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Stormieweather 10-05-2011 10:10 PM

Are you watching faux news again for your "occupy wall street" information, Mercy? ;)

classicman 10-05-2011 10:16 PM

Did they start to cover them yet? I was flipping channels and while CNN and PMSNBC both had coverage, Faux had squat. (I had to tell my parents what it was earlier this week) :/

Pico and ME 10-06-2011 08:25 AM

Because NYC only allows amplified sound with a permit, OWS is employing the 'human microphone' for public service announcements, meetings, and speeches. It has its flaws, but its totally organic nature adds to the esprit de corps among the protesters.

Here is an example.


glatt 10-06-2011 08:40 AM

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Originally Posted by TheMercenary (Post 761052)
Not one damm unified group but a bunch of wacko extremists (think tw) who have no clue as to why the person next to them are there.

Says the conservative.

Understand that to a liberal, the conservatives are all a bunch of ditto heads who take their marching orders from the mother ship.

It's all about perspective.

Sundae 10-06-2011 10:31 AM

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Originally Posted by TheMercenary (Post 761052)
Not one damm unified group but a bunch of wacko extremists who have no clue as to why the person next to them are there.

Almost like... a [Mad Hatter's] Tea Party...?

:D

Stormieweather 10-06-2011 10:56 AM

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Originally Posted by classicman (Post 761069)
Did they start to cover them yet? I was flipping channels and while CNN and PMSNBC both had coverage, Faux had squat. (I had to tell my parents what it was earlier this week) :/

Well at least one faux news crew was on wall street last night...

Breaking News


Article ends with:

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During the day, unions and students joined the demonstrators. What was once a protest of powerful Wall Street financial firms and banks is growing into a larger movement about the working class, employment, poverty, education, and more.

classicman 10-06-2011 11:18 AM

Yeh, I saw that Stormie. I was kinda 1/2 joking.
Same was true with Steve Jobs death. They probably didn't want to interrupt the O'Reilly rerun for something important.

SamIam 10-06-2011 11:32 AM

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Originally Posted by TheMercenary (Post 761052)
Really, Wall Street needs to turn off the lights and see who fails first...

Fine by me. Oh, wait! Maybe they'd like to pay back all that bail-out money first? :eyebrow:

I think I'm going to create an "Occupy Cortez" page on FB myself. What the hell.

@Classic - NPR has been giving some pretty good coverage. "Occupy Wall Street" was their lead story last night.

classicman 10-06-2011 11:38 AM

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Originally Posted by SamIam (Post 761216)
@Classic - NPR has been giving some pretty good coverage. "Occupy Wall Street" was their lead story last night.

I agree. There has been some good coverage on CNN last night as well.
Locally there has plenty on right now since its happening here as well. I'm gonna meet a friend and check it out this afternoon.

SamIam 10-06-2011 11:43 AM

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Originally Posted by Stormieweather (Post 761191)
Well at least one faux news crew was on wall street last night...

Breaking News

I see that a faux photographer got pepper sprayed by the cops last night. Hah! You think that might influence the faux perspective?

Undertoad 10-06-2011 12:22 PM

I'm so sorry -- but I always find the snark "faux news" to be stupid, because "faux" is pronounced "foh", with a long o.

similarly "Koch" is pronounced "Coke" and not "cock". that is all

piercehawkeye45 10-06-2011 12:39 PM

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Originally Posted by Undertoad (Post 761237)
similarly "Koch" is pronounced "Coke" and not "cock". that is all

Actually it's pronounced "Cook" :p:

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Originally Posted by TheMercenary
I think the best thing that can happen at this point is for all of the people on Wall Street to walk off the job in protest at the protests and shut down trading on the international markets for a week and see who suffers first....

Just like how Congress should just walk off the job in protest and see what happens.....

glatt 10-06-2011 12:42 PM

Maybe the snark should be changed to "pox news."

Edit: Or "Lox News." But that's a little fishy.

Sundae 10-06-2011 01:10 PM

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Originally Posted by Undertoad (Post 761237)
I'm so sorry -- but I always find the snark "faux news" to be stupid, because "faux" is pronounced "foh", with a long o.

But I always found it funny and snarky for just that reason! Like us calling the Daily Mail "the Hate Mail"
It isn't a homophone or a homonym, but it reflects the nature of the beast.

I didn't know that anyone read the words Faux News and heard Fox in their head.

Then again, I had meme down as memm, thinking it was based on the French for "the same", so I'm not reliable in internet pronunciation :)

Pete Zicato 10-06-2011 03:27 PM

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Originally Posted by Undertoad (Post 761237)
I'm so sorry -- but I always find the snark "faux news" to be stupid, because "faux" is pronounced "foh", with a long o.

But the wisdom of the dwellars is in the meme; and our unhallowed hands should not disturb it, or the Country's done for.

Apologies to Dickens


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