"I saw dancing, bongo drums, even a clown.... I asked several protesters what it was that they wanted. Now, they did not know.... They did know what they don't want."
This is not new. I've heard many pundits question whether the people holding the signs have a real agenda or just want to be out there in front of the cameras holding silly signs, dressed in goofy garb, doing the Kumbaya thing. (Yes. Wherever there's a protest, they'll be there, too. Bless their hearts.)
But the claim is that nobody in that crowd really knows the reasons for the protests. I guess if you were one who isn't listening, or more likely, refuses to listen, you might not get the message.
This is it in a nutshell, from the Occupy Wall Street website:
Occupy Wall Street is [a] leaderless resistance movement with people of many colors, genders and political persuasions. The one thing we all have in common is that We Are The 99% that will no longer tolerate the greed and corruption of the 1%. We are using the revolutionary Arab Spring tactic to achieve our ends and encourage the use of nonviolence to maximize the safety of all participants.
I probably won't spend a lot of time watching Erin Burnett's new show, but I've had her number for a while. If you just look at that angelic face, those deep, darling dimples, you might miss who Erin really is.
She is a Wall Street groupie who searches, but can only find eensy-teensy, little bitty problems with her chosen pals.
She is about to marry a CitiGroup exec, thereby solidifying her affection for the Street.
She is a supposed reporter who once told the folks on AM Joe to take a larger look at China, who might be as successful as they are because they don't coddle people by paying them when they're unemployed. (Not in itself true, but she said it ever-so-sweetly, even apologetically, as if she really hated to spoil a perfectly good discussion, but it needed to be said kind of thing, so nobody jumped on it.)
If you watch Erin Burnett's "Out Front", you're going to hear what sounds perfectly reasonable, because the person saying it is about as far from a Maria Bartiromo as one can get. But I'm seeing nothing but love songs to Wall Street already, which is okay as long as CNN isn't promoting it as a family show.
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