MinistryOfTruth's Rec listed post on Stochastic Terrorism set off alarm bells when I read it. Because yesterday I heard to most viscous demonization of a the Occupy Wall Street Movement conceivable by America's most widely broadcast Stochastic Terrorist, Rush Limbaugh. Rush starts off by claiming that O.W.S. demonstrators are paid agitators.
The Wall Street Protests are Full of Ignorance, Hypocrisy, Anti-Semitism
RUSH: Folks, you might be... I don't know if you'll be surprised or not. You might be amazed to hear that there are groups paying protestors at the Occupy Wall Street protests. Essentially what you have are groups paying demonstrators to protest capitalism. In order to get these numbers of people showing up to protest capitalism, they're having to pay them.
Amazed isn't the word I'd use, more like a mixture of amusement and pity for Rush's gullible listeners.
I'm not even sure, in truth, they're paying minimum wage. But you can probably earn a little extra money by setting fire to a cop car, throwing a rock through a rich person's house.
Rush's blatantly dishonest description of movement that has been overwhelmingly nonviolent is despicable. It also helps legitimize violence against the protesters.
RUSH: There's a lot of interesting stuff here. Occupy Wall Street Now, 99%, that leaves 1%, roughly the percentage of Jews in the population, too. And Wall Street and bankers have been anti-Semitic code for Jews in this country going back quite a while.
Limbaugh is even grasping at David Brook's straws in his desperation to throw everything including the kitchen sink at the Occupy Wall Street Protesters.
RUSH: This is not just the unions showing up or Craigslist or other people. This is Adbusters offering to pay these people to show up: $350 to $650 a week. Well, that's Working Families Party doing that, the Working Families Party which is an offshoot of ACORN. So, look, you have a protest manufactured, no doubt orchestrated out of the White House. This is what the left does for a living.
Last February Rush also claimed the Obama White House controls Google Search Results.
RUSH: I mean, the protestors have been attacking the police, but we never hear about any of that. There's nothing peaceful about this -- and I would say of these 99% people, the percentage of 'em that actually know anything, know what's going on, who are competent or cognizant, would stun you how low. This is a bunch of hangers on. You put an ad out there $350 to $650 a week to come down there and maybe get sex and drugs? I mean there's all kinds of groping of women going on; they're being paid for it. Come down and get some free smack and get paid for it! Come down and get some free dope and be paid for it.
Message revived Rush! Occupy Wall Street Protesters are hired, violent, anti-Semitic, sex crazed drug fiends. Rush builds up Occupy Wall Street protesters into this evil straw man. The kind of threatening Straw Man Limbaugh's macho low information listeners might find irresistible to attack with the violence that mere sex crazed drug fiends deserve.
Rush is a master at manufacturing fear and hate in his low information listeners. Will Limbaugh's viscous lies precipitate violence against the protesters? I suspect they already may have. See my post: The nocturnal assault on Professor Gizmo & my 72 hours at Occupy Seattle