Salon: At War with Bizarro world, Or How I Learned That the Occupy Protesters are Conserva

[Elfshadow]

Salon: At War with Bizarro world, Or How I Learned That the Occupy Protesters are Conservatives and Fox News is a Marxist Cult

Its and interesting read.

http://open.salon.com/blog/greg_sg/2011/11/24/at_war_with_bizarro_world

[acptulsa]

He doesn't pull any punches, does he? :)

'On one hand, the rabble had to understand that they needed strict, unyielding free market discipline as it applies to them and their children. On the other, they ought to support rabid socialism as it applies to those whom their children will (hopefully) end up renting themselves to for the rest of their lives and/or until the oceans swell and turn to battery acid.'

Ron Paul certainly isn't the only source of media--even so-called public media--'selective hearing'.

For instance, when protests started in New York and NPR, having spent the previous week breaking hard-hitting stories on the air about shopping-mall "flash-mobs gone bad" (large groups of teenage pranksters spontaneously 'swarming' unlikely public gatherings for a laugh) and "a dozen teachers [paddling] canoes out onto Black Walnut Creek," unexpectedly raised their standards for newsworthy material and decided that over a thousand people waving signs and rapidly growing in numbers was not a phenomenon particularly deserving of any airtime. Ten days later, after over 80 arrests, involving the NYPD indiscriminately crop-dusting crowds of protesters with mace under no discernible provocation, executive editor Dick Meyer finally responded to the criticism accusing NPR of an on-air blackout by explaining that "the recent protests on Wall Street did not involve large numbers of people, prominent people, a great disruption or an especially clear objective."