Digby posted an e-mail sent out by Judson Phillips of Tea Party Nation in which he attempts to show that the Occupy Wall Street demonstrators are ignorant because they are using iPhones and iPads to respond to death of Steve Jobs.

I hate to break it to Mr. Phillips, but Steve Jobs had no love for Wall Street, with very good reason if you knew the history of Apple Inc..

It wasn’t because Steve was an LSD taking hippie who sought enlightenment in India, and became a Buddhist. While Steve was all of those things, and found wisdom in the Whole Earth Catalog, it was what the Wall Street mindset did to the company he founded, that turned him against them. What the ‘professional CEOs’ and ‘professional board of directors’ did to a thriving, successful company, is a case history in what is wrong with Wall Street, and the majority of corporations. The company he returned to had been hollowed out in pursuit of ever higher profits.

If Randians are looking for the “parasites”, “looters”, and “moochers”, they should look on Wall Street, not Pennsylvania Avenue.

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