not even in strict electoral terms. but how does it change the framing of issues. i mean, the right is trying to denounce the existence of protests at all as mobs and social unrest. glen beck today saying people are going to be dragged from their homes and killed in the streets. the kinder, softer version of that on the right is to say they re motivated by class envy and class resentment dividing the nation. the right is reacting to this in slightly hysterical terms. that implies to me that people have a message that the right is worried about. i think that glenn beck is right. it s only a matter of time before they take him away. not the way he needs with a straight jacket. that much is obvious. but fundamentally ask yourself what people want is solutions to their problems and what is either side offering in the next election? people don t see solutions to
against. in the month before the occupy wall street movement, there were to our count, 164 mentions of the phrase corporate greed in the news. one month. 164 mentions. in the month since the occupy wall street movement has been under way, 1,801 mentions of that same phrase. corporate greed. in the news. here s another sign that your movement may be gaining some momentum. your protest which is narrowly focused at first to one specific geographic location, in this case wall street, your protest begins to spread fast. well beyond that initial location. today nbc news got video in of occupy wall street s spinoff protests being held in boston, in atlanta, in washington, d.c., in columbus, ohio, in des moines, iowa, all today. that s just what we got tape of. over the weekend, we got video in of occupy protests being held in portland, oregon, and in knoxville, tennessee, and in chicago and in indianapolis and in cincinnati and in philadelphia and in sacramento and in san francisco.
american spectator magazine acknowledging he infiltrated the occupy d.c. protests provoking a pepper spray confrontation with a security guard at a national museum. specifically provoking the pepper spray incident as a provocateur. occupy wall street engendered a full-scale right wing freak-out for those on the right defending the policies now being protested against. people advancing and defending policies that advance the interests of the richest 1% of people in the country. those folks are now in full panic mode. i for one an increasingly concerned about the growing mobs occupying wall street and the other cities across the country. class envy and social unrest is not what we do in america. you think that s what the president is doing? i think president is doing that. he s preying on the emotions of fear, envy and anger and not constructive to unifying america. my parents, they never played the victim card. my parents never said, we hope the rich people can lose something so
and people can be scared by protests in general. absolutely. you can use that to scare people. particularly if police continue to use brutal tactics against the protesters. that, itself, can make the protesters seem scary. counterintuitively if police are beating people up and using pepper spray on people, it can make the people police are abusing seem like scary people. we ve seen this before in the past. the idea here, the message the protests are promoting is not only a simple one to say, it s a simple one to understand. case in point, friday night s bill maher show on hbo experienced what was apparently at least anecdotedly reported to be the first ever standing ovation given to a comment by a guest on that show. on stage with bill maher, was former democratic congressman alan grayson of florida, former george w. bush communications director nicolle wallace who you ve seen on this show and on the right, p.j. o rourke. after congressman grayson gave an eloquent description of the pr
american spectatoor magazine acknowledging he infiltrated the occupy d.c. protests provoking a pepper spray confrontation with a security guard at a national museum. specifically provoking the pepper spray incident as a provocateur. occupy wall street engenterdere full scale freak-out for those defending the policies now being protested against. people advancing and defending policies that advance the interests of the richest 1% of people in the country. those folks are now in full panic mode. i for one an increasingly concerned about the growing mobs occupying wall street and the other cities across the country. class envy and social unrest is not what we do in america. you think that s what the president is doing? i think president is doing that. he s preying on the emotions of fear, envy and anger and not constructive to unifying america. my parents, they never played the victim card.