What OWS is so angry about – in charts…

CHARTS: Here’s What The Wall Street Protesters Are So Angry About…

Let’s start with the obvious [1 of 41]: Unemployment. Three years after the financial crisis, the unemployment rate is still at the highest level since the Great Depression (except for a brief blip in the early 1980s)

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    • Goodman’s template was broken. At the end of that predictable piece, she wrote:

      But if the top organizer behind the Tea Party turned out to have published a blacklist of American Jews he claimed had dual loyalty to the U.S. and Israel, the backlash from the media would be massive.

      Top Tea Partiers have published such lists, except they’re lists of supporters, and are accompanied by proud statements that God has directly ordered us to defend Greater Israel.

      That said, the Lasn piece in Adbusters was ill-conceived and -considered, a self-inflicted wound. So I guess if Adbusters is lousy, that must mean that historic levels of income and wealth inequality in the U.S. are a good thing.

  1. Or maybe in today’s world the JWF’s qualify as hacks, or pseudo-hacks, or ersatz hacks… Complicated question. Be that as it may, the post reads like it was written straight from the standard “hold ’em responsible for the weirdos” template, but even JWF doesn’t make the additional claim that anti-semitism is the OWS “focus.”

    LGF has been doing a nice job, however, of tracking the lengths other rightwing bloggers have gone trying to push this attack: http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/39303_Pajamas_Media-_OWS_Twitter_Hashtag_is_a_Neo-Swastika_Power_Symbol , http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/39299_Its_Yom_Kippur._Banks_should_atone._–_The_Truth_Behind_the_Sign ,

    Noticed much work in your hunting grounds of Rush Limbaugh’s attempt to turn the mission against the LRA into an attack on valiant Christians by the Kenyan Muslim president? Has Limbaugh apologized? Now that’s something to be embarrassed about.

  2. Museveni’s a decent chap as that country has produced in a generation, and AQ does hate Uganda to pieces, as we found
    with that stadium attack by Al Shahaab, not so long ago, not to mention that rambunctious youngster Quahtani, but I don’t
    get the poor ‘Argument Clinic’ argumentation

    • It’s not a railroad, and I see little indication that anyone in particular is running it. The mirror image articles could have been and were phoned in written about Tea Party protests and the colorful people who turn out for them. The only “look squirrel” going on here is on the part of people like Labash, Goodman, and the lesser ideologues whose knees happen to jerk from the opposite side.

  3. No, it was assumed from the outset that Koch was running the Tea Party, from the Sorospress like Wiegel to their parrots in the ‘MainStream Media’, who went after the likes of Dale Richardson to represent the movement.

    • “It was assumed”? By whom? I don’t recall reading much about the Kochs until last year or so, around the point that the co-optation of the Tea Party into the far right was completed. Wasn’t it a Jane Meyer piece or something that got that ball rolling? And, really, spraying around terms like the “Sorospress” and the rest is comically hypocritical of you, since it’s supposed to advance a claim that your wonderful and very special movement of wonderful and very special people with legitimate and important points to make has been smeared by people making unjust claims and assumptions based on supposed influential backers or others associated who aren’t really what the thing is or was about.

  4. In part I blame Bloomberg, the kind of man, Lenin was thinking of, when he said capitalists will sell them the rope, Guiliani would have taken names, and if need be, cracked skulls, really face the ‘inherent violence in the system’

  5. There are no demands that can be legitimately answered to, that in part is the fault of the candidate who they voted for in large part, so it’s basically kabuki threatre.To answer the earlier point, Mayer’s was basically a mimeograph of Think Progress’s attack on the Koch’s, funded by the man who has singlehandedly shattered economies and millions of lives
    from Islington to Irabaya

    • miguel cervantes: , funded by the man who has singlehandedly shattered economies and millions of lives
      from Islington to Irabaya

      I’m skeptical that you can explain why anyone should believe that. However, even if you could, and even if it was believable, and even it was true, what does it have to do with the concerns represented by OWS? Since your habit is never to answer, but instead, at most, to cycle some other irrelevancy through, I’ll answer for you: Nothing.

      • What do they realistically want to be done, we have spent unspeakably huge sums bailing out banks all over the world, funded ‘green energy’ boondoggles, not unlike that directed by the villain
        in that last wretched James Bond film, that almost ended the franchise, little real employment gains, and Obama seems to have learned little, a credit to FDR, circumstances forced him to stow
        the hatred of capital, for a time, in order to prosecute the war.

  6. If they’re making no demands, why not accede to them instead of sending in Guiliani to use his two heads of iron?

    It’s the repression inherent in the cistern is why!

  7. Abolishing all debts, ending the fossil based economy, teaching unicorns to fly, yes they could actually prosecute the likes of Countrywide, Goldman, but let’s get real they don’t get touched, they are the administration’s bread and butter, besides the Green Energy scam keeps Zucotti Park fully stocked.

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