Wouldn't you like to know.
I get excited by stuff. Some of them make it on here.
"Not anti-anybody. We’re pro-American citizen. Millions of Americans are getting kicked out of their house. They’re losing their education, their health care. They can’t take care of their parents. This is about people. Republicans are opening their bills. Democrats are opening their bills. I’ll go all the way to $250,000 if you want. Everybody’s opening their bills and they’re thinking, ‘Who’s protecting me from people stealing from me?’ This isn’t what I agreed on when I signed this agreement with this company. You add all these hassles up in your life — your hospital, your credit card, your education, your mortgage — and you’re getting nailed. And there are a couple of banks who created the instruments that made that happen. This is not a physical war. This is an oppression that’s quiet, and through money, and through services, and through small print. They want you to be afraid, and not to know, and they want to bewilder you. Between you and me, I shouldn’t get a credit card. But I got one. I didn’t even apply for it. Why am I getting a credit card?
This is not Tahrir Square. This is not Tompkins Square Park. This is not Yuppies against squatters. This is about minds. We need help from people who know. We need help from people in the financial industry who know. They should be here, too. He should want to see a better community. I want to see change in a systematic and legislative way. We’re looking for real results. We’re looking for protection for people. We’re down here trying to play bills. It’s serious out there, but it’s quiet, because it happens at everyone’s kitchen table. It’s happening household-by-household. There’s a sense out there, which I hope what’s going on here will dissipate, that there’s something wrong with me. I’m a jerk because I can’t pay that bill. There are working men who will march tomorrow. It’s all about people, who feel they got duped. There needs to be a systematic legislative change, so that this cannot happen any more.
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→ 06 Oct 11 at 2 pm
→ 06 Oct 11 at 2 pm
Bill O’Reilly attacks the Occupy Wall Street protests. He loves the tea party movement protests though. To Billo, the tea party are just folks angry at the government and whenever racist signs were proudly displayed or or voiced by Hank Williams Jr. they were dismissed. Turn to a real grassroots protest and Bill sends his lackey, Jesse Watters to uncover either a heavily edited video clip or one that portrays the protesters to be communists with potty mouths, sorta like he did last night.
Anyway, Juan Williams actually did a good job in defending the new protests. The new Pew poll supports the idea that the class warfare meme is working against conservatives because the results show only Republicans are supporting that idea. Also, Republicans are helping the “haves” much more than the have-nots. it’s hard to follow Bill’s thinking sometimes. I wish I had Jon Stewart’s wit because in one moment he says it’s not spontaneous and calls it organized by professionals and in the next he says they are walking around aimlessly. I guess that means that the pros were hired to create massive protests and their central tenet is to have them not finely tune their messaging which is what the Koch Brothers Americans For Prosperity does, but walk around aimlessly.
Williams: First of all look at those Occupy Wall Street movement that you’re seeing right there first hand. It’s now spreading and it’s in LA, S, Pittsburgh, Boston,
O’Reilly: But you don’t think this is spontaneous do you?
Williams: Yes, I do, it’s organic.
O’Reilly: Oh, they’re NOT! There’s groups behind them, professional people, these people, we sent Jesse Watters and these people just wander around…
Williams: Yea, but they’re jobless,
O’Reilly: They’re jobless because they don’t want to work! They admitted it to us. They won’t work for the corporate man.
Williams: That’s not true. There is high unemployment among the young Americans because this economy is having such troubleO’Reilly: Let me break it to you. if you have a college degree in this country, unemployment is 4.5% OK, Juan! So all these people, take a shower and they can get a job if they went to college. That’s all.
Williams: No, what you’re missing is they’re underemployed…
In Bill’s world, college is free and anyone can walk through the doors of Harvard and sign up for classes. Then get washed up after four or eight years in a university, everybody can go down to Mickey D’s and find meaningful work. I know for a fact it’s spontaneous since we’ve been interacting with NY, LA, Boston and SF and it’s not run by professionals. but to Billo’s point, people want to work. Now the next bit is great because Juan uses a Fox News poll and throws it back in O’Reilly’s face. it was so bad for O’Reilly that he tried to dismiss his own poll because they probably worded the questions wrong..
Williams: These people can’t find jobs or they’re finding jobs flipping burgers and they’re not happy. A lot of young people and guess what, you said the independents won’t buy this.
O’Reilly: Yea.
Williams: There was a Fox News poll last week that says ‘president Obama’s class-warfare hopeful or divisive and the Fox Poll said 56% of Americans agreed that president Obama’s class warfare described by the republicans is hopeful and positive and guess what, most independents agreed with it.
O’Reilly: I mean maybe the poll, the way the question was worded.
O’Reilly dissed the holy Fox News poll.
O’Reilly: I don’t think Americans want this country to be divided over money and class. I agree that they are a lot of fat cat gangsters on Wall street and I’ve been outspoken about that. This ain’t this. It’s about I hate Capitalism, I want this socialist nirvana and I’m going to disrupt everybody’s life to make my point. I’ll give you the last point.
Williams: Here’s what you’re missing. In th elast Fox poll, in the Washington Post poll say they agree with the president that taxes should be raised on people who are making more than two hundred and fifty thousand. They agree right now that the rich aren’t paying their fair share and if you go back to wall street, those guys are getting big bonuses, big payouts even after the government bailed them out…
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→ 04 Oct 11 at 3 am
→ 04 Oct 11 at 3 am
Johnson: “I Would Think” Wall Street Protesters “Are Deluded In A Lot Of Ways.” On the October 3 edition of Fox News’ Fox & Friends, Fox News legal analyst Peter Johnson Jr. attacked the “Occupy Wall Street” protesters, claiming, “Clearly, I would think these folks are deluded in a lot of ways and probably provide the best argument for national service for 18-year-olds that we have ever seen.” Johnson later said of the protests: “I don’t know what it is. I don’t think they know what it is. But it’s costing Americans millions of dollars in tax dollars in order to arrest them.” [Fox News, Fox & Friends, 10/3/11, via Media Matters]
Fox’s Watters: Wall Street Protesters Are “The Sludge” Of “Every Left-Wing Cause.” On the September 30 edition of Fox News’ The O’Reilly Factor, Fox News producer Jesse Watters said of the protests: “I think if you put every single left-wing cause into a blender and hit power this is the sludge you’d get. And it’s basically anti-capitalism. And they want to redistribute the wealth. But if you eliminate capitalism, there is no wealth to redistribute.” [Fox News, The O’Reilly Factor, 9/30/11, via Media Matters]
Guilfoyle: Protesters Have “Absolutely No Purpose Or Focus” And Are “Just Looking To … Dirty The Streets.” On the September 30 edition of Fox News’ Hannity, Fox News host Kimberly Guilfoyle said of the protests: “It’s like Woodstock meets Burning Man meets people with absolutely no purpose or focus in life. No wonder, they have nothing but free time to be down there. They make up a slogan or a cause as they go along. And they are just looking to, like, go out there and dirty the streets. And they really don’t have any, like, idea about what they are doing there.” During the segment, an on-screen graphic stated, “Lunatics of the left wing.”
Doocy Complains Boston Protesters Got “Between Me And A Steak Dinner.” On the October 3 edition of Fox News’ Fox & Friends, co-host Steve Doocy complained that a Boston branch of the Wall Street protests got “between me and a steak dinner.” Later, co-host Brian Kilmeade asked, “What’s their message?” Doocy replied “They don’t know.” Co-host Gretchen Carlson called the protesters “slightly disingenuous.” [Fox News, Fox & Friends, 10/3/11]
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→ 25 Sep 11 at 12 am
→ 25 Sep 11 at 12 am
Police pen up and mace female “Occupy Wall Street” protesters
In a disturbing scene from today’s “Occupy Wall Street” protests, a group of peaceful female protesters were rounded up in an orange-colored mesh pen by police and subsequently sprayed with mace without any provocation.
In spite of multiple reported incidents of possible police violence, major media outlets seem to be content to let the protests go by completely unreported, following the same “who-cares” attitude they have taken toward recent revelations that the NYPD has violated the Constitutional rights of American citizens by spying on them as possible terrorists and enemies of the state despite a complete absence of evidence of any crimes.
This is absolutely disturbing. Penning people up to mace them is police brutality. Period. What will it take to get the mainstream media to pay attention? If you follow the #OccupyWallStreet, you’ll find out that at least 80 were arrested today. AP and Wall Street Journal mentioned the arrests briefly today.
Oh my god……
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