That first 53% er turned out to be an employee of CNN who buys $300,000 houses

[lunatica]

As usual it's a lie. They're busy catapulting the propaganda. This was posted earlier by a DUer but I can't find the thread so I'm posting too. they can only fight us with lies.

http://thinkprogress.org/special/2011/10/11/304642/eric... /


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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.

Moreover, when Erickson says he doesn’t blame Wall Street, who could be surprised? Erickson should be grateful to big corporations since they sponsor his blog and provide him with content:

more at the link

[Electric Monk]

1. In a just world, Erickson would be fired for that, and audited too for good measure.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=439&topic_id=2121926&mesg_id=2121926

[lunatica]

2. Unless his boss is backing him, of course

I would imagine that if he wasn't being backed by CNN they'd be claiming it. Silence speaks volumes.

[Hydra]

3. 2 were photoshopped too

I suspect this is all a cardboard operation. It's all they've got left.

[yardwork]

7. Yeah. So far we've got one liar and two fakes.

[formercia]

4. Another Reich-Wanker flogging Astroturf

If they had any real support, he wouldn't have to fake it.

[Kaleko]

5. I'd like to see everyone posting their variations on the same theme.

Here's mine:

My mid-sized business has been destroyed due to attacks by a Hedge Fund./ We lost our home due to fraudulent foreclosure practices./ My life's savings have run out due to my spouse's catastrophic illness./ But I won't complain./ Just bleat like a sheep in the moonlight, plaintively asking to be fucked once more and all over again.

[Telly Savalas]

6. I'd like to think that as an ex-Marine, this guy would know the difference between real work

and talking shit on the internet, TV, and radio.

3 jobs my ass. Just because somebody with deep pockets is stupid enough to write you a fat paycheck doesn't mean what you're doing is honest work. Fucking deadbeat.