From the start of the Occupy Freak Street movement the media compared the protests to the tea party.

Based on jealousy over the movement that captured the nation prior to the November 2010 elections and since, the media wanted desperately to have protests they could relate to and promote. The tea party certainly was not that, so protecting #OWS has been their mission.

The protestors are making it harder and harder for the media to do that.

Take the Occupy Oakland protestors who attacked a KGO TV cameraman who was there to “shoot” a murder scene at one of the protests (wait–a murder scene at supposedly peaceful protests?).

Cameraman (or photojournalist, if you wish) Randy Davis was attacked by about a dozen men and he suffered a mild concussion and bumps and bruises.

It has also been reported that the protesters formed a human shield around the victim, possibly keeping the person from getting the medical help needed to possibly save his life if the occasion had been that severe. Accomplices, anyone?

The rap sheet at Occupy Bizarre Street continues to grow. The media has put itself in a pickle. Do they ignore these protests because they have become too embarrassing, do they try to paint them as something they are not, or do they continue to make them seem mainstream–or all of the above? Certainly, that’s what they’ve been doing for most of the time during these protests. (more…)

The mainstream media, embarrassed by the violence of yesterday’s Occupy Oakland protests, is desperately trying to save the image of the movement it has propped up as an ostensibly legitimate voice of populist support for economic redistribution and a liberal alternative to the Tea Party.

Almost uniformly, media reports today about the violence at the “general strike”–including vandalism, clashes with police, and burning barricades–have attempted to describe the Occupy Oakland demonstration as “largely peaceful.”

When the media have described violent acts, they have suggested, unreasonably, that these have been separate from the Occupy Oakland protests. The media seem uninterested in holding Occupy Oakland organizers responsible for the violence, or even in asking them for statements of condemnation.

National Public Radio’s report on the Occupy Oakland violence is typical of today’s mainstream media spin but hardly unique (as Stanley Kurtz points out, citing CBS coverage).

There’s quiet now in the streets of Oakland, the local Tribune reports.

But what began as a “mostly peaceful” general strike that “drew thousands Wednesday for rallies and marches … turned chaotic early Thursday after protesters took over a vacant building and police moved in, firing tear gas and flashbang grenades.”

Note that the violence is described–misleadingly–as having started after the “general strike” protest. And note that the Occupy Oakland activists themselves are never blamed directly.

Instead, we are told–much later in the story–that “Oakland protesters inspired by the Occupy Wall Street movement” were responsible. Inspired by, but not belonging to, Occupy.

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Here are some headlines you may have seen in the past few years:

Tea Party Getting Violent? 10 House Dems Report Threats, Vandalism

Tea Party Protest Turns Violent (VIDEO)

Tea Party Vigilantes Out for Liberal Blood

Menacing

MAP: A Guide To Recent Vandal Attacks on Democrats

Tea Party Movement Has Anger, No Dominant Leaders

Stop all the madness in the tea party movement

The list goes on and on. Message received: The Tea Party is violent.

Meanwhile, there is a movement of vagrants and vagabonds who have taken to the streets in what some have deemed a “counter-Tea Party” movement known as Occupy Wall Street. And while I applaud their exercise of free speech, it’s hard to ignore how the media treats elements of violence in their ranks versus the Tea Party.

For instance, when a Fox 5 reporter was told by an Occupier that he was going to stab in him in the throat, the media was quick to jump to the movement’s defense:

This person is not representative of the overhaul…the over…the overall group here.

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The folks in there, they’ve been gracious, they’ve been accommodating, um, they’ve answered all our questions.  I think not only myself but some of the other … the other reporters. So again, I don’t think this person represents the whole but it’s part of an element that uh, that officials, NYPD officials and city officials have been concerned about.  Some people, coming here for the accommodations, to sleep here for free food and that kind of thing.

I know if I were the victim of a threat and ran into such indifference from the group’s organizers, I’d be pretty annoyed if that was the response from the media.  Those quotes seem to show an unwillingness to even consider whether or not there is a larger issue pervading the protests.  But so ingrained is the thought process that those quotes actually come from the victim himself, John Huddy, who seemed to spend more time discussing the merits and good nature of the people that comprised Occupy Wall Street, while trying to make as clear as possible to the viewers at home that the death threat was in no way reflective of the movement at large.

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***Updated 12/9/2011– Today we hit incident 417.

New commentary has been added. Original commentary can be found below the Rap Sheet.

Don’t let the MSM get away with lying to you. Obama and the Democrats are all on record endorsing, embracing, encouraging and emboldening #OccupyWallStreet.

Obama on Occupy Wall Street: ‘We Are on Their Side’

House Democrats Endorse Occupy Wall Street

Top Democrats Endorse Occupy Wall Street Protests

Pelosi Supports Occupy Wall Street Movement

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The plan was a simple one. The path to Obama’s second term requires that enough voters forget that our current economic woes are the fault of a failed President who enjoyed two years of having every single item on his wish-list passed by Congress. And so the idea was to create Occupy in order to give the MSM the cover they desired to spend every single day up until the election talking about greed and income inequality in order to blame both for the stagnant economy.

The hope was that by repeating this message incessantly, enough voters could be convinced that Wall Street, and by extension, evil Republicans, were to blame for our chronic unemployment, record deficits, and stillborn economic growth. President Obama who?

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Fortunately for America, this plan has not only failed miserably it has backfired completely. Thanks to the rise of New Media and our unwillingness to let the MSM’s lies, bias, and cover ups stand for even one more day, Occupy is in its death throes and might take the President and Democratic party down with it. First and foremost, we uncovered the lie that Occupy was grassroots and then we exposed every Occupy rape, poop, death, overdose, old woman thrown down the stairs, attack on a police officer, and public act of masturbation. In the process, public opinion turned against the Occupiers and as a result these Leftists have started doing what the Left always does when they lose … have a tantrum:

1. NY: 10/1/2011 — Police Arrest More Than 700 Protesters on Brooklyn Bridge
2. Madison, WI: 10-27-2011 — Madison Occupiers Lose Permit Due to Public Masturbation
3. Phoenix: 10/28/2011 — Flier at Occupy Phoenix Asks, “When Should You Shoot a Cop?”
4. NY: 10/18/2011 — Thieves Preying on Fellow Protesters
5. NY: 10/9/2011 — Stinking up Wall Street: Protesters Accused of Living in Filth as Shocking Pictures Show One Demonstrator Defecating on a POLICE CAR
6. NY: 10/7/2011 — Occupiers Rush Police … More
7. Cleveland: 10/18/2011 — ‘Occupy Cleveland’ Protester Alleges She Was Raped
8. NY: 10/10/2011 — ‘Increasingly Debauched’: Are Sex, Drugs & Poor Sanitation Eclipsing Occupy Wall Street?
9. Seattle: 10/18/2011 — Man Accused of Exposing Self to Children Arrested
10. 10/12/2011 — Iran Supports ‘Occupy Wall Street’
11. Portland: 10/16/2011 –#OccupyPortland Protester Desecrates Memorial To U.S. War Dead
12. Portland: 10/15/2011 — #OccupyPortland Protesters Sing “F*** The USA”
13. Chicago: 10/17/2011 — COMMUNIST LEADER Cheered at Occupy Chicago
14. 10/15/2011 — American Nazi Party Endorses Occupy Wall Street‘s ’Courage,‘ Tells Members to Support Protests and Fight ’Judeo-Capitalist Banksters’
15. Boston: 10/14/2011 — Coast Guard member spit on near Occupy Boston tents
16. Boston: 10/11/2011 — Boston Police Arrest Over 100 from Occupy Boston
17. New York: 10/11/2011 — “You Can Have Sex with Animals.”
18. New York: 10/15/2011 — Harassing Police with Accusations of Phony Injuries
19. New York: 10/9/2011 — ‘Occupy Wallstreet’ Protesters Steal from Local Businesses
20. New York: 10/25/2011 — Three Men Threatened to Kill 24-Year-Old Occupy Wall Street Protester for Reporting Rape
21. Baltimore: 10/18/2011 — #OccupyBaltimore Discourages Sexual Assault Victims from Contacting Police
22. Portland: 10/27/2011 — Occupy Portland’s Attempt At Wealth Redistribution Ends In Theft
23. Los Angeles: 10/14/2011 – Anti-Semitic Protester at Occupy Wall Street
24. 10/27/2011 — A Death Threat From an Occupy Wall Street Protester
25. 10/27/2011 – Anti-Semitic Tweet From Occupier or Sympathizer
26. Boston: 10/20/2011 — Occupy Boston Doesn’t Want Police Involved in Rape
27. New York: 10/5/2011: Anti-Semitic Occupier Screams About Jews, Israel
28. New York: 10/4/2011 — Occupier Taunts Jewish Man
29. Boston: 10/2011 — Occupiers Block Street
30. New York: 10/2011 — Occupier Tries to Steal Police Officer’s Gun
31. New York: 10/27/2011 — Occupiers Block Traffic, Get Arrested
32. Oakland: 10/27/2011 — Occupiers Throw Garbage at Police
33. Oakland: 10/19/2011 — Abusive #OccupyOakland Protesters Ban Media from Tent City
34. Eugene, OR: 10/19/2011 — Occupiers Displace Farmers’ Market Threatening Hundreds of Jobs
35. Portland, OR: 10/18/2011 — Capitalist Offering Jobs at Occupy Portland Finds Few Takers
36. NY: 10/20/2011 — #OccupyWallStreet Threatens Businesses, Patrons
37. NY: 10/14/2011 — Violence Breaks Out During #OccupyWallStreet March Toward Stock Exchange
38. NY: 10/14/2011 — Protesters March On Wall Street, Scuffle With Cops
39. Oakland: 10/19/2011 — #OccupyOakland Protesters Threaten Reporter
40. Oakland: 10/26/2011 — Occupiers Scuffle with Police
41. Oakland: 10/24/2011 — Protesters Storm, Vandalize, Shut Down Chase Bank
42. Dayton, OH: 10/22/2011 — Protester: ‘F*ck The Military, F*ck Your Flag, And F*ck The Police’
43. Chicago: 10/14/2011 — Protesters’ Message At #OccupyChicago Rally: ‘Destroy Israel’
44. NY: 10/23/2011 — #OccupyWallStreet Supporter Rants Against Israel, Jews
45. NY: 10/22/2011 — #Occupy Kid: ‘Burn Wall Street, Burn!’
46. NY: 10/21/2011 — New Yorkers Fed Up With Noisy, Defecating Protesters
47. Oakland: 10/21/2011 — Occupy Oakland Evicted After Reports Of Crime And Intimidation
48. Oakland: 10/19/2011 — #OccupyOakland Out of Control: Rats, Graffiti, Vandalism, Sexual Harassment, Public Sex and Urination
49. Chicago: 10/26/2011 — Occupiers Under Investigation by FBI for Links to Terrorism
50. Cleveland: 10/29/2011 — Rape Reported at Occupy Cleveland
51. Dallas: 10/24/2011 — Police Investigating Possible Sexual Assault Of Teen At Occupy Dallas
52. Bloomington, IN: 10/26/2011 — Man Claims Occupy Bloomington Protesters Drugged, Handcuffed Him
53. NY: 10/10/2011 — Sex, Drugs and Hiding from the Law at Wall Street Protests
54. Glasgow: 10/26/2011 — Woman Gang-Raped
55. Boston: 10/23/2011 — Occupy Boston Protesters Arrested For Dealing Heroin – With 6 Year-Old in Tent
56. Portland: 10/16/2011 — Sex Offender Registers Occupy Portland Camp as Address
57. Denver: 10/15/2011 — Occupy Denver Demonstrator Accused of Groping TV Photographer
58. Lawrence, KS: 10/25/2011 — Sexual Assault Reported at Occupy Camp
59. Minneapolis, MN: Bricks, Rocks, ‘Riot Supplies’ Discovered by Police
60. Phoenix, AZ: 10/27/2011 — Neo-Nazis Patrol “Occupy Phoenix” With AR-15′s
61. Chicago: 10/26/2011 — Occupy Chicago Invades City Hall
62. 10/26/2011 — ACORN, Occupy Email Talks About Assault on Banks
63. 10/26/2011 — OccupyWallStreet Strategy for Reports of Violence Against Cops
64. Chicago: 10/26/2011 — Unrepentant Domestic Terrorist Bill Ayers Wows Occupiers
65. Chicago: 10/25/2011 — Ayers Coaches #OccupyChicago, Callsg for School ‘Occupations’
66. 10/26/2011/ — Occupy Protests Have Jewish Leaders Concerned
67. Wash DC: 10/27/2011 — OccupyDC Leftists Provoke Police – Hang Flag on Top of DC Statue
68. Albuquerque, NM: 10/26/2011 — Occupy Squatters Riot With Police
69. San Diego: 10/25/2011 — Flag Used as Chew Toy by Occupier’s Dog
70. Oakland: 10/25/2011 — Occupiers Throw Bottles at Police
71. NY: 10/27/2011 — Occupy Wall Street Protesters: Rush Limbaugh Is Bigger Threat Than Al-Qaeda
72. 10/27/2011 — Occupy Wall Street Launching First Nationwide General Strike in America Since 1946
73. NY: 10/28/2011 — Fox 5 News Reporter Assaulted at OWS
74. 10/28/2001 — Total Occupy Arrests Made Thus Far: 2750
75. Nashville: 10/28/2011 — 30 Arrests Made at Wall St. Protest
76. NY: 10/20/2011 — Former Marine Tries to Taunt Police into Violence
77. NY: 1023/2011 — Islamist Group Joins with Occupy Wall Street
78. Los Angeles: 10/13/2011 — Roundup of Overt Occupy anti-Semitism
79. NY: 10/12/2011 — There are No Anti-Semites at Occupy Wall Street. Except for This Guy
80. Missoula, MT: 10/20/2011 — Drunk 11-Year-Old At Occupy Missoula, Adult Arrested
81. Oakland: 10/28/2011 — Bounty Out On Police Officer?
82. Manchester, NH: 10/28/2011 — Woman charged with pimping teen recruited at Occupy NH rally
83. San Diego: 10/28/2011 — 40 Occupiers arrested
84. Boston: 10/24/2011 — Occupy Boston Vandalism of Banks
85. Boston: 10/25/2011 — Store Owner Suffers 4 Break Ins Since Occupy Boston Began
86. Portland: 10/28/2011 — Portland Police: Buckets of Excrement Scattered Around #OccupyPortland Camp
87. Seattle: 10/20/2011 — Two Possible Occupiers Charged With Assault
88. Seattle: 10/18/2011 — Armed Felon Arrested at Occupy Seattle
89. Seattle: 10/18/2011 — A Tent Fight and (At Least) One Arrest at Occupy Seattle
90. Seattle: 10/17/2011 — Over 50 Cops Clear Westlake Occupation, Make Eight Arrests
91. Seattle: 10/13/2011 — Cops Arrest Several Occupy Protesters
92. Seattle: 10/13/2011 — Chanting Protesters Surround Police After Officers Arrest Two
93. Denver: 10/29/2011 — Protesters Clash with Police at OWS Denver
94. Austin: 10/13/2011 — Occupy Austin protesters arrested for blocking cleaning Crews
95. Calgary, CN: 10/28/2011 — Occupiers do $40,000 in Property Damage
96. Cincinnati, OH: 10/21/2011 — 23 Arrested, Remains of protests fill two dumpsters
97. Sacramento: 10/19/2011 — 9 arrested in ‘Occupy Sacramento’ protest
98. Sacramento: 10/13/2011 — Four More Occupy Sacramento Demonstrators Arrested
99. Austin, TX: 10/22/2011 — Man Arrested After Knife Incident at Occupy Austin Camp
100. Nashville: 10/29/2011 — Tenn. Protesters Arrested For 2nd Straight Night
101. Austin, TX: 10/30/2011 — Austin Police arrest 38 Occupy Austin Protesters
102. NY: 10/30/2011 — Woman Assaulted in Her tent
103. Orlando, FL: 10/28/2011 — Occupy Orlando, police clash over use of downtown park
104. Orlando, FL: 10/26/2011 — 2 Occupy Orlando protesters arrested for trespass
105. Orlando, FL: 10/22/2011 — Police arrest 19 Orlando protesters on trespass charges
106. Asheville, NC: 10/30/2011 — Occupiers Clash with Homeless in Asheville
107. Nationwide: 10/27/2011 — Pro-Occupy Site claims 2511 Arrests Thus Far
108. Fort Worth, TX: 10/16/2011 — Arrests at Occupy Fort Worth Protest
109. NY: 10/29/2011 — Three Incidents of Anti-Semitism
110. San Francisco: 10/29/2011 — Anti-Semitic, Folsom Street Fair Types & Che Guevara Lovin
111. Oklahoma City: 10/30/2011 — Death of Street Poet at #OccupyOKC Treated as Homicide
112. Baltimore: 10/31/2011 — Woman Claims She was Raped at #OccupyBaltimore
113. Boston: 10/31/2001 — Alleged Heroin Dealer Joined Occupy Movement
114. Ottawa: 10/31/2011 — #OccupyOttawa Violent & Sexual Assaults Not Reported to Police
115. Santa Barbara, CA: 10/5/2011 — Occupiers Defy Police
116. Santa Barbara, CA: 10/6/2011 — 8 Occupiers Arrested
117. Denver, CO: 10/31/2011 — Occupiers Taunt Police, Knock Motorcycle Cop to Ground
118. Dallas, TX: 10/24/2011 — 23 Occupy Dallas Protesters Arrested After Bank Demonstration
119. Richmond, VA: 10/31/2011 — Arrests of Occupiers in Richmond
120. Dallas, TX: 1v1/1/2011: Man Arrested for Child Sex assault at Occupy Dallas Camp
121. NY: 11/1/2011 — Protesters Flock to STD-Test Clinics After Occupier ‘Free Love’
122. Iowa: 11/1/2011 — Occupiers Intend to Disrupt Iowa Caucus
123. NY: 11/1/2011 — Occupy Wall Street Costs Main Street Workers Their Jobs
124. San Diego: 10/29/2011 — Businesswoman Closes Shop After Threats By Occupiers
125. Palm Desert, CA: 11/1/2011 — Occupiers Arrested
126. Tampa, FL: 10/24/2011 — Six Occupiers Arrested
127. Tampa, FL: 10/27/2011 — Two More Arrested In Connection to Occupy Tampa Movement
128. Tampa, FL: 10/29/2011 — Occupy Tampa Protesters Arrested After Scuffle With Police
129. Oakland, CA: 11/3/2011 — Rallies Turn Violent
130. Seattle, WA: 11/2/2011 — Cops, Protesters Clash
131. Oakland, CA: 11/3/2011 — Protests Degenerate Into Chaos
132. Tulsa, OK: 11/2/2011 — Occupiers Clash With Police
133. Sacramento, CA: 11/2/2011 — Occupiers Smash County Vehicle Windows
134. Philadelphia: 11/2/2011 — Occupiers Arrested
135. Charlottesville, VA: 11/1/2011 — Underage Drinking at Occupy Charlottesville Site
136. Portland: 11/2/2011 — Occupier Shoves Police Officer into Moving Bus
137. Oakland: 11/2/2011 — Malkin’s Collection of Vandalism and Menacing Signs
138. NYC: 11/3/2011 — Occupier Busted In Tent Grope, Suspected In Rape
139. NYC: 11/4/2011 — 16 OWS Protesters Arrested at Goldman Sachs HQ
140. Oakland, CA: 11-3-2011 — Occupy-Friendly Business Vandalized
141. Asheville, NC: 11/3/2011 — 24 Occupiers Arrested
142. Raleigh, NC: 10/28/2011 — Eight at Occupy Raleigh Arrested After Standoff
143. NYC: 11/4/2011 — Deranged Homeless Man Goes on Violent Rampage In Zuccotti Park
144. Dallas, TX: CPS Seizes Baby From ‘Occupy Dallas’ Site
145. Wash DC: 11/4/2011 — Occupier Uses Child as Human Shield — Video
146. Wash DC: 11/4/2011 — Occupiers Try to Storm Americans for Prosperity Event — Video
147. Omaha, NE: 11/3/2011 — Three Occupiers Arrested
148. Atlanta: 11/3/2011 — Protester Turns On Fellow Protester With Knife
149. Los Angeles: 10/28/2011 — Drug Use and Property Damage
150. Boston, MA: 11/4/2011 — 3 Charged With Dealing Crack; Occupy Boston ‘Deteriorating’
151. Boston, MA: 11/4/2011 — Occupiers Storm Israeli Consulate; Anti-Israel Chants — Video
152. Vancouver, CN: 11/5/2011 — Occupy Vancouver Death Dooms Protest Camp
153. Fort Collins, CO: 11/4/2011 — Occupier Arrested for Setting Fire to Condo Complex … $10M Damage
154. Chula Vista, CA: 11/6/2011 — Underage Girl Missing From Occupy Protests
155. Los Angeles, CA: 11/5/2011 – Two Assaults Raise Concerns About Crime at Occupy L.A.
156. Dallas, TX: 11/5/2011 — Eight Arrests at Dallas Bank Protest
157. Olympia, WA: 11/5/2011 – Two Occupy Protesters Arrested
158. Seattle, WA: 11/3/2011 — Occupiers Cost City $426,000; Most of it Police Overtime
159. Olympia, WA: 11/2/2011 — 3 Occupiers Arrested for Suspected of Robbing Local Wine Merchant
160. Worcester, MA: 11/6/2011 — 25 Occupiers Arrested
161. Milwaukee, WI: 11/2/2011 — Photojournalist, Two others Arrested at Protest … Video
162. Milwaukee, WI: 10/20/2011 — Police Confront Occupier –Video … Arrested
163. Wash. DC: 11/5/2011 — Rampaging Occupiers Attack 78 Year-Old Woman — Video
164. Rochester, NY: 11/3/2011 — 161 Occupiers Arrested at Park
165. NYC: 11/5/2011 — Police Clash With Occupiers, 20 Arrested at Courthouse Protest
166. NYC: 11/5/2011 — Occupier Arrested for Vandalizing McDonald’s; Wanted Free Food
167. Asheville, NC: 11/5/2011 — Four Occupiers Arrested
168. Honolulu, HI: 11/6/2011 — Police Arrest Half-Dozen Occupiers
169. Waikiki, HI: 11/7/2011 — Two Dozen Occupiers Arrested
170. Portland, OR: 11/7/2011 — Occupiers Arrested for Threatening Restaurant Employees
171. Portland, OR: 11/7/2011 — Occupier Arrested for Threatening Security Staff with Hammer
172. Augusta, GA: 10/28/2011 — Occupier Arrested in Knife Threat
173. Portland OR: 11/9/2011 — Police Suspect Occupiers in Molotov Cocktail Attack
174. Sacramento, CA: 11/7/2011 — Homeless Clash With Occupy Protesters At Park
175. New Orleans: 11/8/2011 — Man Dead for Two Days Found in Occupy Encampment
176. San Diego: 11/7/2011 — Occupiers Splatter Vendor Food Carts with Blood, Urine
177. Los Angeles: 11/7/2011 — Occupiers Shut Down Burger King — Video
178. Atlanta, GA: 11/6/2011 — Occupiers Arrested After Attacking Police
179. St. Louis, MO: 11/9/2011 — Occupiers Hack Into Mayor’s Website
180. Oakland, CA: 11/8/2011 — “Dangerous” Occupiers Hurting Small Business Owners
181. Vancouver, CN: 11/8/2011 — Occupiers Bite Two Police Officers
182. Wash DC: 11/8/2011 — Occupiers Use Children to Block Traffic — Video
183. Portland, OR: 11/9/2011 — Occupiers Threaten Citizen-Journalist – Video
184. Wash DC: 11/8/2011 — Occupiers Use Racial Taunts Against Black Security Guard — Video
185. Eureka, CA: 11/9/2011 — Occupier Defecates in Bank – Video
186. Wash DC: 11/5/2011 – Occupiers Menace Children, Female Reporter – Video
187. Portland, OR: 11/8/2011 — Occupiers Menace News Crew – Video
188. NYC: 11/8/2011 — Occupier: ‘I Wouldn’t Give a F**k if 9/11 Happened 911 More Times’
189. NYC: 11/8/2011 — Small Business Owner Threatened, Terrorized By Occupiers
190. San Francisco, CA: 11/10/2011 — Occupier Threatens Park Ranger
191. Burlington, VT: 11/10/2011 — Veteran Shoots Self at Encampment
192. Oakland, CA: 11/3/2011 — ‘Occupy Oakland’ Goes After Cop
193. NYC: 11/10/2011 — EMT Assaulted at Occupy Wall Street
194. San Diego, CA: 11/10/2011 — Occupier Attacks Woman with Camera
195. Berekely, CA: 11/10/2011 — 39 Occupiers Arrested
196. Westwood, CA: 11/9/2011 — 11 Occupiers Arrested for Blocking Traffic
197. Fresno, CA: 11/9/2011 — 40 Occupiers Arrested
198. Toledo, OH: 11/1/2011 — 2 Occupiers Arrested
199. Houston, TX: 11/9/2011 — 10 Occupiers Arrested
200. NYC: 11/8/2011 — Hobbyist Photographer Describes Assault in Zuccotti Park
201. Oakland, CA: 11/10/2011: Fatal Shooting Over Drugs
202. Oakland: CA: 11/10/2011 — Protesters Attack News Crew Covering Fatal Shooting
203. Pasadena, CA: 11/10/2011 — Occupiers Announce Plans to Disrupt Rose Bowl Parade
204. Tampa, FL 11/10/2011 — Three Occupiers Arrested
205. Portland, OR: 11/10/2011 — Occupiers Billed for Police Car Vandalism
206. Olympia, WA: 11/11/2011 — Occupiers Asked to Pack Up After Assault, Drug Arrests
207. Denver, CO: 11/11/2011 — Occupiers Storm BlogCon 11 … One Arrest
208. Salt Lake City, UT: 11/12/2011 — Protest Shut Down After Body Discovered In Tent
209. San Francisco: 11/8/2011 — Shoplifting, Fights On The Rise Around Encampment
210. San Francisco: 11/10/2011 — Occupiers Accused of Ferry Building Thefts, Filth
211. San Francisco: 11/10/2011 — Protester Busted For Gun Violation Arrested Again
212. Mobile, AL: 11/9/2011 — 18 Occupy Protesters Arrested
213. New Orleans: 11/11/2011 — Death at Campsite Attributed To Alcohol Abuse
214. San Francisco: 11/12/2011 — Occupier Slashes Police Officer With Razor, Another Injured
215. Portland: 11/13/2011 — Three Arrested with Mortars, Fireworks
216. Chapel Hill, NC: 11/13/2011 — Eight Occupiers for Trespassing
217. Norfolk, VA: Six Occupiers Arrested
218. Philadelphia, PA: 11/13/2011 — Occupier Arrested for Rape
219. Portland, OR: 10/27/2011 — Sexual Assault: ‘nobody should contact the police’ — Video
220. NYC: 11/12/2011 — Occupiers Plan Mass Trespassing Campaign
221. Oakland, CA: 11/8/2011 — Occupiers Plan Mass Trespassing Campaign
222. Salt Lake City, UT: 11/12/2011 — 19 Occupiers Arrested
223. St. Louis, MO: 11/13/2011 — 27 Occupiers Arrested
224. St. Louis, MO: 11/12/2011 — Occupier Arrested
225. NYC: 11/13/2011 — Occupier Slugs Police Officer
226. Oakland, CA: 11/10/2011 — Occupiers Withdraw Resolution to Remain Peaceful
227. Portland, OR: 11/9/2011 — Occupier Requires Life-Saving CPR After Drug Overdose
228. Portland, OR: 11/9/2011 — 4 Reports of Substance Abuse
229. Olympia, WA: 11/12/2011: Growing Number of Drug, Violence Complaints
230. Atlanta, GA: 11/10/2011 — TB Breaks Out at Occupy Home Base
231. NYC: 11/13/2011 — Occupy Wall Street Costs Local Businesses $479,400
232. Nationwide: 11/11/2011 — Occupy Death Toll Hits 7
233. Seattle, WA: 11-14-2011 — Occupier Defecates on Public Sidewalk
234. Hartford, CT: 10/16/2011 — Occupier Charged After Pulling Knife
235. Dallas, TX: 11/14/2011 — 9-Month-Old Baby Removed From Camp Due to Health Concerns, Neglect
236. Albuquerque, NM: 10/27/2011 — 2 Occupiers Arrested
237. Albuquerque, NM: 10/26/2011 — More Than a Dozen Occupiers Arrested
238. Albuquerque, NM: 10/22/2011 — Knife Attack at Occupy Camp
239. Albuquerque, NM: 10/27/2011 — Police Forced to Remove Occupiers From Park Again, 37 Arrested
240. Albuquerque, NM: 10/8/2011 — Occupier Arrested
241. University of New Mexico: 11/8/2011 — Sordid Story of Lawlessness, Dozens of Arrests, Spitting on Walmart Customer
242. Albuquerque, NM: 10/16/2011 — Occupier Cited for Blocking Traffic
243. Portland, OR: 11/14/2011 — 51 Occupiers Arrested
244. Portland, OR: 11/14/2011 — Occupiers Smash Bank Windows
245. Albany, NY: 11/15/2011 — 20 Occupiers Arrested
246. Near Salem, OR: 11/13/2011 — Three Occupiers Arrested With Explosives
247. Wash DC: 11/11/2011 — Occupy’ Mom ‘Won’t Stop’ Putting Protest Above Her Kids’ Safety
248. NYC: 11/15/2011: — Hundreds of Occupiers Arrested, Chaos, Resisting Arrest, Object Thrown at Police
249. Houston, TX: 11/15/2011 — Occupier Arrested
250. Minnesota: 11/15/2011 — Occupy Minnesota Costs Taxpayers $10,000+ Each Day
251. Austin, TX: 11/15/2011 — Occupier Accused of Masturbating in Front of 16 Year-old Girl
252. San Francisco, CA: 11/15/2011 — Deadly Dog Disease Spreads at Occupy Camp
253. Philadelphia, PA: 11/15/2011 — Occupier Arrested for Assaulting Woman
254. Philadelphia, PA: 11/15/2011 — Occupiers Vandalize Dilworth Plaza With Graffiti and Feces – Video
255. Santa Cruz, CA: 11/15/2011 — Ringworm, Scabies Outbreak at Occupy Camp
256. Oakland, CA: 11/14/2011 — Occupiers Cost Taxpayers $2.4 Million
257. Wash DC: 11/16/2011 — Suspected White House Shooter Spent Time with OccupyDC.
258. Pittsburgh, PA: 11/15/2011 — Five Occupiers Arrested for Disorderly Conduct, Blocking Traffic
259. San Francisco, CA: 11/17/2011 –  Occupiers Storm Bank, 95 Arrested
260. Chicago, IL: 11/16/2011 — Occupier Arrested for Child Porn
261. NYC: 11/16/2011 — Dozens Of Hypodermic Needles Found In Zuccotti Park
262. NYC: 11/16/2011 –  Occupier Arrested for Making Terror Threats – Video … More.
263. Dallas, TX: 11/17/2011 — 18 Occupiers Arrested
264. Charlotte, NC: 11/14/2011 — Two Occupiers Arrested
265. Charlotte, NC: 11/15/2011 — 8 Occupiers Arrested
266. Ottawa, CN: 10/29/2011 — Feces, Urine, and Blood Covered Blanket Hung Over Tent
267. Los Angeles, CA: 11/15/2011 – Occupier Charged With Masturbating In Front of Children
268. Los Angeles, CA: 11/15/2011 — Occupier Arrested for Attempting to Light Food Vendor On Fire
269. NYC: 11/15/2011 — City Claims Occupy Wall Street Protesters Were Stockpiling Weapons
270. Wash DC: 11/15/2011 — Occupiers Block Traffic, Three Injuries
271. NYC: 11/16/2011 — 150 Trashmen Needed to Clean Occupy Park Filth
272. Los Angeles: 11/17/2011 –  Occupiers Block Freeways, 26 Arrested
273. NYC: 11/17/2011 – Mob of Occupiers Taunt, Bully Small School Children
274. San Francisco, CA: 11/17/2011 — Lice, Fleas, Disease Spread in Camp
275. NYC: 11/17/2011 — Occupiers Create Citywide Mayhem, 275 Arrested
276. West Jordan, UT: 11/17/2011 — Occupier Hurls Molotov Cocktail at Bank
277. NYC: 11/17/2011 — Police Officer Slashed, Others Attacked
278. NYC: 11/17/2011 — Occupiers Throw Vinegar In Eyes of Police Officers
279. Lincoln, NE: 11/5/2011 — 4 Occupiers Arrested at Bank Protest
280. San Diego, CA: 1/17/2011 — Occupiers Hold Moment of Silence In ‘Solidarity’ With Accused Obama Would-Be Assassin – Video
281. Melbourne, AU: 11/18/2011 — Children as Young as 12 Given Drugs, Alcohol
282. Los Angeles, CA: 11/17/2011 — Dozens of Occupiers Arrested at Bank Protest
283. Denver, CO: 11/16/2011 — Residents Complain Police Response Slowed Due to Occupiers
284. Denver, CO: 11/17/2011 — Occupiers Block Traffic
285. Denver, CO: 11/18/2011 — Occupiers Charged With Inciting a Riot, Assaulting Police Officer
286. Columbus, OH: 11/15/2011 — 7 Occupiers Arrested for Refusing to Leave Bank
287. St. Louis, MO: 11/18/2011 — Woman Sexually Assaulted
288. Portland, OR: 11/18/2011 — Occupier Punches Police Horse – Video
289. Missoula, MT: 10/26/2011 –  Occupier Charged With Getting 11-Year-Old Drunk
290. Portland, OR: 11/17/2011 — Occupier Brags About Urinating In Public — Video
291. Chicago, IL: 11/17/2011 — 58% Believe Violence Against Government Sometimes Necessary
292. Portland, OR: 11/18/2011 –  Ocupier Uses Infant as Human Shield — Video
293. NYC: 11/18/2011 — Mob Calls For Revolutio,n Screams “F*ck cops! F*ck police!” – Video
294. Portland, ME: 11/19/2011 — Two Occupiers Arrested for Brutal Assaults
295. Orlando, FL: 11/14/2011 — Two Occupiers Fight, One Injured By Knife
296. Pensacola, FL: 11/18/2011 — Occupier Charged With Burglary, Brought Furniture to Occupy Camp
297. NYC: 11/19/2011 — Occupier Arrested for Blocking Traffic Also Wanted in Indiana
298. Philadelphia, PA: 11/17/2011 — Occupiers Arrested During Protest
299. Seattle, WA: 11/17/2011 — Hundreds of Occupiers Snarl Traffic Around Medical Center
300. Columbia, SC: 11/16/2011 — At Least 15 Occupiers Arrested
301. Mobile, AL: 11/17/2011 — Occupier Arrested in Government Building
302. Dallas, TX: 11/2011 — Media List of Occupy Arrests, Infractions
303. Santa Cruz, CA: 11/19/2011 — County Officials Release List of 93 Acts of Lawlessness In and Around Occupy Camp 
304. Santa Cruz, CA: 11/19/2011: Occupiers Suspected of Dumping 200 Pounds of Human Feces Near Veterans Building
305. Berkeley, CA: 11/18/2011 — Woman Assaulted for Refusing to Join Occupy
306. Des Moines, IA: 11/20/2011 — Occupy Leader Arrested on Drug Charges
307. NYC: 11/20/2011 — Occupier Arrested With Handgun, Ammo
308. Eugene, OR: 11/19/2011 — Heroin Overdose at Occupy Camp
309. Seattle, WA: 11/19/2011 — 70 Occupiers Trespass on Foreclosed Home
310. Portland, ME: 11/19/2011 — Three Occupiers Charged, Including a Hammer Attack
311. NYC: 11/18/2011 — ‘Runaway Mom’ Arrested for Disorderly Conduct
312. Hartford, CT: 11/17/2011 — Occupiers Arrested for Blocking Traffic
313. Austin, TX: 11/18/2011 — Five Occupiers Arrested for Trespassing
314. Minneapolis, MN: 11/20/2011 — Occupiers Arrested for Burglary, Blocking Police Car — Video
315. Oakland, CA; 11/20/2011 — Occupiers Defy Legal Eviction, Return to Camp
316. Wash DC: 11/19/2011 — 11 Occupiers Arrested for Trespassing
317. San Francisco, CA: 11/18/2011 — Camp Declared Public Health Nuisance; Eviction Deadline Passes
318. Oakland, CA: 11/19/2011 — Occupiers Plan to Shut Down all Ports on West Coast
319. NYC: 11/19/2011 — Occupier Arrested for Forcibly Touching Woman
320. NYC: 11/21/2011 — Occupiers Pledge to Stick It to Taxpayers
321. Houston, TX: 11/22/2011 — 15 Rounds fired Into Occupy Camp, Gunmen Shot & Arrested
322. London: 11/21/2011 — Occupiers Defecate in St. Paul’s Cathedral
323. Oakland, CA: 11/21/2011 – Occupy Oakland Hosts Gay Porn Movie Shoot
324. Oakland, CA: 11/22/2011 — Domestic Terror Group, Weather Underground, Joins #Occupy
325. Columbia, SC: 11/21/2011 –  Occupiers Defy Curfew
326. NYC: 11/21/2011 — Three Occupiers Arrested After Rowdy Demonstration Outside Mayor’s Home
327. Phoenix, AZ:; 11/21/2011 — Eight Occupiers Arrested
328. Albany, NY:  11/20/2011 — 48 Occupiers Arrested
329. Pensacola, FL: 11/21/2011 — City Hall Vandalized After Occupy Protest
330. Fort Meyers, FL: 11/20/2011 — Occupier Arrested On Bomb Threat Charges – Video
331. Milwaukee, WI: 10/20/2011 — Occupier Arrested at Bank Protest – Video
332. Nationwide: 11/23/2011 — Occupiers Cost Taxpayers $13 million, So Far
333. Toronto, CN: 11/23/2011 — 8 Occupiers Arrested
334. Seattle, WA: 11/27/2011 — Armed Thief Flees Into Occupy Camp 
335. Dallas, TX: 11/25/2011 –  2 Occupiers Arrested for Throwing Red Liquid On Neiman Marcus Walls, Windows
336. Seattle, WA: 11/27/2011 — Bank Vandalized With Graffiti: ‘Revenge for Occupy Oakland’
337. Santa Cruz, CA: 11/25/2011 — Police Arrest Occupier for Heroin Use
338. Columbia, SC: 11/26/2011 — Occupy Sympathizer Threatens to Murder Governor Haley
339. Seattle, WA: 11/23/2011 –  Police: ‘Pregnant’ Occupy Protestor Tried to Lure Children
340. Augusta, ME: 11/27/2011 –  8 Occupiers Arrested for Criminal Trespass and Mischief
341. Boston, MA: 11/26/2011 — Occupier Arrested For Failing to Appear In Court For Assaultong Police Officers
342. Ottawa, CN: 11/26/2011 — Occupier Arrested, Eight Cited
343. Raleigh, NC: 11/26/2011 –  Six Arrested For Disrupting Black Friday Shoppers
344. Edmonton, CN: 11/25/2011 — Three Occupiers Arrested
345. Unknown: 11/25/2011 — Occupiers Arrested for Trespassing at Walmart on Black Friday — Video – More
346. Bloomington, IN: 11/26/2011 — Occupiers Drain Local Businesses, Attract Drug Use
347. San Diego, CA: 11/25/2011 — Report: Flash Mob Invades Walmart, Leaves 75 Full Carts – Video
348. Unknown: 11/25/2011 –  Occupiers Hand Out ‘Don’t Be a CUMsumer Whore’ Pamphlets at Walmart – Video 
349. Portland, OR: 11/28/2011 — Occupy Raided … Cops Find Machetes, Body Armor, Drugs
350. Austin, TX: 11/25/2011 — Occupier Arrested for Criminal Trespass
351. Oklahoma City, OK: 11/29/2011 — Drunken Occupiers Beat Security Guard
352. Harrisburg, PA: 11/27/2011 — Occupier Arrested at Mall
353. Del City, OK: 11/25/2011 — 10 Occupiers Arrested for Disorderly Conduct at Walmart
354. Olympia, WA: 11/28/2011 — Arrests Made After Occupiers and Other Groups Clash With Police
355. Boston, MA: 11/28/2011 — Occupier Threatens Man With Knife
356. Portland OR: 11/28/2011 – Occupier Threatens Woman With Arson – Video
357. Los Angeles, CA: 11/28/2011 –  Several Occupiers Arrested For Throwing Objects at Police
358. Wilmington, NC: 11/28/2011 — Occupier Arrested for Refusing to Obey Police
359. Tucson, AZ: 11/28/2011 — Two Occupiers Arrested
360. Olympia, WA: 11/29/2011 — 4 Arrests, Occupier Bites Police Officer’s Arm
361. Dayton, OH: 11/29/2011 — Occupiers Rage at Target Shoppers –  Video
362. Los Angeles, CA: 11/30/2011 — Hundreds of Occupiers Arrested
363. Philadelphia, PA: 11/30/2011 — 50 Occupiers Arrested
364. Tucson, AZ: 11/30/2011 — Occupiers Arrested For Assaulting Police Officer, Graffiti
365. Frontenac, MO: 11/30/2011 – Occupiers Vandalize  Subdivision Sign
366. Monterey, CA: 11/30/2011 – Occupiers Smacks Citizen Journalist – Video
367. Los Angeles, CA: 11/30/2011 — Police Required to Wear Hazmat Suits During Camp Clean Up, Human Waste Stored for Some Reason
368. Charlottesville, VA: 12/1/2011 — Several Protesters Arrested, One Nude
369. Eureka, CA: 11/30/2011 — Occupier Arrested, 11 Detained
370. Bloomington, IN: 12/1/2011 — Five Occupiers Arrested
371. Riverside, CA: 11/30/2011 — Occupier Arrested
372. Philadelphia, PA: 11/30/2011 — Robber Claims To Be Part of Occupy Movement
373. Tampa, FL: 12/2/2012 — 29 Occupiers Arrested
374. Boston, MA: 12/1/2011 — Three Occupiers Arrested
375. NYC: 12/1/2012 — 10 Occupiers Arrested
376. Denton, TX: 12/4/2010 — Man Found Dead at Occupy Camp
377. Wash DC: 12/4/2010: Occupiers Refuse to Remove Illegal Structure, 31 Arrested
378. Hartford, CT: 12/3/2011 — Sexual Assault Victim Covers Up Crime
379. Seattle, WA: 12/3/2011 – 16 Occupiers Arrested After Building Break-in
380. Seattle, WA: 12/2/2011 — Occupy Sympathizers Assault Anti-Occupy Protester
381. Portland, ME: 12/1/2011 — Occupier Already Facing Assault Charge, Charged With Threatening … More.
382. Seattle, WA: 12/3/2011 — Occupiers Spit on Police
383. Las Vegas, NV: 11/17/2011 — 21 Occupiers Arrested for Blocking Traffic
384. Olympia, WA: 12/2/2011 — Two Arrests at Camp, Robbery and Assault On Police Officer
385. Salt Lake City, UT: 11/10/2011 — Police Break up Fight Involving 30 Occupiers
386. Santa Cruz, CA: 12/2/2011 — 20 to 30 Occuppiers Break Into Building
387. Boston, MA: 12/4/2010 — Knife-wielding Occupier Arrested
388. NYC: 12/4/2011 — Three Occupiers Arrested
389. Nashville, TN: 12/4/2011 — Occupiers Arrested for Trespassing
390. NYC: 12/3/2011 — ‘Troubled’ Occupier Has Now Been Arrested 6 Times
391. Augusta, ME: 12/4/2011 — Occupier Arrested for Threatening Resident with Sledgehammer
392. Ft. Meyers, FL: 12/2/2011 — Occupiers Shut Down Preschool
393. Portland, ME: 11/30/2011 — Occupiers Cause $86k In Damage to Parks
394. Los Angeles, CA: 12/3/2011 — Undercover Police Report Occupiers Prepared Weapons
395. NYC: 12/1/2011 — Occupy Causes Small Business to Lay Off 25% of Staff, May Close 
396. Santa Cruz, CA: 12/4/2011 — Two Arrested for Beating Photographer
397. Santa Cruz, CA: 12/5/2011 — Two Arrested for Trespassing
398. San Diego, CA: 12/5/2011 — Nine Arrested: Resisting Arrest, Vandalism
399. Boston, MA: 12/5/2011 — Woman Stabbed at Occupy Camp
400. Eugene, OR: 12/5/2011 — Occupiers Cost Taxpayers $100k
401. Nashville, TN: 12/4/2011 — Four Occupiers Arrested
402. Portland, OR: 12/4/2011 — Several Occupiers Arrested
403. Orlando, FL: 12/5/2011 — Several Occupiers Arrested
404. Tulsa, OK: 12/9/2011 — Occuppiers Rally in Support of Accused Murderer
405. San Francisco, CA: 12/8/2011 — Occupiers Clash with Police, 70+ Arrested
406. Orlando, FL: 12/5/2011 – 5 Occupiers Arrested
407. Wash DC: 12/8/2011 — 70 Occupiers Arrested In Protest, Block Traffic for Hours
408. Des Moines, IA: 12/7/2011 — Occupiers Steal From Evicted Man
409. Dayton, OH: 12/8/2011 – 5 Occupiers Arrested for Trespassing
410. Tucson, AZ: 12/6/2011 — 5 Occupiers Arrested for Fighting
411. Darien, CT: 12/6/2011 — Occupy Organizer Arrested for Blocking Traffic While Drunk
412. Hartford, CT: 12/6/2011 — Occupier Arrested
413. Newark, NJ: 12/9/2011 — SEIU Local President Complains Occupy Offered Son Drugs
414. Orlando, FL: 12/8/2011 –  Five Occupiers Arrested
415. Sacramento, CA: 12/8/2011 — Two Dozen Occupiers Arrested
416. Santa Cruxz, CA: 1/7/2011 — Occupiers Commit $30,000 In Vandalism
417. Oakland, CA: 12/3/2011 – Occupiers Taunt, Harass Police – Video

Recently, President Obama said that the Occupiers are just like the Tea Party.

That’s a lie.

We need to keep this list updated and comprehensive. Please email whatever I might have missed and any future incidents to jnolte@breitbart.com or tweet them to @NolteNC.

One of the secret weapons the corrupt mainstream media uses in their never-ending quest to Palace Guard for the left is context. For example, when it came to the Tea Party, the MSM was notorious for amplifying a single incident (that was usually a lie) and using it to attempt to smear and define an entire movement. This is what you do when you want to quickly take out a political enemy.

The MSM’s contextual game changes, however, when their desire is to strengthen a movement and give it credibility and room to grow. By dutifully reporting individual incidents but not reporting on the growing scope and size of Occupy Wall Street lawlessness, the MSM is willfully covering up the violence, vandalism, and anti-Semitism that truly does define this movement.Moreover, by intentionally keeping the pieces of this story scattered, the MSM is allowed to have their cake and eat it too. No one can accuse them of not reporting these incidents, but by choosing not to bring the pieces together, the MSM ensures the least amount of public relations damage is done to the Occupiers.

What I’ve collected below is far from comprehensive but still shows over 75 incidents of sexual assault, violence, vandalism, anti-Semitism, extortion, perversion, and lawlessness.

The MSM could easily tell the story of how this violence-prone movement is becoming an increasing threat to our society. After all, my research below is the result of nothing more than Twitter and Google. Among others, The New York Times, Washington Post, Politico, and the LA Times have willfully chosen not to use the resources at their disposal to give the public an honest look at this growing menace. In their partisan minds, truth doesn’t trump agenda.

A few notes on the list below. Whenever possible, I traced the incident back to the original news source. I was as careful as possible when it came to duplicate postings, though I would guess there are a few in here. There are also less than five examples that don’t involve what I would qualify as outright lawlessness but do help to expose the Occupiers for who and what they really are. Finally, and this is the most important way in which the list is imperfect, I most certainly wasn’t able to document everything. A perfect list would be much more alarming than the one I slapped together in just a few hours.

What is true is that on October 18, pollster Doug Schoen (a Democrat!) discovered that a full 31% of Occupiers were willing to commit violence in pursuit of their agenda, whatever that is. As a response to this startling and frightening admission, the MSM either outright ignored or dismissed it. What you’ll see below proves that at least when it comes to their willingness to break the law, the Occupiers are keeping their word.

The list is in no particular order. Like the Occupiers themselves, it’s unruly, disorganized, messy and not focused solely on the nation’s media centers. The movement is spreading across America and bringing with it their outrageous and appalling behavior.

On top of everything else, imagine the drain all this lawlessness has on law enforcement resources. My list doesn’t even include the collateral damage. Thanks to Occupy Wall Street’s drain on police personnel, shootings increased 154% in New York alone. What is it in Chicago, Seattle, Boston, Oakland, and Cleveland?

Just last week Vice President Joe Biden was all freaked out about the possibility of crime rates increasing if Congress didn’t pass Obama’s Son of Stimulus. Well, that premise was based on a lie, but the same White House trying to sell that bill of bull isn’t at all concerned with the very real increase in crime caused by the Occupiers they encourage.

Please keep the tips coming. Email me at jnolte@breitbart.com.

Photo: WBS-TV

The Associated Press published a report this morning about the Occupy Oakland protests.

Way, way down at the bottom of article was this explosive detail about Occupy Atlanta:

Mayor Kasim Reed had been supportive of the protests, twice issuing an executive order allowing them to remain.

Reed said on Wednesday that he had no choice to arrest them because he believed things were headed in a direction that was no longer peaceful. He cited a man seen walking the park with an AK-47 assault rifle.

“There were some who wanted to continue along the peaceful lines, and some who thought that their path should be more radical,” Reed said. “As mayor, I couldn’t wait for them to finish that debate.”

Reed said authorities could not determine whether the rifle was loaded, and were unable to get additional information.

An Associated Press reporter talked to the man with the gun earlier Tuesday.

He wouldn’t give his name — identifying himself only as “Porch,” an out-of-work accountant who doesn’t agree with the protesters’ views — but said that he was there, armed, because he wanted to protect the rights of people to protest. (more…)

Narrative. Narrative. Narrative.

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The corrupt MSM will spend days spreading the lie that the N-word was hurled by a Tea Partier but when Obama’s Left-wing minions in the Occupy Wall Street movement commit violence, get arrested, and drain precious law enforcement resources, that rates 19 seconds of coverage:

The morning shows of ABC, CBS, and NBC on Tuesday devoted just 19 seconds to the arrests of 75 people in northern California, after police evicted Occupy Oakland from their encampment in front of city hall there.  The Early Show devoted a news brief to the story during its last half hour, noting the violent reaction from some of the protesters. Good Morning America and the Today show both punted.

[...]

David Morgan’s article on CBSNews.com about the confrontation specified that “Oakland police say they arrested 75 people while clearing an anti-Wall Street protest in front of City Hall that had grown into an encampment with dozens of tents.” Morgan later noted that “there were reports of a sex assault and a severe beating and fire and paramedics were denied access to the camp, according to city officials, who said they had also received numerous complaints of intimidating and threatening behavior.”

(more…)

Early yesterday morning, we received a tip from a reader in the San Francisco East Bay area who informed us that a local reporter’s life had been threatened by an activist at the Occupy Oakland demonstration.

Our source, who is fearful of reprisal and has requested anonymity, says that KGO-TV’s Amy Hollyfield was accosted by a man who threatened her and used a racial slur:

“We shoot white bitches like you around here.”

According to our source, the Oakland Police Department was apparently called to the scene. Inquiries to the police, and to Hollyfield, which began at roughly 8 a.m. Pacific time yesterday, are still unanswered today.

Other local morning news reports from three of the major Bay Area stations suggested that the Occupy Oakland tent city had descended into rat-infested squalor with complaints of vandalism, public urination, sexual harassment, and sex in public.

The night before, local CBS affiliate KNTV had reported that one Occupy Oakland activist had set his dog on a reporter in a vicious attack that would have maimed his arm had the reporter not been wearing a suit jacket.

Yet even as these local stations reported how Occupy Oakland has collapsed into chaos, they failed to report that police were allegedly called to protect a reporter whose life was threatened in a racist and misogynistic way.

KGO is not playing up the alleged incident on its website, and its reporting on the Occupy Oakland chaos is leaving out these explosive details–that, if verified, would make Occupy Oakland the major national story it ought to be.

Here is Ms. Hollyfield’s report from this morning, in which she mentions threats to KGO’s cameras, but not the alleged threat to her life.

Hollyfield later confirmed, on Twitter, the threat to “break our camera,” but did not mention the alleged threat to her life.

In another report from the Occupy Oakland tent city early this morning, KTVU’s Claudine Wong was verbally abused and intimidated on live television, in a tense scene witnessed by viewers throughout the Bay Area.

(more…)

The video below is pretty symbolic of what we’re seeing from the MSM as a whole, the very same MSM that reported on the absurdly peaceful tea party with seething hostility and contempt:

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Well, there may only be a couple hundred cities in the world, but the real pull-quote there is, “And of course they are calling for the 1% of richest Americans to find more ways to help the 99%.”

Oh, how sweet and noble and innocent they all are.

One now wonders if the same national MSM that obsessed over Tea Party signs brought in by obvious infiltrators to aid the MSM in their crusade to smear the whole movement will find this treasure-trove of frightening astro-turf newsworthy, or the violence that broke in New York City this morning AFTER Mayor Bloomberg caved about cleaning the park, or this:

(more…)

I’m writing this column, hoping to avoid something tragic or horrible before it happens.

The media loves telling us how they are there to protect us from everything awful or dangerous. Okay, time to put up.

Conservatives are under attack from the left and you sit there on the sidelines.

I was in Chicago last year with Andrew Breitbart when an unruly crowd of leftists attacked him verbally and viscously. He stood strong. He had every right to be there, and it’s clear the instigators were from the left.

We’ve all seen the recent video of Breitbart in the lobby of the hotel at the gathering of leftist bloggers. Had I not already known the outcome of that encounter, it would’ve been easy to fear for his safety at that time as well. This was as close as you can get to a physical attack. Fortunately it was just verbal, but what is the next step after a verbal attack like that?

Now, the Glenn Beck situation. He takes his family to a play in New York and is accosted by a gang of leftists going after his wife and daughter. Beck travels with security—I’ve seen them and chatted with them. By all accounts, security could not have done much to help with this incident. Wine was kicked on Beck’s wife and an evening out with his family ruined. Leftists punks acted like paparazzi, taking pictures of Beck’s family and posting them on a left-wing web site.

My media friends, who are always so quick to point out conservative violence where there is none, are virtually ignoring this activity that is right at the edge of busting out into something much more serious.

The activist old media work overtime to bring cameras to tea party rallies hoping to spot violence, or the least bit of incivility, and lead the newscast with the result. They have been shut out. Now, we have documented evidence of conservatives under attack, and the media give us crickets.

(more…)

Any time someone commits an act of violence that grabs headlines, journalists scramble desperately for a scapegoat, some person or social force to crusade against and extend the story’s expiration date (and thus ratings).  While it appears that Jared Lee Loughner’s motivation for shooting Gabrielle Giffords was nonpartisan (aka mental illness), there have already been reports from CBS, CNN, and the Associated Press attempting to pin Loughner’s motivations to Sarah Palin’s gun-target map, Giffords’ opponent Jesse Kelly using an M16 at a campaign event, and a general atmosphere of fear and animosity created solely by Republicans in Arizona.

As long as they’re bringing this subject up, I believe it’s a good time to discuss what the media could do if they really wanted to prevent future violence.  The answer is not to force conservative speakers to be “more careful” with their rhetoric.  In fact, I believe that the greater responsibility to prevent violence lies on the shoulders of journalists themselves; the media must stop suppressing conservative voices and increasing the ire of the nation.

This is not what makes us angry.

Only a literalistic idiot could find Palin’s “target” map something that would inspire violence, and only a partisan idiot could think that Loughner, a fan of flag-burning, would be a big enough Palin fan to have ever seen that map.  I find it extremely unlikely that someone can be inspired to violence through the words of a political leader unless it’s a direct order, which neither Palin nor Beck nor Rush have come anywhere close to saying.  The people who claim that these three use “coded language” to incite violence are as paranoid as Loughner; only crazy people see calls to violence in innocuous speech, such as John Lennon’s shooter claiming The Catcher in the Rye as his inspiration.

Indeed, when these conservative media personalities talk about removing politicians through the power of one’s vote, that is actually a deterrent to violence.  For Palin fans, her political speech gives them joy and hope, a cathartic reminder that someone out there is speaking for them.  Her defining political contribution has been giving hope to all the flyover country-dwellers deemed subhuman and unworthy by the elites in the media — hope that their votes mattered and that they could change things through their speech and political involvement. (more…)

On March 23, 2010 at 6:41pm, Sarah Palin’s infamous “cross-hairs” map was posted to her facebook page. It instantly sparked controversy. On March 26, 2010, at a rally for Senator John McCain, Palin clarified her intentions with the map and defended herself and other conservatives against charges of inciting violence during the period of heightened debate surrounding the Democrats’ overhaul of the health care system:

TRANSCRIPT:

And ya know, hearing the news reports lately, kinda this ginned up controversy about us, common sense conservatives, inciting violence because we happen to oppose some of the things in the Obama administration.

Interrupted from audience: “We do it with our vote!”

Amen, brother! That’s what you do it with, with your vote! You got it right. We know violence isn’t the answer. When we take up our arms, we’re talking about our vote. We’re talking about being involved in a contested primary like this, and picking the right candidate too–John McCain, we thank you for that.

But this B.S. coming from the lamestream media lately about this, about us inciting violence. Don’t let the conversation be diverted. Don’t’ let a distraction like that get you off track. Keep fighting hard for these candidates who are all about the common sense conservative solutions that we need. (more…)

In the January edition of Vanity Fair magazine Christopher Hitchens becomes the latest in a seemingly endless parade of name callers and reputation-smudgers intent on spreading lies about Tea Partiers, Glenn Beck, and just about anyone else he doesn’t agree with politically.  I will not bother to address these shallow, baseless, and fact-free attacks on Beck and the Tea Parties.  They are quite capable of defending themselves.  My concerns are Hitchens’ inaccurate characterizations of the 9/12 Project.

The opening line of the piece contains a smear against the non-Beck affiliated 9/12 Project referring to the group as:

“the most hateful kind of populist claptrap,  (e.g. the fetid weirdness of GlennBeck’s 912 Project.)”

Really?  Fetid?

Mr. Hitchens did you even look into the 9/12 Project?  Have you any idea of what it stands for and what 9/12 members are doing? I seriously doubt that you did, as I am a founding member, part of the Advisory Board and the editor-at-large of the web site. All email inquiries come directly to me. Nothing was received from you, ever.  Checking with the other Board members, I can verify that none of them were contacted by you or by anyone with Vanity Fair.  Therefore, we can only assume that your statements about the 912 Project have not been vetted with any reasonable degree of journalistic standards.

(more…)

By now, everyone knows that Michael Savage has been banned from Britain on the grounds articulated by disgraced former Home Secretary Jacqui Smith: “Considered to be engaging in unacceptable behavior by seeking to provoke others to serious criminal acts and fostering hatred which might lead to inter-community violence.”

Attorney Summary–Savage Appeals U.K. Ban:

This week, we found out that the supposedly conservative government of David Cameron is upholding the ban.  Savage’s lawyers initiated a review of the ban by sending a letter to new Home Secretary Theresa May.  In it, they lay forth the full history of the case, a selective prosecution which is mind-blowing in its moral blindness and suicidal impulse to kowtow to radical Islam.

When Savage was originally banned, as the letter states, he was placed on a list alongside terrorists, racists, a child-murderer, and the alleged leader of a violent gang “that beat migrants and posted films of their attacks on the internet.”  Savage, by contrast, has said some inflammatory things on the radio.  And by inflammatory, I mean generally correct, even if the left hates his passion and willingness to articulate the zeitgeist. (more…)

In my column this week for the Irish Examiner USA, I wrote, “When it comes to Hate Speech and Violence, Liberals Rule.”

For some strange reason liberals are identifying all contrary opinions as hateful regardless of the words actually used. I’m always surprised when I hear from my Democrat sister in California that she thinks I should tone down the anger in my columns. I’ve reread my pieces and see only the explanations of my viewpoint. I do not name-call or use derogatory language yet she reacts as if I do. Is it possible to erroneously read emotions that simply aren’t there if the reader is expecting them to be?

I found this same phenomenon when I received an e-mail from a New York literary agent commenting that he found my book proposal “a manifesto of innuendo, belief and hate for those you do not agree with.” He then added, “There is the Rush way and then there is the George Will way.”

After searching in vain for evidence of hate speech in my book proposal, I came to realize that the agent was projecting his own disdain for the “right wing” and assuming that I was therefore a Rush Limbaugh devotee.

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With all the tales in the Old Media of the supposed violence committed by Tea Partiers going on since Obama’s takeover of our nation’s healthcare system, I thought it might be instructive to recall how hate-filled the unhinged left is in America today.

A year ago, the good folks at Zomblog assembled a great series of photos showing the mental derangement exhibited by the human detritus at those once ubiquitous anti-war rallies that the distempered left hosted so often between the years 2003 and 2009… you know, those anti-war rallies that totally disappeared after Obama took office even as the wars rage on? Yeah, those anti-war rallies.

Why was no one ever arrested for threatening President Bush at protests, when they displayed signs in public that called for his death? (more…)

There have been accusations of violence flying everywhere since the dreadful healthcare bill was passed on Sunday night. It’s certainly true tensions are running high, just like they have been for an entire year. And for good reason. Many of our freedoms as Americans were stripped away when healthcare passed. But are the threats of violence just a charade to distract Americans from learning about what the massive healthcare bill really does? I think so.

Could you imagine what would happen if someone set fire to, say, Nancy Pelosi’s church? (Does she even go to church?)

Or what if a Congressman who supported healthcare reform was beaten up so badly that he had to have stitches on his eye? How about if a Congressman’s car window was shot out because he opposed healthcare reform?

The same media so excited to rush to protect the “defenseless” Congressmen barely mentioned that someone set Sarah Palin’s church on fire or that private citizens in California were personally harassed and targeted for simply suggesting that there should be a ballot initiative on marriage, or for donating to it. (more…)

Now that the MSM has done its best to ignore the Amy Bishop Obama obsession and is going all out to pin the right-wing-nut-job tail on Joseph Stack, it would seem that leftist-radical myopia is once again controlling the establishment media narrative.

It is, after all, difficult to see clearly when your legs are tingling and your passions are in willing-thrall mode.

So, here’s the pertinent question, the question our drowning Obama groupies in the MSM do not dare to ask:  Is disillusionment with Obama causing people to snap and commit acts of violence?

It’s a good question, born of common sense.

If there was a single characteristic that defined the Obama campaign followers in 2008, it was an adolescent fawning the likes this country has never seen.  There were the creepy fainting women in teenybopper crush mode wherever Obama went.  There were the so-called intelligentsia speaking of a man who, to them, seemed more like a god, a savior, an uber-competent of downright immortal stature, purely obsequious observations based on Obama’s postage-stamp-sized resume, his fondness for arugula and GQ looks. (more…)