The Occupy Wall Street encampments in public spaces are a hodge-podge of activists, malcontents, crazies, homeless, and paid attendants from some leftist-directed unions and ACORN fronts.
The Occupy Wall Street encampments in major media are a coterie of self-referential, Internet connected, liberal and leftist journalists and columnists.
The incoherence of the public campers, and violence by some, is increasingly clear to the wider public. This is despite the best efforts of the other journo-campers pitching tents upon the ground of the public campers. The journo-campers excuse and avoid examination of the real facts in the parks and streets. Instead, they use it as their launch-pad to repeat their leftist defenses of the direction that President Obama has taken the US into more European style socialism, or to bemoan that he hasn’t taken us further.
That’s good for several – already too many -- news cycles, but runs up against, again, facts on the ground, the most telling being that everything President Obama has promised or done has been an abject failure, indeed too often only enriching bureaucrats and cronies on Wall Street or in industry.
The kids will mostly wake up as they grow older and gain experience. Their parents already are waking up, as exhibited in polls showing an increased tilt against the romantic facades on the public campers erected by those in the major media.
Major media has further reduced its public esteem and influence. The prospects for President Obama’s re-election are further reduced, by the journo pimps declining impact on most Americans’ opinions, and by President Obama’s own embrace of the public campers and his own shallow and strident demagoguery.
