From TVSpy:
KGW, the NBC-affiliate in Portland, is under fire after accidentally airing a graphic listing numbers of “stinky people” and “angry people” at Occupy Portland.
The graphic (pictured below) aired briefly, for less than a second, in the middle of the opening graphics sequence on the noon newscast Wednesday. “Somebody punched the wrong button, basically,” KGW news director Rick Jacobs told Willamette Week.
Full story:
KGW Airs Graphic Counting ‘Stinky People’ and ‘Angry People’ at Occupy Portland
In other news, an occupy protestor attacked TV news reporters in NYC. Proof positive they are clueless:
A disgruntled Occupy Wall Street protestor confronted WNYW‘s John Huddy this morning, as he was covering the latest developments in Zuccotti Park, and the situation quickly turned ugly.
“This is somebody I’ve come across several times for the last few days,” Huddy told viewers following the altercation. “He threatened to stab me in the throat with a pen. He ripped the mic out of my hand.”
That won’t help. I can tell you this, in my own small world of TV and radio contacts, the sense of the “occupy” movement seems to be one of arm’s length satirical treatment. When the media starts panning a movement privately, organizers might want to think twice about what they are doing.
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Occupy WUWT.
Kevin Harris
It is an unConstitutional protest. They are blocking traffic. They are costing the taxpayers money. They are occupying the police from far more important duties. They are not protesting peacefully. They are interfering with others life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness. I, and 1000’s of other people, have been late for work because of them. They are unAmerican. Sorry Kevin, the Occupy protest is not American. It is wrong to assume a protest is always the American thing to do. America is, at present, far away from its original intent. It is closer to a Marxist model than a Founding Father model. These protests would not exist if not for the paycheck that the organizers of it are making. We shouldn’t have some kind of Pavlovian response to any protest that it is the American way. We need to slow down and start thinking in America.
A disgruntled Occupy Wall Street protestor confronted WNYW‘s John Huddy this morning, as he was covering the latest developments in Zuccotti Park, and the situation quickly turned ugly.
I guess that would make him one of the “angry people”, wouldn’t it?
Smokey says
October 28, 2011 at 1:00 pm
“Her PhD was in German polka dancing.”
She could get a job in an oil company as an environmentalist.
I think I’m probably right in saying that political correctness offends the vast majority of the WUWT community.
Anthony.
As WUWTcontinues to supply the goods I’ve made a donation to the fund. Well worth it.
This entire global Occupy Movement is a WAKE UP call to all rational Americans that this is a planned and a looming agenda for America. The true “transparency” of the Obama Administration and their tacit approval of this international left anti-capitalist agenda just couldn’t be more clear. Guess we have the Occupiers to thank for removing the mask behind which Obama had used to hide his true anti-capitalist agenda . Know why our economy has not improved? Guess.
Wonders what Rick Perry really feels about the OWS crowd? Since he was a big Al Gore supporter. Like that other Texan Gore supporter that used to be a democrat, foreclosure Phil Gramm.
Reflubitcans really need to be more careful. Lou Dobbs is seeing trouble beating Obama.
Quit shooting yourselves in the foot. After the Las Vegas debate the next morning about the only things people recall is, “will you please let me speak? I have 30 seconds to respond let me speak. You’re out of time!” Yada yada yada…
Oh man, who wants to deal with 250 stinky AND angry people???
You could not pay me enough to be a cop…
Left wing or right wing, the message is still the same – the Occupy people don’t have a clue about how to organize an effective protest, how to engage with the media, how to get their message to the vast majority they are supposed to be representing.
For example, starting a street protest in the late fall (autumn) in New York is as stupid an idea as Napoleon attacking Russia in mid-winter.
Kevin Harris says:
October 28, 2011 at 9:38 am………………………………………..
“supporting a right wing agenda opens the door for pro-CAGW to label skeptics as more politically motivated than science motivated.”
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Now I’m really confused.
When did CAGW (global warming) start being about science?
This must be new and please don’t anyone disappoint Al Gore with this bad news.
With the snow coming to NY I wonder if that means Al’s on his way to OWS.
Ahhh, if only I were 20-something again, I would also be at OWS.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2047168/Occupy-Wall-Street-protesters-make-love-class-war-sex-drugs-tap.html
But, I suspect that an inch or so of snow would put a chill on this kind of carrying on!
Everybody on the left, from “I am the ONE we have been waiting for” on down to Michael Moore have been saying that OWS is their “Tea Party” and represents the finest of the Liberal Thought and Character. Body painting can obviously be protected as street art or a political statement. But, just exactly how would you characterize defecating on a police car? I guess that it is in keeping with the rest of the event. And the individuals involved. Like Michael Moore.
Regards,
Steamboat Jack (Jon Jewett’s evil twin)
Michael Moore have been saying that OWS is their “Tea Party” and represents the finest of the Liberal Thought and Character
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Another man takes to the microphone and says it’s not just the drink and drugs that have given the protesters a bad name.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2054912/Occupy-London-St-Pauls-protest-rabble-cause.html#ixzz1cBjhpbNG
Occupy Wall Street Anthem | “Finally Here” by The Roaring FT. Ari Herstand
Occupy The Street Song (The Official Anthem)
Occupy Wall Street Song , “Stand tall” by Rya Fraser
Do not ever jump to conclusions about anyone a media flaunts. No doubt there are paid plants. That is also how former political figures get to be well paid lobbyists.
The idea that these are non-violent people is wrong. Blocking traffic and tresspass is violence. Low end, first step on the ladder, but violence. Meant to intimidate, bully, and force their view on others. And more violence is clearly bubbling just under the surface.
Latitude says:
October 29, 2011 at 9:24 am
Michael Moore . . . . . .
Michael Moore confesses: I am the 1 percent
http://bottomline.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/10/28/8522718-michael-moore-confesses-i-am-the-1-percent
Occupy Wall Street Anthem, “Bang On The Drum” by Todd Rundgren
http://www.investmentu.com/2011/October/major-new-threat-your-stock-portfolio.html
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The Federal Reserve took interest rates too low for too long, making mortgage loans dirt-cheap and priming the real estate bubble.
Congress exempted the first $500,000 in capital gains on primary residences held for two years, creating a huge incentive for Americans to flip their homes.
In a misguided effort to promote home ownership for everyone, both Republican and Democrat legislators passed laws effectively criminalizing banks that failed to lend to subprime borrowers (and particularly minority subprime borrowers).
The federal government sponsored Fannie and Freddie – or (as I prefer) Phony and Fraudie – to warehouse these crummy loans and then put taxpayers on the hook to clean up the mess.
The $615-trillion market for credit default swaps accelerated the financial collapse. These should have been traded through central clearinghouses, on exchanges that provide transparency. Who decided against this? Congress in December of 2000 by passing the Commodity Futures Modernization Act and preventing any real oversight of the over-the-counter derivatives markets.
And who’s responsible for the regulation of banks, savings and loans, mortgage companies and rating agencies to make sure the mortgage market is fair and transparent? Why the federal government, of course.
The problem wasn’t corporate greed. It was government incompetence.
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Socratease says:
“I guess that would make him one of the “angry people”, wouldn’t it?”
I guess by elimination, if he was one of the stinky people, John Huddy would have smnelled hiom coming.
Allan Watt;
Good, balanced rant. Agree.
Laurie Bowen;
Those songs are witless bilge.
Kevin Harris:
What you are missing is that the “Occupy” protesters have the same anti-human ideology as climate alarmists, the same evasion of reality, and the same tendency to violence (exhibitted at the Smithsonian in DC, for example). “Occupy” itself is violence, as Alan Watt and Dan Evens correctly point out.
While the Occupy protesters have correctly complained about government giving bailouts, I ask you if they have complained about government actions that caused the mortgage crisis in the US that is the subject of their accusations against “capitalists”. The US government coerced banks into lowering lending standards, enticed individuals to borrow what they couldn’t afford, manipulated interest rates, made it easy to pass the flawed mortgages to someone else, and ran a ponzi-like scheme of increasing numbers in its huge agencies like “Fannie Mae”. All in the name of helping the very people most hurt by the mortgage problems their actions resulted in.
Note that some banks were well run so did not need help – Wells and BBandT, for example.
I am not surprised the Occupy protests have turned to explicit environmentalism, because they view humans as uncreative and untrustworthy, hence have a fixed-pie exploitation view, based substantially on the fantasies of Karl Marx. Why aren’t the Occupy people trying to improve what works instead of wanting to replace it with what results in starvation in the dark, as in North Korea today?
You throw out the inaccurate “right-wing” smear, then you accuse your critics of “hating”, which is a favourite tactic of the neo-marxists. You need to look in your mirror and ask why you support the anti-human nature of the Occupy mob.
Dave Worley:
Your comment about the strike by the Occupy kitchen staff is odd.
I see it as the evolving of a Marxist society. Except in a real Marxist society the kitchen staff would be forced to keep feeding freeloaders.
Perhaps you mean that the producers are going on strike against exploitation by the freeloaders, as in the novel Atlas Shrugged