My entry for Legal Insurrection’s National Empty Chair Day.
Not actually submitted, because they’ve stopped accepting submissions, being completely swamped with empty chairs.
Posts Tagged ‘Occupy movement’
This Chair is Occupied
Monday, September 3rd, 2012Tags: Barack Obama, Empty Chair Day, Occupy movement
Posted in B. Hussein Obama, Cool Stuff, Fighting Back, History | Comments Off
47 Seconds of Truth
Tuesday, March 27th, 2012Slowly, the progressive/socialist stranglehold on American media is beginning to break.
First was the Three Rules of gun handling presented on Blue Bloods.
Last night, ABC’s Castle exposed the Occupy movement in the “47 Seconds” episode.
You can watch the episode in full here.
The show opens with a video reporter doing a standup at the scene of a Occupy Wall Street protest. (The part of Occupy is played by “Takeover!”, including the exclamation point. I don’t know if the showrunners intended this or not, but the repeated inclusion of the exclamation point got tiresome as the show went on. This was a Good Thing, because it pointed up the self-important shrillness of such movements.)
Just as her piece gets underway, there’s an explosion that kills five people and wounds many others.
[Behind the spoiler tag, I reveal the outcome of the show.]
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As is usual with the modern cop show, an “obvious” suspect turns up in the first half. The pattern is that a member of an oppressed victims group, such as a Muslim or illegal immigrant, is exonerated, and a member of the rich ruling class turns out to be the perpetrator.
Here, the “oppressed” false suspect is a right winger with a history of protesting the protests.
In fact, though, the bomb was planted by a leader of the Takeover! movement, and was detonated by the reporter, in order to drum up support for the movement and create a juicy story.
That’s right: The Occupy movement is revealed as a fraud operating in collusion with a sympathetic press pursuing its own aggrandizement.
There were other juicy things about this show, including a twist in the romance between Castle and Beckett that says something about what Beckett has given up to pursue her independence.
But this wholesale rejection of one of the supposedly most popular movements of our time is stunning, and very welcome.
Recommended.
Tags: ABC, Castle, Occupy movement
Posted in Cool Stuff, Feminism, Fighting Back, Movies and TV, Political Correctness, Socialism | 1 Comment »
Window Wars
Thursday, October 13th, 2011Among many others, Patterico posts this video of Bill Maher on Rachel Maddow, advocating Occupy Wall Street protests throwing bricks through Rupert Murdoch’s apartment window in order to see Fox News be “more gentle” towards the OWS people. This in response to Maddow’s wondering “if a sense of dangerousness is what gives them power.”
Maddow specifically raises the specter of the Tea Party as a potentially violent mob; I’ve been to a Tea Party rally, and seen coverage, often hostile, of many more, and never once saw anything like the kind of ugliness and incitement that people sympathetic to the OWS point to with some glee.
This reminded me of a media firestorm that arose surrounding one of the very few calls for, not violence, but vandalism, by people who own guns and know how to use them. I posted this comparison in comments at Patterico:
Does anyone remember the socialist/progressive response to Mike Vanderbeogh’s “The Window War” at Sipsey Street Irregulars?
This story advocated breaking windows of both Republican and Democrat party office windows, with stones inscribed with the Second Amendment. The first window was at the local Republican office.
Anyone remember the banshee howls from the socialist progressives in response?
Note the differences:
- Attacking party office windows, not private homes.
- Attacked both parties.
- Specific, consistent message.
- Said message a passage from the Constitution.
- First strike at leaders of own party.
- Directed at “leaders” attempting to abrogate a right (bear arms), not citizens exercising a right (free press).
- Proposed to short circuit, not to initiate, more violence.
- A demand to be left alone, not to be taken care of.
- Promulgated by someone seen as being on the fringe, not a major media figure. (Mike has since become a leader in exposing the Gunwalker scandal, a gross betrayal of the Constitution by those sworn to uphold it that deserves literal tar and feathers, if not ropes and trees.)
And yet Maher gets laughter and cheers from those who booed and castigated Vanderbeogh.
Tags: Bill Maher, Maddow, Maher, Occupy movement, Occupy Wall Street, OWS, Rachel Maddow, Window War
Posted in Bill of Rights, Culture War, Dammit!, Democrats, Fighting Back, Liberals, News Media, Political Correctness, Right to Keep and Bear Arms, Socialism, Tea party, The Fall, Window War, libertarians | 1 Comment »