GOP Rep: ‘We can’t allow’ more coverage of Occupy Wall Street

[babsbunny]

GOP Rep: ‘We can’t allow’ more coverage of Occupy Wall Street

By Andrew Jones
Sunday, October 9, 2011

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

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

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.

[Fire Walk With Me]

1. Thank you Mr. King for instantly legitimizing the movement!

:hi:

[Beartracks]

26. +1 n/t

[surrealAmerican]

35. Indeed!

If he could have kept his mouth shut, he would not have aided the protests, but he just couldn't do it. This is exactly the sort of statement that helps the most.

[Champion Jack]

2. Isn't he the guy who supported the IRA?

[mysuzuki2]

36. yep, that's him

it's ironic that many of the things he has been saying about the OWS protestors are very like what the English said about the IRA.

[Puregonzo1188]

44. Which, fyi, was an explicitly socialist group.

Peter King supported an armed socialist organization.

[PetrusMonsFormicarum]

3. Viral on FB right now

I shared it myself. He has a lot of fear. And guilt, I suspect.

[Exilednight]

32. Fear? Yes. Guilt? Probably not, most of his kind don't.

[Turbineguy]

4. Mister King:

Just watch Fox News. You'll be fine.

[plumbob]

5. Yes, Peter, the war ended, and black folk got to vote, and young people

could no longer be forced into involuntary servitude to fly around the world killing people they never knew and who had done nothing to them.

THE HORROR!

Apparently King is stupider and greedier than I thought - and that's not a good thing, because he was only to mouth-breather with me anyway.

[Contrary1]

6. Fear looks kind of good on them, don't ya think?

Makes them seem almost human. :rofl:

[Graybeard]

8. They are scared shitless.

The coalition is building and once again they are on the

wrong side of history.

[Rabblevox]

9. Fear on republicons is this year's black!

[nadinbrzezinski]

7. Rep King they tried that in the 1930s

which is the true parallel here...

IDIOT... they hate us for our freedoms, don't they?

[beachbumbob]

10. tolerate tea partiers with no problem but

take on the corporate masters we must muffle them. I only asked what took so long?

[Graybeard]

16. Welcome to DU.

Hey, beachbumbob!:fistbump:

[spanone]

11. piss off pete

[City Lights]

12. No one takes you seriously, Pete.

Everyone knows you're a :+.

[shanti]

13. "allow"???

screw 'em. :eyes:

[Fire Walk With Me]

28. Yep, sort of uncovers the entire lie, doesn't it?

[butterfly77]

40. Exactly...

I guess he thinks we need his permission..Maybe,he will make a LAW that is what they do when things don't go their way then,they run all over television and say its the LAW!

[DearAbby]

14. Sons a bitches are stealing our VOTE/VOICE

and not listening to the people...so off to the streets to raise our voices


Corporate slogan:
CAN YOU HEAR US NOW?

[lunatica]

15. Rep King is not going to be happy in the future

All his dreams will be destroyed.

[appleannie1]

17. "those people in the street" are his constituents. He is supposed to represent them.

[BR_Parkway]

48. No, in his mind, only those who agree with him are the ones he represents

and that's a stark turn in our politics as well as the corporate money. GOP has ingrained this us vs them mentality so much during the past 30 years that these people don't even see themselves as a US Congressman as much as they do a GOP Congressman.

[Divine Discontent]

18. "somehow the media glorified them and it ended up shaping policy."

HAHAHA.. what an idiot! Thanks for telling people to keep on keeping! They all need to be told of his comments.


http://www.zazzle.com/republicans_2012_keeping_millions_out_of_work_bumper_sticker-128659602907896843?rf=238107662556833486

[coalition_unwilling]

19. What a douchebag. The media did not "glorify" the left when it

took to the streets in the 60s; if anything, exactly the opposite. King is just trotting out the same ole tired 'stab in the bsck' tropes to explain falsely why the U.S. got its ass kicked by a third-world agrarian countryy (Vietnam).

[socialist_n_TN]

20. Well I'm glad that someone remembers what really happened

with the protests in the 60s. They demonized the protesters until enough of the "grown ups" began to agree with those that were in the streets.

[coalition_unwilling]

23. Cf. "The Jews back in Berlin caused us Germans to lose World War I." However,

King is inadvertently validating our tactics today (I think :)

[Gman]

21. Sorry Pete. OWS is selling advertising

You're fighting the monster you helped create.

[eppur_se_muova]

22. King is taking his last name too seriously.

Nobody died and made him royalty, unless it's King of the Dickheads.

[Guilded Lilly]

24. Fear, when it comes from YOUR gut, Mr. King...

is quite debilitating.

Get used to it.

[ChillbertKChesterton]

25. “I remember what happened in the early 1900's when the left-wing took to the streets

and it ended up shaping policy.

Labor laws, workplace safety, child labor restrictions, women's rights, civil rights.

A nightmare for conservatives and capitalists of that era.

[Saving Hawaii]

37. They should start their own protest

"I remember what happened in the early 1900's when the left-wing took to the streets and it ended up shaping policy. Labor laws, workplace safety, child labor restrictions, women's rights, civil rights. A nightmare for conservatives and capitalists of that era."

You know, I've always been worried that people of my generation will have it harder than our parents did. But think about the robber barons today. They still don't have it as good as their forefathers did a century ago. Life isn't fair for the robber barons.

Maybe they can start their own protest. "We are the 1%! We want to be as wealthy and powerful as our great grandfathers once were! That's all we're asking for!"

[dogknob]

27. SHUT DOWN THE INTER-TUBES! n/t

[MadMaddie]

31. If they did that (which of course they are thinking about it)

they will have made the biggest blunder of the Republican party......they would ensnare folks that are not involved yet...I kinda wish they would...so we can get it on already....just sayin..

[Proud Liberal Dem]

29. What about the "Tea Party"?

:shrug:

Was Peter King out there suggesting that the media not grant them any legitimacy??? :shrug: Somehow, I think not!

[OHdem10]

30. Does he realize how terrible that sounds. It could be a RW Dictator

shutting down the press.

We cannot allow more coverage. This proves they fear
their consituents seeing or hearing a message thaT
IS ANYTHING DIFFERENT from their RW Rhetoric.

[Warpy]

33. Hey, King, that's your last name and not your job

and nobody gives a shit what you like or don't like these days.

The stupid scumbag doesn't realize this cuts across party lines as much as it cuts across race, class, religious, or any other line that's been put up to divide us. The main thing all these people have in common is knowing men like Peter King who are bought by big money and dance to their tune are the problem.

[Old and In the Way]

34. Pete...write a bill!

I'd love to see King and the Republicans promote a bill that tries to shut down this movement. Put them on the record and see whether Pete is a loner or if his fellow Teapublicans will agree and promote their anti-democratic agenda.

[barbtries]

38. heaven forbid the PEOPLE

should have a say in their democracy! i am so sick of these motherfucking TOOLS and their unamerican rants getting airplay. who the fuck is this dude?

[sabrina 1]

39. Fabulous Endorsement from King.

The more they talk, the more people they sign up as they prove, as he just did, why OWS was needed.

Keep talking rightwing Wall Street Tools.

And thanks King we could not ask for more than to have Wall Street tools themselves condemn the American People.

[workinclasszero]

41. HAHAHA! They are SCARED!!!

So damned scared of us the PEOPLE!

We are living in bizarro world! Is this not America? The USA?

The government of the PEOPLE, by the PEOPLE and for the PEOPLE!?

And yet these stinkin corporate shills in Congress like King are deathly afraid of us!

WE ARE THE 99%...This is OUR COUNTRY!

[defendandprotect]

42. "There's nothing that can ruin a carefully crafted mystique better than the stink of reality" --

[rasputin1952]

43. Peter King is 20#'s of dog shit in a 4# bag...

the clown is a disgrace to the human race....:grr:

[Terry in Austin]

45. Peter the Blivet

LOLz!!

[Historic NY]

46. The fuckers are scare and want to stifle free speech

Hey Peter its was okay when the teabaggers were out there.....union thugs.

[Remember Me]

47. "and it ended up shaping policy" --

Yeah, wouldn't want that, now, would we? We want the protests to mean nothing, accomplish nothing. Can't have any policy shaping going on.

What an idiot.

The media "glorified" the protests? No, the media REPORTED the protests.

[Atman]

49. This underscores EVERYTHING we've been saying about the media.

It is controlled by the GOP, and GOP believes that controlling the messages and images Americans see is a way of controlling the people, too. Does anyone need a better example than the completely-ignored Iraq war protests under Bush?

[BumRushDaShow]

50. "...somehow the media glorified them and it ended up shaping policy."

Are you f'n kidding me? There were people trying to end Jim Crow, including legal segregation and other inhumane atrocities, and this jackass is complaining because he agreed with the oppressive laws against his fellow citizens? People who were here in the U.S. WAY before his familial ilk slithered off the boat into a NY harbor. :crazy:

And they wonder why people call them racists and bigots and it proves how when challenged, they knee-jerk any nonsensical, politically expedient drivel to justify their absurd response.

[mod mom]

51. just like they couldn't allow evidence regarding the stolen elections & the absurdity of *'s wars.

Peter King hasn't spoken the truth since:

"We'll take care of the counting"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dV67u370Pg

[stubtoe]

52. OMG. The arrogance! NY, pay attention to this representative and...

vote him out!

[DirkGently]

53. This is the same King who thought flying a plane into an IRS office, killing someone, was just fine?