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October 6, 2011

A Mob By Any Other Name - Is Still A Mob

The liberal-progressive MSM is busy touting the Wall Street mob and comparing their angry protests to the Boston Tea Party, ignoring the facts about them and that there is no genuine comparison. Perhaps most interesting is the way they report the Wall Street mob's angry, violent, so-called "movement" (made up of mostly young, angry, far-left and out of the mainstream, mainly of Marxist and socialist ideologies),... and the way it reported on the Tea Party (non-violent, peaceful, a clear agenda and objective, by mostly older, mainstream Americans ).

As for such differences and the MSM's reporting of them, Ann Coulter comes up with several notably salient differences between the Wall Street mob and Tea Partiers, all of which distinguish the differences between conservatives and liberal-progressives, and none of which will you hear mentioned by the MSM.

I am not the first to note the vast differences between the Wall Street protesters and the tea partiers. To name three: The tea partiers have jobs, showers and a point.

No one knows what the Wall Street protesters want -- as is typical of mobs. They say they want Obama re-elected, but claim to hate "Wall Street." You know, the same Wall Street that gave its largest campaign donation in history to Obama, who, in turn, bailed out the banks and made Goldman Sachs the fourth branch of government.

This would be like opposing fattening, processed foods, but cheering Michael Moore -- which the protesters also did this week.

But to me, the most striking difference between the tea partiers and the "Occupy Wall Street" crowd -- besides the smell of patchouli -- is how liberal protesters must claim their every gathering is historic and heroic.

They chant: "The world is watching!" "This is how democracy looks!" "We are the ones we've been waiting for!"

At the risk of acknowledging that I am, in fact, "watching," this is most definitely not how democracy looks.

Read the whole thing here. Coulter goes on to point out numerous other differences between the Wall Street Mob and Tea Partiers. The tea partiers don't arrogantly claim to be drafting a new Declaration of Independence -- they're perfectly happy with the original. Tea partiers don't block traffic, sleep on sidewalks, wear ski masks, fight with the police or urinate in public. They read the Constitution, make serious policy arguments, and petition the government against Obama's unconstitutional big government policies, especially the stimulus bill and Obamacare. And Tea Partiers pick up their own trash and quietly go home. Apparently, a lot of them have to be at work in the morning.

Over at Outside the Beltway, Doug Mataconis, who I rarely agree with, nicely summarizes the mob participant's and their actions, and just how misguided they and what they claim to be their purpose:

There's something pretty immature about blaming other people for your situation in life. There's no question that the incestuous relationship between business and government is a bad thing, that's why I've said repeatedly that the answer is to get the government out of those situations where it is entering into "partnerships" with business and picking winners and losers through direct and indirect subsidies. Those are the situations in which business is indeed taking advantage of taxpayers and it ought to be stopped, but to a large degree that won't happen unless and until we drastically reduce the size and scope of government involvement in the economy.

In other words, as Jazz Shaw suggests, in focusing their anger and bad behavior on Wall Street, the protestors have focused on the wrong target. If they really want to protest against something or somebody for their situation in life (albeit mostly of their own making), they ought to be camped out on Pennsylvania Avenue in DC.

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Networks Again Trumpet What NBC's Williams Celebrates as 'the Protest of This Current Era' (CBS and NBC led Wednesday night with glowing stories about the growth and diversity of the far-left "Occupy Wall Street" protests, though without any ideological label applied nor any critics allowed, a promotional approach the networks never provided in Tea Party coverage.)
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