VIDEO: Conservative Pundits’ Double Standard On Occupy Wall Street And The Tea Party

[Donnachaidh]

http://thinkprogress.org/special/2011/10/10/340057/video-conservative-pundits-double-standard-on-occupy-wall-street-and-the-tea-party/

On Friday, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) dismissed the Occupy Wall Street protests and the growing 99 Percent Movement as a “mob” dividing “Americans against Americans.” Then yesterday on ABC, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) pointed out Cantor’s glaring double standard: When the Tea Party — a similarly grassroots movement claiming the mantle of populism — arose, he happily endorsed it.

In the same vein, Chris Wallace declared on yesterday’s Fox News Sunday that the 99 Percent Movement was getting more coverage “than it deserves.” Of course, Wallace is one of the star hosts of a network that essentially served as the Tea Party movement’s unofficial PR wing, posting dates and times for rallies on its website and promoting Tea Party events during their regular programming.

This double standard of mocking and vilifying the 99 Percent Movement as misguided, irrelevant, or even dangerous, while embracing the Tea Party as a fresh populist cure for the nation’s ills, has been employed universally by the conservative echo changer, with Fox News at its locus. ThinkProgress has the video evidence.Watch it:

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[Fire Walk With Me]

1. #Occupy has exposed yet another thing that must change. K&R!

[sakabatou]

2. Of course they're hypocritical

They're Republicans!

[kag]

3. These people are priceless!

OWS is getting more coverage "than it deserves," whereas you can't look at CNN's front page without seeing a story about Sarah Palin, a former VP candidate who quit her job as Alaska Governor to go off and be a professional famous person. I doubt Eric "out for Boehner's job" Cantor has a problem with THAT! What a scumbag.

:puke: