Congressman Peter King (R): Don't LEGITIMIZE OWS Or THEY WILL WIN'

[Segami]

Run time: 01:22 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0IOsLk08zs   Posted on YouTube: October 09, 2011 By YouTube Member: ThinkProgress6 Views on YouTube: 99   Posted on DU: October 09, 2011 By DU Member: Segami Views on DU: 4453

 
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Add another puke-face Republican to the growing list that loathe the Occupy Wall Street protests.




RawStory:


" Rep. Peter King (R-NY) is upset at the growing movement and the media’s coverage of it, hoping that a modern day version of protests from five decades ago isn’t being recaptured now.


“It’s really important for us not to give any legitimacy to these people in the streets,” said King on Laura Ingraham’s radio show Friday evening. “I remember what happened in the 1960s when the left-wing took to the streets and somehow the media glorified them and it ended up shaping policy. We can’t allow that to happen.”



http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/10/09/gop-rep-we-cant-allow-more-coverage-of-occupy-wall-street/


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[polichick]

1. God forbid it should "shape policy" - what would all the corporate whores do?!

[Segami]

2. Sounds like they're a tad running scared.

[polichick]

3. Sure does - and it's about time!

[truedelphi]

13. + 1. n/t

[Journeyman]

4. Damn straight - don't let the voice of the people shape our policies! . . .

(jackawipe. . .)

[tridim]

5. Too late 1% asshole.

Gawd I love filter-less citizen media.

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[Blacksheep214]

6. We can’t allow that to happen.” ?

It's WE THE PEOPLE you asswipe.

Who votes for these little dictators, anyways?

[Amonester]

38. Paperless Machine$, and the illusion...

of representative democracy.

Only the 'revolving door' K-Street - Wall Street matter$ for these hypocrite$.

[RC]

7. "We the people..." shape policy? Does the Constitution allow that?

I'd say the Constitution is setup so "We the people..." ARE the ones that are supposed to be the ones shaping policy, not those who we elect that think they know better than us.

[ooglymoogly]

8. The fascists are running scared...the thing they fear most is that

the 99% will organize, rise up and smite them.

[The Wielding Truth]

9. When the left-wing took to the streets it ended an endless war. It ushered in a breath of

honesty that improved our society and increased the freedoms of many.

[truedelphi]

14. Don't forget - nothing that was accomplished happened overnight.

Though time does seem to be speeding up.

[The Wielding Truth]

16. That 's maybe why I'm at DU. I didn't forget how the left opened arms and hearts and

how the greed of the RW broke this country, changed laws to benefit the already powerful and continued to oppress those who seriously challenge that change or how long it took once those in power realized they were out numbered.

[kestrel91316]

10. He's terrified. We don't need to be "given" legitimacy like some charitable gift.

It is already ours by birthright.

[hootinholler]

11. Thankfully OWS doesn't need his validation. n/t

[tooeyeten]

12. he doesn't believe in Democracy

is King's problem.

[GiveMeFreedom]

17. This Mother Fucker

doesn't say a word about the Teafuckers. It's fucking ok to let the media blast their lame ass fascist message all over the news. FUCK YOU!!!

[oldhippydude]

18. to late peter

we have have by the balls

[stockholmer]

24. +100000, you had my vote at "This Mother Fucker"

King is a terrorism-supporting (IRA) FUCK.

:yourock:

[marias23]

19. Upsetting Peter King Makes Me Happy

[JDPriestly]

20. Republicans are going to alienate independents with this kind of

take on the OWS movement. What a blunder!

With the exception of the wealthy who benefited from them, Americans of all political shades and colors are furious at the bail-outs. All Americans fell they got sold out.

Looks like the Republicans are quite willing to own those same extremely unpopular bail-outs and quite willing to run on defending the sell-out.

Hey, we are on for 2012. All that Democrats have to do is broadcast the list of demands from the OWS crowd and then Peter King's remarks, and we have it.

Even rural communities are sick of the economic pressure to industrialize farming. Those in the know, realize that they are putting their soil and the futures of their children at risk with all the chemicals they push and spray and bury in God's precious earth that gives us our daily bread.

[Segami]

29. HIS comments should be broadcast directly to the OWS crowds NOW!!. It will turn the flames

of this passionate cause protest into a bon fire. They should loop his words and broadcast it through a bullhorn......

[iemitsu]

39. i got an e-mail from alan grayson today.

in it he said the banks got 16 trillion in bailouts, enough to give every man, woman, and child $50,000. if they had given us our own money instead of giving it to the bank most of it would have ended up there anyway. we would all be better off.

[Jack Rabbit]

21. Laura Ingraham is one of the last people who are going legitimize OWS

King is preaching to the choir. Nobody but hopelessly ignorant right wing morons and the morbidly curious listen to Laura Ingraham.

The Republicans don't believe in universal health care because "the people will like it." The Republicans don't want fair and balanced (I mean, really fair and balanced) news coverage of OWS to re-regulate the banks because the movement to re-regulate banks and get corporate money out of politics will win. He even harkens back to the Vietnam War protests, neglecting to point out that the Soviet Union eventually fell in spite of the inability of the US to impose a kleptocracy on the southern half of that nation. In that instance, We, the People, for whom Mr. King appears to have as much contempt as a Russian Tsar, showed better sense than the politicians, especially President Nixon and even his predecessor, President Johnson.

Tooeyeten is right. The man does not believe in democracy. He belongs to a party with contempt for people and is working as hard as they can to prevent demographically selected blocks from voting, least the people put corporate lackeys like Mr. King out of work.

[iemitsu]

22. i love the smell of right wing fear in the morning.

[tinkerbell41]

23. Should have thought about that

before they F***** everything up!

[lib2DaBone]

25. Republican Mantra, "You Dirty Hippies get a Job"....

..So when students with Masters Degrees and $100K in student loan debt demonstrate for a JOB, any job....what do the Repukes say? "You students are Anarchists"... fer chris sakes....

God, Republicans are STUPID hypocrits.

[Jack Rabbit]

34. The proper response is

Wall Street tycoons and their congressional toads should find honest work.

If they have a problem with that, We, the People, will find them honest jobs amking license plates.

[janet118]

26. Don't legitimize Peter King . . . he is a right wing whore n/t

[Mosaic]

28. Too many listen to the wrong wing these days

It's Faux's fault of course. False equivalency is the fad of the moment for pseudo-journalism and corporate media.

We must grow out of it and think critically again. Keep criticizing their industry and remind them of the job they are supposed to be doing, it should work.

[Segami]

30. This is NOT to " legitimize " that whore but to EXPOSE him for what he stands for.

[ScottLand]

27. Is he bemoaning the civil rights movement in this one?

"The lefties take to the streets, next thing you know the blacks get rights"? If so, I think he just gave our cause a boost. Keep it up and this is where it will lead!

[Mosaic]

31. Of course we will win

Thanks for saying it.

[johnnyrocket]

32. Yes, the response from the corporate whores has been defensive....

...wobbly, and just simpleton. It really is like they've been hit with a couple of jabs and they weren't ready. These folks are usually masters of the message and talking points, spreading the right 'facts' into their corporate media.


Now, we should all beware! You know they're working overtime to hone their message and spew their well rehearsed bullet points. But for now, it's like these corporatists are the ones without a message.

[ooglymoogly]

33. If you ever needed to see what criminal insanity looks; this is it...kr nt

[The Wizard]

35. Peter King

is still on the sauce. Instant asshole, just add alcohol.

[The Wizard]

36. The gentleman from New York

is still on the sauce. Instant asshole, just add alcohol.

[russspeakeasy]

37. Shut up you piece of sidewalk shit....

I'm surprised this asshole doesn't live in florida ....he must have spent some time here to be such an ass..