Prediction

[ChumpDumper]

lol occupy violence

You forgot to mention the New Black Panthers, but you usually have to change yourself after doing so.

[George Gervin's Afro]

I don't think it's odd at all; nor is it a sign of guilt. It's a knee-jerk reaction due to a non-stop stream of such connections being made, erroneously, in the past.

During the Aurora Shooting aftermath, Brian Ross immediately tries to tie the violence to the Tea Party by, apparently, just Googling the shooter's name, in conjuction with the term "Tea Party" and coming up with a guy, by the same name, associated with the Tea Party in Aurora and making the connection. Wrong.

In the aftermath of the attempted assassination of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, a cacophony of accusations filled the airwaves that it was the violent, militaristic use of things like cross-hairs in Sarah Palin's ads that drove the shooter to act. Wrong.

Immediately after the attempted Times Square bombing, Mayor Bloomberg insinuated it was probably someone opposed to Obamacare. Wrong.

Some guy flies a plane into an IRS office and The New York Times asks, "The First Tea Party Terrorist?" Nope. He wasn't.

Some census workers commits suicide and scrawls the word "Fed" on his own body and Time Magazine speculates it's related to Tea Party vitriol.

Combine just those examples with the fact there have been NO instances of violence tied to the Tea Party and, well, you begin to wonder if the media and the left (sorry for the redundancy) are trying to invent a narrative about the Tea Party.

Then, you look at the actual violence perpetrated by the Occupy crowd, who were supported by just about every top Democrat figure, including Obama and Pelosi, and you also wonder, WTF?

lol ..one person at one news organization... and it's the media

[Yonivore]

Name one act of violence allegedly perpetrated by the Occupy crowd that you feel merited national news coverage.

It's a Left wing movement imbued with a culture of violence.

Name one act of violence perpetrated by the Tea Party? Yet, you have the mainstream media incessantly barking about what a violent movement is the Tea Party.

But, since you ask, here's an act of Occupy Crowd violence warranting national news:

Obama campaign office window smashed during Occupy protest

Ahem, seriously though...

5 arrested in alleged plot to blow up Cleveland-area bridge

Of course, if you want to speak to the generally violent nature of Obama's beloved Occupy crowd, just look at the crime statistics in the various camps they've occupied around the country.

Just Google "Occupy Crime Statistics"

[Yonivore]

lol ..one person at one news organization... and it's the media

If that's all you see, you're blind.
There were actually three media outlets and the mayor of a major city mentioned in that post, and that's leaving out the dozens of Democrats and media outlets that went absolutely bat crazy over the Tea Party after the Gabby Giffords shooting -- all of them major and, they are by no means alone in trying to advance the narrative the Tea Party is violent.

It's simply an article of faith, on the left, that the Tea Party is a violent movement -- even thought there is absolutely nothing to support that belief.

You'd run out of bandwidth trying to list all the Democrat politicians that have called the Tea Party violent.

[ChumpDumper]

Ahem, seriously though...

5 arrested in alleged plot to blow up Cleveland-area bridge

You might want to find an article that has the word "occupy" in it.

Seriously.

[Spurminator]

Name one act of violence perpetrated by the Tea Party? Yet, you have the mainstream media incessantly barking about what a violent movement is the Tea Party.

No you don't. You have selective pieces of speculation pulled from days upon days of coverage of serious crimes, and you've used these to try to create the appearance of some conspiracy against the Tea Party movement.

There haven't been any crimes of a comparable magnitude to the ones you listed that could in any way be reasonably assumed to have been committed by an Occupy protester.

Ahem, seriously though...

5 arrested in alleged plot to blow up Cleveland-area bridge

Isn't anarchy pretty much the an hesis of what the Occupy movement is about? Quite a stretch to tie these guys to the Occupy crowd, but I'm sure you have plenty of blogs that have painstakingly made the connection.

[Yonivore]

You might want to find an article that has the word "occupy" in it.

Seriously.

You noticed that, eh? You're right, it's difficult. Almost as if the media is hiding the fact the bombers are active Cleveland Occupy members.

Bridge bomb plot: Suspects were active in Occupy Cleveland, even as movement slowed to a crawl

[Spurminator]

you might want to find an article that has the word "occupy" in it.

Seriously.

that's part of the cover-up!!

[ChumpDumper]

So who allowed them into the Occupy movement?

Can anyone be expelled from it?

[Spurminator]

...And you're still comparing news coverage of a foiled plot to coverage of crimes that were successfully carried out.

Again, there's going to be a big difference in the amount of "analysis" of thge crimes you listed, vs. crimes that were not successful, or crimes like vandalism.

[DUNCANownsKOBE]

You noticed that, eh? You're right, it's difficult. Almost as if the media is hiding the fact the bombers are active Cleveland Occupy members.

Bridge bomb plot: Suspects were active in Occupy Cleveland, even as movement slowed to a crawl

Five men involved in Occupy Cleveland stand accused of plotting to blow up a bridge over Cuyahoga Valley National Park in Sagamore Hills. The organization itself has not been implicated, but the arrests prompted organizers to cancel their May Day protest and instead spend the day distancing themselves from what they characterized as a fringe element.

Looks like the occupy movement was definitely a supporter of those bombings!

[Yonivore]

No you don't. You have selective pieces of speculation pulled from days upon days of coverage of serious crimes, and you've used these to try to create the appearance of some conspiracy against the Tea Party movement.

I can't help you weren't paying attention after the shooting.

There haven't been any crimes of a comparable magnitude to the ones you listed that could in any way be reasonably assumed to have been committed by an Occupy protester.

The ac ulated murders, rapes, and property crimes of the Occupy Movement -- if you use the media "Tea Party" template -- should be a major story but, it isn't.

Isn't anarchy pretty much the an hesis of what the Occupy movement is about? Quite a stretch to tie these guys to the Occupy crowd, but I'm sure you have plenty of blogs that have painstakingly made the connection.

Actually, it was the Cleveland news. I think USA Today may have mentioned in a story. But, as chump so helpfully pointed out, it didn't make the national sensation Brian Ross's Google of "Tea Party" and the Aurora Shooter's name.

[Yonivore]

Looks like the occupy movement was definitely a supporter of those bombings!

You're missing the point.

No one seems to need Tea Party endorsement of a violent act in order to paint them as the cause. Why should the Occupy Movement be any different?

Except, in this case, we have REAL Occupy Movement members committing REAL crimes.

[ChumpDumper]

lol may have.

Ross actually said in the same breath that might not be the guy and it needed to be confirmed.

[boutons_deux]

You're missing the point.

No one seems to need Tea Party endorsement of a violent act in order to paint them as the cause. Why should the Occupy Movement be any different?

Except, in this case, we have REAL Occupy Movement members committing REAL crimes.

Repugs, the right-wing hate media, old white "patriot", fat, pissed-off tea baggers, all inflaming the non-stop, load-mouthed hate and viciousness.

[clambake]

anyone notice how yoni hasn't ranted about armed citizens?

how this could have all been prevented?


anyone else think that yoni's not disturbed by "this particular shooting"?

[Oh, Gee!!]

prediction: foxnews will display a picture of a black man with a (D) after his name when identifying the shooter. they will later apologize for the clerical mistake.

[Yonivore]

lol may have.

Ross actually said in the same breath that might not be the guy and it needed to be confirmed.

How and why did he make the Tea Party connection to begin with?

That's the point.

[DUNCANownsKOBE]

You're missing the point.

Your point about alleged violence committed by the occupy movement? Yeah, I'm definitely missing that point seeing that you haven't provided an example of it yet.

No one seems to need Tea Party endorsement of a violent act in order to paint them as the cause. Why should the Occupy Movement be any different?

No one except for the majority of the media outlets that didn't paint the Tea Party as the cause.

[ChumpDumper]

How and why did he make the Tea Party connection to begin with?

He Googled a name, genius.

[TeyshaBlue]

Maybe the shooter doesn't have any direct ties to a right wing group, but the shooting was more than likely fueled by the right's mission to demonize Islamic people.

Not alot of thought put into this post, tbh.


"the right's mission"? WTF.

I have nipples, Greg. Could you milk me?

[Yonivore]

Not alot of thought put into this post, tbh.


"the right's mission"? WTF.

I have nipples, Greg. Could you milk me?

You owe me a keyboard.

[Yonivore]

Your point about alleged violence committed by the occupy movement? Yeah, I'm definitely missing that point seeing that you haven't provided an example of it yet.

No, the point that the media will create associations between violence and the Tea Party, out of thin air while going to great pains not to make those same associations between violence and the Occupy Movement -- even though, Occupy thugs have proven themselves to be a quite violent bunch.

No one except for the majority of the media outlets that didn't paint the Tea Party as the cause.

I'm not going to catalog the stories for you, I think it's enough that Time Magazine, NBC News, The New York Times, and Mayor Bloomberg were willing to create those connections to convince me it's a media narrative being pursued by a broad number of the outlets.

The trend has been pretty consistent since the inception of the Tea Party...

Tea Party Getting Violent? 10 House Dems Report Threats, Vandalism

[elbamba]

Maybe the shooter doesn't have any direct ties to a right wing group, but the shooting was more than likely fueled by the right's mission to demonize Islamic people.

Maybe I'm "politicizing" the shooting by saying that, but violence against Sikh people by morons who think they're Arabs has been a common occurence since 9/11. There's no way around that.

Maybe he was pro-gay marriage and was acting out against Giani Joginder Singh Vedanti's hat speech. Yes, I did wikipedia that crap.

[jack sommerset]

jack takes the internets too seriously. I will pray that he finds better uses of his time and quits abandoning his work and family duties rather than whining and praying about the fairness of GGA's posts.

Ron bless.

Brother, you try so hard not to get along, to put people on the defensive. I pray for you to. God bless