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Huh? Diane Sawyer Claims Wall Street Protests Have Spread To ‘Thousands Of Countries’ (UPDATE)

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Guys, the Wall Street protests are huge. How huge? So huge that they’ve spread to hundreds of countries all over the world that don’t even exist!

At least that’s what it appears if we are to believe a fairly goofy gaffe from Diane Sawyer. Last night on World News, Sawyer remarked that the protests had “spread to more than 250 American cities, more than a thousand countries — every continent but Antarctica.” In case you’re curious, the United States government currently recognizes, oh, about 195 countries.

Of course, there could be a simple explanation for this. For all we know there are thousands of different sovereign nations in the animal kingdom. I haven’t stared at the ground too much recently. For all I know there is tons of dissent amongst the world’s ant countries with tons of worker ants throwing down their shackles and protesting against the cruel ant bourgeois.

However, Sawyer could have just made a little mistake, an explanation that’s much more likely as well as much less interesting. Yes, simple verbal flubs are difficult to wring a full post out of.

Which is probably why I just wrote a full paragraph about ants. That and I’ve really been in the mood to rewatch that Woody Allen cartoon movie.

UPDATE: An ABC spokesperson tells Mediaite that Sawyer simply misspoke and corrected herself for later editions of World News in the western time zones. They had little to add about the movie Antz.

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  • rotz

    If the tea Party were called Teabaggers by MSNBC the Occupy nuts should be called
    SCUMBAGGERS!

  • Anonymous

    What… an… idiot…

  • Anonymous

    Diane should be asked if she can name the leaders of just 750 of the countries .

  • Anonymous

    Let’s just stick with stinky hippie…

  • Chayal Boded

    Good grief, is this thing still on tv?

  • Anonymous

    Who said life’s hard on the stupid?  She seems to be doing pretty dang well.

  • TruDat

    Anyone else notice that they film this dried up lefty through a flour sack in an effort to cover up the fact she’s about 120 years old?

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

    Yes, and 99.999999999999% of the world population agrees with Obama on everything and Democrats on everything. And they hate Republicans.

    That’s like, a bazillion people!

    BEHEAD THE RICH!

  • TruDat

    Now . . . imagine Sarah Palin said the same thing.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_A4OJ2F7ADXSD7OMEUUEQDQDZ2Y Dustin Baker

    This promoting of the “Occupy Movement” by the MSM has become such transparent propaganda.  How useless is ABC News?

  • Guest

    Isn’t she another fearful BO supporter?

  • Michelle

    Did a Chicago Protester Admit He’s Being Paid To Occupy Chicago?

    Maybe it’s nonsense. Maybe it’s real.

    Questions of authenticity aside, here are the facts: this
    recently-released video features a protester near what sounds like the
    Occupy Chicago protest claiming that he is being paid $22 an hour (plus
    overtime) to “volunteer” in Chicago (the $22 an hour admission occurs at
    the 2:49 minute mark in the video below).

    That  raises all sorts of possibilities.

    First of all, he could indeed be a paid protester, which raises the question: who is paying him? Additionally, if he is being paid $22 an hour (plus overtime) to protest against corporate greed, are all protesters being paid at that rate?

    And if so, who has pockets deep enough to finance all of this?

    Read more:  http://www.theblaze.com/stories/did-a-chicago-protester-admit-hes-being-paid-to-occupy-chicago/

  • Anonymous

    Stupid, sappy, supercilious Sawyer. Same as always.

  • TruDat

    They’ve got ads for paid protestors on Craigslist.

  • Anonymous

    The limpos would do an SNL skit on Tuesday, and Lebowitz would cavort & caper like a chimp.

  • Anonymous

    Have the protests spread to all 57 States yet?

  • Anonymous

    Does that mean only 00.000000000001% of the worlds population are racists?

    Them damn bitter people who cling to their guns and religion!!

  • Anonymous

    Or anyone who isn’t a Liberal….omg, this would be non stop on all the lame stream networks!!

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_PKEQSTA4WOBYU5Z7QNSBUR2LXI MASSMURDERMEDIA

    the next olympic games are going to be a real clusterfuck…

  • Texan

    Is diane sawyer actually the real royal emperor?

  • Anonymous

    I about fell out of my chair when I heard her lie. You has no clue!

  • Anonymous

    Next, Sawyer will update us on how many planets it has spread to.

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

    Swish!

  • Anonymous

    The term TeaBagger was first used by the Tea Party Themselves in 2009.  Once they realized what that meant, they tried to change it, but the term pretty well stuck. http://www.politicususa.com/en/olbermann-teabagger 

  • Anonymous

    That was a trivial error. She said “countries” instead of “cities”. No biggy!

    Instead, do look the statistical data she quotes in this segment. THAT’s very big a deal!

  • Guest

    What an idiot, Diane is a College Grad, does she not know there are only 180 or so countries in the world?

  • DEFENDER-90

    Call them what they reall are, White Punks On Dope, W.P.O.D.

  • TruDat

    Errors such as this are always nothing when involving a liberal, always something when involving a conservative.  That’s why liberals are known as inherently hypocritical simpletons.

  • SoThere

    One guy said he had a job.  It was to protest at Occupy Wall-street.  $600 a week.  Union dues are paying for it.

    “TMP”

  • SoThere

    To liberals, lies are the truth!

    “TMP”

  • SoThere

    They’re protesting on a planet orbiting “Alpha Centauri” !   Will Robinson told me.

    “TMP”

  • Anonymous

    Lighten up! ;) What moron can be mislead by this error? 1000′s of countries?! Hello!

    The fact is that these protests gain momentum all it’s going global. Perhaps the numbers might help approaching the problem more wisely.

  • Anonymous

    What more evidence do people need to dismiss these biased drones on TV? I realize there are many of them but lets face it we outnumber them. I cannot wait until this corrupt administration is gone then what will the drones on TV do? I hope get in the unemployment lines. Miss know it all ranks with joyless and whoppy now theres the place to be. Hopefully she can go make movies with her husband or join couric on a daytime fiasco as the view. Totally irrelevant is where I hope to see all these elites. Maybe they can all put their heads together and write a book about their hero bho. Shows you how clueless these drones really are.

  • Anonymous

    OMG This is where all the righties are hanging out. Story got ya a little excited did it?…LOL. You guys are fun to read. I have to admit.

  • Anonymous

    Only to any who truely know them.

  • TruDat

    I bet you had the same viewpoint with the Tea Party.

  • Anonymous

    I am not a designer but I know Wall Street is causing
    trouble because of the structure it has evolved into over the past 61 years and
    needs redesigned to separate the investors form the high risk, speculative and
    outright gamblers so as we the tax payers will never need to bail them out
    again. Many Company investors did not need bailed out. They need separated from
    the Gamblers before business picks up again.

    Occupy Wall Street will succeed and America will not
    go broke, if they can manage to divide Wall Street into two separate
    organizations, one being the original Wall Street who handles only first class
    industries which are worthy and paramount in servicing America’s primarily necessities
    of life businesses and secondary, the business serving the States, including
    food, shelter, water, utility and transportation stocks. The Gambling part of
    Wall Street for the high risk investor, speculator and gambler should be moved completely
    out of the same Building and City into a new area hundreds of miles apart to
    signify the difference and to eliminate the contamination to the Real Stock
    Market by the Casino part of the Original Wall Street which was a major part of
    the losses which cause taxpayers to need TARP and nearly bring down our entire
    American Economy along with the Global Economy. Wall Street, the good part and
    the gambling part, created huge losses and huge profits. Medium wages, which
    are slightly inflationary because of their transparency, have a tendency to
    stay low. Profits because of being hidden tend to explode causing
    hyperinflation which will bring down any economy because of the masses, which
    create growth through purchases and consumption are strangled to death as we
    are experiencing today. Only proper design and regulations can keep inflation
    at bay allowing all participants in an economy to stay active and keep the
    wheels turning in the right direction. John Maynard Keynes said; Capitalism cannot
    survive without moderate inflation, but can be destroyed by hyperinflation,
    which is what we have seeing over the past 50 years. Our economy is lucky to be
    still standing. Printing money does not in itself create inflation, the availability
    of money or credit feeds the vultures who profiteer, and plunders’ anything of
    value, be it through war, natural causes, excess profits, or destruction of anything
    of value owned by Businesses, Government or the private citizenry.  Also, idle wealth depreciates and brings no
    profit, lost profits are inflationary, excess profits are inflationary,
    inflation chokes the growth of any economy, regulations need be in effect and
    ever-changing to fine tune any economy. Wall Street is not a dependable source
    to reveal the health of our economy.

    If any of this mumbo jumbo helps you understand Wall
    Street is the biggest part of our problem then help will be on the way.

  • fanofgrendel

    Peter Jennings spins like a top.

  • Anonymous

    Hey, if there can be 57 states, why not 1,000 countries. 

    You think today’s media cares about the truth?

  • http://twitter.com/gadfly666 gadfly666

    99% of Conservatives/Republicans/Tea Baggers also make an average of 31K a year.

    But they all are single issue voters, the single issue usually happens to be abortion, guns, gays, religion etc. So they always end-up voting against their own financial self-interest.

  • TruDat

    I thought all Republicans were rich bullies; you’re getting your talking points mixed up.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_7JDIWI54ZX6QD6AHPOO5MIRD6I SheaK

    You all misunderstand.  How typical of the flamers on the comment boards.
    CLEARLY she was talking about countries from other planets as well as all 57 states.  We are, after all, spending more in deficit by 2015 than there is money in the whole world, so we need to lobby quadrillionaires and octillionaires from countries on other planets like Cestus-5 and Omicron-3 to bail us out next.

    Why are we watching journalists?  We have to verify, independently, every word they say these days.  That would make US the journalists.  In that event, why would we need to watch their stupid programs?  No wonder the blogosphere is growing so quickly.  Any idiot with a keyboard has a better than even chance of being more correct in “making up the news”.

    I’ve acquired a disease called cynicism. There is no cure, at least, not on this planet.  I hold out hope for a miracle cure from somewhere in the Cygna system.

  • RW

    Well done

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_7JDIWI54ZX6QD6AHPOO5MIRD6I SheaK

    She said the protests are in over 150 cities.  Did she also then mean to say they are also in over 1000 cities?  Read the paragraphs surrounding what was said and it simply doesn’t sound any better.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_7JDIWI54ZX6QD6AHPOO5MIRD6I SheaK

    I make my own money, if necessary, by sweat equity. 

    In a country founded on liberty, we do not have the right to violate liberty by helping ourselves to other people’s property.  If you look at the world from a perspective of ‘voting for our financial self-interest’ then you should start defending the record at hand, as it is a liberal record.  We’re dangeously close to too many people thinking they can vote themselves parades and circuses every day, and that’s how democratic and republic systems die.

    So defend the democrat record then:

    Democrats bailed out car companies and doled out corporate welfare by the tanker-full.  The rich are getting poorer (IRS numbers, not made up news stories) and the poor are getting poorer.  How can that be if your world view is consistent?

    The fact is they move together, not apart.  The money in the economy is not static.  You can have your millions without pushing other people lower.  The market, via our banking system which can loan out dollars at 20 to 1 and 30 to 1 ratios is why this can happen.

    If Bill Gates had every single dollar in the US, I could have money.  I’d go get a loan, start a business, and pay back the loan.  Viola!  Bill Gates would no longer have all the money, and he did not give me anything.  In fact, he made money on the loan via our banks.

    Please try to understand our banking system.  Oh, and they’re not welfare institutions or social experiments like Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac have made them, resulting in the housing collaps.  Banks are supposed to care about one thing: the borrower’s ability to repay… not the borrower’s race or their upbringing or their gender or anything else. 

    The dems still haven’t fixed the thing that started this whole thing, mainly because it might implicate them.

  • Anonymous

    Sure I did — at the beginning, i.e. before it became a tool in the hands of GOP!

  • Ccrazyhorz

    It sure is spreading. along with the Oshkosh Motor Truck union contract… Everybody is keeping an eye on that one.. Temporary workers means no insurance, lower wage, and no seniority… and Motor Truck is saying that it isn’t about MONEY…RIGHT, and they dismantled the sweetness of $2000 for the signing bonus,, actually it should of been $5000 bonus, to SWEETEN the pot, but Motor Truck and the CEO is too dam greedy.

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

    I love Progressive blowhardedness :-)

    Occupy Wall Street is spreading across the galaxy!

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/BG77ZKSGY62WBDJO4DP5L3WAXY B G W

    Sawyer made a mistake; no doubt she read a note or telepromter and promptly corrected it.  You need to correct your clearly stuid, sappy, supercilious comment or is that too hard for you?

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/BG77ZKSGY62WBDJO4DP5L3WAXY B G W

    What made it nothing was that she promptly realized she had made the error and immediately corrected it.  Correct yours and people might think better of you too.

  • Bob Uda

    DianeSawyer is an EEE-DEE-OT.

  • Anonymous

    Hey Doofus, the government mandated that the banks take the bailout. You can look it up.

  • Crismahn

    probably only graduated with a degree in journalism

  • http://twitter.com/gadfly666 gadfly666

    Dear SheaK, let me predict the future for you.

    Today, you are like “Joe the Plumber”, conservative, tea-bagger, delusional, making very little money but you dream of becoming a billionaire. You spend all your spare time pushing Republican causes like gutting Medicare and Social Security (those pesky Welfare Programs). Even though your parents depend on these programs but you have convinced yourself that you will not need them because you will make your billions.

    Fast-forward 25 years. You will not be a billionaire. You will be very dependent on these “Welfare Programs”, but these programs by then, thanks to your assist, would have been gutted by the Republicans. You will be in real doo-doo then.

    —–99% of Conservatives/Republicans/Tea Baggers make an average of 31K a year. But they always vote to protect the big corporations and the billionaires going against their own self-interest.

  • Royseagle

    do people really watch abc ,nbc , cbs , or pbs news anymore?

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_2X3LM76QO2XNITDGF5IGDIE7YM T M

    Nope. They used the word teabag when suggesting taxpayers send teabags to their reps. A kind of calling card for the early teapartiers. It was the lib commentators who twisted the term into teabaggers and turned the meaning into a sexual one. Anderson Cooper basically came out of the closet when he said, “It’s hard to talk while you’re teabagging”.

  • WardMD

    Had ANY elected or hopeful Republican (or, worse, anyone on FOX) made such a gaff, every “Main Stream News” outlet would be running that clip in a loop – FOR WEEKS…

    But what can you expect from the party of the President (who thinks there are 57 States)?

    Scary to think that Diana Sawyer (and those who think like her) CAN VOTE!

  • WardMD

    As with virtually EVERYTHING Olbermann says, he’s WRONG!

    “take a teabag, put it in an envelope, and mail it to the White House.”

    Teabag is a NOUN, not a VERB.

    In context, then, “Teabag the Fools in D.C. on tax day.” CLEARLY refers to the act of mailing a teabag to the White House (not the sexual act, so familiar to Liberals – who originate THAT expression [teabagger]).

    But taking things out of context is the trademark of the Liberals.

  • Anonymous

    Wonder if she, too, thinks we have 57 states…

  • http://hotair.com/ StewartIII
  • Jason

    Sure you did, skippy.

    By the way, scrote, the OWS hippy shitheads are bought and paid for by the DNC and those fringe leftwingers who support it.

  • Jason

    You have a lockdown on the welfare slobs. That’s not a voting block that will ever be interested in anything but the handouts your party is willing to handout in return for votes.

    Long after blacks, hispanics, asians and muslims leave your liberal plantation, you will still own the freeloader class. Worry not, kiddo.

  • Anonymous

    I will be sixty next year and she has been around since I can remember.  I guess plastic surgery works, huh!  Sickening Skanky Slut!

  • Anonymous

    C’mon guys.  Cut her some slack.  It was just a senior moment.  After all, she’s 65.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_GWUMDXSUYVXFOVKEDR7OG3SD7A John Doe

    They are the same ones that think Palin and Bachman are dumb. I guess we could tell who the moron is, even if these liberal TV talking heads have teleprompters in front of them.

  • Georgelval

    Thousands of countries in the 18 continents and evey 57 states.

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