Who Will Take The OWS CRITICS CHALLENGE?

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" A chance for Rove, Newt and all of the others to show us
the public sex and rampant anti-Semitism we're missing "



:smoke:


" It’s clear what many of the right’s most prominent voices want Occupy Wall Street to be: a law-breaking, cop-hating mob of 20-something loafers who have seized a pretty park in Manhattan and transformed it into a staging ground for a never-ending orgy of drug use, public sex and open-air urination, all in the name of transparently Marxist concepts like reducing income inequality. Oh, and they might be anti-Semitic too!



This description has been provided by one conservative leader and commentator after another in the past few days. Their accounts have been so vivid, and have seemed so perfectly tailored to stir a backlash from Middle America, that it’s made me wonder: Have any of them actually been to Zuccotti Park? :rofl:



This first hit me on Monday afternoon, when I did a “Hardball” segment with Ron Christie, a Republican strategist and former Cheney aide. Christie, who appeared via satellite from Boston, vilified the protesters as “college students who are out having sex on the lawn, people who admit they’re just there to be part of a good time, people are taking drugs, people who are breaking the law.” He also charged them with “urinating on the lawn.” I am still kicking myself for not thinking of this until after the segment, but there is no lawn at Zuccotti Park. :rofl: It’s a small stone pavilion crammed between two towering buildings. If Christie had inspected the scene himself, and he assured Chris Matthews that he had, he surely would have noticed this.




Others who are sounding the alarm aren’t even pretending to have first-hand knowledge.

Here’s Karl Rove:

Occupy Wall Street isn’t a movement. It’s a series of events populated by a weird cast of disaffected characters, ranging from anarchists and anti-Semites to socialists and LaRouchies.


Here's Newt Gingrich:

I think the people who are protesting in Wall Street break into two groups: one is left-wing agitators who would be happy to show up next week on any other topic, and the other is sincere middle-class people who frankly are very close to the Tea Party people who care. And actually…you can tell which are which. The people who are decent, responsible citizens pick up after themselves. The people who are just out there as activists trash the place and walk off and are proud of having trashed it, so let’s draw that distinction.


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http://www.salon.com/2011/10/13/who_will_take_the_ows_critics_challenge/singleton/


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[yellerpup]

1. Protestors good. Activists dirty.

How quickly they revert to reptilian tactics.

[mailman82]

2. That ain't all!

I had a teabagger tell me that they are defecating and urinating in and on police cars. And smoking dope right out in the open and going to the bathroom any where they want. I asked him if he saw this, he said no. But Rush said it on his show yesterday! I am dumb founded.