From New York Magazine:

As the protest has grown, some of the occupiers have spontaneously taken charge on projects large and small. But many of the people in Zuccotti Park aren’t taking direction well, leading to a tense Thursday of political disagreements, the occasional shouting match, and at least one fistfight.

It began, as it so often does, with a drum circle. The ten-hour groove marathons weren’t sitting well with the neighborhood’s community board, the ironically situated High School of Economics and Finance that sits on the corner of Zuccotti Park, or many of the sleep-deprived protesters.

“[The high school] couldn’t teach,” explained Josh Nelson, a 27-year-old occupier from Nebraska. “And we’ve had issues with the drummers too. They drum incessantly all day, and really loud.” Facilitators spearheaded a General Assembly proposal to limit the drumming to two hours a day. “The drumming is a major issue which has the potential to get us kicked out,” said Lauren Digion, a leader on the sanitation working group.

But the drums were fun. They brought in publicity and money. Many non-facilitators were infuriated by the decision and claimed that it had been forced through the General Assembly.

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In true Orwellian fashion, our pals at Media Matters demonstrate today that not only are some hate crimes more equal than others, but so too, some police reports are more equal than others.

After waiting a full 24-hours to react to yesterday’s release of the 24-page police report of the Kenneth Gladney incident of August 6^th (24-hours?  I thought you guys were supposed to “post(s) rapid-response items as well as longer research and analytic reports documenting conservative misinformation throughout the media”) they give us this beautiful example of leftist equivocation: (more…)