Sirius-XM‘s ’Opie’ Confronted With Alinsky-Like Tactics At Occupy Wall Street
- Posted on October 14, 2011 at 6:31am by
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Radio shock jocks Greg "Opie" Hughes, left, and Anthony Cumia, right, leave CBS Radio studios on 57th Street with fans after finishing their first morning show for a one block walk to the XM satellite radio studios while broadcasting live on XM, Wednesday, April 26, 2006, in New York. (AP Photo/ Louis Lanzano)
Gregg “Opie” Hughes (one half of the popular radio team of Opie & Anthony) visited the Occupy Wall Street protest in lower Manhattan earlier this week and expected to find something he could support, instead he was driven out of the area by a gang of protesters using the classic tactics of Saul Alinsky.
An an exclusive interview with The Blaze, Opie makes no bones about being slightly more liberal than his outspoken, conservative, radio partner Anthony Cumia. On Tuesday, he spent almost three hours in Zucotti Park, shooting videos for his “Opie’s Eye” YouTube channel. He stated to us and repeated it several times on the radio that he believed he would find common ground with the protesters. However, he left the park calling them “filthy hippies.”
The Sirius XM host regularly posts videos of the unusual people he sees in New York City, and the park filled with protesters appeared to be ripe with possibilities. The video posted below features a few of the colorful characters Opie encountered: (Content warning – strong language)
At the very end of the clip you may have noticed two women reacting to being recorded. Opie told us that he stopped recording at that moment, but the confrontation continued and, in fact, escalated.
Here is how that clash was described on the Opie and Anthony radio show the next morning: (Again – strong content warning – this is uncensored audio from satellite radio)
As you heard, Opie was confronted and surrounded by more than two dozen of the protesters, chanting “Pervert, pervert, pervert!“ This is classic ”Alinsky” – In fact, it is right out of Alinsky’s book “Rules for Radicals” – he taught his followers to:
Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.
Once the target is identified, you freeze it with an accusation so heinous that it must be defended or refuted before anything else can be addressed. The quickest way to run off a nosy photographer is to accuse him of being a pervert. If two dozen or more people start chanting it, the mob mentality can easily take over and trump the truth. Classic Alinsky.
This is just another piece of evidence pointing to the fact that the “Occupy” protests are not spontaneous (as is constantly being trumpeted by supporters on the Left), but rather a manufactured, planned action with paid, trained leaders embedded inside.
Last weekend The Blaze reported on a connection between the White House and organizers from a far Left political group, the Working Families Party, as well as WFP’s recruitment, training and paying of the protesters. Chicago’s protesters have recently been joined in their marches by Congressional Rep Jan Schakowsky and SEIU’s Stephen Lerner. And more legitimizing of the action came this week as former President Bill Clinton and Vice President Al Gore have made separate, public declarations of support for the Occupy Wall Street movement.
With embedded leaders now in place inside the group, and public support coming from a former President who has a higher approval rating than the current one, it would be wise for everyone who did not take this movement seriously to give it another look.
What was pitched to the country as a spontaneous protest against Wall Street and the financial system, one that would spread across the country, has been shown here on The Blaze to be a well-planned action with trained and paid organizers inside the group. Occupy Wall Street ties to groups like the Working Families Party, Code Pink, unions like SEIU, and of course the deep pockets of George Soros have also been exposed. And now we see the tried-and-true tactics of Saul Alinsky being used to drive away anyone who might be deemed unsupportive of the mission.



















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Miami
Posted on October 14, 2011 at 8:04amToo funny
And these are the educated youth?
My dog is smarter then them….
Report Post »wildturkeywatcher
Posted on October 14, 2011 at 8:01amOnce again, the vulnerable are the tools of the likes of George Soros, Van Jones, Barack Obama and Nancy Pelosi. Poor dumb tools. They should be working – even if it’s just pulling weeds or picking up trash somewhere. At least it would be constructive. And they hate the Tea Party. The Tea Party would treat them better than their tool masters do.
Report Post »nuttyvet
Posted on October 14, 2011 at 8:40am“Hippie Dawn of the Dead!” HAAAAA!
Report Post »Bill Rowland
Posted on October 14, 2011 at 8:45amHas anyone else noticed that the rabble4 rousers who are running these “spontaneous” demonstrations only make public statements or appear briefly to make a speech and then retreart to their Ivory Towers?
OMG – Psalm 109:8
Report Post »EddardStark
Posted on October 14, 2011 at 9:11amHilarious, saying that a pervert accusation is an attempt to “freeze” the Opie threat is laughable. Please stop trying to interject this type of conspiracy mongering. Just because they became hostile to a dude with a camera doesn’t mean that the protest is the marionnette of some vast liberal conspiracy.
Also, I don’t think Opie would be welcomed much more at a Tea Party rally.
Report Post »motonutt
Posted on October 14, 2011 at 9:18amSo once again we have gutter rat flea baggers calling the kettle black. These are the people having sex out in the open, crapping on police cars, calling others perverts? And to have them quoting or using Alinsky tactics…..Alinsky was a satanist, consider the source.
Report Post »Vechorik
Posted on October 14, 2011 at 9:32amJudge Napolitano “Letter to those on Occupy Wall Street”
awesome look at recent history, Tea Party, government intervention, and both sides of the political spectrum today:
He suggested common goals:
End the Fed
End the wars
End the income tax
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nF30eMuWFHI
Report Post »chazman
Posted on October 14, 2011 at 9:33am… I‘m quite happy these Marxist pee on’s are so unhappy! I pray for their continued misery, and I hope it only gets worse for them. A freezing rain storm would be kinda nice right about now …
Report Post »rose-ellen
Posted on October 14, 2011 at 9:55amAfter successfully monopolizing american radio with your war mongering,hypercapitalist if -you’re– rich– you must -be- good propaganda-you pushed rational people to the left and they are finally in the streets hence you find a scapegoeat in a puppet master soros. look to yourselves-you rightwing brainwashed gulls. You polarized the country and pushed people into the streets!You never thought it would happen did you-as you control the media but in the 21stc even that is not enough apparently. long live a socialist/capitalist progressive european style america a coming to the USA! Luddites!That people should start life out in debt to pay for an education is obsence. so is dismantling social security and medicare. so is telling people they have no right to a job or living wage.So is the lack of universal medical coverage. so is telling people that they should work past age 65. Your mean spirited puritanism and right wong media propaganda is rightfully being opposed by enlightened 21stc young americans. it’s about time!You’re being exposed as the petty vicious people you are-you rightwing media people and your gulls.
Report Post »valarie
Posted on October 14, 2011 at 9:57amI see Eddard doesn’t appreciate the light being shown on the cockroaches :)
Report Post »Walkabout
Posted on October 14, 2011 at 9:59amrose-ellen
So Iran has not sponsored war continuously since 1979 thru terrorist groups & such
I feel sorry for you. Where will you go when the Ayatollah regime falls? What will become of you?
Report Post »Silversmith
Posted on October 14, 2011 at 10:21amThere she is again, poor poor rose-ellen. Repetitive, poorly spelled, and sad she trudges on in the wrong direction.
Silversmith
Report Post »teamarcheson
Posted on October 14, 2011 at 10:37amThey will win because Radicals like Obama, Biden, Gore, Pelosi, etc. are supporting them and they have been able to occupy public parks without opposition. Soon they will be able to get the NYPD to open up the Stock Exchange Building to them so they can sack it like was done to the Wisconsin State Building. The Madison, Wisconsin Union Thug COPS opened up the Madison State building so the Teacher’s Union and teachers could do over $7.5 million in damage.
Report Post »FormerLib
Posted on October 14, 2011 at 10:43amWell, so much for the “free speech” and “making sure our voices are heard” meme these mooks insist on. What a bunch of hypocrites, and not very bright ones. First, they offend John Lewis, who was there to help them, and now attack a liberal talk show host offering them a platform. Just as anyone with a brain could predict: these morons will alienate everyone and end up eating themselves.
Report Post »jzs
Posted on October 14, 2011 at 11:11amSo yelling at someone who comes to mock you is an Alinsky tactic? Who knew/ That tactic must be as old as human language. I guess the Tea Party members disrupting and yelling a town hall meetings was something they learned from Alinsky too.
Report Post »michael48
Posted on October 14, 2011 at 11:14amrose…you are one indoctrinated, SICK PUPPY…definately should be removed from the streets…for the time being though, won’t you get back in the safety of grannies garage…lemming patrol will be along PROMPTLY…
Report Post »CNNuts
Posted on October 14, 2011 at 11:24amIn the last 150+ years we have learned to fly, put a man on the moon, discovered and decoded our DNA, split the atom, invented the car, the airplane, radio, TV, telephone, the computer and the internet, to name just a few.
But in that time, since the publication of the “The Communist Manifesto” in 1848, we have been unable to figure out how to make Marxist Socialism work for “the masses”. Just take a look at Russia, Poland, North Korea, Cuba, Venezuela, the National Socialist in Germany, better known as the Nazis or China.
But, that does not stop the really, really smart people from trying to impose it on us. There is a never ending supply of the intelligentsia who know exactly how we should live and how the world should be ordered. The only reason that Marxist Socialism failed elsewhere is because they were not in charge. This time, when they are making the decisions, it will be perfect. As soon as we quiet and re-educate the dissenters, monitor the media, confiscate and redistribute the wealth, jail the bankers and make all necessities free. Of course none of the new rules apply to the intelligentsia because they are the intelligentsia and they now have all the guns.
Report Post »republitarian
Posted on October 14, 2011 at 11:32amRose-Ellen: “You polarized the country and pushed people into the streets!”
Ha ha. We haven’t done anything… Yet. You have many years of complaining ahead of you.
Report Post »CottonMPG
Posted on October 14, 2011 at 11:41amThat was just stupid!!!! If they aren’t welcoming the dyed in the wool liberals but chasing them off by cursing them out etc., why would this guy think he’d be ok?
Report Post »Uncurable wound
Posted on October 14, 2011 at 12:18pmHey Rosie-you got the vicious part right
Report Post »DEATH to the wicked!
gbfreak
Posted on October 14, 2011 at 4:21pmRose-Ellen –
You are so upset – Badge of honor baby!
Death to socialism!!!!!!
Report Post »insight
Posted on October 15, 2011 at 7:59am@rose-ellen, the cool thing is not only do people have a right to a living wage in this country but they have a right to a lavish lifestyle if they so choose. Don’t blame others for your failure or lack of trying.
Report Post »Taxpayer550
Posted on October 14, 2011 at 7:56amOne way to drive them out would be to have a large holiday parade-type balloon of a Dawn dishwashing detergent bottle parked next to the park. The mere thought of personal hygiene would repel them.
Report Post »KickinBack
Posted on October 14, 2011 at 8:17amTurn the fire hoses on them, Bull Connor style.
Report Post »skitrees
Posted on October 14, 2011 at 8:33amHeck, all you’d need to get them out of there is a flat-bed truck stacked with Cheetos – they’d be chasing it like a bunch of kids following an ice cream truck. They’d follow it like the rats followed the pied piper.
Report Post »Meyvn
Posted on October 14, 2011 at 9:15amI’d rather see a big stick, Buford Pusser style.
Report Post »motonutt
Posted on October 14, 2011 at 9:40amJust roll an air force crash truck P2 down the street with the turret nozzel is all you need, you don’t even have to get out of the truck. Mix a little pink die in with the foam, Wow that would be fun!
Report Post »rose-ellen
Posted on October 14, 2011 at 10:28amIran aided and abetted the freedom fighters of iraq ,afghanistan and the hezbollah defenders of the palestinians. Though iran is itself a brutal dictatorship and if the people rise up like the libyans have then we should support the people. Since we’re stalking and murdering people ,what’s the fuss about if they do it?hypocrites!
Report Post »Kai Wan
Posted on October 14, 2011 at 12:19pmFreedom fighters hahaha, thanks, I almost choked on my Jolt soda. roseanne barr ellen. you pinko smelly khunt, you are funny
Report Post »cloudsofwar
Posted on October 14, 2011 at 7:53amyou can not reason with OWS mob. it’s a big party protest and they are having fun the LIBERAL way.
Report Post »Wilma
Posted on October 14, 2011 at 9:33amWell said. They’ll move on when the free stuff runs out.
Report Post »PA PATRIOT
Posted on October 14, 2011 at 7:51amFinally,
Report Post »THE TRUTH
THE WHOLE TRUTH
and NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH
\
Freakin pigs
heavyduty
Posted on October 14, 2011 at 7:33amWhy would anyone go down there for any reason. There is no news other than a crap load crap and people willing to live in it. Well if you want to see that then go the nearest sewage plant and get a whiff. These people only know what they are told and don’t have enough common sense to know that they are getting played. I bet who ever organized this is sitting up in their comfy office and laughing their butts off.
Report Post »opieandannie
Posted on October 14, 2011 at 4:58pmHaha, I agree.. the only things spreading down there are bedbugs, loose women’s legs, and herpes…
Report Post »bilorites
Posted on October 14, 2011 at 7:29amLOL…. looked like the cameraman was fascinated by the fake Fox cameraman’s hair lip
Report Post »jhaydeng
Posted on October 14, 2011 at 8:19amThat’s what O and A do! They make fun of everyone and everything including themselves!! It’s tough sometimes to hear, but that’s their schtick!
Report Post »Mop
Posted on October 14, 2011 at 7:23amThere’s no way these “protesters” read a book. They probably looked at a picture version on their evil Apple Corp. laptops.
Report Post »The_Almighty_Creestof
Posted on October 14, 2011 at 7:23amReminds me of the 60′s…where other than sex, drugs, rock n’ roll, the movement did very little other than to create a baby boom which is stifling our resources these days. They all think they changed the course of the world, but in truth, nothing happened that would not have happened anyway.
I take that back, I think some things did change because of them. But it was more of a “let’s throw them a bone here and there to get them to go away.”
Other than that, all the movement did was to create corruption and evil in our country. Kent State, Black Panthers, assassinations, spying on US citizens, infiltration & entrapment by goverment agencies…these all came about to stop, control, manipulate the “hippies”…and would not have existed otherwise. I’m glad to see that (in most cases) they are being simply ignored this time. Of course, them having zero clues as to why they are there and zero realistic ideas on how to correct the problems they perceive is a big help.
Report Post »NOBALONEY
Posted on October 14, 2011 at 7:21amGlenn right! Woodstock 2011 version.
Report Post »tarbush
Posted on October 14, 2011 at 7:19amMaybe we should go down there corner a couple and start yelling ‘capitalist’ , ‘banker’, ‘christian’, ‘well adjusted normal human being’, etc. Maybe they will leave
Report Post »The_Almighty_Creestof
Posted on October 14, 2011 at 7:25amOr pass out flea collars & lice spray if they are staying, toilet paper and the want ads if leaving.
Report Post »Annie Fields
Posted on October 14, 2011 at 7:25amMaybe a boombox of Barry Manilow?
;)
Report Post »The_Almighty_Creestof
Posted on October 14, 2011 at 8:28am@Annie Fields
How cruel you are…lol!
Report Post »thegodfather
Posted on October 14, 2011 at 7:16amLiberal media say they are “just like the Tea Party”. Oh yea…“just like”.
Long-haired filthy hippies, pink hair, homeless, threatening violence, calls for class war, arrests, screaming PERVERT! PERVERT! in unison.
Oh yea…pretty much exactly like the Tea Party Rallies.
Report Post »village idiot
Posted on October 14, 2011 at 7:15amCut off the money from Geogre Soros, the free drugs, free food and make sure they get their meds, problem solved.
Report Post »COASTIE90
Posted on October 14, 2011 at 7:12amI can’t afford satellite radio so, I don’t know who these people are. It is funny though. Who would think that a protester had an original thought. They may have a complaint but it appears it is backfiring on them. This is not the 60s and most of us demonstrated back then against the war. The people don’t have universal backing for the demonstrations.
Report Post »ColoradoMaverick
Posted on October 14, 2011 at 7:11amThe OWS protesters do not have a coherent message, but it seems that they want to destroy capitalism. Well, the 9/11 terrorists tried to do the same thing by slamming passenger planes full of innocent people into the world trade center. They managed to destroy the world trade center and killed thousands of innocent lives. This propelled us into 2 very expensive wars. Capitalism not only survived this but it thrived. Our economy grew and Capitalism thrived under 7 of 8 years that George W. Bush was in office. Russia and China have risen from the dark ages of communism since they embraced Capitalism. Look at South Korea compared to North Korea. You cannot destroy Capitalism with protests, acts of war, legislation or any other means because Capitalism is Freedom. Freedom to succeed, freedom to fail, freedom to work as hard or as little as you want. It is Freedom to use your imagination. It is the freedom to work for others or start your own business. You cannot end Freedom.
Report Post »rose-ellen
Posted on October 14, 2011 at 11:09amThe problem is hypercapitalism and greedy ayn rand libertarianism that too many americans now are pushing . A socialist/capitalisthbybrid state is the most equitable,just and beneficial to the citizens. No one wants a soviet style economy. But having to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars to get a higher education is obsence. So is not having a job or guaranteed income. So is telling people they should increase the years they work.So is throwing people out of their homes especially when banks got bailed out. Life should get easier not harder in a technologicaly advanced society.
Report Post »snooop1e
Posted on October 14, 2011 at 12:16pmCapitalism works because of human nature, we all want better products and services for less money. Under the Obama, Pelosi ideology Politicians decide which companies should be in business (Solyndra, GM etc) regardless of whether or not they are providing products and services the public wants. That is the difference, in a Free Market economy WE THE PEOPLE decide which companies stay in business by choosing to buy or not buy their products and services. Under Socialism POLITICIANS decide which products and services will be made available. Under Socialism POLITICIANS decide how YOUR money is spent. Under Capitalism THE PEOPLE decide how their money is spent. Do you want to be truly FREE (as in a FREE MARKET ECONOMY) to decide or do you want the Government to decide for you? This is the fundamental question. Capitalism works because it is based on FREEDOM of CHOICE. I thought Liberals were pro “CHOICE” ?????
Report Post »smokie
Posted on October 14, 2011 at 1:01pmShe likes the word ‘obsence’, doesn’t she?
Report Post »I paid off my student loans by serving bar. Funky handmade earrings increases tips, believe me.
My neices, all three, have jobs, their own cars, niceties, and are able to pay their loans.
What gives with these people that fell they shouldn’t pay for what they bought?
You bought the education, now pay for it. Simple as that. It’s your own damned fault for not spending your time wisely and taking more prectical courses.
Al J Zira
Posted on October 14, 2011 at 7:10amWe should all pray to God for real cold weather very soon to break this up.
Report Post »DeannaRae
Posted on October 14, 2011 at 8:02amOMG, don’t pray for cold weather — they will all migrate to Florida and we don’t want them here!!
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on October 14, 2011 at 7:09amAh, Obama‘s base in all it’s grimey glory. I would rather lose elections than link arms with these maggots to win.
Report Post »whatthecrazy
Posted on October 14, 2011 at 9:42amI know right,can you imagine the smells floating around down there ? I would rather link up with a badger….
Report Post »Kinnison
Posted on October 14, 2011 at 2:34pmExactly Gonzo, “Obama’s base” indeed. The 47% who pay no taxes and expect the 53% of we worker bees to support them via government entitlement programs. Could we please get back to basics like the Mayflower Compact? “Work or starve”.
Report Post »DallyWama
Posted on October 14, 2011 at 7:09am“Once the target is identified, you freeze it with an accusation so heinous that it must be defended or refuted BEFORE ANYTHING ELSE CAN BE ADDRESSED.”
Beck recommended that you don’t respond to or confront those using the Alinsky method on his radio program. THAT IS WRONG! What are you suppose to do? Run away? That is why they do it. You don’t respond to the false charge, but rather hurl your own false charge (or truth depending on the situation).
You then shout that response in a chant. It neutralizes their accusation, while at the same time, deters the premise and disrupts their continuity. Yes, these troglodytes will might assault you, however, self defense is legal. And it is not like she is going to hurt anyone. The reason Alinsky (who used Hitler’s blueprint) has been so effective is because people usually cower in fear and perpetuate the method of destruction. This is actually in the book, “The RISE and Fall of the Third Reich”, and was a common tactic of the nazi party.
Report Post »MrObvious
Posted on October 14, 2011 at 7:05amDon’t ya just feel the enthusiasm? ;)
If these people had a actual cause they wouldn’t be lying around in sleeping bags at 1pm.
We should all tremble (with lefter) at the sight of Soros‘s and AFLCIO’s army of stoners.
Report Post »Annie Fields
Posted on October 14, 2011 at 7:01amYou’d think these people would be tired of being wrong.
Time for a GBTV subscription!
Maybe Glenn ought to have a list of all the lefty media’s email, with an option to send them $1 towards a $99 subscription to GBTV with a pre-filled in note from whoever sends it saying something like “THE TRUTH LIVES HERE, YOU CORRUPT FOOL!”
Okay… maybe not that, but it’s a start of an idea, anyway ;)
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Report Post »Meyvn
Posted on October 14, 2011 at 9:16amI like Mr. Cain but your spam is getting old.
Report Post »love the kids
Posted on October 14, 2011 at 7:00amYou mean these protesters read a book?
Report Post »lel2007
Posted on October 14, 2011 at 7:09amNo, They receive verbal instructions from their cell leader.
Report Post »loriann12
Posted on October 14, 2011 at 6:53amI guess I was taught of Alynsky tactics in college and didn’t know it, only it was presented as wrong. I was taught in Mass Communications, that people will do things in a mob that they wouldn’t do normally. They get caught up in the “moment.” The example I remember (mind you this was in 1982) was a rock concert that turns violent.
Report Post »kickagrandma
Posted on October 14, 2011 at 6:52amMy questions are, “Who are these guys?“ ”Why should we know about them?“ ”Are they part of the solution or are they part of the problem?”
Maybe, just maybe, one had his eyes, heart, mind, soul opened today. Now that would be news!
Report Post »Islesfordian
Posted on October 14, 2011 at 7:37amOpie and Anthony are shock humor radio jocks. I have never listened to them as they aren’t to my tatse but I imagine that they could be somewhat analogous to South Park or Howard Stern.
Why is this important? The cultural leaders for many in our culture lie within the entertainment and comedy world. If a movement starts to be mocked in these quarters it can have a huge impact on the less informed (who still vote). If Opie opens his eyes to the reality of these fools it may encourage other leftish comedians to mock them as well. If it becomes a running gag then it could seriously undermine the image of OWS, which is nothing without its propaganda power.
Report Post »jhaydeng
Posted on October 14, 2011 at 8:11amO and A are shock jocks, but over the years have mellowed out ala Stern,etc. Anthony is a gun collector and hard core conservative and Opie is more of a lefty, but argues both sides. They are anything, but political commentators!! Jim Norton (comedian) is the third leg of their show. They say extremely offensive things, but some are funny if you can get by the language.
Report Post »KickinBack
Posted on October 14, 2011 at 8:23amIt goes to show how much Glenn was right about how people aren‘t taking these ’hippies’ seriously enough. Opie had no idea what he was getting into, he thought he could relate and have some fun with them. At least he was smart enough to catch the hint and get the hell out of Dodge, it could’ve gotten ugly.
Report Post »KickinBack
Posted on October 14, 2011 at 6:43amCreepily funny vid. I can only imagine the stench..and I definitely wouldn’t even let my dog eat that food!
Report Post »Blight14
Posted on October 14, 2011 at 6:41amWe all know CNN (Comrade ‘News’ Network) is directed at leftists……I guess they showed their true colors in todays poll question:
Which protest movement do you favor more, Occupy Wall Street or the tea party?
Report Post »Occupy
71%
49830
Tea party
29%
19904
Total votes: 69734
This is not a scientific poll
balancebound
Posted on October 14, 2011 at 12:43pmWow 69734 votes.
By my math that means that all 321.35 CNN viewers voted an average of 217 times.
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