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MSNBC’s Martin Bashir Confronts Occupy Supporter Over Anti-Semitism

Martin Bashir, the British-born MSNBC host with a knack for asking inflammatory questions, decided to host hip hop mogul Russell Simmons on his MSNBC show yesterday. The topic of conversation? Occupy Wall St. Or more specifically, the anti-Semitism that has been seen down at the NYC encampment.

Mediaite recounts the relevant portion of the interview:

“There’s been some reporting that anti-Semitism has begun to emerge and…” Bashir began. Simmons incredulously interrupted, “Can you repeat that?!”

The interview had initially begun amicably, with Bashir asking multiple softball questions before completely gobsmacking Simmons.

“Well, anti-semitism,” Bashir repeated.

“Can you repeat that?” asked a mystified Simmons. “Where’d you get that from — Bill O’Reilly or somebody?”

“No, let me show you,” Bashir said. “A group called the Emergency Committee For Israel has released this advert, watch this.”

Bashir then showed an ad we brought you on The Blaze showing examples of anti-Semitism (featuring an interview I conducted down at the protests), and calling on the president to stop standing with the protesters. Simmons brushed it off.

“I go down there every day and I see sweet, compassionate and astute people,” he said. “I see the people who have high aspirations for America who are idealistic … I see the most inclusive group America has to offer.”

To Bashir’s credit, he did press Simmons a little: “I just have to press you on this, because this Emergency Committee would not have put a video like that together and posted it if there weren’t sufficient images, and that seemed like multiple cases of people being deeply offensive.”

In a round about way, Simmons admitted there could be “infiltrators” in such a large crowd and blamed the former incidents on a few rogue protesters while repeating that the crowd is generally “sweet,“ ”astute,“ and ”smart.”

After Simmons then challenged Bashir to go down there and see for himself if such a sentiment exists, Bashir backed off: “I have been down there, and I didn’t see any of those signs.”

That may be true, but what Bashir seems to have missed is that anti-Semitism has popped up at at least one other Occupy movement in the country.

You can watch the video below:

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  • Tired-of-fools
    Posted on October 19, 2011 at 9:22am

    “There’s no problem here, move along”

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    • Welcome Black Carter
      Posted on October 19, 2011 at 9:32am

      the crowd is generally “sweet,“ ”astute,“ and ”smart.”

      Does the left who watch this rubbish need to see everything through a “big brother” filter?

      This goes beyond a filter, more like a blinder.

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    • Sirfoldallot
      Posted on October 19, 2011 at 9:59am

      Sry, ur right . Y did I stop & see wat this fool had 2 say.

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    • motonutt
      Posted on October 19, 2011 at 10:34am

      I think as OWS unfolds, we will see an unraveling as most things do that are not based on God with His support. Even some democrats are warning obummer not to associate with the protesters, because they feel this thing is going to turn ugly and not look good for the dems. Right now we just need to be patient.

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    • demint.disciple
      Posted on October 19, 2011 at 10:40am

      “I go down there every day and I see sweet, compassionate and astute people,” he said. << Yes, but you go to a Tea Party rally and all you see is hate , racism and violence, right ? Do I have that about right, Mr Simmons ? YOU FOOL !!!

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    • MajorityLeft
      Posted on October 19, 2011 at 10:57am

      everybody knows fox is planting troublemakers in the massive crowds at OWS

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    • InversionTheory
      Posted on October 19, 2011 at 11:13am

      Allow me to translate…
      Sweet = Easy to get into bed
      Astute = Clueless
      Smart = They believe what I believe

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    • ChiefGeorge
      Posted on October 19, 2011 at 11:19am

      First response was to call into question the issue by saying it must have come from that racist network FOX and Oreilly. Discredit, discredit your adversaries even if they are right.

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    • Miami
      Posted on October 19, 2011 at 11:29am

      Sheep!

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    • Jezcruzen
      Posted on October 19, 2011 at 11:52am

      In the case of this “occupy” crowd, I’ll have to lend my support… and my sword, if it comes to that… to the Jews.

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    • cessna152
      Posted on October 19, 2011 at 11:53am

      *****the crowd is generally “sweet,“ ”astute,“ and ”smart.”******

      **Translated**: They have arrested 1200 people, stood hand in hand with Communists and are Anti-God, so what’s your point?

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    • mils
      Posted on October 19, 2011 at 12:33pm

      they’re Simmons kinds people, trash, dregs of society.
      Just because he has money, he still doesn’t have a brain that functions as an American.

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    • mad_hatter
      Posted on October 19, 2011 at 12:45pm

      Talking about these comical pundits, Conan O‘Brien went after obama’s stolen teleprompter saying that you can tell he lost his way and teleprompter: http://www.americanparchment.com/video/2011/oct/conan_obama_teleprompter.html

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    • SimpleTruths
      Posted on October 19, 2011 at 12:59pm

      @INVERSIONTHEORY
      You wish.

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    • techengineer11
      Posted on October 19, 2011 at 1:12pm

      Once again although there are many flaws in these protestors thinking they do make some very valid points. Since I agree with many of their assertions concerning the unnatural, disproportional, and extremely detrimental influence a ****** minority is exerting over the country’s finances, I’d just like to know exactly what qualifies as hate and what qualifies as fact?

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    • Pujols
      Posted on October 19, 2011 at 1:29pm

      I thought ‘Snoop Dog’ had long hair and a RUSH CARD???

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    • Itchee Dryback
      Posted on October 19, 2011 at 2:33pm

      MajorityLeft
      Posted on October 19, 2011 at 10:57am

      everybody knows fox is planting troublemakers in the massive crowds at OWS
      ________________________________________

      Yer funny. I can tell by your red nose.

      Statements like..”everybody knows that______”, are always used when no evidence of the claim can be produced.

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    • DTOM_Jericho (Creator vindicator)
      Posted on October 19, 2011 at 2:52pm

      All while wearing a New York Yankees hat. Isn’t that a big corporation with a reputation for out spending and making it harder on the “little” teams? Dumb***.

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    • phillipwgirard
      Posted on October 19, 2011 at 4:25pm

      hey Majorityleft, do you really think people will actually agree with someone who wears a pinky ball on his nose. why is it all you extreme lefties have to wear funny outfits and dress like clowns. if you had a true point, maybe someone would stop and listen, oh by the way! you look like John Wayne Gacy.

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    • AvengerK
      Posted on October 19, 2011 at 4:30pm

      Yes Mr Bashir great journalism…ask the wolf if there’s been any sheep butchering at the protests. No..Mr Bashir..no sheep butchered here..we’re just “sweet, astute and smart” wolves here.
      It’s well known that the far left is anti-Israel and anti-jewish.
      Here’s some choice quotes from the smelly OWSers who are so hopelessly indoctrinated and poorly educated that they equate being jewish with capitalism:
      OWS Los Angeles: Teacher Patricia McAllister said- “zionist jews… need to be run out of the country”…that teacher was fired by the way.
      “You’re a bum Jew.”
      “You’ve got the money, that‘s why you’re fightin, Jewish man.”
      “You can’t even speak English, you Israeli, go back to Israel.”
      “The Jews Control Wall Street.”
      Their rants against Jews reminds us of Karl Marx, the father of redistributive wealth and social justice, used Judaism as the “yardstick of evil” against which to measure all economic disparities.
      Ahh….no wonder a college education is so expensive today…look at the quality of the students it produces. Althought the smelly OWSers would rather not pay at all.

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    • Lucy Larue
      Posted on October 19, 2011 at 5:05pm

      TIRED-OF-FOOLS,
      You’re tired?! I am fed up and weary of fools!
      Russell Simmons is a fool! He is a wealthy FOOL!
      He should get down on his freaking knees and thank GOD that a mediocrity like him was allowed to be where he is today financially.
      He will NEVER do that. He’s dumber than a sack of hammers. He is incapable of putting two and two together.
      Unfortunately ….freedom of speech has given him a voice. UGH!
      He is a propagandist. He is a useful tool of the uber left.
      He’s too dumb to understand. Sad.

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    • lillymckim
      Posted on October 19, 2011 at 7:00pm

      infiltrators my azz… maybe Simmons is a bigot as well.. we know he is a hypocrite
      a whole lot of denial coming out of his mouth

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    • mharris2012
      Posted on October 19, 2011 at 7:23pm

      Yes there is a problem these people think because they have money an fame they can frame our way of thinking.For one i’m tired of it them an there opinions.You know what they can do with those opinions? Stick em where the sun don’t shine.An Mr. Bashir is the biggest fool of all they both know they saw those signs but boy if it would have been the Tea Party all Hell would break loose.Even Al Sharpton would have a say.

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    • Anamah
      Posted on October 19, 2011 at 8:00pm

      Despicable hypocrisy, really both are terrible unmoral.

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    • BeHeardAmerica
      Posted on October 20, 2011 at 7:51am

      When leaving the interview Russell Simmons said to Martin Bashir,” there is no anti-semitism here your starting to sound like a damm jew”. :- {

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  • skinnydipinacid
    Posted on October 19, 2011 at 9:22am

    So… the media sees infiltrators at the Tea Party events and rush to call the Tea Party racists… but when there’s anti-Semites at the #Occupy events they give them the benefit of the doubt and invoke the possibility of them being racist infiltrators.

    I’m shocked, especially coming from MSNBC… really, really shocked (/end sarcasm)

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    • commonsenseguy
      Posted on October 19, 2011 at 9:28am

      you shouldn’t be shocked, the media is the lap dogs for the progressives, so remember that when all is said and done,you must not support,pay or in anyway help any of these actors, business or media outlets, they will either get from the freeloaders,and just take it,it’s mine crowd,or they will have to continue to get from george soros and his commie groups,

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    • FormerLib
      Posted on October 19, 2011 at 9:42am

      Thanks to the basically one sided media, we have basically a one party country. Nice going, media!

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    • EddardStark
      Posted on October 19, 2011 at 10:37am

      I’d pose the reverse scenario to you. You contend that all racists at a Tea Party event are clearly infiltrators, but believe that the few anti-semitic signs caught on camera at various Occupy events must be indicators of wide spread anti-semitism. How are you any different than the “mainstream media.”

      By the way, since when is MSNBC mainstream? Fox has twice their ratings, what does that make Fox?

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    • MajorityLeft
      Posted on October 19, 2011 at 10:59am

      the teabaggers faded away last year when the koch bros stopped paying them to show up..LOL

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    • GhostOfJefferson
      Posted on October 19, 2011 at 11:23am

      @majority

      Hi Enicom.

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    • riverdog1
      Posted on October 19, 2011 at 12:13pm

      guess what, they wereracists at tea party events and there are some antisemites at OWS. both are disgusting.

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    • rox
      Posted on October 19, 2011 at 12:20pm

      I think the brainless students will be out of there when the weather gets colder. They didn’t look very happy yesterday. By then we will see who is really behind this mess. (not that we don’t already know.)

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    • SimpleTruths
      Posted on October 19, 2011 at 1:01pm

      @GHOSTOFJEFFERSON
      You think anyone posting here that doesn’t drink the Kool-aide is Endicon? Wrong, there are lots of us here.

      SimpleTruths  
    • bigpew
      Posted on October 19, 2011 at 7:20pm

      Hi again Enicom.

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  • commonsenseguy
    Posted on October 19, 2011 at 9:20am

    the most idealistic people in america, well then why are they standing out there demanding the banks forgive there loans why are they not trying to invent something,using those really extensive brains to get out of debt instead of standing with commies,anarchist,radicals and economic terrorist, the only thing i see is a bunch of spoiled,everyone wins,no one fails,it is mine give to me free loaders. no one ever said life was fair or easy, not everyone can win,losing only makes you want to win more,if you have never lost everything in life, then you would not know, it is easy ,but i never said it was fair and some one had more than me,i got back up and worked harder,longer and dug my self out up from the bottom,not very much but up,and it is way more than i could have ever dreamed,and beautiful wife, two wonderful kids and a nice modest home,and i thank god everyday for my blessing.so shut up and get out there and earn it.

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    • GhostOfJefferson
      Posted on October 19, 2011 at 9:26am

      When the left gushes about “really intelligent people” that’s nothing more than code for “people who agree unquestioningly with me”. When the left gnashes its teeth about “stupid, idiot moron hayseed rednecks” that’s code for “people who question my beliefs, and questioning my beliefs threatens me”.

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    • Rillobymorning
      Posted on October 19, 2011 at 9:57am

      Well said, Commonsenseguy!

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  • AB5r
    Posted on October 19, 2011 at 9:20am

    It is sickening that people like that have gotten so incredibly rich off of idiotic rap and hip hop music which is total degenerate trash devoid of any actual musical value. Disjointed beats along with grunted half sentences and disconnected words. And then for him to be taken seriously, he has even been on Fox spouting his “opinions”, is really absurd. The same type of people who jumped over the counter at McDonalds at got their well-deserved beat down are the type of people who made this pig rich.

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  • BurntHills
    Posted on October 19, 2011 at 9:18am

    if the entire occupy-crowd across America were all mowed down to the last obamamoron by some terrorist, foreign or domestic, we’d shed no tears. those mindless obamamorons would slaughter and kill their families and us Americans in an instant for obama on his fuhrer-command and we know it.

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    • GhostOfJefferson
      Posted on October 19, 2011 at 9:25am

      There is no need to wish death or engage in murder fantasies about one’s political enemies. We need to be better than they’re being right now, and frankly the vast lot of them are idealistic kids who don’t know squat about the world and have yet to experience harsh reality. I’d hate to see any of them hurt, even by their own doing, and find it highly un Christian to hope for their demise. They’re human beings. Misguided, easily led by the nose human beings granted, but human beings nonetheless. “99%” of them will grow out of this in time and feel ashamed for how they acted in their youth, and I will at that point welcome them into the community of realistic people as I’d most here would. Wishing for their death, or cackling that one wouldn’t shed a tear over a loss of human life, is rather barbaric.

      I mean no offense to you, honestly, but I just don’t get the urge on the Right (and Left) to gleefully anticipate human bloodshed. Again, we have to rise above that and be better people than they’re being right now, and lead by example.

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    • Lumbar Spine
      Posted on October 19, 2011 at 9:27am

      BURNTHILLS: “…those mindless obamamorons would slaughter and kill their families and us Americans in an instant for obama on his fuhrer-command and we know it.”

      You KNOW these things? OWC Protesters would kill you and your family on Obama’s command? Wow…!

      To the few rational people who may frequent this board for poltical discussion or enlightenment, do you see why so many on the left regard you all as a bunch of paranoid nut cases? But, wait…wasn’t it Glenn Beck himself who suggest the protesters would kill you…?

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    • SgtB
      Posted on October 19, 2011 at 9:32am

      We could only wish for such an overt display of aggression to kick off the real occupy movement by those of us who love Liberty and love our country and families enough to kill to keep them safe.

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    • GhostOfJefferson
      Posted on October 19, 2011 at 9:37am

      @Lumbar

      Sure. And I see the same thing on Leftist oriented boards.

      The onus is to educate and guide, in my estimation. As I mentioned yesterday, I’ve tried with the Left, and had some success prior to and just after 9/11/2011, but since ~2006 or so I’ve encountered nothing but bile and rage from the Left with a full brick wall, full stop, non-listening attitude (my way or the highway in other words). The Right has the same rage, but I’ve found them far more receptive to calm reasoning once they calm down a bit.

      If you have time, go find the quote by James Carville as to why he’s a consultant for Democrats and not the Right. It’s enlightening (sorry, don’t have space to quote it here, silly Blaze post length restrictions).

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    • Lumbar Spine
      Posted on October 19, 2011 at 9:48am

      I agree it’s frustrating and that there are excesses on both sides. However, let’s just say our personal experiences differ and leave it at that for now.

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    • FormerLib
      Posted on October 19, 2011 at 9:52am

      The main difference, Lumbar old pal, is that leftists actually DO kill people.

      Mao- 50-80,000,000 lives
      Stalin -25,000,000 plus
      Hitler’s National Socilaists- 12,000,000 lives
      Pol Pot 1.8 million
      Kim Il Sung 1.6 million
      Leonid Brezhnev 1 million
      Jonas Savimbi (Angola) 400k
      Mussolini 300k
      Ho Chi Minh 200k
      Slobodan Milosovic 100k
      Vladimir Lenin 30k
      Francisco Franco 30k
      Fidel Castro 30k
      etc etc etc

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    • GhostOfJefferson
      Posted on October 19, 2011 at 10:07am

      @Lumbar,

      I suspect that our experiences differ due to me not being a Leftist. Every group is sympathetic to it’s own kind. While I’m not a conservative either, libertarianism is far more sympatico with the Right than the Left these days (didn’t used to be this way, now it is sadly). When I indicate reasoning with people I’m speaking directly to reasoning with them on positions they might disagree with, from a perspective outside of their comfort zone. Of course I can get any Leftist or Conservative to agree with me on things we share as common ground (Leftists; end War on Drugs, no draft, accepting equal rights for all regardless of their gender or sexual preference, etc. Right: ending gun control, being against taxes, being pro-free market, etc). These days though I have success in discussing “out of comfort zone” items with the right (anti-war, anti-WOD,etc) where I find absolutely no give from the Left on topics they’re not comfortable with.

      Just my take on things.

      Slainte

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    • barber2
      Posted on October 19, 2011 at 10:19am

      Attention readers: Burnt reminds me of the Jason Levin tactic of taking racist posters to Tea Part rallies – i.e., write some incendiary . hate-filled comments into the Blaze to make the commenters look bad . And to give another one of your buddies write in “tsk/ tsk” comments. Don’t buy into these alinsky tactics. Smoke and mirrors.

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    • Lumbar Spine
      Posted on October 19, 2011 at 10:41am

      JEFF…just briefly because I hjave to run. I don’t care if a person has a different political view of the meaning of certain facts or events. What is frustrating to me is that many on the right are so misinformed about facts that you can‘t even debate the meaning of certain facts or events because you can’t even agree on what you’re debating. Facts are facts. And from my perspective what I have seen is gross misinformation by the likes of FOX and various talking heads and voices on TV and radio. It’s what defines some of these people….their ability to lie and misinform. That’s the real problem, IMO…

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    • tifosa
      Posted on October 19, 2011 at 10:59am

      There are blogs that have been written just about beck and his merry brand of racists, homophobes, xenophobes. Like you do with the Occupy movement, if there a few examples of misconduct/illegalities (as in this article) it taints the entire group. There’s something appropriate about such a vile comment (BURNTHILLS) being left on this thread.

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    • GhostOfJefferson
      Posted on October 19, 2011 at 11:22am

      @Tifosa

      You’re as suspect of not being in touch with reality as the out of touch haters that post here. Your entire purpose here thus far has been to ridicule, belittle, deride and sneer at everybody and everything that doesn’t fit into your neat little anti-liberty compartments.

      As of yet I’ve not seen you budge on any position at all, ever. That makes you as closed minded as people chortling at the prospect of their political opponents being hurt, it speaks to the same closed minded hardness of the soul.

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    • Walkabout
      Posted on October 19, 2011 at 11:29am

      Lumbar Spine
      I remember talking to communists on campus at the college I attended. They wanted to get rid of all groups except theirs. They even wanted to get rid of ethnic cultural groups. Everyone was going to sit around every evening & discuss Marxist dogma. I am sure that if reeducation did no take hold they had a plan B. I don;t think communists have changed over time.

      There are more than a few self described communists at OWS.

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    • Walkabout
      Posted on October 19, 2011 at 12:00pm

      tifosa

      Sorry, but we are talking about significant percentages of OWS, not just an oddball here or there.

      At Searchlight, Nevada Tea Part Rally there was a guy who called himself Paul Revere man. He was wearing a Paul Revere Pot on his head. He looked ridiculous, but I don’t regard him as a threat like I do people who assault police, smash the windows of businesses & other things. There are a few weird people at Tea Party rallies but no where near the same numbers as at OWS.

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    • Walkabout
      Posted on October 19, 2011 at 12:08pm

      Tifosa

      Do you always lie?

      This is OWS

      “Our research shows clearly that the movement doesn’t represent unemployed America and is not ideologically diverse. Rather, it comprises an unrepresentative segment of the electorate that believes in radical redistribution of wealth, civil disobedience and, in some instances, violence. Half (52%) have participated in a political movement before, virtually all (98%) say they would support civil disobedience to achieve their goals, and nearly one-third (31%) would support violence to advance their agenda.

      The vast majority of demonstrators are actually employed, and the proportion of protesters unemployed (15%) is within single digits of the national unemployment rate (9.1%).

      An overwhelming majority of demonstrators supported Barack Obama in 2008. Now 51% disapprove of the president while 44% approve, and only 48% say they will vote to re-elect him in 2012, while at least a quarter won’t vote.”

      http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204479504576637082965745362.ht

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    • barber2
      Posted on October 19, 2011 at 12:12pm

      Having just read TIFOSA’s comment, I am sure I am correct: Burnt is just a “poser ” who fakes being a conservative so that his/her wacko comments defile all conservatives. Pure alinsky. Pure Jason Levin. Pure manipulation.

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    • jeffile
      Posted on October 19, 2011 at 12:17pm

      Tifosa

      Your reference to Glenn Beck viewers as: …his merry brand of racists, homophobes, xenophobes. as so off the mark as to make one wonder who you are referencing. You sound like a leftist Christianphobe, society based upon Judeo-Christian moral valuesphobe and a person whoefully uninformed as to the meaning and intent of the Constitution or could we go so far as to call you a Consitutionphobe? . Personally, it‘s beyond reasoning why most minorities aren’t associated with the Tea Party and fail to reject the intolerant left. The occupy protestors do have a point however they arer directing their anger at the wrong targets. Those targets ought to be the Washington establishment. The fact is had the Occupiers had been Tea Partiers the camping areas would be clean and sure as hell, no one would have dedicated on a police car.

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    • Walkabout
      Posted on October 19, 2011 at 1:29pm

      Tifosa

      I gave stats on the OWS not anecdotal stories. You have not replied. You’re like a seagull. Spew some stuff & fly off.

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    • AvengerK
      Posted on October 19, 2011 at 6:17pm

      LUMBAR SPINE…please don‘t insult anyone’s intelligence by suggesting the left is in some way benign and never violent. Weather Underground ring a bell? Riots in Rome? Athens? Cinderblocks through bank windows at G20 summits? Come on…get off your knees and stop scrubbing and cleaning for your failed ideology.

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    • tifosa
      Posted on October 19, 2011 at 7:39pm

      walkabout, DougSchoen, Fox EMPLOYEE, did a “poll” of 200 people? uh, yeh, that is the least reputable “poll” I could imagine. Malkin on Fox also tells you that they’re “99% white…” Maybe look elsewhere, watch the livechats and see how people communicate, watch the live video, see for yourself. Any activity of this size is bound to harbor some outrageous behavior (notice how that occurred with the teaparty too?) which at OWS has included police brutality (Anthony Bologna.) When all you’re shown is those isolated incidents (has there even been ONE positive vid at theblaze or on other rw sites?) you’re left misinformed.

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    • Viet Vet
      Posted on October 20, 2011 at 1:53am

      @LUMBAR SPINE……“And from my perspective”

      Just don’t mistake that arbitrary perspective for actual fact or truth.

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  • brian88
    Posted on October 19, 2011 at 9:16am

    LOL “i see sweet compassionate individuals…” lmao wooohoooo I LOVE LIBERALS THEY ARE SO STUPID

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    • mitchellpalmer
      Posted on October 19, 2011 at 9:30am

      These are not Liberals, They are useful idiots being used by communist and marxist radicals .Has no one even looked at the history of revolutions in October or should i say Oktober.Remember it was only about 20 percent of fthe population who were occupying key parts of the country that brought the Bolshieviks to power!!

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  • SpankDaMonkey
    Posted on October 19, 2011 at 9:13am

    .
    When all else fails, Blame it on the Jews………..

    Well when you think about it they do block vote for Democrates, and they clapped like trained seals for Obama. So on second thought I blame them for Obama screwing up the country…………

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  • EqualJustice
    Posted on October 19, 2011 at 9:09am

    I thought they HATED the Tea Party and they were all HATERS and RACISTS? Now the PRESIDENT compare these hippie morons to them? HAHAHAHA More TEA PARTY ENVY! BTW, this guy is DELLUSIONAL! He said OBAMA wants to disban UNIONS and these protesters are SWEET? Hahaha What the H*LL is he smoking? HE DID SAY OBAMA WANTS TO DISBAN UNIONS, DIDN’T HE? (around 2:35) UNREAL. They just say ANYHTING. I wonder if Mr. Mogul is giving up HIS OWN fortune to the Feds? DONATE it ALL, son.

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    • rogerover12
      Posted on October 19, 2011 at 9:20am

      Not one arrest at the tea party protests.

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    • tifosa
      Posted on October 19, 2011 at 10:03am

      Of course there were arrests. Not many, but to say “not one” isn’t true. Look up the arrests at Nancy Pelosi‘s office in ’09, when the healthcare protests were occurring. Recall the convicted teapartier who killed Brisenia Flores and her father? Rick Wayne Valentini, teaparty guy convicted of murder… The other laughable thing: “they left the areas clean” when, if they get their way, our skies and waters would be dirtied. puh leeez

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    • barber2
      Posted on October 19, 2011 at 10:27am

      Tif: Ridiculous comment. That woman was not a Tea Party member. She was just an “unstable” wacko with some immigrant issues. Arrests at Pelosi’s ( We have to pass the bill so we can see what’s in it ) office ? Wouldn’t surprise me given the Nazi tactics the Democrats used in getting that HealthCare fiasco stealthily passed. Please peddle your Big Lies in print stuff elsewhere. They love it at the New York Times !

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    • tifosa
      Posted on October 19, 2011 at 11:30am

      I totally understand how you’d like to denounce teaparty people who are over the edge like Shawna Forde (teaparty blogger: This is the time for all Americans to join organizations and REVOLT!!! Refuse to be part of a system only designed to enslave you and you children. Times will get worse before they get worse, *Say no to illegal immigration* Lock and Load, Shawna Forde”) and disgusting commenters at the blaze, like BURNTHILLS, TROOPER, and on and on….The Occupiers would feel the same about the criminal element in their ranks. But in both cases it doesn’t define the entirety of the movement or the individuals involved in it.

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    • barber2
      Posted on October 19, 2011 at 12:06pm

      Tif: Sorry don’t buy the “everyone needs to revolt” rhetoric that the Worldwide Anarchists are selling ! Everyone needs to grow yup, shape up, learn some objective world history and get a connection to their spiritual side. Revolutions, my dear, can be very revolting. French and Russian , and Chinese too . Bad juju.

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  • roadhog
    Posted on October 19, 2011 at 9:08am

    Who Needs these ****** Limies Queen Lovers that Can’t speak English.

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    • DesertRose1960
      Posted on October 19, 2011 at 11:33am

      You might wish to reread your own post and rethink your assertions. Mr. Bashir is an educated Brit with crisp diction and excellent usage.

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  • RepubliCorp
    Posted on October 19, 2011 at 9:08am

    This guy is full of Cr*p. Another guy that doesn‘t see a thing he doesn’t want to see. But I would bet my last dollar he supports the hate.

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  • RightUnite
    Posted on October 19, 2011 at 9:07am

    Someone needs to tell these IDIOTS that Simmons is the 1%! He is one of those “So called Rich”. When is he going to open up his checkbook??? My guess is NEVER!! I wonder which country he is hiding his MILLIONS??

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    • zorro
      Posted on October 19, 2011 at 9:23am

      This is actually the funny part about this whole movement. Simmons owns a Debit Card Company which charges people money to use their own money! That’s a bigger rip-off than anything else. I also saw somewhere that they were selling T-Shirts now.

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  • moreteaplease
    Posted on October 19, 2011 at 9:07am

    “I go down there every day and I see sweet, compassionate and astute people,” he said. “I see the people who have high aspirations for America who are idealistic…I see the most inclusive group America has to offer.”
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    Well I suppose that’s how it looks through rose colored glasses.

    So living in a tent in a park like gypsies is this guys idea of high aspirations? Lord help us.

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    • commonsenseguy
      Posted on October 19, 2011 at 9:24am

      simmons never went that for down there,you know that there was now why his security team would let him touch or even see the no bath taking,stinking,nasty idiots, rose colored glasses is a good one, but more like blinders, i hope remember all of these idiots who support the other idiots and stop paying or watching their products.we will see how long the freeloaders,and it’s mine crowd keeps them in business.

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    • Gonzo
      Posted on October 19, 2011 at 9:25am

      As long as they keep buying his “Hip Hop” he loves them. Anti capitalist capatalists are really pathetic aren’t they?

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  • 13th Imam
    Posted on October 19, 2011 at 9:05am

    No “infil” about these odiferous sand fleas. But since the Liberal. Progressive, Socialist, Communist, Anarchist, Nazi, American DEMOCRATS ALL, make up the bowel movement, both Basher and Simmons haveto make excuses why they suppotr them. Even the thieves amongst them find they are brain dead and easy to steal off . We are getting a nice steady cold rain today . Pray for more. Maybe some wind and snow. These cretins will soon be back in mommy and daddys basement, begging them to buy them a new laptop , that their buds on Wall St lifted.

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  • Slayer
    Posted on October 19, 2011 at 9:03am

    Typical Liberal tactics:
    First, Simmons tries the intimidation trick.
    Then, Simmons tries the outrage trick.
    Then, Simmons tries the denial trick.
    Then, Simmons tries the ‘oh, just ignore that’ trick.
    The facts remain. OWS is horrifically anti-Semitic and prone to violence.

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    • Slayer
      Posted on October 19, 2011 at 9:08am

      I forgot to add that Simmons also tried the ‘conspiracy trick’ – “Oh, that’s not one of our guys, it’s a secret conspirator sent by the… secret conspirators.”
      Or something.

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    • 13th Imam
      Posted on October 19, 2011 at 9:25am

      I feel the “George Bush sent them” excuse looming.

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  • wolverine
    Posted on October 19, 2011 at 9:03am

    Of course there is anti-semitism probably a lot of racism that is hidden after all it is a collection of communists, facists, and nazis what did you expect

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  • Jenny Lind
    Posted on October 19, 2011 at 9:02am

    There is none so blind as he who will not see. So much of our nation hears clever little chants and has blinders on to what is on signs and posters, and even being said out loud. Something needs to give the foolish sheep a wake up call. I am willing to bet that some wonderfull religion of peace folks will do so-egged on by what they think is all Americans wanting this garbage. They have no clue how many of us will stand up to the the fools in Washington and vote them out. Be sure and get in your congressional races, we need to clean up the senate and send more good folks to the house. Go tea! Prayers for our country and constitution, and prayers for Israel.

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    • MajorityLeft
      Posted on October 19, 2011 at 11:01am

      Your fake christian rhetoric is so lame, old, tired and corny.

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    • GhostOfJefferson
      Posted on October 19, 2011 at 11:24am

      Then refute it with reasoned points “majority”. Slinging insults doesn’t earn you a single shred of intellectual credibility.

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    • barber2
      Posted on October 19, 2011 at 11:58am

      Ghost: feel free to read the many comments which do, as you request, “refute with reasoned points.” And check our Mr. “Majority Left !” Talk about senseless, hurled insults….

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    • barber2
      Posted on October 19, 2011 at 12:02pm

      Ghost: Sorry. I thought you were criticizing Jenny, not Mr. Majority Lefty who deserves it !

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  • poorrichard09
    Posted on October 19, 2011 at 8:59am

    So Basher highlights the problem, asks a few questions, then lets it go with “I didn’t see anything either”. Problem solved because there was no problem. How nice.

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  • Ferrarello
    Posted on October 19, 2011 at 8:59am

    Why does every employee on MSNBC need punched ?

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  • PATRIOTGRUNT
    Posted on October 19, 2011 at 8:58am

    Wow ” infiltraitors,astute sweet people” wow something new (not) a multi millionaire POVERTY PIMP.

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  • Obama Snake Oil Co
    Posted on October 19, 2011 at 8:58am

    Yep, the usual filters are in place. I need to hire a guy with eyebrow rings, purposefully, deformed ears and tatoos on his face….I need you for a freak show.

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    • Gonzo
      Posted on October 19, 2011 at 9:11am

      It is a sad generation, isn’t it?

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    • GhostOfJefferson
      Posted on October 19, 2011 at 9:29am

      @Gonzo

      Yes, it is. What’s worrisome to me is that it was the otherwise sensible libertarian-conservative GenX who started this “mangle your body” craze. I remember seeing tattoos and piercings pop up en masse out fo nowhere, when I was in college in the early 1990′s. Creepy stuff.

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    • commonsenseguy
      Posted on October 19, 2011 at 9:31am

      @ gonzo, it is a very sad generation, who will have a lot of hard times ahead, i don’t feel sorry for them only in the since that they will never have what we and our parents had, freedom, but hey, we all have our on decisions to make and they choice this way,so to bad.

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    • Gonzo
      Posted on October 19, 2011 at 9:40am

      Ghost and Common, Primitive and pagan man was a fan of body modification, I think it represents a de-evolution of man. I think our protestors would celebrate that.

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    • commonsenseguy
      Posted on October 19, 2011 at 9:47am

      @gonzo, o how unfortunately true !!!!! have a great day !!!!

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    • barber2
      Posted on October 19, 2011 at 10:08am

      They are suffering from spiritual hunger. Makes them easy dupes for the “organizers” who fill this hunger with a warped social message which is tinged with just more “anti” hate speech which just makes them even hungrier. They have spiritual anorexia. Sign of the times.

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  • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
    Posted on October 19, 2011 at 8:57am

    So Simmons had to mention the possibility of “infiltrators” in his movement? Guess he wants to put any blame on the Tea Party and the Republicans…he is hiding the truth, and he does know that the rhetoric of anti-semetic garbage is increasing and ongoing.

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  • zipbags
    Posted on October 19, 2011 at 8:56am

    Wow. I never saw a racist signs at Tea Party events. But, I can guarantee Russell said the Tea Party are racists. Hypocrite.

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    • goatrope67
      Posted on October 19, 2011 at 9:33am

      You must have watched all your Tea Party events on FoxNews. When I saw them on MSNBC I saw ALL SORTS of racist signs. As for Simmons…why do we care what he thinks?

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    • GhostOfJefferson
      Posted on October 19, 2011 at 9:40am

      @Goat

      I attended, foot on the ground, Tea party events here in central Ohio. Didn’t see one racist sign, and I tend to notice (and openly confront) people with racist beliefs.

      The only “racist signs” I saw were signs without people attached to them flashed on MSNBC, all strangely unverified.

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    • barber2
      Posted on October 19, 2011 at 10:03am

      Goat: Don’t forget the verified emails of a certain Jason Levin who specifically called for the Lefties to print racist signs and take them to Tea Party rallies. This entire “movement” has been based on the soul-less tactics of old Saul Alinsky who credited the Devil as being the “first real radical.” A movement so misguided and so anti-spiritual.

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    • zipbags
      Posted on October 19, 2011 at 10:36am

      @goat The left considered any sign that mentioned getting rid of Obama as racist. My main point is that the media made sure to highlight every sign they considered racist. Yet, we have numerous audio and video clips of anti-semetic remarks and their is almost no mention of it on the main stream media.

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  • Bluenose177
    Posted on October 19, 2011 at 8:55am

    hey Russell, how much money did you make this week on your debit card business.????

    maybe the unwashed hordes should be informed of your capitalistic tendencies

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  • Gonzo
    Posted on October 19, 2011 at 8:53am

    It‘s amazing to me that Russell Simmons would throw O’Reilly under the bus immediately. He’s the least of your detractors, you Hip Hop mogul you.

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    • MajorityLeft
      Posted on October 19, 2011 at 11:07am

      O’rielly is super cheap- crying that his taxes are going up by a whole 4% OMG!!!..O’rielly is so cheap he sqeeks when he walks. SQQeeeeeeeqqqkkk!

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    • barber2
      Posted on October 19, 2011 at 11:53am

      Majority ( God I hope not ): What does this slam have to do with anything being discussed? Must be a slow topic day for the Left…..

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    • carolinaconservative
      Posted on October 19, 2011 at 12:04pm

      O’Reilly who. Haven’t watched him in years. The wind whistles through his head.

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    • DonaldH
      Posted on October 19, 2011 at 6:56pm

      @majorityleft Just shut-up!! you are irrelevant..

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  • Secessionista
    Posted on October 19, 2011 at 8:48am

    Infiltrators? At OWS? Say it ain’t so!

    The entire lot of them are infiltrators of this country.

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