The 53%: We are NOT Occupy Wall Street (More CNN Propaganda)

[TomCADem]

Source: CNN

As Frank Decker read through the posts, he felt he could relate. A public school teacher in Vancouver, Wash., Decker and his wife lived below the poverty line until they decided to go back to school to become educators. He sent in a post because he wanted to share his story.

"We didn't go through all that struggle while raising three kids to support people who don't feel they need to work or people who feel they are entitled to something they haven't earned," said Decker, 44.

At this point, neither Keder nor Trevino plan to shift their 53% efforts from the online world to the physical one. But they are both surprised at how popular the backlash has become.

"It's lasted far longer than we thought and it's become much bigger than we thought," Trevino said. "It's not over yet."


Read more: http://money.cnn.com/2011/10/26/news/economy/occupy_wall_street_backlash/?npt=NP1&hpt=hp_t2

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Here is CNN pushing the corporate proganda myth of secret army of 53 percent of the population who secretly support the rich and Wall Street, the "job creators," but are no where to be seen? Really? I guess it is really hard to pull together a Tea Party astro turf rally without huge "Freedom Works" corporate funded buses complete with staged rallies with a full list of Fox News reporters.

So, instead, the corporate media pushes this BS story about the 53 percent movement on their front page. Please.

[Arctic Dave]

1. Was that the picture of that pissy looking guy from earlier today?

Ha! Is he a PE teacher?


What a maroon! The 1% hate your educator guts. Damn, can you say self hating.

[Norrin Radd]

2. ...

http://actuallyyourethe47percent.tumblr.com/

and


We Are the 53% is Using Fake Images

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x2122521#2122547

[Fuddnik]

3. It's gotten to the point I hate CNN more than FOX.

We know Fox is a right-wing propaganda operation. CNN tries to masquerade as a legitimate news organization.

Remember, Glen Beck was on CNN before he was on Fox.

[SoapBox]

5. Ditto...well, almost as much as Fux.

What the hell happened to CNN?

A TOTAL lose of cred...WTF??

[MedicalAdmin]

19. What happened?

They forced captain outrageous out of the skippers chair. And it went to shit soon thereafter.

[SharksBreath]

4. The posters are killing CNN.

[FarLeftFist]

6. Because it serves CNNs interests. Just more propaganda.

[FrenchieCat]

7. That's what they do!

[PatrynXX]

8. cept anyone saying they are part of the 53 % is of course not part of any % of the truth

it's only 53 % because anything over 50 looks better. than 47 % and second this is another movement. 99 % is on one thing 47 % is another thing. they are still part of the 99 % whether they want to admit it or not. tried to comment on it but as usual CNN cuts off comments...

[caseymoz]

9. Hey, where have those Tea Partiers been anyway?

One would think they'd be making counter-protests. Could it be that the Koch Brothers and Fox don't want the Tea Party faithful embarrassed by how small their contingent is compared with the the OWS movement?

In fact, the only counter-protest I heard of was in Madison WI when the governor took away collective bargaining. Were they embarrassed? Did their majority look like a minority? As I remember, they had excuses for their low turn out, according to signs. They had to work.

[Muskypundit]

10. The sheer arrogance is astonding

The guy with the sign held up saying he went to school while living below the poverty line.... what a crock of shit. If he did, it was on the governments dime. Getting federal help, subsidized loans.... the whole shebang. These people are retarded. There is no excuse for it.

They must think that everyone in the world is in the same point in their lives as they are; so anyone not sucessfull should burn in hell and stop taking their taxes.

[mwooldri]

11. If any of these "53%ers" are Christian, they don't know many Sydney Bertram Carter hymns. nt

[MedicalAdmin]

20. +1

for musical literacy.

[Voice for Peace]

12. reminds me of the Silent Majority from way back when

the mysterious ones

[ScottLand]

13. It reminds me of a guy I knew who idolized W.

I kept telling him, "you don't make enough money for W to spit on you". The 1% can't be bothered with lowly school teachers either, even if they don't think they fall into the 99% category with the rest of us.

[ixion]

14. "how popular the backlash has become."

That's the phrase-of-choice for CNN when they're trying to sell their rubbish... as in "the popular war-time president" a phrase they used over and over and over again when Bush illegally invaded Iraq, and was busy shredding the Constitution, and who's popularity was falling like a stone.

[Puzzler]

15. The "people who feel they are entitled to something they haven't earned"

... are the Wall Street banksters for fuck's sake.

[Enthusiast]

16. Full time propaganda on every network.

Think this fascist takeover wasn't a long term plan? First they abolished the fairness doctrine. Then they bought up all the newspapers and radio stations. Now they broadcast their lies 24/7.

[Uncle Joe]

17. Fuck CNN; and the corporate supremacist propaganda horse, they rode in on.

Thanks for the thread, TomCADem.

[ProgressoDem]

18. Funny how antsy this makes everyone.

I turned on the propaganda the other night and there was Michael Moore holding a town hall, how did THAT happen!?

[MedicalAdmin]

21. Um. What?

He rented a hall and called a meeting. How else does it happen?

[ProgressoDem]

22. No, he was special guest on Piers Morgan.

How did the corporate overlords let THAT happen?

Not that the corporate media isn't a problem, but CNN is not in the same league as FOX, Rush, etc.

[songbookz]

23. Even if...

Even if 47% of us pay no Federal Income Tax, that does not mean they don't pay other taxes (and the other taxes tend to take a larger percentage of their income in taxes than the Income tax.

But, even if, did it ever occur to them that they don't pay Federal Income Tax for the same reason many of us don't pay cigarette taxes?

[craticdemo]

CNN

= corporate, conservative news (Fox=off the wall, purely absurd).

[craticdemo]

24. CNN

= corporate, conservative news (Fox=off the wall, purely absurd).

[libinnyandia]

25. The 53%ers are bogus

It is amazing how many people couldbe so ignorant. It is as if thy think thatwith hard work and a little bit of luck, they can become part of the 1%. IN this country many people can go from poor to prosperous and back. All it takes is gaining a good job, losing that job, becoming ill with health insurance and then losing that health insurance. The dark side of me almost wishes they could experience something that would make them realize that they have much more in common with the 47% than they ever would have in common with the 1%ers. I guess its the old saying: I've got mine. Who cares about anyone else.I guess many are like the %ers, after all- they are greedy.

[Marazinia]

26. The plain truth

Whether we want to admit it or not, many blue collar and middle class Americans don't support this movement. They're afraid to lose what they have and they're selfish (as humans tend to be). They don't care about the suffering of others, only about their own comfort and the comfort of those they care about.

They will resist change. They will swallow lies and turn away from the crimes committed by their corporations and governments, not because they're stupid or evil, but because they're scared. They fear revolution (and they're right to, revolution is a scary thing). They fear that we will bring about, not change for the better for everyone, but sweeping poverty and a police state. They don't understand that sweeping poverty and a police state are exactly what we're going to get anyway if we don't do something.

I'm afraid for this movement because I worry it's too soon. But better too soon than too late. Better now than before Americans are so afraid that they start scapegoating more than many of them already are. Already people are trying to blame illegal immigrants for joblessness, when in reality increased outsourcing is to blame. The media feeds this nonsense, as do the puppets of the wealthy.

They'll keep feeding the fears of Americans until it doesn't work anymore. Unfortunately, they've kept power that way for a very long time. In the fourteenth century, riots over the expenditures of the nobles during a time of famine were redirected by the nobles by the simple act of a nobleman going out and addressing the people. He said essentially, we borrowed money from the Jews. They want that money back, at interest. It's their fault you're starving. Go kill them. And the people did. And they kept on doing so, for hundreds of years. The last time this tactic bore history-making fruit was, of course, Nazi Germany. So I fear revolution as much as any American does or should. But I fear desperate, bigoted nationalism far more.