Occupy Wall Street Gets Glitzy NYC Public Relations Firm Help
- Posted on October 3, 2011 at 4:19pm by
Buck Sexton
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The “Occupy Wall Street” movement has swelled into a circus of left-wing causes, with celebrity visits and supportive blogs sprouting across the web. But as of today, the burgeoning protest movement can count on the services of a high-end PR firm to help get its discombobulated messages across in a slick, easy-to-digest narrative.
The Manhattan-based Public Relations firm Workhorse Publicity sent out an unsolicited e-mail blast entitled “Occupy Wall Street: News From the Front” to various media outlets, socialites, and celebrities, according to the New York Daily News.
The P.R. firm has reportedly worked with Saks Fifth Avenue and Mercedes Benz. In the email blast, the firm included black and white images from the protest, and its CEO released a statement that “We have no agenda and our service in this regard is simple: Publicize the message as the march continues.“ It also included the tagline ”the Revolution will not be editorialized.”
With its rocketing notoriety, Occupy Wall Street probably doesn’t need a Manhattan P.R. firm’s help at this point. It is symptomatic, however, of the movement’s broadening appeal in liberal circles that professionals are now helping the protestors get their message out.
The spin-masters at Workhorse may have their work cut out for them. After the 700 arrests that occurred this weekend on New York’s Brooklyn Bridge, videos have surfaced showing that, contrary to their initial public claims, the protestors were warned in advance not to block the roads. Their subsequent arrests appear to result from ignoring the NYPD’s warnings.
Plus there is the inherent challenge of selling supposedly serious political messages to the American public that involve college students dressed like this:
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Comments (112)
Mauireman
Posted on October 3, 2011 at 5:37pmIs this is the best the Van Jones types can do after 6 months of promoting this? I would say you and your kind are irrelevant and nothing more than a useful group of fools and in no way represent any omre than .00001% of Americans ! We are the REAL Americans >>>> http://www.glennbeck.com/content/articles/article/198/44950/
Report Post »georgiavietvet
Posted on October 3, 2011 at 5:17pmso the p.r. firm has no agenda. and do they really expect us to believe that??????????????? they obviously think we are stupid and will take them at their word. i suspect that one of the big money people associated with these protests, is paying this firm piles of money to promote the “days of rage” foolishness. either this p.r. firm is too stupid to understand that these protests are advocating the overthrow of our country, or they don’t care. it might be that they are more interested in the money, but i doubt it. either way, a firm like this will be put out of business if these protesters have their way. if the communists, anarchists, muslims, or any other idiot group manages to gain power, they will put all capitalistic forms of business on the chopping block. its a shame that so many people are so misguided, as to swallow the propaganda of the left and their minions. they are nothing more than lemmings being led to the slaughter……………………………
Report Post »M 4 Colt
Posted on October 3, 2011 at 5:54pmLet me guess the P R firm is doing this all for free NOT! Someone is paying this firm for their work so who is that someone????
Report Post »Lucy Larue
Posted on October 3, 2011 at 6:15pmThey are PIGS!
Report Post »There is Capitalism and immoral jerks (with) off who will sell their souls for filthyy lucre.
Workhorse Publicity falls into the latter.
How disgusting!
ROMANS 10-9
Posted on October 3, 2011 at 5:16pmWorkhorse Publicity = ACCORN
Report Post »OhioRifleman
Posted on October 3, 2011 at 5:55pmEXTENSION:
Workhorse Publicity = ACORN = OBAMA = SOROS = VAN JONESIN’ = HILLARY CLINTON.
Sj1t by any other name still smells bad. And this pile has plenty of aliases.
Report Post »Blackhawk1
Posted on October 3, 2011 at 5:11pmYou know how you can tell this is a protest by liberals? Just look at all the trash laying on the ground. No doubt it will still be there when they leave.
Report Post »pamela kay
Posted on October 3, 2011 at 5:33pmAwesome comment, and so true. Isn’t it funny that they are wearing theses outfits and not getting bashed like the Tea-Party was? Most of theses people are either Marxist or Socialist. Then we have Roseann Barr…………………enoiugh said. Great comments again from all Blazers.
Report Post »SLAPTHELEFT
Posted on October 3, 2011 at 6:26pmRoseanne barr? Really? that filthy pig excuse for an actor? I am sickened at the sight of her and her twin sister rosy odonell. The best performance barr had was when she totally disgraced herslf and this country by screaming the national anthem then grabbing her herpes infested crotch as the whole stadium booed her.
No talent loser.
Report Post »TH30PH1LUS
Posted on October 3, 2011 at 6:41pmExactly. The mensa-member in the gas mask is most likely wearing it to escape the fumes from all the yeasty unwashed hippies.
Report Post »strawberryfieldsforever
Posted on October 3, 2011 at 5:11pmThese are the kids and grand kids of the hippie generation. CSNY sang it best – “Teach your children well…”
Report Post »82fdny
Posted on October 3, 2011 at 5:04pmLook at all the White people, looks racist to me
Report Post »Smokey_Bojangles
Posted on October 3, 2011 at 5:04pmWonder how these people charge their cell phones and iPads.Solar power?Or maybe one of those windmills that kill 400,000 birds a year?Magic Fairy Farts?
Report Post »paulusmaximus
Posted on October 3, 2011 at 8:51pmThese useless flotsam stand there with their cell phones, I pads and talk of oppression and how the man has got them down! It would be funny if it didn’t show how many ignorant people we have here! Billions spent to educate the youth of this country and it looks as it all went to create a army of robots parroting the words of senile old professors!
Report Post »Walkabout
Posted on October 3, 2011 at 5:01pmWhat does Nuke Power have to do with corruption on Wall street?
This is not so much a protest about Wall street corruption as it is the left throwing a tantrum 7 agitating for every last one of their causes.
Barry Obama got the largest contribution for Goldman Sacs in history. The candidate of the left is part of the problem as is many of the other leftist politicians. It doesn’t seem to faze the leftists protesters. The very same protesters who are being organized by people who put Barry Obama & Nancy Pelosi in power. that is IRONY. That is stupidity.
Report Post »trolltrainer
Posted on October 3, 2011 at 5:05pm“This is not so much a protest about Wall street corruption as it is the left throwing a tantrum 7 agitating for every last one of their causes.”
Read the tea leaves! That is EXACTLY what this is! This is the revolution van jones was talking about, it is a last gasp to mobilize the far left. They will scream and shout and make fools out of themselves and the rest of the country will shrug and ignore them much like a parent ignores a child’s tantrum. In fact, that is what is happening, it is a tantrum.
Report Post »Buck Shane
Posted on October 3, 2011 at 5:17pmThe good news is that these people will stir up the moderates, and if we’re lucky, scare them a little. They are obviously who they are. The left handed moderates will not like or want to be in any way associated with these people. They will recoil from them, and vote for more workable solutions to the problems. That’s where we are.
Report Post »woodyl1011fl
Posted on October 3, 2011 at 4:57pmWe are watching Obama’s Bolshevik democrat party in full operation on Wall Street and in other cities across the country as the party of Marxist revolutionaries is preparing chaos, turmoil and violence the streets for the elections in 2012. find out which colleges and universities these people are going to or have been to and you will get pretty good read on the state of the nations higher/lower educational system. Looks like a Soros/DNC/Marxist Internationale funded operation where are they getting the money for this and it better not be one of BHO’s taxpayer funded front organizations – stimulus 1,2, 3
Report Post »UBETHECHANGE
Posted on October 3, 2011 at 4:53pmThe big question is who is paying for it?!?
Report Post »pamela kay
Posted on October 3, 2011 at 5:36pmLove the link photo by the way. Good question, I would like to know the answer to that myself.
Report Post »motonutt
Posted on October 3, 2011 at 4:48pmJust waiting for a good rain storm or the snow to fly to send them all home. I was just thinking, and this is just a thought, I bet we are seeing the begining of the godless freaks that world wide will help usher in and embrace the anti-christ. Fools on parade.
Report Post »beekeeper
Posted on October 3, 2011 at 4:46pm”the Revolution will not be editorialized.”
No, but it will be marginalized – shouldn’t the motivation for the protest precede the protest, or is that “old thinking”?
Report Post »TomFerrari
Posted on October 3, 2011 at 4:45pmYou can’t make this stuff up!
A P.R. firm that makes its money PROMOTING CAPITALIST CORPORATIONS is promoting an ANTI-CAPITALIST, COMMUNIST message?
And the protesters have no problem with this, either?
ROTFLMAO ! ! !
Report Post »Buck Shane
Posted on October 3, 2011 at 5:01pmMy problem is that I can’t see what they want. Do they want the USA to disband? Do they want NYC and other places to ban doing business? Do they want sucessful people to take their money and retire?
Report Post »V-MAN MACE
Posted on October 3, 2011 at 4:44pmI think a good part of this was people who actually feel like Wall Street is the focus of their frustration, but that this overall has either been fomented or subsequently co-opted by radical socialists.
We ( the people who know what’s really going on) need to educate these people that the problem is the Federal Reserve fractional banking system, run by private shareholders as an unconstitutional 4th branch of government, printing fiat currency and deliberately devaluing it to rob people of real tangible assets, and that this is allowed by the saboteurs that’re in bed with them within the CONGRESS.
These people ought to have been with the Tea Party protestors on the Washington Mall protesting this corrupt Congress, and the Tea Party protestors in coalition with the Wall Street protestors need to focus their attention on abolishing the source of these problems, the Federal Reserve bank.
Or we’re all screwed.
Report Post »Patriot Z
Posted on October 3, 2011 at 5:01pmalot should i agree, but most are silverspoon socialists and teeniebopper kids pretending to beopressed because they dont have the latest gen iphone. but i will say the tea party needs to become more active and radical. if we continue to think that old peeps in lawnchairs bbqin with signs will stop crap then we ARE lost. we have then message, we have the numbers, we have thee truth, why oh why do we not have the fire of revolution!?
Report Post »OhioRifleman
Posted on October 3, 2011 at 5:42pm@ Patriot Z
Short answer: because three successive generations of Americans have been conditioned that we are not supposed to fight for what is right, we are supposed to be stomped on by anyone who comes by in the name of world equanimity.
We do not lack the will to fight for our rights, we are conditioned not to fight for anything. It is why people like you and I, who do not fear the necessity of conflict, are often called extreme and/or insane.
Report Post »V-MAN MACE
Posted on October 4, 2011 at 12:08pmThe tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
It is its natural manure.
Report Post »helluvagoodgod
Posted on October 3, 2011 at 4:43pmThat’s it, no nuke power. Just let everyone who uses it freeze to death. That probably includes the clown in the halloween costume who is too stupid to know where its power comes from.
Report Post »Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Posted on October 3, 2011 at 4:42pmJust curious, did NYC put up port-a-johns for these people?
Report Post »Where do they spend their money/food stamps, since they don’t seem to have jobs?
I am assuming most of them are college students? How are they getting grades by being in a protest?
Is the government keeping information/videos about THESE people?
Are any of these people working on the government’s dime?
TEIN
Posted on October 3, 2011 at 5:27pmMy thoughts exactly…Also wondering if these useful idiots are buying food and drink from those evil capitalist cart vendors???
Report Post »pamela kay
Posted on October 3, 2011 at 5:39pmWow, You are giving me allot to think about. Thanks!
Report Post »PATTY HENRY
Posted on October 3, 2011 at 4:41pmROSEANNE BARR et al represent the very worst of us. BILL AYERS should still be in jail. Bernadette Dohrn should be in jail for murder. THEY are idiots who have NO real knowledge and more importantly THEY are the ones who have voted in the lying thieving thugs who are hell-bent to ruin the greatest country that has ever been on earth…AMERICA. THEY are backed by the DEVIL. THIS IS EVIL working. WE have this one election to stop this tsunami of SOCIALISM/COMMUNISM…. LISTEN to GLENN BECK at GBTV . Stock up. WAKE UP. JOIN with each other (those you trust) . Make sure your family is on board. Obama has opened the doors for the enemy to totally take over our country to destroy it, from the legal angle, from the money angle, from every angle that will harm us, you, me, our kids, our future. WE have one chance to stop him and them. THEY HAVE NO PLAN…they just are sheeple for very evil men like GEORGE SOROS who are out to make billions more off of us…laughing at us all the time. People Like the trolls who come on here (you know who they are) are the same obnoxious former Greta Wire trolls who live and breathe to post angry, evil things… IGNORE THEM. DO NOT CARE what they say. WE have our own work to do if we are going to ride out this storm.
Report Post »commonsenseguy
Posted on October 3, 2011 at 4:52pmwell said, seems the more the so called hollywood elites try and fit in the more the left looks like the total dumb ass it is, if these so called elites and their cronies don’t like or better yet love my country,by all means they can get the hell out, starting with the nasty rose ann barr,and then on to the other stupid idiots, so i say let them keep protesting and talking, because the more they are seen and heard, the more the American people are tuning them out and the more the associate them to obama ,
Report Post »pamela kay
Posted on October 3, 2011 at 5:42pmBeck is right and I am prepared. I have allot more to do but I am stocking up. This whole mess is part of the agenda the progressives have carefully planned.
Report Post »I.Gaspar
Posted on October 3, 2011 at 4:40pmTheir email blast should have been titled “Occupy Wall Street: We‘re a bunch of losers being manipulated by the people who tried to burn it all down in the 60’s”
Report Post »That about covers it all.
Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Posted on October 3, 2011 at 4:38pm“Workhorse Publicity has reportedly worked with Saks Fifth Avenue and Mercedes Benz.”
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Past tense. I‘ll bet they won’t after this.
lynda1276
Posted on October 3, 2011 at 5:19pmif they do, i will not buy from them.
Report Post »AxelPhantom
Posted on October 3, 2011 at 5:29pmMercedes is owned by Chrysler who got bailed out with tax payer money.
Report Post »slvrserfr
Posted on October 3, 2011 at 4:38pmThis is just a front so that the ones that don’t want to humiliate themselves but want to participate have a legitimate reason to hide their pride and their identity to rally at something shameless and without genuine merit. Wall Street isn’t the problem, if they’re going to protest, it should be at the Fed, Congress and the White House. That is where issues are really sourced. Wall Street just reacts to these influences. It looks like many of these protesters are far left wing entitlement babies. Marxists, Socialists, Fascists and Communists, all of which support bigger government and support for Obama and the democratic party.
Report Post »Impenitent
Posted on October 3, 2011 at 4:31pmof course social justice demands that this PR company, after distributing all its capital to the protestors, no longer do business for capitalists in the future…
Report Post »commonsenseguy
Posted on October 3, 2011 at 4:40pmreally, no they don’t need a capitalist company to do their PR work really, so like a communist, they will use you and then destroy you, i can’t believe anyone would help these idiots,except one of their own, i just wonder if they will protest them making money off of them and if the company is going to give the money away, you know, redistribution of wealth
Report Post »Smokey_Bojangles
Posted on October 3, 2011 at 5:05pmThe Government will pay them for it later.
Report Post »Magovac500
Posted on October 3, 2011 at 4:31pmRode by the Denver protest yesterday on my bicycle. I was in front of our capitol building. WHAT A JOKE. There were homeless people around that looked better. There were maybe 8 people – 10 tops – and no clear message. I was going to engage them, but there was no one there that I cared to talk to and countering their few signs with logical arguement would have been too easy.
Report Post »rose-ellen
Posted on October 3, 2011 at 10:26pm“It’s not about logic-it’s abour generosity.”Cancel all mortgages-cut rents in half.You’ll go kill men women and children in iraq and afghanistan then come back and watch your neighbors get evicted from their homes!Your rabid hypercapitalist/nationalist ideology [the religion of america is americanism] is a threat to humankind!
Report Post »fatjack
Posted on October 3, 2011 at 4:30pmIt’s coming!……………………………Are you ready?
Report Post »JustAFinanceGuy
Posted on October 3, 2011 at 4:33pmPrepare! Now is the time to get your canned food! Be ready to take care of your family. Brace Yourself!
Report Post »commonsenseguy
Posted on October 3, 2011 at 4:37pmyep. i just finished cleaning my 4 rifles and 5 pistols,and a compound bow, have plenty of ammo,water,food and money to survive for several long months, and if i try harder,maybe a year.so bring them on.
Report Post »JohnQTaxpayer
Posted on October 3, 2011 at 4:54pmThese kids are just playing when it get serious like they find themselves facing the real Americans Patriots who find them distasteful and see the response of serious people. They will pee their pants.
My challenge still stands
“If you do not like this country, here is a rubber inner tube, pick an ocean and get out”
JQT
Report Post »trolltrainer
Posted on October 3, 2011 at 4:55pmAre y’all kidding? This is a growing joke. I am actually finding myself applauding this march of the useful idiots! What a bunch of dorks, they go out and join the protest for something to do and they get arrested for being dumbasses. It is better than anything else on TV. Then we can watch Van Jackass try to turn this into the people’s revolution complete with ominous warnings…Sheesh, these kids can’t even wipe their own butts without help…
Ya’ll are worried about this? It is amusement, a diversion. But on a more serious note it does show the trouble we are in, that all these college pups can be this ill-informed and easily swayed. But don’t be fooled, there are a lot of good kids out there too, this is just the libs time in the sun, it has been hard coming for them for the last 3-4 decades, let them have their fun. Another year and Obama will be history and these jokers will crawl back under their rocks…
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on October 3, 2011 at 4:29pmSo this is what Van Jones has meant by a “Socialist Tea Party” (my words, I do not remember what the exact phrase he used was off hand.) When Bloomberg moves to remove these demonstators expect the nation to be rocked with images of “brutal police intimidation, out of control police, etc..”
The propaganda machinery will already have the stuff prepared and distributed to the media networks and direct them as to which to use.
Report Post »commonsenseguy
Posted on October 3, 2011 at 4:35pm@snow, bloomberg will not have them removed, he needs them, he along with his commie friends have helped start and have supported these useful idiots, now if it we’re tea party or conservatives,and with no arrest ,he would have the national guard out to force them to leave, but not his buddies, they are the ones who have help keep him in office,
Report Post »britlynz
Posted on October 3, 2011 at 4:48pmTHAT’s perfect. I love calling them the Socialist Tea Party! That should be their official label. Let John Q public contrast the two movements. No amount of spin affect the very different pictures being painted.
Report Post »pamela kay
Posted on October 3, 2011 at 5:55pmThis has been in the making for a long time,I agree. More scare tactics and propoganda. They are far more advanced than I think we realized in the begining. It is a well thought and carefully prepared agenda. I don’t think that they counted on so many of us to oppose it but I do believe that they had it covered in every area if we did. It is strategically well done and we should not take it lightly. We all know all of our comments are being monitored and that there are Blazers and then there are blazers. We can figure out who they are and why they are here. Beck is right, and I hope all the true Blazers here are prepared. God Bless you and thanks for the great info. SNOWLEOPARD, I remain your fan and enjoy your comments. Love your artwork.
Report Post »RLTW
Posted on October 3, 2011 at 4:26pmSo, I guess that’s like putting lipstick on a zombie.
Report Post »commonsenseguy
Posted on October 3, 2011 at 4:32pma zombie pig,
Report Post »Dustyluv
Posted on October 3, 2011 at 4:40pmA very ugly zombie pig.
Report Post »RLTW
Posted on October 3, 2011 at 6:46pmA very ugly smelly zombie pig who doesn’t actually eat, but expects intravenous feeding.
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