Some People Get It
Digby excerpted a New York Times editorial showing that the Occupy Wall Street message is penetrating the media shield against reality.
Ellroon grabbed the meat of Krugman’s Op-Ed on the protests, Confronting the Malefactors: “The protesters’ indictment of Wall Street as a destructive force, economically and politically, is completely right.”
Mustang Bobby has the Alan Grayson smackdown on the ignorance on Bill Maher’s show.
You will note that PJ O’Routke keeps referring bongos and may wonder what that is all about. The short version would be that O’Rourke was a real, genuine DFH who ignored the warning about the ‘brown acid’ and went over to the Dark Side.
Apparently he is confusing Alan Grayson with Alan Greenspan. It’s is understandable, really. They spell their first names the same way; their last names begin with a ‘G’ and contain a color; they were both born in NYC; they are both Jewish, and they both have Summa Cum Laude Bachelor’s degrees in economics.
Greenspan is the one who played saxophone in Woody Herman’s jazz band and is in the correct age group to have been a beatnik, who stereotypically played bongos. They were a feature of the 1950s.
Alas, Alan Grayson was too busy working his way through Harvard as a janitor and nightwatchman to get involved in the counter-culture, which would have been ?Disco?, as he is a good deal younger than Mr. O’Rourke.
Charlie Grapski tells us that the cons are attempting to kick off violence in the protests: American Spectator Editor Admits to Being Agent Provocateur at D.C. Museum.
It is to be hoped that the Park Police arrest and prosecute this moron, as, in addition to his confession, there are pictures of him.
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Dammit, we need to get Grayson back into Congress, ’cause he *gets* it. The other clueless MF’s in office… not so much.
I saw that roundtable. Grayson sliced and diced O’Rourke, who really should turn in his pundit’s license after such an abysmal performance. And yes, I agree with Badtux… we need Grayson back in Congress.
I have to worry about anyone who would confuse a beatnik with a hippie. The counterculture changed more than a bit between the two eras, not that O’Rourke would notice. He is “a man [who] hears what he wants to hear, and disregards the rest.” Lie, lie lie…
I hope that Howley gets the book thrown at him, the bloody idiot.
The total lack of support for Grayson by the Democratic Party while the Republicans were moving heaven and earth to defeat him, is a very sore point in Florida. The Party [Obama] backed a lot of Blue Dogs, but put nothing out for progressives in 2010. Grayson was constantly dealing with complaints from the Party leadership for pushing too hard, while the rank-and-file cheered him on.
O’Rourke wanted to be the new Hunter Thompson, but didn’t understand that Thompson was unique. He started making big bucks and forgot what made him successful. I wasn’t kidding when I said he was a certified, tie-dyed DFH.
Jams, this is typical of the right-wing media. They will do anything, including breaking the law [see News Corp] to attack their perceived ‘enemies’.