Lucy - thanks for the ping.
I know how radical aging hippies ‘leaders’ get people to show up for ‘demonstrations’.
People who fill the ranks of protesters are not students - not intellectuals they’re not even necessarily leftists.
Many rank and file ‘protesters’ are there by court ordered - doing “community service’.
Remanded over to nonprofit organizations to do ‘community service’, these people with ‘authority problems’ are not necessarily political. But they are useful to fill out a crowd. Leftists nonprofits are using low level criminals to fill the ranks of ‘protesters’.
Got a speeding ticket? Need to do 400 hours of ‘community service? Travel to New York - and get your service done in one weekend....
Our dumb as the bed-board ‘press’ doesn’t seem able to ask the simplest questions of liberal protesters to uncover this trick. Why? What’s keeping the press from looking?
If the Tea Party was doing this reporters for the New York Times and Washington Post would catch it. Is it more than bias?
Many editors are aging hippies - they WANT TO BELIEVE the sixties are still here. In their minds they’re still young and girls are ready and able to come - running - for smart young journalists.
The press- ever vigilant with the Tea Party loses all curiosity when dealing with liberal groups. They live in past glory ... Might be time for newsrooms denizens to grow up, smell the roses, and start covering events with grown-up honesty.
Our dumb as the bed-board ‘press’ doesn’t seem able to ask the simplest questions of liberal protesters to uncover this trick.
They are NOT dumb, they DON'T WANT to ask, period.
Why? What’s keeping the press from looking?
I’ll answer the rhetorical question anyway. The press has an agenda-first mentality and the hell with the country. Look at the vicious "vetting" of GOP candidates...when objected to, the press' answers "correctly," claiming that they HAVE TO vet the candidates.
In the same breath, when asked why didn't you vet candidate 0b0z0 from the day he ran till today, you're accused of racism because, as they claim, they DID VET HIM!
My point is, I wouldn't call them dumb but I'll call them what they are; Communists for the cause who are armed with pens and cameras and protecting the thugs with fists, knives, guns and Molotov cocktails.
Case in point, there was no objection from the press when union thugs in red, "demonstrated at Verizon's CEO residence. Maybe the union thugs were VETTING him!
Regards.