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Kilmeade Asks If "You Fight Back" Against Wall Street Protests By "Explaining How Society Works?"

October 12, 2011 8:03 am ET

From the October 12 edition of Fox News' Fox & Friends:

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Previously:

After Relentlessly Promoting Tea Party Protests, Fox Attacks Wall Street Protesters

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Fox's Bolling: Occupy Wall Street Protesters "Do Seem Like Petulant Little Children"

Limbaugh Derides Occupy Wall Street Protesters As "Pure, Genuine Parasites," Says Many Are "Bored Trust Fund Kids"

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    • Author by curiousindependent (October 12, 2011 8:13 am ET)
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      Yes, Dooschy. Let me guess. The rich get everything they want, the rest of us should just be happy they allow us to live.
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      • Author by boxtop455113 (October 12, 2011 11:14 am ET)
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        Yes, they are the one's who give us our paychecks.
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        • Author by pete592 (October 12, 2011 11:23 am ET)
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          We are the ones who give them our LABOR.
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          • Author by PBVV (October 12, 2011 7:12 pm ET)
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            Fox News Reporters Maced And Beaten While Covering Occupy Wall Street [VIDEO]
            October 6, 2011
            The Occupy Wall Street protests have endured for nearly a month despite little attention from the press.
            Yesterday there was an incident that, under ordinary circumstances, would attract some additional coverage.

            Reporters from the Fox affiliate in New York were covering the protests when they were embroiled in a chaotic scuffle that resulted in the photographer getting maced and the reporter getting a struck by a police baton.
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        • Author by pete592 (October 12, 2011 11:24 am ET)
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          We are the ones who give them our blood, sweat and tears.
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        • Author by pete592 (October 12, 2011 11:24 am ET)
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          We are the ones who give them our hours away from spouses and children.
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        • Author by pete592 (October 12, 2011 11:25 am ET)
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          We are the ones who ADD VALUE and GENERATE WEALTH when we ADD LABOR to something.
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        • Author by pete592 (October 12, 2011 11:27 am ET)
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          We are the ones who go home bruised, burned, exhausted and covered in dirt after a hard day of making them rich.
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          • Author by Old_Benjamin (October 12, 2011 12:06 pm ET)
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            We are the ones who go home bruised, burned, exhausted and covered in dirt after a hard day of making them rich.


            Or don't come home at all because of a workplace accident.
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          • Author by foole (October 12, 2011 12:19 pm ET)
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            And, we buy the products we create for them so that they can stay rich and more money goes back into the system, hence growing the economy. The top 1% did not get there on their own. I have no problem with the super-rich. Until they decide to choke things off by hording all the money.
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            • Author by PBVV (October 12, 2011 1:37 pm ET)
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              ...in offshore accounts, foreign banks in addition to taking their wealth out of the USA, spending it elsewhere.
              Not to mention investing it in foreign markets, construction in other nations and building their businesses in other nations.

              How stupid does a boxtop have to be to not see and understand how wealthy corporations and individuals of this nation are phucking over their own nation and it's people??
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            • Author by somnambulist (October 12, 2011 2:15 pm ET)
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              You make an interesting point.

              Very few Americans actually care about the super-wealthy or how they run their lives so long as they have the basics in life. They have a house with their family, they have a solid job, health care, maybe a retirement plan, kids get a good education, etc etc... but when all that really fundamental stuff starts getting chipped at when the "reason" (our deficits) could be almost covered by not giving the rich tax cuts? Yeah, that's when people get annoyed.
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        • Author by pete592 (October 12, 2011 11:30 am ET)
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          "Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration." --- Abraham Lincoln
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          • Author by Persia (October 12, 2011 11:48 am ET)
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            Excellent posts Pete.
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            • Author by pete592 (October 12, 2011 11:50 am ET)
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              And I apologize to all for spamming. I should have done all that in one post but I was really p***ed off.
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              • Author by draftedin68 (October 12, 2011 1:28 pm ET)
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                No problemo, pete - boxtop has a way of bringing out the urge for verbal bitchslapping in folks.

                Nice job of it.

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          • Author by mikehuck76 (October 12, 2011 1:17 pm ET)
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            It is actually remarkable how programmed the modern right has become. Dittoheads is actually a perfect name for them. We actually have to explain to them that labor existed before capital and that capital would never exist without labor?? And, they STILL don't get it? I have said it many times, but never enough: The profound ignorance of the very basics of Ecomonics on the right-wing is destroying our economy.
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            • Author by foghornleghorn (October 12, 2011 1:55 pm ET)
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              The ignorance is quite profound - the nutjobs STILL can't figure out that in a consumer-based economy when the consumers have no money to spend, the economy suffers.
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              • Author by mikehuck76 (October 12, 2011 4:20 pm ET)
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                Against all evidence, reason, and rationality. They have facts and reality and evidence on one side and what Rush and Fox tells them they believe on the other side. And, they choose the other side! Remarkable.
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                • Author by Conchobhar (October 12, 2011 4:33 pm ET)
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                  I remember the caption of a political cartoon in the eighties, during the hey-day of mergers and acquisitions, when corporate raiders like Carl Ichan (and Mitt Romney) would take over a company and shed half its payroll: "I've got a great idea; let's fire half our work force and then sell them stuff." Can't remember who did it. Might have been Oliphaunt.
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        • Author by Old_Benjamin (October 12, 2011 12:07 pm ET)
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          Yes, they are the one's who give us our paychecks


          I guess that's how it works for trolls. But most of us receive a pay cheque for the labour we provide.
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          • Author by draftedin68 (October 12, 2011 1:30 pm ET)
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            I think the going rate for trolls is $.49 per post and $.02 per down thumb.

            By the time boxtop needs carpal tunnel surgery, he'll probably have made enough for his co-pay.
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            • Author by Old_Benjamin (October 12, 2011 2:24 pm ET)
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              And THAT'S ho society works...
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              • Author by Old_Benjamin (October 12, 2011 2:56 pm ET)
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                And THAT'S ho society works...


                A bit of a freudian slip there... while trolls are ho's, I meant "how".
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            • Author by curiousindependent (October 12, 2011 6:23 pm ET)
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              I doubt seriously that he is provided with any health care coverage. Most likely, he will not need a co-pay, as he will simply go to a county ER and skip on the bill. Assuming, that is, that his ilk hasn't done away with public hospitals by then.
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        • Author by mikehuck76 (October 12, 2011 1:15 pm ET)
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          The rich get everything they want, the rest of us should just be happy they allow us to live. - curious

          Yes - boxtop

          And, there you have it modern day right wing! This is what has become of your once proud party. You should feel bad about yourselves, but, clearly the shame was washed away long ago.
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        • Author by WestMassman (October 12, 2011 2:35 pm ET)
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          Yes, they are the one's who give us our paychecks.


          They don't GIVE us any thing. We work for it.

          Do you work for yours? I doubt it. Kissing up to a bunch of Anti-American fools is not work in any correct sense of the term. It resembles criminal activity more than it remotely resembles work
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        • Author by curiousindependent (October 12, 2011 3:10 pm ET)
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          Yes, they are the one's who give us our paychecks.
          Assuming that you actually get a paycheck, it is not surprising to me at all that it is given to you. I work for mine.
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      • Author by David2011 (October 12, 2011 12:25 pm ET)
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        The way society works according to Beetlebrow is that you kiss Roger Ailes behind until the cows come home, say exactly what he tells you to say, do exactly what he wants you to do, and never, ever stray anywhere the slightest bit off the reservation.

        Do that, and you won't have to go back to being a fourth rate sportscaster in Palookaville.

        That's how Beetlebrow thinks that society works. What a sad little man.
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    • Author by BDA (October 12, 2011 8:23 am ET)
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      Its getting funny how Faux keeps telling everyone how they are wrong about who to protest and what to protest.

      "I understand your frustration.... you are right to be angry at the Obama administration. You should be protesting down at the White House where they are plotting out ways to keep you poor. I'm going to send grandma from the tea party down there to tell you why that even though she lives social security check to check, you should vote like she does...Republican.
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    • Author by worrierking (October 12, 2011 8:28 am ET)
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      Enlighten me Mr. Big Brain Brian.

      Is this the way society is supposed to work?

      Working people are used up, then disposed of by corporate America. Afterwards they're to live off what they've squirreled away. No need for pensions. No need for Social Security or Medicare.

      And the final nail in their coffins will be when the value of their biggest investment, their home, disappears along with any hope they might have left.
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      • Author by Andy Kreiss (October 12, 2011 9:24 am ET)
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        You're not using the understood wingnut definitions of "enlighten", "explain" and "educate", WK. Like all of the other words in the teabagger lexicon, they mean the exact opposite of what they mean here on Earth.

        I've been seeing more polls showing that even a majority of Republicans are starting to wake up, and support a little tax increase on the elites. Fox is obviously focusing on their base, the slowest 1% of Americans who can be fed complete bullsh*t and believe they're being enlightened.
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        • Author by mikehuck76 (October 12, 2011 1:20 pm ET)
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          Fox is obviously focusing on their base, the slowest 1% of Americans who can be fed complete bullsh*t and believe they're being enlightened. - Andy

          Well, they certainly have nailed the boxtop demographic.
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    • Author by heehee..santorum (October 12, 2011 8:31 am ET)
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      "I wish the Tea- Party went down there and did a little educating" Education being the T-Party's hole card?
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      • Author by usp (October 12, 2011 8:37 am ET)
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        totally. just not that spelling thing so much.
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      • Author by Andy Kreiss (October 12, 2011 9:33 am ET)
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        heehee, I hadn't watched the clip before seeing your comment, but that made me do it. I was thinking " He didn't really say that... did he?"

        The teabaggers have been shuffling around for more than three years now, and I still haven't heard one of them clearly explain what their beef is, at least not with anything reality-based to support the complaints.

        The other ridiculous comment in this clip is that the OWS people need to hear from the teahadists that there's no guarantee, just opportunity. I don't see the OWS protestors demanding a tax-free ride for the privilege of living in this country, just a less rigged system.

        The 99% only want the opportunity to pitch in more, not some childish wish to do less for their country. Have to agree with usp, the teabaggers should really focus on forming coherent thoughts, and spelling above a 2nd grade level, before they contemplate "educating" anybody else.
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        • Author by heehee..santorum (October 12, 2011 10:07 am ET)
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          I usually don't watch the clips either, because 2 or 3 good comments here is usually indicative of the slight/slander/outright lie we are usually addressing. I haven't seen such a concerted CONSCIOUS effort to capitalize on stupid and or, easily led people in my life. I think I have only whined to you about a zillion times how troubling it is to me here in Texas to hear extended family and aquaintances repeat the damned dumbest sh!t peddled on Fox. The TeaParty really could elevate the discussion by embracing the parts of OWS that they have common ground on, but I fear the OWS'ers are being villified in our media too much. The Baggers and Libetarians would fit right in, if in fact they had not been co-opted, I think.
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        • Author by foole (October 12, 2011 10:29 am ET)
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          The 99% only want the opportunity to pitch in more, not some childish wish to do less for their country.

          Love that, Andy! It so clearly shows the difference between the Tea Partiers and OWS. The Tea Partiers want the government to give them everything and they don't want to sacrifice anything at all. The OWS protestors want jobs; money to feed their families; money to actually reinvest in America by buying things. We created a huge consumer society. Now, the top 1% seem to have forgotten that if you take all the money away from the people who actually spend it, you will eventually be holding useless pieces of green paper while wars begin to be fought over who can produce the most food. The 99% aren't really looking for "class warfare". We've been made war on by the top 1% for the last 30 years. Time to reset the scales so there is more financial balance in this country. Even the rich do better when we have a thriving economy. The only way to get that back? Get people back to work and putting their earnings back into the economy by spending.
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          • Author by Andy Kreiss (October 12, 2011 10:50 am ET)
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            Despite the media's spin on OWS as dirty hippies and stoners, what I'm seeing are working Americans, taxpayers, but they're not whining that taxes are what's killing them. That's an excuse used mostly by the teabaggers who can't ( or don't want to) see what's really holding them down, whether it's their own failure, or the people they worship.

            This is Fox getting it completely backward, as usual. The class warfare waged on the middle class, and the poor, that 99% of us, is real. For those who drink the Reaganomics Kool-Aid, a boogeyman is needed, and the gubmint is always handy.
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            • Author by heehee..santorum (October 12, 2011 10:56 am ET)
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              The optics of actual Americans, in their many shades and incarnations, are not what Frank Luntz reccomends as backdrops of an effective movement. They must resemble a Huckabee-Show audience, and they have the correlating one-hour long enthusiasm span until they have to get home and take their boniva.
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              • Author by heehee..santorum (October 12, 2011 11:00 am ET)
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                extra 'C' is recommended in cold and flu season, I am akshully reelie smart.
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        • Author by curiousindependent (October 12, 2011 10:43 am ET)
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          the teabaggers should really focus on forming coherent thoughts, and spelling above a 2nd grade level, before they contemplate "educating" anybody else.
          I think he was referring to a "second amendment education".
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          • Author by Andy Kreiss (October 12, 2011 10:51 am ET)
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            Which, of course, would just be a metaphor.
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            • Author by heehee..santorum (October 12, 2011 10:58 am ET)
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              what is a mtephor for a bunch of grown men running around in the woods pretending to fight G-Men and Black Panthers then?
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            • Author by curiousindependent (October 12, 2011 8:19 pm ET)
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              Bah. Kilmeade hasn't a clue what metaphor means, and neither do any of his viewers.
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      • Author by boxtop455113 (October 12, 2011 11:17 am ET)
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        The Tea party can educate them on manners. Also, teach them that it is 2011, not 1967. Also, that Haight Asbury is 3,000 west of where they are standing.
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        • Author by shaggles (October 12, 2011 11:27 am ET)
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          So you're suggesting the OWS protestors carry signs depicting Wall Street CEO's as Hitler? Or witch doctors?
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          • Author by highliter (October 12, 2011 1:45 pm ET)
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            Not they just crap on police cars and cause millions in damages to public parks.
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            • Author by eweston8542983 (October 12, 2011 1:54 pm ET)
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              The police car incident happenned in Canada.

              Your source on park damages is?
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              • Author by curiousindependent (October 12, 2011 6:27 pm ET)
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                Dangit, eweston, you just made me spit out my beer. You did NOT seriously ask highliter for a SOURCE???
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                • Author by eweston8542983 (October 12, 2011 7:50 pm ET)
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                  I like to imagine highliter being asked for a source is much like a, deer in your headlights.

                  I'm just ebil that way.
                  :-)>
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            • Author by congero6189599 (October 12, 2011 2:11 pm ET)
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              So highliter you stand against the protest of the original tea-partiers because they caused property damage?
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            • Author by mikehuck76 (October 12, 2011 2:29 pm ET)
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              Wow. Just....WOW! Imagine how stupid you have to be to support a group calling itself the Tea Party while decrying property damage. This reminds me of when the teabaggers were defending British corporate interests against our own president. You guys do not even know anything about the Tea Party itself? Do you know what the original Tea Party originally did??
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              • Author by danielsangeo (October 12, 2011 4:02 pm ET)
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                The original Tea Party from Boston would throw these "Patriots" in the water with the tea.
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        • Author by pete592 (October 12, 2011 11:59 am ET)
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          They need to tell Wall Street fat cats that they came unarmed this time?
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        • Author by Persia (October 12, 2011 12:11 pm ET)
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          How to commit acts of vandalism 101 still has some space for more students. Please enroll now before the class fills up. Also stomping on people's heads the "tea party" way 101 is still accepting students.
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        • Author by mikehuck76 (October 12, 2011 1:24 pm ET)
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          Ahh, boxtop is so profoundly stupid he thinks the teabaggers came to be in 1967. How sad.
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        • Author by draftedin68 (October 12, 2011 1:42 pm ET)
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          Thanks for demonstrating your ignorance boxtop - the media focused on Haight-Ashbury back then for the same reasons FOX NEWS strains to sell their DFH bullschitt today - it didn't/doesn't reflect reality, it didn't/doesn't provide anything remotely close to the full story and it did/does deflect attention away from those in corporate America who could give a ratsass about the future.

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    • Author by epkklk851 (October 12, 2011 8:39 am ET)
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      Oh, wookie, Bwian is behind a big desk! Don't he wook soo smart! So, Kendra, you're an "Apprentice" win, eh? A real estate mogul who lost her clients millions of dollars because you believed that bubbles were for bathtubs? Oh, and you're a strong, Bible-based Christian? Did they pat you on the head and tell you what a good girl you were after you finished your assigned talking points with a smile? Face it, honey, you've never shopped in a K-Mart or Wal-Mart in your life and you aren't about to start now. You're a spoiled little con woman who has managed to skate past the disasters you helped create and now Fox is throwing money at you to trash real working people for them. My what a good Christian girl you are!
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    • Author by Spooky Dooooooooood (October 12, 2011 8:40 am ET)
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      How does Kilmeade keep his job? Seriously.
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      • Author by campdwn (October 12, 2011 9:01 am ET)
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        A job where you're told how to think and requires no actual thinking of your own? That's the fox way!!
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    • Author by IRONY 101 (October 12, 2011 8:46 am ET)
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      How society works for whom, Brian? American society does not treat everyone equally...in fact, that's the problem.
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    • Author by The_Cat (October 12, 2011 9:09 am ET)
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      It's funny you should say this, Brian. The OWS protesters are in fact protesting how our society currently works. Do you get it now?
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    • Author by OHBROTHER58 (October 12, 2011 9:36 am ET)
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      Kilmeade Asks If "You Fight Back" Against Wall Street Protests By "Explaining How Society Works?"

      Talk about missing the point. The protesters are in fact protesting "how society works". They need nothing explained.

      Kimeade's remark is like saying, "Pretty Boy Floyd, John Dillinger, and Baby Face Nelson should fight back against the cops by explaining how bank robbery works."

      God these people are idiots.
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    • Author by grmce (October 12, 2011 10:16 am ET)
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      And how, pray tell oh clueless one, do you think society works?

      So far you and the brain dead blatherskites that you seem to rejoice in sucking-up to have demonstrated nil understanding of how either society or the economy operate.

      "Clueless" just seems so inadequate as an adjective to describe you and your ilk.
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    • Author by Vesus (October 12, 2011 10:20 am ET)
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      I tried explaining how society works to the authoritarians complaining about taxes. Apparently they think public roads, police and giant standing armies are free gifts from god or something.
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      • Author by curiousindependent (October 12, 2011 10:48 am ET)
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        It is exceedingly hilarious to me, as they screech about socialism, that they don't get that all of those things ARE socialism in action.

        Of course, so are public education and the fact that a hospital can't simply refuse to treat you while you die in their ER waiting room (or more likely, on the sidewalk outside, where they pushed you because you can't afford health care). But then, those two, at least, they would like to do away with.
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    • Author by wolf kotenberg (October 12, 2011 10:37 am ET)
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      he looks so serious too !!!
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    • Author by JJJ (October 12, 2011 10:59 am ET)
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      Maybe someone should explain to them how journalism works.
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    • Author by shaggles (October 12, 2011 11:05 am ET)
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      How does society work, El Duce?
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    • Author by mcnairbo6573 (October 12, 2011 12:18 pm ET)
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      Can't wait to hear Brian Kilmeade explain how society works. Let me guess, something like, the rich get more and the 99 percent get less and should just accept it and shut up.
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    • Author by pete592 (October 12, 2011 1:14 pm ET)
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      They do know how it works. It's the way it works that is the problem.
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    • Author by draftedin68 (October 12, 2011 1:58 pm ET)
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      Kilmeade is to journalism as fence posts are to theoretical physicists.

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    • Author by PBVV (October 12, 2011 2:32 pm ET)
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      ...How Society Works -
      -The most successful hire people, to get jobs, to earn a living.

      And you have an opportunity in this country, not a guarantee, of success.


      Brian----did the Murdoch & Koch Brothers editors write that copy for you or are you honestly that completely brainwashed that you wrote it yourself?

      Seriously.


      Wow.


      Now, Kendra---dear, I know that it is probably a case of the guys simply not taking the time to explain politics to you, but honestly, you should stop simply accepting the guys explanations and go find out for yourself...
      President Obama is NOT a LIBERAL!

      Doofus in the candy cane bowtie & the goofy look on your face--switch to decaf man, you were kinda shriekyish and I had to reply your bumbling portion twice just to figure out wth you actually said and from that I had to try to extrapolate what you were actually trying to say.

      And finally, to the hate talk radio dude at the end who is both sitting sideways and slouching sideways in his chair-- you agree with alotta the same points and issues as the OWS protestors?? You realize, that after saying that, you will never be allowed to be on Fox Noise, ever again, right??

      And also, you think that the Koch Brothers Attack Dogs aka "Tea Partiers" should go down and give an educational talking-to to the participants of Occupy Wall Street?
      Did you run that idea past hate talk radio King El Rushbo before you went on television spouting off that bright idea?
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