Stinky Slime ALERT

[madamesilverspurs]

This just showed up in my inbox:

A friend of mine was contacted recently by the right-wing Citzens United Productions <http://www.citizensunited.org/>
(yes THE Citizens United)
saying they were doing a documentary on Occupy (apparently called "mic check&quot

http://www.citizensunited.org

Seems like they're making the rounds of prominent progressives, trying to interview people.

Of course it will be a hatchet job in case anyone on this list gets a similar phone call... please beware.


Please share this widely!

[sabrina 1]

1. That should be a really 'balanced' take on the movement. I hope Michael Moore can be persuaded

to make one more documentary, now that what he had hoped for has happened.

Thanks for the post, should be on the OWS site also. At least people should know who they are dealing with when approached by this organization and the possibility of being creatively edited before agreeing to talk to them.

[starroute]

2. There's a piece on it at Salon

http://www.salon.com/2012/01/11/right_wing_lens_for_occupy_documentary/singleton/

A participant at Occupy Wall Street recently received an interview request from a Citizens United producer that included this description of the film:

Never in living memory has such a small political movement received such disproportionate attention from the press. Never in living memory has a movement been so widely scrutinized and yet so deeply misunderstood. Is it possible both the left and right have made the error of thinking that the forces behind Occupy Wall Street are interested in democratic politics and problem solving?

In Mic Check: The Untold Story of the Occupy Movement, we’ll look at the roots of the Occupy movement and hear from it undeclared ‘leaders’. We’ll go inside the still existing encampments in Los Angeles and Washington D.C., into the frequently contentious street rallies and hear from participants about their protest, their goals and their vision for the future.

(Emphasis added.)

That bolded line is taken almost verbatim from a Weekly Standard article by Matthew Continetti, who argues that Occupy is an attempt “to establish a socialist utopia through revolutionary anarchism” and that the movement must be met with legal and ideological opposition.

[gratuitous]

3. They never stop; they will never stop

Fortunately, these nincompoops aren't very imaginative, and we're on to their little game. Sounds like they've just about burned up James O'Keefe, who can now be relegated to the dung heap with Jeff Gannon and Talon News (anyone remember them?).