Matt Taibbi Responds To Brietbart 's Stupidity & Considers Threats To Occupy Wall Street

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/why-occupy-wall-street-is-bigger-than-left-vs-right-20111017

Why Occupy Wall Street is Bigger Than Left vs. Right
POSTED: October 17, 9:46 AM ET

I was surprised, amused and annoyed all at once when I found out yesterday that some moron-provocateur linked to notorious right-wing cybergoon Andrew Breitbart had infiltrated a series of private e-mail lists – including one that I have been participating in – and was using them to run an exposé on the supposed behind-the-scenes marionetting of the OWS movement by the liberal media.

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Aside from the appalling fact of these assholes stealing private emails and bragging about it in public, the whole story is completely absurd. None of the people on the list, as far as I know, are actually organizers of OWS -- I know I'm not one, anyway.

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Take, for instance, the matter of the Too-Big-To-Fail banks, which people like me and Barry Ritholz have focused on as something that could be a key issue for OWS. These gigantic institutions have put millions of ordinary people out of their homes thanks to a massive fraud scheme for which they were not punished, owing to their enormous influence with government and their capture of the regulators.

This is an issue for the traditional "left" because it's a classic instance of overweening corporate power -- but it's an issue for the traditional "right" because these same institutions are also the biggest welfare bums of all time, de facto wards of the state who sucked trillions of dollars of public treasure from the pockets of patriotic taxpayers from coast to coast.

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See, because they're wealthy and stuff, and really, they're just getting some of their own money back, because wealthy people and corporations pay sooooo much in taxes. Lots and lots. Gobs, even. So when they latch onto the government teat, they're really not sucking the rest of society dry, despite what it looks like.

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It is well worth the time.

TPTB will attempt to keep the National Debate between the Book Ends of Democrat vs Republican.
That is a very narrow Playing Field.



When the Working Class & The Poor realize that WE have more in common with each other
than we have in common with the Rich Elite Class Politicians of BOTH Political parties,
we CAN have "change".

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