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Jindal defends Occupy movement at http://www.theind.com , comment 1 to 8 out of 8 comments http://www.theind.com Thu, 20 Jun 2013 01:41:41 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://www.theind.com/news/indreporter/9453-cest-what-jindal-defends-occupy-movement#comment-25166 Here is the full coverage of Frank Luntz speech to the Republican governors: http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/republicans-being-taught-talk-occupy-wall-street-133707949.html Jindal appears to have perfectly executed suggestion number 7. - cb Fri, 02 Dec 2011 16:55:16 +0100 http://www.theind.com/news/indreporter/9453-cest-what-jindal-defends-occupy-movement#comment-25160 "between articles about Justin Bieber and Lady Gaga" Doesn't sound much different from Fox "News" to me, except that the serious reporting in Rolling Stone is superior. - b f Fri, 02 Dec 2011 05:10:10 +0100 http://www.theind.com/news/indreporter/9453-cest-what-jindal-defends-occupy-movement#comment-25159 Matt Taibbi did a good job on that article, get a reprint and see for yourself. - lindalu Fri, 02 Dec 2011 04:40:45 +0100 http://www.theind.com/news/indreporter/9453-cest-what-jindal-defends-occupy-movement#comment-25157 "And getting your news from Rolling Stone magazine, between articles about Justin Bieber and Lady Gaga, is so much better." Ooooohhhhhhh...... - ragin_cajun Fri, 02 Dec 2011 01:10:49 +0100 http://www.theind.com/news/indreporter/9453-cest-what-jindal-defends-occupy-movement#comment-25150 "To accomplish this they depend on a rather idiotic tendency by the American public to get 100 percent of their news from commercial television blurbs sandwiched between sporting events and reality shows about the Kardashian sisters." And getting your news from Rolling Stone magazine, between articles about Justin Bieber and Lady Gaga, is so much better. - Aaron Thu, 01 Dec 2011 22:48:21 +0100 http://www.theind.com/news/indreporter/9453-cest-what-jindal-defends-occupy-movement#comment-25146 "the people in the Tea Party are focused on the politicians (although mostly Democrats - as if Republicans had nothing to do with the economic meltdown)" You're profoundly misinformed. Just ask Walter, he'll tell you all about the rift in the Republican Party between the "centrists" and "the tea party". He says it's happening nationally, and it's now going on locally, too. - ragin_cajun Thu, 01 Dec 2011 22:01:34 +0100 http://www.theind.com/news/indreporter/9453-cest-what-jindal-defends-occupy-movement#comment-25145 I'm glad to see Jindal acknowledge it. One day everyone will, it will be a matter of political survival, just wait and see. The best reporting I've seen on why EVERYONE should be aggravated with the big Wall Street firms and their tight links to our (their?) representatives in congress and the senate has been done by Matt Taibbi at Rolling Stone magazine. He's one of the only reporters left who digs into the muck heap and talks about what he finds without sugar coating it with weasel words and "correct" phrasing. Who would have thought that Rolling Stone would be the last real bastion of investigative journalism in the U.S.? What does that say about the state of the media in this country? I've long been frustrated at how oblivious the public has been to what's been going on between the Federal Reserve, the SEC, the financial "industry", their lobbyists, and congress and the senate. There was the briefest moment when the Tea Party was making stirring sounds as if it was a movement of people waking up to the corruption, but it became clear immediately that they are merely disgruntled, humiliated conservatives angry at the election of Barack Obama. I get the uneasy feeling that they don't mind getting screwed as long as the people doing the screwing are conservative. How can anyone respect that? They could have (and still could) make a compelling case against Obama for being so cozy with the banksters, and I would be on their side if this had been their main issue, and even more so if they had equally condemned a Republican party leadership that proudly sees itself as servants not of people, but of big business and the banksters in particular. But no, their rhetoric quickly devolved into a bunch of tedious claptrap about birth certificates and "socialism" and 2nd amendment rights, all diversionary issues spoon fed to them by the same establishment that's been screwing them all along, an establishment that is acutely aware that the yellow brick road of financial/political incest leads right back to its own hallowed halls. The people at Occupy Wall Street are focused on the banksters, the people in the Tea Party are focused on the politicians (although mostly Democrats - as if Republicans had nothing to do with the economic meltdown) but just maybe one day they will meet in the middle and finally understand it is the perverse relationship between the two that is screwing all the rest of us over so badly. Those two institutions are one big club that bully a codependent mass media into helping pre-select compliant candidates. To accomplish this they depend on a rather idiotic tendency by the American public to get 100 percent of their news from commercial television blurbs sandwiched between sporting events and reality shows about the Kardashian sisters. This way they usually get a candidate they can "work with", meaning one who'll continue to let them write legislation that won't be inspected too closely before getting signed into law. They want us to shut up and watch television, buy their stuff, believe what they put in their campaign ads, and above all fight each other over issues which they select based on their effectiveness as diversions so we won't notice those fingers fishing around in our back pocket for our wallets. They win because they can distract us like a bunch of dumb dogs, "Get the squirrel! Sic the Cat!" We have to stop it. We have to stop squabbling with each other and fight them or they will always win. - b f Thu, 01 Dec 2011 21:31:35 +0100 http://www.theind.com/news/indreporter/9453-cest-what-jindal-defends-occupy-movement#comment-25142 "Jindal’s comments create a rare split between he and fellow Republicans, the majority of whom have vilified the mass protests." ---------------- Do you have evidence to backup this up? - James Melancon Thu, 01 Dec 2011 19:11:44 +0100