Friday, September 30, 2011

Occupy Wall Street and the Tea Party and the Media

When Alison at Creekside first blogged about it, I was unimpressed with "Occupy Wall Street." I agreed with them and everything, but I saw a small group of lefties like me, speaking into microphones to the occasional acclaim of the tentative applause of the few hundred lefties gathered around, while a city of millions passed them by, completely oblivious and a nation of hundreds of millions continued even more completely oblivious, [... if that's possible!].

It would be over when the authorities decided it was over. Which would be a couple of days at most.

But it's still going on. And, of course, the US media, which will report on whenever a member of the right-wing chumps known as the "Koch Brothers Tea-Party" farts into a microphone, is doing its usual best to ignore or denigrate a genuine protest movement.

But where is the Tea Party?

Just some links:

http://radiopatriot.wordpress.com/2011/09/18/the-occupy-wall-street-effort-is-not-tea-party-eric-odom/

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/09/29-11

http://mediamatters.org/blog/201109290009

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/09/29-7

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I to haven't been following too closely until I saw a little something on "politics and discontent" showing a video of Chris Hedges being interviewed on the street as the "occupiers" were marching. A later link to "Truth Dig" sums up his feelings quite appropriately, "You are either a rebel or a slave".