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Fox News Launches An All Out Assault Against Occupy Wall Street
Occupy Wall Street has grown and now Fox News is stepping up their attacks. The network of the 1% has spent multiple segments today claiming that the protesters are idiotic and don’t understand how the world works.
Here is the video of Steve Moore claiming the protesters don’t know how the world works from Media Matters:
On FNC’s America’s Newsroom today, The Wall Street Journal’s Steve Moore (feel that News Corp synergy) said, “Listening to those commentaries by those young people it’s sort of an indictment of our education system isn’t it? That these kids just don’t understand how the world works. What’s going on here is, I think it’s a frustration on the left of the fact that Obama’s policies haven’t worked. That the whole agenda of hope and progress just hasn’t happened and now you’re getting a kind of angry left, and I think the reason this is an important story, Martha is to see whether this escalates. We’re starting to see this kind of protests in cities around the country, and let’s hope, but I wouldn’t rule it out that these escalate and they may even turn violent. We’ve seen that by the way in Europe. We’ve seen that in places like London and Greece where you know, it’s not always so peaceful.”
Here is Charlie Gasparino calling the protesters idiots via Media Matters:
Gasparino claimed that the real problem is that Wall Street can’t pay their fair share because they are over regulated and hurting. He then said of the protesters, “First off, I want to point out the irony of these idiotic protesters. They really should be going to Washington. That’s where they’re squeezing Wall Street and basically taking money out of the welfare state which these protesters want to grow.”
According to Fox News the people who are taking to the streets around the country aren’t mad at the Republican Party for bailing out Wall Street in 2008. They aren’t angry that the policies of the GOP (Grand Old Party) and George W. Bush blew up the economy. They aren’t mad because Obama can’t get a jobs bill through Congress to due to Republican obstruction. Nope, all the protesters at Occupy Wall Street are mad at Obama. They are all unrealistic kids who don’t know how the real world works.
I am sure all the Libertarians involved with Occupy Wall Street are surprised to learn that this is a movement of the left. Of course, these people are angry at Obama and the Democrats. They are angry that the whole political system that has been hijacked by very rich and used as a weapon against everyone else. This isn’t a movement of Democrats versus Republicans. The problem is all sides, corporate Democrats and Republicans. Occupy Wall Street is bigger than partisan politics.
As far as Gasparino’s claim that the protesters are idiots is concerned, these supposed idiots are smarter than the average Fox News viewer. They understand where the root of the problem is. The issue isn’t that Wall Street is over regulated and poverty stricken. The issue is that the American people bailed out the big banks that proceeded to kick us out of our homes and reap record profits after we were generous enough to keep them in business.
These segments are an escalation of the Fox News campaign to spin and discredit Occupy Wall Street. The fact that Fox News is paying attention now means that your message is getting out, and they are scared. When Wall Street uses their media mouthpiece to attack you that means that they are worried. More than anything Wall Street and Fox News are hoping that the protests turn violent so that they can delegitimize you as an angry mob.
The message is out, the people are listening and this has made the corporate interests very nervous, so nervous that Fox News felt compelled to go increase their attacks.
The only idiots in this picture are the people who continue to watch Fox News and mindlessly do the bidding of the 1%. The corporate interests are scared, as the power of the occupation continues to grow stronger.
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Hrafnkell Haraldsson
Oct. 3rd, 2011 at 5:44 pm
“Occupy Wall Street has grown and now Fox News is stepping up their attacks. The network of the 1% has spent multiple segments today claiming that the protesters are idiotic and don’t understand how the world works.”
And the Tea Party does…?
tpp
Oct. 4th, 2011 at 11:22 am
“And the Tea Party does…?”
Of course it does. After all, the world was created 2000 years ago. It’s the truth.
Hacked off
Oct. 4th, 2011 at 9:50 pm
No the Tea Party was formed in 2008 by the Koch brothers after they realized the GoP was dead if it didn’t build a populist, astro turf, movement.
TJ
Oct. 5th, 2011 at 12:36 pm
That is a patently false statement. It was started in 2007 and it was grassroots. I helped organize some rallies back then and we had ZERO support. Stop talking out of your ass. It was co-opted in late 2009 and subsequently lost all independent support.
Shiva (Moderator)
Oct. 5th, 2011 at 12:40 pm
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daniel
Oct. 5th, 2011 at 2:45 pm
hows still playing into the elites hands working out for you and buying their agenda hook line and sinker?
. I’m assuming your libertarian. You dont think they want you to hate the government? They being those whose interests you share so vehemently with, the ultra rich that run this country like Murdoch and Ailes to list just a few on the far right.
Connie Dobbs
Oct. 5th, 2011 at 4:22 pm
Anyone who supports a government you DON’T ELECT (i.e. the corporate oligarchy) over one that you DO clearly is on the wrong side of history.
Matt
Oct. 3rd, 2011 at 6:41 pm
this is important stuff, we have to keep spreading it. Educate ourselves, were no longer tied to corporate media…..we can broadcast ourselves
Robert
Oct. 3rd, 2011 at 7:24 pm
It is all too obvious how the modern world works. We have allowed psychopaths and the minions narcissists to gain control. This is not a class war, it is a war of humane sanity against the self serving greed of the insane.
Fox not-News is not just the fake news for the one percent, it is a psychopathic view of the world, with narcissist after narcissist, filling the role of talking heads.
It is the insanity network on show to the rest of the world. Promoting conservatism whilst promoting sexual exploitation, promoting conservatism whilst promoting unlimited greed and, promoting conservatism whilst breaking laws across the globe.
A clear pattern of insanity, blatant shameless lying, viscous attacks on anyone that disagrees, schizophrenic behaviour on all issues clearly confusing being conservative with being exploitative, they clear love of violence and murder sickly enough reporting wars like sporting events and, their pathological hatred anyone that refuses to bow to their ego.
SinghX
Oct. 3rd, 2011 at 7:47 pm
“….schizophrenic behavior on all issues…”
I would like to correct you, if that’s OK. The behavior is not schizophrenic, it is “Anti-Social Personality Disorder” as described in the classic work, “The Mask of Sanity” (Clerkley)who defines what you are describing as…
“Predatory attitudes and behavior toward others, long-standing indifference to and repetitive violation of others’ rights; a parasitic lifestyle, repetitive socially destructive behaviors attached to irresponsibility, selfishness, illegal or immoral activities”…
Eldude
Oct. 4th, 2011 at 11:15 am
I watch them almost for the first time yesterday here in england because i had the feeling they would freak out.
Its amazing they are scared and they know the crowd is right on.
As for psychopaths theirs no doupt about that as murdoch is their cheif, news international is tiltering on the edge of oblivion as is and the remarks they come up with made me laugh. I watched hannity , O Really and several others and what they said about the march could almost be transcribed from one commentator to the other. : )
JaeJae
Oct. 5th, 2011 at 4:33 pm
Totally agree. Well put!
datscowsa
Oct. 5th, 2011 at 6:32 pm
Nice one.
SinghX
Oct. 3rd, 2011 at 7:36 pm
The usual Fox chant…dismiss, demean, demoralize. Always a nice, white, polite chuckle when Fox tries to play the “hey-we’re-the-adults-in-the-room”. One always stops dead in their tracks when the message is chanted, daddy knows best as he has money your an idiots, you don’t, therefore, daddy is always right. That “logic” has never worked…well, maybe for their moronic off-spring who remain loyal to their toxic teat of greed…they’re replaying same chants the moral majority used to chant in the 60′s. Comforting, isn’t it? Some chants never change…
Of course, blame the teachers/education system for making “those young people” idiots…huh? So, if we had none of that edu’ma’ka’shun system, “those young people” would be working on Wall Street, and they wouldn’t be “angry” or “violent”? They’d be more like them tea baggers…Huh?
Matt
Oct. 3rd, 2011 at 7:51 pm
but we are strating to see the ignorance
Matt
Oct. 3rd, 2011 at 7:56 pm
haha sry for the mispelling…..i blame the whisky
but seriously, we should spread this information….did u see that fox video thing. i wish new how to post to this damn thing ha. anyway, its up to us and ironically we are using devices they sold to us against them.
seriously, spread the word
speak up…..its as easy as posting a video
we’re connected
Matt
Oct. 3rd, 2011 at 8:00 pm
www.i-am-bored.com/bored_...
there ya go haha i figured it out
SinghX
Oct. 3rd, 2011 at 11:21 pm
thanks…cheers!
jerry
Oct. 4th, 2011 at 12:56 am
Thanks for these comments. Thay are right on!
allen
Oct. 3rd, 2011 at 8:04 pm
it’s only class warfare when we (the 1%) fight back
i hope fox news is scared …. i wish that they should be… but they have a huge and overwhelming police state to protect them
if only it could be a repeat (or new version) of the french revolution…then they’d really be scared
these protesters are not stupid and i’m tired of reading that they don’t have any demands
WTF, they want to be able to get a job that pays a living god damn wage… how much more clear can you get
many of these are young people saddled with so much debt working at minimum wage jobs with master’s degrees???
what isn’t clear about the intent of these protests
just mind boggling
last but not least, what is FOX NEWS solution? oh that’s right there is no problem as far as they are concerned
capitalism for the poor, socialism for the rich just the way FOX NEWS likes it!
Matt
Oct. 3rd, 2011 at 8:55 pm
damn, aight calm down. just talk, make sense. use the passion, but not with anger. we got a pen, or well keyboard thing
A Walkaway
Oct. 3rd, 2011 at 11:41 pm
Try living on a few thousand a year (for two people), with tens of thousands of dollars in student loans hanging over your head, while people tell you things like “McDonalds and Burger King are hiring. If you won’t work there, you’re not willing to work!” (Said asshole also knows I’m disabled and can’t stand on my feet for long periods of time – and must work strictly at my own pace.)
You get a steady diet of things like that (along with denial of all aid except for school and going without medical care for years because you don’t have the money), and anger is going to be part of the package. I don’t know the other person’s story, but I do know that stories like mine are common enough that there are a LOT of very angry – no, ENRAGED people out there.
If you can’t live with that, ignore the anger. We can’t “get rid” of it any more than you could get rid of your face.
Matt
Oct. 3rd, 2011 at 11:48 pm
sorry, i think u misunderstood me…i just want us to be informed. use peace, use our words, our experiences through the media to simply inform, connect
trust me, u are right anger is good
daniel
Oct. 5th, 2011 at 2:49 pm
how did your drunk ass get past moderation, do they just let anything go by.
Clinton
Oct. 5th, 2011 at 4:43 pm
This is so freakin’ true!
A Walkaway
Oct. 3rd, 2011 at 11:36 pm
It’s not just the young people saddled like that.
Us older folks who finally tore free of the church programming and returned to school also have huge debt… and at least this individual has only worked one month since graduating almost a year and a half ago (with a M.A.). Meanwhile, because of the way the student debt system is structured, that debt just keeps mounting and mounting.
DWNNDOG
Oct. 5th, 2011 at 9:41 am
typical , usery ….is the biggest debt creator ever …this money does not exist ….so it will crash …and the tax man bails out this monster and keeps feeding it ..they have more than bitten the hand that feeds ….its bitten off to the elbows !!!!
novenator
Oct. 3rd, 2011 at 8:05 pm
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
-Mohandas Gandhi
Ingarose
Oct. 3rd, 2011 at 9:25 pm
That is exactly what is happening with the Wall Street protests. First all the media totally ignored it (most still do), then they laughed about it (especially Fox news with Hannity, O’Reilly and their side kicks) and now they are getting mad and are trying to put up a fight (mostly Fox News, but others will join soon).
And I only hope that the protesters will win in one way or another, because I cannot stomach the idea of Hannity and Ann Colter (she is on right now on Hannity) winning.
Imani Burrell
Oct. 3rd, 2011 at 8:11 pm
It’s not only fox… MSNBC and CNN are using a subtle form of disinformation by repeatedly trying to tie the protest on Wall Street to Big Government. While I agree that the movement is also protesting the lack of jobs being created, no way the English language allows you to make the leap of no jobs to Big Government. Its simply a way to subconsciously inject the underlying message of the right and Rupert Murdoch.
KatzKids
Oct. 4th, 2011 at 7:29 am
My local news, for the first time, covered the protest tonight. For about 2 minutes. Maddening, but at least it was mentioned. Hopefully that’s just the beginning.
Jason Ground
Oct. 6th, 2011 at 3:13 am
My two cents: local newscasts should cover local (and perhaps state or regional) news. National news is the purview of the networks… both cable and broadcast. If there’s a local angle fine, otherwise leave it for the big boys.
Just sayin’.
Shiva (Moderator)
Oct. 6th, 2011 at 8:31 am
Oh I don’t know, the big story on CNN yesterday was a racecar driver that was saved from a burning car
boiler
Oct. 3rd, 2011 at 8:31 pm
anyone here today attend or get to see on cspan van jones speech to the progressive confab today???? awesome get together, wish they would do it here on the LEFT coast…. fox is going to be going on overdrive over any progressive masses showing up anywhere…. should be an interesting few months coming up……………
Ingarose
Oct. 3rd, 2011 at 9:29 pm
Fox seems to be exploding, I hope they do.
Shiva (Moderator)
Oct. 3rd, 2011 at 8:38 pm
Boy we have wall street right where we want them. In our pockets squeezing our money out
Its really funny that the Foxsters will buy this while paying for the gas speculators have drive up and watching their credit cards being stolen by the banks. While watching their retirements slip away
Gaia
Oct. 3rd, 2011 at 9:44 pm
absolutely! we are the media! fcuks news you are fired!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
David
Oct. 3rd, 2011 at 10:01 pm
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. -Gandhi
Fox is at the laugh at you stage… looking forward to the fight.
Joanne Babic
Oct. 3rd, 2011 at 10:28 pm
All mortgages written prior to 2008 and in foreclosure should be forgiven and the people keep their houses. They were paid up in the bail-outs and it’s the greed of the bankers and Wall Street that caused the jobs to disappear and the loss of those houses. That should be at least part of their punishment.
DWNNDOG
Oct. 5th, 2011 at 9:46 am
good one ,right on the nail
Ceunei
Oct. 3rd, 2011 at 11:01 pm
I am proud all these hard-working unemployed people have found something to do in their unpaid time. Politically Activate.
Time on our hands and no money to spend…hmmmmm…what is going on at the top?
dem9586792844592
Oct. 3rd, 2011 at 11:24 pm
Fox was unfortunately rather successful I thought in making the protesters look foolish in interviews. Maybe some sort of teach-in there would be too much to hope for.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=p...
www.youtube.com/user/NewL...
This group has has used the same tactic on Tea Baggers. Maybe someone could help promote these as a counter offensive.
There seem to be plenty of material available by Googling videos under:
tea party protest idiots
Anne
Oct. 3rd, 2011 at 11:31 pm
FOX Noise’s disparagement of the protest is patronizing and ignorant. It’s largely about people who rightly see the system as having failed them badly and an indictment of Wall Street’s corruption, greed, and influence on politics in Washington and elsewhere. FOX’s response also makes it clear that their supposed rejection of extremism is only a tactic but their goal of misinformation is the same.
Damn Press!
Oct. 4th, 2011 at 12:02 am
I listened to Steve Moore and the other blonde narcissist interviewing him on Fox News. They are knocking these kids on global TV for a lack of understanding of the world. That may be so Mr. and Miss. Narcissist, but even with their stage fright while speaking on national television, these kids are braver and more patriotic than you will ever be. They are out there fighting the inequity that is going on within Wall Street. They are out there fighting the multi-billion dollar bailouts. They are out there fighting corrupt politics. They are out there fighting about the American jobs that have gone over seas. They are fighting the sinking of this country. They are fighting the loss of our Constitution and our civil rights. They are fighting the radically out of balance tax system and this country’s unfathomable debt. They are fighting for the elderly. They are fighting for medicare and social security. They are fighting this GOOD FOR NOTHING OVER PAID OVER PRIVILEGED LAME DUCK CONGRESS THAT IS GOOD FOR SH*T!
God d@mn you!!! These kids who you insult are the one’s who are inheriting this country and the enormous problems that bastards like you continue to perpetuate. Who are you to knock them? They are fighting for their futures whether they know exactly what it is that they are fighting for or not. They know they are in trouble! They know that they are screwed. They know that it’s the corruption and the perverse gluttony that is doing this.
Don’t you dare knock these kids again!!! Don’t you dare you corporate masturbating pig!!! The both of you deserve to be punched square in the nose and kicked off this continent!!!!
DWNNDOG
Oct. 5th, 2011 at 9:50 am
its these kids that want to know why money is worth absolutely shit
Anon
Oct. 4th, 2011 at 12:16 am
The ironic thing is that Fox News is helping to remind us the key that will bring our success. :) Remain peaceful! Remain legal! We will grow the numbers and we will win! Help everyone remember not to riot or become violent, because then we would be dismissed. The world is watching.
Coffee Party Member
Oct. 4th, 2011 at 1:27 am
How can they take us seriously without tea bags hanging off our three cornered patriot hats?
Maybe we could put (empty, upside down) coffee pots on our heads?
bry
Oct. 4th, 2011 at 1:35 am
With all of this, why the heck is there an ad for Delta airlines at the top of this – now the largest (?) airline in the world? While cutting the salaries of all their employees by half due to 9/11 and rise of oil pricecs – posting larger profits year over year. Airlines are the biggest hoax!
Paddy
Oct. 4th, 2011 at 1:44 am
Fox has begun deriding the thing they pretended did not exist for two weeks. I call that progress. Now we know they are scared. Good. They should be.
Pigbitin Mad
Oct. 4th, 2011 at 10:00 am
If enough of us are connected via social media, we can nullify all of the corporate money being thrown at Fox and their ilk. It is too late to find a substitute for Barrack Obama, but the OccupyWallStreet crowd can elect a radical leftwing within the democratic party to hold Barack Obama’s feet to the fire. We need to get rid of these traitorous Blue Dog Democrats, AND we need to get rid of the Tea Party. It could have been done in 2010 except a lot of people stayed home. Lets hope that doesn’t happen again.
Shiva (Moderator)
Oct. 4th, 2011 at 10:05 am
The blue dogs are the Key,. not Obama. He can do nothing without the backing of Congress
Scott
Oct. 4th, 2011 at 10:37 am
Too true – Obama has tried but has been hampered at every turn by the Tea Party in Congress. It’s devastating that he’s losing popularity for not fulfilling his promise of change, when the effect of that will be people not bothering to go out and vote (as in 2010) and so the Republicans and the Tea Party getting more of a hold. He needs to be re-elected at the next election and given a decent majority in both houses, then he has a chance to carry out the radical change he promised and build on the little he’s done so far.
Paul
Oct. 4th, 2011 at 11:08 am
Obama has not been hampered, he is one of them. The sooner some of you realize that the Dem vs Repub paradigm is part of the charade the better. Don’t make excuses for him, he deserves to swing as much as any other because he played their game.
GregH
Oct. 5th, 2011 at 8:16 am
Congress is the entertainment branch of corporate america. – morphed a bit from Frank Zappa.
DWNNDOG
Oct. 5th, 2011 at 9:55 am
haahahha good one
GregH
Oct. 5th, 2011 at 8:22 am
we don’t need to get rid of anyone … we need to stand up and participate. blogging all the time isn’t enough. going to boring city hall meetings, school board meetings, shareholder meetings, go to their -find out what flim-flam they believe and counter it locally. Tehre is no single magic pill that will correct the problems… you have to go after it every day. Not in anger – just thougtfully and methodically. its just a job – every day.
daniel
Oct. 5th, 2011 at 2:53 pm
hate to be that guy, but the democratic party is in bed with the same crowd. you dont think they hedge their bets? the democratic party is the brake on the car heading off the cliff, their only purpose is to slow the ride down so most dont try and stop the car before its really too late.
James
Oct. 4th, 2011 at 10:05 am
The London riots were not about economics, they were about police killing a man.
Shiva (Moderator)
Oct. 4th, 2011 at 10:57 am
London also had riots that pertain to the government cutting education funding and other economic reasons
Paul
Oct. 4th, 2011 at 11:06 am
yes they did, but the trigger was a killing. An extra-Judicial killing.
Tink
Oct. 4th, 2011 at 10:07 am
“First, they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.”- Gandhi
Michael Rivero
Oct. 4th, 2011 at 10:42 am
#OccupyFOX
Actually, we do understand how the world works. We understand that a private central bank issuing the public currency at interest is a means to enslave the people with debt; to return us to the very sort of banking systems this nation fought a revolution to be free of, only to be sold back into such slavery by a corrupted Congress and a corrupted President.
We understand that the media’s job has not been to inform the public, but to conceal from the public this monstrous swindle, to teach us over and over that the Federal Reserve is the only possible system of banking; that the nation has always used this system, and that we have always been at war with Eastasia!
Alex Larsen
Oct. 4th, 2011 at 12:30 pm
I guess you mean Eurasia if it’s “1984″ by Orwell you’re referring to…
DWNNDOG
Oct. 5th, 2011 at 9:58 am
YOU ARE SPOT ON MY MAN ……..USERY IS THE KILLER …THE MONEY DOES NOT!!!!!!!!!!!!! EXIST !!!!!!
Paul
Oct. 4th, 2011 at 11:05 am
Why does this putrid organization still even have an audience?? Why are they not picking through the ashes??
Lindsay
Oct. 4th, 2011 at 11:35 am
hey dummies, we ARE organized and we ARE IN DC RIGHT NOW. McPhereson Square OCCUPYDC is happening, come on out.
DWNNDOG
Oct. 5th, 2011 at 10:01 am
sorry im in south africa …..but you have my backing !!!!!!!!!!go
john
Oct. 4th, 2011 at 11:40 am
fox news and those that work for it are all traitors, and what do we do with traitors???
GregH
Oct. 5th, 2011 at 8:13 am
Promote them to CEO ?
distresing
Oct. 4th, 2011 at 11:51 am
Let’s don’t let CNN off the hook. Erin Burnett, former CNBC Wall Street apologist, got all snarky and dismissive yesterday on her shiny new show. Most of the corporate media just wants this to go away before the fingers start pointing their way and expose all of them as lazy, celebrity dazzled excuses for journalists.
Orri
Oct. 4th, 2011 at 11:53 am
No, it’s actually quite easy to remember. Stephen Moore is the asshole.
DWNNDOG
Oct. 5th, 2011 at 10:03 am
no ! arseholes are very useful …..hes a closed arsehole !!!
Joe
Oct. 4th, 2011 at 1:59 pm
Elections are being rigged. Entire communities shattered all in the name of competition. It’s hard to compete with an industry that is being heavily subsidized by their govt.
They’ve got the guns but we’ve got the numbers.
We must remain strong yet pacifist.
PJ London
Oct. 4th, 2011 at 3:49 pm
To Alex Larson:
No he meant Eastasia
“In 1984, there is a perpetual war between Oceania, Eurasia and Eastasia, the super-states which emerged from the atomic global war”
If you want to show how smart you, at least be smart
Rob
Oct. 4th, 2011 at 8:59 pm
Occupy Wall Street reminds me so much of the sixties and early seventies, I can’t help but wonder if it is going to have a similar aftermath. Once the Vietnam War was over and America got on an economic roll, thanks in part to the false economy created by Nixon when he took the dollar off the gold standard, the vast majority of former young idealists got back into the system and the corporate machine shifted into high gear. When I moved to San Francisco in 1979, “yuppies” (young urban professionals) had replaced “hippies” and an MBA was the cool college degree to have.
I find it interesting that the Wall Street protesters are predominantly either young or old. Missing are the generations that followed mine – the middle-aged. I also find it interesting that the media is starting to trivialise and demonise the movement. In 20 years, will this be remembered as something that led to real change or will you and your children be re-assimilated into the system? Will your efforts be remembered as heroic or will you be caricaturised as we were?
When I moved to Australia in 1985, it was like a breath of fresh air. Unfortunately, Australia has become Americanised. I’m happy to see the movement spreading to Australia.
DWNNDOG
Oct. 5th, 2011 at 10:08 am
nice comment ,knowledge is the key no matter your age …**** these banker s and by that i mean stop usery …..
Shiva (Moderator)
Oct. 5th, 2011 at 10:25 am
thank you for posting and for your support from South Africa, but we do not advocate killing people and you might want to watch your language as we moderate most swear words out
David
Oct. 4th, 2011 at 10:52 pm
FOX picks on kids to make a buck? Undeniably, the link below puts FOX news into perspective
www.facebook.com/#!/permalink.phpstory_fbid=183989418345554&id=100002225716707
Canby
Oct. 5th, 2011 at 2:54 am
“More than anything Wall Street and Fox News are hoping that the protests turn violent so that they can delegitimize you as an angry mob.”
In keeping with that thought, I’m very concerned that the Right Wingers will send in faux protesters to do just that–instigate or pretend to be violent to try to de-legitimize the movement. It’s happened before and I have no doubt that it could happen again. Hope the various local organizers are aware and have prepared fellow protesters in non-violent strategies to cope w/something like that.
GregH
Oct. 5th, 2011 at 8:12 am
Its what you actually do about this that matters. This movement doesn’t need more people commenting, it needs people acting. Find your local Occupy, point out problems you know about, put sunshine on the process and admit your part in it. What we and our predecessors built through ignorance can be taken apart and reassembled in good conscience and public openess.
DWNNDOG
Oct. 5th, 2011 at 10:09 am
NICE
JayInDallas
Oct. 5th, 2011 at 11:09 am
ANONYMOUS. If you’re out there listening. The time has come to silence the propaganda machine known as Fox News.
marcos
Oct. 5th, 2011 at 11:57 am
Steve Moore claims that the world works? Really? It looks like the global capitalist regime is decomposing of its own contradictions before our eyes.
Sally
Oct. 5th, 2011 at 12:59 pm
The first video was spot on. You can’t just protest greed. If you want to do that join a church and follow the bible where greed is a sin. Corporations aren’t evil. Corporation is just the name for businesses. Most of your local mom and pop stores are corporations with the pop being the CEO. What you are really protesting is the huge corporations that offer a good product. Lets be real, they are only big because they offered a good product at a price people say “okay that is a good deal.” Now some people can’t afford that and want to protest? If you can make the product cheaper then do it. Nothing is stopping you. Show your solid business plan to any bank or a rich investor and they will gladly give you the money at only a few percent interest. The interest rates are ridiculously low which is why money is so cheap. Your not too broke to start a business. You just don’t have an idea good enough for a bank or an investor to believe in it. The tax these protesters are complaining about is the capital gains tax if you didn’t know. And the reason it is so low is because this is the tax for investing and investing promotes new businesses, jobs, and economic growth. The capital gains tax should be low given how risky it is investing into new (growth) businesses.
Shiva (Moderator)
Oct. 5th, 2011 at 1:14 pm
sorry Sally, but what is being protested is the corruption and the stealing of Americans money. You very rarely find a mom-and-pop store anymore because somebody has bought them up or put them out of business
Credit card companies are evil when they cheat. Banks are evil when they cheat and Wall Street with all of its participants cheat and are evil when they perform risky purchases and risky trading with the people’s money
Mortimer
Oct. 5th, 2011 at 2:49 pm
The first video’s protester accounts and responses are so terribly edited that my 11 year old daughter could do better. They are purposefully picking the dumber responses and editing the other to sound dumb to make the protester seems less credible. That’s definitely a sign that they’re worried about something.
Paul
Oct. 5th, 2011 at 3:43 pm
They don’t know how the world works? They know EXACTLY how the world works. That’s WHY they’re protesting. Because it ISN’T conducive to the way the current machine works. They know how the world works and they know the “machine” is a sub-set of operations about how the world works. The machine is a conceptual structure of activity that pushes a certain agenda. And that’s what they’re protesting because there’s no such thing as perpetual motion in machinery, even conceptual machines like our political system, in the face of reality. They’re protesting to bring attention to this. To materialize the change THAT ALREADY EXISTS. And until the right realizes this impermanence, everyone will suffer.
Annie
Oct. 5th, 2011 at 4:17 pm
Dear Fox Fearmongers,
We will not sit down and shut up. We’re sick of your BS. We are not afraid.
Jon
Oct. 5th, 2011 at 5:00 pm
To Quotr Glinda the Good from the Wizaed of Oz, “Fox news, you have no power over me. Now be gone, before someone drops a house on you!”
Sarah Fields
Oct. 5th, 2011 at 6:06 pm
Fox News you are a disgrace to America and a huge joke over here in New Zealand and around the world! For your information – Capitalism is destroying the world and you need to wake up and realise that action for change needs to happen now – we can no longer live in this materialistic world. For those of you that believe capitalism is the answer just watch this movie – “HOME” a film by Yann Arthus-Bertrand and then decide what you think.
Fox News- stop showing us this warped view of what is going on in Wall Street – we do have access to this thing called the internet and your shoddy and misleading reporting no longer fools us!
We can but hope that 2012 will be the start of a new age where everyone knows their neighbour, the rich help the poor, people stand united and we start to save this world that is nearly lost to us and to our future generations.
Tom
Oct. 5th, 2011 at 6:23 pm
Faux News…
Team Hayek
Oct. 5th, 2011 at 6:45 pm
Why is Fox relevant? Because they support the troops, who employ the majority of young adults since the dawn of Dubya’s JOBLESS “recovery”.
I hope those young adults can see through the smoke and mirrors-esp after the banks and the politicians ruined helped the criminals at OUR EXPENSE and our economic policy was ruined by inept lobbyists.
All Fawx wants to do is take out subprime mortgages to speculate in $700,000 houses with an equity line, then blame it on
1. poor minorities (when over 70% of subprime mortgages were taken out by upper middle class WHITE folk- and 100% of counterfeit uncollateralized “collateralized” debt obligations were sold by white folks)
2. student loans costs a mere $15,000-$40,000 for MOST of us. When there’s a real job market with real purchasing power in society, that debt pays itself off. Unlike the sketchy subprime market that Fawx loves…only losers “create wealth” by destroying monetary value-then waste tax dollars to push propaganda to promote it.
Connie Kuramoto
Oct. 5th, 2011 at 7:01 pm
Not Obama’s fault…Republicans are preventing Obama from fixing things. Policies are not working because they are stonewalled…Why aren’t the job creators creating jobs? They have more then enough money right now!
Connie Kuramoto
Oct. 5th, 2011 at 7:03 pm
We are the 99% We are too big to fail. The “Wall”s come tumbling down
WTH
Oct. 5th, 2011 at 8:13 pm
An interesting thing happens when you stop watching Fox News (or any mainstream media news for that matter). After now watching it for several weeks/months and then turning it on, you are able to see the agenda at work and see these news organizations for what they really are…
Back in January, when Gabrielle Giffords was shot, the mainstream media was calling for everyone to stop using hateful rhetoric. The only ones I see spreading the hateful rhetoric is the mainstream media.
I miss the days when you could watch the news and not know what the reporter thought about a particular subject because they were just reporting it. Now they all spin it (even Bill O’Reilly).
Their agenda seems to be to divide this country. Once you get away from the mainstream media and their hype, you will actually be able to think for yourself and find yourself agreeing or disagreeing with both “sides of the aisle” for reasons that are your own… not for reasons the mainstream tries to drill into your head.
Johnny de Vulcan
Oct. 5th, 2011 at 11:58 pm
could you not close all entrances with bricks and mortar so they can´t get in and make more havoc?
dansaxe
Oct. 6th, 2011 at 12:04 am
Even if they don’t know exactlty “how the world works”, it dosn’t take a genious to know that it’s not working the way it is now. You don’t have to know you have cancer to know your sick. It just hurts, so you cry out.
Flex
Oct. 7th, 2011 at 3:16 pm
If you had cancer, would you “protest” as to how upset you are by the fact – or, with all your heart, mind, soul… commit yourself to actually DOING something about it?
jro
Oct. 10th, 2011 at 6:50 pm
“doing something” in this case IS protesting – it is getting press for the cause. To extend your analogy, the body produces an allergic response, and issues chemicals which rally resources – what else do you interpret protesting as?
Mike
Oct. 6th, 2011 at 12:55 am
Can we get the word out to the general assembly and all our great occupying force at wall street..to get part of US down to protest FOX NEWS and give them hell… also i heard the declaration that the General Assembly saying what everyone agrees were all about..it is brilliant and should be passed out in front of FOX news day and night insisting for them to read it .It should be gotten out to all the reporters in all the station and we should force them to read it..It is amazing trust me
joe
Oct. 6th, 2011 at 9:22 am
These guys (us) aren’t affiliated with Fox News or Newscorp but we are asking some of the same questions. Probably in a less condescending way that those Fox News idiots. Our most important question is “Where is Occupy Wall Street Going?” runredhot.com/?p=5096
Honestly, it seems fun. I just have a family and job and too much too lose by jumping in the streets. Responsibilities…they creep up on you fast!
HarlanSanders
Oct. 6th, 2011 at 12:31 pm
No, it can’t possibly be the fact that wallstreet has been permitted to socialize its losses and privatize its profits. It can’t be that the money that we gave them was used to lobby against regulations that would prevent a future financial meltdown.
The fact is the protesters each individually have things they’re angry about, but one thing that they have in common is anger over how corporate money has become so ubiquitous in politics. Not everyone has a complete understanding of why they’re angry and how they’re being screwed. But they know that they’re being screwed and they know that at the root of it there is corporate lobbyist money and superPAC money. You don’t have to have a full understanding of the financial crisis to know that politicians accepting favors and contributions from lobbyists tends to corrupt them. You don’t have to be a genius to know that if a SuperPAC runs ads attacking your opponent you’re likely to be more sympathetic to the cause of the people behind that PAC.
And I hate to say this, but if you think that what I described is OK, then you are a corrupt person and an enemy of the people.
CS
Oct. 6th, 2011 at 12:57 pm
I believe that the general public are well aware of the hardships of reality. Losing homes, unemployment, high cost of living, etc. The problem is inequality of wealth. It all comes down to money. The general public just doesn’t have enough and that is the issue. The wealthy has consolidated it’s power in Government and pretty much run the show. The people are sick of it, we want a Republic that is run for the people by the people. I don’t see how that is hard to see. We know the problems, the list is long and most of the problems come to how money is spent, obtained and distributed around the world. Why should we bailout the wealthy and not the middle class and poor?These News Media agencies are the problem. They tell one sided stories to show their point of view and leave out the rest.
Keith
Oct. 6th, 2011 at 1:09 pm
When tyranny is law, revolution is order.
That was the statement of one of the protesters. It may seem a bit broad in scope, but the NYPD then goes about proving it’s validity every day. They are especially determined to shut down media records of their fascist tactics and have even maced and clubbed a local Fox affiliate crew.
The NYPD received a $4.5 Million donation from Wall St the first day of the protests, but I’m sure that their intentions are honorable and they only want to keep order. The many reporters and photographers that have been arrested and beaten was surely just coincidence. >sarcasm.
Tim Gourley
Oct. 6th, 2011 at 4:43 pm
I boycott all fox advertisers and think fox cable noise should have to register as a lobbyist organization
George
Oct. 7th, 2011 at 12:53 am
You mean to tell me there are stupid people out. Say it isn’t so. It’s not hard 95 percent of people out there are stupid.
John Steinsvold
Oct. 7th, 2011 at 3:59 pm
An Alternative to Capitalism (if the people knew about it, they would demand it)
Several decades ago, Margaret Thatcher claimed: “There is no alternative”. She was referring to capitalism. Today, this negative attitude still persists.
I would like to offer an alternative to capitalism for the American people to consider. Please click on the following link. It will take you to an essay titled: “Home of the Brave?” which was published by the Athenaeum Library of Philosophy:
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John Steinsvold
Perhaps in time the so-called dark ages will be thought of as including our own.
–Georg C. Lichtenberg
Shiva (Moderator)
Oct. 7th, 2011 at 7:12 pm
I would like to see that type of world. That is a true every manager brother world. But it will never be an alternative as long as people are greedy and we maintain a very wealthy upper class of people who wish to remain that way under any circumstances
Reynardine
Oct. 10th, 2011 at 4:27 pm
The Mouth of Sauron has driven the presstitutes, public opinion, and policy long enough. There are petitions to the A.J. and letters to congresscritters you can sign on line. Please do so.
Slyjinks
Oct. 14th, 2011 at 6:43 pm
Be careful not to harp too heavily on “us vs them,” “99 percent vs 1 percent” mentality, because we have allies even among the 1 percent.
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When the outcry is from both we, the 99 percent and we, the one percent, it truly becomes an outcry from We, the People. And that should have the likes of Fox News and their masters *terrified.*
Robert
Oct. 16th, 2011 at 1:54 am
Fox may think that the 99 percent do not know how the world works but we know enough by watching Fox to see how the world DOESN’T work.