On Wall Street
From Harry’s Place - why you shouldn’t fal for the wingnut whining over and misrepresentation of OWS:
As a general rule nobody likes making fun of clueless political activists (of all stripes) and spaced-out hippie types more than I do.
So you might think I’d enjoy Fox News’s mocking coverage of the Occupy Wall Street movement in New York. You would be wrong.
For one thing, Fox News is trying too hard. It decided on a rather threadbare retro-1960s approach to covering the protests, the underlying theme of which is ‘Get a job/take a bath, you pot-smoking, alternative-lifestyle freaks.’ And now everything they report about the protesters has to fit that trope. Yawn.
This is Fox News’s idea of late-night comedy. Consider yourself warned.
I can do without the masks and drums and street theater. But in any amorphous and basically leaderless movement such as OWS, it’s easy enough to find freaky people saying and doing stupid things– I give you, for instance, the Tea Party movement, which Fox News nurtured and publicized and never seemed to find anything wrong with. Compared to the Tea Partiers, the Wall Street protesters are, for the most part, reality-based. They’ve identified who is largely responsible for the current economic mess even if they don’t have a unanimous idea of what to do about it.
And when a Fox News producer accidentally spoke with a well-informed and articulate protester denouncing, among other things, Fox News and its ownership, the interview was never aired.
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