The Elite Are Trembling in Their Boots [View All]

[Donnachaidh]

http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/275-42/7964-the-elite-are-trembling-in-their-boots

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Now, as Cornel West predicted a few weeks ago, the elite are trembling in their boots.

Tom Leppert, running for retiring Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison's (R-TX) seat, has funneled money into a website called endoccupy.com, attacking the protesters' "false sense of entitlement." This is particularly amusing considering the site's founder was a high-ranking executive for Washington Mutual right until the firm folded in the largest bank failure in American history, extorting $63 billion from shareholders.

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Republicans vying for the presidency can't wait to line up and take potshots at the nascent movement, eager to downplay the struggles of the "99 percenters," as they rake in piles of campaign cash from corporate, financial and even secret donors. Mitt Romney said it was "dangerous, this class warfare." Not to be outdone, former Godfather's Pizza CEO Herman Cain said "if you're not rich and unemployed ... don't blame the banks. Blame yourself."

The corporate-owned media, who had previously been blacking out coverage of Occupy Wall Street (probably because it wasn't a Tea Party protest), now takes to the airwaves every day in attempts to smear and discredit the movement at every opportunity. On his own show, Sean Hannity told one occupier she didn't "believe in freedom." On Fox News, Ann Coulter called the Wall St. occupation "The beginning of totalitarianism." MSNBC's conservative morning host Joe Scarborough openly mocked the protests on the air before being called "part of the problem" by a CNBC reporter at the New York Stock Exchange. Jon Stewart did a bang-up job exposing the media's hypocrisy in its coverage of the movement.

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