HOLY SHIT! Is MSNBC off the mark on the Occupation!

[FarLeftFist]

Did I just hear Ratigan and Capeheart try and find similarities between the Tea Party and the Occupation?!!! Did I also hear them say the TP was also an organic uprising?!!!

NEWSFLASH: I've been down to Wall Street 3x already, THESE PEOPLE ARE NOTHING LIKE THE TEA PARTY! They are for the most part THE NEW AMERICAN LEFT!

While the fucking TP spent the last 2 years coddling the 1%, THESE PEOPLE ARE THE OTHER 99%!

While the TP spent 2 years wanting smaller, less active Govt, these people are fighting for a more PRO-ACTIVE GOVT!

While the TP practices voter suppression and anti-workers rights these people are trying to EXPAND democracy!

While the TP worships the Koch Bros these people want to eliminate them!

DO NOT Let the Tea Party even DARE to try and co-opt this movement!

DO NOT let ANYONE forget who those fuckers were shilling for and what their REAL AGENDA is!

SHAME on MSNBC for perpetuating this BS!

THIS IS OUR MOMENT, THIS IS OUR MOVEMENT!

[EFerrari]

1. Agreed. Refute the comparison. TP was astroturf. This is America. n/t

[flamingdem]

2. Only on Ratigan can you see such shiney turds regarding anything left of center right nt

[Fire Walk With Me]

3. Shame on them. K&R!

[NWHarkness]

4. I can't stand Ratigan

He is trying to co-opt the Occupy movement into some sort of bipartisan "third way" bullshit.

[intheflow]

5. MSNBC is only liberal for an hour each weeknight.

During Maddow's show.

[tishaLA]

6. And Smerconich is trying to make it "is this good or bad for Obama"

which, IMO, is beside the point. But everything on MSNBC seems to devolve, eventually, into blue and red rather than ideas.

[monmouth]

7. Send this OP to MSNBC..It lays it out perfectly...n/t

[FarLeftFist]

8. Look at some of these speakers:

Michael Moore-Progressive

Susan Sarandon-Liberal

Immortal Technique-Socialist

Roseanne Barr-Liberal

Cornel West-Progressive

etc etc etc.

F**K the Tea Party!

[Avalux]

9. Advice: Do not listen to the MSM.

THEY are part of the problem - they take their marching orders from the 1%.

[fascisthunter]

10. the media is becoming irrelevent... over time they are part of the problem

I expect nothing but propaganda for them... they will do what they can to protect their financial interests, and those interests are the same interests on Wall Street.

[opihimoimoi]

11. UNION INVOLVMENT is saying who is who.....for the most part, middle class 99%ers

[OHdem10]

12. Smerconish is trying to say these people do not represent Middle

America.

He showed Newt Gingrich exploiting the H--- out of the issue.
Newt said this movement is result of Obama's failure.
He promised them hope and change. Now they are on the street.

Who is more middle American than Union Members and teachers??

Smerconish tried to imply it would hurt the Democrats.

[Jim Warren]

13. Correction:

HOLY SHIT! MSNBC is on the mark for everything they're corporate brass dictate.

[Gregorian]

14. Occupy the FCC

What else can we do, if we don't have representation for the 99%

[kestrel91316]

15. The Occupation is We the People's PUSH BACK AGAINST the Teabaggers.

[abelenkpe]

16. Please send this to MSNBC and Dylan Ratigan

don't want them taking credit for this stuff and clearly they are off in their reporting.

[salin]

17. Turn off MSM. Watch the live-feed.

http://www.livestream.com/globalrevolution

They are now marching back from City Hall to "Liberty" Park - It's a huge and diverse group. And far more interesting than bogus observations on MSNBC.

[Graybeard]

18. I heard Jonathan Capehart say that. Ugh.

I usually like Capehart's reporting on most issues so I was dumbfounded by how wrong he was about the Tea Party. No mention of the Koch brothers and Dick Armey in the creation of the teabagger myth?

[1776Forever]

19. It's mostly Dylan putting this crap out - He said on his show yesterday that he "believed" in the

Tea Party when they first came out because he said they were "grass roots" - little does he know evidently. He is also stirring the group into his "bill" that he is pushing to take money out of politics. I think he is a "legend in his own mind" and needs to step back and let the OWS Group make their own vision!

[Kahuna]

23. Yep. Dylan set the meme and the rest of the m$m is just repeating it...

Really, it was quite predictable this would happen.

[correaman13]

20. Maybe they meant that OWS was the left's equivalent of the right's Tea Party?

*I havent seen the show that everyone is talking about

[Kahuna]

24. Nope! Thanks to ratigan, they are conflating the two. nt

[OneGrassRoot]

21. We need a chart showing OWS vs. Teabaggers

What we stand for versus what they allegedly stand/stood for.

[saras]

22. Who pays Ratigan's salary? Ok, given that, why do you expect anything different?

[spanone]

25. media was called in to dismiss this movement....gut it...

[Occupied1]

26. Huge presence today, significant union participation. Could someone please start a thread to follow

what's going on?

http://www.livestream.com/globalrevolution


Over 550,000 Facebook 'likes' for Occupy Wall Street solidarity events, 40%+ growth since last night shar.es/bXlur #Occupy #p2

1 minute ago Favorite Retweet Reply

Centre St in this area now closed to vehicular traffic, people filling street. Wow

sjbarlament S.J. Barlament

[chill_wind]

28. Jump in.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x2060911

:hi:

[Occupied1]

29. Sorry, didn't see it -- but what I'm seeing is that there's been a significant increase in bodies

within the last hour or so. Apparently because of union presence.

Wanted people to know.

[chill_wind]

31. Yes!

Lots of short very fiery union speeches a while ago and they said they said there was a *huge influx* of people lining up blocks away to "get in". The numbers are all over the place in the scroll

[libodem]

27. Heard Charlie Rose give the teabggers grassroots street cred

WTF is he stupid too?

[Skidmore]

30. Take yourselves to his Facebook page and give him firm but polite

feedback, if you have an account.

[TNLib]

32. maybe they need to start showing pictures and compare

Every tea bagger rally I've seen pictures of had maybe about 50 old white overweight people on scooters. I think a picture comparison would be hilarious.