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Wow. So you think that the OWS protestors "aren't accomplishing anything?"

They've managed to push their views into the political arena big time. That feat alone counts for plenty.

Scorpion wrote:

Wow. So you think that the OWS protestors "aren't accomplishing anything?"

Obviously the result of getting all his news from Fox.

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They've managed to push their views into the political arena big time. That feat alone counts for plenty.

Yeah,and the response from the right is one of fear. You look at those crowds and it's a portrait of every single demographic that Republicans like to try to disenfranchise.

happy jack wrote:

Scorpion wrote:

Wow. So you think that the OWS protestors "aren't accomplishing anything?"

They've managed to push their views into the political arena big time. That feat alone counts for plenty.

[b]Being noticed is a bit different than actually accomplishing anything.
A person can stand on the ledge of a tall building while threatening to jump and get noticed.
But what has been accomplished, in that case, or in the case of Occupy Wall Street?

Fox News or Limbaugh forget to mention to you that it's been all of 25 days since the protests started?

I recall a group that started protesting shortly after the 2008 election. They wore silly hats and brought stupid misspelled signs to their gatherings. People laughed at them too in the beginning.

happy jack wrote:

Artie60438 wrote:

Obviously the result of getting all his news from Fox.

Wrong.
Again.
As usual.

Which Republican candidate are you supporting? Have they given you the heads up yet?

happy jack wrote:

Scorpion wrote:

Wow. So you think that the OWS protestors "aren't accomplishing anything?"

They've managed to push their views into the political arena big time. That feat alone counts for plenty.

Being noticed is a bit different than actually accomplishing anything.
A person can stand on the ledge of a tall building while threatening to jump and get noticed.
But what has been accomplished, in that case, or in the case of Occupy Wall Street?

The protestors have tapped into the whole "Wall Street VS. Main Street" anger that resonates with the views of a sizable majority of Americans. The politicians are taking the protests seriously and are already "choosing sides."

By any definition, that's an accomplishment.

You can "laugh" all you like, but I think it's a big mistake to underestimate the power of the protests.

happy jack wrote:

Artie60438 wrote:

I recall a group that started protesting shortly after the 2008 election. They wore silly hats and brought stupid misspelled signs to their gatherings. People laughed at them too in the beginning.

In the beginning?
Yes.

Yeah well in only 25 day the crowds and locations are already way bigger than they were for the Tea Party at the same time. Not too bad considering we don't have a 24/7 right wing propaganda fake news channel to help promote it.

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But we have laughed at the Occupy Wall Street people from the beginning, and we will continue to laugh at them until the cold weather scares them back into their parents' basements.

You should show up there in person and tell that to one of the steel workers that are pictured below.
Region Steelworkers march to Take Back Chicago

happy jack wrote:

Artie60438 wrote:

Not too bad considering we don't have a 24/7 right wing propaganda fake news channel to help promote it.

http://www.mrc.org/bozellcolumns/columns/2011/20111011105925.aspx
Contemplate this: the “Occupy” folks drew more broadcast network stories in the first nine days of coverage (24) than the Tea Party drew in the first nine months (19).

No surprise that you completely missed how Brent Bozell,conservative activist,is misleading you. No links,no charts,just another right-wing blowhard.

Nate Silver of 538.com fame explains it all rather well.......

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We can also compare the coverage given to the Occupy Wall Street protests with that given to the Tea Party demonstrations in early 2009.

The seminal event for the Tea Party was a series of rallies on April 15, 2009, that attracted at least 300,000 protesters in about 350 locations around the country.

Identifying news coverage of the Tea Party protests by searching for the term “tea party” in conjunction with “demonstration,” “protest” or “rally,” and adjusting the figures in a manner similar to that for the Wall Street protests, finds that they produced 769 media hits on April 15, 2009, and 1,016 the next day — more than in any single day for the Wall Street protests.

Unlike the Wall Street protests, however, the Tea Party rallies were a one-day event, and coverage declined thereafter, to an average of 215 media hits per day over the three-week period from April 15 to May 5, 2009.

By contrast, the Occupy Wall Street protests have been covered in an average of 144 articles per day in the three weeks of their existence. In the aggregate, this is about two-thirds as much coverage as the Tea Party protests received.

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Coverage of the Wall Street protests continues to increase, however, and could surpass that given to the Tea Party rallies in April and May 2009 if it remains at its current levels for several more days.

http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/10/07/police-clashes-spur-coverage-of-wall-street-protests/