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...Pat Garofalo, Economic Policy Editor for ThinkProgress.org at the Center for American Progress Action Fund, has appeared on the Vladimir Putin-funded Thom Hartmann Russia Today propaganda program, as well as on foreign-funded Al-Jazeera. Garofalo is defending the protests against charges that demonstrators are freaks. The “Occupy Wall Street” protest that began in New York City “has sparked an entire movement, based on the principle that the economy should work for everyone, not simply the richest one percent,” he gushes.

It is significant that the protests have support from a Moscow-funded channel eager to depict America as a capitalist economy under siege by its own citizens. The protests make for good global anti-American propaganda.

You may recall that Hartmann, another mouthpiece for the protesters, is the progressive media star who grabbed my camera in disgust when I questioned him about how much money he was getting paid by Moscow.

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(That was excerpted from another old article about the birth of Occupy Wall Street.)