The guy who created "We are the 53%" website works for RedState and CNN.

[sufrommich]

Mounting a clever public relations gimmick to conceal the fact that nearly every American pays taxes in the form of payroll taxes, sales taxes, and fees, CNN’s Erick Erickson helped start the “We Are The 53%” website. The website, a parody of the popular We Are The 99 Percent Tumblr, features Americans posting messages about how they work hard and do not complain about diminishing living standards or the phenomenon that a tiny segment of the population is slowly accumulating most of the nation’s wealth.

Erickson’s message is a scribbled rant that reads:


I work 3 jobs./I have a house I can’t sell./My family insurance costs are outrageous./But I don’t blame Wall Street./Suck it up you whiners./I am the 53% subsidizing you so you can hang out on Wall Street and complain.

The three jobs Erickson wants you to believe he scrapes by on include occasional paid opinion blogging at RedState.com, a lucrative television contract with CNN, and a radio gig that paid the previous host $165,183 a year (Herman Cain’s financial disclosures show he was paid this amount before Erickson took over his spot). The house Erickson can’t sell? Bibb County, Georgia records reveal that Erickson just bought a new $374,900 house in February of this year, and owns another that, according to an estimate by the website Zillow, might be worth slightly less than the amount he paid for it in 2001. And its likely that Erickson’s CNN job alone provides him with a personal driver and covered travel expenses when he needs to appear on the show.
http://thinkprogress.org/special/2011/10/11/304642/erickson-whines-53-percent/

[Warren Stupidity]

1. "We are the 1% that works slavishly for the 0.1% in order to maintain our lives of luxury"

[Arctic Dave]

2. You mean to say the person was LYING! Clutches pearls.

No shit. Redstate is the dinglberry on the asshole of the intertubes.

[Turn CO Blue]

3. Time to "occupy" that website, I think.

The 99% could overwhelm that site, LOL!

[progressoid]

4. Rec.

[lunatica]

5. And in the latest update to the article

"Erickson has responded on his blog with name calling but no new facts. He says he isn’t paid well at CNN or through his radio show host job, but won’t even give a ball park figure of his income. He also ignores his extra salary from Eagle Publishing, the sponsor of his blog. Erickson began his “We Are The 53%” blog with a victimhood rant about his “3 jobs” and a house he “can’t sell.” But in his response to ThinkProgress, Erickson now says he is a winner of the failing economy. The second house ThinkProgress revealed, which Erickson bought for nearly $400,000 this year, was “originally for sale for over $600,000.00″ and Erickson says he “benefited from the misery of others in the market downturn.” Erickson adds, “it was tasty misery at that.”

[lunasun]

7. glad this scum was brought out into the light

[Mz Pip]

6. This is the guy that called David Souter

"a goat fucking child molester."

He also seems to be annoyed that people don't love Jesus enough.

[Laelth]

8. He worked for me (allegedly) on the Macon, GA city council.

He is a tool--utterly and completely. Ignore him.

-Laelth

[malaise]

9. Fuck him

:puke: