Michelle Malkin: Occupy Protests Becoming ‘Lice-Infested, Criminal Magnets Across The Country’
In the wake of the two-month anniversary of the Occupy Wall Street movement and the recent upheaval of Zuccotti Park, Michelle Malkin appeared on Thursday’s Fox and Friends to discuss how “apparently, reportedly, allegedly” the White House shooter blended in with the Occupy DC protests. Co-host Steve Doocy mentioned that an Occupy Wall Street protester threatened to “throw a molotov cocktail into Macy’s.” “These encampments, I call them the Camp Alinsky Kids — are becoming basically lice-infected, criminal magnets all across the country,” Malkin jabbed. “You do have to question where you have these people stoking violent rhetoric, where this is coming from.”
“There is a larger plan of manufactured crisis and chaos that has been in the works in academia and places like Columbia University, Cloward-Piven Strategy, of fomenting this agitation as a accusation for bigger government intervention,” Malkin added.
Brian Kilmeade pointed to the city having to pay the police overtime and trucking in sanitation workers from the other boroughs to clean up the mess at the park. “This is a colossal waste of time and money,” Kilmeade exclaimed.
“It’s out of control,” Malkin opined. “It’s a threat to law abiding people and businesses, as we’ve seen with so many of these documented threats now across the country and one wonders, as I did last night aloud, where the White House is on tamping down a lot of this dangerous rhetoric. It’s an old lefty saying that ‘silence equals complicity’, and I think it ought to be applied to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.”
Interestingly, despite the segment’s focus on whether the White House shooter was tied to the protests, Malkin actually took the high road in not casting blame for the incident on Occupy DC. “I’m not going to engage in the same kind of exploitation of this particular incident that all of the tea party detractors did when the Gabriel Giffords shooting happened or the Holocaust shooting, because I think this is like many of those other cases where the guy was completely off his rocker and had nothing to do with any coherent sense of political ideology,” she said.
Watch the interview with Malkin below via Fox News:
