Analysis of Occupy Groups Plain Wrong

by: WeatherDem

Sat Oct 08, 2011 at 09:06:15 AM MST

First up: Paul West's "Is Occupy Wall Street a Tea Party for Democrats?", which can be marked up as another sad example of crappy journalism in today's corporate media dominated world.

Distinctions are drawn by liberals between the origins of the anti-Wall Street drive, which they say is more spontaneous and authentic than a Tea Party movement boosted into existence by Fox News, a favored news source for conservatives. Another difference: Tea Party followers were focused on one issue - cutting government spending - while Occupy Wall Street is amorphous in its aims.

Beyond that, there are broad similarities. Both movements are decentralized and nonhierarchical, driven largely by an alienated and outraged citizenry that favors the same two-word phrase: fed up.

Toss Phyllis Schlafly On The Pile of Racist, Jackass Endorsers For Whom Ken Buck Must Apologize

by: Fong

Fri Jul 30, 2010 at 12:03:34 PM MST

Then Buck calls the Tea Party "jackasses". So much for their support.

Now Ken is endorsed by this crazy woman and her PAC:

Do you know what was the second biggest demographic group that voted for Obama, obviously the blacks were the biggest demographic group, but do y'all know what was the second biggest? Unmarried women. 70% of unmarried women voted for Obama and this is because if you kick your husband out, you gotta have Big Brother goverment to be your provider, and they know that! And they've admitted it.

So does Ken Buck agree with the racist, sexist goals of this woman and her PAC or is this another group to whom he caters but then slanders behind their backs?

He looks pretty sexist to me.

h/t TPM

Suthers Pwned in MMJ debate

by: Fong

Thu Apr 08, 2010 at 10:47:17 AM MST

The Denver Daily News has an article about a debate between Colorado Attorney General John Suthers and leading Medical Marijuana Attorney Rob Corry. At one point in the debate, Cory pwns Suthers by calling balderdash on Suthers' right-wing mantra of selective "states rights" when it fits his ideology.