Between the Occupy Wall Street protestors and what they’re protesting, guess which side Fox News is supporting? Oh, you’re a Teabagger? Okay, you get to guess again. That’s right! Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp., parent corporation of Fox News, while not physically located on Wall Street, has sided with his filthy-rich brethren and sistern against the 99 Percent, i.e.: the rest of us. How’s that Tea Party, gosh-and-golly, Palin-lovin’, you betcha, Real America ‘populism’ workin’ out for ya, Fox? Here photo-montage artist and political satirist Tracy Knauss pulls the rancid meat off of the rotting Fox News carcass:
Seems this Baptist church figured out thinking people don’t give much money to Baptist churches so, naturally, thinkers must be working for the enemy. According to them, God likes ’em stupid and gullible (easier to convince of religious absurdities) and, coincidentally, so do Baptist preachers. Intelligence is just another sinful temptation like sex and dancing, I’m telling you!
“You can safely assume that you’ve created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.” — Anne Lamott
For all of you David Bowie fans out there, here’s his cult favorite “Changes.” First recorded in 1971, it’s still relevant today, particularly the stanza that begins with “And these children that you spit on / As they try to change their worlds…”
“The Indians, Columbus reported, ‘are so naive and so free with their possessions that no one who has not witnessed them would believe it. When you ask for something they have, they never say no. To the contrary, they offer to share with anyone…’
“From his base on Haiti, Columbus sent expedition after expedition into the interior. They found no gold fields, but had to fill up the ships returning to Spain with some kind of dividend. In the year 1495, they went on a great slave raid, rounded up fifteen hundred Arawak men, women, and children, put them in pens guarded by Spaniards and dogs, then picked the five hundred best specimens to load onto ships. Of those five hundred, two hundred died en route. The rest arrived alive in Spain and were put up for sale by the archdeacon of the town, who reported that, although the slaves were ‘naked as the day they were born,’ they showed ‘no more embarrassment than animals.’ Columbus later wrote: ‘Let us in the name of the Holy Trinity go on sending all the slaves that can be sold.’ “ — Howard Zinn, excerpt from “A People’s History of the United States” (2003).
Only the Corporate Media couldn’t figure this one out but, then, there’s no financial gain or career boost for the Talking Heads if they come up with the correct answer. As Wendy Gittleson at AddictingInfo.org notes:
“Why does the mainstream media have such a problem with the protesters? A quick look at their ownership will tell you why. The mainstream media is owned by just six major, multinational corporations. Between their ownership and their advertisers, the mainstream media is Wall Street and vice versa.”
So here are some of the ‘Usual Media Suspects’ — O’Reilly, Hannity, etc. — with a few new kids on the play-dumb block, chewing over what it all means and arriving, as usual, at the wrong conclusion. Think of it, the OWS protestors are dirty, stupid, ignorant, smelly hippie rich-kid professional amateur jobless anarchists in expensive clothes who go to the best colleges yet don’t know what they’re talking about or why they’re protesting. (See this if you want to know some of what they’re talking about.) Particularly entertaining among the mugshots in this Think Progress video compilation is former CNBC ‘Money Bunny’ Erin Burnett, who is now with CNN; this is the ‘newswoman’ who smugly dismissed the OWS but once worked for Goldman Sachs and Citigroup, advised babbling idiot Donald Trump, is engaged to Citigroup executive David Rubulotta, and has figuratively if not literally been in bed with every big investment bank in New York. Asking for her unbiased opinion of Wall Street is akin to asking Minnie Mouse what she thought of Walt Disney. This is a woman who once warned on the Chris Matthews show that Americans “should be careful what they wish for” in regard to controlling toxic products from China since the production of “toys that don’t have lead in them or food that isn’t poisonous” would make them more expensive to buy, thereby potentially reducing profits for her friends in the stock market. So, she’s a real humanitarian, as well. (Burnett later claimed she really didn’t want “children to play with toys that are not safe,” but only after she got in a jam for her reprehensible remarks.)
He has good reason: if the current ‘socialism for the rich’ crapitalist system collapses, bought-and-paid-for plutocrat-humpers like King will be out looking for other work like snatching purses from elderly women or stealing pocket change from children. (He can’t help it; it’s just his larcenous nature.) Taking time off from wasting our money persecuting American Muslims, King wet himself commenting on the ‘60s protests that brought about equal rights for minorities and women and an end to the Vietnam War. Understandably, a man of King’s reptilian Republican character would hate such things.
Obviously, they don’t have wealthy backers like the Koch brothers, so they have rely on the rest of us 99 percenters for their daily bread (and fruits and vegetables). Here’s a brief video on the subject and contact info:
