Journalists funded by Paul Singer to smear Occupy Wall Street protests

[RyanPsych]

The campaign the marginalize and destroy the growing 99 Percent Movement is in full swing, with many in the media attempting to smear the people participating in the “occupation” protests across the country. However, several of the so-called journalists deriding, and in some cases sabotaging the movement, have paychecks thanks to a billionaire whose business practices have been scorned as among the worst of the financial elite.

As the New York Times has documented, Paul Singer, a Republican activist and hedge fund manager worth over $900 million, has emerged as one of the most important power brokers within the GOP. Now, it appears that the reporters financed by Singer are at the forefront of efforts to tarnish the reputation of 99 Percent Movement demonstrators:

Journalist Who Admitted To Infiltrating Protests To ‘Mock And Undermine’ The Movement Works For A Singer-Supported Right-Wing Magazine. In a column posted last night, reporter Patrick Howley admitted that he had surreptitiously joined an anti-war spin-off group from the OccupyDC protests that planned to demonstrate at a military drone exhibit at the Smithsonian’s Air and Space museum. Howley wrote that he “infiltrated” the action and sprinted into the police along with a few protesters in order to “mock and undermine” the movement. Singer is a major donor the Spectator, a right-wing magazine known for its role in the “Arkansas Project,” a well-funded effort to invent stories with the goal of eventually impeaching President Clinton.

Journalist Pushing To Discredit Occupy Wall Street Is Funded By Singer’s Think Tank. Josh Barro, a journalist who has attacked the 99 Percent Movement in the National Review and the New York Daily News, draws a salary from the Wriston Fellowship at the Manhattan Institute, a big business advocacy think tank in New York. Barro makes the same tired arguments, that anti-Wall Street protesters are too inarticulate and “extreme” to be taken seriously. Singer is the chairman of the Manhattan Institute, and even oversees the Wriston annual fundraiser.

read more: http://thinkprogress.org/special/2011/10/10/339862/paul-singer-vulture-capitalist-journalists/

[plumbob]

1. When this bastard dies, I will cheer.

"Singer’s influence even extends to the Supreme Court. As ThinkProgress reported, Singer hosted Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito to speak at his $5,000-$25,000 a plate dinners."

Made money from asbestos, from starving third worlders for their debt and a whole lot more.

I hope his death is something slow and painful, like stomach cancer.

[Scuba]

2. Singer is a mass murderer and should be prosecuted for his crimes against humanity. n/t

[occupy_wall_street]

3. Incident at Air & Space Museum modeled on James O'Keefe fakery. Please help us.

Can you identify the individual in the black tee shirt ?

To hit the jackpot, is this man another staffer from The American Spectator? Or another Washington interest group office? Or another shadow group that supports our American oligarchy?



The cameraman is Patrick Howley, Assistant Editor at The American Spectator.

Connections to TAS or to the Leadership Institute (in Virginia), similar to O'Keefe and Breitbart, are of critical interest.