Rightbloggers Denounce Occupy Movement Violence -- Unless It Happens to Occupiers

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http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/2011/11/rightbloggers_d_9.php

When last we looked in on the Occupy movement, we saw that it was being Nixonized by rightbloggers -- that is, the occupiers and their supporters were being treated as dirty hippies who would be rebuked by a Silent Majority of Americans more sympathetic to Wall Street, big banks, and Republicans.

A few weeks in, the strategy seems not to have changed, though the intensity of their emotions has increased. When occupiers have done damage, large or small, rightbloggers have been outraged. And when the occupiers have been assaulted, rightbloggers have been pleased. They're sort of like the hard hats of the early 70s, except much less inclined toward manual labor.

Clashes between police and protesters at Oakland and elsewhere, though denounced by movement figures, gave rightbloggers room to portray the occupations as an armed rebellion that had to be stopped before it invaded our homes.

"The Occupy movement would seem to be the latest heirs to the 'Vandal tradition,'" claimed Sister Toldjah, "despising the civilization that's given them so much, making incoherent demands, and engaging in barbaric and even criminal behavior." (It's like every parent-of-a-hippie's lament: We gave the kid everything, and he still won't cut his hair or move out of that filthy commune.)

[DenverDad]

1. Holy "drink the FOX kool-aid" Batman!

The Occupy Movement has never been anti-civilization despite the fact that the policies of the past 30 years have been for the benefit of the top 1%. There is nothing "incoherent" about what the Occupy Movement stands for.

The true "silent majority" has been silent for too long. Good for those involved in the Occupy Movement for speaking out and no longer sitting back and accepting the corporate takeover or our Democracy.

Keep your fingers in your ears "rightbloggers". Ignorance is bliss isn't it?

[Mac1949]

2. As Gandhi said...

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. Seems to be following the pattern.

[Scuba]

3. Hypocrisy is a Republican core value. n/t

[Javaman]

4. the 101st keyboard commandos are just pissed that the OWS

actually stand for something and actually do the heavy lifting of protesting.

while the half with ball lickers were too stupid to realize they were corporate puppets and too timid to actually stand up to anyone except their own best interests.

jealously is thy name.