[lbo-talk] "A tea party with brains"

Marv Gandall marvgand at gmail.com
Wed Oct 5 04:32:32 PDT 2011


On 2011-10-04, at 8:45 PM, SergioL652 at aol.com wrote:


> They changed the headline to "...this year's Tea Party"
>
>
> In a message dated 10/4/2011 10:47:14 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
> marvgand at gmail.com writes:
>
> (Not at all a bad piece from David Weidner of Marketwatch, part of
> Murdoch's Dow-Jones media empire.)
>
> Occupy Wall Street is a tea party with brains
> Commentary: Protesters seek political process that doesn’t exclude them
> By David Weidner, MarketWatch
> Oct. 4, 2011

A Murdoch outlet, after all, and there must have been a ferocious reaction from Marketwatch's right-wing readers. Surprising that Weidner was given even this much leash but, as with Bernanke, Buffett, and others, it's an indication of a counteroffensive within the ruling class against the unruly Republican tea party base which is impeding a bipartisan "grand bargain" to sweeten deep spending cuts with some tax hikes.



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