Let’s Play Spot the Meme!!

Yup. She's fighting the right wingers who think OCCUPY isn't about normal people's concerns.

I’m getting pretty tired of seeing right wing posts label Occupy protestors with the usual snobby anti-hippy meme.  This isn’t the AstroTurf of the Koch-backed Tea Party (TM) that lost steam quicker than a tea pot removed from a flame.  That’s even with old time poll Dick Armey at the helm.  The Press was more comfortable with the tea party movement because it could actually find the corporate spokesmodels from long time special interest groups like FreedomWorks propping up the people. Here’s a Quinnipiac poll that suggests the Occupy grass has roots.

New Yorkers Back Wall St. Protesters 3 – 1, Quinnipiac University Poll Finds; Stay As Long As You Want, Even Republicans Say

By a 67 – 23 percent margin, New York City voters agree with the views of the Wall Street protesters and say 87 – 10 percent that it is “okay that they are protesting,” according to a Quinnipiac University poll released today.

Agreeing with the protesters views are Democrats 81 – 11 percent and independent voters 58 – 30 percent, while Republicans disagree 58 – 35 percent, the independent Quinnipiac (KWIN-uh-pe-ack) University poll finds. Even Republicans, however, agree 73 – 23 percent with the protesters right to be there.

New York City voters say 72 – 24 percent, including 52 – 41 percent among Republicans, that if the protesters obey the law, they can stay as long as they wish.

A total of 72 percent of voters say they understand the protesters’ views “very well” or “fairly well,” with 17 percent who say “not too well” and 10 percent who say “not well at all.”

Voters split 46 – 45 percent in their approval of the way police are handling the Wall Street protest, but approve 61 – 33 percent of how the police are doing their job overall.

“It’s a free country. Let them keep on protesting as long as they obey the law, New Yorkers say overwhelmingly,” said Maurice Carroll, director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute. “Critics complain that no one can figure out what the protesters are protesting. But seven out of 10 New Yorkers say they understand and most agree with the anti-Wall Street views of the protesters.

“For a while, the critics focused on the cops’ use of pepper spray at the protests. Voters are divided on how police are handling the protesters, but they say almost 2-to-1 that police are doing a good job overall.”

Asked who is to blame for the current state of the nation’s economy;

37 percent of New York City voters blame the administration of former President George W. Bush;
21 percent blame Wall Street and financial institutions;
18 percent blame Congress;
11 percent blame President Barack Obama.

New York City voters support 61 – 28 percent an extension of the state’s so-called ‘Millionaire’s Tax.’ Even Republicans support the extension 55 – 38 percent.

Voters also support 73 – 19 percent, including 48 – 40 percent among Republicans, tougher government regulation of banks and Wall Street firms.

“New Yorkers, even Republicans, back the Wall Street protesters on at least two things they’re talking about, a get-tough attitude toward banks and Wall Street and continuation of the state’s ‘Millionaire’s Tax,'” Carroll said.

Those are basically the same issues that keep coming up in poll-after-poll that have been completely ignored by the corporate media and Democratic and Republican Politicians alike.  Who says that the vast majority of people showing up at this protests don’t have a message?  It’s pretty clear to me.  Just read the picket signs!!! I’m getting pretty tired of watching right wing sites make up really nasty smears by finding the one or two freaks in the vast numbers of people that show up.  They must be really afraid that the Fauxes are about to be turned out of the US chicken coop.