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CNBC’s Melissa Francis Tells Joe Scarborough ‘You Are The Problem’ For Downplaying Occupy Wall Street

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In an interview this morning on MSNBC‘s Morning Joe, CNBC reporter Melissa Francis excoriated Joe Scarborough for sarcastically downplaying the Occupy Wall Street protests. “You are the problem, Joe!” exclaimed Francis. “You are, it’s comments like that that is making this whole thing a whole lot worse. We have respected it from the beginning, I tell you. I mean, the place is in lockdown outside. I don’t know if you’ve been down here, if you deign to come down to our neck of the woods.”

To open the CNBC’s journalists’ report, Scarborough had joked that Francis had yet to be dragged out into the streets kicking and screaming.

“I’ve yet to do that but when you come in, even at this hour, you can’t ignore Occupy Wall Street,” Francis reported. “Even though it’s much quieter at this hour, there’s just a maze of fences all around the outside of the exchange. There’s security everywhere.”

“Are people nervous down there?” Scarborough chuckled. “Are they shaking their martinis and you know…How nervous are they down there? Are their ascots askew?” He sarcastically gestured whether they were shaking their top hats and monocles.

Francis blasted the MSNBC anchor for his question, “It is sarcasm like this that is fueling this rally right now!” She then accused the host of drinking his own martinis in his coffee cup while sitting in his ivory tower.

“So what you’re telling me is, I think when they get nervous, you are having to burn a lot of $100 bills. Is that what you’re telling me?” Scarborough snarked.

“I got nothing. I don’t know what to tell you. You’re the one that makes the big bucks,” Francis said. Morning Joe producers drowned out the heated discussion by blaring David Bowie’s Young Americans in a segue to cut to commercial.

Watch the segment below via MSNBC:

(h/t Raw Story)

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  • Michelle

    For anyone who still denies there is a liberal media bias, the only proof you need is the difference in how the corrupt, liberal media covered the TP and how it’s covered OWS.  And that’s why they have zero credibility with the American people.  They are disgraceful.  They have decided to openly choose their liberal ideology over their journalistic duty to report the news. 

  • Anonymous

    Yet another story about the freaks in the streets…good god Mediaite, come up for some air!!

  • Anonymous

    The media is praisng the protests and covering up the nastiness , cluelessness and violence . What else is new ?

    This :

    OBAMA FLIP FLOP # 97
    “Obama opposes repeal of healthcare program suspended last week”( by Obama administration) .
    http://thehill.com/blogs/healthwatch/health-reform-implementation/187949-white-house-opposes-formal-class-act-repeal

  • Michelle

    Yeah, they are totally burying another huge embarrassment for Barry. 

  • Michelle

    Hypo alert!!
    — A cache of private emails among Occupy Wall Street protesters shows
    they planned to sell protest-themed merchandise in order to raise money
    to support their anti-capitalist cause.
    An online merchandise marketer named Kristen Harrington
    emailed left-wing activist Justin Wedes on September 25 indicating she
    was helping put together a merchandising effort to raise money for the
    protesters. “We spoke on the phone this evening regarding fundraising,”
    Harrington wrote to Wedes. “This is a link to my store (just set up
    today) at. This is a link to my store(just set up today) at
    cafepress.com.” Wedes is a leader of the “OurSchoolsNYC” movement.

  • Anonymous

    What violence? Like the time Tea-baggers stomped on a lady at a protest? Or the time they spit on a black congressmen? Or the time that Republicans cheered people dying without healthcare.

    Ohh what about time that Conservative and Tea Bagger gathered at the Ground Zero Mosque to yell at Muslims? That’s normal. Almost like Herman Cain saying he would never put a Muslim in his staff. Yep, bunch of peace-loving people.

    Somehow it’s ironic hearing someone get upset about violence, while alternatively cheering death.

    Guess it depends which day it is.

    People in America don’t support your views, most are with Occupy Wall street no matter how bad you try to paint them. Keep it up loser :)

  • Roger_Fails

    Wow. More off-topic partisan nonsense. How unexpected.

  • Anonymous

    You really haven’t seen any violence from the OWS crowd? Really???  Say it loud so the rest of the class can hear you.

  • Anonymous

    The Tea Party stomped on a woman though, right out of the gate, of course they will get bad press. Oh and the Tea Party just says ridiculous things too, like all the stuff they say about Obama makes them look crazy but they seem completely unaware, lol. If they could talk about Obama without going into these far-off unproven claims of tyranny, they wouldn’t look like lunatics..

    but I hope you never change because you and your friends look freaking insane 

  • Anonymous

    I never had much hope for the OWS protests but the way it has these teabagger cockroaches on Mediaite scurying for cover has warmed my heart. 

    For that reason alone they have been wildly successful.   :)

  • Texan

    Let’s analyze this OIWS/SS thing for a minute, patsy.

    Who’s thrown their hat in the ring, so far.

    Progressives-Check
    Obama Administration-Check
    Soros-Check
    SEIU-Check
    Nazis-Check
    Anarchists-Check
    Commies-Check

    Who will be next? The Muslim Brotherhood?

  • Rex the Wonder God

    You’re just digging a shovel-ready memory hole. The msm mocked OWS for a month, until they were finally forced to go down there and look, and what they saw jarred them into reality: that the OWS movement is fully national and gone viral internationally. Now that they’re actually doing something closer to what we used to call ‘reporting’, this is all too upsetting for you, so reporting what’s actually happening, to you, instantly gets redrawn as media bias.

    Get a grip.

  • Rex the Wonder God

    It’s the biggest human activity story on the planet, which means that Mediaite is actually UNDER covering it. 

  • Anonymous

    Wow! 

    HILARIOUS!

    You’re posts are priceless!

    It’s a view though the eyes of a paranoid schizophrenic!

    PLEASE keep this entertainment coming!!!!

  • Anonymous

    Yep, it only takes one person to make the whole group look bad. But you makes excuses for one and condemnation for another. Weird how that happens.

  • Miljanamandich

    Just imagine the reaction in the liberal media if the Tea Party had ever occupied anything.They would have been accused of …..fill in yourself.The FBI would have created another Waco.Tea Party groups got together,expressed their opinions,cleaned up and went home.And they voted in the next election,thereby issuing a restraining order on out-of-control Democrats and Obama.OWS is nothing but an attempt to subvert and disrupt the next election.It is Allinsky pure and simple,using a whole bunch of ignorant useful idiots who apparently don’t need to work for a living

  • Anonymous

    No I haven’t seen any violence, sorry. 

    These protests have spread around the world! There is a reason! People are tired of corporations and taxes running their lives!

    I SUPPORT OCCUPY WALL STREET !

  • Anonymous

    Gee OWS and the Occupy movement gets lots of attention from Mediaite. Only clueless libs would take this movement so seriously. But, this is great, the more publicity the better !  I want all the squishy America moderates to see these communists/socialists/anti-capitalist libs for what they are – Barry’s troops to deflect away from his failed policies. 
    When the other side is destroying themselves, it’s best to step out of the way and let it happen.

  • Anonymous

    Just as it warmed my heart the way you scurried after the Tea Party.

    Works BOTH ways man……

  • The_Reasonable_Lib

    I find it hilarious that OWS has all you neocons in a tizzy. Better stock up on gold and seeds and get in those bunkers. I can just picture Beck driving around shouting “The caliphate is coming! The caliphate is coming!”

  • http://gregingleright.weebly.com/ Greg

    The “just imagine” game is a popular one these days.  

  • Exgoper

    Good god, hater. Don’t you have anything else to do?

    Is your life so empty that you have to spend your day documenting every little perceived tilt of the media? Is there nothing in your life that’s more fulfilling for you than repeating these talking points again and again and again about the commie media? I’ve never encountered anyone who was more of a broken record. You parrot every tired cliche, every whiny right wing platitude, and then just keep returning for to do it again.

    The people in your life must be ready to jump out of their skulls having to listen to you nattering on this way in your Obama-deranged bubble. Without ever having met you, it’s painfully obvious that you’re just an incredibly negative person. It comes through in every single post.

    Truly, Michelle — reconnect with your life. This is no way to live.

  • Rex the Wonder God

    No. CLASS was not cancelled by Obama on his choice or terms, it was cancelled on precisely the terms under which it was established. Congress inserted a Republican demand that it must always show funding viability on the same scale as the original funding 75 years in advance. That was a stupid stupid stupid provision and could only cause it to fail; but it was CONGRESS who came up with that provision. This Congress could, of course, remove that condition, but it’s the do nothing Congress that neverdoes any work except to undo Roe v Wade and the ACA. Portraying this as a singularly Obama failure is rightwing spin. Obama could speak out against it, for whatever good that might do – face facts: that would do nothing at most – but all he’s talking about these days is jobs. Which, considering all that’s going on, makes sense.

  • Anonymous

    I have the “Just Imagine If Bush Did That” home game.

  • Rex the Wonder God

    There’s always someone seeking to make a buck. It doesn’t characterize OWS, it characterizes the American way – We’re always open for business – or the human condition.

  • SNAPTIE 53% taxpayers vs 99%R

    Occupy Chicago Commie in Saturday’s rally who was marching and being cheered,has been identified as Jordan Farrar  http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=avG4LgTF0ho He’s not your normal Commie,he works for Obama’s Organizing for America. http://my.barackobama.com/page/event/detail/gpcx59  His Facebook. https://www.facebook.com/ComradeJordan

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

    When did the MSM “mock” OWS for a month?”

    Fox excluded.

    Thanks.

  • Anonymous

    I love the pic of the white hippie attacking a black cop… it’s my personal fav. I call it “Irony”. What do you think?

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2049137/Occupy-Wall-Street-Violence-erupts-police-clash-protesters.html

    PS.. why do you hate cops?

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

    You haven’t seen violence?

    http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2011/10/14/violence-breaks-out-during-occupy-wall-street-march-on-wall-street/

    You must not really be paying attention.

  • Anonymous

    mediaite = “teabagger, cockroaches”…guess that why MSDNC bought so much ads on the site, and why so much content centers around MSDNC and it’s dominant lineup of the greatest journalists and personalities ever assembled. 
    I feel so honored to live in this era….

  • Texan

    Roger_FailsExgopersame loser

  • Concerned Citizen

    Whats your excuse?

  • Concerned Citizen

    Whats your excuse?

  • Anonymous

    REALLY.. I have the “Just Imagine If Obama Did That” home game… weird?

  • Michelle

    In other news the corrupt, liberal media will ignore:

    Via The Hill:
    In the minds of likely voters, Washington, not Wall
    Street, is primarily to blame for the financial crisis and the
    subsequent recession.
    That is the key finding of this week’s The Hill poll, which comes as
    the national Occupy Wall Street movement — a protest that objects to
    risky practices and excessive salaries at major banks, along with
    American income disparities in general — enters its second month.
    The movement appears to have struck a chord with progressive voters,
    but it does not seem to represent the feelings of the wider public.A plurality believe that the Occupy Wall Street movement will hurt
    Democrats and Obama in the 2012 election. Even those whose sympathies
    lie on the left of center seem unsure about the likely political
    repercussions. Just half of all liberal likely voters — the group most
    likely to blame Wall Street for the recession — and fewer than half of
    all Democrats believe the protests will help their side next year.

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

    See you next year, champ.

    Beck, Fox, OWS, “the GOP House” and the tea party aren’t on the ballot.

    Barack Obama is.

  • Anonymous

    “I find it hilarious that Tea Party has all you liberals in a tizzy. Better stock up on carbon credits and seeds and get in those bunkers. I can just picture Olbermann driving around shouting “Fox News is coming! Fox News is coming!”

    There… fixed it for ya……. ;)

  • Anonymous

    Why do I hate cops?

    I didn’t know I hated them, why do you think I hate them?

  • Anonymous

    This kind of stuff happens at protests with young people, I’m not really worried at all.

  • Texan

    None of that happened

  • Texan

    None of that happened

  • Anonymous

    The teabaggers were throwing one dollar bills at a person in a wheel chair.  I just wonder if they’re the same people who yelled during the debate let him die.

  • Anonymous

    The teabaggers were throwing one dollar bills at a person in a wheel chair.  I just wonder if they’re the same people who yelled during the debate let him die.

  • The_Reasonable_Lib

    Barack Obama will destroy the Repub candidate in a debate or need I remind you of the event where he obliterated the entire House GOP population? Notsosmart.

  • The_Reasonable_Lib

    Barack Obama will destroy the Repub candidate in a debate or need I remind you of the event where he obliterated the entire House GOP population? Notsosmart.

  • The_Reasonable_Lib

    Barack Obama will destroy the Repub candidate in a debate or need I remind you of the event where he obliterated the entire House GOP population? Notsosmart.

  • The_Reasonable_Lib

    Don’t you love inter-changeability. So surely you must understand the irony of conservative opposition to OWS given the life and times of the Tea Party. Or does ideology blind you?

  • Michelle

    Thanks for the advice, Libby!   If I cared one wit what you thought, I might take it to heart. 

  • Michelle

    Thanks for the advice, Libby!   If I cared one wit what you thought, I might take it to heart. 

  • Anonymous

    I just want to say THANK YOU to everyone at Occupy Wall Street for being out there and making a difference. Those who would seek to strengthen the bond between government and corporation are becoming more terrified with each day of protesting.

    THis isn’t a temporary thing, this is a movement and it won’t end until there are results.. and the numbers will only continue to grow.

  • Anonymous

    I just want to say THANK YOU to everyone at Occupy Wall Street for being out there and making a difference. Those who would seek to strengthen the bond between government and corporation are becoming more terrified with each day of protesting.

    THis isn’t a temporary thing, this is a movement and it won’t end until there are results.. and the numbers will only continue to grow.

  • Concerned Citizen

    What are the results you are looking for?

  • Michelle

    You do know he isn’t allowed to use the teleprompter at the debate, right?  My 13-year old son could debate him off-prompter and win!

  • Anonymous

    Tea Bagger Scarborough is lucky that he works at the MSNBC building and he’s safe from us 99%ers there!

  • Anonymous

    Rand Paul rally…they have it on video.

  • Anonymous

    I ask again. If you are SO offended by offensive behavior. Why are you making so many excuses for the offensive behavior of the OWS crowd?

  • Anonymous

    You support OWS while they are assaulting cops. Either the cops have arrested 600+ OWS people unjustifiably or they were justified… which is it? OWS or the cops?

  • Anonymous

    Tea Party = big deal

    OWS = No big deal

    Got it?

  • Anonymous

    I understand it just as much as you do. ;) It seems were on the same page here?

  • Michelle

    I’m not surprised you don’t see the irony of anti-capitalists embracing capitalism for their own benefit. 

  • Anonymous

    There just protesting.  It’s people on FOX and Beck who make it sound like their are a bunch of warriors out there.  They’re trying to start stuff plus they got plants in the crowd who are starting trouble.  

  • Anonymous

    I remember how cnbc pushed for the media to respect the tea partiers too.

    oh wait a minute.

    What a bunch of liberal loons acting as journalists.  These folks have done more damage to their profession than anyone could possibly have imagined.  Their bias and inability to report fact and truth has made them the laughing stock of the world.

    The people are so much smarter than the press, thank God.

  • Anonymous

    Should pray it’s not a debate with Obama and Perry . At that point you will need a mind reader to figure out what Rick is trying to say.

  • Anonymous

    Yep… one guy did a really stupid thing. Luckily everyone else there quickly pulled him off and got him away from her. What a jerk.

    Like these folks…

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2049137/Occupy-Wall-Street-Violence-erupts-police-clash-protesters.html

    But you only worry about the Rand Paul one… right?

  • Anonymous

    Let Bush Tax cuts expire
    Reinstate Glass-Steagall Act
    Eliminate Corporate Personhood
    Charge 25 cent tax on all Wall Street trades
    No Tax Subsidies for companies making large profits or paying out huge bonuses
    End of SUPER BONUSES, 70% Tax rate after the first $20,000
    Tax rate of 60% for those making over 2 million dollars a year
    Severe restrictions on ALL lobbying, not just corporate
    No Tax breaks for companies sending jobs overseas. Those companies should be investing that money in America, where over the long run both the company AND America would benefit.

    Capitalism dictates the market will make or break companies the government should not be helping them or being influenced by them.

    If the founding fathers wanted a corporate branch, they would have created one.

    Off the top of my head these are a few things. We need really strict rules without any chance for loopholes.

  • Anonymous

    It’s driven the right wing loons absolutely insane. From the top man Beck himself down to the sheep like Shelly they’ve done nothing but frothed like maniacs this past week. 

    It’s a beautiful thing when people around the world can come together and drive the righties nuts….

  • Anonymous

    It’s driven the right wing loons absolutely insane. From the top man Beck himself down to the sheep like Shelly they’ve done nothing but frothed like maniacs this past week. 

    It’s a beautiful thing when people around the world can come together and drive the righties nuts….

  • The_Reasonable_Lib

    Do I honestly have to post links of him crushing the congressmen you worship with facts and them later telling reporters that it was a mistake to allow cameras to roll? Oh wait you’re just being an idiot again. I’m sorry, I thought you’d tired of that.

  • Anonymous

    BUT BUT BUT POLL DON’T MATTER!!!!

    Or at least that’s what you loons were all screaming when it showed last week that Americans hate the Tea Party…..

  • The_Reasonable_Lib

    Quite possibly. It seems we could have an actual rational debate on some things here.

  • Anonymous

    We don’t make excuses, we support them, I don’t think they are violent or anything. Just propaganda.

    Fox owns you. They are a huge corporation, that has purposely lied to it’s viewers (with documentable proof), run by News Corp, who, on a daily basis engages in propaganda and basically attacks whatever is bad for News Corp and Fox News interests..

    it’s astonishing to think all the viewers could be so blinded… they think every other news channel is evil or something.. when all along, it’s Fox News. So freaky.

  • Exgoper

    I guess I touched a nerve.

  • Michelle

    Don’t forget cop-killers, a liberal favorite!

    Cop Killer Mumia Abu-Jamal Endorses Occupy Wall Street From Death Row…

  • Michelle

    And the Iranian and Chinese gov’ts.  Man, that’s quite a list!!

  • Anonymous

    Yep. Very much so.

  • Norbit

    Tea Party……….Democrats & THEIR MEDIA reported potential “threats and violence” from what most people saw as very peaceful, if at sometimes angry, protests to CHANGE the system from within.

    OWS……….Democrats & THEIR MEDIA embrace the OWS, without reporting any potential “threats and violence”, despite HUNDREDS OF ARRESTS, taking the Brooklyn Bridge, and the clear possiblity of violence! – and with myriad calls to OVERTHROW the system!

    Today’s ”Mainstream Media” in this country is little more than a network of propaganda outlets for the Democratic Party!

    Who’s side will YOU be fighting on?

  • Nancillarypeloslinton

    OBAMA BAILED OUT WALL STREET. OBAMA BAILED OUT THE BANKS. TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS PISSED AWAY. #OWS, YOU WANT TO KNOW WHY THERE ARE NO JOBS? OBAMA GAVE ALL YOUR MONEY TO THE BANKS AND WALL STREET. DON’T LISTEN TO THIS NONSENSE THAT IT WAS ALL PAID BACK. OBAMA’S LYING TO YOU.

  • curious

    2 questions

    1) Could this not be that guy and another behind the cop pulling the cop off of whoever the girl is looking at on the ground?

    2) Why is it all of the GREAT pics used to condemn the OWS are from the British Tabloid that the brits laugh at?  Why none from the greats here in the US, Breightbart etc???

  • The_Reasonable_Lib

    Wait so polls don’t matter…until they align with your beliefs. OWS is a soros-funded obama admin puppet…but they probably will hurt Democrats. And this all amounts to some evil takeover of America collapse of the market liberal media scandal….You shouldn’t buy brownies from that guy, he isn’t an OWS protester.

  • Anonymous

    I think no one should be able to comment(good or bad) on the OWS until you actually go down there and experience it person. Since I have done this on a couple occasions, i feel comfortable in my assessment that this is a bunch of old hippie burnouts looking for a reason to keep on living and a bunch of skateboard toting ProActiv deficient loosers who can’t get laid. Seriously, if you watched the news you would think this was the second coming of Woodstock. Instead of the guy I saw yesterday who was standing in the park holding a sign that said, “Google=2 Jew Billionaires”

  • Nancillarypeloslinton

    Obama condoned Jimmy Hoffa when he said he wanted to take out the Tea Party. How would the Obama-Garglers react if any Tea Partier said they wanted to take out Obama-Garglers. Hypocrite much Obama?

  • Exgoper

    Michelle is very, um, flexible when it comes to polls. If they tell her what she wants to hear, she’ll post them 20 times. If they don’t, she denounces them as left wing agitprop.

  • Nancillarypeloslinton

    Obama-Garglers are so hateful and prone to violence.

  • Anonymous

    Did you watch the clip?
    Melissa Francis is not so much defending OWS as she is defending Wall Street from Joe’s sarcasm that they are a bunch of monocled fat-cat big-wigs who have no respect for Main Street.

    In other words, they are scared shitless.

  • Miljanamandich

    In other words,you want to eliminate freedom of speech for those you don’t like.It ain’t gonna be that easy….

  • Anonymous

    OBAMA HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH OWS.

    Do some research and maybe you’d know that.

    Obama has been just as bad and OWS protestors think that too. That’s why they want separation of corporation and the government.

    Taking money and corporations out of government elimates the threat of either Democrats or Republicans being paid off. It’s win/win. Without lobbyists, the people’s vote will be heard instead of corporations.

  • Anonymous

    I think most Americans would support this completely.

  • Norbit

    Where was your support for the Tea Party movement, when they espousing the same constraints over Wall Street’s profligacy?

    They worked within the freedom of the democratic system, and changed things!

    They weren’t calling for an overthrow of capitalism, as these Marxist Indoctrinates are!

    The new GOP will take all (3) branches next year, and begin to turn back the Democratic Welfare State – as well as the Incest that is Wall Street & Washington.

  • Michelle

    Sorry to disappoint you. 

  • Miljanamandich

    You actually want confiscatory taxation without representation,AFTER abolishing the Constitution,right?

  • Anonymous

    Let Bush Tax cuts expire
    -OK… no problem with that. As long as it is connected with meaningful spending cuts. Good idea.

    Reinstate Glass-Steagall Act
    -OK

    Eliminate Corporate Personhood
    -Not sure what your meaning is there?

    Charge 25 cent tax on all Wall Street trades
    -I’m not sure that would fly. But you won’t get much of an argument with me. Although I think they will just pass on the expense to their consumers.

    No Tax Subsidies for companies making large profits or paying out huge bonuses
    -OK… I think that was a Tea Party idea as well.

    End of SUPER BONUSES, 70% Tax rate after the first $20,000
    -I don’t think you can tell a private business what it can pay it’s staff.

    Tax rate of 60% for those making over 2 million dollars a year
    -Let’s start with going back to the Reagan days of 49.9 and see what we need to do from there. Too much change too quickly in any direction right or left is most often catastrophic.

    Severe restrictions on ALL lobbying, not just corporate
    -OK… but you know this will hurt Obama pretty badly too… right?

    No Tax breaks for companies sending jobs overseas. Those companies should
    be investing that money in America, where over the long run both the company AND America would benefit.
    -OK.

    Capitalism dictates the market will make or break companies the government should not be helping them or being influenced by them.
    -Yep… very much a Tea Party platform. Good one.

    If the founding fathers wanted a corporate branch, they would have created one.
    -Yep! Praise the Lawd. Hallelujah. Sing it with me brotha.

  • newbie

    michelle, my belle, you are one of the most misinformed posters on the entire internet.  And you are so sure that you are right, that makes it funnier.

  • Exgoper

    The only expectations I have of you are that you will always post hate-filled, fact-free, Obama-deranged drivel. And so far you’ve never disappointed!

  • Norbit

    Some good points snowy, but a better way would be to simply redact compensation laws.
    I don’t want the money going from greedy billionaires to corrupt and incompetent bureaucrats in Washington.

    In addition to addressing the tax laws, let’s establish enforceable compensation ratios as well!  

  • Anonymous

    Perhaps we aren’t so different :P

  • Anonymous

    I believe you are correct.

  • Anonymous

    I believe you are correct.

  • Anonymous

    Like a typical righty, editing out the quote.  He said, “take them out at the ballot box.”

  • Norbit

    Yet, you posted nothing substantive to refute or debunk her facts or contentions.

    Learning Moment:

    This is what liberals do, they reapeat a smear over-andover again, with THEIR MEDIA dutifully promulgating it into the news cycles, then react to the smear as fact.

    EXPOSE them on it every time! – The left-wing media’s credibility is diminishing by the hour! – while their president goes around the country fomenting class warfare.

    Ask yourself GrafX, do you really want to be associated with this ilk?

  • The_Reasonable_Lib

    Here’s the thing with spending cuts; where do we cut and what do we cut? And please don’t say education because a big part of America’s current problem is our unskilled labor force. However, I do think that those who dropout of college and don’t go back w/in a certain period should have to pay even pell grant money back.
    I don’t even necessarily want Reagan, I’d be satisfied with Clinton era rates and getting rid of EITC for those who don’t have children. Problem is neither side wants to do what the majority of people are in line with according to polls.
    I would agree we can’t tell a private business what to do, but if you say you need a bailout and then you give extensive bonuses to executives my bullshit senses go into full alarm blaze.

  • Exgoper

    You’ve just set yourself up to be denounced as a RINO.

    Feel the hatred in five…four…three…two…one…

  • http://gregingleright.weebly.com/ Greg

    OWS… not only because you framed it incorrectly, though the comprehension issue is central.  

  • Texan

    The same fat cats that have obama in their pockets? Those same fat cats that obama has appointed to committee leader and staff positions? Those fat cats?

  • Michelle

    I’ve asked you liberals to back up your claims that I’m hateful a thousand times and have NEVER gotten a response.  Care to take a crack at it?

  • Michelle

    So what did I say the is wrong?

  • Michelle

    So what did I say the is wrong?

  • Anonymous
  • Anonymous

    I actually think the media seeks to keep us fighting… while teh Tea Party was starting the media divided people by making tons of bogus claims about Tea Partiers… the same is happening right now at OWS, and Fox News is making bogus claims about OWS protestors.

    Maybe we’re all just guinea pigs they set on each other from time to time, to keep the focus off them.

  • Texan

    sock alert

  • Anonymous

    Mormons are said to be happy people.  I don’t know what happened to her.  She has never posted a positive thing.

  • Padfoot0018

    You should look for the original video, they were talking about the elections. The video that they showed at fox edited.

  • Michelle

    NO ONE spit on him.  Stop repeating that lie.

  • Michelle

    And yet you’ve never been able to point to a single hateful think I’ve said.  Why is that, if I’m as hateful as you claim? 

  • Anonymous

    I think you hit the nail on the head here. Why should corporations affect the governing of people? If government needs to be smaller, it should be smaller, BUT narrowed down to the things government actually needs to accomplish a decent life in this country. Lobbyists are a problem. Why should a company get any sort of benefit from the government? Once that train leaves the station (as it has) it literally can’t stop.

  • Anonymous

    Instead of arguing, could someone help me with a few thoughts I have? Are lobbyists necessary? If the free market is best.. why can’t companies/corporations make it on their own? Did the government hinder them from doing so before the economy collapsed? If not, why are we arguing about OWS? 

  • Anonymous

    Did you actually WATCH any of your own videos moron. Nice try. But a loon “reporting” they were assaulted after acting like an a$$ don’t make it so. FAIL….

    What did you do… just type in some search words into Google and youtube without actually watching them? Hell even I know about the Rand Paul video. You could have at least used THAT.

  • Anonymous

    I’m a big boy… I can take it. And I’m a libertarian atheist anyway.

  • Norbit

    Such as what?

    Clearly, a good swath of these protestors have an “overthrow capitalism”, Euro-Socialist indoctrination, and would like to impose that ideology on our society  - they’ve very clearly said as much.

    The Tea Party people were outraged – as was most of the country – at the bank bailouts, and conflation of investment and speculative regulations; but they’re working within the system to change what had been the most successful socio-economic experiment in history!

  • Anonymous

    -Defence spending #1. No more nation building by Repubs or Dems.
    -Make vouchers a federal right nation wide. Better schools, more competition. Lower spending costs.
    -Social Security age increase to compensate for the longer life spans. Higher SS taxes on benefits for those still making over $250,000 after retirement. You CAN NOT cut ANYONE off from SS benefits no matter how much they make. That was the promise of FDR and it should be kept.
    -I have no problem returning to Reagan era tax levels. Guess I’m just more liberal than you ;).
    - And the bonuses given out by bailed out companies was a major issue with those in the the Tea Party. I was at rallies in St. Louis… I know.

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    Conservative Victimization Syndrome. O, poor Michelle-in-Utah. Let’s all chip in and give her a pity party. I’ll bring the Cheetos. We still need Mountain Dew, Slim Jims and Ding Dongs.

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    Yes, they do have it on video.

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    SOCK PUPPET ALERT!

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    TROLL!

  • Anonymous

    Yes the giant corporations that own the vast majority of the media including FOX News, NBC and CBS – they are all pinkos.  The corporations are all out to get themselves?!?

    Try thinking before typing mkay

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    Michelle-in-Utah, you are so mean and nasty.

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    Keep probing.

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    They’re suppose to be honest, too. Haven’t seen much of that, either.

  • Anonymous

    The Tea Party stomped on no one. You are talking about one person who committed that act. Not a bunch of raving loons running around making a mess of the streets and parks.

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    The misinformation she posts, repeatedly, is actual a source of cyber amusement for many.

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    STINGER!

  • Anonymous

    I went to a tea party event on the Mall in DC and I can tell you from first hand experience it would be better to say nothing then make fools out of yourselves (as they absolutely did).  The speeches were naked nationalism with an interlacing of religion.

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    Jealous?

  • Norbit

    It’s not the money, per se.

    It’s what the money’s been used for, and who’s been making those decisions.
    The Department of Education has been used by Democrats to inculcate a left-wing political agenda and point-of-view into the zeitgeist of the nation’s schoolchildren for the past 50 years!

    Abolish the Federal Department of Education, and give those billions back to the states – they’re best able to handle their own school systems, or face electoral ramifications if not.

    The federal government has too much control over our individual freedoms, and there’s no reason the control they currently hold over our education system should continue.

  • Anonymous

    Not true. 

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    I do as well.

  • Angelo R. Mozilo

    Wow, this former child actress kvetching at some blow-dry pseudo-commentator. Enlightening; I hope she takes some more time off to go hang with the potheads in Zuccotti

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    JEFF MERRILL WRITES:

    “Who’s thrown their hat in the ring, so far.”

    THE REAL ROYAL EMPEROR RESPONDS:

    That’s a grammatical nightmare.

  • Anonymous

    In case you haven’t noticed, OWS is a lot bigger than Obama.
    This isn’t a political movement, it’s a moral one.

  • Anonymous

    You hit the nail on the head. They also want the government to be their nanny and pay off their student loans.

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    I imagine Michelle-in-Utah is the subject of many case studies.

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    A most welcome diversion. I’ve spent far less on gin this month.

  • Exgoper

    Moral? What are you, some kind of commie liberal?

  • Exgoper

    Moral? What are you, some kind of commie liberal?

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    Can you imagine what they would be like if something truly monumental happened? 

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    Is it “inneractive”?

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    Is it “inneractive”?

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    “It’s the end of days. It’s the end of days.”

  • Anonymous

    There is no evidence that a Black Congressman was spit on. 

    Tea Partyiers also helped that woman.

    You’ll find out soon enough that most are NOT with them.

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    I guess the apple must have fallen very far from the tree, then.

  • The Real Royal Emperor

     Of course, he won every debate in 2008. Helped Gramps was wandering around the stage, but he won without a teleprompter.

  • Norbit

    The Black caucus LIED about that entire incident!

    The Black Caucus PLAYED THE RACE CARD!

    NO DOCUMENTATION WHATSOEVER! – despite myriad TV and phone cameras filming, and a $100,000 reward!

    The Black Caucus LIED about that entire incident!

    The Black Caucus LIED about that entire incident!

    The Black Caucus LIED about that entire incident!

    The Black Caucus LIED about that entire incident!

    …yet the Democratic “Mainstream Media” never held the Black Caucus accountable for their LIES!

    The Black Caucus LIED about that entire incident!

  • Michelle

    So asking you liberals to back up your claims is now playing the victim?  Got it!!  Way to divert attention from the fact that you CAN’T back up your smears, as usual. 

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    Good point and good vocabulary!

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    I appreciate your post.

  • Michelle

    Then is must outrage you that the biggest recipient of Wall Street money in the last 20 years, is trying to take hijack the movement and out there saying he’s one of you. 

  • Anonymous

    Actually he upped it to a $1,000,000. Still no takers. Weird huh?

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    And, in case you haven’t notice, Willard is actually doing better with the Wall Street crowd.

  • Anonymous

    Everyone knows the DNC is backing OWS financially and are encouraging them!!

    This is right up our man childs sleazy alley to divide this Country in selfish pursuit of his narcistic cult of personality!! What a disgusting little punk!!!

  • Norbit

    You haven’t seen any violence?
    - but you “see violence” at Tea Partys?

    You must forget, that we’ve all seen the same scenes – and juxtaposed with what your perception of those scenes are, just doesn’t make any sense.

    I mean, there were over 1000 arrests, just in New York over the past two weeks.
    There weren’t 50 arrests in ALL the Tea Party’s, nationwide, in over two years!

    That’s just one quick item.

    Please, what are you basing these perceptions on?  

  • Anonymous

    I haven’t… Tanqueray is on sale at my local Schnuck’s Market. Been having it while watching Prohibition on PBS. :)

  • Anonymous
  • Exgoper

    Michelle, any number of people here have recited back to you the poison in your posts. Now you’re pretending not to have seen them?

    I’m serious — get help. You’re only going to spread this hatred to your son.

  • Norbit

    Tell me, when is the feckless GOP allowed to respond to Obama’s attacks every day?

    Can someone take the marbles out of McConnell’s mouth?

    This guy in the WH plans to DIVIDE & CONQUER – what a POS he turned out to be!

  • Anonymous

    I will bet the loons around the world are as clueless as the loons in the states as to what they are protesting about!!

  • Anonymous

    HA… “probing”… HA

  • Texan

    It’s not political? ROFL!

  • Texan

    “Look over there!”

  • Michelle

    No actually they haven’t.  This is just a little game you libs like to play to try to shut down any opposing views.  It won’t work with me.  I’m neither hateful or racism.  I think perhaps you are projecting. 

  • Texan

    That was a rhetorical question, right, patsy?

  • Texan

    Mark the “lawyer” has nothing, again. ;)

  • Anonymous

    lol…no it doesn’t, but it sure seems like it outrages YOU!

  • Texan

    That, too.

  • Michelle

    Well then thanks for proving my point, BFD.  You’re a bunch of liberal hypocrites not moved by principles. 

  • Michelle

    Yes, your hatred and violence has spread.   Congrats!!  You must be so proud!

  • Anonymous

    It’s nice to see a universal movement instead of just a bunch of old fat White Americans who are afraid of brown people.

  • Texan

    No, they’re just afraid of teh Jews!

  • Jackie

    Michelle, they are at it again.
    They can’t come up with a reasonable argument, so they constantly bring up Fox news, and call Republicans names.
    Hilarious.
    Anyway, about this clip, it  was so great to see someone snark back to Joe Scarborough.
    He is, without doubt, the most obnoxious man on television.

  • Tucsonense

    I think she is stonepark3 in disguise

  • Hyperbolic Chalkboard

    believe or not..many tea party folk are in the OWS crowd

  • Anonymous

    I agree. Morning Shmo is the problem.

    But Melissa Francis is the Official CNBC ditz.

    Just as Tamron Hall is the Official MSNBC ditz.

    And Carol Costello is the Official CNN ditz.

    My question is: what will these three ditzes do when Obama is thrown out of office on his rearend and we have a Republican in the White House in 2013?

  • Anonymous

    You forgot Hugo Chavez and the Mullahs in Iran.

    What a group of liberal losers.

  • david r

    you sir, are a meanie.

  • Obeezy

    Yes ..I believe it does

  • Obeezy

    Capitilism isnt bad to them…Only the capitilists that they are told to hate.. Steve Jobs, Russell Simmons, Kanye West, Jeff Imelt, Fatso Moore, Sue Sarandon, Al Sharpton…All rich people who outsource jobs and make buckets of money, but someone they have escaped the OWS rage

  • http://www.facebook.com/tony.westover Tony Westover

    That was a whole lotta nothing.

  • Obeezy

    The OWS crowd was being ignored, so what did they do? Ramp it up. Get arrested, assault cops, Cause panic…So now they have the media behind them. Now Democrats ( regardless of what they say, they are NOT changing any laws or regulation for these people)  are behind this also. Wall St, Finance district, rick people, middle class people all over the world could care less about what their demands are.
      All it is now is “see how much of a spectacle i can make out of myself and get on Youtube”… See the more the media takes pictures and give them attention, the more they are going to have to outdo each moronic act that come down the pike.
     And now to top it off, Iran, Communist Party of America and every other America hating organization is hoping on the bandwagon.
      Seems if OWS didn’t feel the same way, they would come out and sway so.

  • Rio

    My goodness, isn’t the list of pathetic bashers growing, looks like almost a half page of attacks ranging from silly to vile.  One by one you’ve all stepped forward and did not once refute anything that Michelle  said, you all just attacked simply because she posted a comment, what big boys you all are.

    Nothing she has ever posted has compared to some of the crap that has come out of each and every one of you, you are  like virtual bullies taking turns slugging a girl.  Pathetic!

    Ignore them Michelle, they will continue to be like a bad rash for awhile, but they may realize what fools they look like sooner rather than later. They are feeding off you like a barn owl waiting for a mouse,  tete a tete with them is pretty much out of the question.

  • Rio

    Kent Conrad D-SD likened it to “a Ponzi scheme of the first order, the kind of thing Bernie Madoff would have been proud of.”

    The Medicare actuary, Richard Foster said “”Thirty-six years of actuarial experience lead me to believe this program would collapse in short order and require significant federal subsidies to continue.”

    Republican demand, pfft!  Obamacare was pushed through by the democrats, if the repubs were able to make this demand I commend them, but I doubt they were able to get that or much else that didn’t get out in the press in or out of that bill.

    That bill failed because it was unsustainable and was determined by Sebelius, after consulting with experts since they were involved in the writing Obamacare that CLASS was unsustainable and that’s what she announced last Friday.

  • Rio

    Thanks Norbit, this nonsense is getting old.  Page after page, day after day, I thought you had to be 18 to post on most boards, maybe Mediate is allowing 12 year old children to post now.  What a mess they have made on this site.

  • Rio

    Another poll last week  had the American people not liking the protesters by a 16 point margin, but in that poll, the question only involved the Occupy Wall Street title, it wasn’t a question that failed to include the name of the protest movement.

    btw, a new general election poll has Herman Cain ahead of Obama, 43% to 41%, doncha just love polls.

  • Rio

    There are all kinds of lobbyists, some you would welcome.  Some citizens are considered lobbyists, my cousin, Dr. L,  frequently lobbied for mentally disadvantaged children. I used to watch him on CSPAN, neat guy, but it was a mental health lobby that would send him to DC.  They were not wining and dining congressmen and everything was transparent.  Wasn’t it Meryl Streep that was part of the a lobby to get rid of alar?…now there is doubt it was harmful.  These types of lobbyists aren’t padding congressional war chests.

    Then you have the K-street fatcats that the majority of the public has disdain for.  How to take it from them without removing the citizen’s right to lobby congress, money is speech and as long as members of congress obey the rules, money will be involved and some in Congress are dirty.

  • Anonymous

    BWHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAAHAHHAAAH!!!!

    The GOP is going to stop the ‘incest’ that is Wall Street and Washington?

    Wall Street OWNS the GOP!

    All you can do is laugh at this moronic bullshit!

  • Anonymous

    ….and you think the GOP will do ANY of this???

  • Anonymous

    Will Dems?

  • Anonymous

    It’s not offensive to normal people- good Americans- unlike the greedy asshole repugnants.

  • Anonymous

    Dumbya gave Wall Street and banks 700 billion- no strings attached- no one knows where that money went.  So much for why we’re in trouble- two unfiunded- off the books wars- tax cuts during two wars-
    Wtf is wrong with your memory? Our problems go directly to dumbya, dickless cheney, bankers
    derivitive thiefs-rummy

  • Anonymous

    sounds like mika was telling him what to say…what bobbleheads

  • Frizzymstarbaby2

    Why is this happening all over the world?          frizzymstarbaby2

  • Frizzymstarbaby2

    Who’s going to mess with folks carrying guns…..frizzymstarbaby2

  • Frizzymstarbaby2

    The spittle was wiped off his face with the sleeve of his jacket…….I saw it myself when it happened……………….frizzymstarbaby2

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_MYZXJSARZPS3IVKW37SWCHKLCQ Sean

    Assault cops?!  You ignorant *&$%#.  

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