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Shocker: Occupy Wall Street Protesters Do Not React Well To Occupy Wall Street Job Fair

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Derek and John Tabacco, the founders of the Free Wall Street Now movement, appeared as guests on Your World With Neil Cavuto Monday, just moments after wrapping up the first Occupy Wall Street job fair. With 400 jobs across various levels of employment being offered, the Tabacco brothers deemed it, “an exciting day,” before revealing some of the actions taken by the protesters to drive them away.

“A small faction of them surrounded us,” Derek said. “They started throwing bird seed at our feet. They kind of disrupted us a little bit.” The group numbered about 50 or 60, Derek explained, and the birdseed was used to attract a storm of pigeons to their area.

“Occupiers were getting ornery,” John added, noting that they had to shut the job fair down early because protesters were swearing at them, yelling in their faces, and spitting on them. “They got kind of pissed off about it,” he said.

RELATED: Mediaite Interviews Derek And John Tabacco: The Faces Of The Anti-Occupy Wall Street Protests

Cavuto played two clips of Occupy protesters, asking what they thought about the job fair. One man believed the job fair was trying to “undercut” the movement, while another said he was too busy working the OWS kitchen to find a paying job. Although the brothers said they got a positive response from people who had come by, hearing about the job fair, none of the occupiers in Zuccotti Park wanted to hear about the job opportunities, even though many of the protesters the Tabaccos encountered during their first anti-protest told them they couldn’t find jobs, and that was why they were protesting.

“We’re out there trying to do something positive, and not one occupier came over to us and handed in a resume,” John explained, “It kind of shows that their argument is disingenuous.”

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  • Anonymous

    You want me to wha wha wha…………WORK ?!?!?!?

  • Anonymous

    More proof that OWSers are just work-averse libs wanting a govt handout.

  • Anonymous

    The movement isn’t about working for their earnings, its about those who did work and make money being forced to GIVE money to those who have less.  Its the same thing Obama has been saying almost constantly the past couple of years.  I feel sorry for the lemmings.

  • Anonymous

    OWSers, what a bunch of wanna be phonies, I guess it’s hard to be a victim and hold down a job, thanks Owebumbles, just what we need more victims.

  • http://twitter.com/TheMorningSpew The Morning Spew

    The OWSers have a big name celebrity who has endorsed their movement. He will surely add a boost to their waning movement.
    http://themorningspew.com/2011/12/13/bob-cratchit-joins-occupy-wall-street/

  • http://twitter.com/pakattak natey p excello

    Hah. These two dudes with their shit eating grins really think they’d get anything but scorn by baiting and dividing protesters? It’s a stunt just so they can get a rise out of people.

  • Anonymous

    No, the movement is about a system that tilts heavily toward the rich, helping them get richer as the middle class gets poorer. CEO salaries (and prices) have risen to astronomical rates, while the wages of the working man have remained stagnant. But you knew that, you just wanted to hurl insults at those you feel are beneath you. Meanwhile, I have a feeling you’re sitting at home collecting your social security check or your disability check, propping up candidates like Gingrich and Romney who would gladly burn your bones for firewood, yet you call those who are trying to fix an obviously broken system, lemmings. Hmmm. 

  • Anonymous

    Who would wannabe a phony? But I gotta say, “Owebumbles”. Now THAT is brilliant satire. Are you a professional writer, or is it just a hobby?

  • Anonymous

    The protesters are scum. Pure & simple.

  • Pablo

    Finally! We’ve gotten to the core Occupy all Street message: “We may be adults, but we can still throw tantrums! Gimme my damn candy!!!”

  • Pablo

    That system is called Freedom. You can move from class do class. People do it all the time. But if you want to move up, you have to WORK. And therein lies the problem. 

  • Pablo

    Hiring people is just a stunt? Well, maybe it is if you’re trying to hire people who aren’t interested in working.

  • Anonymous

    If your premise were true I’d more likely support the movement since protecting entitlements by raising taxes is a core issue for liberals.   I work for a living and think those who are able to work (and need to work) ought to work, instead of raising my taxes so they can leech public funds, such as for free education – what a croc!  There are millions of hard working americans who didn’t have the opportunity to go to college, free or otherwise.  Some people have to work for a living.  Before giving the entitlement class free education how ’bout making it so all citizens have the opportunity to pay for college instead?

  • Anonymous

    son, I saw you at that event. You were the one carrying the sign that said; “Will not work for food.”

  • Anonymous

    And if you can’t work, you can just post comments on Mediaite all day long with your Herman Cain avatared profile.

    America. Love it or leave it.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_76F7SAA3N35X4IBY5BGVQML2YM James

    OWS = idiots.

  • http://twitter.com/pakattak natey p excello

    No you didn’t. Why would you lie about that?

  • http://twitter.com/pakattak natey p excello

    These are people who are openly derisive about the OWS movement. Why would anyone involved accept anything from them? 

    It’s basically the same thing as a left-winger going to a Tea Party rally and getting signatures for the impeachment of Obama, but (and this is in the fine print) not because of his policy but because he’s black. He would then turn it around and say “See? Tea Partiers don’t actually care about the government, they’re just racists.” It’s not actually supporting the cause, it’s making fun of them. 

    So of course no one would accept anything from them. It’s basically playing the game of people who hate you.

  • http://twitter.com/pakattak natey p excello

    If only hard work were the only solution.

    Did you know that in the 1980s, it was possible to pay off your college tuition by working a minimum wage job part-time during the semester and full time during holidays? And have enough left over to help pay for rent?

    When I was growing up, people told me again and again and again “GO TO COLLEGE, GET AN EDUCATION, GET A JOB”. And I did. And I’m in a mountain of debt. 

    I got a job right out of school, thank god, but a lot of my peers weren’t so lucky. A lot of them are stuck. They’re starting to move back in with their parents and working fast food jobs. 

    It’s sort of ironic in that we were promised a world of success if we followed the advice of our elders, and it was those same elders who fucked things up for us.

    People say they got where they are via hard work, but now-a-days hard work alone isn’t enough.

  • http://twitter.com/pakattak natey p excello

    Oh yeah, and I’m not your son. 

  • http://twitter.com/TheMorningSpew The Morning Spew

    Break out the EPI pen!  Everyone knows that OWSers are allergic to work.

  • Moderate

    That was before every college kid had to have the latest Iphone, Ipad and Ipod.There was a time when college was 5 days per week and you worked at Ihop on the weekends.

  • Pablo

    Or, I can do both! God Bless America!

  • Pablo

    That’s because college tuition has gone through the roof.

    Whoever promised you success lied to you.

  • Pablo

    Because having a paying job is more important that throwing a tantrum. And then, instead of trying to get a job, they can go back to complaining about not being able to get a job.

  • http://twitter.com/pakattak natey p excello

    And minimum wage didn’t follow.

  • http://twitter.com/pakattak natey p excello

    You didn’t get my post, did you?

    These guys aren’t actually interested in getting these people jobs. If they were, they wouldn’t have antagonized the protest beforehand. Instead, they piss em off, then offer jobs. And of course people will reject them. Not because they don’t want jobs, but because the people offering them are assholes!

  • Anonymous

    Don’t be too sure about that.
    I am betting that your Mom doesn’t even know who your father is.

  • Anonymous

    Why a job fair for Wall Street human debris?
    I mean….Would YOU hire any of these pigs?

  • Anonymous

    I am wondering what your friends majored in?  Perhaps a little research on their part may have yielded a degree which led to a job?  The Military is looking for officers-it’s always an option.  The world owes you/them nothing.  Because you/they took advice from oldsters, rather than doing your/their own research, reflects poorly on you/them.  Perhaps the liberal arts degree accompanied by mega partying did not get you/them what you wanted, well, get over it…..

  • Anonymous

    The best way to get rid of the ows protestors is to offer them all jobs!!

  • Pablo

    Yes they are. They want them out of the streets. The Occupods say they want jobs, they brought job openings.

    So…you’d turn down a job because you don’t like the recruiter? And then you’d bitch about not having a job, right?

  • Anonymous

    This should be proof that the OWS idiots have no desire to change anything but to increase the amount of handouts that they receive.

  • Anonymous

    Shows them up for the phonies they really are. “What – work?  Me? ”

    I guess they never meant to be taken seriously.  And the good old Mainstream Media fell for it, as usual…LOL!

  • Anonymous

    So offering the supposed “unemployed” jobs is baiting them?  That’s more than Obama or any Union thug has done for them.

    How would you or anyone know if it was just a stunt?  No one took them up on their offer of jobs.  I suppose because they were clean and wore suits, they must be  baaadddd.

  • Anonymous

    The entire Occupy Movement was a stunt!!

  • Anonymous

    Did any left-wing nuts actually do that at a Tea Party Rally?  And if so, it must have truly been a stunt, according to your description of events.  I sure never heard of it.

    These guys were not pretending.  I guess no good deed goes unpunished.

  • Anonymous

    Now where do you get the idea, or the information that they did anything – other than offer jobs to people – that was antagonistic to the OWSers?  Nothing in the story above indicates that the Tobacco Bros. did anything to piss off the protesters, other than dress neatly.  That must have been it – they were clean!  By golly, what an insult!

    “With 400 jobs across various levels of employment being offered, the Tabacco brothers deemed it, “an exciting day,”

  • Anonymous

    They said they have 400 available jobs and at the time if this interview, they haven’t placed ONE person.

    Of course this is a stunt.  You can;t really be this stupid…

  • Anonymous

    You didn’t even watch the FoxNews clip.

    “Now where do you get the idea, or the information that they did anything
    – other than offer jobs to people – that was antagonistic to the
    OWSers?  Nothing in the story above indicates that the Tobacco Bros. did
    anything to piss off the protesters, other than dress neatly.  That
    must have been it – they were clean!  By golly, what an insult!”

    Meadiaite’s “story” is not a news report, it’s a summery of an interview that a media outlet felt worthy or entertaining enough to make public.

  • Anonymous

    They claim people DID take them up on their job offers and they don’t know if they found a single person a job out of 400 available.

    You teabaggers are guilable foolish fools.  You’ll believe any bullshit as long as it supports your hate.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/John-Deaux/100001242344256 John Deaux

    Hard work is the solution. I worked through all 4 years of college, raised a son (widower at an early age) and paid for most of my tuition as I went along. I was able to pay back my meager loans 7 months after graduation. My wife finished her Bachelors with no borrowed money, just us scrounging as she went to school. Now these Fleabaggers (OWS) want me to pay for THEIR student loans,,,, sorry, you wanted it, you got it, YOU pay it!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/John-Deaux/100001242344256 John Deaux

    … and you fleabaggers are scared chitless you will actually have to work for a living and pay your own debts!

  • Anonymous

    Yeah, that’s it, you gullible foolish fool, or that’s what you’ve been told to believe and you are more than willing to accept it.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Eddie-Toll/669819514 Eddie Toll

    Working for ten to fifteen dollars an hour is great, if your a spineless slave who would sell ten hours of his life like a whore so he can see a bunch of fat people throw a ball around while drinking a six pack of overpriced beverages.  Have fun calling other people lazy while refusing to ever put yourself on the line for anything chowderhead.

  • Connor Blacksher

    and that is going to get your message across great. 

    Gotta work to get somewhere, everybody has a story of working minimum wage, and if you are above it, then by all means take your college degree (most likely not in spelling) and go create something. 

  • Anonymous

    That is a sad asumption Natey. You dont even know what your talking about.. why post something ignorant. Everybody has a rite to their oppinion however you clearly have no clue. Get your facts straight before trying to be a genius…. I was there also with a shit eating grin..offering my services with good intention offering to speak with anyone looking for a job.. I work in the Staffing industry and help people find jobs everyday.. and honestly the OWS protesters didnt want to hear it.. i even offered a few people a job on the spot and they were not interested.. I really couldnt understand it.. No body got paid for being there. Im all for having a voice and being heard.. and freedom of speech and fighting for your rights.. however the OWS movement is clearly a bad representation of a 1969 Haight-Ashbury /Woodstock reunion.crapping in the streets, living off social services and government funding.. im sure at least 40/% of the movement is collecting Social Security. Why work?

  • Anonymous

    God Bless America

  • Anonymous

    400 is a bit exagerated.. however 230 job openings are more realistic… I know 2 poeple that are interviewing this week that showed up on Monday. Real jobs and they cant be more appreciative.  … .. You should be so stupid.

  • Anonymous

    . I was there offering my services with good intention offering to speak with anyone looking for a job.. I work in the Staffing industry and help people find jobs everyday.. and the OWS protesters didnt want to hear it.. I even offered a few people a job on the spot and they were not interested.. I really couldnt understand it.. No body got paid for being there. Im all for the having a voice, being heard, freedom of speech and fighting for your rights.. however the OWS movement in Zucotti Park is clearly a bad representation of a 1969 Haight-Ashbury /Woodstock reunion and a far cry from any peace movement.
    One of the protesters said “The movement isn’t about people who are whining that they don’t have a job, it’s about fundamentally changing a broken system…..Ofcourse your not whining, your cashing a govmt check every month….How broken would it be if we removed all social and government services to all OWS Protesters??? See how fast they say” Hey you still have that job dudes card?” 

  • Anonymous

    Why on earth would these two publicity seeking stunt douchebags leave their “job fair” early to appear on FoxBusiness and exaggerate their good deeds and belittle the people that they are truly trying to help?

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