THE OWS DEMONSTRATORS ARE FAR FROM WHAT FOX & THE FAR RIGHT SAY THEY ARE

These groups are definitely not the dirty, smelly, militant agitators that those on FOX claim.

...The OWS at work

I didn´t think it was possible, but the lies and misinformation coming out of the Republican party, mainly via the FOX Network, are at an all time high. The network of the far-right must really be worried, especially since that nut-case Herman Cain became the current front runner for their presidential nominee.

The latest comments by the blow-hard Rush Limbaugh and FOX´s Sean Hannity, Bill O´Reilly, Ann Coulter and Michelle Malkin are so far off-the-mark, that apparently the Occupy Wall Street crowds around the country are making a big and frightening impression on the righties. So far, these demonstration groups have foiled every trick in the right-wingers and the FOX network´s books. They even caught one of the FOX "shills" at a demonstration that was trying to give away pot-smokers "bongs" in hopes of making a video for FOX of an OWS demonstrator using one. The demonstrators quickly figured out what the guy was up to and verbally drove the imposter out of the park.

Apparently, these media radicals are starting to run out of negative adjectives to call the demonstrators such as "dirty", "smelly", "60´s long-hair hippies", blah, blah, blah... They are instead now trying to disparage the demonstrators by bringing back some anti-liberal claims that were previously successful for them. In this case, their latest talking point is saying that the demonstrators are a re-birth of the old ACORN organization that they falsely claimed focused on signing up bogus voters in the nation´s low rent city districts.

So, in order to make things clear for everyone, an unbiased survey has recently been conducted by the City University of New York (CUNY) to find out just who these OWS demonstrators really are.

Here´s what the survey of 1,619 respondents determined:

Group´s Politics:

70% of the survey´s respondents were identified as politically independent compared to 27.3% Democrats and 2.4% self-identified Republicans.

Participation level:

24.2% had participated in the Occupy Wall Street protests as of October 5, 2011.

Ages vary:

64.2% of respondents were younger than 34 years of age, However, one in three respondents was over 35 and one in five was 45 or older.

Wealth varies:

15.4% of the sample reported earning annual income between $50,000 and $74,999. 13% of the sample reported over $75,000 , and 2% said they made over $150,000 annually, putting them in the top 10% of all American earners, according to the Wall Street Journal. 47.5% of the sample earned less than $24,999 dollars a year and 24% earned between $25,000 and $49,999 per year. 71.5% of the sample earned less than $50,000 per year.

Education:

92.1% reported "some college, a college degree, or a graduate degree."

Jobs:

50.4% reported full-time employment, and 20.4% were employed part-time.

Now this survey was conducted under the direction of a PhD professor of sociology at the large, public CUNY college.

The Opposite FOX P.O.V.:

It is interesting that there was another demographic survey of the OWS movement. This other survey was much smaller and it was accomplished by a so-called in-person questionnaire of what has been claimed to be 198 of the protesters on the ground in New York´s Liberty Square. This survey was conducted by the FOX News polling organization on October 10th and 11th.

The results were published online and were used to bolster a Wall Street Journal column which falsely maintained that: "The Occupy Wall Street movement reflects values that are dangerously out of touch with the broad mass of the American people—and particularly with swing voters who are largely independent and have been trending away from the president since the debate over health-care reform."

This is an interesting statement since multiple polls have shown that ~66% of the American public supports the OWS movement.

FOX Politics:

The FOX survey recorded that the largest group of respondents, 33%, "do not identify with any political party," followed by 32% that identified Democratic and zero respondents who identified as Republican. A further 21%, the largest cohesive group, said "both parties" were to blame for the "failure to address our problems."

Now I´m sure that the fact that Rupert Murdoch, who owns both FOX and the Wall Street Journal, that surely has nothing to do with the explanation for these two reports to be diametrically opposite to each other´s conclusions...RIGHT!

As is stated by a very sharp liberal radio talk host. "Don´t believe me, don´t believe what you hear or what you read in the newspapers. With the proper use of the internet, you can find the truth for yourself. Take the time and look it up from multiple sources!"

That´s very good advice and it´s what I do.

Copyright G.Ater 2011-10-28

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