Hartmann: Corporate Media Stumped on Occupy Wall Street

Russ Baker, author, Family of Secrets: The Bush Dynasty joins Thom Hartmann. The Occupy movement received a boost yesterday from senior citizens. To send a message to Congress about plans to cut Medicare and Social Security - cuts that will likely come out of the Gang of 12 - hundreds of senior citizen patriots occupied a downtown intersection in Chicago. They were joined by nearby members of Occupy Chicago and other grassroots organizations - as well as a few members of Congress including Representatives Jan Schakowsky and Danny Davis. Ultimately - police moved in to break up the demonstration - hauling away 47 people - mostly senior citizens - away in handcuffs. We can add their names to the growing list of 3,362 patriots who've been arrested since the Occupy movement started more than a month and a half ago. But these mass arrests of patriots instead of banksters don't jive with the attitudes of most of the American people. A new NBC/Wall Street Journal poll shows Occupy Wall Street popularity surging with 60% of Americans supporting the basic sentiment of the occupiers. That's twice as much support as the Tea Party received in the same poll. So while more and more Americans seem to be "getting it" when it comes to the 99% movement - there's still one group that's woefully ignorant...the corporate media.

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[ReynoldsPerformance]

We don't need corporate Media, we have Facebook and Youtube. DUH! :-P

[RogerThatFilip]

Join us at Occupy Wall Street on 11.11.11 for an all day Music, Yoga and Meditation event at the Tree of Life... From 11a to 11pm... facebook[.]com/OccupyYoga ... Thanks RT!

[timothyplumley]

Wouldn't it be nice if mankind were actually in charge, man how things would be so much better. If only leadership wasn't considered a one man job.

[beastshawnee]

@ReynoldsPerformance duh facebook was started by  CIA money. We tell them who our friends are, and our relations, where we are, and what we are doing. It's a spy agency. Wake up! And while I love youtube, they let shills erase messages, and crash sites. Still they serve a big function for our voices.

[usaf317]

@ziger123456 ows is just a bunch of spoiled college kids, communists, socialists and anarchists. winter will get rid of most of them. maybe the police will get off there ass and get rid of the rest.

[MarquisEaly]

@1988scottcarey

That HOUSE NEGRO was a federal reserve bank president!! Of course they put him on. They were told to by there boss, i mean slave masters. Most of the idiots in corporate media (as Heartman points out) don't know how to ask that. Hes Fair and balanced on a pole like fox news, stripping for money. The "HOUSE NEGRO" MENTALITY OF POLITICAL FIGURES, THE MEDIA, AND THE MILITARY INDUSTRIAL COMPLEXES OF THE WORLD SHUCK AND JIVE WHILE WE THE PEOPLE GET SOLD AS "FIELD NEGROES".

[1988scottcarey]

They'll cover framing a black man for "sexual harassment" than cover the Occupy Wall Street Protests..

[ziger123456]

OWS IS the people! MSM is clueless and doesn't WANT to cover OWS properly.  OWS represents the people BY the people! OWS is NOT an operation for anything but justice for all!