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FBN: How Do These ‘Incoherent’ Occupy Wall Street Protesters Get Their Crazy Ideas?

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If it weren’t so depressing, it would be almost funny how quickly the “objective” cable news channels have fallen into line in their coverage of the Wall Street protests. On MSNBC, the protesters are heroes. On Fox News, they’re raving psychopaths. And, while we seem to already have thousands of examples of the networks in lock step formation, here’s another one courtesy of Fox Business Network! You know, just for fun!

The clip in question features FBN’s David Asman talking to economist Thomas Sowell and the basic tone of the segment can be summed up as “What’s the deal with those crazy crazies and their crazy ideas? They are cur-raaaaazy!” It begins with Asman saying that the protesters reminded him of the talk of “complaining classes” and “parasites” in Sowell’s new book. Sowell agreed, wondering how the protesters had enough money to just “hang around in parks.” This got a good, hardy chuckle out of Asman who thought it was amazing that these “anti-capitalist” protesters would dare (DARE) to use cell phones.

Sowell continued the attack:

“The thing that strikes me the most is, whenever they’re interviewed, they are incoherent. They will toss out a few scraps of rhetoric and they’ll feel that they said something. But they can’t tell you exactly what they want, they can’t tell you what they’re complaining about other than the world is not built to their specifications.”

Right now, there’s an interesting column from John Wilson up on our site entitled “Occupy Wall Street: GOP Is Making Similar Mistake As Democrats Did With Tea Party”. Watching segments like this one on the Fox channels, you can’t help but agree with him. Everyone in this clip is just so damn smug. It’s no surprise that the clip is now rocketing up Reddit. And that’s certainly not because people agree with the sentiments displayed.

So, Fox News and FBN are blindly demonizing the protesters while channels like MSNBC are blindly supporting them. I hope everyone has extra pairs of pants, because someone’s going to get bit in the ass. Hard.

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

    The clip in question features FBN’s David Asman talking to economist Thomas Sowell
    and the basic tone of the segment can be summed up as “What’s the deal
    with those crazy crazies and their crazy ideas? They are cur-raaaaazy!”

    Anybody paying any serious attention to the people camping out in the streets, defecating on police cars, doing drugs, screaming about Jews and bankers, screaming at cops, trust fund babies going nuts on camera and mobs of screaming adolescents shutting down bank branches with their insanity, has good cause to believe that many of these people are emotionally unstable and borderline insane.

    So, Fox News and FBN are blindly demonizing the protesters while
    channels like MSNBC are blindly supporting them. I hope everyone has
    extra pairs of pants, because someone’s going to get bit in the ass.
    Hard.

    MSNBC is also actively colluding with them on messaging, as analysis of the email between Dylan Ratigan and OWS organizers has revealed.

    You know who’s gonna get bit?

    Obama. Because he’s the one hitching his wagon to these loonbats. Every protester fighting with police? Obama is on his side. Every protestor crapping on a police car? Obama’s people. Every protester screaming about Jews and bankers? Obama’s people. Every protester demanding everyone else pay for their student loans? Obama’s people. Every protester getting arrested for harassing bank tellers and patrons? Obama’s people.

    He owns this now.

    The “tea party” isn’t on the ballot in 2012. Obama is, and his actions will follow him to the ballot box.

  • Anonymous

    While on his taxpayer -paid campaign trip , President Greyhound is trying to latch onto the protests .
    Wait till they turn on him or get more violent .

    “President Obama will kick off a three-day bus trip through small towns in politically competitive North Carolina and Virginia Monday, but White House officials insist the trip is about jobs, not votes.

    So much so, in fact, that they convened a conference call Sunday to reiterate that point several times, pointing out that the trip is fully on the taxpayers’ dime, not the president’s re-election campaign’s.”

    http://content.usatoday.com/communities/theoval/post/2011/10/white-house-insists-obamas-next-bus-tour-isnt-political/1

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_XEFRKNJR6WJ5WQ6KNPH2OEY2LU Antonio

    How is MSNBC blindly supporting them?

    Did MSNBC call the Tea Party crazy crazies?

    I like the way people try to always create some sort of equivalency between the two parties and their views.

  • Anonymous

    Fox News “Fair and Balanced”

  • Irish189

    “where do they get their crazy ideas from?”

    you know i ask myself that question every time i watch or read a political pundits opinion or half the posts on this website

  • Anonymous

    What a couple of rubes!

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_XEFRKNJR6WJ5WQ6KNPH2OEY2LU Antonio

    “Defecating on police CARS”? Was there more than one incident of this?

    “Hitching his wagon”? Are you serious? 

    What you fail to realize is that the OWS movement will further change and mature.

    They won’t be the same people they are 100 days from now and there is nothing you can do about it.

    Once the message becomes clearer and louder what are you going to do? Continue to call them crazy?

  • Irish189

    not to pick sides on this but pundits such as Ed Schultz on MSNBC have in the past made remarks calling the tea party racists and crazy’s and not too bright,

    Though i will grant you signs that say “keep your government hands off my medicare” dont exactly help tea party stereotypes

  • Bob

    Nothing could be crazier than the birther stupidity FOX was peddling all spring.

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

    Was there more than one incident of this?

    Why was there even one?

    Are you serious?

    Did I stutter?

    They won’t be the same people they are 100 days from now and there is nothing you can do about it.

    That’s correct – the temperatures in mid-to-end-January won’t be conducive to sleeping on the streets and for drum circles anymore.

    Once the message becomes clearer and louder what are you going to do?

    You mean there is no clear message at this point?

    How long do your clowns out there need before they actually say something worth hearing?

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_WH3ZLMM7CUKUHUIMK4TKXW6SQE John

    Fox News gets the best ratings because they call a spade a spade.  OWS are a bunch of idiots and deserve to be called such.

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

    When you’ve published more profound and scholarly works than Dr. Sowell, get back to me.

    Where can I find your books? I want to compare what he’s written to what you’ve published.

  • Michelle

    I’ll tell you where:

    Journolist 2.0: Occupy Wall Street Emails Show MSM, Dylan Ratigan, Working With Protesters To Craft Message

    http://bigjournalism.com/dloesch/2011/10/16/journolist-2-0-occupydc-emails-show-msm-dylan-ratigan-working-with-protesters-to-craft-message/

    Jon, Why is Mediaite ignoring this media story?  I know it can’t be because you haven’t been made aware of it. 

  • Anonymous

    Funny to see Sowell joking about the complaining classes, that includes him for sure. He is a perfect example of a talking head pundit.

  • Anonymous

    Wow resorting to the “they did this so that means it’s okay that we do the same” argument is not very morally or intellectually stimulating.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_XEFRKNJR6WJ5WQ6KNPH2OEY2LU Antonio

    Are you accusing me of this?

    Can you point it out if you are?

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_XEFRKNJR6WJ5WQ6KNPH2OEY2LU Antonio

    So Dylan isn’t allowed to help people put their thoughts together?

    You do realize he is an opinion guy?

    You do realize he has the Right to do what ever the F he chooses to do?

  • Anonymous

    Dr. Thomas Sowell is correct. OWS “protesters” are bums, deadbeats, and useful idiots whose so-called movement(BM) is totally infested with communists & subversives who seek the violent overthrow of the U.S. government.

  • Anonymous

    To be fair, were the communist and nazis supporting the tea party?  No?  Didn’t think so.

  • Anonymous

    That is such rubbish. There are plenty of bigots and racists in the teaparties, like the Ron Paul types, who say even worse things about the Jews on a regular basis. You are just a simple minded right wing robot who is only able to parrot back the garbage FOX & Rush pumped into your dense head. I guess if Obama himself started it, your simple minded remarks might have a point. But the only people who “think” like you are the same right wing morons who would NEVER vote for Obama, OWS or not. 

  • Anonymous

    I find it ironic, and more than a bit sad, that the Tea Party was accused of being the second-coming of the Nazi party by more than a few voices on MSNBC, and yet it’s this OWS “movement” that has been officially endorsed by the American Nazi Party.  How ’bout that.

    Oh, and the American Communist party seems to love the OWS movement too?

  • Anonymous

    More like, when are you going to say something worth listening too. Might as well turn on Rush than listen to your simple minded complaints.

  • Michelle

    I’m sure you would say the same think if FOX was found holding meetings with the TP to craft their message, right?

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

    The right is currently undoing itself in spectacular fashion.  Viral clips like this establish the ideological lines far more effectively than any speech by the President.  I hope FOX continues to speak it’s collective mind.  

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

    The right is currently undoing itself in spectacular fashion.  Viral clips like this establish the ideological lines far more effectively than any speech by the President.  I hope FOX continues to speak it’s collective mind.  

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_XEFRKNJR6WJ5WQ6KNPH2OEY2LU Antonio

    Karl Marx has a couple of scholarly books.

    I guess you don’t consider him a rube right?

  • Anonymous

    No not you personally. But most of the righties here are.

  • Anonymous

    The only reason you consider him profound is because you agree with him

  • Anonymous

    Sowell is a lazy talking head who hasn’t even done any first hand research on this issue.

  • Anonymous

    But you found all the real Nazis at teaparty rallies, not there.

  • Anonymous

    Go back to Breitbart’s e-sewers then, they have just the kind of simple minded rubbish you thrive on.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_XEFRKNJR6WJ5WQ6KNPH2OEY2LU Antonio

    Wow, Glenn Beck speak is so funny to read from you guys EVERY SINGLE DAY!

    You do realize normal Americans, the other 295,000,000 of us completely ignore all of your stupid predictions.

  • Anonymous

    Yeah, the Klan does though…

  • Anonymous

    Fox News gets the best ratings because they are best at pandering to simple minded geeks

  • Anonymous

    Both Beck and Hannity used their FOX shows to advertise for the tea parties and Beck had his version of the tea party, his 9/12 BS. How can you be so pathetic or dishonest to miss that?

  • TruDat

    Sure.  And the Democrat Party jumping on board with the defecating, looting, police assaulting, law breaking OWS crowd = WINNING (if you’re a clueless simpleton).

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_XEFRKNJR6WJ5WQ6KNPH2OEY2LU Antonio

    Um, the entire Fox staff is geared around crafting a message to try and destroy President Obama.
    What do I care they are all scum bags…
    If the stuff Fox said about Obama was true then they would be actually helping the country – the only thing is that they LIE about everything and that is what creates the divide.

    People would vote for anyone that had solutions to our problems and told the truth.

    The fact of the matter is that Fox represents the minority in this country while stating the opposite.

    Why anyone with a brain can’t see that is beyond me.

    On several occassions Fox and Limbaugh have sided with private corporations over the President. Do you think we will forget that when the election season gets hot?

  • TruDat

    Provide some proof.

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

    I know you are, but what am I?

  • Anonymous

    I said both, not one or the other.

  • TruDat

    Sorry, but the Klan belonged to the Democrat Party.

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

    The Nazi Party and the Communist Party are now both on board with OWS, per their released statements this past week. So are the oppressive and human-rights-deficient governments of China, Iran and Venezuela. Officially. All of them are on record supporting OWS.

    How’s that make you feel?

    Or you can just scream “rightwing” a few more times and call it a day. Whatevs.

  • Anonymous

    Then you are truly winning

  • TruDat

    That’s how you got the label: clueless.

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

     DERP

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

    Marx isn’t scholarship. It’s populist nonsense for the simple-minded, designed for people with an unsophisticated political system.

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

    How much of Sowell’s work have you read?

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

    Snorter morrisminor: “You’re a doodeyhead.”

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

    Snorter morrisminor: “You’re a doodeyhead.”

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

    Got any email evidence of this?

    We have email evidence of MSNBC hosts actively and directly colluding with protest leaders to craft a message and to spread propaganda.

    Show us the emails.

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

    U mad, bro?

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

    U mad, bro?

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_XEFRKNJR6WJ5WQ6KNPH2OEY2LU Antonio

    Hey, I don’t know why the guy doo-dooed on the car.  That is crazy cause he could have gotten arrested.  Maybe he is mentally ill…

    How long did it take the Tea Party to have a clear message?

    They were protesting taxes hikes that never happened.

    And just because you are on the Right doesn’t mean they don’t have something worth saying.  There are a lot of people around the country who feel the pain from banks every day who are spiritually supporting the effort.

    And I am sure some of those people are Tea Partiers.

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

    How much of Sowell’s work have you read?

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

    How much of Sowell’s work have you read?

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

    But you had a problem with that.

    Why don’t you have a problem this go round?

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

    The Tea Party protests included violence and physical threats.  Bad behavior is just that.  The real story is outlined by the clip above… the illogical and disparaging attitude of the right toward those who desire reform because they care deeply for their country.  

  • Anonymous

    We are the 99% and we are against corporate ownership of America.

    Not a hard concept to grasp, but Fox News and FBN are retarded, lol.

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

    Democrats c. 1945: Fighting the Nazis
    Democrats c. 2011: Supported by the Nazis

    How’s that for decline?

  • Exgoper

    “On MSNBC, the protesters are heroes…”

    False equivalence.  You’re comparing an opinion guy with a “news” guy (or at least what passes for legitimate News over in the Fox Nation).

  • Michelle

    You own it Barry!

    Horrified residents watched Rome burn Saturday after an off-shoot of
    Rome’s “Occupy Wall Street” protest turned violent. Italian riot police
    fired tear gas and water cannons after a group of violent protesters
    hijacked the demonstration against corporate greed. Rioters smashed bank
    windows, torched cars and hurled bottles. The European ‘occupy’-ers
    called themselves “the indigent.”

    AP reports that heavy smoke billowed in downtown Rome as the small
    group broke away and wreaked havoc in streets close to the Colosseum and
    elsewhere in the city. Clad in black with their faces covered,
    protesters threw rocks, bottles and incendiary devices at banks and Rome
    police in riot gear according to AP. With clubs and hammers, they
    destroyed bank ATMs, set trash bins on fire and assaulted at least two
    news crews from Sky Italia. Protesters also stormed into a church, tore a
    crucifix off the wall and smashed a statue of the Virgin Mary. RT video of the of the chaotic scene that unfolded in Rome:

    Riot police charged the protesters
    repeatedly, firing water cannons and tear gas. Around 70 people were
    injured, according to news reports, including one man who tried to stop
    the protesters from throwing bottles.

    TV footage showed one young woman with blood covering her face, while
    the ANSA news agency said a man had lost two fingers when a firecracker
    exploded.

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

    I hope OWS continues to attack the police, pile up arrests, defecate on police cars, urinate in public, etc.

    The public needs to see who these people are.

    Here’s a note: Nobody with a job would camp out for over a month in a park and scream about “greed.” They’d have been fired weeks ago.

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

    Did you interview all of those people?

    Where can we read their responses?

  • Michelle

    You’re reading comprehension skills are lacking.  I didn’t say anything about advertising. 

  • Anonymous

    “The Nazi Party and the Communist Party are now both on board with OWS” 

    Dude go back to school, you don’t even make sense. That “whatevs” at the end really makes it clear no one should take you seriously. 

  • Michelle

    They tend to get that way when they can’t back up their smears.

  • Anonymous

    “I know you are, but what am I?”

    Someone who makes shit up so he sounds interesting.

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

    How long did it take the Tea Party to have a clear message?

    Day one:
    TAXED
    ENOUGH
    ALREADY

    Lower government spending
    Pay attention to the Constitution’s limits on federal power
    Smaller government
    Get government out of bed with businesses
    No more bailouts

    And the Democrats immediately recognized that simple platform as a direct threat to their party.

  • Roger_Fails

    With every post you confirm the depths of your Obama Derangement. Seek help. You’re a very angry, very unhinged human being.

  • Michelle

    I hadn’t heard that.  Do you have a link? I tried to research it, and in fact, all I found was them saying they do NOT support the TP.  So to sum up, you are a liar. 

  • Anonymous

    In just three years, the American Left has gone from hope and change to an angry mob shouting gimme! gimme! gimme! in the streets. 

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

    You understood me.

    Not wanting to believe that the Nazi Freaking Party is marching in solidarity with OWS doesn’t change the fact that they are.

    http://anp14.com/news/archives.php?report_date=2011-10-16

    Deny it all you want, but they see in OWS something they like. And you can’t do a thing about it.

    Embrace them.

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

    “We Are the 99%” is now endorsed by the Nazi Party.

    http://anp14.com/news/archives.php?report_date=2011-10-16

    Enjoy!

  • Michelle

    Wow, great response!!  I’m not the angry, deranged one, it’s you guys on the left calling for beheading, execution and cannibilization of those with more money. 

  • Pablo

    So, snowjob, you don’t have an actual argument either?

  • Pablo

    Clear, concise, direct, actionable. Were there some people with various complaints? Sure. there always are in any crowd. But the TEA Party agrees on all of that.

  • Pablo

    They were protesting taxes hikes that never happened.

    One of the first things Obama did was raise taxes, mostly on middle to lower income folks, who’s taxes he swore he would not raise one dime.

  • Pablo

    They’re not blindly supporting them. They’re collaborating with eyes wide open.

  • Anonymous

    What a laugh.  The very same people at Mediaite who claimed that the tea party was violent, now have fallen in love with a rabble that is actually occupying buildings and defecating in the streets.  And the Democrats are rushing to align themselves with this?   This will prove to be the stupidest political move in modern American history.

  • Anonymous

    Nazi’s can support whatever they’d like, though I doubt they have much pull with the electorate (lol).

    I support OWS and I can’t wait until we can finally SEPARATE GOVERNMENT AND CORPORATIONS!

    OCCUPY WALL STREET!

  • Jason

    This whole thing is very bizarre. Obama has managed to get the KKK and the Black Panthers in the same room.  It seems that vile racists from all races agree on at least a few things… “Banks suck, and so does paying back your student loans”.

    Basically liberals think that banks should be in business to cater to their every whim. The bank manager should be satisfied at the end of the week if “Johnny Liberal Poopstain” gets a free college education… food on his own table be damned.

    These subhuman hippy shitbags will have my respect if/when they start protesting Obama and the Democratic Party.. or just for shits ‘n giggles, could one of you leftwing losers march in front of the College who jacked up your tution rates 250% over the past 15 years? That would be novel.  

  • Jason

    Are you purposely obtuse, or are you really this stupid?

  • Anonymous

    ” Commies and Nazis sure do like Occupy Wall Street
    — More and more Americans are standing up and being counted among the
    99%, as TheDC’s David Martosko reports: “In a move that may redefine the
    term ‘strange bedfellows,’ the American Nazi Party issued an official
    endorsement of the Occupy Wall Street protest movement on Sunday afternoon.
    The announcement put the organization, a self-described ‘National
    Socialist’ political party, in company with the Socialist Party USA, which explained its own support for the left-wing protesters in a nationwide conference call last Tuesday night, crediting organized labor with the protests’ strength and sophistication to date… In its statement on Sunday,
    the Westland, Mich.-based Nazi party wrote that the Occupy Wall Street
    protests are ‘TAYLOR [sic] MADE for National Socialists, as well as WN
    [White Nationalists] who are serious about DOING SOMETHING.’ ‘I urgently
    URGE all of you,’ the statement’s unnamed author added, ‘to TAKE PART
    and JOIN IN when these protests hit your neck of the woods. Produce some
    flyers EXPLAINING the “JEW BANKER” influence — DON’T wear anything
    marking you as an “evil racist” — and GET OUT THERE and SPREAD the
    WORD!’ While Nazis seem unenthusiastic about visibly linking their
    flagship organization to the vocal protests that have popped up in
    dozens of U.S. cities, the same can’t be said of the Communist Party
    USA.” Yep, they’re Commies and proud of it. “

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

    Interesting point.  Did you ever notice that you compose part of the right wing Mediaite mob that attack the writers, pile up bans, defecate on posts, urinate on others comments, etc.?

    Bad behavior is just that.  It should not be considered acceptable independent of political persuasion. 

    You are culture jamming… advancing hyperbole while conveniently ignoring the misdeeds of those with whom you politically agree (Tea Party violence and threats).  

    The mob is real… it’s largely digital and completely bad for America.  

  • Jason

    You’re assuming he can read anything beyond a 3rd grade level. Your first mistake.

  • Jason

    Nobody on FOX is/was a birther. Not even Beck.

    They all believe Trig is Sarah’s kid, unlike the fruitcakes on MSDNC.

  • Jason

    Nobody needs to try to destroy Obama. He’s doing a damn good job of it on his own. Calm down Antonio. The world isn’t against you and your messiah. The world is doing it’s best to prop his sorry ass up, but he’s crumbling anyways. You just can’t fix stupid.

  • TruDat

    No, you’re the 47% aka FleaBagger.

    Why include the 53% who work, pay taxes, and attempt to better OURSELVES amongst you losers; you don’t represent us?

  • TruDat

    Sure the TP protests were violent; you just can’t show any evidence.  They were nothing anywhere remotely similar to these pig pen protestors.

  • Tucsonense

    The nazi party…REALLY!….like they hold any sway over anyone but lunatics. It is easy to jump on a bandwagon as they have done and that has scared you. They are totally Insignificant and you know that…..or do you.

  • Anonymous

    If you believe you represent anywhere near 99%, you’re out of your mind.  It’s more like 10%, if that.  The Democrat party owns those banks and corporations you are so against.  Just look up how much money they give the Democrats as opposed to the Republicans.  Goldman Sachs, owned and operated by Democrats, have provided the Treasurers to the US at least since Clinton.  Where do you think Geitner comes from?  Or where Bob Rubin and Paulsen came from? 

  • Jason

    Dude, only about 3% of the country pays attention to this shit at all. Calm down. Nobody is going to vote for or against Urkel based on the insane words of a bunch of filthy hippies squatting in a private park.

  • Anonymous

    Darn tootin’ Michelle! 

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

    I am sure you saw all of these on CNN as the liberal “lamestream” media couldn’t wait to indict the right.    
    Cincinnati Tea Party 2009:
    “Let’s burn her!”
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...

    Tea Party member threatens cameraman with death:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...

    Tea Party Assault:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...

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

    So…commenters are bad, especially when they don’t agree with the political left, but real leftwing mobs in the streets fighting police and defecating on police cars is something we should just get used to.

  • Anonymous

    NEVER ONCE!  The Tea Party never threatened or committed any form of violence.  They also cleaned up after themselves.  They are the truly hard working middle class people of the US…not these spoiled cry babies and Nazis and Communists who are taking over OWS.  Oh, and by the way, where are all those black faces that supposedly were not there for the Tea Party?  I guess they aren’t welcome at OWS.

    Let’s see how all this translates into votes come Nov. 2012.  All the Republican candidate has to ask is that same old Reagan question,…”Are you better off today than you were 4 years ago?”

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

    Your use of profanity indicates a certain lack of calm.  The OCW movement is much more visible than you indicate.  The rest is pure insult.  And you call others “filthy hippies”?  

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

    Your use of profanity indicates a certain lack of calm.  The OCW movement is much more visible than you indicate.  The rest is pure insult.  And you call others “filthy hippies”?  

  • Anonymous

    What did you expect from MessNBC?   They are the official Anti-American, pro-Nazi, pro-Communist  network.

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

    “By a 67 – 23 percent margin, New York City voters agree with the views of the Wall Street protesters and say 87 – 10 percent that it is “okay that they are protesting,” according to a Quinnipiac University poll released today. - Quinnipiac University Poll ”

    http://www.quinnipiac.edu/x1302.xml?ReleaseID=1662

    You Righties are shitting yourselves ‘right’ about now!. It’s going to be phucking HILARIOUS watching the Righties try to jump on this tsunami of a movement…..Sorry Righties….You’re TOO LATE!!!

  • Tucsonense

    Did you go to that web site you cited? It is a joke. Relax and don’t be frightened

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

    The nazi party…REALLY!….like they hold any sway over anyone but
    lunatics. It is easy to jump on a bandwagon as they have done and that
    has scared you. They are totally Insignificant and you know that…..or
    do you.

    LOL

    So you have no problem breaking bread with the Nazi Party in furtherance of your ‘movement.’

    Got it. Thanks!

  • Anonymous

    So you want to have lobbyists and corpoations and money dictate the laws of America instead of the votes of the American public? Is that waht you’re saying? Full Job-creator take over? 

    Occupy Wall Street is about wrestling the controls of America back from corporations who pay for lobbying and pay off congress to create loopholes, ease restrictions, get subsidies, tax cuts.. and all this while America is in a supposed recession, and also at the same time, these companies are having record profits.

    We already bailed these companies out… maybe so many people wouldn’t be “fleabags” if we weren’t paying these compaanies are hard earned cash in the form of tax cuts and bailouts.

    Sorry buddy but you aren’t conservative if you support giving your money away for free, even if it’s taxes.

    You now support higher taxes as long as big corporations pay less.. YOU ARE NOT CONSERVATIVE. 

  • http://twitter.com/Good_Lt Good Lt.
  • http://gregingleright.weebly.com/ Greg

    You lack summary skills.

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

    Occupy Wall Street is about wrestling the controls of America back from
    corporations who pay for lobbying and pay off congress to create
    loopholes, ease restrictions, get subsidies, tax cuts.. and all this
    while America is in a supposed recession, and also at the same time,
    these companies are having record profits.

    Where was OWS when Democrats controlled both houses of Congress from 2007-2010 and the WH from 2008-present, where they spent record amounts of taxpayer money bailing out unions and public sector largesse, while they dumped billions into “green energy”, when Obama was taking more corporate donations than any President in US history, where they quadrupled the deficit, where they jacked up the national debt, where they spent $1 trillion in a “Stimulus” that stimulated nothing, etc.

    Where were you dolts then? I’ll tell you where you were -trashing the political minority for trying to stop it, and then gargling Obama.

    And that’s where you’re going to be next year, too.

  • Anonymous

    They’re just saying they’re shitting in the street to slander protestors. You should know better.

    Plus, I saw people shitting at a Tea Party rally, a dude shit in his hand and then ate it and said “this is freedom from Obama’s tyranny.” In Chris Christie’s defense, it had been a long day.

    I find it funny how scared all the righties on here are, they are afraid of Americans who want freedom. They are afraid of the message of Occupy Wall Street. it is a message that, I think, will continue to spread as the people wake up to the fact their country has been stolen from them.

    OCCUPY WALL STREET 2011 !!!

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

    @ Good

    Right wing violence and threats < Left wing arrest for peaceful protest?
     
    You should clean up your talking points.  No one is going to believe that OWS is the Nazi uprising preemptively framed by Beck (and others) with you pushing such bad equations.  

  • Anonymous

    ANyone who took a loan they couldn’t afford from the banks is responsible for their own stupidity. Not the banks.

    Now I read that they want forgiveness for their student loans that THEY took, knowing they probably could not pay them back. More moochers and leeches. Just what we need.

  • Anonymous

    Hey, it works for “Tawana” Sharpton and Ed Shultz.

  • Anonymous

    Both Shultz and Ratigan are advertising the OWS crowd of clowns. 

  • Anonymous

    My guess is you haven’t read very much of what Sowell has written.

  • Anonymous

    Evidence please.

  • Anonymous

    But the mainstream Media and liberals all across the country said the ONLY reason the Tea Party formed was because they were all racists who hated the fact that a black man was in the white house.

    Now OWS, a majority liberal movement (as Obama and the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee) have endorsed it, have NAZI’S and WHITE POWER groups on their side. How can people claim that the Tea Party / Republicans are racist when the Democrats now have NAZI’S on their side?

  • Anonymous

    But the mainstream Media and liberals all across the country said the ONLY reason the Tea Party formed was because they were all racists who hated the fact that a black man was in the white house.

    Now OWS, a majority liberal movement (as Obama and the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee) have endorsed it, have NAZI’S and WHITE POWER groups on their side. How can people claim that the Tea Party / Republicans are racist when the Democrats now have NAZI’S on their side?

  • Anonymous

    The OWS protesters are protesting the government bailout of Wall Street, among other things.  Yet these Fox morons have somehow come to the conclusion that the OWS protesters are protesting capitalism.

    In other words, according to the Fox morons, government bailouts are capitalism.  You can’t write this stuff.

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    But the odd thing is: As soon as a T-Partier gets elected, he or she, usually he, starts working on social conservatives issues and forgets about deficits, taxes and a smaller government. Maybe they weren’t honest about their message? Maybe their handlers didn’t share the message with them?

  • Anonymous

    Gonna judge his whole post and argument over one word at the end of the post? 

    Liberals and the mainstream media said that the only reason the Tea Party formed was because they all were racists who hated Obama’s skin color. But in reality, the Tea Party formed because they wanted smaller government, lower taxes, less spending, and more accountability. 
    OWS - They don’t have a clear message. No leadership. No goals. No cohesiveness. Now they have the Nazi’s and White Power groups on their side. 
    I’m not saying OWS is a racist group, but HOW can people say the Tea Party is a reactionary group of racists when in fact OWS is an unorganized group with COMMITTED racists and anti-semites on their side?
    This is why no one trusts the media and why the Democratic party is falling apart. Bunch of stinking hypocrites. 

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    Please, the Nazi Party and the Commanist Party!

    Who pays you to post here?

  • Anonymous

     Collaborating? What rubbish!

  • Anonymous

    Regardless of its flaws, Marx’s works were scholarship, not simple pop culture polemics like Sowell’s

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    Conclusive proof you’ve never read Marx and Engels.

  • Anonymous

     If that is the best you can come up, then regardless of your reading level, you still are mentally in 3rd grade.

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    You’ve been hauling that Kart o’ Krap around all day, Michelle-in-Utah.

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    Now, the Two Step starts …. 

  • Anonymous

    Unlike your smears? That’s right, bullies are always victims.

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    Who’s mad? Seems like everyone is enjoying your idiocy.

  • Anonymous

    He hasn’t done any first hand research on the issue, he is just using news reports. Can you understand that? Has he been out there interviewing any of the OWS people? No, so stuff it.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_57BJSLL54M5XSKW6575EO5TNYE Pablo

    Someone a little further up the string said it best:  the vast majority of the country is not paying very close attention to the movement.  the only people that are truly wound up over OWS (pro and con) seem to be cable news watchers and bored people who spew bizarre hyperbole on message boards.  I’m college educated, and read a fair amound of matter in the newspapers and the blogs…both sides.   And, strangely, I just don’t care.  Of course, I don’t watch cable news, and i only read comments sections for the same reason people slow down at traffic accidents.

    I’m going back to work. 

  • Anonymous

    What a brainless dishonest comment, but normal for a FOX bot. I’d like to say your brain power declined but that is an assumption. Maybe your Nazi cell was campaigning for Obama, but the idea of Nazis seriously supporting a party full of Jews, Blacks, women etc is mindless rubbish that is unbelievably silly to say the least!
    All that Nazi said was that the JEWISH bankers caused it all, no one in the OWS wanted or welcomed his support

  • Anonymous

    Up twinkles Greg!
    Way to win the argument by demonstrating your superiority by calling out someone else’s profanity and ad hominems!
    I bet you never stoop so low, do you?

  • Anonymous

    Up twinkles Greg!
    Way to win the argument by demonstrating your superiority by calling out someone else’s profanity and ad hominems!
    I bet you never stoop so low, do you?

  • Anonymous

    1) They did not belong to the Democratic Party
    2) They left that party decades ago to be with morons and bigots like you on the right
    3) Your GOP heroes almost passed a resolution in Mississippi this year honoring the KKK’s founder
    Any more FOX level rubbish you want to share?

  • Anonymous

    Many of his columns. It’s run of the mill stuff, it never impressed me.

  • Anonymous

    Is he not a professional pundit and complainer himself? YES!

  • Anonymous

    FOX’s people were working with the tea parties. or forming their own,  to organize rallies, how much more collaborative can you get?

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

    Never profanity.  I do become a bit uncivil with two people.  Gordon Bloyer (he attacked another posters children on Christmas morning) & Gloves Donahue/ Big Eddie/ Apostrophe Jones/ Steve Grammatico (he works for Breitbart and attacks others in vile ways).   

    I try to argue well… but allow myself to show public dislike for those who most deserve it.  

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

    Never profanity.  I do become a bit uncivil with two people.  Gordon Bloyer (he attacked another posters children on Christmas morning) & Gloves Donahue/ Big Eddie/ Apostrophe Jones/ Steve Grammatico (he works for Breitbart and attacks others in vile ways).   

    I try to argue well… but allow myself to show public dislike for those who most deserve it.  

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

    Never profanity.  I do become a bit uncivil with two people.  Gordon Bloyer (he attacked another posters children on Christmas morning) & Gloves Donahue/ Big Eddie/ Apostrophe Jones/ Steve Grammatico (he works for Breitbart and attacks others in vile ways).   

    I try to argue well… but allow myself to show public dislike for those who most deserve it.  

  • Anonymous

     Good Lt, you’re proving my point, thanks!

  • Anonymous

    Is that the best you can come up with? Another FOX web-bot on auto post

  • Anonymous

    Up twinkles!
    We sure got them Tea Baggers on the run!
    The Contards have lost New York City! Woooohooooo!

  • Anonymous

    You avoided my question in your reply, which is your way of agreeing with me. You only like him because you agree with him.

  • Anonymous
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  • Anonymous

    Wow, that is so breathtakingly slanderous stupid and dishonest, all in one sentence. Good work FOX-bot!

  • Anonymous

    Yup they are all Nazis and Commies who hate America, lets show them what god fearing freedom loving Christians we are by stomping, shooting and jailing all those dirty hippies. God I so love FOX and their mouthpieces like Sowell!

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    Delusional. But, why should this matter be different for you?

  • Rio

    I believe you watch more FOX than those you are calling “FOXbots”….otherwise how could you honestly and intelligently determine that?  Or are you simply aping  run of the mill lefty speak?    And, all this worry about the intelligence of others, why are you so concerned?….. that’s so common with the left, a condescending bunch that has no reason to be, such snobs?  It’s an obvious bit of projection, and so far you haven’t held your own in the back and forth you’ve engaged in.  You obviously fear being found out, and find out, indeed we have……..with your help, of course

    BTW, both parties have Jews, blacks and women, it must be the message thingy.

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    It fits in well with a FOX “News” mindset, doesn’t it? Primary source materials are seldom used. Little real reporting. Survey a few rightist blogs. FOX “News” is essentially a television Drudge Report.

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    TruDat and the other nincompoops seems to have forgotten the Great Trek of the Northeast and West Coast from Republican to Democratic and the converse in the South beginning in 1964. I suppose it is more tolerable for them to do so even if far less honest.

    By the way, Tollbooth Perry is considering a Confederate vanity plate, against unanimous Democratic opposition in Texas, a state which had little involvement in the actual Civil War.

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    What is that cite, again?

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    You idiotic drama queen! Rome did not burn. Very little of the city was even affected. Why must you persistently misrepresent everything? You’re very dishonest.

  • Rio

    You are exaggerating and your imagination has gotten away from you, if anyone is undoing themselves “in spectacular fashion,” that would be those down in Manhattan and a number of other cities across the globe. Everytime you attempt to pass the blame, they will rise up and do something ignorant, and, that’s where “viral” is extremely effective, too bad for this latest ill thought out movement.

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    I’ve been telling her that for months. Her decline has been steep and dramatic. The hinges are about to fail her.

  • Anonymous

    I’m not a huge fan of Obama, but if you’re going to slam him, you may want to get some of the facts straight.   By bailing out the Unions, are you trying to get a combo shot off the Auto industry bailout? Because other than that, I don’t see how you’re getting that one.  Also, the stimulus was 800 billion, not a trillion, and no it didn’t keep unemployment under 8 percent, but it did keep it under 13 percent, which it would potentially have been without it.  

    Each president takes in more corporate donations than his predecessor, Bush topped Clinton.  It’s an indictment of the very thing the OWS are largely about – The Corporate take over of the goverment.  You just made a point for what you claim to be against. 

    And finally, if you think Obama quadrupled the deficit, you live in the right wing bubble.  Try linking to any respected news source depicting that fact.

  • Rio

    Wow! that oughta put him right in his place, ya got him quaking now Greg, now go for the knock-out.

    Acuse him of a dangling participle or something equally as vicious…ew, ew, I got it, you can  accuse the Good Lt. of a run on sentence.  You are up for it, go, Greg,  go!

    Kick him when he’s down!  Show all that hidden nasty you got!

  • clever

    It does not matter how the news potrays them anyone who is not Libtarded can tell they are a bunch of lazy hypocritical racists with nothing but trust funds and apparently good drugs going for them and did I mention they are useful idiots who are the most rascist disgusting nasty ass people even for libtards.

  • Anonymous

    Is this an auto-generated comment? Because you keep repeating yourself!

  • clever

    Once the message becomes clearer and louder what are you going to do? Continue to call them crazy?
    Well when that happens you will call them crazy unless you are deaf,dumb,and retarded.I will go with retarded.

  • Anonymous

    How much of Sowell’s work have you read?
    How much of Sowell’s work have you read?
    How much of Sowell’s work have you read?
    How much of Sowell’s work have you read?
    My brain’s stuck, blam blam blam!

  • clever

    Dont turn on rush libtard you will miss your double dose of Wierd Al Sharpton with hi 1st grade education.

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

    “Pass the Blame”?  The financial industry innovated a set of unregulated financial products that extracted huge sums from the economy while setting the stage for a wider collapse.  A protest movement has belatedly emerged that places the blame appropriately.  By labeling them as the proto Nazi fruition of anti capitalist indoctrination the right risks losing any existing credibility.  

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

    @ Rio

    You lack the skill of concision.  Your point more easily made with far fewer words.

  • Goonah

    Then maybe they should carry guns, teabags and a few copies of Lee Greenwood’s greatest hits.

    Would they be “patriotic Americans” then?

  • Anonymous

     Sorry but it was your pal, the Bad Lt. who was running his mouth about the Nazis, so take it up with him. As well as you can shove your partisan double standards. Finally, the over whelming majority of blacks, a large majority of Jews and women track Democratic, so if you want to defend that putz’s Nazi comment, then you deserve to be slammed yourself!

  • clever

    Maybe cause he was crazy?yeah just maybe he was the normal for all you nasty ass libtards.You love lumping in the tea party with a bunch of bullshit made up stories that could not be proved even with rewards for proof put up.Now we have you nasty ass people doing nasty stuff with a bunch of trailer park trash libtards supporting them and you say maybe one guy is crazy.

  • clever

    You are the party of racist like it or not you prove it every day with the race card and now everyday with your trailer park trash ows

  • clever

    Learn to read and it would make sense what are you on a speak and write computer.

  • Rio

    Whoa, two in a row, I can hear Greg’s dinner conversation tonight as he relates his big day…”then I told the Good Lt. and then I told Jason”  then he raises his head with his nose slightly off to the left, with lips pursed.  Don’t we all wish we could be there?

  • NadePaulKuciGravMcKi

    OWS beware the divide and conquer

    learn from each other
    and teach each other
    keep an open mind

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

    Your fantasy serves what larger purpose?

  • Anonymous

    “bluhbluhbluhbluhbluh” “my daughters education is 60k a year” “bluhbluhbluhbluhbluh the millionaires and billionaires will just move their money out of country if they get squeezed”. That’s about all you really need to hear out of this pathetic conversation. I’ll save you the time.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_XEFRKNJR6WJ5WQ6KNPH2OEY2LU Antonio

    Yeah, I missed that one – can you point it out?

    Wait before you lie again, her is a link to Politifact which shows that President Obama kept his promise of extending tax cuts for those making less than $250,000.

    http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/obameter/promise/37/extend-the-bush-tax-cuts-for-lower-incomes/

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_XEFRKNJR6WJ5WQ6KNPH2OEY2LU Antonio

    That is a very simplistic way at looking at the entire financial situation.

    I

  • Anonymous

    Where was the Tea Partiers when Bush was spending trillions of our tax dollars on a war based on lies or the unconstitutional patriot act. They were the first ones to jump at the idea of spending money on a war based on lies and they gladly “gave up their liberty for security.” Your party is to blame just as much as the Dems when it comes to spending and the increase in the size of government. They were just as much in bed with corporations too, remember Cheney ‘s secret meeting with the energy companies? Cheney’s ties to Halliburton? Bush family ties with the Saudi oil cartels? Bush family ties with the Bin Laden’s?etc.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_XEFRKNJR6WJ5WQ6KNPH2OEY2LU Antonio

    Is this going to be the full extent of your rebuttal?

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_XEFRKNJR6WJ5WQ6KNPH2OEY2LU Antonio

    It doesn’t matter if he read it because Glenn Beck told him that Marxism is RESPONSIBLE for more deaths than anything else.

    Forget about the human being and their lust for power – it was Marxism.

  • Gwydion75

    A) Tuitions are high because of the government subsidized student loan program. If everyone “has the money” to pay, then there’s no downward pressure on the price of the good/service being paid for.

    B) Pay your loans back. It doesn’t matter who/what did what to whom. You borrowed and spent the money, you snivelling shit. Pay it back or you’re morally bankrupt. Doesn’t matter if you spent it on beer bongs, blow-up dolls, ivy league school, or a Camaro. Pay it back, or you have no case in any discussion about principles.

    C) Corporations control the government because “progressives”, (ie, people who ignore the constitution) continue to give the government power it should not otherwise have. This creates a marketable product for those who can afford it to purchase. Power.  And they have.  If all the state could do was make earwax, corporations wouldn’t try to buy earwax production capability from them. There’s no profit in it.  You’ve expanded its power, and are surprised people are userping it. Get over it. Solve the problem by reducing the scope and size of our disasterous and bankrupt (in every way) government.

    D) What is “Fair Share”?  How much more should we be expected to pay to the other 99% for the mere benefit of having been born in this country (same as them) and the “honor” of working hard and making smart decisions with our capital?

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_XEFRKNJR6WJ5WQ6KNPH2OEY2LU Antonio

    I read this bit of swill from Mr. Sowell which states that basically poor people through the Community Reinvestment Act were responsible for the world wide financial crisis.

    It doesn’t take a genius or research professional to figure out that Mr. Sowell is a liar.

    http://townhall.com/columnists/thomassowell/2009/02/18/upside_down_economics/page/full/

  • Rio

    Still, with all the help trying to develop their message, you still don’t have a coherent message, or are you attempting to clean up the message after the cat’s already out of the bag?

    How in the world would anyone get the impression the protesters are againt capitalism:

    American’s against Capitalism . Occupy Wall Street

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

    Perhaps captioned photos from the around the world protests:

    Occupy Wall Street Global Photos   15 October 2011, Day 29

    http://cryptome.org/info/ows-16/ows-16.htm

  • Anonymous

    Yea the ones speaking out about getting ripped off by the banks to the tune of one trillion dollars – they are the idiots. 

    The people quietly accepting the fact they were robbed blind and the government has not made a single indictment and ‘accidentally destroyed’ evidence against the banks’ – those people are brilliant right?

  • Gwydion75

    Antonio, it would appear as though you’re suggesting YOUR vote is being determined by Fox and Limbaugh, which implies you have no principled thought of your own on the matter, unshaken by media talking heads as you’ve so quickly labelled an entire half of the country that disagrees with your “side”.

    The clip above shows Obama repeatedly and unequivicobly rallying the working class against “the rich”. He’s the one that coined the term “Private Jet Owners”. Stop targeting “sides”. It shows your argument is nothing but an empty vessel, much like those on the street out there who would disappear in a heartbeat if they had a meaningful job. Jobs that can’t be created with printed money. Real jobs.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_XEFRKNJR6WJ5WQ6KNPH2OEY2LU Antonio

    Wow, you are stupid, blind and deaf.

    I am sure you’re also on the government dole because you obviously cannot function in the real world in your current condition.

    And to blow your stupid argument out of the water …..

  • Anonymous

    Q: “How Do These ‘Incoherent’ Occupy Wall Street Protesters Get Their Crazy Ideas?”A: It used to be called”reefer madness” – but today it’s what passes as usual behavior for lunatic-left d-cRAT socialists (with the same cause, of course.).

  • Rio

    Antonio, cigarette taxes were raised, tanning bed taxes were incorporated, then there are those pesky fees that are actual taxes and regulations also come with a price.  And, the spending.  Apparently the tea party people had figured out that all that spending is going to have to be paid for.  You know, the quadrupling of the three Obama FY deficits that grossly added to the debt?

    Where were the protests when Bush was spending?  His Congress was voted out of power, the protest was at the ballot box…..then the democrats spent like they hit the lottery, hence, the rise of the tea party movement.  The powers that be ignored the message so, the powers that be lost the House and will lose the Senate in the November of 2012 election.

  • Rio

    What’s a “Commanist” Party? 

  • Anonymous

     If the Dems were serious about becoming the official
    anti-capitalist/anti-corporate/anti-constitution party then they should
    make a pledge to accept no contributions from corporations or
    individuals with a net worth over $1Million. Let’s see it Dem Party. Are
    you on the side of the people or the powerful.

    Of course,
    there’s a better chance of monkeys flying out of my butt, but the Dems
    are on a colossal FAIL mission right now. Perhaps this is the moment
    when Sparky McPeaEater officially drives the stake through the Dem
    Party’s heart.

  • Anonymous

    did you ever see the guy in the bubble on Real Time?

  • Angelo R. Mozilo

    It is amazing that Ass Man is still around. Other than WSJ edit page and the Fox afternoon space-filler he’s done nothing. Really a sterling reflection on the qualified world of journalism; where’s he rank in the power grid?

  • Rio

    The only part of my comment that had  to do with Nazis was in response to YOUR claim the Nazis would be unlikely to support a party with Jews, blacks and women in it.  It matters not how many Jews, blacks and women are in either party, it’s doubtful they would tally the numbers, it’s what party best matches their ideology is where their support lies, and on that, they have spoken.

    As far as me taking anything up with the Good Lt., there’s no need, your spin might make you dizzy, but I’m just fine and you know what I was getting at and dodged or blinked, whatever.

  • Guest

    Honey, liberals don’t watch him either.  Nobody take that boy seriously.  Kind of like Glenn Beck; that boy’s a little special himself.  LOL

  • Rio

    No, I don’t, my point was concise.  How’s that concision for ya?

  • Rio

    I really don’t think of it as fantasy.  I believe. lol

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Dronetek-Bulk-Vanderhuge/100000918732763 Dronetek Bulk Vanderhuge

    “ On MSNBC, the protesters are heroes”

    The entire MSM (ABC, CBS, NBC, MSNBC, CNN, PBs, NPR) is treating them as heroes. Nice try on the 1 to 1 false equivalency though.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Dronetek-Bulk-Vanderhuge/100000918732763 Dronetek Bulk Vanderhuge

    Where were all the Mediaite stories in defense of the tea party? Instead what we saw was Mediaite attempting to smear them just like the OWS loving mass media. 

  • Rio

    It wasn’t just the right that has referred to them as anti capitalist, protesters in this group have made such remarks and newspapers around the world are reporting it that way.  Surely you don’t think the newspapers in Italy, Germany, etc. are all right wing.  Or, how about the world wide  photographers who took these photos?  must have been right wingers that captioned them, eh?

    http://cryptome.org/info/ows-16/ows-16.htm

    I do find it interesting that recent talking points are pushing against the anti capitalist message, after a month has passed, that’s not what was being said in the beginning.  Now that the movement has gained some journo/lib co-opters…. advisers, the protesters may have been convinced their early message was not suitable….that it should be  broadened/changed  to appeal to a larger audience.  Something that would allow democrats to be able to jump onboard.  Kind of like laying a new foundation to rebuild after the house burned down.

  • Manexists

    Sowell and the libertarians have had answers for decades and been laughed at.  Now all of sudden “occupy wallstreet” wants an award for just asking questions even though it has no education or ideas.  When the election comes, they’ll vote for whoever offers the biggest steak.  They have no solutions.  Just watch, this movement will lead to bigger government, lower living standards, and more allegiance to the UN.

  • Rio

    The fact that anything burned, store front windows broken, etc. does not represent this movement well.  Nothing like that happened in the tea party protests.

    I swear, you clowns jump on Michelle so frequently you must have fallen arches by now, your orthopedic shoes should be a real turn on.

  • Anonymous

    Assman is the biggest duchebag is the history of TV news.

  • Tim Tebow

    Coherent message: economic justice.

    Any questions?

  • Tim Tebow

    FBN provides the tape of Obama suggesting that the rich should not escape fair taxation and claims he’s instigating OWS. But why not also provide the identical words “the rich should pay their fair share” that also came out of uncle Ronnie Reagan’s mouth?

    To Sowell, antebellum slaves were whiners, and the slave owners were ‘job creators.’

    Love those softball questions, too…

  • Rio

    Just what would that be, Tebow?  Would that be the Justice Department going after who? the same executives that the O admin allowed to have the big bonuses after they were bailed out?  How about economic justice for the auto industry shareholders whose investments were taken from them by this administration? and given to the unions, was that economic justice?

    How about not allowing a profit margin, everyone is paid the same, is that economic justice?  You think we have multinational companies now that chose to operate on foreign soil.

  • Tim Tebow

    How about addressing the ever-growing gap between the rich and the poor?

    Do you dispute this?

    How about a public ownership stake in those banks we bailed out? How about a consumer protection agency that has real teeth and power–and not subordinate to corporate power?

    How about every citizen is guaranteed a basic union membership that can’t be renounced? How about making health care delivery the primary role of the health care industry–not profit making.

    How about REMOVING money from campaigns and stopping lobbyists from underminig democracy. How about a FIXED election period? How about rejecting the “money is speech” scam? How about REAL campaign reform?

    How about working towards establishing a world-wide minimum wage that corresponds to each national economy so that labor is not exploited and there is a race to the top, not bottom?

    How about a tightly regulated financial industry that rewards conservative, moderate growth over the sort of risky practices of 2008 and before?

    How about questioning the value of the short-term quarterly profits of Wall Street and replacing them with a long-term approach? How about  rewarding  fiscally responsibile companies that address the various externalities associated with every business–enivrionmental degradation, waste, obesity, etc?

    How about establishing a system that benefits the many over the few?

    And telling me it can’t be done is a LIE.

  • Anonymous

    Hilarious how you complain about “softball” questions to a guy who’s not even an elected official, and is on TV like once every six months.

    The hardest question Obama’s ever been asked by anyone in his entire coddled little life is “So what does Joe actually do anyway?” by some intern on his first day.

    Anyway even if Thomas Sowell did waste his time going on MSNBC or something they’d just be forced to resort to talking over him or accusing him of being an “uncle tom” because there’s no way any of their “hard ball” questions would touch him.

  • Michelle

    Nice try, but no dice. Those were random posters and not and official KKK position.  Here, let me help you:

    “Our Associates, members and supporters are here officially ordered: NOT
    to attend Tea Party events or support them in ANY way,” writes the
    Klan. “The Tea Party does not represent any but a shallow limited
    political agenda, which fails to serve our Nations interests.

    It sucks when you can’t back up your smears, don’t it!

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

    Yeah, Sowell and Asman come off as so “smug” because they’re right. The protesters are incoherent because they’re claiming they want change, but they can’t actually name anything they want to change because it’s more of the same failed policies that have been dragging down Europe for quite some time and America in the past couple years.

  • Anonymous

    The TPM and OWS are not the same, no matter what Mediaite says.  Thomas Sowell, who I would call the most famous living economist, is right to judge the OWS on their merits:  Rampant drug use, sex in public, and mass arrests.  You do not get that at a TPM protest.  Smug?  How about rational.

  • AliveStillKickin

    WOW!!….That is one tough intern.
    Did he get an answer?
    I would be interested in knowing what Joe does too.

  • AliveStillKickin

    Try “spell check”….douchebag.
    Libtards…..LOL!!!

  • Anonymous

    Pablo, we already know you’re a liar, but you also know this tax issue is a lie yourself. You think that little of your low Q’s living in the “tea bubble”, that you try to sneek it by your own minions! You know as well, there was “no” increase. Keep the spin alive!

  • Anonymous

    I’m voting for Ron Paul btw.

  • Hagen619dj

    Why if they did lower government spending the babies wouldn’t be able to stand in line for their ritual handouts. Paying attention to the constitution  is just out of the question unless it benefits the demos.Get Obama out of bed with special interests and just let that guy spend all he wants. Take care of the idiots with supplying fed. monies for abortions. I could go on and on but I’m tired and getting off this one-sided commentery.  Every story line has to do with the Occupy protesters. They are really a sore in the side of people who can’t figure them out.  Good grief, isn’t there other stories that could be captioned for interest. And the wonderful Morning Joe…why he’s a saint that just knows what he is talking about and shouldn’t be discredited.  Then bring up all the comedian’s who have their own shows.  Oh, yes, they are sooooo important.  Oh, ya, lets by all means take money from the rich and give it to the lazy bums who can’t make their own cause you all know that they owe it to the poor.  What a bunch of crap. Obama is good, let’s all bow down and worship the dude….he’s so wonderful. And those bad bad bad bad Tea Party people.  Why they stand for all the junk written above…how dare they.  Incredible!!!

  • guest

    Yea i recognized that guy right away, they say he has problems or some sort, you can sometimes hear him near the media tent during live streams rambling about random things.

  • Sppalmelot

    WTH?!   What message?! That is exactly what conservatives are talking about! You spent five lines to say NOTHING! They mature? Into what, from what? You just spout out bits of rhetoric and then sit back with a smug little self pleasing smile on you face as if you actually put together a coherent point. They have no message other than lets sit around, keep working people from doing their jobs, take what isn’t ours and demand that other people support us. That is what their actions say. As for them actually communicating a message, PLEASE be so kind as to provide me with some examples of a message. 

  • Anna23

    I don’t understand what would be socialist’s and marxist think they will get out of these types of government.No one win’s and prosper’s except the ‘ruling’ elite’.Everyone is poor and is without. Also everytime a country has changed their republic with socialism/marxism..million’s of innocent lives are lost.Are ppl. that decieved to think the government will create wealth for them? That they will escape the gulags and trynanny? Can’t they see the very countries currently socialistic are collasping under the weight of providing for their ppl.?

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