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		<title>The Breitbart &#8216;Ambiguous Entity of the Year&#8217;: The Tent of the Unknown Rapist</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am pleased to announce the winner of the First Annual Breitbart &#8220;Ambiguous Entity of the Year&#8221; award.
Our  choice was inspired by the most under-reported story of the year: the  dark side of the Occupy Wall Street movement, which the media attempted  to hide.
From  its origins, the Occupy movement has been [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I am pleased to announce the winner of the First Annual Breitbart &#8220;Ambiguous Entity of the Year&#8221; award.</p>
<p>Our  choice was inspired by the most under-reported story of the year: the  dark side of the Occupy Wall Street movement, which the media attempted  to hide.</p>
<p>From  its origins, the Occupy movement has been riddled by rapes, sexual  assaults, and countless other serious crimes&#8211;many of which were not  reported to police because Occupy organizers understood that public  police reports and media dispatches about crimes would hurt the  movement’s image.</p>
<p><a href="http://biggovernment.com/files/2011/12/tent_city_occupy_wall_street.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-398236" title="tent_city_occupy_wall_street" src="http://biggovernment.com/files/2011/12/tent_city_occupy_wall_street.jpg" alt="" width="450" height="300" /></a></p>
<p>And, as one Occupier noted, “This is a battle over images, not just over the park.”</p>
<p>Had  the Tea Party been ravaged by rapes, rampant drug use, vandalism, or  assaults, those crimes would not only have been over-reported, they  would have stopped the Tea Party in its tracks.</p>
<p>The  mainstream media did its best to invent Tea Party misdeeds&#8211;<a href="http://www.breitbart.tv/breitbart-exposes-the-n-word-lie-on-hannity/" target="_blank">imaginary &#8220;N-words&#8221;</a> and all&#8211;where none  existed. Prominent celebrities, athletes—even conservative ones, who  support the Tea Party’s aims—have kept a low profile in the Tea Party  for fear of being judged by the mainstream media’s double standard.</p>
<p>Yet  the media-savvy, media-embraced Occupy movement used shout-outs from  President Obama, former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, rap  impresario Russell Simmons, Alec Baldwin, Kanye West, Susan Sarandon,  Roseanne Barr, Sean Lennon, Joan Baez, Pete Seeger, Tim Robbins, and Anne  Hathaway to hide what was really going on at the makeshift encampments.<span id="more-398124"></span></p>
<p>Media  coverage was initially so soft and selectively laudatory on behalf of  Occupy that Disney teeny-bopper Miley Cyrus even lent the movement  “Liberty Walk,” an over-produced saccharine dance protest song dedicated  “to the thousands of people who are standing up for what they believe  in.”</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a target="_blank" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ovs0fpFgeqw"><img src="http://img.youtube.com/vi/Ovs0fpFgeqw/default.jpg"/></a></p>
<p>Occupy is so protectively sealed by the media powers-that-be Billy  Ray Cyrus’s red state-bred and highly managed “1%” offspring saw little  downside to jumping on the “99%” bandwagon.</p>
<p>Image is everything.</p>
<p>That is why the “The Tent of the Unknown Rapist” wins the First Annual Breitbart “Ambiguous Entity of the Year.”</p>
<p>Thankfully, <a href="http://bigjournalism.com/jjmnolte/2011/12/04/dead-movement-walking-top-ten-new-media-moments-that-brought-down-occupywallstreet/">new media exposed the reality behind Occupy</a>,  and in key cities run by Democratic mayors—in particular, New York  City, Oakland, and Los Angeles—Occupy was shut down because its promise,  manufactured by and played up by the old media, was overshadowed by the  grotesque and awful realities exposed by the new media.</p>
<p>In an <a href="http://biggovernment.com/jjmnolte/2011/10/28/occupywallstreet-the-rap-sheet-so-far/">extensive Occupy rap sheet</a>, there are 11 incidents of rape and sexual assault at Occupy encampments that we know of:</p>
<p>1. <a href="http://cleveland.cbslocal.com/2011/10/18/occupy-cleveland-protester-alleges-she-was-raped/">Occupy Cleveland Protester Alleges She Was Raped by Tent-Mate</a><br />
2. <a href="http://dfw.cbslocal.com/2011/10/24/accusations-of-teen-runaway-sexual-activity-at-occupy-dallas/">Dallas Police Investigate Rape of 14-Year-Old by Adult Occupier</a><br />
3. <a href="http://news.stv.tv/scotland/west-central/276301-woman-raped-at-glasgow-george-square-protest-camp/">Woman Gang Raped in Occupy Tent at Glasgow George Square Protest</a><br />
4. <a href="http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2011/oct/25/occupy-lawrence-members-report-crimes-south-park-c/">Sexual Assault Reported at Occupy Lawrence, KS</a><br />
5. <a href="http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/cityhall/Cops-arrest-Occupy-Philly-member-.html">Man Arrested for Rape of 45 Year-Old at Occupy Philly</a><br />
6. <a href="http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/zuccotti_perv_Qd8v3hCAnspzJ7VGC9nJZP">Zuccotti Park Occupier Claims She Was Sexually Assaulted in Tent</a>…<br />
7. …<a href="http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/zuccotti_perv_Qd8v3hCAnspzJ7VGC9nJZP">Claims Another Rape Occurred Weeks Earlier, Occupiers Didn&#8217;t Report</a><br />
8. <a href="http://biggovernment.com/publius/2011/10/31/woman-says-she-was-raped-at-occupybaltimore-begs-for-protest-to-be-shut-down/">Woman Says She Was Raped at Occupy Baltimore</a><br />
9. <a href="http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/story?section=news/crime&amp;id=8429956">23-Year-Old Woman Raped at Occupy Philadelphia</a><br />
10. <a href="http://bigjournalism.com/dloesch/2011/11/18/why-did-it-take-media-10-days-to-report-a-sexual-assault-at-occupystl/">Woman Reports She Was Raped at Occupy St. Louis</a><br />
11. <a href="http://www.breitbart.tv/do-not-post-deaf-man-raped-at-occupywallstreet-protest/">Woman Says Deaf Man Raped at Occupy Camp</a></p>
<p>The  mainstream media’s ignoring of the rapes, their neglect of the trend of  sexual assaults, and their refusal to show the video of <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGFeJ6gmJAE">Occupy  spokespeople expressing concern over the inherent dangers at Occupy  encampments</a>—especially at media-blanketed Zuccotti Park in the middle of  lower Manhattan—speaks to the intensity of the mainstream media’s  primal need to protect its manufactured movement.</p>
<p>From  the beginning, Occupy Wall Street was a huge progressive political  Lollapalooza, an operation supported by unions and Democrats, planned  and coordinated by career anarchists, and populated by students and  fellow travelers. It quickly descended into a circus, a freak show, and a  crime scene. The Breitbart sites actively chose to do what the  mainstream media refused to do: hyper-focus on what was really going on. In so doing, we stumbled upon proof that key members of the  media—including the <em>New York Times</em>, MSNBC, and <em>Rolling Stone</em>—were acting as public relations strategists and provocateurs on behalf of the Occupy movement.</p>
<p>There’s your “Story of the Year,” <em>Time Magazine</em>.</p>
<p>The  Obama campaign, the Democratic Party, and the media colluded in an  attempt to create class war in America in the pursuit of getting  President Obama re-elected and ending the momentum of limited government  conservatism as embodied in the Tea Party. Occupy’s crimes were  committed by members of a movement whose goal was to neutralize the  power of the Tea Party. And killing the Tea Party to keep the Democrats  and President Obama afloat is now the mainstream media’s number one  objective—by any means necessary.</p>
<p>The first <a href="http://bigjournalism.com/dloesch/2011/10/16/journolist-2-0-occupydc-emails-show-msm-dylan-ratigan-working-with-protesters-to-craft-message/">proof</a> of media coordination emerged in an email archive obtained by the Breitbart sites. It showed that MSNBC host Dylan Ratigan and <em>Rolling Stone</em> political editor Matt Taibbi had participated in a private group email  chain with Occupy’s behind-the-scenes organizers—the bulk of whom are  anarchists, socialists, communists, and anti-Israel activists, along  with sundry international rabble-rousers of all stripes. Ratigan and  Taibbi <a href="http://bigjournalism.com/dloesch/2011/10/16/journolist-2-0-occupydc-emails-show-msm-dylan-ratigan-working-with-protesters-to-craft-message/">advised the nascent movement</a> on its message and how to grow the  group effectively to be a left-wing version of the Tea Party.</p>
<p>The  email chain revealed the involvement of the usual suspects behind many  international socialist and anarchist driven protests, including  anti-WTO, anti-G8, and anti-G15 events; the people behind the  manufactured Cindy Sheehan “Camp Casey” occupation outside of President  George W. Bush’s Crawford, Texas ranch; and even the “GOP Welcoming  Committee” group that rioted against the 2008 Republican convention in  St. Paul, Minnesota. The latter featured the arrests of key participants  tied to Occupy organizer Lisa Fithian, who are now in federal prison  for a botched plan to use Molotov cocktails on the GOP delegates and the  police protecting them.</p>
<p><a href="http://biggovernment.com/files/2011/12/Occupy-Salt-Lake-City1-620x463.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-398228" title="Occupy-Salt-Lake-City1-620x463" src="http://biggovernment.com/files/2011/12/Occupy-Salt-Lake-City1-620x463.jpg" alt="" width="450" height="336" /></a></p>
<p>The  mainstream media, which are promoting Occupy in their year-end  wrap-ups, will not connect these basic dots. Instead they choose to  ignore the dots and attack those who point them out. The key struggle in  America today is over the narrative: on one side the old media (<em>New York Times</em>,  ABC, CBS, NBC, <em>Washington Post</em>, CNN, <em>Time, Newsweek</em>), and on the other  side the new media. The latter is a samizdat amalgam of independent  blogs, talk radio shows, Fox News, and social media like Twitter and  Facebook which have helped to make the samizdat drumbeat louder. They  are forcing old media to acquiesce and are further exposing that  media’s obvious biases while further dwindling old media’s former  captive audience.</p>
<p>While the media struggle over Occupy was under way, Natasha Lennard was covering the Occupy movement for the <em>New York Times</em>.   Her arrest, along with that of hundreds of other activists on the  Brooklyn Bridge, helped instigate the first wave of mass media coverage  of Occupy Wall Street. The police who were to be targeted as the bad  guys, per the Ratigan/Tabbi “September 17” email group, were castigated  for arresting a <em>Times</em> reporter. Only that <em>Times</em> reporter, <a href="http://biggovernment.com/lstranahan/2011/10/23/whaddaya-think-new-video-reveals-new-york-times-reporter-acting-as-occupywallstreet-organizer/" target="_blank">we discovered</a>, was gleefully working with core Occupy  organizers, as shown in the left wing Bluestockings bookstore panel  discussion where Lennard and her pal Malcolm Harris from the radical  leftist magazine <em>Jacobin</em> openly bragged about their involvement organizing (not objectively covering) Occupy.</p>
<p>Our <a href="http://biggovernment.com/lstranahan/2011/10/23/whaddaya-think-new-video-reveals-new-york-times-reporter-acting-as-occupywallstreet-organizer/">reports</a> from Lee Stranahan resulted in the <em>Times</em> distancing  itself from Lennard, who no longer writes for them, and Lennard writing  a piece in the leftist online magazine Salon in which she basically <a href="http://www.salon.com/2011/11/15/why_i_quit_the_mainstream_media/">came clean</a>. Subsequently, we <a href="http://bigjournalism.com/lstranahan/2011/12/15/new-york-times-freelancer-implicated-in-radiohead-hoax-to-promote-occupy-wall-street/">tied together</a> how Lennard, back when she was with the <em>Times</em>,  helped coordinate another media manipulation (to go along with the  Brooklyn Bridge arrest). On that occasion, she retweeted her pal  Harris’s stunt claim that Radiohead was to play at Zuccotti Park.</p>
<p>The  activist left-manufactured and mainstream media-enabled Occupy Wall  Street movement was predestined for “greatness” from its “Astroturf”  beginning. None  of these stories of mainstream media manipulation made the traditional  media, of course. But the new media works&#8211;and through social media,  YouTube, talk radio, and blogs, Americans basically got the message: the  media elite were completely in on the manufacturing of the left’s  counter-Tea Party.</p>
<p>More  and more Americans every day and every week begin to see how the media  manipulates in big and obnoxious ways as a means of controlling the  narrative. When <em>Time</em> gave “Person of the Year” to Barack Obama in 2008, it was as pre-ordained and as necessary to creating the correct narrative as  Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize was in 2009. Both were granted to him before  he had scored any accomplishments other than getting elected to the  presidency. Both were meant to boost his reputation and grant him  the power to push a left-of-center domestic agenda while pursuing an  Oslo-certified “internationalist” foreign policy.</p>
<div id="attachment_398288" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 235px"><a href="http://biggovernment.com/files/2011/12/Obama.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-398288" title="Obama" src="http://biggovernment.com/files/2011/12/Obama-225x300.jpg" alt="" width="225" height="300" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">President-elect Obama visits the Washington Post (Jan. 2009)</p></div>
<p>The “Story of the Year” and “Person of the Year” designations—not only at <em>Time</em>,  but at many other media outlets—appear clunkier and clunkier every  year as a new generation of news consumers becomes more sophisticated  media critics.</p>
<p>Media  is everything, I say over and over, because it is. Newt Gingrich fought  his way back in the GOP primaries by taking on the  agenda-setting partisan media. That’s how powerful the battle is:  consumers are so sick of the media bullying presented blatantly falsely  as “objective” and “neutral” that they’ll side with a candidate simply  for stating the obvious and treating those journalists in as hostile a  fashion as the journalists treat the candidates, and especially the  voters.</p>
<p>New  media is the biggest threat to the old media order. Generations of  entrenched opinion-makers are under constant attack by the power of the  Internet to provide individual citizens with all the tools necessary to  tell stories that the elite media have long refused to report, and for  media critics to call out the dying elite media class that refuses to  adapt to the new egalitarian terrain.</p>
<p>Two-plus  years of Tea Party electoral successes and conservative new media  counter-narrative victories demanded that the “Democrat-media  complex”—the natural alliance of the Democratic Party and the mainstream  media—fight back. The Occupy movement is that fight. Occupy is not just  a battle to maintain the political status quo of the welfare state. It  is also a war to secure the media mavens of Manhattan in their role as  arbiters of the public trust.</p>
<p>The  mainstream media’s sins of omission—not reporting the Occupy  movement’s origins in radical anarchist, communist, socialist,  pro-Intifada, and pro-jihadi groups; not reporting the media’s own  infrastructural support and advice-giving to Occupy; and not reporting  the vast amount of criminality and juvenile anti-authoritarianism at  Occupy demonstrations—led to the inevitable <em>Time Magazine</em> “<a href="http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2101344_2101369_2101667,00.html">Story of the Year</a>” honors (&#8220;Occupy Wall Street Protests Spread&#8221;) one week and the abstract designation as “<a href="http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2101745_2102132_2102373,00.html">Person of the Year</a>” (in the form of “The Protester”) the next.</p>
<p>That  “protester” also represented the “Arab Spring” dissenters and Russian’s  anti-Putin revolutionaries, but those were the “best supporting”  protesters, cast in order to grant a leading role to American-based  “Occupy” for a second week in the end-of-the-year media wrap-up racket  that is one of the last vestiges of old media agenda-setting power, and which is used brazenly to re-write recent history.</p>
<p>Astute  readers will notice that the one-month-long Anthony Weiner  mega-political scandal was missing from the year-end lists. But history  will not be re-written by the old guard. The real protester of the year  is the individual—the thousands of individuals—who have taken to new  media journalism as a form of protest against the &#8220;journalists.”</p>
<p>New  media is a protest. And bloggers of a conservative, libertarian, or Tea  Party stripe are the most successful protesters of our time. The fact  that the Tea Party is still around, and Anthony Weiner isn’t, is a  testament to the new media. For the old media to get its groove back,  they needed a mass movement that it could call its own and which could be  convinced to bring back the old order. But the smoke and mirrors, the  giving out of free subscriptions, and the end-of-the-year lies are not  working.</p>
<p><a href="http://biggovernment.com/files/2011/12/occupydenver-protest-tent-crossing-nmt.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-398208" title="Tent of the Unknown Rapist" src="http://biggovernment.com/files/2011/12/occupydenver-protest-tent-crossing-nmt.jpg" alt="" width="438" height="332" /></a></p>
<p>The  Tent of the Unknown Rapist is the symbol of the failure of the old  media to adapt to a more pluralistic and egalitarian media world. In  trying to create and protect the Occupy movement, the dying progressive  movement, the imploding Democratic Party and the crumbling Obama  administration, the mainstream media are the big losers in 2011.</p>
<p>Just like they were in 2010, 2009, 2008…</p>
<div id="_mcePaste" style="position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow: hidden;"><span id="internal-source-marker_0.907394802673616" style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Cambria; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The Breitbart ‘Ambiguous Entity of the Year’: The Tent of the Unknown Rapist</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Cambria; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">By Andrew Breitbart</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Cambria; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I am pleased to announce the winner of the First Annual Breitbart ‘Ambiguous Entity of the Year’ award.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Cambria; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Our  choice was inspired by the most under-reported story of the year: the  dark side of the Occupy Wall Street movement, which the media attempted  to hide.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Cambria; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">From  its origins, the Occupy movement has been riddled by rapes, sexual  assaults, and countless other serious crimes&#8211;many of which were not  reported to police because Occupy organizers understood that public  police reports and media dispatches about crimes would hurt the  movement’s image.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Cambria; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">And, as one Occupier noted: “This is a battle over images, not just over the park.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Cambria; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Had  the Tea Party been ravaged by rapes, rampant drug use, vandalism, or  assaults, those crimes would not only have been over-reported&#8211;they  would have ended the Tea Party in its tracks. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Cambria; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The  mainstream media did its best to invent Tea Party misdeeds, where none  existed. Prominent celebrities, athletes&#8211;even conservative ones, who  support the Tea Party’s aims—have kept a low profile in the Tea Party,  for fear of being judged by the mainstream media’s double standard.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Cambria; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Yet  the media-savvy, media-embraced Occupy movement used shout-outs from  President Obama, former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, rap  impresario Russell Simmons, Alex Baldwin, Kanye West, Susan Sarandon,  Roseanne Barr, Sean Lennon, Joan Baez, Pete Seeger, Tim Robbins and Anne  Hathaway to hide what was really going on at the makeshift encampments. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Cambria; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Media  coverage was initially so soft and selectively laudatory on behalf of  Occupy that Disney teeny-bopper Miley Cyrus even lent the movement  “Liberty Walk,” an over-produced saccharine dance protest song dedicated  “to the thousands of people who are standing up for what they believe  in.” Occupy is so protectively sealed by the media powers-that-be Billy  Ray Cyrus’s red state-bred and highly managed “1%” offspring saw little  downside to jumping on the “99%” bandwagon.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Cambria; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Image is everything.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Cambria; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">That is why the “The Tent of the Unknown Rapist” wins the First Annual Breitbart “Ambiguous Entity of the Year.” </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Cambria; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Thankfully, </span><a href="http://bigjournalism.com/jjmnolte/2011/12/04/dead-movement-walking-top-ten-new-media-moments-that-brought-down-occupywallstreet/"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">new media exposed the reality behind Occupy</span></a><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Cambria; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">,  and in key cities run by Democratic mayors&#8211;in particular, New York  City, Oakland and Los Angeles&#8211;Occupy was shut down because its promise,  manufactured by and played up by the old media, was overshadowed by the  grotesque and awful realities exposed by the new media.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Cambria; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">In an </span><a href="http://biggovernment.com/jjmnolte/2011/10/28/occupywallstreet-the-rap-sheet-so-far/"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">extensive Occupy rap sheet</span></a><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Cambria; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">, there are 11 incidents of rape and sexual assault at Occupy encampments &#8211; that we know of:</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Cambria; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">1. </span><a href="http://cleveland.cbslocal.com/2011/10/18/occupy-cleveland-protester-alleges-she-was-raped/"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">‘Occupy Cleveland’ Protester Alleges She Was Raped By Tent-Mate</span></a><br />
<span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Cambria; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">2. </span><a href="http://dfw.cbslocal.com/2011/10/24/accusations-of-teen-runaway-sexual-activity-at-occupy-dallas/"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Dallas Police Investigate Rape of 14 year-old By Adult Occupier</span></a><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Cambria; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Cambria; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">3. </span><a href="http://news.stv.tv/scotland/west-central/276301-woman-raped-at-glasgow-george-square-protest-camp/"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Woman Gang Raped In Occupy Tent at Glasgow George Square Protest</span></a><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Cambria; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Cambria; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">4. </span><a href="http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2011/oct/25/occupy-lawrence-members-report-crimes-south-park-c/"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Sexual Assault Reported at Occupy Lawrence, KS</span></a><br />
<span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Cambria; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">5. </span><a href="http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/cityhall/Cops-arrest-Occupy-Philly-member-.html"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Man Arrested For Rape of 45 Year-Old at Occupy Philly</span></a><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Cambria; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Cambria; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">6. </span><a href="http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/zuccotti_perv_Qd8v3hCAnspzJ7VGC9nJZP"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Zuccotti Park Occupier Claims She Was Sexually Assaulted In Tent</span></a><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Cambria; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">… </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Cambria; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">7. …</span><a href="http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/zuccotti_perv_Qd8v3hCAnspzJ7VGC9nJZP"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Claims Another Rape Occurred Weeks Earlier, Occupiers Didn&#8217;t Report</span></a><br />
<span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Cambria; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">8. </span><a href="http://biggovernment.com/publius/2011/10/31/woman-says-she-was-raped-at-occupybaltimore-begs-for-protest-to-be-shut-down/"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Woman Says She Was Raped at Occupy Baltimore</span></a><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Cambria; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Cambria; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">9. </span><a href="http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/story?section=news/crime&amp;id=8429956"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">23 Year-Old Woman Raped at Occupy Philadelphia</span></a><br />
<span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Cambria; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">10. </span><a href="http://bigjournalism.com/dloesch/2011/11/18/why-did-it-take-media-10-days-to-report-a-sexual-assault-at-occupystl/"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Woman Reports She Was Raped at Occupy St. Louis</span></a><br />
<span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Cambria; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">11. </span><a href="http://www.breitbart.tv/do-not-post-deaf-man-raped-at-occupywallstreet-protest/"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Woman Says Deaf Man Raped at Occupy Camp</span></a><br />
<a href="http://www.breitbart.tv/do-not-post-deaf-man-raped-at-occupywallstreet-protest/"></a><br />
<span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Cambria; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The  mainstream media’s ignoring of the rapes, their neglect of the trend of  sexual assaults, and their refusal to show the video of Occupy  spokespeople expressing the inherent dangers at Occupy  encampments—especially at media-blanketed Zuccotti Park in the middle of  lower Manhattan—speaks to the intensity of the mainstream media’s  primal need to protect its manufactured movement.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Cambria; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">From  the beginning, Occupy Wall Street was a huge progressive political  Lollapalooza, an operation supported by unions and Democrats, planned  and coordinated by career anarchists, and populated by students and  fellow travelers. It quickly descended into a circus, a freak show and a  crime scene. The Breitbart sites actively chose to do what the  mainstream media refused to do: hyper-focus on what was really going on.   In so doing, we stumbled upon proof that key members of the  media&#8211;including the </span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Cambria; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">New York Times</span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Cambria; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">, MSNBC and Rolling Stone—were acting as public relations strategists and  provocateurs on behalf of the Occupy movement. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Cambria; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">There’s your “Story of the Year,” </span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Cambria; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Time</span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Cambria; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Magazine. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Cambria; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The  Obama campaign, the Democratic Party, and the media colluded in an  attempt to create class war in America in the pursuit of getting  President Obama re-elected and ending the momentum of limited government  conservatism as embodied in the Tea Party. Occupy’s crimes were  committed by members of a movement whose goal was to neutralize the  power of the Tea Party. And killing the Tea Party to keep the Democrats  and President Obama afloat is now the mainstream media’s number one  objective. By any means necessary. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Cambria; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The first </span><a href="http://bigjournalism.com/dloesch/2011/10/16/journolist-2-0-occupydc-emails-show-msm-dylan-ratigan-working-with-protesters-to-craft-message/"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">proof</span></a><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Cambria; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> of media coordination emerged in an email archive obtained by the Breitbart sites. It showed that MSNBC host Dylan Ratigan and </span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Cambria; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Rolling Stone</span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Cambria; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> political editor Matt Taibbi had participated in a private group email  chain with Occupy’s behind-the-scenes organizers&#8211;the bulk of whom are  anarchists, socialists, communists, and anti-Israel activists, along  with sundry international rabble rousers of all stripes. Ratigan and  Taibbi advised the nascent movement on its message and how to grow the  group effectively to be a left wing version of the Tea Party.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Cambria; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The  email chain revealed the involvement of the usual suspects behind many  international socialist- and anarchist- driven protests, including  anti-WTO, anti-G8 and anti-G15 events; the people behind the  manufactured Cindy Sheehan “Camp Casey” occupation outside of President  George W. Bush’s Crawford, Texas ranch; and even the “GOP Welcoming  Committee” group that rioted against the 2008 Republican convention in  St. Paul, Minnesota. The latter featured the arrests of key participants  tied to Occupy organizer Lisa Fithian, who are now in federal prison  for a botched plan to use Molotov cocktails on the GOP delegates and the  police protecting them.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Cambria; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The  mainstream media, which are promoting Occupy in their year-end  wrap-ups, will not connect these basic dots. Instead they choose to  ignore the dots and attack those who point them out. The key struggle in  America today is over the narrative: on one side the old media (</span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Cambria; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">New York Times</span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Cambria; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">,  ABC, CBS, NBC, Washington Post, CNN, Time, Newsweek), and on the other  side the new media. The latter is a samizdat amalgam of independent  blogs; talk radio shows, whose daily material every now and then makes  it on to Fox News, and&#8211;when the powers that be can’t hold it back&#8211;on  traditional old media outlets; and social media like Twitter and  Facebook, which have helped to make the samizdat drumbeat louder. They  are forcing old media to acquiesce, and are further exposing that  media’s obvious biases while further dwindling old media’s former  captive audience.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Cambria; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">While the media struggle over Occupy was under way, Natasha Lennard was covering the Occupy movement for the </span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Cambria; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">New York Times</span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Cambria; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">.   Her arrest, along with that of hundreds of other activists on the  Brooklyn Bridge, helped instigate the first wave of mass media coverage  of Occupy Wall Street. The police who were to be targeted as the bad  guys, per the Ratigan/Tabbi “Septermber 17” email group, were castigated  for arresting a </span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Cambria; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Times</span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Cambria; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> reporter. Only&#8211;that </span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Cambria; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Times</span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Cambria; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> reporter, we discovered, was gleefully working with core Occupy  organizers, as shown in the left wing Bluestockings bookstore panel  discussion where Lennard and her pal Malcolm Harris from the radical  leftist magazine </span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Cambria; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Jacobin </span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Cambria; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">openly bragged about their involvement organizing&#8211;not objectively covering&#8211;Occupy.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Cambria; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Our </span><a href="http://biggovernment.com/lstranahan/2011/10/23/whaddaya-think-new-video-reveals-new-york-times-reporter-acting-as-occupywallstreet-organizer/"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">reports</span></a><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Cambria; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> from Lee Stranahan resulted in the </span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Cambria; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Times </span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Cambria; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">distancing  itself from Lennard, who no longer writes for them, and Lennard writing  a piece in the leftist online magazine Salon in which she basically </span><a href="http://www.salon.com/2011/11/15/why_i_quit_the_mainstream_media/"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">came clean</span></a><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Cambria; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">. Subsequently, we </span><a href="http://bigjournalism.com/lstranahan/2011/12/15/new-york-times-freelancer-implicated-in-radiohead-hoax-to-promote-occupy-wall-street/"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">tied together</span></a><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Cambria; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> how Lennard, back when she was with the </span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Cambria; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Times</span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Cambria; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">,  helped coordinate another media manipulation (to go along with the  Brooklyn Bridge arrest). On that occasion,  she retweeted her pal  Harris’s stunt to claim Radiohead was to play at Zuccotti Park. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Cambria; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The  activist left-manufactured and mainstream media-enabled Occupy Wall  Street movement was predestined for “greatness” from its “Astroturf”  beginning. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Cambria; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">None  of these stories of mainstream media manipulation made the traditional  media, of course. But the new media works&#8211;and through social media,  YouTube, talk radio and blogs, Americans basically got the message: the  media elite were completely in on the manufacturing of the left’s  counter-Tea Party. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Cambria; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">More  and more Americans every day and every week begin to see how the media  manipulates in big and obnoxious ways as a means of controlling the  narrative.  When </span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Cambria; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Time</span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Cambria; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> magazine gave “Person of the Year” to Barack Obama in 2008, it was as  pre-ordained and as necessary to creating the correct narrative as  Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize was in 2009. Both were granted to him before  he had scored any accomplishments other than getting elected to the  presidency. Both were meant to boost his reputation, and to grant him  the power to push a left-of-center domestic agenda while pursuing an  Oslo-certified “internationalist” foreign policy.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Cambria; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The “Story of the Year” and “Person of the Year” designations&#8211;not only at </span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Cambria; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Time</span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Cambria; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">,  but at many other media outlets&#8211;appear clunkier and clunkier every  year as a new generation of news consumers becomes more sophisticated  media critics. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Cambria; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Media  is everything, I say over and over. Because it is. Newt Gingrich fought  his way back from obscurity in the GOP primaries by taking on the  agenda-setting, partisan media. That’s how powerful the battle is:  consumers are so sick of the media bullying presented blatantly falsely  as “objective” and “neutral” that they’ll side with a candidate simply  for stating the obvious and treating those journalists in as hostile a  fashion as the journalists treat the candidates, and especially the  voters.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Cambria; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">New  media is the biggest threat to the old media order. Generations of  entrenched opinion-makers are under constant attack by the power of the  Internet to provide individual citizens with all the tools necessary to  tell stories that the elite media have long refused to report, and for  media critics to call out the dying elite media class that refuses to  adapt to the new egalitarian terrain. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Cambria; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Two-plus  years of Tea Party electoral successes and conservative new media  counter-narrative victories demanded that the “Democrat-media  complex”—the natural alliance of the Democratic Party and the mainstream  media—fight back. The Occupy movement is that fight. Occupy is not just  a battle to maintain the political status quo of the welfare state. It  is  alsoa war to secure the media mavens of Manhattan in their role as  arbiters of the public trust.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Cambria; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The  mainstream media’s sins of omission—not reporting what the Occupy  movement’s origins in radical anarchist, communist, socialist,  pro-Intifada, and pro-jihadi groups; not reporting the media’s own  infrastructural support and advice-giving to Occupy; and not reporting  the vast amount of criminality and juvenile anti-authoritarianism at  Occupy demonstrations—led to the inevitable </span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Cambria; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Time </span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Cambria; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Magazine “</span><a href="http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2101344_2101369_2101667,00.html"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Story of the Year</span></a><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Cambria; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">” [Occupy Wall Street] honors one week, and the abstract designation as “</span><a href="http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2101745_2102132_2102373,00.html"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Person of the Year</span></a><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Cambria; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">”—in the form of “The Protester”—the next. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Cambria; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">That  “protester” also represented the “Arab Spring” dissenters and Russian’s  anti-Putin revolutionaries&#8211;but those were the “best supporting”  protesters, cast in order to grant a leading role to American-based  “Occupy” for a second week in the end-of-the-year media wrap-up racket  that is one of the last vestiges of old media agenda-setting power, and  which is used brazenly to re-write recent history.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Cambria; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Astute  readers will notice that the one-month long Anthony Weiner  mega-political scandal was missing from the year-end lists. But history  will not be re-written by the old guard. The real protestor of the year  is the individual—the thousands of individuals&#8211;who have taken to new  media journalism as a form of protest against “the journalists.” </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Cambria; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">New  media is a protest. And bloggers of a conservative, libertarian or Tea  Party stripe are the most successful protesters of our time. The fact  that the Tea Party is still around, and Anthony Weiner isn’t, is a  testament to the new media. For the old media to get its groove back,  they will need a mass movement that it can call its own and which can be  convinced to bring back the old order. But the smoke and mirrors, the  giving out of free subscriptions, and the end-of-the-year lies are not  working. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Cambria; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The  Tent of the Unknown Rapist is the symbol of the failure of the old  media to adapt to a more pluralistic and egalitarian media world. In  trying to create and protect the Occupy movement, the dying progressive  movement, the imploding Democratic Party and the crumbling Obama  administration, the mainstream media are the big losers in 2011. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Cambria; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Just like they were in 2010, 2009, 2008…</span>The Breitbart ‘Ambiguous Entity of the Year’: The Tent of the Unknown Rapist<br />
By Andrew Breitbart</p>
<p>I am pleased to announce the winner of the First Annual Breitbart ‘Ambiguous Entity of the Year’ award.</p>
<p>Our  choice was inspired by the most under-reported story of the year: the  dark side of the Occupy Wall Street movement, which the media attempted  to hide.</p>
<p>From  its origins, the Occupy movement has been riddled by rapes, sexual  assaults, and countless other serious crimes&#8211;many of which were not  reported to police because Occupy organizers understood that public  police reports and media dispatches about crimes would hurt the  movement’s image.</p>
<p>And, as one Occupier noted: “This is a battle over images, not just over the park.”</p>
<p>Had  the Tea Party been ravaged by rapes, rampant drug use, vandalism, or  assaults, those crimes would not only have been over-reported&#8211;they  would have ended the Tea Party in its tracks.</p>
<p>The  mainstream media did its best to invent Tea Party misdeeds, where none  existed. Prominent celebrities, athletes&#8211;even conservative ones, who  support the Tea Party’s aims—have kept a low profile in the Tea Party,  for fear of being judged by the mainstream media’s double standard.</p>
<p>Yet  the media-savvy, media-embraced Occupy movement used shout-outs from  President Obama, former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, rap  impresario Russell Simmons, Alex Baldwin, Kanye West, Susan Sarandon,  Roseanne Barr, Sean Lennon, Joan Baez, Pete Seeger, Tim Robbins and Anne  Hathaway to hide what was really going on at the makeshift encampments.</p>
<p>Media  coverage was initially so soft and selectively laudatory on behalf of  Occupy that Disney teeny-bopper Miley Cyrus even lent the movement  “Liberty Walk,” an over-produced saccharine dance protest song dedicated  “to the thousands of people who are standing up for what they believe  in.” Occupy is so protectively sealed by the media powers-that-be Billy  Ray Cyrus’s red state-bred and highly managed “1%” offspring saw little  downside to jumping on the “99%” bandwagon.</p>
<p>Image is everything.</p>
<p>That is why the “The Tent of the Unknown Rapist” wins the First Annual Breitbart “Ambiguous Entity of the Year.”</p>
<p>Thankfully, <a href="http://bigjournalism.com/jjmnolte/2011/12/04/dead-movement-walking-top-ten-new-media-moments-that-brought-down-occupywallstreet/">new media exposed the reality behind Occupy</a>,  and in key cities run by Democratic mayors&#8211;in particular, New York  City, Oakland and Los Angeles&#8211;Occupy was shut down because its promise,  manufactured by and played up by the old media, was overshadowed by the  grotesque and awful realities exposed by the new media.</p>
<p>In an <a href="http://biggovernment.com/jjmnolte/2011/10/28/occupywallstreet-the-rap-sheet-so-far/">extensive Occupy rap sheet</a>, there are 11 incidents of rape and sexual assault at Occupy encampments &#8211; that we know of:</p>
<p>1. <a href="http://cleveland.cbslocal.com/2011/10/18/occupy-cleveland-protester-alleges-she-was-raped/">‘Occupy Cleveland’ Protester Alleges She Was Raped By Tent-Mate</a><br />
2. <a href="http://dfw.cbslocal.com/2011/10/24/accusations-of-teen-runaway-sexual-activity-at-occupy-dallas/">Dallas Police Investigate Rape of 14 year-old By Adult Occupier</a><br />
3. <a href="http://news.stv.tv/scotland/west-central/276301-woman-raped-at-glasgow-george-square-protest-camp/">Woman Gang Raped In Occupy Tent at Glasgow George Square Protest</a><br />
4. <a href="http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2011/oct/25/occupy-lawrence-members-report-crimes-south-park-c/">Sexual Assault Reported at Occupy Lawrence, KS</a><br />
5. <a href="http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/cityhall/Cops-arrest-Occupy-Philly-member-.html">Man Arrested For Rape of 45 Year-Old at Occupy Philly</a><br />
6. <a href="http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/zuccotti_perv_Qd8v3hCAnspzJ7VGC9nJZP">Zuccotti Park Occupier Claims She Was Sexually Assaulted In Tent</a>…<br />
7. …<a href="http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/zuccotti_perv_Qd8v3hCAnspzJ7VGC9nJZP">Claims Another Rape Occurred Weeks Earlier, Occupiers Didn&#8217;t Report</a><br />
8. <a href="http://biggovernment.com/publius/2011/10/31/woman-says-she-was-raped-at-occupybaltimore-begs-for-protest-to-be-shut-down/">Woman Says She Was Raped at Occupy Baltimore</a><br />
9. <a href="http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/story?section=news/crime&amp;id=8429956">23 Year-Old Woman Raped at Occupy Philadelphia</a><br />
10. <a href="http://bigjournalism.com/dloesch/2011/11/18/why-did-it-take-media-10-days-to-report-a-sexual-assault-at-occupystl/">Woman Reports She Was Raped at Occupy St. Louis</a><br />
11. <a href="http://www.breitbart.tv/do-not-post-deaf-man-raped-at-occupywallstreet-protest/">Woman Says Deaf Man Raped at Occupy Camp</a></p>
<p>The  mainstream media’s ignoring of the rapes, their neglect of the trend of  sexual assaults, and their refusal to show the video of Occupy  spokespeople expressing the inherent dangers at Occupy  encampments—especially at media-blanketed Zuccotti Park in the middle of  lower Manhattan—speaks to the intensity of the mainstream media’s  primal need to protect its manufactured movement.</p>
<p>From  the beginning, Occupy Wall Street was a huge progressive political  Lollapalooza, an operation supported by unions and Democrats, planned  and coordinated by career anarchists, and populated by students and  fellow travelers. It quickly descended into a circus, a freak show and a  crime scene. The Breitbart sites actively chose to do what the  mainstream media refused to do: hyper-focus on what was really going on.   In so doing, we stumbled upon proof that key members of the  media&#8211;including the New York Times, MSNBC and Rolling Stone—were acting as public relations strategists and  provocateurs on behalf of the Occupy movement.</p>
<p>There’s your “Story of the Year,” Time Magazine.</p>
<p>The  Obama campaign, the Democratic Party, and the media colluded in an  attempt to create class war in America in the pursuit of getting  President Obama re-elected and ending the momentum of limited government  conservatism as embodied in the Tea Party. Occupy’s crimes were  committed by members of a movement whose goal was to neutralize the  power of the Tea Party. And killing the Tea Party to keep the Democrats  and President Obama afloat is now the mainstream media’s number one  objective. By any means necessary.</p>
<p>The first <a href="http://bigjournalism.com/dloesch/2011/10/16/journolist-2-0-occupydc-emails-show-msm-dylan-ratigan-working-with-protesters-to-craft-message/">proof</a> of media coordination emerged in an email archive obtained by the Breitbart sites. It showed that MSNBC host Dylan Ratigan and Rolling Stone  political editor Matt Taibbi had participated in a private group email  chain with Occupy’s behind-the-scenes organizers&#8211;the bulk of whom are  anarchists, socialists, communists, and anti-Israel activists, along  with sundry international rabble rousers of all stripes. Ratigan and  Taibbi advised the nascent movement on its message and how to grow the  group effectively to be a left wing version of the Tea Party.</p>
<p>The  email chain revealed the involvement of the usual suspects behind many  international socialist- and anarchist- driven protests, including  anti-WTO, anti-G8 and anti-G15 events; the people behind the  manufactured Cindy Sheehan “Camp Casey” occupation outside of President  George W. Bush’s Crawford, Texas ranch; and even the “GOP Welcoming  Committee” group that rioted against the 2008 Republican convention in  St. Paul, Minnesota. The latter featured the arrests of key participants  tied to Occupy organizer Lisa Fithian, who are now in federal prison  for a botched plan to use Molotov cocktails on the GOP delegates and the  police protecting them.</p>
<p>The  mainstream media, which are promoting Occupy in their year-end  wrap-ups, will not connect these basic dots. Instead they choose to  ignore the dots and attack those who point them out. The key struggle in  America today is over the narrative: on one side the old media (New York Times,  ABC, CBS, NBC, Washington Post, CNN, Time, Newsweek), and on the other  side the new media. The latter is a samizdat amalgam of independent  blogs; talk radio shows, whose daily material every now and then makes  it on to Fox News, and&#8211;when the powers that be can’t hold it back&#8211;on  traditional old media outlets; and social media like Twitter and  Facebook, which have helped to make the samizdat drumbeat louder. They  are forcing old media to acquiesce, and are further exposing that  media’s obvious biases while further dwindling old media’s former  captive audience.</p>
<p>While the media struggle over Occupy was under way, Natasha Lennard was covering the Occupy movement for the New York Times.   Her arrest, along with that of hundreds of other activists on the  Brooklyn Bridge, helped instigate the first wave of mass media coverage  of Occupy Wall Street. The police who were to be targeted as the bad  guys, per the Ratigan/Tabbi “Septermber 17” email group, were castigated  for arresting a Times reporter. Only&#8211;that Times  reporter, we discovered, was gleefully working with core Occupy  organizers, as shown in the left wing Bluestockings bookstore panel  discussion where Lennard and her pal Malcolm Harris from the radical  leftist magazine Jacobin openly bragged about their involvement organizing&#8211;not objectively covering&#8211;Occupy.</p>
<p>Our <a href="http://biggovernment.com/lstranahan/2011/10/23/whaddaya-think-new-video-reveals-new-york-times-reporter-acting-as-occupywallstreet-organizer/">reports</a> from Lee Stranahan resulted in the Times distancing  itself from Lennard, who no longer writes for them, and Lennard writing  a piece in the leftist online magazine Salon in which she basically <a href="http://www.salon.com/2011/11/15/why_i_quit_the_mainstream_media/">came clean</a>. Subsequently, we <a href="http://bigjournalism.com/lstranahan/2011/12/15/new-york-times-freelancer-implicated-in-radiohead-hoax-to-promote-occupy-wall-street/">tied together</a> how Lennard, back when she was with the Times,  helped coordinate another media manipulation (to go along with the  Brooklyn Bridge arrest). On that occasion,  she retweeted her pal  Harris’s stunt to claim Radiohead was to play at Zuccotti Park.</p>
<p>The  activist left-manufactured and mainstream media-enabled Occupy Wall  Street movement was predestined for “greatness” from its “Astroturf”  beginning.<br />
None  of these stories of mainstream media manipulation made the traditional  media, of course. But the new media works&#8211;and through social media,  YouTube, talk radio and blogs, Americans basically got the message: the  media elite were completely in on the manufacturing of the left’s  counter-Tea Party.</p>
<p>More  and more Americans every day and every week begin to see how the media  manipulates in big and obnoxious ways as a means of controlling the  narrative.  When Time  magazine gave “Person of the Year” to Barack Obama in 2008, it was as  pre-ordained and as necessary to creating the correct narrative as  Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize was in 2009. Both were granted to him before  he had scored any accomplishments other than getting elected to the  presidency. Both were meant to boost his reputation, and to grant him  the power to push a left-of-center domestic agenda while pursuing an  Oslo-certified “internationalist” foreign policy.</p>
<p>The “Story of the Year” and “Person of the Year” designations&#8211;not only at Time,  but at many other media outlets&#8211;appear clunkier and clunkier every  year as a new generation of news consumers becomes more sophisticated  media critics.</p>
<p>Media  is everything, I say over and over. Because it is. Newt Gingrich fought  his way back from obscurity in the GOP primaries by taking on the  agenda-setting, partisan media. That’s how powerful the battle is:  consumers are so sick of the media bullying presented blatantly falsely  as “objective” and “neutral” that they’ll side with a candidate simply  for stating the obvious and treating those journalists in as hostile a  fashion as the journalists treat the candidates, and especially the  voters.</p>
<p>New  media is the biggest threat to the old media order. Generations of  entrenched opinion-makers are under constant attack by the power of the  Internet to provide individual citizens with all the tools necessary to  tell stories that the elite media have long refused to report, and for  media critics to call out the dying elite media class that refuses to  adapt to the new egalitarian terrain.</p>
<p>Two-plus  years of Tea Party electoral successes and conservative new media  counter-narrative victories demanded that the “Democrat-media  complex”—the natural alliance of the Democratic Party and the mainstream  media—fight back. The Occupy movement is that fight. Occupy is not just  a battle to maintain the political status quo of the welfare state. It  is  alsoa war to secure the media mavens of Manhattan in their role as  arbiters of the public trust.</p>
<p>The  mainstream media’s sins of omission—not reporting what the Occupy  movement’s origins in radical anarchist, communist, socialist,  pro-Intifada, and pro-jihadi groups; not reporting the media’s own  infrastructural support and advice-giving to Occupy; and not reporting  the vast amount of criminality and juvenile anti-authoritarianism at  Occupy demonstrations—led to the inevitable Time Magazine “<a href="http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2101344_2101369_2101667,00.html">Story of the Year</a>” [Occupy Wall Street] honors one week, and the abstract designation as “<a href="http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2101745_2102132_2102373,00.html">Person of the Year</a>”—in the form of “The Protester”—the next.</p>
<p>That  “protester” also represented the “Arab Spring” dissenters and Russian’s  anti-Putin revolutionaries&#8211;but those were the “best supporting”  protesters, cast in order to grant a leading role to American-based  “Occupy” for a second week in the end-of-the-year media wrap-up racket  that is one of the last vestiges of old media agenda-setting power, and  which is used brazenly to re-write recent history.</p>
<p>Astute  readers will notice that the one-month long Anthony Weiner  mega-political scandal was missing from the year-end lists. But history  will not be re-written by the old guard. The real protestor of the year  is the individual—the thousands of individuals&#8211;who have taken to new  media journalism as a form of protest against “the journalists.”</p>
<p>New  media is a protest. And bloggers of a conservative, libertarian or Tea  Party stripe are the most successful protesters of our time. The fact  that the Tea Party is still around, and Anthony Weiner isn’t, is a  testament to the new media. For the old media to get its groove back,  they will need a mass movement that it can call its own and which can be  convinced to bring back the old order. But the smoke and mirrors, the  giving out of free subscriptions, and the end-of-the-year lies are not  working.</p>
<p>The  Tent of the Unknown Rapist is the symbol of the failure of the old  media to adapt to a more pluralistic and egalitarian media world. In  trying to create and protect the Occupy movement, the dying progressive  movement, the imploding Democratic Party and the crumbling Obama  administration, the mainstream media are the big losers in 2011.</p>
<p>Just like they were in 2010, 2009, 2008…</p>
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		<title>Rich #Occupy Leftists Drink Chardonnay in First Class While Toying With the Lives of Young “Revolutionaries”</title>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Two weeks ago, Andrew Breitbart called me and laughingly told me that he had just boarded a plane and wanted me to guess who he had passed in first class as he made his way to his coach seat.</p>
<p>I immediately guessed that it was someone who publicly stands in “solidarity” with &#8220;the 99%” as he or she sips chardonnay in seats only the 1% can typically afford. It turned out to be <a href="http://biggovernment.com/abreitbart/2011/11/14/code-pinks-jodie-evans-occupies-first-class/" target="_blank">Jodie Evans, co-founder of Code Pink</a>, enjoying the good life.</p>
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<p>Andrew and I shared a laugh as we agreed that the ironic pattern of wealthy liberals critiquing “the rich” while simultaneously living high on the hog was just too rich in itself.</p>
<p>And Andrew wondered aloud how someone who flies coach, as he travels multiple times a week, gets attacked as a rich and uncaring capitalist, while someone like Jodie Evans can fly first class and still relish her undying support from lefties.</p>
<p>Sadly, I both comprehend the answer and have experienced such moments of clear contradiction–with Jodie Evans herself.</p>
<p>Years ago, I was asked by <a href="http://biggovernment.com/lstranahan/2011/10/10/meet-the-anarchist-leaders-behind-the-leaderless-occupy-movement-part-one-lisa-fithian/" target="_blank">anarchist Lisa Fithian</a> to help her shut down the 2004 Halliburton shareholders&#8217; meeting. She dispatched me and another young activist to go to the intended site of the meeting, specifically the Four Seasons Hotel in Houston. We followed our directions and scoped out the entrances and exits. We mapped out every possible way to shut the program down and to prevent access to the building or meeting room.</p>
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<p>A room had been rented for several of us in the hotel the day before the meeting. Though nice, our room was very crowded and on the lower levels. The organizers had only rented one room for all of the activists involved. Though I knew Fithian was directing the operation, I still didn’t know who else was behind the scenes.</p>
<p>Fithian called me late that night and told me to come up to a penthouse suite on the upper levels of the hotel. She asked me to come alone, and I did. I didn’t seem to raise any suspicion from hotel staff as I made my way up to the top floors. I knocked, the door opened, and lo and behold&#8211;there sat Lisa Fithian next to the famed Jodie Evans. A woman named Andrea Buffa who worked for Medea Benjamin’s Global Exchange was also present. They instructed me on what I was to do during the shareholders’ meeting in the morning and what they wanted the other embedded activists to do. I agreed and told them I’d make sure it happened. They said the other embedded activists and I would be arrested, and that “everything would be okay.”</p>
<p>I left the room feeling a bit strange that those of us facing arrest were crowded in a small lower floor room while our “leaders” were in a penthouse. The fancy room service with chocolate covered strawberries, champagne, and other delicacies didn’t really bother me until I got hungry later that night and realized our “officers” hadn’t thought to organize any food or beverage for us “soldiers” even though we had been strictly commanded not to leave the room they had provided.</p>
<p>Most of us in the crowded room didn’t sleep that night. The next morning we began to get dressed as I went over the plans with everyone. We left the room in pairs, dressed in suits. Each of us had a single handcuff on each wrist and had a third handcuff bracelet in our shirt pocket. The locks had been epoxied so that police couldn’t use a master key and get them off easily. As we walked past the final layer of security for the meeting, I looked at my watch, and it was just the time I had been instructed to lock on to the banister. I did it. The others did. There wasn’t any turning back at that point.</p>
<p>At that exact moment, several hundred protesters outside were told to lie down in the entrances to the hotel. They did so, and it took the police over half an hour to clear the entrances and exits. This was significant because since the police couldn’t cut us off the banisters, the fire department had to do so. But the fire department couldn’t pass the protesters until the police cleared them out. That resulted in approximately thirty-seven minutes of me and the others saying what we wanted and had been told to say. We talked about Halliburton sending empty supply trucks across Iraq just to charge our government for the “load.” We talked about the contracted truck drivers whose lives were being needlessly put at risk for increased profits. We were finally removed and arrested.</p>
<p>We were all immediately placed in a large cell. The toilets had overflowed and there wasn’t anywhere to sit or lie down. I didn’t really mind the situation because I felt I was “doing it for the shared struggle.”</p>
<p>Well, I started to mind it shortly thereafter. We got word that we hadn’t been provided the attorneys our “leaders” had promised. We also got word that our “leaders” had decided not to &#8220;lock down&#8221; as we had all agreed to do. Jodie Evans had decided to drop a banner out of her window instead and had walked away after the banner had been removed. Our leaders didn’t go to jail.</p>
<p>The worst part of it all was when I got word that our penthouse-dwelling, chocolate-covered-strawberries-room-service-ordering, champagne-drinking “leaders” had never provided our bail money. So much for “solidarity.”</p>
<p>Various activists raised our bail money and we were released that night. A local attorney agreed to represent all of us and told us that it wasn’t cool to put attorneys on the spot like that. We explained that we had been told attorneys would be provided.</p>
<p>We basically all paid five hundred dollars each and got a trespassing charge on our records. Our action was covered in the business sections of newspapers in several countries. Afterwards, our government investigated our accusations against Halliburton and ordered it to repay something like eighty million dollars for empty loads it had billed and for which it had been paid.</p>
<p>Needless to say, I wasn’t surprised to hear Jodie Evans was traveling in first class on Andrew&#8217;s flight.</p>
<p>To be fair, not all of the “elite” leftist leadership is as stingy as Evans.</p>
<p>Take Michael Moore, for instance. In the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, as one former Black Panther, one radical eco- and animal-rights-terrorism supporter, and I were close to an armed standoff with police and a racist militia, Michael Moore put his money where his mouth is.</p>
<p>The Black Panther was Malik Rahim. He was famous for his shootout with the New Orleans police in the 1970s. After earning a long and lengthy rap sheet, he changed his name from Donald Guiton to Malik Rahim and has been adored by the left every since. The eco- and animal-rights-terrorism advocate was Scott Crow. Crow openly gave a speech which the group’s pirate radio station aired over and over again for months. Crow stated clearly that we were a “paramilitary organization,” armed and in “solidarity” with foreign armed movements, including the people of Chiapas. Such talk of being armed and working with foreign armed movements didn’t deter Michael Moore from sending $200,000 through Veterans for Peace to help fund what we were doing. I guess as the closest thing to an armed resistance movement the U.S. had since the 1960s and 1970s, Moore couldn’t pass up drowning us in money.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://biggovernment.com/files/2011/11/3MooreHouseBig2center1.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-382472    aligncenter" title="3MooreHouseBig2center" src="http://biggovernment.com/files/2011/11/3MooreHouseBig2center1.jpg" alt="" width="384" height="286" /></a><em>Michael Moore&#8217;s luxury Torch Lake vacation home</em></p>
<p>Thankfully, we never had to find out whether or not Moore would have followed through with bail money if we had been busted for our almost-revolutionary struggle.</p>
<p>If subsequent history is any indicator, Jodie Evans would have left us high and dry&#8211;while she flew away in first class.</p>
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		<title>EXCLUSIVE: Email from Lisa Fithian to #OccupyWallStreet Confirms ACORN Role in Occupy&#8217;s Next Assault on Banks</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Oct 2011 20:20:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joel B. Pollak</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lisa Fithian&#8211;the radical organizer whose role in Occupy was first exposed at Big Government&#8211;has apparently confirmed that ACORN-linked organizations are leading the Occupy movement&#8217;s next major protest action against banks nationwide.
Fox News reported earlier today that remnants of ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now), the radical community organizing group that collapsed after its corruption was exposed [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Lisa Fithian&#8211;the radical organizer whose role in Occupy was first <a href="http://biggovernment.com/lstranahan/2011/10/10/meet-the-anarchist-leaders-behind-the-leaderless-occupy-movement-part-one-lisa-fithian/" target="_blank">exposed</a> at Big Government&#8211;has apparently confirmed that ACORN-linked organizations are leading the Occupy movement&#8217;s next major protest action against banks nationwide.</p>
<p>Fox News reported earlier <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/10/26/exclusive-acorn-playing-behind-scenes-role-in-occupy-movement/" target="_blank">today</a> that remnants of ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now), the radical community organizing group that collapsed after its corruption was <a href="http://biggovernment.com/tag/acorn-video/" target="_blank">exposed</a> by Big Government, are playing a &#8220;behind the scenes&#8221; role in organizing the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations.</p>
<p>The Fox News investigation followed Matthew Vadum&#8217;s <a href="http://biggovernment.com/mvadum/2011/10/14/working-families-party-recruits-acorn-rent-a-mobs-for-occupywallstreet/" target="_blank">report</a> two weeks ago at Big Government that ACORN was paying people to attend the Occupy Wall Street protests in New York through the Working Families Party, an ACORN front group.</p>
<p>Now, Big Government has learned that in an email (below) sent by Fithian to Occupy organizers and supporters on October 22, 2011, she reported that the &#8220;New Bottom Line&#8221;&#8211;an effort to move as much money out of major banks as possible on November 5th&#8211;is being led by several ACORN-linked organizations: &#8220;National People&#8217;s Action, National Pico Network, and Alliance for Just and Sustainable Economy and other key state groups like ACCE in CA, NYCC in NY, or MORE in St. Louis.&#8221;</p>
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<p><a href="http://biggovernment.com/kolson/2011/02/09/teachers-union-aka-sds-alumni-club-back-in-bed-with-reincarnated-acorn/" target="_blank">ACCE</a> (Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment), <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/10/26/exclusive-acorn-playing-behind-scenes-role-in-occupy-movement/" target="_blank">NYCC</a> (New York Communities for Change), and <a href="http://biggovernment.com/publius/2011/03/25/more-acorn-leftists-plot-to-take-over-houses-by-squatting/" target="_blank">MORE</a> (Missourians Organizing for Reform and Empowerment), are apparently nothing more than reconstituted ACORN branches.</p>
<p>National People&#8217;s Action, PICO National Network, and Alliance for a Just Society are all <a href="http://biggovernment.com/mvadum/2011/07/24/breaking-new-acorn-groups-join-seius-economic-terrorism-campaign-against-lenders-governments/" target="_blank">closely linked to ACORN</a>. At the time of ACORN&#8217;s collapse, National People&#8217;s Action in particular <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2010-03-24-acorn-vows_N.htm" target="_blank">vowed</a> publicly to pick up where ACORN left off: &#8220;Organizations can come and go, but what&#8217;s important is that people who want to come together should have the opportunity to&#8230;identify their interests and work on them together.&#8221; These groups have also collaborated on similar ACORN-style campaigns against banks in the <a href="http://chasehomefinancesux.com/?p=1534" target="_blank">recent past</a>.</p>
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<p>Former ACORN chief executive and organizer Bertha Lewis is also involved in the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations. Her new organization, The Black Institute, is calling its protests &#8220;<a href="http://www.theblackinstitute.org/occupy_black_america" target="_blank">Occupy Black America</a>&#8221; and &#8220;Occupy The Hood.&#8221;</p>
<p>Meanwhile, Fithian is at the core of Occupy itself, urging activists to join the New Bottom Line, whose <a href="http://www.newbottomline.com/" target="_blank">webpage</a> reveals a variety of ACORN-style demonstrations and &#8220;direct actions&#8221; across the country.</p>
<p>The chosen date for the financial protest, Nov. 5, is known in the British Commonwealth as Guy Fawkes Day, named to commemorate the failure of the man who had attempted to blow up Parliament and thereby assassinate King James I four hundred years ago.</p>
<p>Guy Fawkes has become a symbol of the Occupy demonstrations and the Anonymous hacker collective&#8211;hence the near-ubiquitous Guy Fawkes (&#8220;<a href="http://vforvendetta.warnerbros.com/" target="_blank">V for Vendetta</a>&#8220;) masks at protests.</p>
<p>The involvement of ACORN&#8217;s successors in the Occupy movement is yet another sign of the true, radical nature of the demonstrations.</p>
<p>Given President Barack Obama&#8217;s <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Radical-Chief-Barack-American-Socialism/dp/1439155089/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1295034813&amp;sr=8-1" target="_blank">past links to ACORN</a>, the fact that ACORN is playing so large a role in continuing Occupy protests raises questions about whether Occupy enjoys a level of political protection far higher than the local politicians who recently <a href="http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/mike_pols_lowered_the_broom_AqacgvxD6OUWtGrgu0SiXN" target="_blank">pressured</a> the owners of Zuccotti Park not to clear out the demonstrators.</p>
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		<title>Revealed: #OccupyWallStreet Public Relations Strategy for Reports of Violence Against Cops&#8211;Blame Someone Else!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Oct 2011 13:13:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joel B. Pollak</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Big Government has learned that Occupy Wall Street activists and supporters are circulating this blog post from the left-wing site Firedoglake, entitled: &#8220;What to Do When the Media Says a Protester Attacked a Cop.&#8221;
The plan is simple: find someone else to blame for Occupy violence against police.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Big Government has learned that Occupy Wall Street activists and supporters are circulating <a href="http://my.firedoglake.com/spocko/2011/10/22/what-to-do-when-the-media-says-a-protester-attacked-a-cop/" target="_blank">this blog post</a> from the left-wing site Firedoglake, entitled: &#8220;What to Do When the Media Says a Protester Attacked a Cop.&#8221;</p>
<p>The plan is simple: find someone else to blame for Occupy violence against police.</p>
<p>The Firedoglake post was published on Saturday, October 22. By then, there had already been several incidents of <a href="http://biggovernment.com/publius/2011/10/20/teacher-choked-women-attacked-at-occupyoakland-its-lord-of-the-flies-among-anarchists-sex-offenders/" target="_blank">violence</a> and attacks on <a href="http://twitter.com/#!/benbradley7/status/123563114854760448" target="_blank">police</a> at Occupy demonstrations throughout the country. Moreover, it had become clear that some Occupy activists were determined to initiate or provoke clashes with police, such as those witnessed on the streets of Oakland <a href="http://biggovernment.com/publius/2011/10/25/breaking-occupyoakland-activists-attack-police/" target="_blank">last night</a>.</p>
<p>Once posted on Firedoglake, the proposed public relations strategy for dealing with accusations of anti-police violence was then circulated via email to organizers of the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) demonstrations.</p>
<p>One activist suggested: &#8220;Might it be useful to put it out to the media that OWS is expecting infiltration and agent provocateur violence, and OWS is concerned about how it will play out, since OWS is peaceful?&#8221; (See below &#8211; email addresses redacted.)</p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.docstoc.com/docs/100691167/OWS-Media-Strategy">OWS Media Strategy</a></span><br />
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<p>The Occupy strategy outlined on Firedoglake consists of five steps:</p>
<blockquote><p><strong>1) Challenge the assumption that the violent protester(s) are actually Occupy Wall Street protesters&#8230;</strong></p>
<p><strong>2) <strong>Scour all the footage and photos you can find of the instigators of the violence at the protest&#8230;</strong></strong></p>
<p><strong><strong>3) <strong>Crowd-source the images and ask for help identifying them&#8230;</strong></strong></strong></p>
<p><strong><strong><strong>4) <strong>Write a post about it on a blog with info on the person(s) and</strong><strong>their background&#8230;</strong></strong></strong></strong></p>
<p><strong><strong><strong><strong>5)<strong> Contact the media and point out who that protest was started by</strong>&#8230;</strong></strong></strong></strong></p></blockquote>
<p>&#8220;That is what you do in this age of easy access to video, photos and social media,&#8221; the post continues.</p>
<p>The problem is that video, photos, and social media from the Occupy activists have often captured evidence of their own enthusiasm for violence and provocation.<span id="more-360000"></span></p>
<p>Occupy activists sometimes try to edit out that evidence&#8211;as in the following example, in which a policeman is shown swinging a billy club at demonstrators:</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a target="_blank" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QtIqrv1Z_o"><img src="http://img.youtube.com/vi/3QtIqrv1Z_o/default.jpg"/></a></p>
<p>However, that video appears to be an edited version of the one below, in which it is clear that the activists attacked the police first.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a target="_blank" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6zsR6MQSMI"><img src="http://img.youtube.com/vi/X6zsR6MQSMI/default.jpg"/></a></p>
<p>The first seventeen seconds of the second video are missing from the first. The last seventeen seconds of the second video&#8211;in which activists taunt police with profanity and shouts of &#8220;Whose streets? Our streets!&#8221;&#8211;are also missing from the first video.</p>
<p>It would be far simpler for Occupy to avoid embarrassment if it were a proudly and self-consciously non-violent movement.</p>
<p>But that&#8217;s not what Occupy&#8217;s leading organizers, like <a href="http://biggovernment.com/lstranahan/2011/10/10/meet-the-anarchist-leaders-behind-the-leaderless-occupy-movement-part-one-lisa-fithian/" target="_blank">Lisa Fithian</a>, want or believe. For the anarchists and socialists of Occupy&#8211;to whom President Barack Obama, the unions, and the Democrats are inextricably tied&#8211;non-violence is merely a dispensable tactic.</p>
<p>The sad truth is that there is no PR strategy slick enough to hide the true face of Occupy&#8211;not when so many Occupy activists are so eager to reveal it themselves.</p>
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		<title>#Occupy Arrest Scam Unmasked</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Oct 2011 12:59:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kyle Olson</dc:creator>
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But new video released exclusively by EAGtv shows the protestors pre-arrange who is to be arrested. That’s right – the arrests are as scripted as a professional wrestling match, at least on the [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Leftists love to get arrested at protests.  It must make them feel like adults and compensates for their otherwise very childish behavior.</p>
<p>But <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BARB-aSqYM">new video released exclusively by EAGtv</a> shows the protestors pre-arrange who is to be arrested. That’s right – the arrests are as scripted as a professional wrestling match, at least on the occupiers’ end.</p>
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<p>Cameras were rolling in Chicago recently and captured Chicago Teachers Union organizers finalizing plans for who in the crowd would be arrested.  That’s right – it was staged.</p>
<p>Comparing lists on clipboards, the footage shows two union organizers in CTU shirts questioning whether a man standing with them would be arrested or not.</p>
<blockquote><p>Organizer 1: “He said he’s not being arrested.  He’s not on the list.”</p></blockquote>
<p>The intent is clear: Overwhelm the system.  Occupy the police.  Provoke confrontation.  Produce beautiful footage for naïve local TV <span style="text-decoration: line-through;">rubes</span> reporters.  Clog the courts.  Gain sympathy from citizens.</p>
<p>But it’s all just a game.  And the media is continuing to fall for the ruse.</p>
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<p>As more fringe elements continue to emerge in the #OccupyWallStreet movement (the Nazis and Communists <a href="http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2011/10/figures-nazi-party-throws-support-behind-occupy-wall-street-movement/">recently declared</a> their support), these types of staged activities will continue.  But as their actions continue and there is inaction on the part of President Obama and the Congress, look for things to take a turn for the worse.</p>
<p>Sadly, I’m afraid, the teachers unions’ brothers and sisters in law enforcement will be the target.</p>
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		<title>Lisa Fithian: #Occupy Organizer, Union Educator&#8211;And Israel-Hater</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Oct 2011 15:27:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Larry O'Connor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Big Government has already established that Lisa Fithian is playing an integral part in the planning, organization,and execution of the nation-wide &#8220;Occupy&#8221; protests and other union demonstrations and &#8220;direct actions.&#8221;
The Chicago Teachers&#8217; Union has reported that Fithian trained its members, together with the Teamsters, for the Occupy Chiacgo protests. Evidence on the UAW website also shows that [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: left;">Big Government has already established that <a href="http://biggovernment.com/publius/2011/10/11/racist-fascism-on-tape-lisa-fithian-organizer-behind-occupywallst-addresses-activists-in-chicago/" target="_blank">Lisa Fithian</a> is playing an integral part in the <a href="http://biggovernment.com/bdarby/2011/10/14/emails-expose-the-true-nature-of-the-occupy-movement/" target="_blank">planning</a>, <a href="http://biggovernment.com/lstranahan/2011/10/10/meet-the-anarchist-leaders-behind-the-leaderless-occupy-movement-part-one-lisa-fithian/" target="_blank">organization</a>,and <a href="http://biggovernment.com/lstranahan/2011/10/12/lisa-fithian-does-chicago-twenty-arrested-in-direct-action-protests/" target="_blank">execution</a> of the nation-wide &#8220;Occupy&#8221; protests and other union demonstrations and &#8220;direct actions.&#8221;</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">The Chicago Teachers&#8217; Union has <a href="http://www.ctunet.com/blog/lets-unleash-the-power-of-30000" target="_blank">reported</a> that Fithian trained its members, together with the Teamsters, for the Occupy Chiacgo protests. Evidence on the <a href="http://www.uaw.org/articles/uaw-activists-force-bank-america-branch-close" target="_blank">UAW website</a> also shows that Fithian recenlty led members in a march to &#8220;close&#8221; a branch of designated villain, Bank of America. Fithian is also referred to as an &#8220;<a href="http://www.massjwj.net/content/jwj-jobs-campaign" target="_blank">SEIU Commander</a>&#8221; leading activists in a recent march on bankers in Boston.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Now, Big Government&#8217;s continued investigation of Lisa Fithian&#8217;s activities reveals another badge of dishonor to add to her shameful resume:  Israel-hater.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">The &#8220;Occupy&#8221; protests have already shown startlingly brazen and unapologetic <a href="http://www.breitbart.tv/protesters-message-at-occupychicago-rally-destroy-israel/" target="_blank">displays </a>of <a href="http://www.breitbart.tv/occupyla-protester-zionist-jews-who-run-banks-should-be-run-out-this-country/" target="_blank">antisemitism</a>, and this <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWxMbT08VZg" target="_blank">newly-discovered footage</a> of Fithian, a key driving force behind the protests, may help explain why hatred toward &#8220;Zionist bankers&#8221; keeps bubbling up to the surface at Occupy demonstrations across the country.</p>
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<p style="text-align: left;">The footage above was shot on May 31, 2010 and features Lisa Fithian shouting through a megaphone, accusing the state of Israel of &#8220;slaughter[ing] Palestinians every single day.&#8221;  As Fithian, organizer of the Democratic Party&#8217;s new favorite mass protest, looks on, a menacing man decked out in a Palestinian keffiyeh leads her activists in the chant:</p>
<blockquote style="text-align: left;"><p>&#8220;Palestine will be free, from the river to the sea!&#8221;<span id="more-352596"></span></p></blockquote>
<p style="text-align: left;">You don&#8217;t need a degree in geography to know what that means.  From the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea there lies a small nation named Israel.  If &#8220;Palestine&#8221; were to be free within those geographic boundaries, that would mean the destruction of Israel&#8211; America&#8217;s most reliable Middle East ally, and the only true democracy in the entire region.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">But the vile chants under Fithian&#8217;s leadership don&#8217;t stop there.  The mindless robotic herd is also led in the chilling chant:</p>
<blockquote style="text-align: left;"><p>&#8220;Long live Intifada!&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p style="text-align: left;">The <em>intifada</em> that the Fithian troops pine for is the bloody terrorist war waged upon innocent Israelis, the latest incarnation of which <a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3689276,00.html" target="_blank">claimed the lives</a> of more than 1,000 (mostly civilian) Israelis&#8211;not to mention thousands of Palestinians killed (most of whom were combatants).</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">As President Barack Obama, Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, and other Democratic Party leaders line up with the Fithian-led &#8220;Occupy&#8221; protesters, they might want to consider that they are supporting a movement headed by a woman who organizes and leads radicals who want Israel eliminated from the map.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Will they risk alienating her (and her Big Labor sponsors) by condemning her views on Israel? Or will they continue to turn a blind eye to the hatred and antisemitism inherent in these well-financed demonstrations?</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">It will be enlightening to watch the Democrats figure out how to handle this situation, as the thinly-veiled attacks on &#8220;<a href="http://dailycaller.com/2011/10/07/anti-semitism-at-occupy-wall-street/" target="_blank">New York Bankers</a>&#8221; continue to sound more and more like some of the uglier scenes from <a href="http://www.adl.org/education/curriculum_connections/spring_2006/Merchant_Venice_Discussion_Guide.pdf" target="_blank"><em>The Merchant of Venice</em></a>, or maybe even <em><a href="http://www.adl.org/special_reports/protocols/protocols_intro.asp" target="_blank">The Protocols of the Elders of Zion</a>.</em></p>
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		<title>Emails Expose the True Nature of the #Occupy Movement</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Oct 2011 16:07:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brandon Darby</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My history with many of the key organizers of the “Global Movement for Peace and Justice” has allowed me to see right through the Mainstream Media and Democratic Party’s attempts to promote and build the #Occupy Movement as a “grassroots effort” which “spontaneously” arose.

I’ve known that the #Occupy Movement is nothing less than a current [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>My history with many of the key organizers of the “Global Movement for Peace and Justice” has allowed me to see right through the Mainstream Media and Democratic Party’s attempts to promote and build the #Occupy Movement as a “grassroots effort” which “spontaneously” arose.</p>
<p><a href="http://biggovernment.com/files/2011/10/occupy-2.1.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-351772" title="occupy 2." src="http://biggovernment.com/files/2011/10/occupy-2.1.jpg" alt="" width="486" height="332" /></a></p>
<p>I’ve known that the #Occupy Movement is nothing less than a current manifestation of an international revolutionary push in which I myself used to play a significant role. This “movement” holds at its core that America is the largest enemy to world peace and freedom. As many know, my views began to change in our movements&#8217; efforts to help the residents of the devastated New Orleans 9th Ward. My experiences in leadership allowed me to meet and interact with many “relief” and “protest” groups from around the world. I ultimately came to the conclusion that many of these organizations and individuals were intent on destroying our country – I decided to expose them through working undercover with The FBI.</p>
<p>This movement has once again reared its ugly head and done just what it always does – convincing moderate Democrats to inadvertently provide cover, both physically and in the media, for radical efforts to damage our system and our nation. As can be expected, I’m part of a citizen-led effort to expose them for what they are.</p>
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<p>The information <a href="http://biggovernment.com/thomasryan/2011/10/14/the-email-archive-of-the-occupywallstreet-movement-anarchists-socialists-jihadists-unions-democrats/">we are releasing</a> is a window into the core of what and who are behind the “Occupy Movement.” We will be going through this with a fine toothed comb and exposing each and every detail my experiences enables me to comprehend.</p>
<p>In this you will see the notorious global organizer against capitalism, Lisa Fithian, discussing doors and exits to “targets.” Like a radical Mullah, she has historically developed plans and strategies to illegally enter and shut down buildings and meetings – and found young idealistic youths to get arrested and gain criminal records that stay with them for life. And like a radical Mullah, she never is the one to carry out her plans.</p>
<p>Another email shows a key organizer and his aversion to working with “Jews.” As can be expected from the far Left, he refers to them as “Zionists.”</p>
<p>We will continue to sift through this information and much more and alert the public to who and what is attempting to destroy our nation.</p>
<p>We ask all concerned Americans to please sift through this data, just as the Washington Post asked concerned Americans to sift through Sarah Palin’s emails, so we might all better see what threats our nation faces.</p>
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