A Lonely Voice Of Reason Stands Up To Fox's Smears Of Occupy Wall Street

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http://mediamatters.org/blog/201111040030

November 04, 2011 9:01 pm ET by Andy Newbold

During tonight's episode of Fox News' The Five, co-host Juan Williams repeatedly attempted to combat the off-the-wall smears of the Occupy Wall Street movement coming from his co-hosts.

First the hosts condemned Jessie Jackson for comparing the Occupy Wall Street movement to the Civil Rights movement. Greg Gutfeld described Jackson's comments as an example of "the usual suspects fading in relevance, salvaging careers, by exploiting class envy." Williams responded by saying that Jackson was "absolutely right" and pointed out that all great examples of social change in America had come about because of protests:

WILLIAMS: Yeah, he's absolutely right when you think about the idea that there's very little change in our country and any society without struggle, without people putting themselves out. You know, Dr. King used to talk about the idea of creative struggle, creative tension. That you would create situations with marches and protests and some cases even break the law. That's why King went to jail. You stop and think about things like the Vietnam War movement, you think about the feminist movement to get votes in this country.

When Gutfeld responded by calling Occupy Wall Street protesters "annoying," Williams retorted that if Gutfeld had been in Birmingham in the '60s, he would have labeled King a "northern agitator."

[NYC_SKP]

1. Martin Luther King was also very "annoying".

It's part of the strategy of protests and movements.

Those fools on Fox are sickening.

:patriot:

[Champion Jack]

2. Protests are meant to be annoying

[canoeist52]

3. All they have is name-calling and whining.

They will never discuss ideas.

[tsuki]

4. Ideas are 'hard werk'. It is easy to understand why the jackelists think

American workers are overpaid slackers. They have to look in the mirror every morning.

[saras]

8. Do you think they know what ideas are? or are they a more pretentious form of name-calling to them?

[boston bean]

5. Kimberly Guilfoyle, only remembers the country's history since Reagan.

She doesn't have a fuckin clue!

[no_hypocrisy]

6. Juan Williams confounds me and I find him to be complicated.

I can agree 1,000 percent with his comment/rebuttal to Gutfeld and then I contrast his comment about getting nervous when seeing passengers in traditional Muslim clothing at airports against which I have a strong issue.

[ThomWV]

7. Good, I'm glad you see it that way, now - fuck Juan Williams and quit watching FOX

[lunatica]

9. They're just pissy 'cause they were shouted out of the camps

[Danascot]

10. The only reason to care about Fox' smears

is that it's a sign we're on the right track.

[FarLeftFist]

11. God I hate that puppet Gutfeld.

[Scuba]

12. Doesn't matter. Once one drinks the Fox Kool-Ade only personal tragedy will change their mind. n/t