Gasparino: 'Occupy Wall Street Is Marxist Epicenter'
Video - Gasparino on Occupy Wall Street - Oct. 17, 2011
For all the readers who loathe the protests, here's your clip. Congratulations, you have Wall Street shill Charlie Gasparino on your side. We've never maintained that there aren't a wide variety of views to be found in Zucotti Park, but over the past few weeks we've shown you dozens of examples of anit-Fed, anti-bailout capitalists roaming the park and speaking out. Gasbag lunges for the stereotype and throws all the protesters under one label, thus making it easier for Fox viewers to disregard and disparage everything and everyone associated with the movement.
It's just not that simple as pages and pages of this website have revealed.
Gasbag quotes inside.
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“I did some reporting,” Gasparino told Fox News anchor Jenna Lee. “All you have to do is walk through there to see that there is an underlying ideology and it’s handed out in pamphlets and newspapers.”
“What we’re talking about here is a way where the government controls the economy. That’s the underlying message that’s coming from this protest… That’s one of the problems here. They are using what is obviously an outrage that everybody agrees with. Wall Street got bailed out, we have a horrible economy and they are using that to promote a philosophy that is quite — is basically anti-American. We’re talking about Marxists here.”
He added: “It’s not just protest Wall Sreet. It’s protest Wall Street and it’s an embrace of communism and there is no doubt about it.”
“If [President Barack Obama] keeps saying nice things about the protesters, the debate among business types and voters won’t be whether the president has some socialist leanings, but how much virtue he sees in the thoughts of Karl Marx.”
Oct 18, 2011 at 1:11 AM
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He noted that the “Occupy Wall Street” movement and the tea party movement were both opposed to the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP), the Bush administration’s $700 billion response to the mortgage crisis.
“We on the right should not be as dismissive of what is happening in this movement the way the left, to their determine, wholly dismissed the tea party movement,” Erickson wrote in a column.
But Erickson is no supporter of the demonstrations. He still believes the “Occupy” movement is comprised of “damn dirty communists” who think the “government should pick the winners and losers.”
Erickson and Josh Trevino of the conservative Texas Public Policy Foundation created the “We are the 53 percent” website last week, which says it is for “those of us who pay for those of you who whine.”
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/10/17/erick-erickson-gop-should-not-dismiss-occupy-protests
The battle goes on...
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/10/17/21-submachine-guns-stolen-from-lapd-swat
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/10/18/george-h-w-bush-considered-clint-eastwood-as-running-mate
"Wall Street got bailed out, we have a horrible economy and they are using that to promote a philosophy that is quite — is basically anti-American. We’re talking about Marxists here.”
So being anti-bailout and pro-jobs makes one a... Marxist?
Quite aside from the fact that I strongly doubt that Gasparino has read or understood even the first paragraph of Karl Marx, the invocation of a 19th century German philosopher is greatly amusing. In doing this, Gasparino glosses over the 6+ centuries that preceded Marx and thus wholly fails to get at what EVERY (not just a handful) #OWS protester agrees on: the Rule of Law should apply to Wall Street to bring its shameful (and anti-capitalist) degenerate gambling and looting operation to a halt--even if it means prison time for wrongdoers.
But no. Gasparino and his dim ilk care not one whit for the Rule of Law (birth: 1215) because they can't comprehend its critical importance to a functional economy. Like Linus, they can't let go of the left-right security blanket that comforts them so and which (mis-)informs their entire worldview.
Gasparino is a total fool, squarely on the wrong side of history, and his fans are mouth-breathing dupes.
In Gasbag's world, everything was just fine and for no good reason whatsoever the peasants began to complain. He ignores that the class he speaks for has ignored every grievance of the people for decades now, always being able to say "stop whining" instead. His ideology recommended cutting regulation and privatizing government.
Maybe he recalls Reagan and how - to save taxpayer money, of course - the Pentagon was farmed out. That worked out well! Maybe he recalls how, in an attempt to prove Ds were as good as Rs, Clinton unleashed the power of the free markets with banking deregulation. Maybe he cheered the money to be made on Wall Street when healthcare, housing and education were transformed into cash cows for the connected, with the only offset being government pots of money like HUD. Always the monkey in the middle was the taxpaying middle class who got screwed coming and going, both in higher taxes for the government subsidies to the poorest as well as the higher prices paid to the subsidized corporations.
The things we need as a society are broken: banking, housing, healthcare, defense, education and representative government itself. In each case, it was broken by collusion between money and government, hijacking the rule of law, usurping the common good to private profit.
Whether its Gasbag on the right or Obama on the other right, the only ones claiming they have no idea why people are so fed up are the people who want to keep things going they same way they've been. Everyone else wants real change, not because it will be easy, but because we have no choice.
The apologists for business as usual ignore the fact that their allegedly free market capitalism is absolutely dependent on a continuous and growing stream of tax dollars to support profits. If Uncle Sugar cut them off, there would be nothing but a smoldering crater. Then, and only then, will these strutting peacocks have the right to call regular people commies.
The welfare for Wall Street is what's bankrupting us all that draws my ire. I have no problem paying taxes to help the poor get by--at all.
"Taxes are what we pay for civilized society."
--Oliver Wendell Holmes
I have a huge problem supporting a bunch of wildly profligate and unworthy pussies who can't compete. The modern incarnation of Wall Street is a cancer, not civilized at all. Fuck them.
-Thomas Jefferson
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tsJPKMvWDmY
He cherry picked the idiots, but aren't both sides guilty of that?
This is rather interesting too...
https://www.opencongress.org/bill/112-hr365/text