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Blackout: CNN, Fox, and MSNBC Ignore Thousands Of US Day Of Rage Protesters
Most Americans are being kept in the dark about the US Day of Rage by the corporate cable news giants at CNN, Fox News, and MSNBC who have imposed a de facto blackout on the protest.
Even though estimates have varied from hundreds to as many as 50,000 protesters flooded into Manhattan and others cities to take part in events around the country to, “nonviolently disrupt the disloyal, incompetent, and corrupt special interests which have usurped our nation’s civil and military power, spawning a host of threats to our liberty, lives and national security,” the three cable news networks have devoted no airtime to the story.
This is becoming an all too familiar scene. In Wisconsin hundreds of thousands of regular people took to the streets each weekend to protest the theft of their rights, and were completely ignored by CNN, Fox News, and MSNBC.
Sarah Palin’s Iowa tea party speech was 1/50 as big as the Wisconsin protests, yet she was deemed worthy of national media coverage.
The kowtowing of the corporate media to the conservative agenda continued last week as CNN climbed in bed with the Tea Party Express to host a Republican presidential debate that was chocked full of rhetoric about how taxes must be cut to protect the same “job creators” who crashed the US economy in 2008, and have continued to reap record profits by sitting on bailout money, and not hiring any new workers.
CNN decided that the Tea Party was a worthy news partner, but covering a protest that is happening right under their very noses in New York City is not important to the American people. (In fact as I type this, CNN is running another self-congratulatory segment on their Tea Party Express debate/total sellout to the right). No one expects the pro-business corporate propaganda/GOP propaganda mouthpiece Fox News to devote any coverage to the occupation of Wall Street, but the supposed progressive news network, MSNBC can’t “lean forward” long enough to turn off their true crime doc block to cover an event that is happening minutes away from their studios.
The corporate cable news media ignored Wisconsin, and now they are ignoring the protests of regular Americans who want their democracy placed back into their hands. The corporate media have proven time and time again that they are an obstacle to, not a provider of truth. Unlike the bogus tea party movement, the Occupy Wall Street protest features people of all ages, colors, shapes, sizes, and political affiliations. These people are protesting a broken system. They are protesting a loss of freedom. They are protesting inequality, and they are fighting for our rights.
Whether or not the corporate media cameras are in attendance, the protests will go on. Americans will continue to march, and those who love their country will continue to battle to make it better.
The conservative media bias of the cable news industry can and will be overcome. We don’t need video to feel the heart of America beat strong.
(Note: The 50,000 was an estimated attendance. Other estimates place the number of attendees in NYC in the hundreds to the thousands. The title has been changed to reflect conflicting attendance estimates).
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Distant Observer
Sep. 17th, 2011 at 6:51 pm
Hint: Stop watching them; stop talking about them; and stop writing about them. In the entire article, I as a reader, was never directed to where I could follow the news. No citizen journalism, no social media, no non-profit journalism. I was only told where I can’t watch it. If the MSM is irrelevant to the reality unfolding in our lives, ignore them and instead promote sources that do reflect our voices.
Gloria Enoch
Sep. 17th, 2011 at 7:23 pm
Sounds good, thats what I do.
mikejh
Sep. 17th, 2011 at 7:41 pm
You mean like you’re reading here? Also there’s a sidebar full of good references for news and you just read news. I don’t get why people are so cranky! There were protests all over the country today. Who knows how many people showed up? But I bet it’s more than the 200 at the last Teaparty rally that got tons of coverage.
Mike
Sep. 17th, 2011 at 8:40 pm
Because telling people “Here is where you can’t see the story” is literally the opposite of reporting. It does not tell me where I CAN find news on the story, or where I can find out how to join. In fact, posting it at 6:30 pretty much guarantees that no one who wants to join could.
It’s hypocritical. You complain of a media blackout, then report it when it’s too late to do anything about it? Way to fight the power.
Jason Easley
Sep. 17th, 2011 at 8:48 pm
Three points:
1). There is a link to the live stream in the story, so you were in fact told where you could see the story. In fact there is an entire post on the front page of this website devoted to the live stream from NYC.
2). The story was posted at 6:30 because to post it any earlier would have been hypocritical. Would you prefer that the story was written at noon, before we had a chance to see whether any of the cable networks covered it?
3). The protest isn’t a one day thing. It is still going on.
Robert
Sep. 17th, 2011 at 9:55 pm
Good for you, Jason! You make an excellent point. In fact, you made 3 of them. People should stop wanting to be spoon fed and do a little work on their own.
mikejh
Sep. 18th, 2011 at 12:09 am
Hey Jason, you actually have 2 other stories on the event on your front page and both of them link to the organizers page or there’s always Google for this dude. Guess he wants to be spoon fed too?
I read that 50,000 story from the link and it seemed too much after reading the other accounts that came in later this evening so you made a good call there. Appreciate you keeping it honest.
Jason Easley
Sep. 18th, 2011 at 12:13 am
I used other sources for my story, but as far as linking to the organizers, we try to do that with events no matter where they originate. Only one other story of ours links to the organizers. The live video link does not. As far as honesty goes, that was one estimate, but as numbers change it is important for the story to reflect the current information.The point of the post wasn’t the attendance number. It is important to remember that the media still chose to ignore this and talk about days old stories on a Saturday instead.
DannyEastVillage
Sep. 18th, 2011 at 7:59 am
dude–don’t. we have enough problems without jumping in the shit of the good guys. I understand your frustration about not being able to join, but I’d say Jason and the rest of ‘em are doing the best they can.
Meanwhile, are you able to point at news sources that did a better job of getting this story in front of us?
if not–how about you?
ECS
Sep. 17th, 2011 at 8:52 pm
Have you heard of a hot link? such as THIS one in the article? www.goddiscussion.com/792...
Virginia
Sep. 18th, 2011 at 12:57 am
Protesters should let the Police know that Countrywide screwed them too – settlement or not – have they actually seen a check yet – or is the payment set up over several years? See The Sucker Punch at www.deadlyclear.com
2/25/11: New York Pension Funds Settle Countrywide Financial Corporation Litigation for $624 Million
The New York State Common Retirement Fund and the five New York City public pension funds announced today the $624 million settlement of the Countrywide Financial Corporation Securities Class Action. Of this total, $22.5 million will be set aside for up to two years to be used by Countrywide to satisfy claims asserted by those that voluntarily excluded themselves from the class. This recovery is one of the largest securities fraud settlements in U.S. history. Source:www.osc.state.ny.us/press...
Bruce Bulman
Sep. 17th, 2011 at 9:34 pm
Get Miro.exe. Subscribe to Therealnews.com, Democracy Now, and other news sites where you can actually see news. Try to give them donations if you can. That is all.
Chefbob50
Sep. 18th, 2011 at 3:15 am
Some of the best coverage of American politics comes from Al Jazeera and Rtv (Russian tv)I get them on one of the digital cable PBS stations, way more balanced then our MSM…
Ann Graham
Sep. 17th, 2011 at 10:08 pm
That’s what I’ve been doing also. “News” on television is worthless at best and dangerous at its worst.
john
Sep. 17th, 2011 at 10:14 pm
99.5 FM, wbai.
john
Sep. 17th, 2011 at 10:15 pm
wbai.org
Christy
Sep. 17th, 2011 at 11:27 pm
That’s because there’s not really many other options when it comes to reliable non-biased news sources.
Jeannie
Sep. 18th, 2011 at 12:49 am
I read all the replys saying the links were right there next to the story, and I don’t see them either. There’s a blood pressure ad, a t-shirt ad, etc…Sorry to seem inept, but I, too would like to learn more about this movement/protest.
Can someone link it in an e-amil to me, please?
Thanks a lot, and keep up the good work.
tim
Sep. 18th, 2011 at 12:55 am
It’s a link (in red) in this paragraph of the story:
” others cities to take part in events around the country to, “nonviolently disrupt the disloyal, incompetent, and corrupt special interests which have usurped our nation’s civil and military power, spawning a host of threats to our liberty, lives and national security,” the three cable news networks have devoted no airtime to the story.”
Wildseas
Sep. 18th, 2011 at 3:26 am
Boycott all of them and their adverters permanently. and let us start our own media service in direct competition, providing open and unbiased radio broadcast and tv stationas across the country.
Tyler
Sep. 18th, 2011 at 3:47 am
Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting.org
John Henry
Sep. 17th, 2011 at 6:55 pm
Liberal media bias, right?
This is truly among the most frightening aspects of the post 9-11 world. Once upon a time, it was the media who were the last line of defense against despotism. Now they’ve been almost completely co-opted.
Adan
Sep. 17th, 2011 at 7:54 pm
I think you’d have to go back much farther than 9/11 to say that about the media. The end of the fairness doctrine, and the sell off of *our* airwaves led to FAUX and all manner of lies and BS to flow freely through the (increasingly dumbed down) public consciousness appealing to the worst of America.
Reynardine
Sep. 17th, 2011 at 8:55 pm
It started with Ronald Reagan, really, the empty-headed Media King, whose mouth moved like an anus mindlessly shitting evil into the world and around whom the adoringly coprophagous presstitutes couldn’t circle their wagons tightly enough. It was during his rain (not a misspelling- by the end of his second term he was truly wetting his pants) that both the fairness doctrine and the concept of operating in the public interest became virtual nullities.
Ann Graham
Sep. 17th, 2011 at 10:10 pm
THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU FOR REMINDING US ABOUT THE FAIRNESS DOCTRINE.When I try to talk to people about it, they know nothing about it.
Oldsun
Sep. 17th, 2011 at 11:01 pm
There is no fairness doctrine any more broadcastengineering.com/...
Sue
Sep. 17th, 2011 at 7:00 pm
So I guess this is why conservatives have big heads and believe the country backs their radical religious rightie agenda. Oh yeah right…F**K the corporate whore media, we know who the real patriots are!!
Steve
Sep. 17th, 2011 at 7:06 pm
I totally support the protesters, but on Flickr someone was posting photos..estimating the crowd at Three-hundred…how did anyone come up with fifty-thousand. Let’s be honest about people’s apathy!!
Shiva (Moderator)
Sep. 17th, 2011 at 7:17 pm
I always take the word of someone posting pictures on flickr before anything else. Im easy
Sarah Jones
Sep. 17th, 2011 at 7:49 pm
CBS is saying tens of thousands were called to come, but it was nationwide. I doubt anyone has the numbers yet. But even if there were 500 people there, you have to wonder why the media is so obsessed with the Tea Party and not with the protests of the people in WI, MI, OH, and elsewhere.
josh
Sep. 18th, 2011 at 9:15 am
the origanal tea party movement was based on ron paul and his anti big goverment, give the poer back to he people views. to counter that the establishment type, big goverment republicans, are trying to say they are tae party bc its views were catching on.
the MSM are not covering the true tea party movement, they are covering the canidates that claim they are tea party but are bought and paid for.
Shiva (Moderator)
Sep. 18th, 2011 at 10:48 am
The original tea party was conceived and funded from Conservative offices. Even one of the founders says todays tea party has nothing to do with what it was founded for. And it sure isnt for the people of this country.
SinghX
Sep. 18th, 2011 at 2:57 pm
He who owns the camera says where to “point it”.
Patricia
Sep. 17th, 2011 at 9:40 pm
50,000 nationwide!… Not bad turn-out for something not widely known about on the interwebs…
DLC3
Sep. 18th, 2011 at 11:06 am
While quoting ‘flickr’ as a source is a bit narrow. The truth is out there, there is nowhere near 50,000 people there. They didn’t even number 1,000. This is why the media is paying little attention. If there were 50,000 we would see it cycled every eight minutes.
Sorry but this article is profoundly dishonest. 50,000? More like 500.
Shiva (Moderator)
Sep. 18th, 2011 at 12:46 pm
If you noticed, the number was adjusted from earlier reports
buckeyewill
Sep. 17th, 2011 at 7:06 pm
LIBERAL MEDIA????!
WHAT LIBERAL MEDIA?????!!
alan
Sep. 17th, 2011 at 7:09 pm
We no longer need main stream media to report our news to us. We have social media like Twitter and Live Stream.
Follow the hashtag #OccupyWallStreet and #TakeWallStreet.
Spread the live feed link www.livestream.com/global...
Ingarose
Sep. 17th, 2011 at 7:24 pm
The people do not have the time, nor the money, to keep protests going day after day, like they did in Egypt. If we did that the media would have to cover those protests.
Unfortunately, if we only protest for one day on the weekend, no one is going to take the protesters seriously. They just ignore it, calling the people crazy or union thugs.
alan
Sep. 17th, 2011 at 7:35 pm
this is a protest with no end. people are camping out.
Asha
Sep. 17th, 2011 at 7:54 pm
People have been protesting daily in Madison WI since February and still no one is taking us seriously. How much more do they want.
mala reynolds
Sep. 17th, 2011 at 11:34 pm
Please don’t forget Ed Schultz on MSNBC and all his viewers! I, and all my friends were cheering Ed and all the wonderful people who were standing up for the hard-working nurses,teachers,firefighters and others who wanted to be treated fairly in their workplace.I support the good people of Madison,who always conducted themselves with dignity.I support OneWisconsinNow.org and their hard work.I certainly believe incollective bargaining rights.Best of luck from NC
Darrren
Sep. 17th, 2011 at 10:46 pm
Are you seriously implying that Egyptians,Tunisians,Syrians have more money and time than Americans?…..What planet do you live on? Egyptians were protesting for MONTHS ….It’s called SOLIDARITY…people brought what little food they had and shared with each other..others who couldn’t be there brought food and donated it…Thousands upon thousands of people TOGETHER, working for the greater good. THAT is what we need here! If you have some extra food….DONATE IT!….A few blankets and some water go a long way!
herkemer
Sep. 17th, 2011 at 7:26 pm
you people are complete idiots if you think that is what they are after
Shiva (Moderator)
Sep. 17th, 2011 at 7:28 pm
And? And?
My mistake Herk, I thought you were going to tell us what they are after.
tifosa
Sep. 17th, 2011 at 7:59 pm
oops, my response was to you Shiva.
tifosa
Sep. 17th, 2011 at 7:55 pm
Go to their website. Hint: It’s under “OBJECTIVE” :^)
Sue
Sep. 17th, 2011 at 7:33 pm
CNN just did a very low key 2 minute piece on the protests. Don Lemmon acted bored stiff by the report and almost angry with the protesters! The reporter said there were a few hundred at the most there. CNN is in bed with the teabaggers fer sher…
Sarah Jones
Sep. 17th, 2011 at 7:50 pm
LOL! CBS said tens of thousands (I only read the title to that piece which said tens of thousands but in the article they say thousand). Way to go CNN.
Ingarose
Sep. 17th, 2011 at 8:15 pm
Can someone please explain to me what “LOL” means? I guess I am somewhat naive.
Let the protests continue.
Jolene
Sep. 17th, 2011 at 8:49 pm
Laughing Out Loud. Or Living on Lard.
Trahelion
Sep. 17th, 2011 at 10:52 pm
Hmmm… I think maybe on this case the ‘living on lard’ is the applicable one?
prddem
Sep. 17th, 2011 at 8:01 pm
Don Lemmon generally looks bored.
Terry
Sep. 18th, 2011 at 12:40 am
hehe love that guy tho
Kringle
Sep. 17th, 2011 at 7:49 pm
I haven’t seen anything about it on HuffingtonPost (AOL) either…
tim
Sep. 18th, 2011 at 12:28 am
Their waiting to get the lowest numbers they can to keep the plebes hungry. This was not only around the country but the world. We’re never going to know the real attendance number but more importantly, it’s never going to get coverage! Remember the Iraq war protests? Same crap.
Where is the coverage?????????????
JT1962
Sep. 18th, 2011 at 2:54 am
The coverage begins and ends with the protesters. Take video and upload it to YouTube, hourly if needs be. We didn’t have tv back during the revolution in the 1700′s, and still the news got out. It’s time to do this the old fashioned way, via people telling people. Get it out there online yourselves. Facebook, Twitter, calling people by phone. C’mon. Are we really that dependent on network and cable news shows, big corporations? Start the groundswell now and keep it moving. I’m going to do my bit by posting this story on my Facebook page.
sjm30741
Sep. 17th, 2011 at 7:54 pm
This means it’s up to US to make sure everyone hears about what is happening in NYC! Just like it was up to us to tell the world what was happening in Wisconsin. SEND IT VIRAL, FOLKS!!!
Mark Hubbell
Sep. 17th, 2011 at 8:01 pm
For the last couple of decades the FCC has been historically week on fulfilling their mandate to prevent media monopolies, in particular, the fouirth estate – news coverage. We need to somehow pressure that federal organization for reform. I’ve not been able to find any avenue to get started with that.
Has anyone else noticed how hard it is to send an email to CNN to protest their selection process for news coverage?
bythebookmema
Sep. 18th, 2011 at 12:19 am
Just so everyone can put 2+2 together and understand why CNN, MSNBC and NBC will not cover this New York owns controlling shares via the retirement fund investments. An awesome very indepth video addressing each and every states investments through the retirement funding can be found at thecorporationnation.com/. It really helps understand all the lack of media and honest journalism we experience as well as some very astonishing revelations. NY is just about 1:30 into the video.
William terry
Sep. 17th, 2011 at 8:15 pm
by naming it the main stream is being kind,msm is nothing but the infotainment networks, I remember when thousand of people were protesting the start of the invasion of Iraq,and the infotainment refuse to cover the protest
Jolene
Sep. 17th, 2011 at 8:26 pm
I can’t find a word about this story at msnbc.com. Not a word. Yet they’ll do breaking news if Sarah Palin draws 500 people to one of her screeds. It’s a good thing we have the Internet and the Google Machine to keep us informed now, and especially sites like this one. Cnn is now a joke with their pandering to the ignorant death-cheering, execution-loving Teabagger crowd. Lawrence O’Donnell, Rachel Maddow, and sometimes Chris Matthews are still getting the truth out there. Hope they can keep their jobs.
Cheryl
Sep. 17th, 2011 at 8:40 pm
I’ll check Chris Hayes new show in the morning to see if he covers it. While I agree with the premise of the article, I think it’s unfair regarding MSNBC & WI. Maddow and Schultz covered it extensively while it was at its height and both continue to host many of the representatives that continue to fight Walker’s agenda. But yeah, that’s our “liberal media” for you!
Jason Easley
Sep. 17th, 2011 at 8:43 pm
Coverage M-F for a live Saturday rally of 100,000 people is worthless. MSNBC provided NO live coverage.
Rob
Sep. 17th, 2011 at 8:47 pm
Ed Schultz of MSNBC never covered Wisconsin on his TV show? I find that hard to believe. But willing to. I do know his radio show did. It’s further evidence that our current news media is celebrity oriented. It’s what makes money, as opposed to covering the issues.
I would also echo the other commenters: Direct me to who did cover it. Ignore the corporate media. Falling ratings and numbers, which can be verified by calling the Schultz radio show and saying hey, I quit watching because MSNBC didn’t cover the huge rally on Wall Street. That’ll get attention if enough of us do it. Better yet, just e-mail MSNBC, and any other outlet you want and say, hey, I turned you off.
A Walkaway
Sep. 17th, 2011 at 9:09 pm
Contacting them – they’ll just say “Good Riddance”.
We’re those horrible “Liberals”. We don’t count in their eyes. You see, we think more than the sort of people they want watching.
AmyK
Sep. 17th, 2011 at 11:05 pm
Ed Schultz did cover the Madison protests. He actually anchored from Madison several times. Rachel Maddow covered them too. They did get short reports on CNN and the network news, but MSNBC and particularly Ed Schultz covered them heavily.
Rich
Sep. 17th, 2011 at 8:59 pm
Notice all the Rightwing ads on this page. LOL
Shiva (Moderator)
Sep. 17th, 2011 at 9:05 pm
Well rich, google adsense words serve ads based on keywords on the page.
Very little one can do about it
Patrick
Sep. 17th, 2011 at 11:30 pm
Weird, all my ads are about high blood pressure and credit cards.
tim
Sep. 18th, 2011 at 12:31 am
That should tell you something:-)
kimmie fawn
Sep. 17th, 2011 at 9:03 pm
i find it very convenient that they would completely ignore this. They had complete coverage for wars and violence and now that we are trying to promote peace it’s completely disregarded.
Reynardine
Sep. 17th, 2011 at 9:04 pm
Start doing what they have done in the Near East and the Maghreb. Take footage by cell phone and forward it to the BBC, Al Jazeera, Russia Today, France 24. Having these stories reported abroad before here just might shame some presstitutes.
A Walkaway
Sep. 17th, 2011 at 9:10 pm
Good idea. The foreign press is an entire factor better at accurate reporting than the American Mainstream anyway.
boiler
Sep. 17th, 2011 at 9:06 pm
if the media didnt cover 200000 in madison freezing in feb, they wont cover this. but why is this on a saturday? this should be held on a work day then they will have to cover it if it disrupts commerce…. just sayin….
Gail Malone
Sep. 17th, 2011 at 9:13 pm
I’m Australian and heard about this before the event and have been following online, it is all over Twitter and FB…I don’t know if our mainstream media devoted anytime to it….I don’t do telly lol….Keep it up USA, let the world know it is your Govt. we should hate not the people…
Sven
Sep. 17th, 2011 at 9:13 pm
OK. We need to move these huge demonstrations from Washington to the CNN and MSNBC studios. Put so many folks in street that the talking heads cannot get to work. Otherwise, it’s as if nothing is happening. When the corporations control all the big megaphones, even big groups cannot be heard.
Doris
Sep. 17th, 2011 at 9:37 pm
Just goes to show you,the almighty media loves the teepotties & rethugs especially CNN,they are probably being paid by the Koch Bros. to ignore the people,the middleclass & poor people & had this been a $carah FaYlin occasion they would have been drooling over her bull chit. I will give credit to MSNBC because they do keep the people informed of what these satanic extremist are doing.
Xango
Sep. 17th, 2011 at 9:45 pm
Hey, you fellow Traveler’s may want to goose your brethern in SFO… my son wandered by, took a pix..there were maybe 2 dozen people there and more cops than that..I would say..Epic Fail!!!!!!!!!
Shiva (Moderator)
Sep. 17th, 2011 at 9:51 pm
Wheres the epic fail? The 24 people or wall street?
Patrick
Sep. 17th, 2011 at 11:33 pm
Why do you talk like a 10 year old?
Cecily
Sep. 17th, 2011 at 9:55 pm
MSNBC did so cover the Wisconsin protests! Lawrence O’Donnell, Rachel Maddow, and Chris Matthews covered it extensively and Ed Schultz did his show from right there in Madison!
Jason Easley
Sep. 17th, 2011 at 10:01 pm
@Cecily
MSNBC provided no live coverage of the Wisconsin rallies.
Prime time coverage on M-F when the rallies happened live on Saturday is pointless. Would it have killed MSNBC to cover 100,000 protesters live?
buckeyewill
Sep. 17th, 2011 at 10:17 pm
What MSNBC done on the day of protest in Wisconsin was show lockup shows.
Blixa
Sep. 17th, 2011 at 10:00 pm
I 100% guarantee you that this protest will continue day after day after day….
This is NOT going to be a one time thing. Just wait and see!
RandyRandyRandy
Sep. 17th, 2011 at 10:08 pm
Never forget: These are the REAL protests, with REAL people making a difference. The “Tea Party” is a fake party and movement, created by Korporate Amerika, Big Oil, HMOs and the likes of Karl Rove, Glenn Beck, Grover Norquist et al to stop Obama and any hopes for change. They stole their tactics, protests, (and even poster art) from our 8+ years of anti-Bush/anti-war rallies – the largest public protests in history. Tea Party goons don’t stand for anything; they only stand against progress. This is why they will fail.
The US media is owned by the neo-CONs and will not give real dissent its due, preferring to air 50 fake teabaggers at a rally than 50,000 sincere Americans protesting on Wall Street. So let us keep on doing what we must do to move forward, regardless of the media. This is a lesson from every major movement of our times, from civil rights to Vietnam to gay rights to the massive anti-war rallies of 2003: just do what you know is right, pace yourself, and never give up. Change your life = change the world.
“The arc of history is long, but it bends toward justice” – Rev Martin Luther King, Jr.
buckeyewill
Sep. 17th, 2011 at 10:14 pm
It’s sad that the news media has become watered down. Who can remember Edward R. Murrow taking on Joe McCarthy, Howard K. Smith, Howard Cosell, people willing to take on issues without fear.
s. hall
Sep. 17th, 2011 at 10:29 pm
I’m in NYC visiting for the weekend. I only found out about the protest in a bar last night. I was there by 11 this morning. Could not even get near the exchange because of barricades. By 1:30 there were about 800-1000 people and NYPD everywhere.All peaceful. I though it was a bust. There were some setting up tents and little kitchen areas though. There were some smaller protests throughout lower Manhattan in places where there were no barricades but police were dispersing them. We’re screwed folks! America the Apathetic! I’m getting the hell out.
Frustrated
Sep. 17th, 2011 at 10:32 pm
I always find it amusing when “Special interest groups” are mentioned in articles. It’s as if only one side of the isle has them. While the left looks to unions and labor for its support, the right certainly looks to big business and corporate donations for its support. There is no distinction between the two and any attempt to draw one is a diversion from the truth. All of the protests in the country will not change anything in Washington until special interests on both sides are eliminated. That is something that will never happen so the point is really mute.
Frustrated
Sep. 17th, 2011 at 10:40 pm
And while I’m at it, when did REPORTING the news get replaced with REPLACING the news? I don’t tune in to CNN, MSNBC, or FOX NEWS to hear their opinions. I tune in to hear the NEWS. Someone mentioned Edward R. Murrow, he did investigative journalism and interviews without inserting his opinion. If I want someone’s opinion I’ll check out Andy Rooney.
Julia M. LeVan
Sep. 17th, 2011 at 10:40 pm
The federal government taxes too much of private income.
The federal government regulates too much of private industry and private life.
The federal government should be drastically reduced in size and in scope to better fulfill the role laid out for our federal government in the Constitution.
The federal government was not set up as a democracy. It was set up as a republic. At least, that is what Benjamin Franklin classified it as and so far as I am aware, all the others present did too.
The federal government is not to provide individual citizens with wealth taken from another citizen at point of a gun or threat of jail time to provide the recipient citizen with any service not specifically laid out in the Constitution as a duty the Federal government has toward the individual citizen.
If you want people who feel strongly the opposite way that you do, to listen to you, and possibly even consider what you say: then I suggest you do not call them names or fling unflattering mud upon their heroes, because I can tell you, the only emotion generated by such comments is rage. And that rage will be directed at you, not at the abuse you may be trying to point out.
As a populace, we are taxed enough already. That is the rallying cry for the Tea Party and I believe they are right. If the federal government were only doing it’s Constitutional duty, we would not have the War on Poverty, War on Drugs, War on Terror (which really seems to be a war on air travelers and seems set to expand to other types of travelers as well), a national welfare program, a national Social Security program, a national health insurance mandate, a national department of education, a national bureau of alcohol, tobacco, and firearms, an FDA, USDA, EPA, or many other organizations that our federal government currently has attached to itself. Our federal government was set up to be small and effective. It now has become over-sized and arguably ineffective. It was not meant for the majority to lord it over the minority but it was intended to protect the minority from the tyranny of the majority. I would say it has failed to do that for a while now.
I believe individualism is what this nation was founded on. That each person should be able to determine what was best for him or herself within certain very limited rules and that now we have lost sight of that. It is time that we rediscovered that individualist spirit and started to regain our freedom from the regulation loving bureaucracy that has infested our federal government.
Shiva (Moderator)
Sep. 17th, 2011 at 10:58 pm
The rallying cry for the tea thugs is save wall street.
There are 310 million people in this country, not 1 million. The only reason they want smaller government is because their GOP leaders who started the tea thugs told them so.
Its far easier to corrupt a state than it is a federal govt. Wisconsin proves that.
The federal government is not the problem, the problem is the people like you who want to kill off old people and babies and run peoples lives.
Oldsun
Sep. 17th, 2011 at 11:10 pm
You do realize that the Corporations back in the 1800 (where you want to take the country) were regulated by the state and could only exist for a certain amount of time. Your taxes are the lowest since the 1950s. We have regulations because your corporate masters you love so much do not care about you and will destroy anything the touch (environment, human lives anything) without regulations. “The federal government was not set up as a democracy. It was set up as a republic” technically, we are a democratic republic. Try thinking for yourself instead of letting others think for you try to do some research and see if your logic is valid or just an opininon.
Reynardine
Sep. 18th, 2011 at 4:37 am
I was unaware you people even had any heroes, Mrs. Van Snoot. Please identify them, so we can tell them from fire hydrants the next time we walk our dogs.
Fran Joy
Sep. 17th, 2011 at 10:43 pm
We need more protests to fight this Right Wing Agenda destroying our Democracy.
maggie jones
Sep. 17th, 2011 at 11:19 pm
AGREED!!!
Sally
Sep. 17th, 2011 at 11:00 pm
To be fair, Ed was IN Wisconsin with the protestors, and this week was in Ohio with the union workers as well. And Rachel was the first and only to report on Snyder’s Emergency Financial Managers and the takeover of a Benton Harbor park that he sold to corporate donors for a private golf club. Should they be out on the streets today? Of course, but they have been our only national media reporting on WI and the other Midwest states suffering under the new GOP Governors.
Shiva (Moderator)
Sep. 17th, 2011 at 11:18 pm
I will give them till tuesday to mention this, if not its going to be an all out twitter war to get rid of all of them
Jason Easley
Sep. 17th, 2011 at 11:26 pm
Hi Sally,
I am talking about live coverage on a Saturday afternoon of the protests. Ed Schultz did not do anything live at a protest, nor did anyone else at MSNBC. As we all know, MSNBC only leans forward M-F. They don’t work weekends.
zyxomma
Sep. 17th, 2011 at 11:30 pm
WPIX (channel 11) in NYC covered the protests on today’s 6 o’clock news, and probably again at 10 (I wasn’t home). They are definitely NOT a part of the shills posing as journalists.
Oldsun
Sep. 17th, 2011 at 11:47 pm
Hellooo Pittsburgh go Steelers
Rand Al'thor
Sep. 17th, 2011 at 11:34 pm
I get quite a bit of political news from www.youtube.com/user/TheA... anyway. Alyona has a definite liberal bias but always does a great job on what the mainstream media misses. Also she doesn’t censor the opinions of the guests she has on the show. The first interview I saw with Buddy Roemer and Fred Karger was on The Alyona Show. If you see this comment – Thanks Alyona!
@zcientist
Sep. 17th, 2011 at 11:44 pm
I knew 50000 was just a typing error! Now it’s corrected, thanks Jason..
EnoughIsEnough
Sep. 18th, 2011 at 12:30 am
Unless I’m missing the point of Jason’s article he’s saying that the problem is cable and possibly network news are not covering the protest and the fact is that many people (especially older people) get their information from TV and/or print media. The point is, I think, that corporate owned TV stations are purposefully keeping many people in the dark about issues that they, the corporations, decide don’t warrant covering. The media is supposed to be the Fourth Estate. It is not – not any longer.
tim
Sep. 18th, 2011 at 12:39 am
That’s what I got from it too. It serves them to keep people from knowing what’s going on. They might get hopeful and think they have control over their lives and then vote. 4th estate has gone! Gotta give props to Jason and PoliticusUSA for always covering the protests and being honest even when it hurts (I got really pissed at Jason one time when he wrote something about Keith Olbermann might be losing his job but then it turned out to be true, my bad). I learned the hard way that I can trust these guys to keep it honest and it’s hard to find that these days. I heard Sarah on the radio tonight and she rocked. Keep up the great work, Politicus! Thanks for all you do for us.
luvusa
Sep. 18th, 2011 at 12:37 am
The news is bias, they cover what they are told to do and will slant the story. They cover the Tea Party… yes, but they slant the story against them. Then they don’t even cover your protest ??? Censorship .
The news media takes orders from the top. Ask yourself who owns the media… It is One of Obma’s best friends… stop and take the time to find out.
Why would the media not cover you? The media has always been on the Liberal side.
In reading what you are protesting about, I do agree on some of your points… because it’s the same points the Right Wing are trying to make.
The Right Wing doesn’t want the Government telling us when to breath, Governments always wants more and more control over your life and Tax you to death.
The Government wants you Not to think, just take their word as the gospel truth.
The Union Bosses are also just like Government always wanting more… as in your due’s. The more you make the more they take. And then Obma says you guys are rich, you must share your wealth, and you …. drink the kool-Aid with a smile on your face???? The Right wonders how on earth, that you are OK with this?
We do NOT want the federal government taking over our rights to our medical choices. We never wanted to kill off anybody, the old and the unborn babies. As Shiva stated.
I’m not wealthy at all ! I’m one stumble away from being on food stamps. But will not go on food stamps, I’ll eat beans first. But I do know that it takes money to make money. We don’t have any factories here because of the NAFTA that Bill Clinton sign in. I lived in a town that depended on our Factories, we “had” Oster, Fleetguard, Teledyne Steelman. Levi and others. ALL GONE, Thank YOU Clinton.
Democracy isn’t a regulation crazed suppressing bureaucracy!
Sue in Minnesota
Sep. 18th, 2011 at 1:54 am
Sorry, who is renting the space in your brain? Who informs you? Where do you derive your ideas about what it means to be an American?
You haven’t noticed…Obama’s activities are essentially blacked out by the media as well….you kid yourself that he holds all the levers of power. You also have been conditioned to believe that the MSM is liberal, and that being liberal is somehow a nasty thing? Who taught you that? What evidence can you provide to support that belief?
Actually President Obama would like to empower you, average Joe, to work together with 98% of Americans so that politcally we can tip the balance of power, level the playing field, so that our needs are being represented, and our rights protected as well as those that are rich and powerful. He wants you to have opportunity to act on your sense of self expression and determination to make a good life for yourself and those that surround you. Of course you have to be willing to believe that first, and I suspect you are instead seeing only what you believe. I also suspect you are responding from fear and frustration, rather that empowerment and determination. The very powers that have manipulated and exploited your fears, which is their intent, want nothing more than to oust Obama, they want control of all three branches of Government. But despite what you have been convinced of, it is not in service to you individually, or in service of the greater good.
If you are one stumble away from food stamps please inform me how do you afford your medical expenses? Do you have medical insurance through your job? How would you be able to afford health care if the government did not attempt to protect the accessibility of it for the millions of Americans who are not rich? Do you recognize the social costs of an unhealthy America? I am not currently employed, I am not impoverished, all my basic needs are being met, but with out Medical insurance I just paid 1200.00 for a minor surgical procedure that was necessary and 2500.00 for repair to teeth in my mouth. My prayer is that I don’t get seriously ill…I can not afford to. Do you think medical attention should be a privilege only the very rich can afford?
What impact would that have on our society?
America is a collective, 310,000,000 plus people…..individual responsiblity/accountability is essential when you share a country with that many other individuals, because you the individual are at the same time part of something larger than yourself. Social responsiblity belongs to all of us,we do not get to ignore one in favor of the other.
I have a different perspective on America than you do. I think of America as US, not me. I assure you I am personally very responsible, and I am accountable….not just to myself, but to all the people I interact with throughout my daily life. I depend on them and they on me…it’s part of my larger obligation as part of a social arrangement…it’s called being an American.
Jolene
Sep. 18th, 2011 at 1:35 pm
Beautifully said, Sue in Minnesota!
Sue in Minnesota
Sep. 18th, 2011 at 2:11 am
Sorry, as a former union member who worked for 27 years in the airline industry….I do not appreciate your ignorant blather about unions. I have a feeling you have no personal experience with organized labor…is that true?
Also if you work a 40 hour work week…thank the unions. If you receive overtime thank the unions. If you are protected on your job through safety regulations and reasonable work rules….thank the unions. What unions do is prevent employees from becoming slave labor. We are not paid outrageous wages….union wages are what built the middle class in America. And frankly without the middle class you (if it is true you are one stumble away from food stamps) and I would be in a world of hurt,
and America would be a much different place than what we know today.
It is always best to know of what you speak….you should refrain from railing against unions until you have better educated yourself, have expanded your perspectives, and are not simply relying on right wing talking points.
Terry
Sep. 18th, 2011 at 12:48 am
ABC News covered it. tho I didn’t watch this evening’s newscast, the story is featured on the front page of their website.
abcnews.go.com/blogs/head...
The only reason why I even heard about this protest was because of AnonymousIRC on twitter. Anyway, in defense of my profession… people protest all the time about all sorts of stuff. A protest of this size would definitely get more attention if it were held in a smaller city like my own Detroit or something… but NYC? That’s nuthin. Something really bizarre would have to happen to stop the chatter about The Big Story which I think is the Reno air show crash.
As for Sarah Palin, people love watching her dumbass on TV. I am not one of them… not even to hate! There is a reason why celebrities try super hard to get arrested at a protest– it will be a story (like Daryl Hannah’s arrest during that pipeline protest. I think that protest had like 10 people– at least that’s what it looked like.)
Terry
Sep. 18th, 2011 at 12:50 am
I am not saying this is good or bad– just what is.
If you are planning a protest or event, let the media know about. Don’t do it on a weekend tho– crews are thin.
tim
Sep. 18th, 2011 at 12:59 am
That makes sense but the Tea Party Sarah Paylin rallies have been on the weekend and they got coverage. It’s a matter of priorities and I don’t see why corporate run media would want to cover rage at corporations.
Terry
Sep. 18th, 2011 at 1:28 am
like I said, people like watching Sarah Palin, whether to love or hate. Have Sarah Palin at your rally and it will be covered. Let’s face it, even tho I personally find her annoying (the voice!) she looks good on TV.
Reporters are also waiting for her to say something stupid that they can replay endlessly, like “Paul Revere ringin’ the bells!”
Mark
Sep. 18th, 2011 at 1:23 am
50,000 my ass. There were 2,000 at most according to several people who were actually there.
Dave
Sep. 18th, 2011 at 1:32 am
A few thousand is about what I figured but the point, if we read the same article, is that the media didn’t report it.
terri E
Sep. 18th, 2011 at 1:26 am
today.msnbc.msn.com/id/44...
apparently msnbc did cover it. i missed the news, but if it’s on their site, it was most likely mentioned. i have no idea how prominently, and the article only mentions the protest on Wall Street. but…it IS a mention.
Dave
Sep. 18th, 2011 at 1:34 am
A mention, but where are the cameras and the live coverage? Big difference when it comes to informing people.
Jenifer
Sep. 18th, 2011 at 1:36 am
www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4456...
Tiffany
Sep. 18th, 2011 at 1:41 am
There were protests all over today not just in NY. Media didn’t cover jack. They threw us a bone with a mention on their websites? Screw that! I want my money back!
Anthony
Sep. 18th, 2011 at 2:04 am
money.cnn.com/2011/09/17/...
Being covered on CNN. I don’t know about the tv; I don’t watch it. But it’s at least receiving some attention by them.
Sue in Minnesota
Sep. 18th, 2011 at 2:19 am
What do you do for a living?
tim
Sep. 18th, 2011 at 2:32 am
Damn fine question. I’m guessing he doesn’t have one based on his communication skills.
Reynardine
Sep. 18th, 2011 at 4:45 am
Picks his nose and saves the buggers.
Badvock
Sep. 18th, 2011 at 3:55 am
If it’s any consolation my American cousins, there has been ZERO coverage over here in Blighty. Nothing on the BBC & Sky don’t really ‘do’ news just opinions now. We have a similar issue here, the corporate shills and banks sho caused all of this are sitting on a pile of money and when the people riot we blame jobless benefit yobs and seek to kick them from their homes, whilst the ultra rioght bark and holler like a pack of howler monkeys. No’one seeks to ask what the causes of the riots were or even better how to fix them, hell it’s not even news any more /facepalm. I’m rapidly coming to the conclusion that non violent protest is not going to work, and for a pacifist that’s some scary shit right there :(
Call Me Mom
Sep. 18th, 2011 at 4:05 am
It seems to me that I hear a lot of the same thing from the right about not getting coverage or only paltry and inaccurate coverage from the MSM.
Perhaps this is an indicator that the MSM is doing it’s job, and covering both sides about equally. Or perhaps that the MSM has been completely(or nearly so) co-opted by the government.
Or, perhaps some other possibility, like there’s too much going on, or Americans are rejecting the current info-tainment style of news reporting, or maybe they (The MSM) have become lazy and incompetent to the point that they are no longer providing relevant information to anyone.
Or maybe Americans are tired of being told what to think or how to think about any given story and are rejecting anything with any spin out of a deep loathing for the manipulation techniques that are curently in use in most major media outlets.
Rhonda
Sep. 18th, 2011 at 4:09 am
Not sexy. Doing the right thing for the right reasons in this country, means you are working against the power structure and need to be kept mute.
Denise G
Sep. 18th, 2011 at 4:35 am
Al Jazeera is covering this protest, you can go there and see it.
AgTip
Sep. 18th, 2011 at 10:02 am
Al Jazeera is one of my favorite news services. Did Amy Goodman report on it? Perhaps we should have a little sit-down in front of the doors of CNN, Fox and MSNBC. I haven’t heard NPR or PBS in the past few days; perhaps they have reported on the action?
nedkelly
Sep. 19th, 2011 at 8:28 am
Republicans want to de-fund NPR and PBS………Sometimes these news services don’t tell the right wing story as spoonfed by the right wing…………. :-(
smittythesmith
Sep. 18th, 2011 at 10:17 am
do you have a link? I’m not really familiar with Al Jazeera.
Andre
Sep. 18th, 2011 at 12:32 pm
english.aljazeera.net/ Is Aljazeera’s website, there’s nothing on the website about it but maybe they carried it on their shows, but you can watch online and ask your carrier to carry Aljazeera, I asked Time Warner Cable in NYC and they did it.
SmilingAhab
Sep. 18th, 2011 at 12:42 pm
english.aljazeera.net
Gerard
Sep. 18th, 2011 at 1:11 pm
Aljazeera is a Qatari state run news service. I don’t trust their reporting on Libya or elsewhere for that matter. they are very similar to BBC/CNN/MSNBC and the rest.
Shiva (Moderator)
Sep. 18th, 2011 at 1:13 pm
So far they have proved far more accurate on the ME and here in the US than any mainstream media. They are becoming a very valid news service.
SteveInChicago
Sep. 19th, 2011 at 7:19 am
I’m pretty sure that most of the criticism of Al Jazeera comes from people who have never seen its broadcasts. I watched a lot of their footage of the Fukushima nuclear accident, and I found that they did an excellent job of finding the right experts to cover the science while the other networks fumbled or had an obvious pro- or anti-nuclear bias.
A lot of the criticism that I’ve heard has been that they show the more graphic nature of war. Guess what. War is graphic, and the rest of the world shows it as it is, rather than the sanitized images we tend to see. All news reporting has some bias, but Al Jazeera has done a better job than most of trying to present the facts rather than coloring them with commentary.
Scott Smith
Sep. 18th, 2011 at 1:00 pm
RT is covering it too; rt.com/news/wall-street-p...
carles farley
Sep. 18th, 2011 at 4:50 am
This is all true MSNBC has had alot of coverage on the Wisconsin and Ohio pretesting especially on the Ed Shultz show
fleevil
Sep. 18th, 2011 at 8:17 pm
I have to preface this by stating I am not advocating anything:
How long do you thing it will take before some of these protesters are in fact cast-off Iraqistan vets? Vets who are combat hardened, and not a few of whom may have their marksmanship medal?
I think its a matter of time before one of these vile banksters ends up on the wrong side of someone’s scoped Dragunov or something similar. But we won’t hear about that either, so we likely won’t know….
John C
Sep. 18th, 2011 at 9:32 pm
…but we can all HOPE!
SteveInChicago
Sep. 19th, 2011 at 7:22 am
Unfortunately, in the past, military benefits promised to our veterans have been one of the first things cut. There were massive protests from WW1 vets during the Great Depression for this reason. I really hope that we keep our promises to these amazing people who have served selflessly.
Don McAdams
Sep. 18th, 2011 at 5:18 am
The Revolution will not be televised. Thanks for this, I didn’t even know this was going on! In fairness, I haven’t had much time on the net, I NEVER watch TV, and I’ve been busy with work and trying to get a marijuana ballot initiative together for Ohio…
trisha
Sep. 18th, 2011 at 8:53 pm
there is a revolution going on. i’m in texas trying to get marijuana legalized. it’s the only way the killing in mexico stops and the mexicans can feel safe to live in their own country. and we get the financial benefit of keeping home grown home.
Sally
Sep. 18th, 2011 at 8:54 pm
The NY daily news & Post also are not reporting it. But believe me, it’s on twitter and Youtube and Facebook. People know.
Jen
Sep. 18th, 2011 at 6:42 am
It’s not about the media. Who needs them?
John
Sep. 18th, 2011 at 11:55 am
But it is about the media. Television news programs are where the majority of Americans learn about what’s happening in their country. Whatever the media decides to cover is considered important, and whatever they decide to ignore is never brought to the attention of most Americans. This is why Sarah Palin is still seen as a big deal while protests like this aren’t considered very important. People like you and me, who read about these protests online and actually take the coverage seriously, are in the minority, and until the media starts admitting that there are problems with this country that people are very upset about, most people aren’t going to care, and nothing will be done to fix things.
Teri
Sep. 18th, 2011 at 4:31 pm
Of course they never cover what matters, only what they think you should know and want you to know, whether it’s true or not.
Dave
Sep. 18th, 2011 at 4:47 pm
How about instead of taking wall street someone take main stream media at the same time.
razldazl
Sep. 18th, 2011 at 8:05 pm
agreed. media. that’s where it’s at. responsible for what the majority of television watchers think and believe. i would add *out* to your sentence above, after the word “take”.
gor
Sep. 18th, 2011 at 10:34 pm
TV news is ancient! the new news media is Twitter/Facebook where people tell the truth.
Shiva (Moderator)
Sep. 18th, 2011 at 10:53 pm
At least people find news from far more sources. I pretty much agree with you
Image
Sep. 18th, 2011 at 11:16 pm
That’s where you’re wrong. In the new facebook driven society image is everything. All things are judged today by appearance, presentation, and spin what goes unseen counts for nothing.
Jananna
Sep. 18th, 2011 at 6:48 am
Very well said, thank you
jrw71
Sep. 18th, 2011 at 8:05 am
Holding signs and shouting slogans in a ‘designated protest area’ on a Saturday isn’t going to get things done. We all know what needs to happen. Sooner or later we’ll be forced to engage in the unthinkable based on survival. The apathetic masses refuse to wake up. They continue to accept and even embrace the actions of a system that’s robbing them. They ignore what’s happening or they try to somehow justify it through political discourse. Crony capitalism. Record profits for the richest 1% and tent cities for the people they discard. Nope, no cause for alarm or outrage.
smittythesmith
Sep. 18th, 2011 at 10:20 am
When the people swallow the subtle sophism of “the Rich are Better(tm)” they find it impossible to disagree with “the fittest”
Shiva (Moderator)
Sep. 18th, 2011 at 10:42 am
I also find people that are against pretesting Wall Street are people who wish they had the balls to do it themselves.
Image
Sep. 18th, 2011 at 11:16 pm
It’s easy to have balls in a herd.
“Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.”
Shiva (Moderator)
Sep. 18th, 2011 at 11:30 pm
I dont
Joe Ray
Sep. 19th, 2011 at 1:26 am
Enjoyed your comment and passion. Reading your comments propted me to say that; “the apathetic masses” are in fact the majority that, given another set of circumstances, would think, act or vote differently IF they weren’t on the government tit. Factor that in with the additional brainwashed and or disillusioned fence sitters and there you have it, our current state of affairs. J.R.
achronon
Sep. 18th, 2011 at 8:11 am
The Monday Demonstrations in the former German Democratic Republic were also not covered by the media. Still, they brought down the Wall, not Reagan, not Gorbachev, just good old fashioned home-grown resistance.
Tux
Sep. 18th, 2011 at 9:00 am
Heh, all the us and Canadian networks did their best to ignore the Israeli summer protests- people peacefully protesting against neo-liberal capitalism doesn’t fit well into their agenda.
Kim Gilligan
Sep. 18th, 2011 at 10:08 am
Isn’t Taco Bell a republican supporter? They are advertising on here, don’t know if you’re aware of this or not. Anyway, when I see news coverage out of our area ie: Walkergate being covered thoroughly in Chicago, and not here I post links to NBC15, MSNBC facebook pages. Rub it in their faces.
mn
Sep. 18th, 2011 at 10:23 am
I just read where a major national bookstore chain closed in Houston and several of the last books left on the shelf even below 1/2 price were Sarah Palin’s..That is a statement in itself.
stompsfrogs
Sep. 18th, 2011 at 11:33 pm
The point being that Sarah Palin lovers don’t read? Well then how did they get so smart? ;)
Shiva (Moderator)
Sep. 19th, 2011 at 12:07 am
Sarah Palin lovers are smart? She has had a lot of lovers according to the books coming out.
Reynardine
Sep. 19th, 2011 at 9:02 am
Shiva, the proof that Sarah Palin’s lovers were smart is that they hit the road, Jack, before she could get her hooks into them.
nedkelly
Sep. 19th, 2011 at 8:38 am
Sarah Palin “smart”….the unltimate oxymoron…..good grief…………….:-0
Andrew Carter
Sep. 18th, 2011 at 11:22 am
Ahhhh, the majesty of corporate media. Show nothing that threatens their monopoly.
Gary Flinn
Sep. 18th, 2011 at 11:28 am
Please ban “Fox News” banner ads. I considered that channel to be Fox Propganda and I consider Facebook users who “like” “Fox News Channel” be be vile trolls.
JohnM
Sep. 18th, 2011 at 6:09 pm
And therein lies your problem. You consider Fox news propaganda, but not the other corporate owned media outlets. The whole left/right republican/democrat paradigm only exists to keep the people separated. Wake up.
Lisa
Sep. 18th, 2011 at 7:19 pm
Gary, funny how the liberals “ban” Fox News. Afraid of the truth???? You are so used to the main stream liberal media that you don’t know the truth anymore!!
Shiva (Moderator)
Sep. 18th, 2011 at 7:23 pm
So you get the truth from Fox News? Very interesting. Just by chance you dont have your tv tuned to Uranus do you?
1st, Fox News is main stream media. 2nd, Fox News has never once given you the truth. Not even if they tell you its daylight outside
Lynn
Sep. 18th, 2011 at 8:02 pm
The entire corporate media is owned and controlled by the Rothschild banking family (you know, the ones who secretly stage false flags to start illegal wars and then fund both sides in order to indenture them with neverending debt from their funny money created out of thin air. Also the ones who really control the “Federal Reserve” which is by no means “Federal”).
SinghX
Sep. 18th, 2011 at 7:54 pm
Can you sputter for me some more? It’s very entertaining! Are you secure in your belief that Fox is telling the truth?
Are you comfortable in your Lazy-boy looking at big screen, surrounded by a constant bombardment of different colors that mesmerize…big hair babes dressed out like call girls, crossing their legs like Sharon Stone and those cadaverous giggling men who pretend their soft-sell you infomercials as real news?
Are you comfortable with those images that are marketed for your demographic just so you tune in and get titillated and then plunged down on a roller coast diatribe of fear, extreme psychological pressure to do as you’re told by your Fox informers?
Can you answer my questions completely and convince me that you get the truth, the facts based upon your being “love bombed” in this fashion every day?
Robin Whelan
Sep. 18th, 2011 at 8:00 pm
You are so very right about this. Media has the job of wire content conversion…plus nothing. They all are answerable to global corporate monies, and the objective is to DISTRACT. Think about that next time Brian Williams presents his feel-good story at the end of Nightly News, wry, sideways smile-and-all. It comes across best if the volume is turned off.
Martha
Sep. 18th, 2011 at 11:33 am
Given this opportunity to inform us, you neglected to say when the “Day of Rage” Protest is or was. I can’t bitch to much about it to media outlets without nfo.
tim
Sep. 18th, 2011 at 11:38 am
DIm bulb alert. Why is this being trolled so badly? Can’t you read or did you just zoom down to the bottom to get your digs in without reading the article and so you’ve made a fool of yourself but what do you care.
All of the information you claim to be seeking is in English in the article. Good luck!
dan
Sep. 18th, 2011 at 3:58 pm
actually, he’s right. the date is not mentioned anywhere in the article.
Devonshire
Sep. 18th, 2011 at 11:50 am
Wait, you want us to believe you’re going to bitch about something but you can’t figure out when this event was, and didn’t follow any of the links? Precisely when will you be getting off of your ass?
Nancy
Sep. 18th, 2011 at 12:01 pm
I thought that the news networks on television were “the left leaning liberal media”? Republicans have been whining this for YEARS.
To me, the media has always been far right for many years, with extreme overtones of christianity.
We really haven’t been a free country since the inception of the industrial age. Through factories & corporate environments, the rich control people’s lives thru wages, benefits & fear of losing the job. Freedom my a–.
Colin
Sep. 18th, 2011 at 5:45 pm
Agreed. The sham of political polarity on display in both the media and political system is vomitrocious. They’ll pull anything under the umbrella as long as the bump in the carpet keeps moving while new “hotbed issues” arise that no one can solve and exist solely that nothing gets done on the home front and everyone gets paid. Everyone in the Elect, that is. America may be “new money,” but the same power has been transferred. What separates us from pre-postmodern empires other than more efficient ways to conquer?
Lynn
Sep. 18th, 2011 at 8:09 pm
STOP WATCHING TELEVISION!!! Everything on the TV is propaganda and always had been. The TV and Radio were invented hundreds of years after the plan for world domination in 1776. They recognized these tools as important for brainwashing and bought all of the companies that manufacture TV, Radio, computer, and all of the services that put the crap on those devices to keep you pacified and ignorant. Stop voting! The electoral college who determines which candidates can run for presidential tickets are comprised of precisely placed Illuminati, Bilderburgers, Tri-lateral corporation members, Members of C.F.R. (council of foreign relations) THEY picked Obama, Clinton and McCain. Do YOU remember voting for any of them as president elects? NO! You are told who you get to chose from. You only get to pick the winner. It’s like a horse race with only three horses and the same owner owns all of them. No matter who wins, THEY win either way. Show them you refuse to play the game by not voting at all. Expose them for the joke they are.Do not fear terrorists. They are white, wear suits and work in your goverment. When you see a train bombing, kidnapping, building collapse, it is not some guy in a cave with a towel on his head. They want to take away your rights by passing the patriot act and other acts, and abolish the 16th ammendment so that it WILL be legal to call in debts from the Federal Reserve (Rothchilds, Rockefellers) Do not support war of any kind. These assholes have time and time again pulled con jobs to anger citicens into war. The US was warned 5 days before Pearl Harbour by the Australian Government that the Japanese fleet was seen heading in the direction of Hawaii. 80% of Americans wanted nothing to do with the war, until they let them blow up pearl harbour, after which 1,000,000 american men volunteered.
Ken
Sep. 18th, 2011 at 12:05 pm
If you don’t like our country or our economic/political system then LEAVE! I wish you union liberals would pull something like this down here in Texas.
Shiva (Moderator)
Sep. 18th, 2011 at 12:29 pm
So basically you approve of Wall Street sucking up to 50% of peoples retirements out? You approve of banks and credit card companys cheating people out of billions?
Some American you are. But then again, Im willing to bet you have no idea why they were protesting, you just HAVE to be against them
Eykis
Sep. 18th, 2011 at 12:58 pm
Ken,
Give me an effing break. As a multi-generational Dallasite and Texan, it is morannicimbeciles like you that allowed the stoopidity of Dubya and GoodHair to lie their way to the top of the heap of BS.
QUIT THREATENING PEOPLE – you sound like as stoopid as Chuck Norris – you are not tough much less SKEERY, you are just plain ole RIDICULOUSLY STOOPID.
Tell THIS TEXAN just what your tough attitude is supposed to do? MAKES ME SICK – PATHETIC EXCUSE FOR A HUMAN.
RockyMissouri
Sep. 18th, 2011 at 5:17 pm
Eykis…. THANK YOU! People like you and Molly Ivins elevate the status of your state, by being decent and honorable folk..!
Brian
Sep. 18th, 2011 at 1:10 pm
No, Ken. People who don’t like our economic/political system (but still love the country as a whole, thank you very much) should work to change it (back). First through established channels of course, but if that doesn’t work…
SinghX
Sep. 18th, 2011 at 2:41 pm
Oh, here we go…a “live” one, who fell right out of the trees, to bring back the old “love or leave it” chant…
Com’on now, say it like a real Texas ‘Merkan…”Iyff ya’ll don’t lyke it h’ear, get’cha’ass’out”…
Well, I mean, it goes without saying, Americans just can’t get enough of that home-made Archie Bunker “tradition” of shoving hate chants in their face! Don’t forget “dem unions” and “well, you guys did it too” and let us not for get the big “sig heil” chants of the Christian Reich brought to you by the Texas “Fearless Leader” of der Homeland…
…come on, everybody chant, “USA-USA-USA” or “WE’RE-#1-WE’RE-#1!!
ash
Sep. 18th, 2011 at 3:05 pm
I wish all you dirty tea baggers would put a border around the rest of America. We will pull all the liberals , democrats and free thinkers out and let you destroy your own little country,.
Michelle
Sep. 18th, 2011 at 3:42 pm
@Ken. Isnt there a saying in your part of the world?
“All hat, no cattle”
Yeah, that’s you.
Angry little man. What would you do if we ” Brought it down?”
Nothing.
RockyMissouri
Sep. 18th, 2011 at 5:09 pm
We need them to accurately show things AS THEY ARE…or, they no better than ‘Pravda’….!
RockyMissouri
Sep. 18th, 2011 at 5:19 pm
No……YOU LEAVE.
Nunya
Sep. 18th, 2011 at 7:32 pm
You, sir, are a traitor.
Lynn
Sep. 18th, 2011 at 8:18 pm
Ken, remember this by any chance (or are you familiar with it)?
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — THAT WHENEVER ANY FORM OF GOVERNMENT BECOMES DESTRUCTIVE OF THESE ENDS, IT IS THE RIGHT OF THE PEOPLE TO ALTER OR ABOLISH IT, AND TO INSTITUTE NEW GOVERNMENT…….” ~U.S. Declaration of Independance
zonereve
Sep. 19th, 2011 at 6:45 am
Yes, I too wish we could have some union action “down here in Texas”, a fascist state if ever there was one. If we DID have union upheavals, I can assure you that the new social media would overwhelm fascist drones in ways that haven’t even begun to be realized by same. Be aware that fascism is a temporary condition and pay closer attention to who you really are and what side you wish to support, the good or the bad. You know who they are.
Lili
Sep. 18th, 2011 at 12:24 pm
No worries at all. Shortly no one will be able to afford cable TV or internet. Then maybe by Spring of 2012 they’ll want to figure out how to make money.
People should have turned away from them a long time ago.
zonereve
Sep. 19th, 2011 at 6:47 am
We unplugged months ago and so has almost everyone we talk to. Enough is enough. Net TV is actually happening, even with live feeds like the ones we are seeing on/about Wall Street. Can’t stop (or control) technology, thank heaven.
Dan Brown
Sep. 18th, 2011 at 12:33 pm
It won’t work. The only thing that’ll work is to go in there with enough firepower to overwhelm the fuzz, kill them or drive them off, smash their barricades, then attack and DESTROY the targets. When Wall Street is a smoldering wreck at the hands of the protesters it’ll be noticed. Until then, the rich are laughing at this gaggle of pussywhips…
Guy
Sep. 18th, 2011 at 1:06 pm
Yeah right Mr. Internet Tough Guy. You be sure to let me know when you plan on doing this and I’ll be there.
SinghX
Sep. 18th, 2011 at 2:43 pm
And what outfit is going to point their cameras at this? He who owns the camera does the “pointing”.
Dan Brown
Sep. 18th, 2011 at 12:39 pm
CNN and the rest will cover dead bodies in the streets and burning blocks of buildings…
Furthermore, another part of the blackout are these craven sites that hide behind standards and refuse to post comments calling for violence. Those creeps are part of the enemy and need to be treated as such…
tim
Sep. 18th, 2011 at 1:22 pm
Violence isn’t the answer, dude.
parker
Sep. 18th, 2011 at 3:06 pm
“violence isn’t the answer?” Why do you think the U.S. has a military?…to make banners and giant puppets for peaceful protests?
Shiva (Moderator)
Sep. 18th, 2011 at 3:21 pm
I could have sworn he was talking about violent protests, not warfare
j r
Sep. 18th, 2011 at 3:14 pm
“When peaceful revolution is impossible, violent revolution is inevitable.” — JFK
Reynardine
Sep. 18th, 2011 at 3:28 pm
I know an agent provacateur when I see one. Leave Father Gapon to barbecue on (or simmer in) his own spit.
SinghX
Sep. 18th, 2011 at 6:25 pm
Dude, get yourself a copy of Grace Lee Boggs, “The Next American Revolution”…or better yet, try to listen to her doing some interviews on the radio (the Dave Marsh Show is a good on) and calm down.
In the immortal words of Frank Zappy when shouted down at a concert by a guy in the audience, he politely waited for the shouting to stop and then calmly said, “Quit shouting. You’re hurting your throat”.
Shiva (Moderator)
Sep. 18th, 2011 at 6:56 pm
Zappa, possibly one of the brightest people to have ever lifted a guitar, and very possibly one of the best to play it
Glenn Bax NJ
Sep. 18th, 2011 at 1:11 pm
US Day Of Rage, we need your support. The unemployed 99ers marched on Wall St. and got very little TV coverage. I believe the students in those other countries got the media’s attention because of the violence.
**For over a year, millions of Americans called 99ers have gone without any income or jobs, because none are available. We are not being covered by the news stations. We need your support! We need Jobs or help not welfare. For more information please Google “99ers” “Tier V”.**
**“Wikipedia says” “99ers is a colloquial term for unemployed people in the United States, mostly citizens, who have exhausted all of their unemployment benefits, including all unemployment extensions”.
We need your help and support because The President, The Senate, Congress and the News Media have ignored suffering Americans with families and no means of support. We are becoming, homeless, destitute, suicidal and plain desperate. We need the help and support of every American to help our cause until jobs become available.**
tim
Sep. 18th, 2011 at 1:14 pm
Obama and the Democrats fought for the unemployment extension. Remember when they had to extend the Bush tax cuts? They had to do that in order to extend unemployment.
Glenn Bax NJ
Sep. 18th, 2011 at 1:49 pm
However, look closely at Obama’s unemployment extensions, they are only for the recently unemployed, Tiers 1 thru 4. This doesn’t provide any help for long term unemployed, out of work for over 99 weeks. We need a Tier 5 or more. People ask how much unemployment do you expect! Enough until jobs are available or until our elected representatives get their act together. What do you think after 99 weeks we just magically get a job! Or disappear! Don’t tell me the country is broke. If we can keep supporting wars and the rebuilding of other countries we can take care of our own. When we support wars, the purchase of supply’s like uniforms, arms, food and other goods this places more money directly into the pockets of corporations. War = Profit.
Lynn
Sep. 18th, 2011 at 8:28 pm
Billions of people in the world working to keep a very few rich in such luxury it’s easy to see (for those of us who are awake) the eye over the pyramid metaphor — the capstone being those who rule — the rest of the bricks being all the rest of the human biomass of earth. Do not support their private banks bailing out failing corporations and smaller private banks. Let them sink with the ship. They are all owned and controlled by these bastards anyway. Its just a scam to lend themselves more money on your tax dollar, PLUS INTEREST. When they threaten with fearmongering about un-imployment, demand that your government places a 75% tax on corporations who want to place advertisments on TV, magazines, radio’s and billboards. Then give them a 25% tax credit if they move their factories back to your country instead of some outsourced labour factory or call center in a 3rd world country. Taaa Daaaa. Jobs back for Americans. Give them another 20% tax credit if they chose to pay that 20% into the school and government social systems. Why are you paying for it all and these same corporations who are robbing you are paying nothing? Make them pay, or else make it soooo damn expensive to advertise that they can’t even afford to sell their own products anymore if they don’t bring the jobs back to home soil.
John C
Sep. 18th, 2011 at 9:57 pm
We were warned… by the LAST honest Republican.
“Beware the Military, Industrial, CONGRESSIONAL Complex” – Dwight D. Eisenhower
The word “Congressional” is usually omitted from Ike’s warning, but they (BOTH parties) are totally complicit in this ‘war for profit’ & ‘to Hell with the populace’ bullshit!
It’s time for MAJOR changes!!!
j r
Sep. 18th, 2011 at 1:23 pm
Burn down a city and they won’t be able to ignore it.
Susan
Sep. 18th, 2011 at 1:29 pm
Darline Lieurance Rowe said:
I think we will see more and more of these protests as the income gap continues to grow; however, I also think that we need to vet the stuff passed along on the internet. This piece includes MSNBC as one of those outlets that ignored the protests in Wisconsin which is completely untrue. As an avid watcher of MSNBC, I watched the protests every night on that network and one of their nightly hosts, Ed Shultz, was broadcasting from there for weeks and took it up as his main cause.
Jolene
Sep. 18th, 2011 at 1:40 pm
Please quit yelling.
j
Sep. 18th, 2011 at 2:26 pm
conservative agenda? the right’s economic crash? you sir, are misinformed. the neo-conservatives, are in fact closely aligned with Trotsky (leftist, communist revolution) who believed in things like,
1. Permanent revolution, violent and intellectual
2. Civil Libirties (the right to free speech, bear arms,
fair trial) are only relevant (“patriot” act)
3. Lying is neccessary for the state to survive
4. ends justify the means (two wrongs can make right)
5. re-drawing the map of the middle east
6. NO OPPOSITION TO WELFARE STATE
7. Military action not limited to defense of the United States
8. Strong, centralized federal (national) government is a benefit
9. society run by the elite, as “regulaur men can’t handle
the reality of politics”
10. neatrality in any foriegn affair is disadvantageous
11. despise libertarians and all strict constitutionalists
12. unconditionally support Israel, Likud Party
j
Sep. 18th, 2011 at 2:29 pm
just read project for a new american century if you dont believe me…the left’s version of big government is the same as the right, they bounce off each other using trivial policy issues that gov has no business in, along with rhetorical slogan-speaking and fake opposition to one another to further the welfare-warfare agenda of special interest…
Lynn
Sep. 18th, 2011 at 8:37 pm
They set up their own opposition in advance, which will become the official opposition (ala Ron Paul, Tea Party, etc.). the system we have now has only one dead end to go to. It’s run with a small group of related bankers, related bankers, running the Central Banks of every country. They’ve proven for centuries that they always corrupt and bankrupt us all, across the world, at least twice a century. And they get away with it because people are too self-absorbed to see the big picture. And the governments are subservient to these “elite bankers” (ie dirty rotten thieves), because they’re all part of this big gang, including their secret societies with all their little satanic symbolism adverstised in plain view on nearly everything. This system cannot be kept in place, and it will self-implode eventually. All you are doing is going through a script, you understand. The people at the top are not stupid. They plan, sometimes 50 years ahead for different parts of the agenda. Maybe 2% of what they tax, from everything, all the thousands of taxes out there, actually goes to what they claim it goes to; the rest goes into their pockets and into their big businesses and so on, and their Swiss bank accounts.
William Faust
Sep. 19th, 2011 at 1:20 am
Ron Paul is controlled opposition? Gimme a break. The establishment GOP and Democratic Party, and the bankster masters who buy them, hate everything he stands for. Thanks a lot, Regime Progressives for War.
lizr
Sep. 18th, 2011 at 2:44 pm
ok it looks like 1000 from truthout. let’s maintain credibility adn not make us all look Gullible, eh?
Shiva (Moderator)
Sep. 18th, 2011 at 2:49 pm
Since you are having reading problems I will show you the edit at the bottom of the page
“(Note: The 50,000 was an estimated attendance. Other estimates place the number of attendees in NYC in the hundreds to the thousands. The title has been changed to reflect conflicting attendance estimates).”
ash
Sep. 18th, 2011 at 3:11 pm
Exactly why the networks are not covering it. They are afraid more people will come! Oh this is just starting! People are sick and tired of this crap . Most of the teabaggers started as a small community and it grew, and they were idiots. Imagine what smart people can do!
Kim
Sep. 18th, 2011 at 3:14 pm
Speaking of credibility, maybe you can explain why you didn’t read the article before commenting and after that, why you capitalized gullible?
Gullible would be citing numbers the next day and crowing over an original estimate provided by a live blog linked to in the article being wrong. Of course, your complaint just proves the point of the article since if the media had covered this, the numbers would have been much more clear. Gullible would also be not acknowledging the author’s correction and yet complaining about credibility.
Nothin like letting your preformed opinion make an ass out of your attempt at superiority.
Benito
Sep. 18th, 2011 at 3:05 pm
Curious how many people are actually in wall street now? I am not interested in inflative numbers only real numbers. I was in Harlem years ago for the million man march. There was only about 20000 people there it made me sad. As much as I can be sad.
Also how is paying for this?
What’s lawyers are you using to give you legal advice? I can always use a good defense attorney.
robert jackson
Sep. 18th, 2011 at 3:18 pm
cororatist government=fascism. big money has no ideology. miltary industrial complex. us/cia have killed 6 million people since WWll…mostly civilian. JFK assassination, nov. 23, 1963 was coup de’tat.
Vikki
Sep. 18th, 2011 at 4:19 pm
Real CIA coup – assassinate JFK the day AFTER he was assassinated on November 22, 1963. 6mil people, really? Conspiracy theories hold more weight if you can prove it AND get your facts straight – like dates.
Lynn
Sep. 18th, 2011 at 8:47 pm
“The CIA owns every one of any significance in the major media.” —William Colby Former Director of the CIA—Murdered/Assassinated.
The task is to covertly lower the standard of living, the whole social structure, of America so that we can be merged with all other nations. Rowan Gaither
“[The New World Order] cannot happen without U.S. participation, as we are the most significant single component. Yes, there will be a New World Order, and it will force the United
States to change it’s perceptions.” — Henry Kissenger, World Affairs Council Press Conference, Regent Beverly Wilshire Hotel , April 19th 1994
We have restricted credit, we have restricted opportunity, we have controlled development, and we have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated, governments in the civilized world–no longer a government by free opinion, no longer a government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a government by the opinion and the duress of small groups of dominant men. Woodrow Wilson
“We can’t be so fixated on our desire to preserve the rights of ordinary Americans..”– Bill Clinton USA Today–3-11-93, page 2a
The war in Iraq is a rare opportunity to move toward an historic period of cooperation. Out of these troubled times…a new world order can emerge. George H.W. Bush, Sept. 11, 1991
“The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.” James Madison
“From now on, depressions will be scientifically created.” Charles Lindbergh, 1913 (the first year of the Federal Reserve bank).
“The individual is handicapped by coming face-to-face with a conspiracy so monstrous he cannot believe it exists.” J. Edgar Hoover
When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.”—Thomas Jefferson
Don’t fall for the phony left/right paradigm, because these characters control both sides. They are the body of the bird. What you see and vote for are the wings.
robert jackson
Sep. 18th, 2011 at 3:21 pm
the revolution will not be televised.
robert jackson
Sep. 18th, 2011 at 3:26 pm
corporatist govt equals fascism
Blinder than the Blind
Sep. 18th, 2011 at 3:37 pm
Your big and might obama Is JUST NOW talking about getting us American’s working again. Don’t you think that should had happen years ago after he did all the Bail OUTS… He drop the ball, he sat back and played with a ball.. golf…
He has made it so hard to get a home loan to buy or remodel. He has put more people out of work than any other president. He shut down the Gulf of Mexico That put people out of work. But funded off shore drilling in S.America.
He has gone around our Constitution, by allowing illegal to be here. Saying it is OK if they haven’t done anything illegal. That goes against the oath he took!
He is dismantling of our Constitution.
He wanted Vets to pay for their own insurance… that he back down on. But HOW DARE HE EVEN THINK THAT! But, He said it. It shows how little he thinks of our men whom, the federal Government sends to risk their life.
Open your ears and eyes See what he is trying to do…See that he has NO respect for our Flag No respect for our County.
Shiva (Moderator)
Sep. 18th, 2011 at 3:51 pm
yada yada yada. Just now talking about Jobs? My goodness, you sure have the silly talking points down well.
Heres your Brazil oil charge. A lie www.snopes.com/politics/g...
He has made it easier to get home loans
Bush and every president before has allowed illegals to com in. Obama has more Border guards down there than any president and has also deported more already than Bush did in 8 years.
Not sure where you get your lies from, but you should check them out before you make a fool of yourself
Shiva (Moderator)
Sep. 18th, 2011 at 5:03 pm
Im sorry, you need to go get better talking points. Whoever you are getting them from now is making a huge fool of you
pazammie
Sep. 18th, 2011 at 9:04 pm
They believe the GOP and the Democrats have a dimes worth of difference between them.It’s just the Olde English have 2 parties run by the same corruption.When the people have had enough and the rabble are at a boiling point you allow your other political party in and then it takes a while for them to figure out nothing has really changed and the other party is just as evil as the opposite one was…But the rabble feels better because they had a cchance to “Throw The Bums Out!”heheheheh
Things go on as usual and you buy some time.Repeat process,and enjoy every few years!
Everything goes well because the people will always vote for evil.Just the lesser of the 2 evils!
It’s for suckers.
Pathetic isn’t it?
Don’t worry the radiation from the jet stream from Fukushima
is accumulating and they will all get sick and die from the biggest General Electric Filthy bomb ever.
The oil in the Gulf Of Mexico is just fine too.
The media doesn’t cover that either.
America has been doing “It’s Own Thing”since the 60′s and here’s what the people who do their own thing look like.See if your picture is here folks!
www.peopleofwalmart.com/
That’s why they don’t care what you think.
America is not the same people as they were pre 60′s hippie movement.
SinghX
Sep. 18th, 2011 at 6:32 pm
So, tell me how the Christian Nation has respect for anyone who isn’t white or christian.
Tell me how these “good christian” haven’t gone around the constitution?
Tell me how hate of Obama is going to change the world? Provide the facts.
Lynn
Sep. 18th, 2011 at 8:55 pm
Blinder, the reason Obama, Bush, etc. are letting in all the illegals is to bankrupt the system and turn America into a 3rd world nation. We are no longer needed for the banker’s “Super Power” since they’ve pretty much conquered most of the globe and stolen all it’s resources and now they are getting ready for their cherished, long planned and PLAINLY advertised “Novus Ordo Seclorem” (New World Order) or Ordo Ab Chao (Order out of the chaos that THEY are intentionally causing). It truly is a Satanic conspiracy, whether or not you want to believe it. These bankers are the same people Jesus Christ called the “money changers” and took a whip to in the temple over 2,000 years ago. These are the one’s behind all the wars and misery of mankind throughout ALL of history.
Anon150
Sep. 18th, 2011 at 4:49 pm
It is possible that this event was ignored because of the lack of likelihood of any significant change occurring as a result.
Look. It’s not 1969, and ranting crowds waving signs are so ‘past-it’ as to elicit only yawns.
Time to find another way. Voting, perhaps?
Lynn
Sep. 18th, 2011 at 9:04 pm
Voting is only for those too ignorant to see the big picture. IF you vote, you are playing right into their hands. Who’s kidding who? You’ve got a monolithic structure. Everything in politics is nothing but one diversion after another diversion so they can sign their policies into action without people seeing it. And keep the same corrupt banking system going and everything else. The US government signed the World Trade Organization along with Canada and other countries, and then sent our (JOBS) factories abroad, TAX FUNDED for the moving and all the rest of it. Awfully nice of us to do that. This is what they call “democracy.” It’s astonishing, really, that people stillbother to vote at all, isn’t it? I mean, it really surprises me they go off, after living their lives and watching this sort of stuff happen and still go and vote for “democracy.” And they get these fresh faces all waxed to vote for, and the agenda goes on regardless of which party claims to be in power. Because you see, they’ve already signed all the treaties and update them yearly from the UN and it doesn’t matter which one’s in, they always carry on the same agenda.Thomas Jefferson said when you see agendas, the same agendas, continue between changes in the House – that’s parties – he says, know then that you’re under TYRANNY. And we’ve been under it for an awful long time. That’s just the facts of it. It’s a battle plan basically and they fully expect people to come up and object in different segments of society to different parts of their plan and so they’ve supplied the “opposition leaders” and infilrated the grass roots organizations like the Tea Party, to make sure they guide all opposition RIGHT down back into the slime. Anything that hasn’t yet been infiltrated by these people who run the governments behind then scenes, does NOT GET MEDIA COVERAGE. Hence, the reason why the above mentioned protest gatherings were not mentioned by the Rothschild/Rockefeller owned media.
Katie Caliente
Sep. 18th, 2011 at 4:53 pm
The Darker side of psycopathy is the inability to care. common masser…dontcha care even alittle?
I think we all have the gnawing hope inside that our handlers aren’t totally evil and heartless…
it’s the opptomism they wont REALLY put the zyklon B on you!
They will
It’s not SIN
It’s EVIL
repeat that until it sinks in
ZYKLON B
not sinners
EVIL
they aren’t sinning
they are EVIL
it takes awhile, i know
see?> we get to experience the Ted Bundy hitchhiker vibe
he wont really strangle me
and bugger my corpse
well, sir
we made the mistake that because WE have human dignity
our master do too
imagine what the kids go thru?
(im referring to the children of the illumined ones)
SinghX
Sep. 18th, 2011 at 6:40 pm
See my answer about “caring” at the article on this site called,
“The Republican Choice of Evil”. I won’t re-post as it’s long.
SinghX on September 16, 2011 at 8:55 am
My experience shows that the people you are talking about all have one thing in common; they don’t really “care” about themselves and, since they don’t care about themselves, they don’t need to “care” for others. They are not “trained” to care. It’s not part of their primitive brain, so, who cares?…
Lynn
Sep. 18th, 2011 at 9:08 pm
All they care about is money and fulfilling the lusts of their flesh.
Lynn
Sep. 18th, 2011 at 9:11 pm
And yes, it is unspeakably horrible and heartbreaking what they do to helpless little children and animals. While they have our “wonderful” brainwashed military off in another country thousands of miles away fighing against “terror” they are keeping thousands of children, kidnapped and birthed by “breeders” in electrified cages in underground bunkers to be tortured and misused in whatever way they see fit. These are the real terrorists, yet our duped military are off figthing FOR THEM instead of against them. So sad this world we live in but 1 John 5:19 and Rev 12:9 said that the whole world would be deceived by the wicked one.
john
Sep. 18th, 2011 at 6:09 pm
cnn, fox, and msnbc = hilter , gobbels nazis
Lynn
Sep. 18th, 2011 at 9:16 pm
“The most brilliant propagandist technique will yield no success unless one fundamental principle is borne in mind constantly – it must confine itself to a few points and repeat them over and over. Think of the press as a great keyboard on which the government can play.” Herr Joseph Goebbels Reich Minister of Propaganda, Nazi Germany, 1933 – 1945
“Intellectual activity is a danger to the building of character” Joseph Geobbels
“Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it”, and also, “The greater the lie, the greater the chance that it will be believed” Adolf Hitler
“What luck for the rulers that men do not think.” Adolf Hiltler
Yep, I’d say your right John. Faux News fits that description to a Tee. So does Controlled News Network and all her evil step sisters, MSNBC, CBS, et al
J Glenn Lowe
Sep. 18th, 2011 at 6:31 pm
Why are we not burning Wall Street to the ground? How long do we have to be ignored when laws don’t work anymore? Mainstream media is rigged, politicians are useless mouth pieces for Corporations. When Laws don’t work anymore, get a rope, and a torch and clean house. What other option do you have? That is what happens every time an empire goes bad. Let’s get it done so we can start over with an economy that does not starve children for quarterly stock profits. Die Banker Die by J Glenn Lowe – A Tribute to Wall Street Banksters and Fraudgate – www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y...
Jim near Denver
Sep. 18th, 2011 at 6:45 pm
Whenever you’re speaking of restoring Amerika to what the founding intent was, just remember, the word “democracy” is the wrong word.
Colin
Sep. 18th, 2011 at 7:05 pm
We are going to have to go around the media and use independent media to keep the information flowing. Mainstream media is nothing but propaganda at this point with a few exceptions but much much more is going on than they want you to believe. I see a revolution coming in this country much like in the middle east….their days are numbered and they know it…….
Lynn
Sep. 18th, 2011 at 9:20 pm
You better work fast, Obama is working hard for his Freemason masters to crack down on the internet and turn it into a Police State controlled system, just like everything else in Amerika, Land of the Sheep, Home of the Slaves. I know no one wants to hear this but I have to tell the truth: Jesus Christ is the only One Who can save us out of this mess. The Devil controls the earth and it’s governments. That’s the way it’s been throughout world history. That’s why they nailed Him to a cross.
Reynardine
Sep. 19th, 2011 at 9:22 am
Lynn, take your Goddamn meds, or if you’ve been taking them, get them changed, before the lizard outer space Merovingians get you.
gym
Sep. 18th, 2011 at 8:26 pm
conservative agenda. what bs. It is not a conservative agenda . It is left wing at best.
Shiva (Moderator)
Sep. 18th, 2011 at 8:33 pm
Yes you are right, as the GOP has never been responsible for anything, the left is now telling them what to do just as they have for a hundred years.
Lynn
Sep. 18th, 2011 at 9:26 pm
The Left Wing and the Right Wing are attached to the same bird.
“Socialism needs two legs on which to stand; a right and a left.While appearing to be in complete opposition to one another,they both march in the same direction.” — Paul Proctor
Whenever you let power hungry greedy people be in charge of things they will always DOWNGRADE the quality of life for the population and UPGRADE their quality of life BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY. The sad part about all this, is that we’re funding this evil. We’re funding our own destruction and providing a lavish lifestyle for the despots that are controlling every facet of our lives at the same time. They love how stupid we are. They find humor in our ignorance and mock us by advertising their agenda right under our nosed through apocalyptic movies, music, secret societies and occult symbolism.
Elections are not the solution. National repentance is the first step back from the abyss.
pazammie
Sep. 18th, 2011 at 8:50 pm
Try to explain to people that the media doesn’t tell ANYONE news.They are just people doing a job.That job is to keep GE not paying taxes,and making excuses for killing for profit etc. (eg.)
It’s the fantasy report,for the way the folks who robbed all your money want you to believe how things are according to them.
The whole hippie protest thing and the whole hippie movement was a Naval Intelligence operation.
Ever notice that all the hippie music came from one neighborhood?
Laurel Canyon
www.mygen.com/Laurel_Cany...
The Beatles and the Britiish invasion music was a Tavistock invention to demoralize you.
The Aquarian Conspiracy
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6...
And all that wonderful protesting your parents generation,and all the “eqaulity”protest and the politically correct nonsense was exactly how Khrushchev said they would take this country without firing a shot.
KGB Novasti Defector in 1983
Yuri Bezmenov
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8...
We have generations of demoralization,and everything you know about protesting and peace marches was a lie.
Maybe that’s why these tactics don’t work!
=-)
When they tell you Co2 is killing you then boycott Coke and Pepsi.
They are into the global warming scam
Their drinks are full of Co2
Mark Dice tried to get people to boycott the Super Bowl.
Now NFL fans will be getting the TSA treatment to be safe in the speck tater bolws
They still can’t cohesively boycott their role model Pro Sports games(which are all rigged anyway)http://www.thefixisin.net/
You can go to the movie theaters,and have people dispersed throughout the theater have your people laughing at the PROPAGANDA being shoved down your throat.
Laugh and giggle at the cops chasing a guy in the movie with like 20 police cars after one guy for example.
Remove the suspense from the propaganda.
Just some easy ways to resist in everyday life.
No riot police there,but after generations of demoralization,fat chance!
Oh well…
What a serprize they ignored it.
Cheri
Sep. 18th, 2011 at 9:14 pm
I took a college class a couple of years ago called sociology and the media. The only people that the media cares about is their sponsors, they are all about money. Therefore we cannot trust them to tell us the truth. On the otherhand, we can influence the sponsors by being bitchy and calling and not buyng their products. Most things are made in China today so we are not hurting our US workers. If I had a way to go to the protests, my daughters would have to babysit my dogs and off I would go. I am one wild crazy fat woman, no one ignores me. ^)^
TerrorFaced
Sep. 18th, 2011 at 9:24 pm
Hijack the media and make them play live footage. Wake everyone up! Even if 50,000 protesters is a rough estimate, just 1% of that figure is enough to make things happen. Come on America, get the friggin ball rolling, it’s almost 2012!!
Support and respect from the UK~
Lynn
Sep. 18th, 2011 at 9:32 pm
All the elites need to do is say the word “terrorist” and the American people will lick their boots.
Politicians are, for the most part, whores. And bureaucrats have morphed from being our civil servants into being our civil masters. The latin meaning of the word govern is control, ment is mind: govern-ment = Mind Control. How much control of your mind do you want or need from a politician or bureaucrat or the complicit media and their toxic “entertainment”? Everything that comes out of Hollywood is garbage. The television in nothing more than a sewage fountain. The newspapers aren’t worth the paper they are printed on and most everything on the internet is lies, spin and disinformation. Add to this the chemicals in our food and water, chemtrails, the barbaric toxin based health care industry, vaccines and the decrepit state of our schools and its a wonder any of us “cattle” can even think at all.Jesus Christ is the Son of God. The Masons and everyone else for that matter have been trying to twist the gospel and appropriate it to their own ends. Most buy into the lies. There is a tiny remnant who will not worship the beast and it’s corrupt system, they have the Seal of God in their foreheads (i.e the Truth). They know the truth and warn the people at every opportunity. Ignorance is the opiate of the masses. Knowledge of the Truth IS power.
john
Sep. 18th, 2011 at 10:03 pm
People in Nazi Germany had a choice to resit the rise of hitler. . so Americans do now , but Obama is just a puppet, the enemy is the bankers. .
Sarah Jones
Sep. 18th, 2011 at 10:11 pm
You do realize that you just said exactly what the Nazis said, right? About the bankers?
That aside, it’s not just the bankers, it’s the entire corporate takeover. The puppets of which are the dim-witted thugs the GOP is running; the religious extremists, the barely graduated or didn’t graduate college, and the intellectually incurious who are dumb enough to believe God wants them to run the world.
AgreeToDisagree
Sep. 19th, 2011 at 12:23 am
What does that picture mean ‘a touch’ of equality? ALL SOVEREIGN CITIZENS of the world DEMAND as is their right as sentient/sapient beings, *FULL* unconditional EQUALITY and all rights in the Human Rights Charter.
PatsyT
Sep. 19th, 2011 at 12:47 am
What happened to all the footage of the Tea Party? Where did they go?
I have not seen any fresh footage of their crowds.
Are they that ashamed of their spelling?
Kevin
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René Jourdren
Sep. 19th, 2011 at 2:47 am
hello evreybody
When we will be, not thousands, but millions in the street ( and this will happen rapidly ) they’ll cannot ignore us !
frank
Sep. 19th, 2011 at 2:59 am
al jazeera is the only news service that seems to be telling it as it is. sure hope it is not made to look anti american for spreading truths about israel. i am surrrised that it is allowed to broadcast in the us and that it is catching on with ordinary americans.
salina
Sep. 19th, 2011 at 8:37 am
www.presstv.com covered it
MountainHome
Sep. 19th, 2011 at 9:12 am
“…US Day of Rage…” was hidden, but before it even started. Living outside of NY, I would have attended but didn’t know anything about it.
So, the organization needs to get their cause into the open, advertise if funds allow, but they need to get the word out long, long before they protest. Good article!!
sbgypsy
Sep. 19th, 2011 at 10:39 am
good article, but you got one wrong- MSNBC had full coverage of WI protests, on Rachel Maddow, and esp on The ED Show.
Jason Easley
Sep. 19th, 2011 at 1:57 pm
Ed Schultz like the rest of MSNBC provided zero LIVE coverage of the weekend Wisconsin rallies while they were happening. Ed talked a good game M-TH, but if he and MSNBC really cared about news they would have been broadcasting live from the rallies as they happened on Saturday. Talking about 100,000 people taking to the streets two days after it happened just proves my point that the media doesn’t really care.
Please read the Wisconsin links in the story. I know Ed Schultz and MSNBC were not covering it live because we on the Internet were.
Phyllis Ryan
Sep. 19th, 2011 at 2:25 pm
Fox had coverage of the “problem” in Wisconson. Problem was there were plam trees in the background. Apparently a true sign of global warming, as Madison may have lakes and great green areas, but no palm trees.
Rebecca
Sep. 22nd, 2011 at 5:41 am
Ed broadcast live from WI on several nights. Also, after a few days, there was coverage on CNN about the protesting.
mark
Sep. 19th, 2011 at 11:35 am
They tried. Thats how successful the media blackout was.
annecargill
Sep. 19th, 2011 at 12:42 pm
I would have joined “the day of rage” but I knew nothing about it either. information has to get out! Use Facebook. email all the techy stuff. That’s how they did it in the middle east.
MountainHome
Sep. 19th, 2011 at 9:29 pm
Well, I was advised to stay off of FaceBook for security reasons so I opted the advise and dropped off. Still, there needs to be a way that I (and others) can get on an e-mail listing so that I (we) can get the information before it’s on the news so we can be there to provide support by attendance.
Thanks for the idea, but I’m looking for a blog or something where I can get the dates early so I can drive and participate. I’m on early retirement so I’m ready to get involved as we did in the 60′s. Power to the People!
dee
Sep. 20th, 2011 at 6:45 pm
FB is an outstanding way to organize and to get the word out on all kinds of events and to pass along info. The key is not to talk about personal things you wouldn’t talk about in public. During the Vermont floods, we used FB to let people know what was going on, how to get places, who needed help, etc. Orgs have also used FB to organize some fantastic social protests and other events in the USA and world wide. I’m not a FB promoter: I regularly criticize FB, and I am very very careful about my personal info. But I use it to for fun and to inform myself about things I know mainstream media don’t cover. Do have to say that FB is also where I have access to some outstanding programs that do cover these events. The more of us there are, the harder it is for Fox to ignore.
pp
Sep. 21st, 2011 at 5:03 am
occupywallst.org
FlowerSenior
Sep. 21st, 2011 at 7:22 am
Mtn.Home: Back in the 60s during the protest marches against the War, there were many who “advised” us to “stay away for security reasons” (after all, heads were being busted in Chicago during the Dem-Convention and protestors were even KILLED at Kent State) but, we went ANYWAY. In choosing some pie-in-the-sky state of contented “safety” (which, in reality, can never truly exist) over a very real opportunity (which, like it or not, social sites like FaceBook provide) to keep abreast of the latest developments in the struggle of the People seeking to re-establish real Democracy and freedom in this country, you have unwittingly demonstrated the single largest obstacle blocking these goals: Complacency with the status quo and a distinct lack of the amount of motivation required to effectively defy the “powers that be”. Sacrifices by all are required in order to show solidarity with those out in the streets fighting hand-to-hand to save our last vestiges of Freedom.
Volts
Sep. 28th, 2011 at 6:57 pm
They did.
Maybe you’re out of the loop?
If you are interested in this type of thing YOU need to be more active.
YOU need to make an effort.
Are you expecting someone to walk up to your door and tell you there will be a freedom protest in 3 months time?
Are you kidding me?
People need to STOP being lazy and pay attention to what’s happening internationally. You can do this with a quiet afternoon at home.
Occupy wall street was put out there MONTHS ago. MONTHS!
Go find your justice because these days, justice won’t be finding you.
Reynardine
Sep. 19th, 2011 at 9:27 am
Rothschilds, Masons, illuminati, Coca Cola… I think what they’re doing someplace is dressing up trolls as nuts people and sending them to clog the blogs. Check it oy.
Reynardine
Sep. 19th, 2011 at 9:28 am
Out, I meant. But… Oy!
Sagewater
Sep. 19th, 2011 at 9:53 am
I want to know more about this!!! When is the next one?????????
MountainHome
Sep. 19th, 2011 at 9:56 pm
I also want to know, but the FaceBook, sudden notice isn’t going to help the cause if others, from around the country cannot get to the protest in time. The base needs to broad so there can be a ground swelling across the land.
pp
Sep. 21st, 2011 at 5:02 am
the protesters are planning to stay for months. October 15 is global revolution day. check out occupywallst.org.
Volts
Sep. 28th, 2011 at 6:59 pm
It’s still going on.
Chris
Sep. 19th, 2011 at 10:16 am
just saw an 2-3 min coverage of the rally on CNN’s “Morning Express” this Monday morning
Kjm
Sep. 19th, 2011 at 10:43 am
…Yes, and I hope that we all begin to realize the Media’s true purpose is to distract us, and show a bunch of horrible stuff, disquised as some effort to spread ‘democracy’ by putting on an insane ‘war on terror’. I’ve heard that several upper cruster CNN talking heads are actually employed by the CIA!! What the Media is doing is putting on stuff that is designed to divide us by class, race, etc. And distract us from important issues that they Should be talking about! The stuff that really does matter to us. Stuff that would be helpfull….well forget it!
Rene Gonzalez
Sep. 19th, 2011 at 10:51 am
you should add music concert to this protest and send pictures all over the globe.
Monica
Sep. 23rd, 2011 at 10:05 am
give them money then…
www.livestream.com/global...
I donated so that they can maintain & improve their live media stream from inside the riot. you can give to other organizations there too. where do you think the $ is coming from?
Aaron
Sep. 19th, 2011 at 11:12 am
Oh wow. Disrupting Wall Street on a Saturday?! What balls they have…
Don M
Sep. 19th, 2011 at 11:19 am
REALLY NOW. If this is the best we can do then we deserve to lose our Freedom and Liberty. Israeli’s citizens demonstrated in Tel Avi about their economic woes for days. NYPD shows up with some guys in riot gear and everybody runs home to watch Sunday football. It’s time for people in this country to grow a pair or have them removed by the police thugs. God Speed USSA
Kelly B
Sep. 19th, 2011 at 2:39 pm
I agree here pretty strongly. College used to teach people how to think, not what to think. Now you’re relying on a generation that’s been programed mentally and socially by the establishment, and risk is something new to them. Get out there! There’s plenty doing it… get your friends involved… who cares if your favorite show is on or its a half mile walk – make your voice heard! If you’re not willing to risk arrest to draw attention, and make a statement, why should anyone else?
Kris
Sep. 19th, 2011 at 8:57 pm
Actually… They’re still there.. They didn’t run home, the Occupy Wall Street protest is STILL happening.. They are live streaming it on the internet at Global Revolution (www.livestream.com/global...)
tiny toddy
Sep. 19th, 2011 at 12:10 pm
Ever notice how you cant email these “news” corporations? I tried to email Yahoo news to let them know that there are more important things than what Britanny Spears wore last night to the gala. I tried to tell them to report on never-ending wars, etc. Can’t find a way to do it.
I love yahoo finanace. They tell me why the market went down 200 points. ‘Greece defualt worries increase.” Then the next day, the market gopes up 350, ‘Eurozone default unlikely.” The AP needs to shut up. And yahoo is just that, yahoos.
Rebecca
Sep. 22nd, 2011 at 5:45 am
Check for a ‘Contact Us’ link, usually at the bottom. Or a ‘Help’ page for something like Yahoo. Plus you can always google the address of their headquarters and send them a letter via post.
Paul
Sep. 19th, 2011 at 12:33 pm
Staging sit-ins at a business that is closed does NOTHING! Want to change the world? It is EASY! Tell every corporate sponsor of these “news” companies that you will no longer buy ANY of their products as long as they advertize on those stations. A few million people do that, and follow up with no purchases will have PROFOUND effects! The organizers of these protests would do a lot better by calling for targeted boycotts of sponsors and following through. Just how would Fox report the fall of stocks in these targeted corps?
Besides, most of these corporations don’t produce anything that is good for you anyhow!
nader paul kucinich gravel mckinney baldwin ventura sheehan
Sep. 19th, 2011 at 1:18 pm
blackout 9 11 investigation evidence
blackout US day of rage protesters
blackout Ronald Ernest Paul army
Jenni
Sep. 19th, 2011 at 2:42 pm
What’s wrong with U.S. citizens!? Overworked? No time off work and afraid to lose your job? No job and thus no means of getting to the protest? Lost all hope and demoralized? This protest was started by Adbusters from Vancouver, Canada (one of the founders is an Estonian immigrant. Our neighbour :)). Wasn’t anyone in the U.S. pissed off enough!? I am Finnish but hooked on U.S. news, especially because what happens there affects the rest of the world, and everyday I read things that make my jaw drop. My husband is, by the way, a U.S. citizen and we have lived there. When comes the tipping point? People are suffering so terribly there yet where is the outrage? I told my husband that if people persist and keep their butts in “Freedom Square” I will fly over there with my 3-year old daughter (to help my hubby -our boys would be left here to attend school). Anyway, this wouldn’t be her first demonstration :) I always read the alternative (as in non-corporate) news sources first (like Reader Supported News and DemocracyNow.org) and then the main stream press just to see what they have, yet again, failed to report. As they say, keep your friends close but your enemy closer.
Dave
Sep. 19th, 2011 at 3:03 pm
The same thing happened with the Iraq War protests, a media blackout. Practically any commentator who was critical of the government was blacked out or fired. Eventually the truth won out and they could no longer ignore it, it took some time and a lot of persistence.
Jenni
Sep. 19th, 2011 at 3:07 pm
By the way, I pay a voluntary monthly fee to Reader Supported News. Recommend to put your money where your mouth is and donate to alternative media!
Leonidas
Sep. 19th, 2011 at 3:25 pm
f@ck them. the web is our weapon…
terrybrown
Sep. 19th, 2011 at 4:13 pm
they can blackout all they want. that way republicans will have only themselves to blame when the people bring our own shock and awe to the steps of congress. we wont stop there, there is a front door and we will go in and remove the ones who block freedom by the scruffs of their neck and a boot in their ass. they wont see it coming and it will hit them hard as we take their wealth and divide it among the throngs of us who have been under this tyranny for too long. rise up, unite, and take back America by force if necessary.
Samchida Cabral
Sep. 19th, 2011 at 4:47 pm
Are the Washington lobbyists and Big Corporation News owners sensing , Americans could be out on the street, displaying their ” winter of discontent” with US Congress. Mirroring the episode of the “Spring of discontent” by the middle class and youths of the Middle East. THAT KIND OF SCARY FEAR AND CENSORSHIP, BECOMES THE TREND BY THE MINORITY UPPER CLASS, WHEN THEY SUSPECT THAT THEIR STRANGULATION OF THE LOWER CLASSES…..WILL GET SOME RESISTANCE…..
DavidB
Sep. 19th, 2011 at 6:24 pm
The movement ought to be clear, steadfast and unified.
The USA is suppose to be a constitutional republic. The tea party had it right in its beginnings, when the focus was the constitution. The tea party has lost it’s integrity though because it didn’t remain steadfastly focused on the goal, which is the constitution.
There is only one thing that grants every American life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, and that one thing is the constitution.
Be absolutely clear, If it is freedom that you desire, then every single American needs to be steadfastly unified in restoring America to a constitutional republic.
Goldbug36
Sep. 19th, 2011 at 6:40 pm
The media are all owned by the very people we should be protesting. They will never report anything on our side.
ICanRead
Sep. 19th, 2011 at 6:47 pm
The so called “day of rage” was a planned act of terrorism, had it occurred on a weekday, thousands would have been arrested and hundreds given harsh sentences. You do not disrupt peoples business and livelihoods; you simply have no right to do it.
Furthermore, you are not taken seriously because you show no outrage at Gitmo, wars still in Iraq and Afghanistan and the new genocide being committed in Libya. Where is the outrage on Warren Buffet benefiting from $150 billion in Government sales while claiming that we must tax our upper middle class to death?
Where is the rage at the $1.6 trillion dollar deficit which mostly goes from the government to the billionaires? Where is the rage at zero accountability for the government’s spending of 2.6 trillion in tax dollars? Where is the rage at government waste, fraud and abuse? Where is the rage at Solyndra? Where is the rage at our sitting POTUS making millions off of book sales using campaign funds to promote it?
You aren’t taken seriously because you have no rage; you are DNC and Obama suckers falling into the poor vs middle class warfare rhetoric.
The last time the poor stopped envying the middle class and they allied together, we spawned the greatest nation on earth and booted the super rich from America. Sadly 200 years later, you handed it back to them on a silver platter.
Shiva (Moderator)
Sep. 19th, 2011 at 7:54 pm
In other words the only protesting can be the protests you want. Otherwise its terrorism.
Sorry, but I cant take you seriously
BTW its not the poor vs the middle class, its the people vs the 20% that have all the wealth
Gerald Bosacker
Sep. 19th, 2011 at 10:12 pm
Why can’t we “like” this to FB? Don’t feel bad. They even censor my anti-fox sarcasm.
Eddy
Sep. 20th, 2011 at 3:20 am
Had to laugh at the comments here how most Americans didn’t even know such protests were being conducted.
How come in Egypt,Iran,Bahrain and elsewhere around the World, people organising such events have no trouble getting the message out there utilising AMERICAN established products such as FACEBOOK, the INTERNET and mobile phones ?
Does this mean such countries and people are WISER and more intellectual then Americans ?
Shiva (Moderator)
Sep. 20th, 2011 at 8:38 am
Edward.
No matter what product you use you still have to know that something is on Facebook in order to go look for it. Facebook is nothing more than a tool state where and when something will happen. If you are not aware that something is going to happen you do not have the knowledge that you should go to Facebook and look for the details. You may remember that in Egypt the protest started out as a very small very localized unit of action. It was not until later that more people took up the cause and that’s when Facebook started to be used. The same thing could be said about the actions on Wall Street. It starts small and may or may not get bigger. If it gets bigger than Facebook and twitter would be used for people to get the details of what is happening. You are welcome
cokids
Sep. 20th, 2011 at 10:32 am
Kind of like climate change, isn’t it? Ignore it and it’ll go away!
Neither is true, but that’s the strategy!
Sky
Sep. 20th, 2011 at 7:14 pm
What if the media made all the people in the Tea Party look like idiots on purpose? What if all the people where just like us? What if division among the people is what Corporatism wants? Cause if thats the case – were in big trouble, and need to be kind to other folks and agree what we want is freedom from tyranny, and corporatism in america!
Rhio2k
Sep. 25th, 2011 at 9:34 pm
That’s exactly what happened. Rules for radicals: when your opponent is telling an inconvenient truth about you and you want people to ignore it, call them names (“teabaggers”) racists, and ignorant, in order to insure nobody listens to them. Ridicule is your strongest weapon against the truth.
Shiva (Moderator)
Sep. 25th, 2011 at 9:46 pm
You forgot tea buggerys, tea thuggerys. If you dont like tea baggers then turn your head.
And cough
Keith
Sep. 30th, 2011 at 10:37 am
they will also call you “Paulites” or a “kook” or a “nut” as Ron Paul found out with his media blackout!!! Ron Paul 2012!
pp
Sep. 21st, 2011 at 1:42 am
youtu.be/44lN0x91jMY
Keith
Sep. 30th, 2011 at 10:35 am
I am in Iowa and am also furious with our worthless Main Stream Media blackouts. Where do I need to go and what do I need to do????? Count me in 100%!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!