get your facts straight, asshole

[kpete]

80 People? - Can You Count???

New York Times’ Andrew Ross Sorkin Sneers At Wall Street Protesters, Estimates Only 80 There

Speaking on CNBC’s Squawk Box program yesterday, Andrew Ross Sorkin, a financial columnist and editor of the New York Times’ Dealbook blog, a special business section devoted to covering Wall Street, condescendingly dismissed the protests:


SORKIN: Do we think about the–Not to be so America-centric, but do we think that the whole Wall Street protest is overdone, real, not real? Were there really a lot of people down there? Were there a lot? I could never tell.

COHOST: Well uh they arrested 80 people. Right?

SORKIN: Right. But I dont know if that was like all 80 of them.

http://thinkprogress.org/media/2011/10/01/333749/andrew-ross-sorkin-sneers-occupy-wall-street/

[Lizzie Poppet]

1. For someone who works in finance...

For someone who works in finance, that guy's math skills are amazingly poor. Perhaps that's why he writes a blog about it instead of being an actual, you know...investor.

[Coexist]

4. that might explain the economy...

[TBF]

7. lol - that's for sure .nt

[formercia]

10. Counting the beans on the way out

as he pulls it out of his ass.

[Quantess]

12. ehhh...gross!

[Quantess]

2. I thought 700 were arrested.

[starroute]

14. The Union Square arrests were about 80

Still shockingly ignorant on his part -- suggests he read a headline somewhere but never got as far as the story.

[RKP5637]

3. A useless program/channel = CNBC Squawk Box IMO. n/t

[polichick]

6. It's a useful show if you're actively trading - you need the updates - but...

...it's a challenge to stay zen-like while listening to such assholes.

[RKP5637]

11. Yeah, I think it's the level of 'Assholetry' that gets to me. n/t

[EFerrari]

5. That was the first report, at like 6:30. n/t

[47of74]

8. These fuckers can't count

These are the same idiots that said that when a few dozen teabaggers showed up at an event that there were many thousands upon thousands of of them at an event.

[Quantess]

9. 700 greps means 700 arrested

http://www.expressen.se/nyheter/1.2578542/700-gripna-i-wall-streetprotester

[Zorra]

13. The lack of journalistic integrity displayed by MSM "journalists" is a national disgrace.

MSM seems to hire mostly any punk journalists who are willing to sell out their profession and the People for whatever reasons.

I suspect it is usually money/notoriety that induces them to lie or maintain silence.
:puke:

[spin]

15. It could also be fear ...

It's hard to find work today and if you don't "go along to get along" your editor may say, "If you don't shape up, there's the door. Don't let it hit you in the ass on your way out."

We live in a nation of the big corporations, by the big corporations and for the big corporations. A good part of the reason for this is that the MSN is bought and owned just as the politicians we elect to represent us are.

Our only hope is the internet and our First Amendment rights and the fact that the "little people" are beginning to get pissed.

In order to achieve "change we can believe in", we may have to rely on ourselves.

[PETRUS]

16. Let the lapdogs and collaborators...

dissemble and demur. We are showing we don't need them.

[butterfly77]

17. I wonder if he..

will appear on assholejoe in the morning to repeat that number. I see Hannity is trying to make people afraid to come by talking about how the people smell,has he appeared in the crowd? Same thing for fox and friends.

[progressoid]

18. Asshole?

That's an understatement.

[HughBeaumont]

19. CNBC Squawk Box = 'nuff said.

Right-wing Reaganite Assholes interviewing RightER-wing Reaganite Assholes.