Posted on 10/16/2011 4:23:30 AM PDT by Kaslin
“What do they want?” is a common refrain in the media these days. Left-wing talking heads and progressive TV hosts are still scrambling to figure out exactly what the “Occupy Wall Street” crowd is up to. But this lack of knowledge hasn’t stopped nearly every person on the Left of the political spectrum from offering full-throated support for the unwashed, unruly rabble. But who, or what, are they supporting?
It’s been a month since the first group of professional protesting leftists squatted on a patch of private property in lower Manhattan, pitched a tent and started their drum circle. What we knew about them then is about what we know about them now - they’re angry.
There has been no mainstream media investigation of who these people are, how this came about or what they want beyond the superficial “They’re young, disaffected and worried about the future.”
That’s all well and good, but it’s not even in the same ZIP code as reality.
Normally, politicians would have to vet a potential endorsee before they’d ever consider offering anything beyond tepid support. Such is not the case here.
In a press conference, President Obama sympathized with the protestors and said he understood their frustration. Exactly what frustration remains encased in a thicker fog than the cloud of body odor hovering over Zuccotti Park.
Former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi understands them too. She took her support a step further by offering a “God bless them” when asked what she thought. But what was she blessing?
Any look at this mob from anything lower than a helicopter flyover reveals a dark, dangerous, radical and anti-Semitic side.
Meet “occupier” Patricia McAllister. Patricia works for the Los Angeles Unified School District. She also hates Jews. She told Reason.tv, “I think that the Zionist Jews who are running these big banks and our Federal Reserve, which is not run by the federal government, they need to be run out of this country.”
Even more disturbing than what Patricia said was the calm demeanor in which she said it. Anti-Semitic hatred flows casually, openly and freely at these events. She seemed somewhat concerned she might be overheard by someone who would take offense, that the person interviewing her might have a problem with it. But she had no worry whatsoever what she was saying might be anything other than fact. This woman is involved in some way with educating children.
Former Obama administration “Green Jobs” czar Van Jones, who resigned after his 9/11 truther and communist sympathies came to light, called for the American people to “stand in solidarity with Occupy Wall Street.” Would you stand with Patricia McAllister? Apparently Mr. Jones would.
But Jones and McAllister won’t be alone. There are plenty of radicals and racists willing to stand up and be counted because they’re safe in the knowledge the hatred they exhale will not be covered by their fellow travelers in the media. Did you hear about Democrat Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky marching with communists? The pamphlets being passed out with calls to destroy Israel? The speaker decrying calls for non-violence, calling for French Revolution-type actions to cheers?
No? Weird.
How about Lisa Fithian, the professional radical anarchist who is helping run these events?
No? Seriously?
That’s because, aside from a few brave souls like my friend Andrew Breitbart and his “Big” websites, no one is covering these people the way they did the Tea Party. Reporters were dispersed into the massive crowds to find the most absurdly dressed people carrying fringe signs, then presented them as the norm. In any large group you’re going to find some kooks-that’s just the law of averages. But the media willingly portrayed them as representative of the whole.
Remember the Obama-with-Hilter mustache pictures from the Tea Party events? It was clear they belong to left-wing fringe perpetual candidate Lyndon LaRouche’s supporters, yet they were portrayed as Tea Party members. Even LaRouche supporters admit they found that odd.
Or the bogus charge that the N-word was hurled at black Members of Congress as they walked through a crowd on their way to cast their ObamaCare vote? That’s still accepted as gospel to the Left despite the fact that a $100k reward for proof it happened remains unclaimed.
Instead of the truth, instead of questions, we get cheerleading and cherry-picked camera angles showing perfectly lit, perfectly well behaved, smiling people. You’ll never see the fringe, the loons and the unstable on CNN or MSNBC, aside from the hosts. They’re too busy demanding conservatives admit these protests are “resonating” with people (in the newsroom at least) or saying they need another “Kent State moment,” only this time without the deaths. These are paid professionals.
The Media Research Center did a study of the “Big Three” networks and found that in its short life, not only did the “Occupy” crowd get more coverage over a two-week period than the Tea Party did over a nine-month period, but that coverage was significantly more positive.
Not being content with owning the spin machines, they’ve even cooked up flawed polling to bolster their case. Shocking, I know.
The best thing about the Internet is that we are no longer dependent upon these corrupt information brokers to be informed. Not to sound all X-Files-y on you, but the truth is out there...you just have to find it. Unfortunately, far too many of our fellow citizens still receive their “news” through the filter of this corrupt machine. But that number is shrinking every day. If this “occupation” has any redeeming quality, perhaps it will be to force even more people who seem willing to take the “Red Pill” to, instead, see the world for what it really is.
Where are the “Revolution” by The Beatles,”Volunteers” by Jefferson Airplane,”Move Over” by Steppenwolf and “5 to 1” by the Doors?
Sorry bunch of young moochers with useless liberal arts degrees whining for free skittles is all it is.
Sans the serious Marxists with the big money out to destroy freedom to support them—they would all be back home blogging and bitching in Mommy's basement.
Excellent. Thanks for posting.
And they wonder why
You’re welcome
when this occupy crap all goes to hell and the violence breaks out its going to be entertaining to watch the dems try to slither for the exits
They probably don’t wonder, they probably blame “the 1%.” Or maybe Fox News.
This is the first piece I’ve read that really touches on the hatred for Zionism in this crowd. I suspect most of these college-age folks use that word the way they use ‘Fascism’ and have little understanding of the meaning of Zionism beyond it being a cool word to toss around that separates one from the rabble who don’t use it in everyday conversation. It’s the hippie equivalent of movie fans who toss around “iconic” (man do I hate that word). It’s a verbal bumper sticker that says “I’m not one of THEM, I’m one of the COOL ones.”
These folks couldn’t find Israel on a map, but they are all about the ‘plight of the Palestinians’.
To constantly view Soros paid idiots of the left engaging in mayhem, mischief,defecating on the streets on cars is priceless. When asked what they want by Hannity and others they don't have a clue.
All this is about the best news we could get.The inevitable comparisons with the tea party will be priceless and significant for voters of all stripes.
Let's hope this nonsense it spreads far and wide and lets also hope we get a comparison of the occupy/losers and the Tea Party Pats. The comparisons will sink their leaky boat and quickly. I say bring it on idiots!!
They probably couldn’t even find the US , yet alone New York, or their own state on a map
Cain killed Abel.
Joseph’s brothers sold him into slavery.
Those who do wrong always have jealous hate for those rewarded for doing right.
That is the only sense I can make of the mass antisemitism in the world.
It’s sadly ironic that people who deny God hate the Jews because of Him choosing them.
Interesting that they’ve decided to demonize 1% of the population. Is it mere coincidence that Jews make up 1% of the U.S. population? What better way for the Nazis and Communists to find a common cause.
Whenever I run across these types, I compare Israel to a Native American reservation, a tiny sliver of land for those who were there first, a little patch of Indians surrounded by 21 cowboy states who can’t stand it. That’s exactly how I put it. “It’s cowboys and indians over there, but the arabs are the cowboys. Think about it.” Amazing how quiet they get. They’ve never thought about it that way.
So true. For the first time in years I sat down and watched a TV news segment for a straight five minutes. Their coverage of the protests, both here and abroad, made it look like it was sweeping the world. And yes, I still run into people who are echo chambers for CNN.
That’s why they picked the number — they’ve always shared common goals, because they are identical in form. What groups do tells what they are — their agitprop about what they stand for is always crap.
The “occupy movement” is nothing more than an attempt to blame someone other than dim-0s, for the dim-0 depression that the country is in. Blame Bush doesnt work anymore, so now they have moved on to the “evil rich.”
That is the intention of the OWS puppet masters. They want violence. The protestors don’t realize they are being setup for a violent clash with the police. They are pigs headed for the slaughter. The movement can’t make it to the next step of chaos unless there are martyrs to the cause. So the puppet masters convince the protesters to live in cramped and unsanitary conditions. They feed them a content stream of “they are out to get us” and the “the world stands with us” crap. The is classic mob dynamics.
Take out the leaders, take out the movement. Imagine what would happen to this kind of thing if Soros suddenly lost is fortune. The world would definitely be a better place if Soros was not financing world wide chaos.
This will go away as if nothing had happened.... these folks have no plan, no leaders, nothing except funding from Soros.
Tea party has leaders and people willing to represent them in government.
I stopped watching the major news networks years ago... and don’t see a reason to go back.
They will not say what they want because they need to appeal to a much larger segment of the population. They keep calling themselves the 99% for a reason: they want it to be true, but if they say what they want, they will lose all but about 3% of the 99%.
The are liars and deceivers, through and through.
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