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Occupy Wall Street Protester’s Powder Attack On Geraldo Caught On A Lot Of Video

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The ongoing Occupy Wall Street protests continue to produce compelling viral video clips, many of which are related to Fox News. The latest such clip, in which a rainbow-hatted man dumps a bag of powder a source tells Mediaite Managing Editor Colby Hall that it was strawberry drink mix from an MRE) on Geraldo Rivera, functions as something of a Rorschach test, depending on how the viewer feels about the Occupy movement, Fox News, or Geraldo Rivera. It gets a little weird when those prejudices mix. The incident is also noteworthy for its new media-age blanket coverage, as it was captured from several angles.

One version of the incident is the top story over at Glenn Beck‘s The Blaze, posted by Naked Emperor News, who customarily prefers to do all of her commentary in the headline. This one is a mixed bag, proclaiming, “‘We Ended The War In Vietnam’: Geraldo Has Powder Thrown on Him at Occupy Wall Street, Is Threatened With Being Set on Fire…and Still Kisses Up to Crowd When Fox Cameras Are Not Rolling.” (note to NEN: when your headline has to be broken up into chapters, it’s too damn long)

The Blaze‘s video is the longest clip currently available, and while it does show one guy chanting “Fox…liar! Set your ass on fire,” you can see the protesters around Geraldo rolling their eyes. After the man in the rainbow hat dumps the powder on Geraldo (which isn’t all that clear in this video), you can hear the protesters’ overwhelmingly negative reaction to his actions, as they shout, “Who did that? Get him out of here. We don’t do shit like that!”

Listen carefully, though, and you can also hear someone else in the crowd instantly conclude that the powder-bomber is a “Fox News employee” and a “plant.”

Geraldo goes on to advise the protesters, “Don’t let the jerks steal your movement,” then responds to one protester’s declaration (amplified through the OWS “human PA system”), “You work for Fox News, we do not support you,” by relaying his own experience as an anti-war protester in 1969:


Gateway Pundit‘s Jim Hoft declares that Geraldo was “attacked” by “one of the goons” at Occupy Wall Street, and has video of another angle of the “attack,” in which you can also hear protesters apologizing to Rivera:


The folks at the Fire Andrea Mitchell blog just thought it was funny that Geraldo got “powered” by the “protesters,” then “leads them in chants.” Actually, the Occupy Wall Streeters weren’t being led in a chant by Geraldo. They’ve developed a system whereby the crowd repeats what a speaker is saying so that everyone can hear it, in lieu of amplifiers. I’m waiting to see what happens when a speaker sneezes. FAM also points out that Sally Kohn, who has appeared on Fox News, was on the scene, albeit with a heavy dash of homophobia.

Still, the reaction from the crowd wasn’t uniformly Kum Bah Yah, as this third video shows. Although some in the crowd urged the powder-thrower’s removal, this angle shows that the man remained, and got at least some love from members of the crowd:


One major takeaway from this incident is the degree to which blind hatred of Fox News can undermine your legitimate points. Even if you grant that Geraldo was trying to give them a fair shake, the protesters who express distrust of his employer have some foundation for that. Recommending the immolation of, and throwing powder on, Geraldo Rivera undercut that point.

Rivera handled the situation well, and appeared to engage in a productive dialog with the protesters, for which the conservative blogosphere promptly punished him.

The other thing I find fascinating about this relatively mild (thank goodness) incident is that it was captured from so many angles. We are rapidly approaching a time when it will be possible to reconstruct every moment of our lives in Matrix-style bullet time. Even with that kind of omniscient media gaze, though, the essential truth of a moment can still be muddied as easily as ever.

 

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  • Anonymous

    Occupywallstreet=== the kids should have been allowed to fail kindergarten

  • Anonymous

    Puerto Rican senior citizen attacked by unruly mob !

  • my2centshere

    Geraldo and MSNBC are a much better fit. I can easily see a clip with him right next to the Rev. marching for the Alinsky Kids.

  • SammyC

    Geraldo works for rich people who pay rich people to tell the middle class to blame poor people. He’s lucky he’s not Glenn Beck, it would have been far worse. lol

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

    It may surprise many OWS protesters and supporters to know that you are not, in fact, allowed to assault people with any substances or unwanted physical contact, no matter how innocuous you pretend it is and regardless of the self-declared “righteousness” of your cause.

    “It was only powder I assaulted him with” isn’t a defense for assault.

    Thanks.

    -Civilized society

  • Anonymous

    The problem with large protests is that they attract the crazies. That’s what happens when you try to bring everyone along in order to get numbers, and then pretend that you represent everyone. Does anyone recall Teapartiers attacking MSNBC employees? Don’t these protestors know that that the owner of that channel doesn’t pay any taxes, receives billions of dollars from the federal government, and has its CEO at the head of Obama’s jobs council while his corporation ships jobs overseas? It appears that if they are genuine in their advocacy and aren’t a bunch of herded up ideologues, then they are attacking the wrong guys. General Electric’s relationship with the government personifies what these people are rallying about. Its interesting that they will repeat parroted memes, and attack those who disagree with them, apposed to going after those who are guilty of the corruption they are allegedly protesting.

  • Anonymous

    A turd would have been more apropos. 

  • Double Standard much

    So funny if the Tea Party pulled this crap on lets say a CNN or MSNBC reporter the mainstream would be whining non stop about it. The anti jew junk and 9/11 junk has just been ignored by the press. The double standard is just amazing.

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

    They already used the turds crapping on police cars.

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

    The ongoing Occupy Wall Street protests continue to produce compelling viral video clips, many of which are related to Fox News assaults on police, public defecation, vandalism, arrests, and noise pollution.

    Tommy, seriously, I’ll be your editor if you want.

    What does it pay over there at Mediaite?

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

    Ah yes – a representative voice of the lazy ass 99 percenters!  Thank you for your contribution.

    Now, go back to bed – it’s not noon yet!

  • JimR

    Like or dislike Rivera if you have watched him over the years you will know he is
    a tough little shit and not very afraid of any thing!
    I am only sorry he didn’t kick the living shit out of that asshole!

  • Anonymous

    I guess it’s cool when the Tea Party spit on John Lewis and called him the N-Word.

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

    Video link? Thx.

  • Anonymous

    God help me but, God I can’t stand that Geraldo. I stoped watching FOX because of him. Well, that was one of the reasons. No longer get my NEWS from them. Get it on line.

  • Anonymous

    I was up at 5:45am….jackass!

  • RW

    If Tommy Christopher had examined the multiple videos available from that event, Tommy would have reported – it never happened. 

    But of course there is a double standard and Tommy sees what he wants to see, and report.

  • Anonymous

    Too bad that never happened Kool-Aid drinker. And the Occupy Atlanta wouldn’t even let him speak at their rally.

  • Jonathan Cantor

    Was Geraldo lost while looking for Capone’s secret vault again. 

  • Concerned Citizen

    Tommy where is your condemnation of this attack. If this was at a Tea Party event on a liberal (all of the main stream media) reporter you would be screaming about it along with every other network. It is just another sad commentary on the bias of the media on what they choose and don’t choose to show Americans. A lot of the main stream liberal bias is not how they portray a story rather what stories they choose. The left wing media is romanticizing this movement which has been a thousand times more violent, dirty and arrests made than all the Tea Party demonstrations put together, but take a poll and everyone thinks the Tea Party is the problem Great job media!

  • Anonymous

    like usual tommy makes excuses for bad behavior if it is something he supports

  • Concerned Citizen

    Never happened. If it did the $100,000 award from Breitbart would have been claimed, but its just another propaganda report from the libs/dems.

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

    Going potty then back to bed doesn’t count – asshat!

  • Anonymous

    Every day I meet some incredible douche.  Congrats on being Monday. 

  • Anonymous

    They wouldn’t be whining about it, they would be screaming to the heavens about the injustice and pure savagery of the tea party movement as a whole. I rode my bike downtown yesterday, there was a guy front and center holding up a sign that read, “Google=2 Jew Billionaires”. I have been looking all over this morning but haven’t seen any reference to this.

  • Anonymous

    He’s been around.  If not for his often self-promotion he’d probably get more widespread respect.  He’s a liberal, which often gets him in trouble with conservatives, and has blinders on for some social issues – but he’s free to have his opinion.  What many of the protesters (and the ideology of the party they largely represent) can’t seem to accept is others having valid opinions and a voice that doesn’t march lockstep with their own.  The only equivalent on the right I can think of is some religious zealots who think because you don’t subscribe to their beliefs there is something wrong with you.  I don’t mind if legitimate issues arise out of these protests, but the protests themselves and the violent or semi-violent (including bringing bags of poo to shop keepers) individuals who members of the protests are disturbing, and I hope it ends soon. 

  • Republicans are Liars

    It might not be John Lewis but Emanual Cleaver was spit on by the Tea Turds… Here’s the link. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmP4Gb2pEsY 

  • Republicans are Liars

    You are a buffoon. You don’t have a pot to piss in, from a poor southern state that has had a ton of layoff and repossessions and you want to defend the bankers. What a joke you are. Go buy something from Wal-Mart, say your prays and keep wishing the south and won the civil war.

  • RW

    Didn’t you read Tommy’s opening.  He regards this as ‘compelling viral video’.

    If it were a Tea partier – Tommy would consider it evidence of an assault.

  • Republicans are Liars

    Spoken by a public servant wasting tax payer dollars writing crap on the internet when he should be working.

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

    Good thing we got a zillion angles of John Lewis being spit on by the Tea Party.

    I like how we actually have video proof of Geraldo being hatefully attacked but it is just immediately excused as just an outlier to the OWS movement.  Utter hypocrisy.

  • Anonymous

    Fact: I didn’t see him get spit on with this video. Good attempt.

  • Anonymous

    Fact: OWS… Gimme gimme gimmie … I need some more… Gimmie gimmie gimmie I’ll be your government whore!!!!!

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

    I’m not a public servant, and if I were, I’d be disgusted with OWS and how they treat police officers.

    And you never answered my question weeks back:

    Do you pay your employees more than you pay yourself, Liars?

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

    Every stereotype you could possible cram into that ad hominem is in there except for “terrorist.”

    B+

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

    That video shows no such thing.

    Wanna try again?

  • Anonymous

    Can you even imagine the outcry in the liberal media if a tea party attendee had done this to a leftwing journalist?  

  • Anonymous

    Fact: That’s why all of us that work for the governemnt get of the internet and write and surf all day is because the government hires ten plus people to do the job of one private worker and so us nine plus all surf while the one works like a union worker. One works while nine kick back and wait to work when it’s their time!!!!

  • Anonymous

    Dumping it all over Geraldo is no way to make use of hard earned coke.

  • IJustH8theFax

    Fact: My talents as a poet are even lamer than my abilities as a thinker! It’s a fact!

  • Anonymous

    Tommy Christopher:  I see where you’re linking to the Fox and Friends Hiroshima apology story again. 

    Funny…you never responded to the FACT that none other than Jake Tapper reported the same story as Fox and Friends, yet you conveniently ignore that.  Where are your queries to ABC News and Tapper about that?

    http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2011/10/japanese-government-nixed-idea-of-obama-visiting-apologizing-for-hiroshima/

    While Tapper did update his story to include WH “clarification”, he certainly did NOT retract the story.  But I guess when Fox airs the same story, it’s somehow a cause célèbre for you.  Now that’s fair reporting on your part.

  • IJustH8theFax

    Fact: I’m completely unemployable, so I don’t know why I’m even complaining about people who do legitimate work for the government!

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

    You sit there full of righteous indignation that someone calls you out for being an asshole for suggesting that someone should have thrown shit at Rivera.  Quit pouting and understand that you fully deserved the vitriolic commentary you received.  How is it in decent society, that people can’t grasp that they just can’t say whatever the hell they want and not expect to receive the condemnation of people who don’t agree?  You clearly are a supporter of these 99%’ers.

  • Concerned Citizen

    Tommy, are you a coward? You just do a drive by headline and article like this and dont have the balls to debate the issues brought up here by your readers? Explain to us how there is no double standard and how you report down the middle.

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

     The funny thing is that Geraldo IS a left-wing journalist.  This would be like a Tea Party attendee dumping a bag of powder on Pat Buchanan because he appears on MSNBC.  It’s hateful AND it doesn’t make any sense.

  • Anonymous

    Let’s get back to the issue at hand. Is the Occupy Wall Street movement out of control? Support it or hate it?
    http://elovehate.com/Topics/Life/Government/Politics/OccupyWallStreet

  • Concerned Citizen

    Occupy Wall Street = The Teat Party

    As in wanting to suck on the gov’t teat.

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

    Little unhinged today are we?  Your evident hysterics are likely the cause, preventing you from forming complete, cognitive sentences. 

    Congratulations are in order by the way, for your keen insight into my financial position, my shopping habits, and choice of living locations.

    Did pocketbb’s snoring keep you awake last night?

  • SouthernYankee

    Long live ALINSKY. 

  • http://www.facebook.com/pieman420 Aron Kay

    i am the guy who threw the white powder in lieu of a pie at geraldo!!! he is representative of fox which plugs for policies which suck

  • SouthernYankee

    I find that the OWS is scaring the poor little rich children of wall street. Long live their cause.

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

    far fucking out pie man

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

    Speaking of liars.

    Did Brietbart get the videographer his 100 grand yet?

    No?  Well then I guess you are full of shit – again!

  • Obeezy

    What with the lefties, always using other peoples monikers on here to poke fun at people? If you cant even come up with your pwn moniker, than your to dumb to comment on here..Either that or they are just  plan ignorant knuckledraggers… My bet is there angry men who wish they were woman and vice versa

  • S R Karenova

    Fox News has a public relations disaster.This is simply the backlash for the anger and hatred exhibited by Fox News towards Obama and his administration. Roger Ailes should never have gone so nasty trying to discredit Obama hiring people like Glenn Beck and pushing faux scandals such as ACORN, Bill Ayers, and Common the Rapper. He would be wise now not having his network routinely mock and negatively characterize the OWS movement. He is merely going to engender more disapproval of his network by many Americans in the future.

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

    just4thefax – Your dialogue is incomplete.  Between the gimme, gimme’s, you must include sound of snoring and hysterical crying.

  • Gary_falkenberg

    aron is the yippie pie thrower from the 70′s, what took so long

  • Obeezy

    Thatsd because he wishes he was a terrorist… If anyone hates America as much as this puppet, id like to see it

  • Obeezy

    Maybe Tommy is out there doing it also…thats why

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

    Cincinnati Tea Party 2009:
    “Let’s burn her!”
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BZsD2BMTsc

    Tea Party member threatens cameraman with murder:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgec9WX21ik&feature=related

    Camera Women from CNN drowned out:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1Ntu7Aapys

    Tea Party Assault:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXvzYch9Jkg&feature=related

    …But the Tea Party is so much more Civil… they would never act this way!
    http://www.mediaite.com/tv/bill-oreilly-on-wi-protests-the-tea-party-doesnt-shout-anybody-down/

    …Except they do… it’s just funny and convenient for the right to pretend that the left protest is building toward a violence already practiced by the right.  
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENQGaYJeZBo&feature=related

  • Obeezy

    You would love to spit on blacks and woman wouldnt you….Come on, Admit it!!

  • Pablo

    So, I wonder when we’re going to see a post on MSLSD’s collaboration with Occupy DC.

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

    This is a media site, right?

  • Obeezy

    Says the uneployed loser who wants everything given to him for free… How about i come there and throw piss in your face, you pathetic coward… If you had a mother, she would probably die of embarssement….

  • Pablo

    China is on board now too. Yay!

  • Anonymous

    When you’re there Geraldo the crowd is already 1 jerk richer!

  • Pablo

    I don’t even know why you’re commenting. Perhaps you could be busy learning to shine shoes or something.

  • Pablo

    Really? You think they’re afraid they might catch something?

  • Anonymous

    Up twinkles bro!
    Thank you so much for giving Tommy something worthwhile to write about. If he could, I’m sure he’d be right there with you, but he has try to act above it all and is limited to just writing supportive articles. I hope you understand.

  • Pablo

    The cop standing right there didn’t see it either.

    RAL, you should just shorten your handle to Liar.

  • Pablo

    Geraldo works for Fox so he’s fair game.

  • Pablo

    You’re pretty useless at commenting too. Why bother?

  • Pablo

    Ah, so you’re the unhinged douchebag!

  • Anonymous

    “They’ve developed a system, whereby the crowd repeats what a speaker is saying so that everyone can hear it…”
    I find the irony of this ‘system’ very rich – yes, please just continue to repeat what you are being told, if you say it enough times you start to believe it was actually coming out of your own thoughts.  

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Ken-Watson/100000378332267 Ken Watson

    Everyone remembers last fall when Rupert Murdoch was asked to name a liberal at Fox. Why he couldn’t remember Mr Gerry Rivers is mysterious but yes, he is a mainline liberal, always has been. I’m sure he is well to the Right of your average Occupier, however. Best thing for Geraldo as much as for everyone else is if we just kept our distance from these insanitary victims of insanity and then cleaned out their burrows with lots of water and bleach at the first opportunity. He’s not much for learnin’ though.

  • Anonymous

    Pathetic Tea Bagger on display here.  He won’t be happy till he gives up his retirement to the criminal billionaires on Wall Street.

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

    All right!

    (high five)

  • Pablo

    A public relations disaster should be a ratings disaster too, no?

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

    http://www.google.com/#hl=en&q=OWS+protest+arrests&gs_sm=e&gs_upl=1915l4900l0l5147l19l15l0l0l0l0l506l3126l0.10.4.5-1l15l0&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbo=u&tbm=nws&source=og&sa=N&tab=wn&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.,cf.osb&fp=1110932681cb174&biw=1366&bih=648

    It’s not our fault the OWS fools can’t follow the law and act like civilized humans.

    But that’s not our problem. It’s now Obama’s.

    Let’s count the arrests:

    Tea Party: Count them on 1 hand.
    OWS: Hundreds, and counting.

  • Michelle

    The endorsements just keep coming!

    The Left’s Favorite Cop Killer Mumia Abu-Jamal Endorses Occupy Wall Street From Death Row…
    !

  • Anonymous

    lie.  When you have tons of video of the walk, a $100K reward for video proof, and no video evidence is found, it’s a lie.  Simple as that.  I do believe they expected racism, and mistook it kill the bill for what they heard. 

    When the independents vote for the republicans, just remember.  It’s not becaue they like the republicans, it’s because the democrats are too far left.  

  • One pissed off liberal

    Good point…If it was Glenn beck, they probably would have started throwing feces…just like monkeys at the zoo.

  • mona

    WHAT nazi party? What communist party? What iranian government. SHOW US!!!!

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

    Glad you brought that up.  Here in Chicago arrest has been in the news.
      
    http://chicagoist.com/2011/10/02/chicago_tea_party_leader_skips_conv.php
    Wait, that one has been ignored entirely.  

    Media silence on Tea Party ills makes it easier for the “right” to produce lines like this when protesters are arrested for disobedience…
    “Sure they are just like the Tea Party, these folks have no respect for authority or the laws.”
    http://scaredmonkeys.com/2011/10/16/175-disobedient-occupy-chicago-protesters-arrested-for-not-leaving-grant-park-breaking-city-ordinance/

    Disobedience is a noble tool.  Wish this fellow had learned about it in school.
    http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-5235445-503544.html

  • Anonymous

    Personally, I’m always in favor of people hitting Geraldo over the head with something.  Powder or chair, left or right, makes no difference to me.

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

    Do you realize that Geraldo IS a left wing jounalist with his own opinion show on Fox?  You just attacked a guy that is ON YOUR OWN SIDE OF POLITICS.  You are an incoherent idiot.

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

    You really are an idiot, aren’t you?  If calling me ‘pathetic’ somehow makes YOU feel better because of poor investment choices you’ve made in your past, then knock yourself out.  I’d offer you the reassurance of knowing that my retirement is far from being in jeopardy but then I’d just be bragging.  You keep stuffing those dollar bills under your mattress, OK?

  • Exgoper

    And former Klansman David Dukes endorsed the Tea Party.

    So what’s your point, Michelle?

  • Anonymous

    Well, the protesters themselves condemned the attack, but I did, as well. 

  • One pissed off liberal

    I agree…you do suck pretty bad.  Maybe you should email just4thefax about it…..he might be able to help you suck less.

  • Anonymous

    What makes you think I support OWS? And what “excuses” did I make? Quotes, please.

  • Anonymous

    It wasn’t the same story, and I did link to, and address, the Tapper story in my original post on the subject. Reading Is Fundamental.

  • Anonymous

    Are you a coward, or is “Concerned Citizen” your real name? Is this how you start all of your conversations? Can you give me one example of a writer on any other site who has responded to such an overture with anything but silence? 

    I wrote what I wrote. How about you nut up, use your real name, and tell me what you think is unfair or inaccurate about what I wrote? Then maybe we can talk.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_QY72STEOMLYCV5SXHGVWAYEYEY Peter

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  • One pissed off liberal

    Aron,  I can see from the few short lines that you’ve posted, that you are a very simple person, who is easily confused with things more complex then putting on your shoes.  With that said, do not worry my good man…all us conservatives will continue to work and be productive, to ensure that you have a roof over your head and food on your plate, regardless of your contribution to or lack there of, to society.

  • One pissed off liberal

    Wanna bet?

  • Anonymous

    Are you sure?   Last I heard both the American Communist and American Nazi parties support OCW.  I can’t imagine what David Duke has in common with the Tea Party, unless he was just trying to get his name in the paper or try to trick people in to voting him in to office.

  • http://24ahead.com/ 24AheadDotCom

    Geraldo is and always has been a buffoon. He also supports bad immigration policies. Yet, I’d never even consider doing something like this. My answer to his bad policy would be to engage him in debate and show his viewers how he’s wrong. Instead, you’ve got neofascist hippies whose idea of an argument is to dump strawberry mix or glitter on people. If you gave those types of people police or miltary powers, who knows what they’d do.

    In case any sane, smart, grown-up OWS types want to have a devastatingly effective impact on their opponents – and do it completely legally and withing the spirit of the U.S. Constitution – here’s how:

    24ahead.com/best-way-occupy-wall-street-be-effective

    Don’t act like kids. Act like smart, sane grown-ups: engage your opponents in debate and try to show how they’re wrong.

  • Anonymous

    You have to be careful of those teabagger plants~

  • JimR

    Sure he is, Numbnuts!!!

  • Anonymous

    3rd last paragraph tommy, are your excuses…..fox news,  i missed where you condemned the attack also……what makes me think you support OWS, the way you write and imply in your article

  • Anonymous

    and tommy, i dont dislike you sir, but you write your articles in a bias fashion,

  • Wake up America

    You say Alinsky I say Obama, one in the same.

  • Wake up America

    How funny that Heraldo told oreilly that they were not violent people. Really? But when has Heraldo ever gotten anything right.

  • Exgoper

    Attacks like these are absurd, rude, pointless and ultimately counterproductive. They should be condemned.

    But what I don’t get is how all the people who are getting so worked up about how a few OWS protesters (allegedly) crapped on cars or left behind trash are silent on the issue of how the banks crapped on the American economy.

    Crickets. Nothing. No outrage. No condemnation. Nothing but hypocritical posturing about these dirty commies in the park.

  • Pablo

    You should Google Aron Kay.

  • Anonymous

    Exactly!!!

  • Anonymous

    Nice try, we know your game Tommy. You are hard Left and you write 99% of your articles from that angle. Giving the left the benefit of the doubt, while condemning the right

  • Anonymous

    That’s partially because its a tired argument.  The Republicans had been saying let companies with bad behavior die (don’t bale them out) but the Dems didn’t agree and we not only got the banks bailout but also the gift of Government Motors to the unions, at the expense of the individual investors (including retirees of the once great company.)   If laws were broken there should be charges filed, if no laws were broken but behavior was bad the companies should have been allowed to fail.  If no laws were broken and behavior was permitted then they shouldn’t be penalized for revenge since it isn’t fare to single them out and not other companies who also behaved badly.  If all employees at a company drink coffee without paying for it you can’t suddenly decide to penalize a group of employees for drinking the coffee without paying for it…   

    The bad behavior needs to stop in DC, and DC needs to enact legislation directing wall street to not engage in bad behavior, then in the future if they break the law they should be charged, or in the future if they behave badly but lawfully they should be allowed to fail when they get in trouble – selective retroactive punishment is a non-starter.

  • Anonymous

    Are you saying this is backlash for being mean to Obama? You sure do the movement injustice by asserting such an insult. If they are indeed Obama supporters protesting Fox being mean to Obama then they must be completely ignorant to Obama’s dealings with General Electric, and Goldmen Sachs and other massive entities. It seems that you and left wing media pundits on msnbc are trying to hijack this and make them out to be Obama supporters, and anti Fox. Unfortunately following such line doesn’t make them fact conscious, or true to their cause.

  • Anonymous

    Hey, I found it!  You cited a link titled “Other Reports” with zero mention of Jake Tapper.  Imagine that…

    Dude, you are so disingenuous on this issue.  Just admit as much.  You’re trying to call out Fox on the very same reportage that Tapper gave –and hasn’t retracted. 

    How could you possibly say it wasn’t the same story?  Oh wait…Tapper was talking about how to bake chocolate chip cookies.  That must be it.  Get real. 

    Intellectual Integrity Is Fundamental. 

  • Anonymous

    I don’t see any quotes in your response. Show me the excuses/supoport for OWS, or retract.

  • Anonymous

    As usual, you can’t point to a single thing that I wrote that was unfair or inaccurate. I don’t dislike you either, but you write your comments in an extremely dishonest fashion.

  • RW

    “The other thing I find fascinating about this relatively mild (thank goodness) incident is that it was captured from so many angles. ”

    Relatively mild.  Had it been a Tea Partier it would have been labeled assault.

  • RW

    “One major takeaway from this incident is the degree to which blind hatred of Fox News can undermine your legitimate points. Even if you grant that Geraldo was trying to give them a fair shake, the protesters who express distrust of his employer have some foundation for that. Recommending the immolation of, and throwing powder on, Geraldo Rivera undercut that point”

    In this quote, you don’t see the action of the throwing the powder as bad – you see the action as undercutting the point of Fox News distrust.

  • Anonymous

    and as usual, you deflect…..a single thing,  YOUR THIRD TO LAST PARAGRAGH, the whole paragraph tries to deflect and soften the protesters actions. now you might not accept what i pointed out, but thats your problem

  • Anonymous

    You’re characterizing that paragraph through your own biases. Extract the quotes that show “excuses” or “support,” or retract. You falsely accused me of “making excuses” and of “supporting” OWS, that’s YOUR problem.

  • Anonymous

    You’re either dishonest or blind, since I made very clear the difference between those “other reports” and Fox’s fabrications. Let’s see how honest you are, and see if you’ll post that quote here.

  • http://twitter.com/Wallycrawler Wallycrawler

    Geraldo should take a powder & fawk-off!

  • http://twitter.com/maynardbrainard Jeremy Brainard

    Heh heh.  You’re edgy.  Instead of “own,” you said “pwn.”

    GTFO.

  • http://twitter.com/maynardbrainard Jeremy Brainard

    Heh heh.  You’re edgy.  Instead of “own,” you said “pwn.”

    GTFO.

  • http://twitter.com/maynardbrainard Jeremy Brainard

    Predictable Obeezy is predictable.

  • http://twitter.com/maynardbrainard Jeremy Brainard

    Predictable Obeezy is predictable.

  • Anonymous

    retract, lol….your own bias as well……even if you grant geraldo was trying to give them a fair shake, why would you  even doubt ….because he works for fox tommy, thats your bias.  the protester who distrust his employer…..dont act like a 7 year old and say where did i use those words (excuse, support). you meaning and bias shine through, sorry you cant see it

  • Lallen422

    Rivera is Jewish on his mother’s side

  • http://twitter.com/maynardbrainard Jeremy Brainard

    A lot of right-wing conspiracy theorist nutjobs have joined OWS as well.  I know one (unfortunately) who has been actively protesting.  It’s that whole Illuminati thing.  I think they figure that if there’s any protest they can get into, OWS is the best because there’s no list of demands, so they can say what they want. If you’re trying to imply that the majority of the OWS protesters are of this loon’s ilk, please stop lying to yourself.  

    Or simply, continue.  That’s what the left did with the Tea Party.  They found that ridicule and scorn weren’t enough to stop their movement.  Maybe you guys will fare better.  

  • Lallen422

    Rivera was all about legalizing marijuana back in the 70′s

  • Lallen422

    I agree. As I recall, he left MSNBC so he could cover wars abroad in Afghanistan and Iraq. He doesn’t really fir in there. He probably should be on Current to be honest IMO

  • Anonymous

    Because we put blame where it most belongs – on politicians who gave banks the bailouts – the same ones who enacted the ruinous policies which led to the housing market crash that made bailouts “necessary.”  We would like to have seen prosecutions, but when we looked into it, again, we found politicians covering for their misdeeds.  So we hold our greatest ire for those who most deserve it.  The Washington establishment.

    We do this mostly because we aren’t really anti-capitalist would-be totalitarians employing demagoguery to gin up class warfare.  We just want people to be treated equally under the law without regard to influence buying or “social justice” minded politically correct bullying so that the system as designed begins to function as it was intended.  For it’s the best system in the world.  And we know it.

    It’s also fun to point out because these offensives are actually real, whereas those made against the Tea Party were mostly made up.  It serves to juxtapose the absolute disconnect from what leftists say and what they do.

  • steverobb60

    Idiots are easily manipulated. They are useful pawns, and that’s about
    it. Consider the stooges of the fledgling movement “Occupy Wall Street.”
    These useful idiots are clamoring for social justice, as if they don’t
    have enough of that already.

    From what I can tell, the softheaded
    numskulls of Occupy Wall Street want investment bankers to give up
    their wealth, as in “spread the wealth around.” They are blaming Wall
    Street for the sad state of our economic malaise and for all the other
    problems of the world.

    Poster boy for the morbidly obese and
    natural leader of the hygiene-challenged, uber-lefty America-haters,
    Michael Moore spoke out in favor of Occupy Wall Street. What he didn’t
    tell the crowd of useful idiots and what they are too stupid to grasp is
    that he is one of the wealthy individuals whom he and they supposedly
    despise. I would gladly pay for a first-class, one-way ticket for Mr.
    Moore to the socialist or Marxist country of his choosing if he promises
    to stay there.

    Occupy Wall Street is nothing more than anti-American socialism on parade.

    Yes,
    people, especially young people, have a right to be angry, and the
    smart ones are focusing their anger on President Obama, Rep. Barney
    Frank, former Sen. Christopher J. Dodd, and other anti-free-market
    socialists. They are the ones who have wrecked the economy.

    The
    president is losing the support of educated young people in droves. Now
    that reality has set in and they can’t find good jobs, are struggling to
    pay back student loans and have moved back into their parents’
    basements, the enthusiasm for “hope and change” fantasy has taken a
    well-deserved hit.

    Of course, the uninspired, uneducated,
    unskilled and stoned have been conditioned for generations to expect
    something for nothing. They will always be in the tank of the left-wing
    movement – and they will always be unmotivated and poor and will
    continue to blame others for their condition. Instead of busting their
    humps working two or three jobs, they have time to protest on Wall
    Street. Fascinating.

    Our economy hit the skids in large part
    because of Democrats’ refusal to provide fundamental oversight of Fannie
    Mae and Freddie Mac. Toss in massive government borrowing and spending,
    untold new anti-free-market regulations, and you get a sputtering
    economy. Duh.

    And this is the fault of Wall Street bankers, many
    of whom also have lost good jobs? Only a useful idiot could arrive at
    that conclusion. The way out of this economic quicksand is to reverse
    course by tossing out the socialists and Marxists and electing people
    who understand what it takes to make an economy vibrant and strong.

    America
    has embraced big government for decades. Embracing Fedzilla’s
    anti-free-market principles has been and will continue to be a job
    killer. It is the uneducated and unskilled who are feeling the most
    pain.

    Smart people quietly chuckle at the antics of goons like
    Michael Moore and Roseanne Barr. Smart people know that Mr. Moore and
    Miss Barr represent a fringe movement of people who are poor because
    they have made a lifetime of poor choices. Expecting others to remedy
    that by surrendering their wealth is a fool’s game. It’s also
    anti-American and downright anti-human.

    Occupy Wall Street is
    empty-headed. Stinky hippies, generational slaves to Fedzilla and the
    transparent entitled are the problem, not the solution.

    Ted Nugent
    10-17-2011
     

  • Anonymous

    Oh boy are you stretching to follow Tea Party members into their private lives well away from rallies – you know, the point of the direct comparisons – in order to find arrests.

    You got nothin’.  Nothing but a core disrespect for civil behavior.

  • Anonymous

    Al Capone? Oh, never mind.

  • Anonymous

    Comcast now is majority owner of NBC.

  • Anonymous

    Never happened. Another liberal lie.

  • Anonymous

    So funny – notice how Tommy tells us how others poo-pooed (kind of like “wee weed up”) the actions of a few and how the several condemned the act of powder throwing.  I recall how Tommy made the same acknowledgements at the republican debates, when one or two booed…and the rest of the crowd told them to stop it….I remember Tommy’s headline (paraphrasing here):  Republican debate crowd boos soldier.

    This is why it is funny and so enjoyable to come to this site, to just see the difference in the articles…and then to read the mission here….and then to just laugh out loud at the sheer bias of it all.

    Really….really?

  • Anonymous

    Still don’t see an “excuse” or “support.” My point about Fox is well-documented. You should examine your own biases.

  • Anonymous

    as you should examine your own bias also

  • david r

    I don’t care who does this sort of thing, it crosses the line.  In Eastern Europe, it would merit a few blows from the nightsticks of the security police.  Here in Texas, you would probably get some form of butt whipping, either official or officially sanctioned.

  • Anonymous

    Even if you grant that Geraldo was trying to give them a fair shake, the protesters who express distrust of his employer have some foundation for that.

    Speaking of your third to last paragraph, Tommy, why would the crowd, variously depicted as everyday Americans from all sides of the political spectrum merely present to express their upset at the state of the economy, be especially bothered by one questionable Fox & Friends report as to try to shout down other reporters of the network which carried them?  Surely you don’t mean to intone that every other news organization which ever issued an inaccurate report would receive the same treatment.  Given this, what would lead you to theorize the crowd ought to have perceived Fox & Friends coverage of the wikileak memo in a manner in which the crowd should feel compelled to take vicarious offense to it – as if they were uniformly Obama cheerleaders?  Haven’t some protesters made the point that they weren’t, and hasn’t the Media reported this?

    Is this paragraph an admission that the OWS crowd is really just an Obama rally?  Or was it just you who took offense to the report in Obama’s name that you would agree there was was some manner of justification in the attempt to make that network’s reporting from the scene impossible?

  • Anonymous

    “The funny thing is that Geraldo IS a left-wing journalist.”

    Geraldo is left-wing……..lol

    Geraldo is a journalist……LOL…………ROTFLMAO

  • david r

    The kind of money he rakes in, he deserves any caca that comes his way.  And that’s what I like about him.  He is totally up for all the shenanigans.  Remember Tom Cruise’s meltdown after the guy squirted him with the water gun disguised as a microphone?  I think Geraldo would have howled laughing. He is full of it, but he is good-natured and I like him.

  • david r

    Rock on.

  • Anonymous

    All 3 videos show the same thing.  How beautifully OWS polices itself using peer pressure.  They should be proud of how this was handled.

  • david r

    I thought they should have let the foreclosures go on as they were legally entitled to do.  The idea of the government coming in and ‘slowing down’ foreclosures due to economic hardship is confiscatory.  Yet this is what the Obama administration has done.  The rich have their money offshore because they are afraid Obama is after it. Economic zugzwang. So Obama is willing to borrow 40 cents of every federal dollar spent in order to prop up his charade.

  • Yukon Jack

    If all the wealth of the world was exactly evenly distributed – i.e. taken away from those who now have it and given to those who now do not – it is a safe bet that within ten years those from whom the wealth had been taken, would be rich again, and the poor would be poor again.

  • Anonymous

    As expected from someone of the weirdo left pushing anti-culture concepts.  “Police,” in their world, hug perpetrators and slap them on the back – or immediately try to mitigate his actions by denying his motives and calling him a plant and (he’s not – he’s a known character who pulls off similar attacks frequently).  This while the “cops” threaten to “set” the eventual victim of the attacks’ “ass on fire.”

    How beautifully you portray a brain-dead zombie.  You should be ashamed to try to perpetrate such a perversion of right and wrong.  But obviously, you don’t care – the volume of your BS simply raises the less a story is helpful to your politics.

  • Anonymous

    You are right. Comcast owns 51% of NBCUniversal while GE owns 49%.

  • Sean68

    This just in:

    Still no video or audio (from any angle) of anyone saying the N-Word (let alone a crowd chanting it) at any of the tea party rallies.

  • Anonymous

    They thought Geraldo was a Jew.

  • Anonymous

    That is, quite possibly, the most idiotic statement yet uttered on this thread. Congratulations!

  • Anonymous

    Damn! You really punch low don’t you? Of course for you that is eye level.

  • Anonymous

    Pay? You mean they pay these guys to write this dreck? I should have gone with writing instead of computers…

  • Anonymous

    Apparently you are a liar.

  • Anonymous

    That is enough lying from the left, thank you.

  • Anonymous

    The great thing is that this genius can’t even identify the right Congressmen. It was Rep. Emanuel Cleaver that claimed to be spit on, and then could not identify the perpetrator when he got a Capitol Police officer to follow him out side.
    None of the videos from the day have the n-word recorded being shouted. Most of what was shouted was “Kill the Bill!” as this took place during the Healthcare debate.
    Nandocalrissian can feel free t otry and prove me wrong.

  • Anonymous

    Rep. Emanuel Cleaver was hit by spittle from a person shouting he was not intentionally spat upon. He was so upset about the incident that he got a Capitol Officer to come outside to confront the individual, he could not even identify them.

  • Anonymous

    Are you still harping on that trash after your FOX heroes all but created and promoted the teaparties?

  • Anonymous

    Alinksy!!
    Arrgggghhhh

  • Anonymous

    Spare your Nazi bs and your holier than thou ignorance. If you can’t discern between sprinkling someone with kool aid powder and pummeling him with kicks and truncheon blows, then you are a totally dishonest and silly person

  • Anonymous

    so that is why you are around all day posting your dittoheaded thoughtless rubbish?

  • Anonymous

    Why don’t you just stay at Breitbart’s e-cesspools so you can commune in peace with your fellow trogs? BTW, do you have some stats on what % of them are trust fund babies or are you just repeating the same simple minded garbage Breity and Rush pushed into your capacious skull.

  • Anonymous

    And how come right wing mouthpieces with utterly ironic names only seem to find fault with just one corporation? Do you think the rest are not doing the same things or worse?

  • Anonymous

    and how many times have you repeated the same crap about Commies, Nazis, and now Iranians?

  • Anonymous

    Kool aid drink mix? That is some crime? That isn’t even a school cafeteria food fight so quit whining about it. Even Geraldo took it with some humor and grace.

  • Anonymous

    There is no videos of  blacks being lynched either, so I guess that never happened.

  • Anonymous

    RW Moron makes insipid hyperbolic post and get approval from 15 fellow fools

  • Anonymous

    Oh my god such violent people, such savagery, such gore and blood! The horror, the horror!

  • Anonymous

    Sorry dittohead, just because something is not on video, doesn’t mean it didn’t happen. Maybe you need a basic course in logic and critical thinking?

  • Anonymous

    All 3 videos show the same thing.  How beautifully OWS polices itself using peer pressure.  They should be proud of how this was handled.

    Another thing struck me about your short statement.

    Even putting aside that it’s application was distinctly absent, your advocacy for “peer pressure” as the proper tool of behavioral control or “policing” is considered by most clear thinking people to be a grossly bad thing.  Peer pressure is absent of morality and one is far more liable to be led astray by other imperfect and imperfectible beings rather than be guided along a correct mode of behavior by non-existent “perfected” men – or “progressed” men, if you will.  Instead, most people would rather rely on a basic moral code of conduct by which the majority of individuals agree to voluntarily abide backed by fair-minded discipline for those who won’t share the same code.

    In other words, people are generally expected to be decent as a matter of course and not attack those around them, nor support or praise attackers; they condemn them; if the attack is grievous and causes or has the potential to cause harm, they assist in his arrest.  Of course, one would never expect such behavior from a crowd who’s taken to charging police lines in attempts to engender violence (the better to portray themselves in friendly media as victims of that which they do) with the battle cry “F* the police” on their lips.

    The distinction is thus.  When the standard for social control is a code of moral conduct itself, the standard remains stable and measurable, therefore justice by it is measured and dependable.  When the standard is issued by the coercive force of people, another way to describe pressure by peers, control is left to the whim of the majority, a changeable thing.  Changeable, mind you, not only in what the majority believes, but also of whom the majority is comprised.  And as majorities are temporary organizations of the moment swayed by popular passions and easily led by effective orators, justice by it is similarly impermanent – it becomes the tyranny of the majority, dispensed in its basest form through mob justice.

    That for which you argue is dictated control of the individual through bullying by the majority – such is the inherent ethos of totalitarians and the ruthless mobs which bring them to power.

    All this is to reinforce by way of explanation why people are taught at an early age to resist peer pressure.  They do so because it’s wrong, both in intent and ends.  Yet you actively promote it.  “Beautiful” is the term you use to describe it.  It shouldn’t surprise that your sense of beauty can be shown to be repugnant upon closer examination – for it’s just another wrong headed notion of one who would push concepts of anti-culture for reason of their politics.

    Short hand version of all the above?  You’re one scary, sick puppy.

  • Anonymous

    Somehow, you and others of your ilk, have lost sight of what is supposed to separate America from every other Nation, past and present…

    WE are “the shining city on the hill.”  You, and the miscreant who attacked Rivera, defile that notion sir, with your minimizing of such behavior!
    I, personally, do not behave in such a way, nor do I tolerate those who do.  Which means I do not “tolerate” you.

    The purveyor of Rhetoric

  • Anonymous

    My compliments…  Good point!

    I just hope DEVIL SPAWN runs across your comment?  LOL

    Purveyor

  • AQ

    Because, of course, dumping kool-aid mix on somebody’s head is OMG SO VIOLENT rather than just plain childish and uncool.

    Right.

  • AQ

    CLEARLY this means that all Occupy protesters are Commies and Nazis. Oh yeah, and they’re Iranian too.

    CLEARLY.

  • Anonymous

    “I will not lie, cheat or steal, nor tolerate anyone who does.”

    This credo, of the various US Military Academies, relies on the character of the individual, not peer pressure, hence coincides nicely with your Post.

    PALEO, Your comment was one of the finest and reasoned comments I’ve read.  Well done!

    Purveyor

  • http://www.facebook.com/IvanZephyr Matt Kaemerer

    Except that picture wasn’t from OWS.

    Nice try, though.

  • http://www.facebook.com/IvanZephyr Matt Kaemerer

    Ironic from someone who shoehorns all of them into the category of hippie or rich child.

  • Anonymous

    In another context, what you have done is use the “backhanded compliment,” or “pre-giving.”  These are debate or argumentation techniques, that you use. poorly.

    How about a nice game of chess?  LOL  

  • http://www.facebook.com/IvanZephyr Matt Kaemerer

    Assaults on police? Any convictions on this yet?

    Public Defacation? Have you even been to the protests in NY yet? There’s a reason the owners of Zucotti Park rescinded their wish to clean the part. Or I’m assuming you’re referring to that picture of someone shitting on a cop car. Turns out that was from 2007. Fact checking is hard.

    Vandalism? Any convictions on this yet?

    Arrests? Perhaps you’ve never heard of Civil Disobedience.

    Noise Pollution? I’m sure the protestors are ruining the quiet streets of downtown New York City.

  • http://www.facebook.com/IvanZephyr Matt Kaemerer

    Yeah, all of those OWS protestors hate dissenting opinions.

    Must be why there are so many different groups represented there.

  • http://www.facebook.com/IvanZephyr Matt Kaemerer

    How blind.

    I feel sorry for you.

  • Anonymous

    yawn*

    *consider this peer pressure.

  • Anonymous

    KKK Leader David Duke ENDORSES the TEA PARTY
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-m6wySl92yE

  • Anonymous

    It doesn’t help our cause to attack physically.  Gandhi is our model not Abbie Hoffman. Sorry, I can’t support it.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_VK7U6RFTAUIPW2JR2NGPBP2IYA super

    actually it was CNBC that created the tea party.

    http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser/did-rick-santelli-just-compare-what-happened-in-cuba-to-whats-happening-now-in-the-u-s_b22923
    CNBC’s Rick Santelli, who covers the Chicago Merc, going off
    on how the stimulus bill and mortgage bailout is going over in the pits
    (not well) and he’s getting the traders behind him fired up.
    “The government is promoting bad behavior,” he said adding, “You know
    Cuba used to have mansions and a relatively decent economy. They moved
    from the individual to the collective. Now they’re driving ’54 Chevys.”

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_VK7U6RFTAUIPW2JR2NGPBP2IYA super

    need a mirror ;)

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_VK7U6RFTAUIPW2JR2NGPBP2IYA super

    its funny they attack him since Geraldo is a liberal.  He use to work at CNBC.

  • Conservative_Parrot

    OWS is endorsed by Nazis Communists & Iranians !!!

    SQUAAAAAAAAACK !!!

  • Conservative_Parrot

    MSNBC Obama and GE !!!

    SQUAAAAAAAACK !!!

  • Conservative_Parrot

    Liberals hate America and are terrorists !!!

    SQUAAAAAAAACK !!!

  • Conservative_Parrot

    The Tea Party are victims and CNN/MSNBC are a part of the liberal media !!!

    SQUAAAAAAAACK !!!

  • Anonymous

    No. I linked to one particularly illustrative example, but I, and others on this site, have documented countless examples, and not just of “inaccurate reports.” We have also documented the fine work done by many of Fox News’ reporters and anchors, as well. 

    The protesters’ animus toward Fox also isn’t new, and something I’ve been reporting on for several years. Readers with an anti-liberal bias might try re-reading this article, and my prior reporting, to see if I approve of their expression of that animus.

  • Anonymous

    With your failure to recognize those concepts within your pernicious words, I’ll consider your response that which it is – the lazy dismissal of one who is seen trending towards totalitarianism and is fine with it.

  • Anonymous

    You are way too caught up in the thoughts in your head.  You’re windy, yet clueless.  Make of it what you want.  It makes no difference except to your number one fan.  You.

  • Anonymous

    That’s a load of BS. I didn’t say FOX created the tea party, they just promoted the heck out of it from the start

  • Anonymous

    Nothing was parroted there you stupid sheep. Its called being informed like it or not. Sorry if I stated facts that you are ignorant to. This is about corporations not paying their fair share, and having profound amounts of influence over and tied to the federal government. If you are the least bit informed you would know this to be a prime example. Too bad your inane biases blind you. Selective sheep like you are a great discredit to these movements because you don’t want to hear facts, and are selective and hypocritical in your led advocacy.

    You are obviously incapable of refuting anything at all.

  • Anonymous

    Why do selective sheep ignore prime examples of it because of their own absurd biases? How about instead of speaking in generalities that we must punish an entirety based on arbitrary and idealistic motives, people actually protest those that are the problem? People will take it more seriously, and it will gain more ground. And same things or worse you say? So that is your reasoning for ignoring a prime offender because of biases, and corporate favoritism you hold? Gee, isn’t that why we have this problem in the first place? Ignore and refuse what you don’t like, but still that’s a very poor rationalization. Especially when referring to one of the most powerful, far reaching, and guilty offenders. Do you even care about what you advocate?

  • Anonymous

    As to concern for what happens in my head  I simply shudder to think how would end the phrase in your own “if everyone else jumped off a bridge…”

    What you said up above, that peer pressure is good for “policing” behavior, was amazingly wrong.  So much so that one begins to wonder how you came to think as you do – if you do.  Now one could easily just snap off an insult or one liner to show disagreement, but so wrong are some of the things so often coming out of the mouths of lefties these days its better, I feel, to have it said why this is so.

    That disagreement exists is obvious – to just highlight that, unhelpful.  On the other hand, with it understood where the core difference lie, conclusions can be drawn.  I do, as do others.  Make something of that.

  • Anonymous

    Codes are amazing things, are they not?

  • Anonymous

    2nd reply, in light of your revision. (How about if you have something further to say you write another post rather than delete what you wrote after it’s received a response? I would hate to have to blockquote everything.)

    I was talking about the crowd putting peer pressure on the man who attacked Rivera and letting him know that kind of aggressive behavior was unacceptable and won’t be tolerated within the movement.

    That’s not what happened at all.  A few took a commendable stand to speak out against what he did, as one might expect reasonable people to do.  But Aron was patted on the back by others, while some were more concerned about optics and sought immediately to deflect his actions from representing their movement by propagating an untruth, claiming he was a plant.

    Most everyone else just stood there – as did the attacker, who remained not 10 feet from Geraldo.  He wasn’t heckled out of their presence by peer pressure wielding social police, showing that many would, in fact, tolerate a similar act again.  Once more, no collective policing through peer pressure ultimately modified his behavior – as evidence, Aron Kay posted to this thread above proudly claiming credit for what he did!

    You focused on the wrong thing due to your personal prejudice for what you consider the *other* side and it blinds you. With all you words your thoughts are very small indeed.

    What you say and what happened didn’t jibe, and prompted my dissertation. I focused, though, on your words, for the concepts contained within were horrible – whether or not the sole reasoning for you in issuing them was itself an attempt to deflect.

  • Sharma Feed

    I think those who failed are working at Wall Street. They cannot count because money invested isn’t shared equally, there is a gap 1%  has more than the 99%?

  • Sharma Feed

    You just revealed how much you are worth, which is less than a policeman, but that is between you and the police. We are all worth as much as we feel not as much as someone else thinks we are worth.
    If you are disgusted with people who are standing up for their rights and they think that that is the way, how do you go about standing for your rights?

  • Will

    “neofascist hippies”? lol. i guess you believe in “dry water” too.

    And yes, if the Nazis are known for anything, its dumping glitter on people. Who could ever forget the great Glittercaust of the 1940s? So many innocents glittered, so many sparkly bodies littering the streets.

  • Will

    “It may surprise you OWS protesters and your supporters to know that you
    are not, in fact, allowed to assault people with any substances or
    unwanted physical contact”

    Somebody needs to arrest Mitt Romney then. I saw him lay hands on Rick Perry last night. Thats assault!

  • Will

    David Duke, leader of the KKK, supports the Tea Party: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDeNBsD8iRc

  • Raronhalt

    You are worth as much as you make yourself worth. Not how much you think your worth. Oprah used to be a 99′er.

  • Will

    Not everyone can be Oprah though, no matter how hard they work or try. And besides, i bet she still supports the 99%

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