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Dan Rather: Force Behind OWS ‘Is a Woman Operating Out of Her Apartment in New York’

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Dan Rather made a rather surprising statement on The Chris Matthews Show today when he said that one of the driving forces behind the Occupy Wall Street protests “is a woman operating out of her apartment in New York.”

Rather argued earlier on the show that the Occupy Wall Street protests were a “mirror image” of the Tea Party protests, or at least have the potential to be. Chris Matthews asked Rather to “tell me something I don’t know” about the movement, and Rather shared the story of this mysterious figure.

“The real moving force behind this, what’s happening in the Wall Street protesters and the efforts to spread it around the country, is a woman operating out of her apartment in New York. She’s brilliant with the internet. She goes under the nom de plume of Grim. And Grim is the real leader of this movement operating out of her apartment. She is internet savvy and whether it succeeds or fails she’s the key.”

First of all, it’s important to point out that “Grim” is not organizing the protests per se, but is merely one of the two creators of the “We Are The 99 Percent” meme you may have noticed spreading on the internet. However, according to NewsBusters, Rather’s more glaring omission was that “Grim” is, in real life, an independent media maven working alongside someone who works full-time for a small media organization. Priscilla Grim (her real name) and her anonymous friend Chris (a self-described anarchist) told Mother Jones why they were inspired by the Occupy Wall Street movement.

MJ: Why do you think it is connecting so strongly?

PG: Because we all have a story, and the conversation about social safety nets has been lessened to that of accounting and not of the day-to-day realities. It is one thing for me to tell people that I have not been to a dentist in five years; it is another to confess that I deal with frequent wisdom tooth pain with ill-gotten muscle relaxers and ice pops, and this has been my reality for at least two years.

C: I think they want to let others know that they’re out there, that they exist, that their problems exist. That they’re not just some statistic compiled in a spreadsheet, that they’re real human beings with real human challenges. That they won’t be an abstraction, a walking political cartoon for people to argue and debate over while nothing gets done in the end. They’re not just “indebted students,” “the uninsured,” “the foreclosed.” They’re THIS indebted student, they’re THIS uninsured person, they’re THIS person whose home was foreclosed. Specificity has great power.

Again, I’d like to emphasize that these two are NOT shadowy figures controlling the Occupy Wall Street movement; they created a Tumblr page. In fairness, Dan Rather probably has no idea what Tumblr is, but all these people are responsible for is starting a meme that has allowed people to share stories about their personal financial woes. Yes, one of them is an anarchist. Who cares? This would be like finding out the person who created the Hamsterdance was a Nazi and accusing anyone who’s ever made a Hamsterdance tribute video of being Nazi sympathizers. Once a meme gets out there, it’s beyond the control of the creators. People shape it however they want to while still keeping the core message intact.

h/t NewsBusters

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

    Um, no.

    In reality, the Occupy Wall Street protest is driven by the foreign communist organization Adbusters.

  • Wake up America

    Bets are that somehow the dots will connect to Obama and his minions.

  • http://www.davidjkramer.co.cc// DavidKramer

    I wonder if Biden should be asked about all that Stimulus money. I wonder if some of it made it’s way to some DNC backed orgs?

    Rather, Really?

    Doesn’t he have some docs to fabricate or something? Maybe he could fabricate a memo stating that Obama was on the golf course when they were talking about using US guns walking to Mexico to attack the 2nd Amendment.

  • JP7077

    I’m STILL WAITING for a list of “Demands” that OWS is pushing for…..
    BTW…….if they are not on the official site..
    http://occupywallst.org/
    they are not their official demands
    and also….if and  when they do post their demands……..”The rite to take a dump on a police vehicle” will hopefully be toward the bottom

  • http://twitter.com/DreadfulPenny81 Melissa E.

     Funded by George Soros’ National Lawyers Guild and supported by labor unions. Looks like James Hoffa got the Obama army he wanted!

  • Anonymous

    If you want to know the real story, just read it at Mother Jones:

    http://motherjones.com/politics/2011/10/we-are-the-99-percent-creators

    Don’t trust Rather or the Mediaite guy.

  • JP7077

    no………i want to know the “Real Story” from their official website of OWS….
    that’s the problem with OWS……there has to be at least 10 sites with list of demands for them……all different……some have 12 demands………some have 112 demands…..
    if OWS cannot post their own demandon their OWN OFFICIAL WEBSITE then this is a serious problem….it’s just anarchy

  • Silverado

    LOL…

    …I’ve been waiting since 1998 (when CNN masterfully defended Bill Clinton against the charge of lying under oath by taking control of the rhetoric and dissemination of it) to see popular jorurnalism exposed for what it is.  
    How fitting it is to see a person of such integrity, with such a deep conviction to tell truth as Dan Rather, to be invited onto a show with a host of equal dedication to American people.

     

  • Silverado

    LOL…

    …I’ve been waiting since 1998 (when CNN masterfully defended Bill Clinton against the charge of lying under oath by taking control of the rhetoric and dissemination of it) to see popular jorurnalism exposed for what it is.  
    How fitting it is to see a person of such integrity, with such a deep conviction to tell truth as Dan Rather, to be invited onto a show with a host of equal dedication to American people.

     

  • Anonymous

    You’re just proving that OWS is a grass roots movement, thank you.

    But let me explain to you what a demonstration is. A demonstration is when you bring attention to something.  Demonstrations and demands are two different things.  You’re confused because you’re doing what you’ve been trained to do.  It’s easy for people to train morons like you to say stuff.  That’s what Fox News does.

    Let me know if there’s anything else I can help you with.

  • Anonymous

    “a woman operating out of her apartment in New York.”

    That Rules Out Rachel Maddow !!

  • Anonymous

    they are free to demonstrate (protest) agreed, now their demands mostly no

  • Moderate

    “If socialists mean that under extraordinary circumstances, for urgent cases, the
    State should set aside some resources to assist certain unfortunate people, to
    help them adjust to changing conditions, we will, of course, agree. This is
    done now; we desire that it be done better. There is however, a point on this
    road that must not be passed; it is the point where governmental foresight
    would step in to replace individual foresight and thus destroy it.” 
    - Frederic Bastiat 1848

  • Anonymous

    Looks like The Real Royal Emporer !!

  • Anonymous

    At least this movement isn’t operating with Koch cash.  This movement is way bigger than just one woman its in over 375 places. The Tea Party is welcome to join since they are part of the 99%.  Coming to you from Occupy Seattle.  

  • Anonymous

    Is Rachael working the streets?  :)

  • Anonymous

    FOX Lies !!  FOX Lies !!

    *drink*

  • Chayal Boded

    Don’t pay attention to the korean woman, its a tool, I found this, a canadian entity claiming credit for ows:  http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/41029

  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    The Republicons think that if the Koch brothers are not involved, it really can’t be a legitimate movement!!

  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    If Rachel Maddow is not a woman, then what is she??

  • Chayal Boded

    Yeah, it’s called projection, and watching them all do it from their political leaders–plantation owners–right down to the troll level–the tools–it’s the flavor aide and the flavor is schtooopitdity.

  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    So, based on the comments below, if there person isn’t old, white and carrying a firearm… they can’t legitimately be involved in a movement??

  • Anonymous

    I agree!! 

  • Anonymous

    Where did ya get that info chief?

  • JP7077

    You can help me with a coherent list of demands that this grass roots movement protesting for…

    if you want to tear down something………let us know what you want to rebuild in it’s place…..

    and it is up to OWS to give us this information…..they been protesting since 9/17…this should be time enough for at least a short list of objectives
     
     and don’t give me the fox news crap when you can’t come up with a real answer

  • Chayal Boded

    Really?!?!?! REALLY?!?!?!?!  So do you guys stay up at night thinking up these overused and tired memes. Are you really that stupid and lazy? Oh, never mind, heh, forgot to whom I was speaking. Take another hit bro and go back to bed.

  • Chayal Boded

    Really?!?!?! REALLY?!?!?!?!  So do you guys stay up at night thinking up
    these overused and tired memes. Are you really that stupid and lazy?
    Oh, never mind, heh, forgot to whom I was speaking. Take another hit bro
    and go back to bed.

  • Chayal Boded

    Really?!?!?! REALLY?!?!?!?!  So do you guys stay up at night thinking up
    these overused and tired memes. Are you really that stupid and lazy?
    Oh, never mind, heh, forgot to whom I was speaking. Take another hit bro
    and go back to bed.

  • Chayal Boded
  • Anonymous

    I’m having trouble understanding you.  Please post the Teabaggers’ list of demands so I can get a good idea of what you’re talking about.  Thanks.

  • Anonymous

    I didn’t say Fox lied.  I said they trained morons like yourself to ask why OWS hasn’t explained their demands.

    The reason you responded with an unrelated attack is because that’s what Fox has trained you to do.  Thank you for proving my point.

  • Michelle
  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    Lol!! It sounds like I just offended a Tea Bagger!! Good!!

    Furthermore, I’m sure there are some Republicons out there who smoke weed, I know they mostly prefer moonshine, but I’m sure they like to smoke weed too!!

  • Anonymous

    Typical bagger comment.

  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    ?? You just stated that in a comment above!! Can’t you come up with something new?? Just give it try!!

  • Cecelia

    “This would be like finding out the person who created the Hamsterdance
    was a Nazi and accusing anyone who’s ever made a Hamsterdance tribute
    video of being Nazi sympathizers.”

    After all the accusations about the whole of the Tea Party, did he really just say that?

  • JP7077

    i actually don’t know…….but they are out there…i’m sure you know how to google…..so you could easily find this out yourselve…..which you should have done before you started to belittle and dismiss them
    but hey…….why should we inform ourselves on other peoples opinions before we try to rip them to shreds

  • Cecelia

    It’s the reverse, if they’re old, white, and carrying firearms, and not getting arrested, they’re not a movement, they’re racist domestic terrorists.

  • Chayal Boded

    What is it with these LLLs (looney lefty losers) and their “teabag” envy? Seriously, I think it is because they actually lack a pair, and, hence, are envious of their better equipped Countrymen who actually do have a pair. Now open real wide little ladies . . .

  • Chayal Boded

    What is it with these LLLs (looney lefty losers) and their “teabag” envy? Seriously, I think it is because they actually lack a pair, and, hence, are envious of their better equipped Countrymen who actually do have a pair. Now open real wide little ladies . . .

  • JP7077

    you tell us….
    i wade through her show most every night…because i like to get both sides of the issues…..and i still can’t figure that one out

  • Chayal Boded

    What is it with these LLLs (looney lefty losers) and their “teabag”
    envy? Seriously, I think it is because they actually lack a pair, and,
    hence, are envious of their better equipped Countrymen who actually do
    have a pair. Now open real wide little ladies . . .

    Tweakin’ the left, and doing it right.

  • Anonymous

    I see. Makes perfect sense.

  • Cecelia

    “They’re not just “indebted students,” “the uninsured,” “the foreclosed.”
    They’re THIS indebted student, they’re THIS uninsured person, they’re
    THIS person whose home was foreclosed. Specificity has great power.”

    Evidently, Chris Matthews does not find those stories particularly compelling if you believe that  large deficits and tax raises where the cost is pasted along to the consumer, will only make things worse.

  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    What?? So if they’re old, white, carrying firearms and NOT getting arrested (which would describe the Tea Baggers at their rallies) they would be domestic terrorists?? So, your basically calling the Tea Baggers domestic terrorists??

  • JP7077

    I have a feeling you couldn’t see a forrest for the trees……

  • Cecelia

    No.  Matthews had a special on MSNBC that made that very link.

  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    She’s a woman, but I never questioned that like “Jester” did!!

    I disagree with Liz Cheney, but would never claim she’s not a woman!!

  • Dr OZ

    I thought Dan Rather was dead!
    How old is he? 100? 105??
    In any case, still irrelevant!

  • Chayal Boded

    Oh my bad dawggie! It’s just that I know you LLLs can only handle little bits of data and prefer memes. YOu know “koch bother, bagger, fox news, etc, etc, etc. Doesn’t it ever get old? Nawww, see what I mean? Ya’ll just can’t handle much.

  • JP7077

    btw……it took 3 minutes
    http://www.teaparty-platform.com/
    and you know what…….if I had to choose between what the Tea party stands for…..and what OWS might stand for…right now…….
    Then I am A Tea Bagger with a Capiatal T….and a Capital B
    AND PROUD OF IT

  • Anonymous

    Oh, hey, nice work. Now see if you can find one for OWS. Oh, wait, didn’t you already say that you did? Funny that.

  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    Oh boy!! So now you’re using what Matthews previously stated to prove you point?? That’s not good!!

  • Cecelia

    So, I would have better proved my point by not making a reference to something aired on a national tv show?

    Perhaps, if I just made some inane declarative sentence that started with “You DemocRATS”  

    Something like what YOU do?

  • Anonymous

    .,amazing,..my best friend’s mom makes $76 an hour on the computer. She has been out of job for 9 months but last month her check was $7589 just working on the computer for a few hours. Read about it here http://ManyRich.com

  • JP7077

    I’m curious……….how can you support something…a candidate……a party…….an organization….a grass roots movement…….anything

    WITHOUT KNOWING WHAT IT STANDS FOR?

    and people like you have the nerve to lecture and pontificate on civic responsibilty

  • Ron

    The thrill in Chris Matthew’s leg that Obama causes relieves Chris of the ability to think! The numerical value of his political convictions and opinions can only be exceeded by the numbers of his loyal audience.  By my reckoning that would be about three!

  • Ron

    That was classy!

  • Ron

    You know what a teabag resembles. They just wish they had one. As Vince said in the SlapChop commercial, “You’re gonna love my nuts!”

  • Ron

    Everything rules out Mr. Maddow!

  • Chayal Boded

    And, they apparently do!

  • Anonymous

    Spammers suck!

  • Anonymous

    Grass roots.  Like those guys who were paid to demonstrate in DC?

  • http://www.sarainitalyblog.blogspot.com/ sarainitaly

    “First of all, it’s important to point out that “Grim” is not organizing the protests per se, but is merely one of the two creators of the “We Are The 99 Percent” meme you may have noticed spreading on the internet….Again, I’d like to emphasize that these two are NOT shadowy figures controlling the Occupy Wall Street movement; they created a Tumblr page.”
    How do you know? 

  • Lloyd C

    Melissa E is a communist

    Melissa E attacks people who actually fight communism and russian interests. Like George Soros

  • Michelle

    The hippie protesters have a new cheerleader!!

    Iranian Revolutionary Guard General Hails Occupiers As Beginning Of An “American Spring” That Will Topple Capitalist System…

    Congrats!!!  That’s a real coup!!

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_B5344MYI6BXUL36ADKK3JBTPJA GJPinks

    But that’s how Grim started.

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

    Now they are, but they were initially organized for foreign communists. I guess they like to talk among themselves a lot and join the same movements :-)

  • Anonymous

    OMG George Soros!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • take my advice

    Yes, eating-big-macs-by-my-window. OWS is joyous with such endorsement and mortified by idiots like you calling them hippies.

    Gawd, er, angel MORONi you are stupid!

    Billdo
    had a segment where he, correctly, identified the OWS participants as
    largely “young,” some 25-35′ish along with some older generations.

    The
    main reason for the discontent? 8 years of The Chimperor Bush doctrine
    and 10 years of tax cuts for the “job creators” have delivered jack.

  • JP7077

    I can see why OWS has not been able to form a list of demands….

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QZlp3eGMNI

    Is this your new vision for America Korean?

  • Anonymous

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  • S R Karenova

    Hmmmm. You’re not a Bush loving teabagger are you?

  • Anonymous

    I can see where Matthews can compare the Tea Party rally (peaceful, respecting property, cleaning up after their couple of hour get together) to these idiots who are fouling everything around them, leaving a frightful mess for the “government” to clean up (at least Mom and Dad are happy for a few days) and spreading bacteria and germs amongst them like candy.  Perhaps they’re trying to see if bubonic plague is alive and well and living on Wall Street. 

    Seriously, the possibility of a whole pile of them getting sick is real.  Bed bugs etc.  It’s just a festering petri dish waiting to foam over.  

  • Anonymous

    I can see where Matthews can compare the Tea Party rally (peaceful, respecting property, cleaning up after their couple of hour get together) to these idiots who are fouling everything around them, leaving a frightful mess for the “government” to clean up (at least Mom and Dad are happy for a few days) and spreading bacteria and germs amongst them like candy.  Perhaps they’re trying to see if bubonic plague is alive and well and living on Wall Street. 

    Seriously, the possibility of a whole pile of them getting sick is real.  Bed bugs etc.  It’s just a festering petri dish waiting to foam over.  

  • joe

    if anyone ask the difference between the tea party and OWS -it is very simple..

    the tea party is a group of people whos generation created the problem…
    OWS is the goup of younger people who will inherit this mess and will have to fix it…

    so just pretend a fat drunk sold you a house and as he is moving out–he is breaking everything…
    that is the tea party generation..
    the OWS now have to come in and make it better–even though they were sold a real mess…
    so when the conservative media talks bad about the next generation—just remind them–that is the generation that will be running thing and trying to fix what the last generation let collapse~

  • Anonymous

    Liz Chaney is not the gay one doofus – her Sister Mary is.  

  • http://twitter.com/grimwomyn grimwomyn

    coz im grim and i have $20 in my bank account and a kid that complains that we are poor — if I were a shadowy figure I could afford to do laundry before my unemplyment check comes in this week… I would love to be a shadowy figure but that is not the way it has shaken out.

  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    Really, I heard all of Dick Cheney’s children were homosexual?? I believe Fox News stated it!!

  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    “Jester” is mentally handicapped and need to cut him some slack!! He’s slow!!

  • Anonymous

    anything to take the heat off a couple of “hot” issues. 

    Alas and alack – the kids who are against the corporations that supplied them with their tools and who allow them to use the tools – I just want to know where the hell they are stealing electricity from to recharge the “tools” they are tooling around with.  

  • Anonymous

    I wouldn’t hold my breath on that lot of “younger people” fixing anything.  That lot of “younger people” will still be partying and acting like degenerates long past their expiry date. 

  • joe

    well that is what your father’s generation said about YOU…

    but in the end–it is their world–so they will have to…
    one thing is for sure—they did not create the mess…and that is more than we can say about the tea party generation huh?

  • Liveact62

    what a load of crap…the Canada Free Press is a right wing  agenda..anyone who doesnt agree with them is a Communist…Adbusters..a foreign communist organization…haha…Im a Canadian..It is simply a magazine  that gives you information to decide for your self on its agenda…look at who wrotr the the article..a woman that has worked for Rush Limbaugh..Glen Beck etc…what a joke..i read the mag and it hasnt swayed my beliefs or values…you Americans throw around Communism for even the slightest social programs that would help people…Go to North Korea and you will see what  real Communism is…..get a brain Tony..think for yourself;…OH yes what do i know ..us Canadians are a bunch of Socialist/Commies…we have Universal Health Care….we have social programs…..and you dont……Plus Forbes Magazine voted us the best country to do business in in the world..Oh yes  1 more thing…almost every western country has Universal Health Care except the USA…the USA cost  for private health care is double..everyone with Universal per capita

  • Anonymous

    really?  First job at 15 – never a cent of allowance. lol

    Yah, good old Dad would say that.

  • joe

    another great example of not reading the post and commenting on things i never said..
    i never said anything about your father..
    i said “your dad’s generation”…you know–people in the USA of his age group?
    and i commented on what some or many or most would had most likely had said about YOUR generation ie YOU in general–
    just as you generalized about the kids now—
    and i bet there is a kid in the crows who is working and NOT getting ‘allowance’…
    personally–i worked full time, was in college full time and still had time for rallys against the first bush wars..
    so i think again YOU prove the problem with the right—they are just wrong~
    and sadly-they will not admit it..
    one this is for sure..
    the tea party generation had their chance and screwed the pooch–time for the next group to come in –since they will be the ones actualy doing the heavy lifting the next 20-30 years…
    please to read the post next time—and i a sorry you had to work at 15–i was mowing yards and shoveling snow at 10—no allowance and stil got good grades and kept my room clean~

  • repwin2012

    ah, not sure if you’ve really visited one of these “protests”. These young people aren’t equipped to “fix” anything. There is a whole other segment of young people not participating. They will actually be the leaders of tomorrow. Most of the “protesters are followers. Don’t believe me, take a look:  http://hotair.com/archives/2011/10/09/occupy-atlanta-gives-john-lewis-the-cold-shoulder/

  • joe

    so you are against the younger generation?
    i know the tea party was primarily over weight white people carrying guns..
    i am not sure what they can do..
    bottom line–the people on the streets inherited this crap–it is theirs now..
    they have the right and now the responsibility to fix what the last generation screwed up..
    say what you want about these kids–they did not take the global economy…

  • repwin2012

     Adbusters is garbage, obviously. You have gotten information from it so you can decide for yourself, but yet it hasn’t swayed your beliefs or values. Sounds like you’ve wasted a lot of good money. Not even one article that got you to re-think a position? And one more thing; It is the height of arrogance to lecture America on helping people. We don’t need tips from the the north, thanks. Oh, and hey, give us a call if you ever need help. The whole world does, whenever disaster comes knocking. The rest of the time they’re ripping us. Keep your socialism and give yourself a pat on the back.

  • Drilich

    Melissa, I think a lot of the reason people are out there is because they are beyond disappointed with Obama. They all know that he takes tons of money from Wall Street and so is just as beholden to the 1% as any other politician in America. The real problem is, and I think this has support from almost all OWS protestors as well as Tea Party people, is the influence of money in our political system. We need to GET MONEY OUT of the system.  getmoneyout.com  It’s not a question of left vs. right, it’s a question of corporatism vs. democracy.

  • http://twitter.com/grimwomyn grimwomyn

    and I didn’t create the blog, I helped to promote it– that’s all…. (sigh)

  • http://twitter.com/grimwomyn grimwomyn

    and I really am not anyone of import…. the 99 percent, and the struggles with wealth inequality with this country is what needs to be fixed: http://sociology.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/power/wealth.html

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Michelle-Hart/100001365605444 Michelle Hart

    While it’s very difficult for those of us capable of higher mental functions to ever possibly understand why you adore being a trashbagger so much, we do understand why.

    I also realize being inept and lacking the ability to grasp even the most basic mathmatics, and your inability to read a calender, or possibly understand or even comprehend reality is a task far beyond what you could ever achieve….

    Therefore… Try really hard to just focus if at all possible:

    January 2007 – deficit 168 Billion…. That would be the day that clueless Nancy and Harry took office

    January 2009 – deficit 468 Billion…. That would be the day the stuttering fool you trashbaggers worship took office.

    January 2011 – deficit 1.7 TRILLION…. 

    Now this is going to be super painful for that black hole you have between your ears…. The trashbagger in chief is the PERSON IN CHARGE RIGHT NOW not Bush or Palin, or Beck, or Rush or whomever the  person who thinks for you told you to mindlessly repeat.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Michelle-Hart/100001365605444 Michelle Hart

    Are you an odumbo lovin trashbagger??

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Michelle-Hart/100001365605444 Michelle Hart

    They really wanted to be tebagged and ended up just being trashbaggers…..

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Michelle-Hart/100001365605444 Michelle Hart

    You commies sure didn’t have a problem with Rather fabricating memos to help your fellow commies out and continually repeating “what he stated” to “prove a point”….

    Ya see how that works clueless…. Enjoy those alyinsky rules commie while ya choke on em!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Michelle-Hart/100001365605444 Michelle Hart

    True, it’s got the unions, soros, tides, and dozens of other communist front groups paying for it….

    Ohhhh… a whopping 375 cities filled with trashbaggers…. how impressive…. 

    No thanks, creepy communist sit ins are not my style, I kinda prefer America, though I hear Cuba is great why don’t you go there. It’s got the socialism you’re craving!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Michelle-Hart/100001365605444 Michelle Hart

    They are trashbaggers…. Making a mess of things is what they do.

  • http://www.sarainitalyblog.blogspot.com/ sarainitaly

    Did Josh Feldman interview you for the article, or does he know you? I am asking how he knows what he wrote. He didn’t support it, just claimed it so. And why would Rather claim otherwise? (assuming this is really Grim)

  • Guest

    Wow, thanks for letting us know what the teabaggers think about women.  I guess I know whose endorsements to vote against!

  • Anonymous

    Actually, the government created this housing bubble with low interest rates and the help of organizations like Acorn which protested on the lawns of bank officials to get loans to people who couldn’t afford them. The Dem Congress also demanded these loans in bills numerous times starting with the demise of Glass-Stiegel.  Then Wall St ran with it with the help of the rating agencies. Of course it is more complicated than that but it is the housing bubble that is at the core of the problem. Thank you Dems.

  • donow

    If they are just filthy, hippie anarchists and/or union ‘thugs’ what is to fear?  They are entirely non-violent, unorganized and do not appear to have much if any funding.  And for all of you thinking this is ‘Obama’s union army’ or some such blather, be advised this is very much the result of Clinton/Bush not Obama…

  • donow

    Down With Evil Corporations – what simple-minced drivel Michelle.  But that is what you are best at here…

    By that logic everyone using public streets, sewers, police and fire departments is a socialist.

  • donow

    Half your countrymen are losers (left).  That is a healthy, realistic attitude.  Thanks for your service to our Country.

  • http://twitter.com/grimwomyn grimwomyn

    I have no idea why Rather claims this… I guess I will find out when the episode airs on Tuesday. argh htttp://occupytogether.org and yes, I am really grim. In so many ways now.

  • http://twitter.com/grimcity Neal Boyd

    Everyone help pitch in and “flag” the spammerscum… I SPEET ON YOU SPAMBOTS! AAAEEE!!!

  • TruDat

    Isn’t Rather the left-wing simpleton who tried to pass off forged documents as news in a feeble attempt to sway a presidential election?

  • Rio

    Oh, my, another Michelle attack, who would have saw that coming.  How very infantile of you.

    And, your logic is flawed.  To not be a socialist would mean “everyone” would have to hire their own police and fire, own their own sewers, pave their own streets?  Now that would work out well.  How about we all have our own personal armies?  They could camp out in our back yards.

    The examples you list are not socialist policies.  Sheesh! you people.

  • Lloyd C

    tony westover was dressed by child molesters

    See tony westover? I can lie about you :D
    whoislloydc@gmail.com

  • Lloyd C

    seek456 spoken like a true 300 year old dummy

  • Lloyd C

    Cancer is more  productive than you are at this stage.

  • Lloyd C

    we may have a waiting list for surgery but we pay HALF of what america does on our healthcare

    we just do it way way better

    and ou conservative prime minister has said he will hire more american doctors and nurses.

  • Anonymous

    You’re one nasty piece of work aren’t you now.

    p.s.  I’m supporting your sorry ass so you can make vile comments.  Isn’t that so special!

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_TBRVNEUZA5ATC4RIX6GYN2E624 Obama-Lies

    Lloyd, go find someone else to call names u freaking Libtard! Know how you can spot a Libtard?  They are the ones Name-CALLING, and not providing any Facts relevant to the topic they are trying to defend!

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_TBRVNEUZA5ATC4RIX6GYN2E624 Obama-Lies

    Drilich, we are frustrated with Obama because he IS the problem!  Obama and the Dem’s wanted the S&P downgrade!  Why?  Soros made a 10x profit, in a matter of hours! For a total of $1 Billion!  Obama and his cronies provided the insider trading tip that Soros needed, not to mention that S&P provided the warning to Obama to allow it to happen.  S&P warned the Dem’s that if they didn’t shave $4 Trillion, that a downgrade would happen.  That was the stuff that made Soro’s mouth drool. Knowing that, they would blame the downgrade on the Tea Party (as if they were the ones in control of how much would be trimmed) then come short of the cut needed and only provide a progressively painful $1 Trillion cut knowing that a downfall WOULD happen!  Once that happened, all they needed was the day the downgrade WOULD happen!  That Friday, S&P notified the Obama cronies that they would release the news of the downgrade after the close of the stockmarket.  THEN…..Obama cronies contacted Soros to move his money and within hours he made off with $1 BILLION in profits!  If that was Bush and the Koch brothers, Pelosi would have hearings lined up as I type!  The Europe financial collapse was also orchastrated by SOROS!  Soros, Mr. New World Order, pushed the Euro and the connection of all of the countires financial downfalls together!  If you do not do your RESEARCH on George Soros & Obama, then you deserve to be played a fool!

  • Anonymous

    They did not create the mess, but they are creating one of their own. Some of us tea party generation people are veterans so you would be well advised not to include those of us who bled and sacrificed to try and fix the mess created by the others of our generation.

  • Anonymous

    “i know the tea party was primarily over weight white people carrying guns..”

    You mean you assume that, what you know will take a lot less verbiage to define. The words not a damn thing come to mind.

  • Anonymous
  • Anonymous

    He is dead, but only incrementally.  From the neck up.

  • Anonymous

    A caller on Rush today called the OWS people Fleabaggers.  I thought it appropriate.

  • SoThere

    Joes ignorance is shining through. It’s his schooling.

    “TMP”

  • Anonymous

    Lack of focus and any goal or demands is not a movement, it is nothing but a disorganized mob.

    NYPD should move to break up this sewer clog for the sake of public health concerns. Fire hoses, tear gas, tazers, what ever it takes. They have had their say and now it is time for them to go home and clean up.

  • SoThere

    The vast majority of Canadians (Newfoundland included) are receiving their bypass surgery within the recommended wait time of 26 weeks, said Tonya Johnson, CIHI media relations coordinator.

    That’s wonderful news for you Canadians. Half a year for a bypass.

    “TMP”

  • Anonymous

    Americans call it democracy.  Republicans call it a mob.  There are no mysteries.

  • Anonymous

    The Tea Party has had a positive effect on the political landscape of America, the trash baggers will only leave a grease stain behind after the union employees clean up after them and sanitize Wall Street.

    Tea Party gatherings are peaceful, and afterward they clean up what little mess there is. We shall see if these pigs can do the same. I am betting that they leave the place in ruin.

  • Anonymous

    The Tea Party has had a positive effect on the political landscape of America, the trash baggers will only leave a grease stain behind after the union employees clean up after them and sanitize Wall Street.

    Tea Party gatherings are peaceful, and afterward they clean up what little mess there is. We shall see if these pigs can do the same. I am betting that they leave the place in ruin.

  • Anonymous

    Make sure you pack and carry out your trash Yoda.

  • Anonymous

    What smarm school are you a graduate of?

  • SoThere

    Pissing and crapping all over the park isn’t helping the enviorment. Where is the EPA and the Greenies? You couldn’t do that in your back yard without the board of health knocking on your door.

    “Pisca mignato lontunis lr pasakykite det sataa”

    “TMP”

  • Anonymous

    I’m not old, white or carrying a firearm, (although I own several), and I am involved in a movement -  it is called Vietnam Veterans of America.

    You got a problem with that kid?

  • Anonymous

    Never mind. Misunderstood.

  • Anonymous

    The Teabaggers destroyed our economy and then protested what they did.

  • Anonymous

    This is not democracy – it is anarchy or at least the beginnings of it. I agree there is no mystery in what is going on on Wall Street.

    I wonder how many cases of meningitis, cholera, dysentery, pneumonia, and parasite infestation this crowd will be passing among themselves?

    They should be removed, if necessary by force, and decontaminated for the good of public health.

  • Anonymous

    Yeah, good thinking.

  • Anonymous

    You don’t know a damned thing about which you are speaking, do you? Maybe when you have made a personal commitment to serve others I will take your comments seriously, but all you care about is tearing down what you have no understanding of because someone told you it is bad.

    Maybe a hitch in the service would do you some good.

  • Anonymous

    Better than exposing oneself to disease and sleeping in others raw sewage.

  • Anonymous

    Don’t go away mad, Trev, just go away.

  • Sandie

    These idiots still believe that false rumor that was started to discredit the TEA Party – that they are funded by the Koch’s

  • Sandie

    All this crank has to do is go to any of the TEA Party websites and he will see what their concerns are. He doesn’t want to know. He is obviously ill informed and wishes to stay that way, so he will argue nonsense with no fact or knowledge, leaving himself looking like an ignorant ahole who only wants to make the typical noise the left wingers taught him to make.

  • Sandie

    After Dan Rather got into hot water when his lies and omissions  became public a while back, who would listen to him?

  • SoThere

    I want to see you spin that load of crap. George Soros is only interested in money and power.

    “TMP”

  • SoThere

    I think we should use walnuts instead of currency.

    “TMP”

  • http://profiles.google.com/kfitzer Ken Fitzer

    Last I checked, S&P was a McGraw-Hill Company, which incidentally is a huge contributor to GOP candidates.

    http://www.standardandpoors.com/about-sp/management-profiles/en/us

    Douglas Peterson
    President, Standard & Poor’s

    Doug Peterson was named President of Standard &
    Poor’s Ratings Services, the leading credit rating company and division
    of The McGraw-Hill Companies, in 2011.

  • Anonymous

    Of course they do. They started that lie in the first place.

  • Anonymous

    The joke is on him. As you said his comment reflects poorly on him. He can’t do anything else.

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

    Sure you can, but nobody will believe you nor care.

    I’ll stick to the truth. And the truth is that the initial force behind OWS was foreign communists. If you can’t handle that truth… well, tough shit cuz I don’t really care what you can and can’t take.

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

    It must suck living just north of the best country on the planet :-)

    And your rambling rant was as amusing as it was incoherent.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Michelle-Hart/100001365605444 Michelle Hart

    Sure thing clueless commie…..

    700+ arrests so far, millions in damage when they finally go home to mommy, creepy chants, financed by Soros and dozens of other commie front groups, preprinted union signs, paid protesters,  Pelosi praises them, odumbo praises them…..

    Nice delusions ya have there, wanna try a better lie??

  • Anonymous

    Fun fact: US healthcare has comparable waiting lists.

  • Anonymous

    Your argument, while entertaining is woefully inadequate in the proof department. Unsupported claims have no real validity.

  • Anonymous

    I hear they are dying to get bypasses. Literally. Guess when the national health care system decides your number is up, you really have no more time. I don’t understand people who are OK with this.

  • Anonymous

    the 60′s are overwith, find some new talking points princess

  • http://hotair.com/ StewartIII
  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_YJOFCUW4S62AICSGYG562VMHZY Marje

    Well, heck, Mexico and Guatemala sends us carpenters and chicken pickers and we send Canada our doctors and nurses!!! Where’s the justice there? We already have plenty of radical conservatives available and ready to take the carpenter and chicken picker jobs. They’ve been claiming for years that immigrants are taking their jobs away….I wonder why I haven’t heard about any of them stepping up to apply for those good jobs……

    But doctors and nurses? Why would ours want to go north? Maybe because there is less greed and spitefulness and meanness and more good sense and compassion and empathy up there in the north? Better pay? Oh, wait, I know a good possibility…..fewer gunbattle messes to clean up…..no need to wear  flak jackets to work….. 

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_YJOFCUW4S62AICSGYG562VMHZY Marje

    Well, heck, Mexico and Guatemala sends us carpenters and chicken pickers and we send Canada our doctors and nurses!!! Where’s the justice there? We already have plenty of radical conservatives available and ready to take the carpenter and chicken picker jobs. They’ve been claiming for years that immigrants are taking their jobs away….I wonder why I haven’t heard about any of them stepping up to apply for those good jobs……

    But doctors and nurses? Why would ours want to go north? Maybe because there is less greed and spitefulness and meanness and more good sense and compassion and empathy up there in the north? Better pay? Oh, wait, I know a good possibility…..fewer gunbattle messes to clean up…..no need to wear  flak jackets to work….. 

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_YJOFCUW4S62AICSGYG562VMHZY Marje

    The uninsured can’t afford bypasses…..worse than being on a waiting list, I should think, waiting for the final heart attack.  A waiting list at least provides hope. No insurance, not even hope.

  • Anonymous

    I must ask where you get this information from. I would like to see it for myself.

    As far as your previous post, who said anything about the uninsured? This thread isn’t even remotely connected to health care. Lloyd C inserted that into the discussion – one of my personal favorite liberal distraction tactics, and you people run with it like a stolen pig.

    When you all care to rejoin the discussion about OWS, please come by and then we can continue.

  • Anonymous

    Was the pig greased? I think they dropped it.

  • Anonymous

    Maybe they were having an Aqualung flashback???

    “Greasy fingers smearing shabby clothes….”

  • Anonymous

    LMAO

  • Anonymous

    I’m all for cleaning the place up. Taze ‘em all and let the cops sort ‘em out…

    “Cuff ‘em all, move ‘em out, lock ‘em up, burn their stuff, Rawhide,
    Hose ‘em down, clean ‘em up, lock ‘em up – move ‘em out, Raw-hide!”

  • Sandie

    ..Rollin’ rollin’ rollin’….keep them doggies movin’…..

    LOL

  • Yameenz

    Dan’s TV report on the OWS, for most part lacked substance. I was expecting an in-depth account of these demonstrators. Who are they? Why are they frustrated living in the most modern country with more than 90 percent of its people employed and a country which imports thousands every year to provide them employment? No other country does this. Rather could have told us their educational level, fields of endeavor, aptitude. How do they live these days; with parents? with others? The woman in the story  , does she get child-support? Where is her husband? We need to understand their worth and level or reason of dissatisfaction so we can devise our system to help them , alleviate their pain etc. We need to analyze their complaints so we can improve our country not just exploit their frustration either for political purposes as Robert Reich and Labor does or for journalistic purposes. Let us solve their problem. First find out what it is? Dan Rather’s commentary falls short. ( Prof. Zubairi, MD )

  • Rob
  • Anonymous

    pffft

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_WLSYGJ64MSH7S263FNWVC4HXMY Fox Mulder

    You baby boomers are jokes. You have the gall to scoff at young people? Your generation is a joke. Your generation is racist, homophobic, and utterly useless. Your generation has utterly drove our economy into a ditch. Your generation grew up utterly spoiled beyond any comprehension. College, housing, and healthcare cost almost nothing back then. You couldn’t walk down the street without being offered a job. Young people have every single right to pissed. Go drink some geritol, you pathetic old geezer.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_WLSYGJ64MSH7S263FNWVC4HXMY Fox Mulder

    Yeah, I bet daddy paid for college too. I doubt you started working at 15. I bet you were molesting children and stealing their lunch money. You disgusting pedophile.

  • Orionstarman

    Your right Joe it was my generation that made the problem but don’t blame everyone. There were a lot of us who fought the tax and spend big government crowd the whole way. We were just outnumbered.

  • Nancy E. K. Montgomery

    The young adults I know have a very clear picture of what is going on in our country right now.  They are educated and articulate.  Get out of their way.

  • IRAEISMAN

    YOU ARE SIMPLY IGNORANT, NO NOT SIMPLY, REALLY CONFUSED

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