Posted on 12/07/2011 12:40:28 PM PST by SeekAndFind
However wrong the rankings might be, I have to admit Time’s ”Best of Everything” lists are pretty fun to browse. In fact, if I made a list of reasons to check Time.com, the magazine’s immortal lists would be the first and last item on it.
But, really? The journalists at Time think ”Occupy Wall Street” is the No. 1 U.S. news story of the year — ahead of the GOP primaries, the economy, the Gabby Giffords shooting and the debt ceiling crisis? What, oh what, was the rationale? I know you’re dying to read this:
To some, Occupy Wall Street is the left-wing iteration of the Tea Party, directing their rage not at big government but at the big banks that gutted the world economy and took billions in bailouts from the U.S. government while awarding themselves hefty bonuses.
But many in the movement see their cause as part of a more global zeitgeist, in keeping with the anti-austerity demonstrations in Europe and the leaderless uprisings of the Arab Spring. …
[T]he sheer persistence of the occupations, galvanized by incidents of heavy-handed policing in New York and California that shocked the nation, have given the protesters’ appeals for economic justice a weight that may play a real role in the upcoming presidential election.
So much in that description that I just love. For example, I love that, according to Time, the banks took billions in bailouts from the government (i.e. the government didn’t voluntarily give taxpayer dollars to ‘em). I love that, according to Time, heavy-handed policing just came out of nowhere to galvanize the movement. I love that, according to Time, OWS, which just might play a “real role” in the upcoming presidential election, matters more than the state of the economy to which the movement itself was only one of many responses.
Let’s postulate a more plausible rationale for Time’s implausible choice: Must be that OWS is the only story that kinda sorta looks good for a certain struggling incumbent. And it only kinda sorta looks good for Obama because the MSM and Democrats have attempted to link the amorphous movement to the president’s jobs act and his present class warfare pitch, all while carefully overlooking the in-your-face violence that characterizes Occupy. Note that the Time description references over-the-top police action, but fails to mention the more than 400 incidents of violence, vandalism and outrageous behavior that have accrued to Occupiers. Now that might have been a reason to name OWS No. 1.
No wonder Commentary’s John Podhoretz tweeted out this new nickname for Henry Luce’s once-innocent baby: “Time, the magazine that keeps embarrassing itself.”
OWS is *only* a news story because journalists and the MSM *made* it a news story.
In the beginning, it was just a handful of leftists hanging out. Then the media made it a BIG STORY. And their buddies joined them.
This is a manufactured news story. Smaller than pro-life marches, smaller than Promise Keepers rallies, smaller than Tea Party gatherings.
Nobody is worried about immigrants. Just illegal immigrants who are given more special favors than the citizens who have to support their sorry butts.
Nobody is worried about immigrants. Just illegal immigrants who are given more special favors than the citizens who have to support their sorry butts.
I meant to say illegal.
They are as much opportunists as WallStreet and Banks. The government implied: come on over and work and we won’t ask questions. Never should have happened, but I can’t blame the illegal immigrants as opportunists.
Now, they are getting preferential treatment; by liberals in a twisted way because they are illegal. No car impounds on DUIs, no arrest for driving without license, qualification for assistance easier. This will never stop until either they are made legal or quasi citizens or deported.
Again, occupy the government.
Well when 3/4s of the Editorial staff is with OWS, what do you expect?
My mother always said if you want your picture in the yearbook, make friends with the yearbook staff.
And just like the yearbook, no one ever reads Time anymore....
Is TIME Magazine still being published? I don’t know anyone who reads that spew.
Time never mentioned the Tea Party movement over the past 3 years.
Time never mentioned the Tea Party movement over the past 3 years.
Time Magazine = communist propaganda. I would equate them with Pravda, but they actually come up with a decent article now and then.
I assume you refer to Pravda coming up with a decent article now and then? You can’t be referring to Time..??
Time-Lies. BOYCOTT Time-Warner-Turner-CNN.
Cancel your pay-television subscription. Boycott the studio.
Defund the Left. Don’t finance those who are openly hostile to your lifestyle.
How many times have the Occupant Fleabaggers railed against the $26million that Jamie Gorelick got in lieu of 30 pieces of silver for letting the fraud continue?
How many times have they railed against Barney Frank for his boy-toy payoff to obstruct Bush's efforts to have greater OVERSIGHT of Fanny and Freddie?
I call Bullstalin on these Marxists. They aren't what they pretend to be. Their "outrage" isn't focused on those behind the deliberate sabotage of the US economy (and a trillion dollar looting in the aftermath).
What exactly was the story;
“Old Hippies and Potheads Campout in Public Parks” ?
Well they gave Obama the Peace Prize for accomplishing ‘nothing’.....not surprising those of the same crowd would vote the OWS as equally accomplishing ‘nothing’.
I hope they identify that guy and then rub his nose in it.
That's correct...
I could name 10 stories more important. Lame as lame gets.
LOL!
This isn’t a bad thing, per se. If some old busybody who occasions to vote GOP once in a while (re: Reagan) reads about these abominable Obamavilles whilst perusing Slime in the beauty salon...
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