Wall Street Protests - Page 3

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

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

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...?

Stormieweather · 10-06-2011, 10:56 AM

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Originally Posted by classicman

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

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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

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?

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

@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

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

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

Actually it's pronounced "Cook"

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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

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

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

10-05-2011, 10:10 PM	#31
Stormieweather Wearing her bitch boots Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Floriduh Posts: 1,181	Are you watching faux news again for your "occupy wall street" information, Mercy? __________________ "First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win." - Mahatma Gandhi

10-05-2011, 10:16 PM	#32
classicman barely disguised asshole, keeper of all that is holy. Join Date: Nov 2007 Posts: 23,401	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) :/ __________________ "like strapping a pillow on a bull in a china shop" Bullitt

10-06-2011, 08:25 AM	#33
Pico and ME Are you knock-kneed? Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Middle Hoosierland Posts: 3,549	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. __________________ Jesse LaGreca in 2012 “Seven Deadly Sins: Wealth without work, Pleasure without conscience, Science without humanity, Knowledge without character, Politics without principle, Commerce without morality, Worship without sacrifice.” – Mahatma Gandhi

10-06-2011, 11:18 AM	#37
classicman barely disguised asshole, keeper of all that is holy. Join Date: Nov 2007 Posts: 23,401	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. __________________ "like strapping a pillow on a bull in a china shop" Bullitt

10-06-2011, 12:22 PM	#41
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	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

10-06-2011, 12:42 PM	#43
glatt ™ Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Arlington, VA Posts: 27,717	Maybe the snark should be changed to "pox news." Edit: Or "Lox News." But that's a little fishy.

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