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Ed Schultz On Occupy Wall Street: Unlike Tea Party, No Racist Signs Or Firearms

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by Tommy Christopher | 6:34 pm, October 6th, 2011

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Defying dismissive mainstream media narratives, the Occupy Wall Street demonstration continues to grow, and gather momentum. While coverage of the movement has varied in quality, MSNBC’s Ed Schultz has been broadcasting live from among the protesters. In an interview with Mediaite, Ed acknowledged the “good, the bad and the ugly” of the protest, but pointed out that, “Unlike the tea party, I didn’t see any racist signs, I didn’t see any firearms,” but rather, people “concerned about the quality of life and fairness in America.”

I interviewed Schultz on a variety of topics this morning, and when the subject of his live broadcast from the Occupy Wall Street protests came up, Ed, who has spent a lot of time on the ground at demonstrations this year, was particularly voluble. Here is that portion of our interview:

Tommy Christopher: I was watching some of the footage from your show from Occupy Wall Street last night, what do you think of the way that this is being treated? I’ve seen the way you’ve covered it, and I saw the way Fox News covered it and the way the other networks are covering it. What do you think is the big difference?

Ed Schultz: You can’t socially engineer a live shot. You can’t socially engineer a protest. I went down there for four hours yesterday before I did my show, because I wanted to make sure I had a pulse of what was going on, and I call this America’s Middle Class March. They call themselves the 99%, that’s a very good description. There’s all walks of life down there, the good, the bad and the ugly. And I think that these Americans have very legitimate concerns that they believe their country is not addressing.

I think the angst, and the anger is now coming to a boiling point and it’s growing. It’s very genuine. Unlike the tea party, I didn’t see any racist signs, I didn’t see any firearms. I saw a bunch of people who were concerned about the quality of life and fairness in America. Eventually, the politicians are going to have to address this protest.

TC: Do you feel that the protestors are getting a fair shake from the rest of the media or do you think they’re being dismissed.

Ed: I haven’t watched all the other coverage, you can go around America and find protests just about anywhere. I think that’s one of the reasons why this didn’t get coverage right away. What is it? What does it mean? What’s its impact going to be?

It’s obviously taken on a life of its own. There are still some $64 questions surrounding this protest,meaning how long will it last? What does it mean? And will it really make a difference? And so the curiosity of it all is very interesting. I stand with the protestors. I believe they’re making very valid points that our government’s not answering.

TC: What do you think of the fact that they’re targeting Wall Street though and not the government?

Ed: I think Wall Street has bought the government. I think the Wall Street influence in our legislative process runs really deep.

TC: So they’re going over the government’s head in a way?

Ed: There are middle classers, there’s hard workers down there, there’s unemployed people, there’s school teachers, there’s public workers, there are anarchists, when you say 99%, you’ve got a pretty big tent.

I think they have legitimate concerns that need to be addressed. I think this isn’t a joke, this is a real story.

TC: You’ve talked to a lot of the protestors. Whats your sense of how they’re feeling toward the government, toward the White House, toward the Congress, is there a direction of their anger – in anyway unified? Or evenly dispersed?

Ed: I think now that the unions are involved, they’re going to give them some focus on how to force this change. I think this is America, we seen protests before that have fizzled out, (and) we’ve seen protests force change.

TC: On the subject of unions, you’ve been the man on the street for these protests in Wisconsin and all this anti-union stuff. Do you see the trend against unionization reversing itself? It seems like a desperate situation, unions are really in a fight for their lives.

Ed: I think workers are under attack in this country, there is no shared sacrifice. We have a political party in this country, the Republicans, who think that there should be more tax cuts for the wealthy, more tax cuts for the corporations yet they’re willing to take away benefits, wages and security for workers. The battle lines couldn’t be any more clear, you’re either for the workers, or you’re not and these folks protesting down there are sick of the corporate greed and sick of the imbalance and they think that fairness has left the building.

Here’s a clip from Ed’s live broadcast, from MSNBC:

ed schultz, Occupy Wall Street, Tea Party, Tommy Christopher

http://pulse.yahoo.com/_VYUK3HIJFCPFBZUHRHN6HCR5AA MarkfromSavannah

There’s no firearms present because federal law prohibits the ownership of guns by convicted felons. I’m sure that applies to a good number of those dipshits.

As for the racist signs, I guess Ed doesn’t count those signs with anti-semitic messages!
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_VYUK3HIJFCPFBZUHRHN6HCR5AA MarkfromSavannah

There’s no firearms present because federal law prohibits the ownership of guns by convicted felons. I’m sure that applies to a good number of those dipshits.

As for the racist signs, I guess Ed doesn’t count those signs with anti-semitic messages!
NeverWrong

Good grief, Ed Schultz, give us all a break, you overfed redhead idiot. You prove daily that an IQ is NOT a requirement to work for LSD/PMSnbc. Look up ‘White Trailer Trash’ in Webster’s and you’ll see a pic of the obese Edith Schultz. But if you look up ‘Big Mouth’ in Webster’s you’ll find two (2) pics…one of the overfed redhead and the other of Joy ‘Blowhard’ Scarborough. PMS/LSDnbc has become a 24 hour Romper Room of 6 year olds.
Anonymous

When a liberal says “workers” they only mean UNION workers. Others don’t count and don’t matter. When conservatives say “workers” they mean ALL of them.

Liberals only care about union jobs. saving union jobs, and creating union jobs… everyone else can go to hell. Example… Boeing.
Cecelia

Tommy, was Keith Olbermann unavailable for an interview or something?
Anonymous

The fact that Schultz is involved in this , along with Soros, unions , Moveon.org and groups like that from the bottom of the barrel should make everyone suspicious . This is likely being orchestrated and encouraged by Obama Campaign Headquarters ( formerly the White House).

“It hasn’t taken long for the socialist-organized “occupation” of Wall Street to jump the shark.

In a surreal news conference at the United Nations, anti-American radical and rogue financier George Soros (net worth: $22 billion) threw in his lot with the thousands of Communists, anarchists, eco-feminists, malingerers, and professional protesters who have been baiting and taunting police in lower Manhattan as part of a mass demonstration that began September 17

The protests, which have spread to other large cities, are part of what ACORN’s neo-communist founder Wade Rathke calls an “anti-banking jihad.” Not surprisingly, the remnants of the ACORN network are deeply involved in the Occupy Wall Street movement. New York ACORN’s new front group, New York Communities for Change (NYCC), led by veteran ACORN enforcer Jon Kest, is one of the major protest groups leading the effort to turn America into one big socialist armpit.”

http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/41042?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter
Anonymous

Nice try but anti-Semitism isn’t racism, so Tommy is right again!
Jason

At this rate we should all be happy as long as Tommy keeps his clothes on when he’s interviewing one of his fellow “journalists”.

Hey Tom, I heard the bearded lady who hangs out at 7-11 all day collecting aluminum cans and barking at the sun has an opinion on the flat tax. Sounds like your kind of gig.
Anonymous

Fact: Yet he missed the point that you see Che shirts and no American flags either!
http://www.scoamf.com/2011/08/hitler-realizes-obama-is-stuttering.html Unicon

Is Tommy the replacement to MSNBC’s old pop-up ad campaign or what?
Cecelia

“Ed: I think Wall Street has bought the government. I think the Wall
Street influence in our legislative process runs really deep.

TC: So they’re going over the government’s head in a way?”

It’s interesting. These people believe that govt is a wholly owned subsidiary of Wall Street. That govt is bought and paid for and owned by corporations. Not that govt should be small or that it’s gotten too much power, etc, but that it is OWNED by the robber barons of Wall Street.

Now just ignoring the irony of believing THIS and at the same condemning others for wanting government to have LESS power (less govt power = less need to buy govt off) and yet NOT going after the CEO of the United States of America?

Yes, they’re leapfrogging over the WH and going straight to Mr. Obama’s bosses on Wall Street. You know the guys he sold us out to.

No they don’t have racist signs and guns out there (just a lot of arrests), Ed can vouch for that. What they do have is one of the fatuous reporters in the land..
Michelle

Tommy, there is plenty of evident to the contrary you could’ve provided, if you had wanted to be fair and balanced:

‘You’re a Bum, Jew’: Jewish Man Berated by Wild Wall St. Protester, Told to ‘Go Back to Israel’

http://www.theblaze.com/storie...

The Jews Control Wall Street!’: 2nd Alleged Wall St. Protester Spews Anti-Semitism

http://www.theblaze.com/storie...

Wall Street Occupier Sign: “Queer Kids: Kill Your Parents”…

Wall Street Occupier: Obama a “Jewish Puppet”…

— Several influential New York state lawmakers have received
threatening mails saying it is “time to kill the wealthy” if they don’t
renew the state’s tax surcharge on millionaires, according to reports.

“It’s time to tax the millionaires!” reads the email, according to WTEN in Albany. “If
you don’t, I’m going to pay a visit with my carbine to one of those
tech companies you are so proud of and shoot every spoiled Ivy League
[expletive] I can find.”

Happy to help!!
Cecelia

I am still hoping that when this group matures a bit that they’ll dump moveon.org.

Aligning themselves with them is just such a game changer. It’s regrettable to say the least.
Texan

Did Ed happen to mention Obamas energy guy?

THE BUCK STOPS THERE! Head of energy loan program to ‘step down’…SOLYNDRA e-mails: Obama admin was poised to approve ANOTHER loan of $469 million!!!
Anonymous

You accuse Tommy of leaving out facts but you failed to report on the Fart Sniffer guy.
http://gothamist.com/2011/09/04/video_union_square_butt_sniffer_is.php
Hypocrite!
http://www.davidjkramer.co.cc// DavidKramer

Wait a frelling minute, do you leftist twits contradict yourselves in the VERY SAME ARTICLES NOW?

“Defying dismissive mainstream media narratives, the Occupy Wall Street demonstration continues to grow, and gather momentum.”

Dismissive Mainstream Media Narratives?

For God’s sake, you have NBC, the White House propaganda arm broadcasting from the darn protest and immersing themselves ONCE AGAIN (think Wisconsin DNC/NBC/White House debacle) in the news. Not covering the news but being the NEWS.

Tommy, if you were not such a sycophant of this regime, I would think you were up there with Ed Schultz in IQ. Wait a minute, did I say UP there? LOL
Michelle

Brad Blanton of Luray, Va. had one of the more extreme messages of the
protest, saying it was time to literally start eating the wealthy in
order to fix economic inequality

“They‘re devouring us and now it’s time we start devouring them back,” Blanton said. “I’m advocating cannibalism.”

But actual cannibalism? Apparently so.

“We ought to cut ‘em up and have a little ritual where we call it
communion,” Blanton said. “We’re all cannibals, all human beings are
cannibals. What we need to do is start eating from the top instead of
the bottom.”

And again, just so there was no mistake:

“First we ought to kill them and eat them. I think cannibalism is the
answer. Second to that, just regulate the hell out of them, that’d be
okay,” Blanton said.
http://www.davidjkramer.co.cc// DavidKramer

I wish we could post pics. I have a great one of the marxist protest in ABQ NM. All the shop owners and workers I talked with having to deal with the useful idiots called them EXACTLY what they are, college kids and other useful idiots trained in the marxist schools.
Michelle

Lord, I apologize. Please be with the pygmies in New Guinea.
Cecelia

Hey,get your fill of bailouts and govt ownership of the auto industry and you’re a potential terrorist.

Believe that your govt is comprised of people who sell off your interests like they’re tube socks at K-mart, and that the entire country is controlled by fat cats and you’re the salt of the earth.
Anonymous

“No firearms”? of course not. These punks never received a .22/.410 over & under for their 12th birthday & went hunting with their Dads. They would rather hide a bomb, like Bill Ayers, or maybe torch an automobile.
Moosenuts99

We can pull the most extreme quotes from your BAGGERS’ conventions too.

Would you like us to do so? It’s a lot more scary than this obvious-in-jest cannibal statement. And most of them contain racism and bigotry! Should I start?!?
Nancillarypeloslinton

Ed Shultz is a fat hack who would never inform ‘The Occupiers that Barack Obama is personally responsible for sending $Trillions of American taxpayer dollars to American & European Banks as well as Wall Street. You’re gettin’ played Wall Street. $Trillions of dollars that could have gone to creating jobs that could have fed you and your families went to Barack Obama’s campaign contributors. Barack Obama took more campaign contributions from the Banks and Wall Street than any other American Presidential candidate in history. No banker or Wall Street operative has been ‘Perp walked since Obama took office. The reason is no laws were broken, the laws that politicians like Obama have created. Bill Clinton repealed Glass-Steagall so that banks could bet on Wall Street again. Roll on the White House and the rest of the political system-these are the bad guys.
Moosenuts99

You should inform yourself on the coverage before you comment on it;’you might not end up looking so foolish
Michelle

You’re embarrassing yourself, but I have a feeling you are used to that.
Cecelia

As long as these people don’t go after Pres. Obama, but to give him what he wants anyway…tax hikes… they’ll be fine. They can use all the anti-govt rhetoric that they wish.

It’s sort of watching a media person being told that the industry is biased to the left, and then watching them cast THEMSELVES as being corporate whore sell-outs by arguing that they’re all controlled by the corporate suits.
Nancillarypeloslinton

Meant to say “You’re gettin’ played ‘Occupiers” instead of “You’re gettin’ played Wall Street”. My apologies. March on Washington D.C. ‘Occupiers! Ask Barack Obama what he did with our money.
Moosenuts99

Ahhhhh,’”The blaZe”. Bastion of intelligence.

Why don’t you link us to the Blaze article where Beck calls for the same kind of Wall St uprising? It’s just from 2009, I’m sure you have the links ready!
http://www.davidjkramer.co.cc// DavidKramer

Tommy uses two stories HERE on Mediaite to show the Mainstream Media’s dismissive nature. Did you even click the links.

NORMALLY, when one wants to provide a HYPERLINK with words in the HYPERLINK, it is to provide PROOF of one’s assertion. Maybe YOU moosenuts should quit worrying about my appearance and worry about yourself.
Anonymous

No Guns ?? The Jester is cancelling the trip to the protest ! Never leave home without it !
Cecelia

I’ve seen coverage of the occupation all over the place, but if it is being lightly covered somehow, the occupiers need to be grateful.

The more they look like an extended flash mob the worse for them. They should be glad to have the time to get themselves organized.
http://www.davidjkramer.co.cc// DavidKramer

One White House media sycophant interviewing another White House media sycophant.

It was just surprising that a singularity did not develop. Better be careful Tommy, you lefties may create an event horizon one of these days.
Texan

Who wore the blue dress?
Texan

That’s why he changes names so frequently.
Nancillarypeloslinton

Anti-Semitism is racism! Check your facts dumbfuck!
http://www.davidjkramer.co.cc// DavidKramer

Were there stains?
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_VYUK3HIJFCPFBZUHRHN6HCR5AA MarkfromSavannah

I would love for you to start Nuts. Begin with all those videos of Tea Partiers attacking the members fo the CBC as they smugly walked past the protesters, just hoping for the photo op they didn’t get.
Anonymous

Racist!
Tommy always has a way with sniffing out the racists!
Anonymous

Anybody see how white they are!
Anonymous

Its interesting how these media pundits are trying to speak for these people. Ed just seems concerned with getting more votes for Obama.
Anonymous

Are these the first #occupywallstreet -
inspired death threats?

Maybe:Several influential New York state lawmakers have received threatening mails saying it is “time to kill the wealthy” if they don’t renew the state’s tax surcharge on millionaires, according to reports.[snip]By ‘maybe,’ of course, I mean ‘Of course they are, unless it’s a hoax.’ Which possibility you’re expected to always have to take into account, in these cases… at least, if you’re expected to if you’re a conservative or a Republican. If somebody sent a death threat that referenced Tea Party rhetoric the media and other Democrats would fall all over themselves in their haste to be the first one to call for scalps.The email references terminology that has been used in the “Occupy Wall Street” movement — that the1 percent, the super rich, are exploiting the remaining 99 percent of Americans. The angry message demanded that Albany politicians “stop shoveling wealth from the lower 99 percent into the top 1 percent” and “set aside your ‘no new taxes on anybody’ pledge.”In a metaphorical and nonviolent way, of course.(Via Hot Air Headlines)Moe Lane (crosspost)
Anonymous

Yeah because “9/11 Was an Inside Job” signs are so much more rational and helpful to the country than these yet-to-photographed overtly racist Tea Party signs, the worst of which are ignorant at worst. (And I need to see at least 4,000 more Obama as Hitler signs to match the number of Bush as Hitler signs.)
themayne

Tea Party= normal people. Occupy WallStreet= scumbags, nutjobs, radicals, drug addicts
Moosenuts99

There’s more ethnicity in that one picture above than in the entirety of the BAGGERS Balls
Moosenuts99

Uhhh…there WERE tons of violence related Tea Party emails. I still vet them forwarded to me by my racist CON grandparents.

They originate from somewhere…
Moosenuts99

Yeah,’there’s more ethnicity in that picture above than in the entirety of the Bagger BawlBaby demonstrations
Norbit

No, just Anti-Semitic rants (go to Sean Hannity if you want to hear them!), police taunting, and taking over a bridge!

Where’s the Media’s condemnation on this Soros-Astroturf “movement”, like we saw in their coverage of the Tea Party?
Moosenuts99

You DO understand that Republicans and BAGGERS are participating in these demonstrations, right?
Mikej32

How about death threats? Do they count? Tommy, send this info to Sgt. Ed Schultz (“I hear nuthink, I see nuthink, I know nuthink!”)

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1011/65307.html

There’s that liberal civility we all know and love.
Norbit

Liberals thrive on the hate, so reasoning with them is futile.
We’ve got to just purge them from power, and that will happen next year, in spite of the Obama/Media class-warfare effort to prevent it.
Anonymous

If you think that would help I don’t blame you, but do you believe it? I only ask because lets be honest, they are now playing with fire. Think about it, how is this going to end? Not the occupy protests, not the POTUS election, but all of this in general?

The unions are now mobilized. Separatists groups like the NBP are mobilized. And worse then that, the Chicago maffia with its thug in chief, yes, thug, has been in full blown campaign mode as opposed to the half load for the two years. Combine that with the tea party, conservatives, libertarians, independents, and the private sector, what do you have.

Two very angry, very anxious, very partisan groups, who every much believe the other side is now not just wrong, but evil and wants to destroy the US. And you have this fat wife beating piece of shit literally spewing the opposite of everything he said about the tea party protests in now defense of all things pure and middle class toward the occupy protests.

Now tell me, within the next 14 months or so, by or within a few days after the election, either way, where you think this all is headed?
Anonymous

Those are obviously fake death threats!
You just wait…Tommy will show you!
Anonymous

You mean all those white people? Sure you are seeing right? Also please don’t use childish slurs when addressing my posts. You can do that while conversing with your fellow swine of the net, but a certain level of demeanor is a must if you ever want to converse in an intellectual discussion. Just letting you know.
http://www.facebook.com/ncweb76 Nick Tarlton

oh its ok for the tea party to protest, but honest hard working folks that want a fair shake from our country are dipshits. i just love the hatred for fellow Americans.
http://www.facebook.com/ncweb76 Nick Tarlton

Are you serious? Hate is the party motto of the Tea Party/Republicans. They have done nothing but divide us as a country. Rich against poor. That war has been going for for over 30 years and finally the poor/middle class are fighting back.
http://www.facebook.com/ncweb76 Nick Tarlton

oh and the previous administration didn’t give any money to banks did they?
http://www.facebook.com/ncweb76 Nick Tarlton

Wow…if that is not opposite of the truth nothing is. I believe the Tea Party to be terrorist against our country hell bent on destroying it every step of the way. If you put every brain together you might have one in a group of a 1000. Give me a break.. They deny history, facts, and anything resembling sanity.
http://www.facebook.com/ncweb76 Nick Tarlton

Sanity has left America…this message board is proof of it.
http://www.facebook.com/tony.westover Tony Westover

“Ed Schultz On Occupy Wall Street: Unlike Tea Party, No Racist Signs Or Firearms”

And no black people either. OWS is by a vast, vast majority a white protest. Very white, lily white, so they must be up to something.
Michelle

You have a fair shake. Stop blaming others for your failures.
joe

so norbit says other americans thrive on hate–as he post his attacks filled with hate?
classic..
do as we say not as we do huh? nice~
joe

what is your excuse? you seem to hate 1/ 2 of america and most of the rest of the world—
nice example there butter cup~
Michelle

Um, I don’t hate anyone. I’m not the one running around screaming I’m owed something.
Mr. Pennypacker

The Revolution has started!! We had over 10,000 in Occupy Portland. #occupyportland
joe

uh–i think it was the tea party saying ‘I want my country back?”
i really wish you would post some real data–you seem to make a lot of accusations..
yet they seem to pulled right out of your rectum-because what you say is not not true.
i do not know any liberals asking for anything but fairness.
we just want what jesus wanted–if that is bad–then i think conservatives should have the courage to say it.
as far as ‘not hating’?
have you actuallty read your posts? or are you too pumped on xanex and crystal meth with a robotussin chaser?
silly girl..
at least you are keeping busy–and that is a good thing-i guess?
omg~
Michelle

Good for you man!! It’s really hard to find liberals in Portland, I’m surprised you could get so many together in one place.
Arkansas Steve

Revolution?
It’s more like 10,000 idiots who don’t like airlines, so they all go flying and kill the pilots, only to discover that they don’t have a clue how to fly or land an airplane.

All you are successfully doing is angering the people who don’t want an “entitlement” society, and they have more courage, more smarts, and more anger than you.
Michelle

Jesus advocated helping your neighbor and being self-reliant. He didn’t advocate stealing from one group of people and giving to another.
joe

“Jesus advocated helping your neighbor and being self-reliant. He didn’t advocate stealing from one group of people and giving to another. ”

and that is why we are trying to stop consvertatives from doing.

but if you have any examples of liberal stealing? please post it…
otherwise this may be another one of your rectum remarks–that is just silly talk ..
geesh`
DoesThisOffendYou

Some boards are more serious, but few are better.
MEDIAite is certainly better than the moderated BS HuffPost. That website puts me to sleep and I swear the moderators must read at a 2nd grade level for the speed at which that “moderate” them.
DoesThisOffendYou

Some boards are more serious, but few are better.
MEDIAite is certainly better than the moderated BS HuffPost. That website puts me to sleep and I swear the moderators must read at a 2nd grade level for the speed at which that “moderate” them.
Cecelia

Yeah.. .looks like they’re whiter than MSNBC …. whiter than Current TV…. whiter than Mediaite!
Anonymous

Odd, the first person being interviewed had 7 people behind him and 4 of them were black. The second person being interviewed had 5 people behind him and 2 were black. The third person being interviewed was black with 7 people behind her and 4 of them were black. You really didn’t watch the video did you?
Anonymous

Odd, the first person being interviewed had 7 people behind him and 4 of
them were black. The second person being interviewed had 5 people
behind him and 2 were black. The third person being interviewed was
black with 7 people behind her and 4 of them were black. You really
didn’t watch the video did you?
Anonymous

“Fellow swine” is not a childish slur? Just letting YOU know. Or is it just OKIYAR?
Anonymous

“Smugly”? Really? What ever do you mean?
Anonymous

I wasn’t referring to a specific ideal set differing from my own and posting such childish nonsense throughout the internet like some. I was just referring to typical internet dwellers in general. If partisans want to name call each other back and forth like school children, then they can do so. But when replying to me a certain sense of intellectual decency would be highly appreciated. :P

Whining about dem evil ‘libtards’ or crazy ‘tbaggaz’ just sounds silly regardless. It only diminishes whatever point you were trying to make and only marginalizes those using such a demeanor.
Brianna MacDougall

Really? PMS? And LSD for 6 year olds? WTF are you even saying in this incoherent rant?
Brianna MacDougall

“. . . more value as human beings than you . . . ” WOW, you are not a big fan of that whole equality concept. Or logic. That is the weakest analogy I have seen on the internet all damn day (minus anything involving Godwin’s law of course!)
Glutton

I can’t tell the difference between Beckel and Ed Shultz anymore.
Anonymous

You’re just a hypocrite. Rationalize it any way you want.
Anonymous

what exactly do they want nick?

What does your concept of a fair shake entail?
Anonymous

Edd Schultz………..”No racist signs or fire arms.”

And no AMERICAN FLAGS.
Anonymous

I accidentally pushed like – I was trying to respond to your “Jesus” quote.

You are aware that republicans live by that creed. Republicans make more charitable donations than democrats. Republicans feel that they – not the government are responsible for helping their fellow man.

These young people want to steal what isn’t there’s, they never earned it but they covet it. They can’t follow the bouncing ball. The banks that were bailed out? Caused by the “well meaning” Dodd/Frank, where people who hadn’t earned it, couldn’t afford it, “qualified” for loans they couldn’t possibly repay. The banks had to comply and the Government had to step in, not to save the banks, but to save the public who’s money was in those banks.

It would be awesome if I was as brilliant as Steve Jobs and got the financial reward he did. I don’t covet what the man had, I admired what he managed to do without government help but by his own sweat the blood. It proves that anything is possible! Both Jobs and Gates became billionaires because of their own ideas and brilliance – neither was into the manor born.

Why would you want everyone to be the same, have the same, live the same? If your work ethic is such that you thrive on 60 hour weeks and your neighbour thrives on 60 hours of playing video games a week and you have identical houses – same standard of living, wouldn’t you be just a wee bit pissed? If I have a brilliant idea that I think would be useful and make me billions, should I be required to share that idea with you so we both prosper?
Anonymous

Shultz is crazier.
Anonymous

Hate is not the motto of the republicans at all nick and you are well aware of that. The “class war” is Obama’s doing.

Remember when Obama met Joe the Plumber? That was clue #1 that Obama was on the path to “right the ship” between the haves and have nots.

The tea party was strictly about telling the government (not you, me or Joe the Plumber) to live within their budget. That was the entire premise of the tea party. They didn’t want to divide anything – they didn’t want to do away with government agencies (as the democrats claimed). They wanted the government to control their spending. To spend only what they had – not what they wished they had. I
still can’t understand what is so very wrong with that logic? So, the agencies would have to come up with ingenious ways to live within their budgets. Perhaps streamline their operations, perhaps get rid of waste and fraud. When we get into financial trouble we quickly figure out that our twice a day visit to Starbucks has to go. It doesn’t mean I quit eating and starve. I might have to get rid of my cleaning lady and wash the floors myself! Seriously, we all understand that when money is tight we have to take a good look at our spending and make do with less.
Anonymous

What the hell would the Tea Party or any other group for that matter, by destroying the country?

Try thinking before speaking.
Anonymous

They aren’t really black. They are liberals in blackface.
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_VYUK3HIJFCPFBZUHRHN6HCR5AA MarkfromSavannah

Nick – get a grip pal! Never once in my post did I condemn these protesters for exercising their right to free speech. I did call them dipshits because for the most part, I disagree with their message. See, that’s a right that I’m allowed to enjoy, at least for now. The right to disagree – remember that? My issue was Schultz’s flat out lie that there were no racist signs on parade. It’s been argued that anti-semitism isn’t exactly ‘racism’ in the spirit of the classic definition, but you know what? – it’s damn close enough for me!

And a couple of parting comments/questions before I finish my off-handed dismissal of your bullshit commentary: These idiots are whining about not having jobs, right? Is sitting on their collective asses going to change that? Do they expect someone to walk up to them and say, ‘damn, you’re a great protester, you’re hired!’

What about these idiots holding signs with the words, “End Student Loans”. I’m sorry, did these creatures not sign the dotted line when they applied for these loans with the promise to pay them back? Just because they can’t find a job that’s aligned with their major (Elizabethan Poetry or Shakespearean Sexuality) does that mean they should be allowed to welch on their agreement?

What I see on the streets of NY and elsewhere are for the most part, people without honor, without a moral code, and most importantly, without balls. They are there demanding from the government what they can’t demand from themselves and that is the ability to DO SHIT YOURSELF. My God, how did we ever get to this point? Whatever happened to the pioneer spirit that was so American 100 years ago when we looked inward and not to the government to take care of OURSELVES?

No, I want to believe these people do not represent what is truly American but I’m hard pressed to not worry about the future of this country where everyone sees government as the answer to all of the pressing problems. I hope I’m wrong, but America in my opinion, is taking a disastrous path which will ultimately lead to a nation my Grandfather would no longer recognize.
Anonymous

It’s unlike the Tea Party in that 700 OWS protesters were arrested and the OWS protesters want hand outs from the govt, bigger govt and a nanny state.
Anonymous

Yeah, ED unlike the TP marchers the OWS people are unemployed.
Michelle

— The “Occupy Wall Street” movement came to the Big Easy on Thursday,
but its expression of varied and often clashing political messages
quickly turned difficult.

As about 500 New Orleans protesters
marched, complete with a small brass band, from Orleans Parish Prison to
the Federal Reserve and then inside City Hall, one activist told The
Daily Caller she heard shouts of “Kill the cops!”
Anonymous

Is that seriously all you have? You jump to the defense of an utter buffoon over this infantile sense of fascist identification because he agrees with you. People who are on ‘your side’ can spout idiocy, and then you jump in whining about people responding to it? Just because your intelligence level and inept demeanor might be on his level, that doesn’t make you right in whining about people responding to such mindless drivel. Even if you are in the same boat, and do the same quite often. Your parroted accusation were backless, and you are indeed a hypocrite jumping in and whining like a partisan little brat after when I in fact was only responding to his utterly childish demeanor that you being on the same mental level, use quite often. If you were offended by it, then good. You need to grow up some time.
Anonymous

No racist signs Ed? How about the verbal anti-Semetic abuse of Jews, doesn’t that count?
Jason

Shut it twit. Nobody beckoned your useless commentary.
Jason

And all of them were completely insane… They don’t do race quotas at the booby hatch for a reason.
Anonymous

How many Occupy Wall Street protestors have been arrested? Answer: At last count about 700. How many Tea Party protestors have been arrested? Answer: Zero.
Anonymous

Portland is “occupied”, all right.
Anonymous

Yeah, I guess go home to Israel you dirty Jew and kill the Jews don’t count as racist or biggoted for dog killer Ed.
Anonymous

That’s a good one (LOL!)
Anonymous

He should change it to “Numbnuts99″.
Anonymous

What bodily orifice did you pull that one out of?
Anonymous

Beckel is the sour faced angry old toad with the suspenders and crossed arms. Shultz is the red faced raving maniac running around screaming the sky is falling and flapping his arms like a besotted albatross trying to get airborne.
Anonymous

You forget the sarcasm tag?
Karendelessert

I have a question. If the 99% represent the Americans who without jobs can nolonger support the 1%, do the 1% start feeding on themselves?
FreeMike

@seek – The entire premise of the TEA party was not “live within your budget”, it was “no more taxes” (remember what TEA is an acronym for?) and they did call for the elimination of the Dept of Education and EPA (granted, that was not part of the formation, but they did nonetheless). The problem I see is that you want to control Gov spending but not in the area of the most waste, namely military. We are still pouring three Solyndras-worth a week in two unnecessary occupations and the defense budget is still greater than 1/3 of all Gov’s spending. Romney’s now on record saying he’ll increase military spending. I expect the next TEA party rally to be on his doorstep within a month, right?
Jrose117

I don’t know about the racist signs but without firearms they’re going to lose.
Stevor

This is a backhanded way of saying the Tea Party is racist and a bunch of gun nuts. He’s a total maroon, just a puppet, doing what he is paid (threatened?) to do.
Gigglebytes

Occupy Wall Street = Diversity. Tea Party = Religious scumbags, religious nutjobs, religious radicals, prescription drug addicts.
Gigglebytes

Well, Stonepark3. Nah, most Occupiers are probably employed and if not it’s because corporate isn’t hiring, McD’s isn’t hiring, Burgerking isn’t hiring. Unlike the Occupiers, the tea party people want the government to keep their hands OFF THEIR MEDICARE! Haha. Tea partiers are basically living on social security (and there is nothing wrong with social security. I mean we all pay into it so we should get it when we’re old and can’t work), but it is a government entitlement. If you pay into something then yeah, you’re entitled to it. Tea party people seem to be hypocrites. By the size of most of them I doubt they could put in a hard days work so that means they don’t know what hard work is so why are they criticizing anyone about hard work? If anything, the tea party people should be supporting the wall street occupiers. I’m sure the tea partiers took a hit in their retirement when wall street finagled and gambled away our money. We would like to see the banks and lending institutions that tanked the financials of our country be held accountable. We’d like corporate to stay out of our politics. We want a level playing field for the people by the people. A simple message really… Wall street occupiers don’t want your stuff. Keep your stupid toxic/plastic china made stuff. Go 99er’s, you’re the best!! :)
Gigglebytes

Yes and I believe they’ll have to start scrubbing their own toilets too.
Gigglebytes

Haha @ maroon! You do know what maroon is?
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1046681022 Paula Berman

This is simply factually incorrect. Google “Tea Partiers arrested” and you will see that many Tea Partiers have been arrested.

http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/david/violent-tea-partier-arrested-democratic-rall

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/2009/11/tea_partiers_arrested_outside_pelosis_office.php

http://minnesotaindependent.com/49072/tea-partiers-arrested-at-bachmann-event/comment-page-1

That’s just on the first page of the Google search.
Maumarte

There may have been some people bearing arms, which is their right, but there were no racist signs at the tea parties. Now let’s see, over at Occupy Now, there were over 700 arrests, garbage in the streets, and the smell of urine — God knows what else — in the air. To say nothing of the anit-semites abounding. But so glad you’re having a good time amid your fellow cretins, Ed.
Fred

occupy wallstreet should just be called ” i want more freebies and i hate rich people who have worked for a living while i have been living of the democrats entitlement programs and freebies cause i am a loser” yes i know a long title but actually factual !
Anonymous

OK, I stand corrected. I found a total of 11 arrests in those three links. Hardly compares with 700, now does it?
Jim

Gee, I thought the motto was “taxed enough already”
Wayne Kerr

Yes, you should start. Please use footnotes and references.
Jim

You forgot “religious veterans, religious parents, religious job holders”,
Jim

Yes it is s dark brownish to dark red shade