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workinclasszero Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-07-11 03:10 PM
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“bizarre,” “freaks,” , “law-breaking” “anti-American” “anarchists”
This is how the 1%ers and their lapdogs on CNBC see the OWS patriots!

The 1%ers sure are getting scared, eh?

From Think Progress:

http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2011/10/07/339230/cnbc-talking-heads-occupy-wall-street/
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Dr Fate Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-07-11 03:12 PM
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1. What are some of the rebuttals from elected Democrats?
nt
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villager Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-07-11 03:15 PM
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3. Elected Democrats!? Rebutting their masters!?
n/t
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lunatica Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-07-11 03:13 PM
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2. Sounds like they're getting uncomfortable
So sad. They declared war and now we're fighting back. Shit happens.
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Dr Fate Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-07-11 03:17 PM
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4. You could say the same thing about any lack of response from elected DEMS.
King and Cantor are uncomfortable, but a failure of elected DEMS to respond, defend the DEM base, etc. against these attacks might mean DEMS are getting pretty uncomfortable too.

We shall see- maybe they are just keeping their powder dry.
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msongs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-07-11 03:28 PM
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7. there have been a small number of elected democrats with positive statements about all this nt
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Dr Fate Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-07-11 03:33 PM
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8. Do not doubt it. Feel free to show us their rebuttals.
Edited on Fri Oct-07-11 03:41 PM by Dr Fate
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x2076566
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Kahuna Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-07-11 03:43 PM
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10. The Dem base? What would make them believe that it's the Dem
base behind OWS. There are people out there with signs that could represent anarchist groups.
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Dr Fate Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-07-11 03:53 PM
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17. So I guess the Republicans are correct then?
Edited on Fri Oct-07-11 03:54 PM by Dr Fate
Maybe Obama should take Santorum's advice after all.
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lumpy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-07-11 03:18 PM
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5. Oh boy, the 1%er's CNBC lapdogs just helped the "anarchistic
mobs" on Wall st. with their ridiculous sniggering depictions of Americans excersizing their right to protest. Their insulting comments so reminded me of those made against protesters during the Vietnam era.
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Kahuna Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-07-11 03:45 PM
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11. BINGO!!! They plan to paint OWS with the Vietnam era protestors..
who are believed to have set elected Dems back 40 years.
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SteveM Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-07-11 03:51 PM
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16. LOL! I went to the one in Austin yesterday. "Vietnam era protestors" were...
antique, in age and obscurity. But they found some old fellow (perhaps homeless) on his bike and whipped the cameras out. He looked at little flummoxed, but I'm sure he unwittingly served MSM's purpose. On the other hand, the spokesperson for OccupyAustin is a pleasant, media-savvy blond. Now THAT might confuse Fox.
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Fire Walk With Me Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-07-11 03:48 PM
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15. I wonder...is that particular ZeitGeist being summoned and contrasted? Very interesting.
The longer that the MSM poo-poos the protest, and the larger the protests become, the more Middle America will realize that something truly polarizing is occuring. And that it's Important. And has precedents..
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valerief Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-07-11 03:20 PM
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6. But they said the same thing about the Tea Party. In some Bizarro Universe. nt
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Kahuna Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-07-11 03:46 PM
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13. It would have to be a bizarro universe because it didn't happen in
the M$M.
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SteveM Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-07-11 03:54 PM
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18. MSM doesn't want ANYONE outside the narrow parameters they set...
The OccupyAustin.org rally yesterday had a number of straight-looking folks, working folks, straight-looking college kids and (remarkably) un-tattooed folks in attendance; a few had t-shirt with firearms prominently featured in the art. Not a late 60s crowd. If you get 5,000 instead of 500 out, THAT will leave the power structure standing in their own yellow water.
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Yavin4 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-07-11 03:33 PM
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9. So, We've Left The Ignore Stage and Entered the Ridicule Stage
Get ready for the attack stage.
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mmonk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-07-11 03:45 PM
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12. I've been called worse. Sticks and stones...
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white_wolf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-07-11 03:46 PM
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14. “law-breaking” “anti-American”
Edited on Fri Oct-07-11 03:57 PM by white_wolf
Those two phrases really don't go together very well. Have these people never heard of the Boston Tea Party? I mean come on they destroyed the private property of the East India Company.
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SteveM Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-07-11 03:56 PM
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19. There were some disaffected T-partyers at the OccupyAustin rally.
I said over a year ago in these threads that sooner or later the "left" will have to sit down with the "teabaggers."

Ain't nobody wants anything to do with us, no how.
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white_wolf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-07-11 03:58 PM
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20. The Tea Party is a purely reactionary movement.
I'm not sure what common ground can be found.
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SteveM Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-07-11 04:12 PM
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22. Common ground is the realization one has little control over one's political life.
They were here, nevertheless.
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Shandris Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-07-11 04:10 PM
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21. The 'Anti-American' one really gets me.
Apparently, the only way to 'Be American' is to support the theft of everything that it once meant to be an American. And if you believe in some degree of equality...then you are ANTI American.

THINK ABOUT THAT! If supporting equality is Anti-American...

...then maybe I am. Because if that is true, then 'American' isn't something to be proud of in the -slightest-.
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Bonhomme Richard Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-07-11 04:14 PM
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23. They are not afraid. Least not yet. They haven't brought out the...
heavy guns yet and they are cocksure that this will go away.
The bottom line is that they won't be afraid until they have to spend their money on security in a big way.
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SomethingFishy Donating Member (552 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-07-11 04:16 PM
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24. Jim Cramer? Isn't that the guy who told investors to
hold on to Bear Stearns because it was solid... the day before it collapsed?


Yeah his opinion counts.. :rofl:
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hifiguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-07-11 04:17 PM
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25. The cackling only starts in the chicken house
when they are getting nervous. They are more worried than they are letting on and you can bet on that.
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