The mockery of Occupy Wall Street by those who fear and misunderstand it continues
I should have known this would inevitably happen.
Anti-Wall Streeters inspire Halloween costumes
By LEANNE ITALIE, Associated Press.
NEW YORK (AP) — Dressed as protesters, complete with toy megaphone, Mitch Robinson and his wife unrolled a sleeping bag and "occupied" their friends' Halloween party. Unlike the real-life Occupy Wall Street demonstrators, they had a detailed, numbered list of demands for their hosts.
Among them: Equal time on the karaoke machine, more meat on the grill and extra alcohol in the drinks.
So went the party in Tacoma, Washington, last Saturday night — Robinson in jeans, flannel shirt and a "Live Free or Die" cap and wife Mary Boone in beret, baggy sweater and a "Peace, Love Bieber" button.
"We were a big hit," said Robinson, 48, a marketing executive. "We tried to incite the other partygoers. Plus I loved that basically what I wore was perfect for raking leaves the next day."
Aside from demonstrating that douchebags tend to find and to marry one another, this little anecdote also shows, along with further evidence of the AP's rightward bias, that the 1% and their defenders are clueless when it comes to the Occupy Wall Street movement. Don't they know, by know, silly swells, that mocking the people will inevitably backfire?