protesting unceasingly for more than a month now. long enough for the initial splash to be over and media s attempts to figure out what the long-term ripples might be to really take hold. and no one has had a clearer take on the real deal downtown than the always insightful new york city hip hop host and social commentator, jay smooth. who likens wall street to the sidewalk game three card monty. and as you probably know, every three card monty setup has a ringer. the ringer s job is to pretend they re an objective outside observer commenting on the gale when they re part of the hustle that s there to help bamboozle the public into thingi ingthink game is legitimate. if we stand next to the game and tell everyone the game is rigged, the ringer is going to flip on us and start doing everything they can to make sure nobody listens to us. they re going to try everything they can to discredit us so they can protect that game that they re so invested in. so at occupy wall street, who ar