ABC: OWS "hundreds strong" and "have not reached the political strength of the Tea Party."

[Skidmore]

Oy.

[izquierdista]

1. "political strength" = "cash donations"

Well, yea, billionaires are not in the 99%.

[ixion]

2. That is the kind of rot we're fighting against...

and why ABC/NBC/CBS should be the first to lose their broadcasting licenses.

[Skidmore]

6. To be replaced with what?

[ixion]

7. something accountable.

would be what.

[Skidmore]

9. Such as?

How about making these networks acountable? You can't blow everything up. You do need to leave foundations to build on.

[ixion]

10. Nope. They had their chance, and they blew it.

Time to give someone else a turn at bat.

[tritsofme]

12. Maybe things work that way for Uncle Hugo. But here

Not so much. You don't get to silence media outlets you dislike.

[ixion]

13. It's fraud, a.k.a. as infotainment billed as 'news'

so there's an argument to be made.

[tritsofme]

15. There is no argument. We don't use the power of government to silence opponents.

The government doesn't get editorial control over content. These should be very simple concepts.

[ixion]

16. It's not about opponents. It's about the truth.

you need to move beyond political parties.

[tritsofme]

17. So who shall be the Government's Official Arbiter of Truth?

How about in the next Republican administration?

The First Amendment can be very frustrating to those with an authoritarian streak.

[ixion]

18. You're proposing your own strawman, then knocking it down

which is unimpressive. Corporations are not individuals, hence the whole First Amendment thing is a Red Herring in this case. These corporations are using the airwaves owned by We, the People, though. So at the end of the day, that's who they need to be accountable to.

[Shandris]

24. Someone who can fucking count.

Don't be disingenuous.

[SlimJimmy]

21. +1. The last time I checked, the First Admendment was still in effect.

[femrap]

20. These media types

aren't too good at arithmetic, are they? Last night NBC evening news covered OWS pretty well. I was shocked.

[mmonk]

3. Says the Tea Party media.

[JackRiddler]

4. Gee, I guess they should have just been the Republican Party in the first place...

and astroturfed themselves into a pretend third-party movement.

[msongs]

5. sounds like a true statement. modest size crowds do not equal political influence to the degree that

the tea baggers have, which is hijacking a political party

[ThomWV]

8. 700 OWS arrested yesterday. You couldn't get 700 Teabaggers together if you had to.

There aren't 700 of them left in the country that aren't on somebody's payroll to be one.

[spanone]

11. is that the opinion of ABC? they would never support a progressive movement

[renate]

14. seriously? they're supposed to have reached the political strength of the tea party already?

Patience, ABC.

[ixion]

19. in reality, I believe they've surpassed the lame tea baggers

but it will have to surpass it by several orders of magnitude before the'll admit it.

[salin]

22. Let's see... 1K expected for TeaCon in Chicago this weekend... compared to

700 arrested on the Brooklyn Bridge while hundreds others made it to the pedestrian bridge. Tea party has been organized for several years (with corporate sponsors such as 1% funded Freedom works), while the OWS has been in existence for barely a month. ABC has no sense of literary foreshadowing.

[barbtries]

23. of course they haven't

they don't own the media in this fucked up country.
gawd DAMN that pisses me off.

[Gin]

25. the Va Pilot had an article about the OWS (back page) and

it mentioned that is is not going away...but is "growing" and even though it appears disorganized...the thinking is...the groundwork is being created for something much larger across the country...

I found it encouraging!

[eppur_se_muova]

26. Some R shill on Hardball the other day compared the Tea Party to organized labor ...

Last I heard, there were tens of millions of union members in this country. The Tea Party? Not quite so many.

[Hippo_Tron]

27. Yea, it sucks not having the financial backing of Dick Armey and Freedomworks