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US Video: Liberal law student chokes on silver spoon in (false) protest
- Posted on September 26, 2011 at 12:51pm by
Meredith Jessup
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Author’s note: This post has been updated.
The latest anti-business viral video burning up the liberal blogosphere today seems heart-wrenching… that is, until you do your homework.
Robert Stephens graduated from Carleton College (average cost: $42,942/year) in 2010 and now studies law at The George Washington University Law School (average cost: $70,449/year). His father has a Ph.D. and two master’s degrees; his mother also has a master’s degree. Only in America could a kid have been blessed with so much… and only in America could he still claim to be a victim. America’s capitalist society has apparently leveled a grave injustice against his family and Robert will not stand for it.
Robert, right, with a friend on the GWU campus (Image: Facebook)
Stephens — who identifies his personal political philosophy as Bolivian socialism — made a trip to New York City this weekend to participate in the “Days of Rage” march on Wall Street. He was arrested Saturday when he refused police requests to get up and out of the way of traffic in the street.
In his emotional “rage,” Stephens told the sympathetic Socialist/Marxist/Anarchist crowd how an eeeeeevil Wall Street bank had taken his parents’ home away from them:
Attempts to contact Robert to find out exactly what grave injustices he and his family have suffered have gone unanswered. In the meantime, sympathetic comments on both Robert’s Facebook page and the YouTube video are also… unsettling:
(Full disclosure: I attended GWU as an undergrad and, to help make sure my mortgage gets paid every month, I continue to work at the law school as a part-time employee on the weekends.)
Our friend Robert and his woeful tale have quickly become darlings of the liberal blogosphere and the mainstream media (and Iran’s Tehran Times!). Here he is in a picture posted at Buzzfeed — an image that perfectly captures him utilizing the biggest tool in the left-wing’s arsenal: the media.
Caption on this photo: “Protested (sic) falls to his knees in tears in front of Chase Bank crying – this is the bank that took my parents’ home.”
According to the Daily Kos, Robert should be commended as “a patriot” for spelling out the reason people are protesting. “If you can watch it without being affected, you are as heartless as Dick Cheney,” the site notes.
There’s just one problem: Robert Stephens’ story is (surprise!) completely bogus.
Phone inquiries into the county property records & taxpayer services office reveal that the Stephens family home is not and never has been in foreclosure, that property taxes had been paid in full this year and the remaining balance on their mortgage for the half-million dollar home is less than one year’s worth of tuition+fees at their son’s law school.
The nail in this empty protest‘s coffin is a delightful phone conversation I just had with Robert’s mother, Marquita, where she admitted Chase Bank indeed was not “taking” their home from them. Instead, due to a recent “reduction in income,” they’ve decided to hold a “short sale.”
When I asked Mrs. Stephens if she and her husband planned to stay in their suburban St. Paul, Minn., surroundings after the sale, she told me they weren’t too keen on the idea. The area is “a bit too conservative,” she said.
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bhelmet
Posted on September 26, 2011 at 4:12pmI LOVE how these useful idiots think that redistribution will bring them wealth. If these radicals get there way, they will be the only ones with wealth – kind of like how it is now. How many poor Marxists are pushing for these policies from the top?
Report Post »Brad Wesselmann
Posted on September 26, 2011 at 4:20pmIf they get their way there will be NO wealth, only government…and we have seen how well that works.
Report Post »Pujols
Posted on September 26, 2011 at 5:12pmUseful idiots is an understatement. Straight up JACKASSES!
These fools don’t look hungry. What do they want some OBAMA CASH?
Report Post »On The Bayou
Posted on September 26, 2011 at 6:26pmFrancis Fox Piven here are you people.
Report Post »SLAPTHELEFT
Posted on September 26, 2011 at 6:47pmNice try erckle.
Youve been listening to way to much rap music. Come to work with me for a day and youll be running back to mommas teet. Im sure your parents are so proud of you just like the idiot lefties who think youre such a hero. I am disappointed to have to identify you as an American.
Report Post »TH30PH1LUS
Posted on September 26, 2011 at 6:50pmDays of Rage = no combs or toothbrushes allowed. A cesspool of liars, communists, and unwashed vapid street urchins. A yeatsy, rash-y magnet for the confused and cerebrum-challenged.
Report Post »Sheepdog911
Posted on September 26, 2011 at 8:05pmWhat a POS.
Report Post »Thatsitivehadenough
Posted on September 26, 2011 at 8:10pmJust what America needed. More embittered, revolutionary, prep-school blacks; like Obama.
THIS is the result of affirmative action. They are bitter because they didn’t feel they worked for their rewards. Their pride is in the gutter.
It‘s called ’Bread of Shame’.
Report Post »ChiefGeorge
Posted on September 26, 2011 at 8:26pmWow! Real journalism getting to the bottom of things or the truth of the matter. Shame on this guy. I hope everyone hears about this that knows him at the school. This is what is going to be running this country in just a few more years? What joy!
Report Post »GWillie
Posted on September 26, 2011 at 9:19pmWhat they don‘t understand is that communism doesn’t end wealth, it only changes the currency of wealth from money/gold to power/influence. Power is a lot harder to get if you don’t already have it than money is, there are no power lotteries (powerball not withstanding)
Report Post »karenjerry
Posted on September 26, 2011 at 10:22pmOur country is in the hands of an educated idiot.
Report Post »Mil Mom
Posted on September 26, 2011 at 11:19pm@Pujols
Posted on September 26, 2011 at 5:12pm
Useful idiots is an understatement. Straight up JACKASSES!
These fools don’t look hungry. What do they want some OBAMA CASH?
Report Post »***
But they don’t even look like they NEED Obama Cash! At least the 60′s-70′s protesters ran around in Jeans with holes or frayed (even if they paid $100 to buy them that way) . These guys clothes look like they just came from some upbeat store, (except the weird throwback in black yesterday.) and those cameras all look like they cost a bundle! They‘re probably already tied into Obama’s cash via Soros.
Uranium Wedge
Posted on September 27, 2011 at 12:00amI’ve got a few items that I could shove in his big A$$ mouth… Damn his got a big mouth!
Report Post »Miguelito
Posted on September 27, 2011 at 9:35amWill the lamestream media expose this lie, probably not! Unfortunately, some of our young people have been trained to lie and blame others, lie as if it’s the truth and blame others but not take personal responsibility! Man, this sounds like our president! Amazing! The Truth Has NO Agenda! I pray for these people everyday and our country!
Report Post »Watcher438
Posted on September 27, 2011 at 12:31pmIf you want to protest, here’s some advice.
1. Don’t lie.
2. Stay off the streets, you will either be hit by a car, or a cop.
3. BATHE!!!
4. First, have a clue,,,instead of this sophomoric running about without an idea, get a clue. If you
want to protest, ensure all of your people are protesting the same thing.
5. Dress the same, (worked for Malcolm X) and dress well. Dressing like a hippy dirt bag does not
work. You look poor, stupid, and uninformed.
6. Be civil. STAND, don’t walk, don’t run, don’t scream, don’t be as ignorant as you currently appear
to be.
7. Get a job and pay taxes before you decide to waste your time and, more importantly, our time
by protesting things you don’t understand or pay for.
8. Don’t annoy the police. They will hurt you. (Thanks for your efforts, gentlemen and women, it is
greatly appreciated, and thank you for pepper spraying these spoiled little crappers.)
9. Stop telling people your names when arrested. There will not be a lawyer helping you in your
struggle to make yourself look foolish.
10. Bathe, stay in school, get your degree, get a job, and you won’t have the time to embarrass your
family in New York.
Kids, please learn from the poor example shown here, and be better than you thought you could be. Be people of worth, be people of quality, be someone that someone can look up to.
Thank you for your patie
Report Post »UlyssesP
Posted on September 26, 2011 at 4:12pmChe was a Bolivian Socialist. I wonder what Che would think of him?
Report Post »“The black is indolent and a dreamer; spending his meager wage on frivolity or drink; the European has a tradition of work and saving,”
or
“We’re going to do for blacks exactly what blacks did for the revolution. By which I mean: nothing.”
AnotherCoverStory
Posted on September 26, 2011 at 4:09pmThe stories in the news are becoming more and more made up than the comments that follow them. Learn what’s really going on in our military dictatorship that began in 2008
Report Post »http://PalinsDirtyLittleSecret.blogspot.com/
SLAPTHELEFT
Posted on September 26, 2011 at 6:44pmAnd by made up you mean what? Never any examples. Only accusations.
Come on chump. Be a man and prove your worth.
Report Post »karenjerry
Posted on September 26, 2011 at 10:31pmGood job Barry. Now you‘ve convinced these retards that just because you fail to pay your mortgage the lender doesn’t have the right to take back what belongs to them. Notice how he has them thinking the complete opposite of truth. Son, it’s great your parents are educated, but they still must meet their obligations in order to keep the co-lateral
Report Post »StanO360
Posted on September 27, 2011 at 5:35pmI know your thinking is a bit sluggish, but sloganeering is not a replacement for thought or logic. By just saying “military dictatorship” it does not make it so. The socialist-marxist are so vapid (as another poster described them) that they believe people in the past know nothing and they now have a better understanding of the world. In spite of the fact that their ideas have never worked in history and defy all logic. Before you say Cuba, I will point to every other island in the Caribbean except Haiti/DR (which are the same as Cuba for Haiti and slightly better for DR) and show you the better lives that they lead.
Report Post »LibertarianBob
Posted on September 28, 2011 at 10:00amDon’t you post the same thing over and over on EVERY story over at Infowars?
Report Post »Warphead
Posted on September 26, 2011 at 4:08pmMy mom and dad used to tell me tales about Uncle Dave, a policeman in Nashville, TN back in the thirties. They would tell me that Uncle Dave always used to say “You give them an inch they’ll take a mile”. I can only wonder what Uncle Dave would think of them now. These are the lying, cheating, stealing, drug using people in our society whose biggest claim to fame is how much they can get for nothing. A group of people so morally degraded that their greatest chance of being killed is at the hand of one their own. A group that has no pride feels no shame and whose only contribution to this world is the handful of fertilizer they’ll leave behind after a lifetime of taking. Pathetic, absolutely pathetic.
Report Post »catholiccowboy
Posted on September 26, 2011 at 6:00pmYou are dead on……I say this to the people that l have in my neck of the woods. The new American experience….take all you can get, and call them racist if they tell you no. Nov. 2012 can’t come soon enough!
Report Post »FATTYDAD
Posted on September 26, 2011 at 4:08pmHEY DUDE!!! You don’t pay your mortgage, the lender puts you out, DOOFUS! You haven’t got a cause. You’re just STOOPIT.!
Report Post »PPMStudios
Posted on September 26, 2011 at 4:08pmWow, another lying Liberal… Go figure…….
Report Post »helluvagoodgod
Posted on September 26, 2011 at 4:03pmThe police should take them to a work camp for 30 days. I don’t think this educated brotha could handle the prison sex.
Report Post »Recondo
Posted on September 26, 2011 at 4:14pmThese uneducated children have zero idea what the world is like outside their backyards…
The bank took THEIR house back because YOUR PARENTS DEFAULTED……What do you expect? For them to give you the house without paying for it?
Ay dios mios!
Report Post »Ex-Democrat
Posted on September 26, 2011 at 10:30pmBut RECONDO, they didn’t take the house away. The parents paid the mortgage and taxes and are not behind. The kid lied. The kid made it up and whats even worse is that the liberal media ran away with the story, promoting it as true without checking to see it was true (or they made the choice to ignore the fact that it was a lie). The media is supposed to be the watchdog of our society, but instead they are proving themselves to be nothing more than a propaganda department for the left.
Report Post »godlovinmom
Posted on September 26, 2011 at 4:01pmya think…so to sum up this story…this kid had as much of a right to protest as, lets say Bill from redeye, with his I Love Toast poster…too funny
Report Post »Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Posted on September 26, 2011 at 3:52pmWanted: black actor to play homeless college student. Must be attending college, have parents who own a half-million dollar home, no brain needed. Required references from DailyKooks. Ability to fool and incite people needed. Conservatives need not apply.
Report Post »LibertarianBob
Posted on September 28, 2011 at 10:02amNow, that right thar is funny!
Report Post »Eggcellent
Posted on September 28, 2011 at 10:34amYou forgot to add: “Must have lips firmly adhered to Obama’s posterior. Extra consideration given to melanin-enhanced applicants.”
Report Post »4truth2all
Posted on September 26, 2011 at 3:49pmHope he doesn’t go to hollywood cause his acting sucks.
Report Post »Gary Fishaholic
Posted on September 26, 2011 at 3:47pmLiar what an idiot wonder who loaned him the money to go to college or if his parent’s just paid it to get him out the house? Chase just sent me a notice to lower my interest rate. Believe me I am not rich not even close but I do pay my bills and planning on taking advantage of the lower interest rate.
Report Post »www.ithp.org
Posted on September 26, 2011 at 3:47pmnot to smart
Report Post »Brizz
Posted on September 26, 2011 at 6:08pmYou would think all the money they spend on an education would show results.
In this case, its like spending your way out of a financial crisis.
Report Post »markthespark
Posted on September 26, 2011 at 3:46pmI bet those cops wish this was a Tea Party rally instead then they could just relax.
The first guy lists all his parents degrees which don’t seem to have taught them much common sense and this guy going for a law degree, pitiful example of logical thought.
Report Post »commonsenseguy
Posted on September 26, 2011 at 3:53pmliberal law, i just wonder how many probono cases he will have to take, and how many rich or conservative clients will have to pay.
Report Post »LibertarianBob
Posted on September 28, 2011 at 10:04amDid you notice that he made sure the media new how to spell his last name correctly? “Stephens, with a p-h.” What a loser this clown is.
Report Post »markgl
Posted on September 26, 2011 at 3:45pmI love the blaze. They cut through piles and piles of B.S. to get you the truth! I love articles like this that just tell you the truth. It’s amazing. Keep up the good work. I want to express myself more on how awesome your digging up the truth is I just don’t know how to write it down on this comment!
Report Post »Joyzee
Posted on September 26, 2011 at 3:41pmBoy..! when they see themselves, Seeing the Light’ Knowing their being used are they gonna feel Double Dumb.
Report Post »commonsenseguy
Posted on September 26, 2011 at 3:51pmno they want, they will just blame the blaze for being racist, and yes they are dumb for believing the communist crap, they deserve every thing they get,and i don’t mean free money,healthcare,food or home, i mean the reality of being used and exposed
Report Post »dsm
Posted on September 26, 2011 at 3:38pmUseful idiot. Thank you Blaze for exposing these idiots.
Report Post »What a freakin liar. But hey, who is surprised, the liberals are nothing but a bunch of liars.
commonsenseguy
Posted on September 26, 2011 at 3:35pmwill they remain in the area ,well no because it is a bit to conservative, well, i just wonder why they choice the area to start with, did it just become conservative or what, and the father has a phd and two master degrees the mother has a master degree and they had to short sale their home, why, if they could send him to college and pay their taxes. so i wonder how many of this sypthamizers will continue to fall for his crap, , obviously,he was raised with the liberal sate of mind ,because his parents are moving because of the area is a bit conservative, i hope some one will dig a little deeper into this story and fact check his story,how is college is paid for, who and where is parents work and just how much money they earn, then they could expose them for the liberals they are,why are the selling their home,something is not right here,
Report Post »Jumper
Posted on September 26, 2011 at 4:07pmOh, I’m sure somebody is looking into his background. I mean, Eric Holder has to retire eventually, this lying windbag seems like just the type to be BHO’s next AG. Would anybody really be surprised?
Report Post »THETAXMAN
Posted on September 26, 2011 at 5:02pmShort sale on a $500,000 house with a $70,000 mortgage?? We must remember too that special grants and scholarships are available to minorities often without regard to acadademic achievement or standing. Che, the son of an Argentine doctor, was the merdering enforcer for Fidel, who died in Bolivia for “Bolivian Socialism”. The hero of this piece is apparently a wannbe Che. If the family thinks St Paul Minn.is too conservative they will have to bo to Bolivia to find anything to their liking.
Report Post »StanO360
Posted on September 27, 2011 at 5:38pmSounds like his parents (and him as well) are part of the ruling elite. Hmmm, is he going to protest himself?
Report Post »CROPDUSTER
Posted on September 26, 2011 at 3:34pmYou can’t fix STUPID !!!
Report Post »wisehiney
Posted on September 26, 2011 at 3:30pmKeep it Real, keep it True, keep it Free. TEA
Report Post »PuzzelWitt
Posted on September 26, 2011 at 4:49pmI like it… kind of reminds me of coffee… tea… or (as they would say)… ME!!!
Report Post »“Puzzel Witts love drinking kool-aid ( Government Aid )
“Patriots love tea ( Constitutional Aid )
rpp
Posted on September 26, 2011 at 3:29pm“Truthful Liberal”, “Honest Leftist”, “Trustworthy Progressive” are all oxymorons.
Report Post »heavyduty
Posted on September 26, 2011 at 3:27pmSaid his dad had Phd’s and Master degrees. But he could pay the mortgage on his house so he lost it. Well it seems to me that he failed in math. I hate to hear that anyone loses their homes. But this guy either is lying or his dad needs to find a different kind of work. Sure looks like his son is going to follow in his footsteps. I bet he is proud.
Report Post »ROB RAGE
Posted on September 26, 2011 at 2:57pmRobert had a Big spoonful of Marxism…so of course he’s going to choke on it…it really taste like crap…Useful idiots will always choke on the failed Ideology…Especially Obama …who has had the Heimlich maneuver so done many times….it’s causing the Gay rumors persist..!
Report Post »geonj
Posted on September 26, 2011 at 2:56pmyou won’t see the truth to this story on the liberal blogosphere or the mainstream media.
Report Post »dthompson579
Posted on September 26, 2011 at 1:36pmYeah because the evil banks took back the house that you haven’t been paying for the last few years, and they crashed your credit score when you took out huge loans that you would never be able to pay back (like you had intended on paying them back…haha). And no one wants to give me anything… waa waa waaaaaa. Why doesn’t anyone listen to me?!?!
Here you go hot shot. How about you take responsibility. What you don’t know that word? To bad that education isn’t working out for you.
Report Post »hersey10
Posted on September 26, 2011 at 12:59pmA hero ? He’s an idiot .
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