As cities rousted Occupiers, liberals claimed the movement has already succeeded by calling attention to income inequality. But all it's really done is give the left an excuse to recycle bogus class-warfare claims.Continue reading.
Soon after Mayor Bloomberg cleared the Occupiers out of New York's Zuccotti Park, Washington Post blogger Ezra Klein reassured his fellow liberals. "The movement has already scored some big wins," he wrote, because it has "changed the national conversation." The evidence? The press has written lots of stories about income inequality lately.
Of course, counting news stories proves nothing. The liberal media love the Occupy crowd and what it stands for, and so it generously flooded the zone with adoring coverage, while carefully covering up the movement's violence, depravity and anti-American radicalism.
But then again, almost nothing that's been written or said about the Occupy movement and its main issue has been true.
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Sunday, November 27, 2011
Occupy is 99 Percent Lies
At IBD, "An Occupy Movement Based On 99% Lies":
The old adage is a picture is worth a thousand words. One picture of a protester defecating on a police car, or another of the tons of trash left behind, and "income inequality" isn't the first thing that comes to mind when one thinks of "Occupy Wall Street".
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