Andrea Peyser at Zuccotti: "I'm Not as Old As I Look." (Also, "Fuck You!")

• The goal of fascists like Peyser is to dehumanize these protesters, which is what Rush Limpblob did yesterday, ranting about how they were "defecating" and "urinating" everywhere, including on passersby, and screaming about them as filthy and so on. It's language that is used throughout history to tear people down so that those in power can rationalize the violence against them. It was used during the 1930s in Germany, throughout Jim Crow in this country, against the Vietnam War protesters, and it's an old, sick tactic, which is why a haggard crone like Peyser is so eager to rely on it.

• You're right about Hollywood, but they're hardly "liberal," they're just neoliberal entitled wealthmongers who spread their racist bourgeois neoliberal BS all over the world.  It's disgusting but they have the full backing of the US government to do it.  Their hateful upper-middle-class heteronormative white supremacist crap which ignores the vast majority of people in this country, including nearly all the middle class, working class and poor white people out, just continues to spread like toxic kudzu through minds all across the globe.

• Sakara -- Do you practice to be this stupid, or does it just come naturally? Oh, and fuck you!

• Peyser is just another canine, fascist-press hack, nothing more is to be expected from these immoral scum, face it America you are under the Nazi heel, make no mistake, the U.K. is just about catching up with our latest crop of copycat cops

• People like her who reflexively defend the violent suppression of dissent represent a truly debased form of humanity.  The are cowards who long to be slaves to others, rather than free people and disgust me.

• Seriously?  For real? for some people the truth wouldn't help.

• FUCK YOU SAKARA, you fucking dimwit. 

• I invite you to read Paul Krugman's columns apropos of the Occupy movement, as he is identified as a leading liberal and additionally does not that I know ever in print engage in vulgarity.

• I was hoping someone would catch me on that one....I was trying to be sarcastic. I mean if she is coming up with her own facts she  is either blatantly lying or for lack of a better word too stupid to know the real facts.

• fuck you, budbear!

• Fuck you, Sakara!

• If you're going to blame a democrat blame Bill Clinton......he is the one who signed into law the Glass–Steagall Act, which was actually introduced by a Republican Senator Phil Gramm (R-Texas).

• <I>Ok fine she has an opinion column so she has the right to come up with her own facts.</I> Well, there's freedom of the press, which means she has certain rights regardless of what she writes. But if you mean she has a <I>moral</I> right "to come up with her own facts" that she would not have if she were writing news articles, I disagree. I'd say she has the moral right to express her own opinion in her opinion column, but not to make things up and present them as fact.

• No, it was Dubya!

• nobody is more racist, cartoonish, foul mouthed, uncultured, coarse, than liberal hollywood and the liberal media! fuck you----TO QUOTE FROM A MILLION HOLLYWOOD MOVIES OF THE LAST 20 YEARS.

• obama is the one who fucked over america, and gave banks all the money they want.

• omg, she yelled fuck you at some asian----as though it's illegal and immoral to give a generic fuck you to somebody who isn't white. if spike lee was videotaped yelling anti-semitic stuff like jesse jackson, libs would be loving him for it. fuck you, china! fuck you, north korea!

• Andrea Peyser's columns typically are written in a hit-and-run, fact-checking-free, anti-intellectual style.  Her column linked to in this post is no exception to that.  She wrote, for example, that after the protestors left, sanitation workers cleaned up the "disease" the protestors had left behind.  That works for Peyser and her typical reader -- perhaps -- but it is inflammatory and meaningless; sanitation workers, for example, can not documentably have been shown to have cleaned "disease" left by protestors.  That is an old and ulgy trick for demonizing somebody whose culture and/or ideas you don't like; they're dirty, they spread disease, et cetera. Peyser makes additional claims that are patently untrue, for instance, writing that rape and other crimes had become "the norm" at Zuccotti Park.  It is dishonorable, and certainly not journalism, to invent defamatory falsehoods with intent to bolster one's opinion of a matter.  Her cartoonish demonization of the protestors, moreover, along with her refusal even to reflect on what motivates them politically, says a lot more about her than about them.   Andrea Peyser is the coarse, uncultured, foul-mouthed lady mud wrestler of New York opinion columnists. 

• I dont understand this right wing media writers...what motivates them to  write without regard to being objective to the subject they are writing about. Ok fine she has an opinion column so she has the right to come up with her own facts. But seems to me that everything they write about they see the world in a very pessimistic and dim worldview.....I guess the reason people are protesting in the park is because they have hope that something better is going to happen, I mean they're out there because obviously the situation is f**ked for lots of people. But the right wing media doesn't want to admit that. Just keep blaming the wrong person when its obvious that banks and financial institutions screwed

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