Well, Diane Sawyer informed us that people are getting sick of the Occupy movement

[Skidmore]

and proceeded to show a story this evening with one woman yelling at occupiers telling them to go home. She was tired of the mess, the graffiti, and broken windows. Diane's question after the story to the reporter covering it was to ask if the movement is in danger of snuffing itself out.

Would lay odds that tomorrow the media will be running with this notion.

[City Lights]

1. Well I'm sick of Diane Sawyer and the corporate toady media.

:puke:

[AsahinaKimi]

65. excellent !

:thumbsup: +100

[AikidoSoul]

123. We can't expect violence, graffiti, etc. -- to win the hearts and minds of the public

The OWS movement is in danger of losing public support EASILY if this behavior continues. We already know that there are provocateurs and infiltrators trying to destroy the passive, non-violent image of OWS. Organizers MUST find a way to identify and expose these people.

And most of all -- they must promote themselves as non-violent.

I cannot sympathize with those who break windows, destroy property, and deface buildings. Anybody should be able to see that this is the kind of behavior that is not worth of admiration.

There was nothing more moving than the black freedom=-riders in the sixties who stood up against violence and hatred with great calm and non-violence. It was incredibly inspiring.

That value system must be instilled in every protester.

Sorry for sneaking in line here :dilemma: -- but this had to be said and read!

[Vincardog]

139. Who keeps have you seen advocating violence? OWS should shame and shun the infiltrators. When they

see anyone doing violence or damage they should clear n area at least 20 feet from that person and point at them so the police can deal with them.
The police might be reluctant to arrest their own.

[geardaddy]

124. I totally agree

I cannot stand her.

[barbtries]

130. that's my response

i'm tired of diane sawyer corporate media tool.

[progressoid]

142. Ya mean this Diane Sawyer?

[City Lights]

143. That's the one!

:puke:

[FarLeftFist]

2. Oh well, protests aren't meant to be convenient. But they are protected by the 1st amendment.

[RagAss]

3. Uhhh Diane, OWS is so much bigger than you.

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[bahrbearian]

24. I thought that she was on her honeymoon with Andy Rooney

[Sportsguy]

59. ROTFLMAO!

:rofl:

[Mendocino]

83. Only after her fling

with Ronald Reagan and that "experimental" thing with Ayn Rand.

[crazyjoe]

92. Isn't that a little harsh?

[Le Taz Hot]

111. Could we object to her

assertions without the sexism and ageism? Thanks.

[Tsiyu]

117. Thank you n/t

[closeupready]

112. The world revolves around Diane Sawyer and her little news show.

I thought everyone go that memo. :sarcasm:

[Fire Walk With Me]

4. The media are a dinosaur whose head has been removed: stumbling around,

still imagining itself to be alive and powerful.

Goodbye, MSM. And Good Riddance. Rest in pieces, moneypuppets.

[gratuitous]

5. Why, just last night . . .

Two or three people at the cocktail party Diane was at had just had it up to here (my finger is resting on my chin, just below my mouth) with all these dreary people in the streets! It just isn't done, you know. I'm so glad Diane is here to explain the proper behavior expected out of the proles.

Thank you so much, Ms. Sawyer.

[Mendocino]

69. "I mean reaaalllyyy,

these damn Hoi Poloi, just whhaaat dooo they waaannnt?.... Say boy, get me another drinky-poo!"

[Fawke Em]

106. There is no "boy." He's out in Freedom Square with #OWS.

:)

[robinlynne]

6. Interestingly, there was a tiny group of epople yetserday smashing wondows. then a series of article

articles like the one you describe. Surely this was on purpose. Out of 10,000 people in Oakland., maybe 4 or 5 behaved badly. 4 or 5 who were not necessarily part of OWS at all.

[aquart]

11. If you checked their cell phones, would they have Breitbart's number?

Or O'Keefe's?

[nadinbrzezinski]

13. 10.000 you'd prefer 30-40 k per bbc

[robinlynne]

32. 30,000 people? WOW.I was at occupy LA, where the number was estimated at 6-10,000

in Oakland.
(not even 1000 here in LA, but we did march!)

[kath]

126. Yep. Can you say "agents provocateurs"? I knew you could.

[Luminous Animal]

The AIDS camp in front of the UN building in San Francisco lasted for 10 years.

[malaise]

7. Fudk You Dianne Sawyer

We're occupying the world

[Imajika]

8. Diane Sawyer is bored with the movement...

Therefore we all must be, right?

Remember with the media, they must change up the storyline to keep viewer interest. The American press is mostly not about news, it's about selling entertainment.

[MedicalAdmin]

18. The american press is TOTALLY not about news...

... and it hasn't been for decades.

I move to the USA in the early 80 and I wondered how anyone lived without ANY news. Luckily there were books and magazines until the intertubes opened up.

[sandyj999]

22. She probably needs to have a movement. nt

[coalition_unwilling]

54. LOL! That's an instant classic! - n/t

[geardaddy]

125. I've got one I could put on her desk.

[Laluchacontinua]

43. it can't be about selling entertainment because it's so mind-numbingly boring & stupid.

i think it's more about telling people what to think and within what box to confine one's thoughts to. no different than pravda.

[coalition_unwilling]

52. Actually, it's about selling advertisements and commercials, speaking

literally. Remember that above all else: the MSM exist to sell advertising. Take away the ad $$, and MSM goes extinct.

[Arugula Latte]

128. And it's about selling entertainment so it can sell ads.

The "news" has little to do with it anymore.

[Turbineguy]

9. Sure

why not? Look at how many got sick of the Bush Administration. But sick or not, the OWS has a 4 fold higher popularity rating than the repub controlled congress.

[nadinbrzezinski]

10. Power concedes...nothing.

Next line...dirty hippies are commies.

[eleny]

12. trying to plant seeds of discontent - good luck with that, diane

[humblebum]

14. They were tired of the antiwar movement during Vietnam, too.

But persistance paid off. More and more came on board and it finally succeeded. If the protesters become looters they will lose, if they form a coherent message that is accepted by many they will succeed.

[redgiant]

30. Bingo! n/t

[Warpy]

15. She's just terrified her taxes on that big fat paycheck will go up

She's being paid just enough that she'll never twig to the fact that she's also part of the 99%.

This might play well in East Buttcrack Nebraska but the rest of us aren't buying a word of it, Diane.

[closeupready]

114. That's what all those overpaid news readers care about most. Themselves.

And the huge inflated salaries they aren't worth.

[sabrina 1]

16. Does anyone still watch the Corporate Media, who are after all,

are part of the problems which created this movement?

She's trying to protect her Corporate Bosses.

Money in Politics.

Money in control of the media.

She just proved the point being made by OWS who have their own media, anticipating this kind of propaganda from the Corporate Media.

They thought they still had the power to stop a movement like this as they have in the past. Instead, when they stayed away, the movement grew like wildfire. When they realized that without them, over 80% of the population knew about OWS anyhow, they decided to try to undermine it instead. She has revealed herself as part of the problem. A poster girl for all that is wrong with this country's media.

But no matter what they do, they will not address the issues, pretending instead not to know why people are Ocuppying Wall Stree and not Elm Street eg.

So disgusting to see them now that they have been fully exposed. At least in the past we thought they just might not be informed, now the people of America know that that is not the case.

[BeFree]

20. DS is a 1%er

Haven't logged in for awhile, but have been reading.

The Occupy movement is what we have been waiting for and our opposition is great. But from what I have been hearing from the common Dems and independents is nearly all favorable and that a real desire for democracy is being fulfilled.

And when I see the pics of the people in the streets, it warms me cockles.

And seeing all your great postings, Sabrina, is also warming. Thanks.

[sabrina 1]

27. You were missed BeFree!

:-)

I agree, this is a worldwide movement by the people of the world against the heartless machine that has been ravaging countries for a few decades now. It is probably a very historical period we are living in.

As for Sawyer, didn't she work for Republicans at one time?

She is part of the 1% so what else could we expect from her?

[BeFree]

31. It is historical

As an old activist who has been around the block and having never seen the likes of this, but having hoped and dreamed of it happening and now it blooms as bright as a summer flower, I know that this time will be known as the turning point from which our better future was sprung.

As for the Old DS, she is a dinosaur whose extinction from reading the news is nigh. She should be wetting her britches over this -- our occupation and taking back of our government -- as surely scares her and her cabal.

Their days are numbered.

[coalition_unwilling]

55. We can have a world organized to meet people's needs, not

satisfy some people's greed. We simply must put our minds to it and open our hearts to it.

[ClassWarrior]

19. In other words, DS reinforced the ongoing slide into irrelevancy that defines the Corporate Media?

Cool.

NGU.

[CoffeeCat]

21. Oh they all ready are running with this meme!

Tonight, on the radio--I heard a report about OWS. The meme was--people are tired of this and want it to end.

They interviewed a woman in lower Manhattan who said that all of the food carts that were once on the NYC streets,
are now gone. "What about those jobs?" she asked. "Maybe these protesters should have thought about all of
the jobs that they've lost, as a result of their protest..."

Really sad.

Then, there was a mention of a New York Post editorial that calls for OWS to quit.

Here we go. This is the new meme. People are tired of it. It's causing job losses (nuts, I know) and
it's time for it to end.

They've tried to demonize OWS, Glenn Beck as insisted that the movement is anti-Semitic. Their "dirty hippie" meme
didn't work.

So now, they're using the voices of Americans--who probably never believed in the movement anyway--to tell us to leave.

That way--it gives the appearance that "the people" are tired of it.

It's all a lie. It's all part of the one-percent and their PR machines.

[coalition_unwilling]

56. The New York Post? That's a Murdoch vehicle, i.e., a toady for

the 1%.

[tsuki]

23. Diane who?

[rurallib]

26. No shit. A name I haven't heard for probably 2 decades.

Is she with Rupert these days? Any idea? Can't even remember where she was when last I heard her name.

[kayakjohnny]

25. Not to worry. Jon Stewart will be along any moment to play all the clips of various msm types

saying for weeks now how this doesn't amount to much and how it won't last.


And then showing how much it's amounted to and how long it's lasted.

[cyglet]

46. What has he said about OWS?

Haven't tuned in...

[louslobbs]

28. Please retire Diane...........please. n/t

Lou

[redgiant]

29. First Amendment

"...or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."

In no way, shape, or form did the Nov 2 events in Oakland meet the definition of peaceable assembly.

The bulk of the 99 understand this. The movement better understand it as well, or become a footnote in history.

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[Juneboarder]

41. Please don't buy into MSM!!!

There was a bad bunch in the group. Some refer to them as the Black Bloc. Needless-to-say ... they are agent provocateurs. OWS and Occupy Oakland DO NOT and WILL NOT condone violence of any nature; they are purely a peaceful movement up against the 1%.

And can you hear/feel/see it?? The 99% are being heard and the 1% are showing their intimidation.

[redgiant]

45. Peaceful movement

Shutting down a port by occupation is many things, but it is not "peaceful." Any attempt to spin it any other way notwithstanding.

[nadinbrzezinski]

49. You did not learn history did you

Look up definition of GENERAL STRIKE.

[redgiant]

50. I know it very well

So, you're saying Occupy Oakland has moved beyond peaceable assembly...to petition the government for redress of grievances?

What's next?

[nadinbrzezinski]

63. So you are saying strikes should inconvenience none?

By the way you do realize the founders would be laughing at you right at the momemt?

[redgiant]

66. Well, that's unknowable, isn't it?

Answer me this.

A group of pro-lifers is exercising their 1A rights by marching for their cause (with all due permits).

They decide to make their point by occupying the premises of abortion clinics, effectively shutting them down. Within their rights?

[nadinbrzezinski]

67. They have done that, a few times

They have also killed doctors and used bombs. Tell me when did that happen? Oh wait it did not.




As to the founders, no it's not. You can start by reading.


So to the original question your contention is that a strike should inconvenience none. You should thank those who inconvenienced many for your 40 hour week, a weekend and a minimum wage. We are bout where we left off. Living wages shoud be next in the agenda, and getting rid f righ to work legislation.

[redgiant]

71. You didn't answer the question

Would shutting down the abortion clinics by occupation be legitimate under the 1A rights of the protesters?

Are you insane? Of course bombing and assassination are not legitimate forms of protest.

[nadinbrzezinski]

73. They have done that

It's even gone to courts...I also pointed out where they've gone.

I think your problem is with a general strike. Get used to them, they are back.

[redgiant]

75. Then say the words

"Pro-lifers have the right to shut down abortion clinics by occupation as part of 1A protection."

Say it.

[redgiant]

76. I'll give you my answer

Pro-lifers DO NOT have the right to shut down abortion clinics by occupation.

[nadinbrzezinski]

81. The USSC has given them the right to occupy parking lots

Where they have effectively done that

Now general strike.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_strike

[redgiant]

86. Cite the case, please n/t

[nadinbrzezinski]

94. Scenk v pro choice.

It was brought, argued under rico...

No I did not imagine it, sorry.

Oh and have a wonderful life.

[redgiant]

97. Huh?

The case you cited upheld the constitutionality of buffer zones.

Here's a more recent case:

http://www.christianpost.com/news/high-court-stays-out-of-mass-abortion-clinic-case-44419/

In light of the above, how would a shut-down by occupation be allowed under 1A protection?

Say the words.

[redgiant]

87. So, say the words n/t

[Tsiyu]

118. You're comparing a religion issue

to a labor issue.

The issue of when life begins is a religious one. The right to a safe, private abortion has been established by the Supreme Court. Any further argument is to be taken up there.

The issue of pay, benefits, working conditions, etc., are to be negotiated by the employees and hiring parties. If you conduct business poorly, treat laborer and consumer like crap, there is no guarantee that you get to keep making money. There is no slave labor here - if people don't want to work, that is their right. If they want to hang out peaceably in the public space in front of your business, that is their right.

If it costs you money, tough shit.

How many of the people whining about "lost business" give a shit about the massive amounts of money it costs the protesters and everyone else to get an education, meet their health care needs, keep their homes, pay their bills, feed their families, retire without starving?

When one in seven is on food stamps, I would wager, the people complaining about "losing money" don't care one little BIT about the money the 99% have lost.

They can go pound salt.

[cui bono]

132. That's not a strike though. n/t

[redgiant]

98. " Get used to them, they are back"

Will they be as much of a cluster fuck as Oakland 11/2/11?

On a scale of 1 to 10, how would you rate the success of Oakland's "General Strike?"

What percent of the almost 400,000 residents participated in the strike by voluntarily staying off work?

What percent of the economic activity of the city was disrupted?

I'm wondering if YOU know the history of general strikes.

[redgiant]

74. When did I say...

...a strike should inconvenience no one? Oh, wait. I did not.

What I did do is make a distinction between a disruption caused by an internal strike and that caused by external forces.

An assembly plant goes on strike. The plant is shut down. The workers march to the local Wal-Mart and shut it down by occupation. Legitimate? (The Wal-Mart workers do not participate)

[nadinbrzezinski]

79. Start the process of education

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_strike

[pipi_k]

It's an uphill battle...

You will likely not get an honest answer to your question.

People will cite various instances where this or that has happened, but they will NOT go so far as to admit that something they don't personally agree with is NOT OK.


If their group is shutting down the city, hey...it's GREAT!!!


If it's the other guys shutting down the city...oh...very BAD!!!


Double standards and hypocrisy suck.

[Cerridwen]

113. Bad analogy. Disrupting business versus disrupting receipt of health care.

Try comparing like to like rather than using political hot points.

Would the women-are-all-filthy-whores movement (aka "pro-life") protesters occupying a women's health clinic be protected by the first amendment? Probably not. They're disrupting the receipt of health care. Just as if they were to occupy a medical clinic providing any other form of health care. Then there are the HIPAA laws that I'm sure would have influence in those situations. Though in today's political climate in which health care is considered just another business, who really knows?

[redgiant]

68. As I've said before

There is a difference between a facility being shut down due to the strike of its own workers, and being shut down by the actions of others.

[nadinbrzezinski]

72. Re-read meaning of general strike.

[redgiant]

78. Jesus H. Christ

I know the meaning of general strike. You really are condescending.

[nadinbrzezinski]

80. Educate yourself

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_strike

[redgiant]

84. You're avoiding the central point

I'm making. Why?

[nadinbrzezinski]

88. You are

Bye buy.

[redgiant]

89. "you don't impress me much" n/t

[nadinbrzezinski]

90. Free clue ain't here to impress you

You are another random poster on the inter-webs pushing a RW meme.

[redgiant]

93. I am?

How many workers have you negotiated contracts for?

30+ year union member

Elected union officer

Executive committee member multiple times

Headed negotiations committee multiple times

Negotiated at the table multiple times

Recognized by local union for improvements in negotiations process

[nadinbrzezinski]

95. And... You need to read on the history of labor.

The tp you are using has been used by bosses for many years. Well, not recently, we didn't have that issue for 66 years. It is a RW talking point.

[joeglow3]

107. You still did not answer the valid question

If we are to accept the position that people have the right to shut down an employer (one they don't work for) through physical means as protected first amendment rights, we need to support the same actions from those we oppose just as vehemently. The second we support or allow one person or group from having their rights trampled, we have just opened ourselves up to the same restrictions.

Our state passed a law forcing the pieces of shit from Kansas to protest a decent distance from churchs during funerals. The courts, rightly so, held the law unconsitutional. As much as I am disgusted by their message, I will not oppose their right to shout it. The second I do, I open up the possibility of those who oppose my views shutting me down.

Thus, if you support shutting down an employer (again, none of us work for them) through forceful means as protected first amendment speech, then you had better expect every abortion clinic in the country to be shut down by the religious loons. And I hope you would have the rocks to stand up for your support in the first amendment and support their rights to do so.

[pipi_k]

109. Thank you...First Amendment rights

are not just for the people we agree with.

I can't tell you how disgusted I am with people who think they have a right to tell businesses what channels are appropriate to be showing on their own TVs.

And they don't have a right to try and shut down (or shut up) the Conservative talking heads, no matter how offensive they are.


If people think they're going to be subjected to the horrors of Fox News while they get their car fixed or something, they should bring a book or MP3 player, FGS, instead of trying to censor others.

[treestar]

136. That's not censorship

The store still has the right to blare Faux Noise. If enough people complain, they may stop, because they don't want to alienate customers.

[Cerridwen]

115. I don't think the first amendment protects disruption of receipt of health care.

As I pointed out to the poster above, try comparing like to like.

Those idiots from Kansas are a closer fit to the analogy. Women's health clinics, not so much. HIPAA and health care laws may have influence with regards to shutting down health clinics.

[joeglow3]

119. Who decides the exceptions?

What if I need to get the cash from my bank to pay for services at a planned parenthood clinic? By allowing people to forcibly block customers from a bank (as first amendment speech), are you not impeding my right to health care by preventing me from getting the cash needed.

That is the challenge with the first amendment. When you start to find excuses to separate application of our rights, you open up the door for someone else to come up with their reason why it is okay to infringe on your rights.

[jeff47]

133. You are making a false assumption

That the port was shut down by outsiders. It was shut down by it's own workers joining the general strike.

[Obamanaut]

You have just been a witness to the responses given to many who are not

that poster's sycophants.

[Obamanaut]

101. dupe, delete

[jeff47]

134. The port was shut down due to the strike of it's own workers.

A majority of the port workers joined the general strike, resulting in the port being shut down.

[cui bono]

131. You're saying that. Why is a general strike not peaceable to you? n/t

[redgiant]

144. Not what I said...

...although I can understand why my comments could be construed that way. Look closer.

My concept of a general strike is that--using a city as an example--enough workers in enough workplaces go on strike to cause widespread shutdown of economic activity. Production, transportation, public and private services of all kinds are seriously curtained or stopped. That's peaceful because the shutdown was accomplished by a simple, non-violent act: withholding one's labor.

Suppose you work in a corporate office building next to an auto plant. For whatever reason, the autoworkers go on strike and shut the plant down. Suppose someone riles the workers up about the evils of the corporation for which you work. They decide to shut your workplace down by occupying the facility such that it's impossible for normal operations. The details are unimportant. Maybe they block the entrances, fill the lobby, prevent workers from entering. Whatever, you get the point.

The autoworker's shutdown of their own plant is "peaceful" because all they had to do was the passive act of not working. The autoworkers shutdown of your office was not peaceful because it was an active act of preventing people from doing what they would ordinarily be free and legally within their rights to do--go to work. It may not have been overtly violent, such as threatening people or assaulting them, but that doesn't make it peaceful or legitimate.

Unless the widely reported facts are different from reality, the Port of Oakland was shut down by occupation from outside--not by their own workers. Yes, I understand some fraction of the port workers participated, but was it a critical mass that would have prevented the port from operating. No. Instead, the port was occupied by hundreds or thousands of protesters who physically made the continuation of safe port operations impossible.

---

If you review this thread, you'll see I engaged in a lot of back and forth with Nadin-whatshername using the abortion clinic protest example. Why? In a rational society governed by law and mutual respect, one can't claim a right that one would deny to others. You can't legitimately claim the right to free speech if you would deny a similar right to others just because you disagree with their speech.

Do protesters have the right to interfere with the operations of a third party because they disagree with the third party or want to make a point? Nadin-whatshername supported the OWS marchers shutting down the port. Let's be clear--the port would not have shut down if the marchers had not occupied it.

Right-to-Life folks are against abortion. Fair enough. They have the right to free speech. Fair enough. They have the right to picket abortion clinics. Fair enough. They have the right to yell their objections at persons entering abortion clinics. Fair enough. The courts have upheld all of these rights. They pretty much apply to protesters of all kinds. But, do abortion protesters have the right to shut a clinic down by occupation? By blocking entrance and/or occupying the facilities such as to make operations impossible? Clearly they do not.

Nadin-whatshername never agreed with me that anti-abortion protesters do not have the right to shut down clinics by occupation. To have agreed would have forced her to reconcile the conflict between saying OWS marchers have the right to shut down a port, but that abortion protesters don't have a similar right to shut down clinics. Some in this thread tried to make a distinction by focusing on the nature of abortion clinics as health care providers. That's a stretch. But, I could just as easily made the example one of an abortion information facility, like PP, rather than an actual clinic.

So, to be clear, I *do* consider general strikes to be "peaceful" if the goal is accomplished by workers voluntarily withholding their own labor.

[Juneboarder]

61. It's okay...

YOU are part of the 99% as well my friend. To think the 1% is looking out for your best interests would be ridiculous. The movement was peaceful until the provocateurs arrived. MSM distorted the timeline and there are several videos out there to prove so.

[redgiant]

64. I, in NO way...

...believe the 1% are looking out for me in any way, shape, or form. Can I be more clear?

[cyglet]

47. flamebait

But the cops started that conversation.

[nadinbrzezinski]

48. Hold it... Even the cops

Now recognize the anarchists were separate.

You keep pushing that we saw a very different thing.

[coalition_unwilling]

58. You're joking, right? Either that or you're a lickspittle for the

1%. Either way, I suspect your stay here will be very short-lived.

[redgiant]

85. Why?

Enforced orthodoxy?

[Fire Walk With Me]

129. It's not odd...usually when I see a convoluted sub-thread, I find "Ignored" at its beginning.

[Hissyspit]

99. Actually almost all of it did.

So in no way, shape or form is the statement "In no way, shape, or form did the Nov 2 events in Oakland meet the definition of peaceable assembly" true.

[Dawgs]

105. Were you there? n/t

[Peregrine Took]

33. And I'm sick of her trout pout. n/t

[DinahMoeHum]

34. Re your last sentence: the New York Post has already started

running with it:

http://www.nypost.com/archives/covers/;jsessionid=60EC0ECACFD18E2378B55799B41E0912

"ENOUGH! - Mr Mayor: It's Time To Reclaim Zuccotti Park - And New York City's Dignity"


:rofl:

[Name removed]

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[kestrel91316]

36. Dear Diane: As one of the 1% (because you are a successful news bimbo)

you need to be aware that it is the 1% that Americans are sick and tired of.

Disgustedly,
kestrel

(and apologies to TygrBright)

[valerief]

38. Occupy doesn't care about the MSM. They've been the enemy for so long, they don't matter now. nt

[Hardrada]

40. 70 year old hall monitor. Mrs. Greenspan should retire too.

There is only so much botox can do.

[cui bono]

135. What does botox have to do with it? Is she supposed to retire based on wrinkles???

Sheesh. Why is it still okay to base your feelings and comments on a professional woman based on her age and looks???

[Laluchacontinua]

42. i'm sick of diane, she's been around, what, 70 years or so? telling us what to think.

she must be facelifted within an inch of her life.

foad, diane.

[PCIntern]

44. She's the answer to the trivia question:

who was on the plane with Nixon after he resigned besides that toady Ziegler?

Wotta start to a career...

[coalition_unwilling]

51. Fortunately, thanks to new media like LiveStream and DU, the MSM

have rendered themselves largely irrelevant to the story of the Occupy Movement. What will be telling is when Occupiers begin to flex their newly-found muscles and exert pressure on advertisers on networks like ABC (owned by Disney) and NBC (owned by GE). Diane Sawyer is like one of those dinosaurs that hung around for awhile after the KP Boundary event, never realizing its days were numbered.

[Matariki]

53. "the mess, the graffiti, and broken windows"

almost like it was set up just for the news, no?

[unkachuck]

57. "...the media will be running with this notion."

....and tune in Sunday morning to hear george "won't", sam "the sham" donaldson and cokie "head" roberts discuss at length the over-whelming public reaction to the sawyers story and how this will negatively impact Obama....

....isn't diane Tom Sawyers mother?

[Sportsguy]

62. I Heard She's His Great Grandma

:)

[Cleita]

60. I got sick of Diane Sawyer forty years ago.

Why is she still around?

[undeterred]

70. But we still want to know what really happened with the Kardashian marriage...

blah blah blah

[graywarrior]

77. Z-z-z-z-z-z-z-z-z. What a crashing bore Diane is.

[defendandprotect]

82. Gawd, is she still around? The Elite speak via Diane Sawyer ... ???

Btw, Diane Sawyer was in that helicopter that Nixon left the White House in after

resigning -- !!

Who's watching this garbage -- our Goebbels' Style press -- ???

[Bozita]

91. ABC News Nightline headline story tonight: Who killed Michael Jackson?

That says it all about ABC News!

Fuck Diane Sawyer.

[Aerows]

96. Well, I'm sick of Diane Sawyer

So there :D

[Capitalocracy]

100. Oh, did I not get the memo? Are the controllers of the greatest amount of capital...

no longer in control of our government? If that's the case, then yeah, let's put a stop to this protesting nonsense. But somehow I haven't heard about that. Hmm.

Broken windows? Graffiti? Haven't heard about that either. Hmm.

[MadrasT]

102. Diane Sawyer is irrelevant. (n/t)

[WI_DEM]

103. Wasn't Diane Sawyer an aide to Tricky Dick Nixon prior to going into 'journalism'?

[KansDem]

104. Diane Sawyer? Is she still around?

I thought her 15 minutes were up!

[GoCubsGo]

108. This kind of crapy is why I don't watch ABC World Gloom and Doom.

Not that NBC and CBS are much better...

[FlyByNight]

110. Just another well paid, clueless, detached hack

This is the state of mainstream "news" these days.

I vaguely remember a George Carlin joke/commentary about the news from some years ago: there's a reason why the news is referred to as a stream... because it's so shallow.

[Tsiyu]

116. Someone needs to inform Ms. Sawyer

That America isn't full of well-fed suburban housewives with the time and leisure to clutch their pearls and "tsk tsk" the dirty hippies.

America is now full of the foreclosed upon, the unemployed, the underemployed, the graduate with no job and staggering debt, and people with inadequate access to health care.

There was a time her audience may have identified with the lone disgruntled interviewee.

Today? Catch a clue, Diane. You are so out of touch you need oxygen up there.

[Name removed]

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[mod mom]

121. Poor Diane, was she late for a pedicure due to traffic?

:sarcasm:

[BrendaBrick]

122. Here's another recent ABC spin: Greece's Impact on the U.S.:

Aired 11-1-2011. I couldn't figure out how to post this particular segment, but if you go to the link and hit the down scroll button for 15 segments, you should see it:

Greece's Impact on U.S.
Americans' savings could suffer if Europe's bailout plan is voted down.
11/01/2011

http://abcnews.go.com/WN/

Yeah. That's right. It is all Greece's fault!!! Greece is the TRUE enemy. Amazing to me how these 'connections' are cunningly fabricated as a distraction in an effort to deter the real culprits.

Though I have to admit that I do like the ABC segments about "Made in America" http://abcnews.go.com/WN/page/map-find-made-america-goods-13917383 as well as the "What Would You Do" show with John Quinones, (which holds a well-needed mirror up to snap judgements and prejudices as well as these everyday heroes who step up to the plate) - still when the lies and spin are interspersed into the mix, it makes it all the more insidious in trying to separate fact from fiction.

[readmoreoften]

127. Fuck you, Diane Sawyer. I just lost all respect for you.

[Fire Walk With Me]

137. Telling people what to think. Tsk tsk tsk.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

138. She can comment all she wants

She can editorialize all she wants. But she dare not call someone doing that, including herself, a journalist. If she still aspires to be a journalist after all these years, she'd better call up Amy Goodman for some private lessons.

[denese]

140. must be those famous some people

"some people" told her that. Might have been her corporate media bosses
:shrug:

[tcaudilllg]

141. She realizes she's not going to be able to pay off her house after Current kills her network.

Goodness knows Peter Jennings is offering her a stern look from the grave.

[varelse]

145. Dear Ms Sawyer

the feeling is mutual.