Occupy Mic-checks the Muse of CPAC

[marmar]

Occupy Protesters Mic-Check Palin During CPAC Speech


Sarah Palin wasn't even a quarter of the way through reading her closing manifesto for the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington, D.C., when the signal went up.

Palin was just on a riff, mocking President Barack Obama.

"Hope and change...Yeah, you better hope things change...," she said disdainfully.

"Mic check! Mic check!" went the call-and-response that's become the hallmark of the Occupy movement. There were fewer than 25 protesters. The SRO audience in the the hotel ballroom -- capacity 4,200 -- in which Palin spoke erupted in a unison chant: "U-S-A! U-S-A! U-S-A!" Police and security guards escorted the Occupiers out of the building, as much for protection as apprehension. There were no arrests. ..............(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.alternet.org/newsandviews/article/788173/occupy_protesters_mic-check_palin_during_cpac_speech/

[rmp42245]

1. Great Post!

Very informative article. FYI, there's another site on YouTube with some very interesting music-video takes on the Occupy movement, designed to provide some relevant "entertainment" for the occupiers "between engagements, as the poster says.

http://www.youtube.com/user/occupytheslideshow?feature=mhee

[Live and Learn]

2. And as usual, the right wing shrills resort to the tactic of accusing others

of doing what they are guilty of (e.g., paying trolls):

"As the protesters descended the hill on which the Marriott Wardman Park, where CPAC took place, Dana Loesch, editor of Andrew Breitbart's BigJournalism.com, stood on the sidewalk, sneering at the protesters, accusing them of violating Palin's free speech rights and barking a trope that's fast becoming a mainstay of Breitbart's smears against Occupy: the accusation that protesters are paid. "You got paid $60 to do that," Loesch yelled."

"You're freaks and animals," Breitbart screamed repeatedly, as seen on a video shot by CampusProgress. "Stop raping the people!" he shrieked.


Makes me wonder if Breitbart knows he is guilty of raping people.