOMY, which gets de-coupled where banks themselves get to become investors, and rather than make money from interest on money loaned out to customers, loan the extra money to the U.S. government in the form of U.S. bonds & T-bills – which can happen where the banks are paying a lesser interest rate on money they can borrow from the Fed than the amount of interest they can gain from lending money to the U.S. government – which is what has been happening in the spring of 2007 and one of the many “Moral Hazards” with bank behavior.2. The G-SA of 1932 is the one that prevented banks from playing this game of borrowing money from the U.S. treasury at one level of interest and loaning it back to the U.S. government at a higher one, by providing loss insurance for private customer’s deposits with banks but NOT for banks’ losses on their “own account” – which meant banks had to maintain separate accounts.That second part is what got repealed in 1999.Now, Bill Clinton gets blamed for that, but in fact the repeal process was on-going all the way back into the early 1980s, starting with the lame-duck Congress just before Reagan came in, in a way that’s roughly comparable to what happened with the Bush Tax Cuts in the lame-duck Congress in December 2010, just before Boehner & Tea Party took the House at the beginning of this year. That’s one of the under-appreciated aspects of presidents having to deal with lame-duck Congresses – that they are very often squeezed between a rock and a hard place in the transition period between a House or Senate that’s about to change character, and presidents very often end up signing bills into law that contradict what they stood for during their terms.And that’s sort of what happened in 1999, except that much of the Clinton administration was also wanting to repeal parts of G-SA 1933 – the part of it essentially being led by Bob Rubin. That is, what Clinton was confronted with was a Republican Senate for repealing, a Republican House for repealing, and his key advisors on the economy for repealing (By then Rubin was gone as Treasury Secretary, but his acolyte Larry Summers was in office.). And the result was that, even if Clinton were to have veto’d, the votes were way more than enough to over-ride his veto.But nowadays, it’s not sufficient just to bring back G-SA 1933, even if that could be done politically (which clearly it cannot – again, Boeher, the Tea Party, Citizens United, the impending elections of 2012), because the fact is that the U.S. banking system in 1999 was inadequate to deal with globalization, and re-instating G-SA 1933 now would put U.S. commercial activity at a crippling disadvantage, PRIMARILY because so much of global commercial activity tracks back to extremely large sovereign funds – mainly from the Far & Middle East, of which China is the biggest. The combination of foreign sovereign funds & a globalized economy means that the largely private U.S. economy with the government-guaranteed deposit system is a sitting duck for exploitation.So – how do we fix THAT?

Someone has messing with your Disqus account as well I see or you have spilt personalities.They still do it to me. I believe a ghost account must be created because I keep loging off and changing my password. Any avatar can be copied, saved or pasted.It seems it is som one on the right up to dirty tricks. Some right wingers here say the same thing has happened to them. But I just havn’t seen it! Dirty tricks is the only way the right  think they can win.They didn’t call Nixon “Tricky Dick” for nothing. It’s the GOP mindset!

Do you have to be a Christian to quote or mention Jesus. Do I have to be a Buddist to quote or mention Budda?

The odd thing about CNBC is that it is pretty much the business news leader in the US and internationally, with Bloomberg giving it a not-so-close second in the US and international markets. FBN has no international presence and only a most feeble US presence. So CNBC outperforms MSNBC, and FBN under performs FOX “News”. I find that remarkable because the business news market tends to be far more discerning, far better informed, far better educated than the cable news market. So, when intelligent people vote, they vote against Roger and Rupert.

Oh and I loveThe RED, WHITE and BLUE back ground graphics with the STARS all in a slanted 45 degree straight line just like on the STARS and BARS. It’s suppoed to show that Faux News is so much more patriotic then the other channels.

Rumer has it that Wall Street is set to cut campaign contributions in a drastic manner and the Ad Men are going to have some stern stuff to say to the media.  Look for the dems and media to start cleaning the mess up.

simply because s/he refers to Eric Bolling and Andrew Breitbart in disparaging terms s/he is a liberal? That’s mighty basic of you. I’m not a fan of Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid so using your “thinking” I must be a Fox News loving, goose-stepping Tea Bag, which I am not. Thanks for lowering the bar on the human thought process.

Jesse Junior made the walk holding phones in both hands filming the whole strut.  If the spitting happened, the dems would have been happy to produce it, it would have gone viral.  All they got is a lie.

Reminiscent of Greece in 1986—-Class Warfare—Blame the banks–blame the rich—–outcome Banks were bombed—-affluent neighborhoods destroyed. My friends on the police force in Boston –you take care of yourselves. p.s. anything Van Jones is involved in is trouble.

I’ll take it your complete change of subject to a discussion of market position is a concession that you can’t equate FBN with FNC and pretend “it’s the same thing.”

You do realize you sound exactly like the defenders of the TEA Party.  You lemmings crack me up. LOL

The other question, why are liberals so hyper defensive about any slight towards gays, but feel perfectly at ease with throwing unfounded accusations of certain conservatives as being closeted?  Seems,l I don’t know, contradictory to demand sensitivity on a subject while using the same subject as a perjorative.

The joke is after years of the tea party being slammed as a violent and hateful group you have one OWS protest that has resulted in over 1,000 arrests, vandalism, and one instance of a guy wiping his ass on a cop car.  The media is backing this group and hailing their efforts despite no cohesive message, all while they reviled the tea party and mocked their message.

You want racism?  At one Atlanta rally the crowd decided to prevent civil rights icon John Lewis from speaking. Hear much of that in the news?  The difference is you have none of the media criticism you saw with TP coverage. After years they had to cherry-pick select signs from rallies, yet here you have one week of protests with countless images of objectionaable behavior, and nothing but crickets from the press in the way of scorn.

Right… I forgot there are no Congressional elections in 2012. 

It amazes me how DB’s  like you really like to show off how much of a DB you really are.  LMAO!  Good job.

NBC just announced results of a poll involving OWS.  Less than 30% supported it, and a slightly smaller percentage opposed it.  That falls well short of 99%

I’ll bet the “protests” in austin are about as useful as the ones in topeka, right? LOL!

OOOoooooo married.
So is Marcus ‘Twinkletoes’ Bachmann.

Years actually.

An etching will do.

Tea Bagger left dirty ATTENDS all over da place.

Go to You Tube, Bunky

Big Fuckin Douche

its Breitbart, just as with any other pundit or person who has a political agenda, his word should not be taken a face value

The old  OBAMA ACORN people.
They are also paying protesters a weekly salary.

“TMP”

Not true, not true at all!  If Paul wasn’t such a tard on matters of foreign policy (most notably Israel and her defense) I’d vote for him in heartbeat; I’m as fiscally conservative as they come.

It should be noted I’m “individualist” on most matters of social concern.  In that, as long as it’s legal and doesn’t tread on others, I don’t really care.  O.C. believes whole heartedly in the rights of gays to be equally miserable in marriage.  ;)

Short answer, stop the money flowing from the banks to the politicians. Obviously the money comes from other places as well, but the banks have the most control over DC.
Long answer, we fix it by addressing each problem one by one over the long haul. There’s no quick fix to drag ourselves out of this situation. It’s taken thirty years to break the old rules down, its going to take a long time to put new ones in place.

you’re right, we shouldn’t question anything breitbart does. Just assume that he’s never heavily edited anything. Good job you brainless twit.

who carries a picture of another man’s penis on their phone?

Darladoon, that may be a great quote, but you never gave any acknowledgement to the person you were quoting. No one but you knows where that came from.

His unedited tapes have always been available.

Or a Weiner.

More like a Michigan teacher.

lololol

What’s more likely? That 100% of the time Breitbart’s  clips are always, always negative, against liberal, unions, with never anything before or after, just his little hate snip,… or that maybe more facts are  there! Make sure to belittle the truth, in 5…4…3…2…!

I’m sure the ‘Blaze” will back that up!

I back it up by paying attention. It’s not a secret for any thinking person.

“TMP”

Where and when?

98% of all crimes are “not’ caught on tape sooo, they never happened!

From something like you?

LoLing @ “socialist girl” clearly an actor planted by BriteBart n co, clearly.

LoLing @ “socialist girl” clearly an actor planted by BriteBart n co, clearly.

Well if the protesters are being paid a weekly salary, i guess you and all the other Tea Party retards are going to have to stop telling them to “go get a job”, right? OH NO! Two conflicting ideas in a conservative’s mind! Everybody grab your tarps and raincoats, this place is about to look like the front row of a Gallagher concert!

Youre right liberals are the REAl homophobes. Unlike conservatives. Us conservatives are the good guys. Which is why, as a conservative, i support gay relationships, gay sex, gay marriage, and gay adoption. I want all gay people to get married, adopt a ton of babies, and then one of them join the military and when they get there tell everyone they serve with that they are a proud gay man. That is my dream. Those are my conservative principles, because conservatives are NOT the real homophobes. Liberals are.

So now it’s a JOB and not a protest.  I knew that from the beginning.
We’re both on the same page here SB. Tea Party protesters were never paid by anyone. One more thing, they never raped anyone, destroyed anyone’s personal property or crapped all over the place. I can’t remember one Molotov Cocktail’s ever being thrown or any rocks and bottles.

I think that was the whole idea to begin with,VJ’s is the impetus behind all this-it’s just a means to an end.

The Unions never cared about hiding themselves. They prance around wearing Union Shirts and paying people to carry their signs. Just because Breitbart puts in video doesn’t make it a lie.  Hell he had a 2 hundred and 50 lb Union hack following him around. There’ no secret here. 5…4…3…2…1…Truth.