Topic: Liberal Fascism
Last night on the Fox New gabfest, “The Five,” progressive pundit Bob Beckel defended the violence of the Occupy movement by…blaming the police. See, Occupy Oakland was forced to run amok, burning American flags, chanting “Fuck the pigs!” and causing $5 million in property damage because the cops were beastly to them.
Good luck with that defense, Bob.
In reality, the Occupy protests have lost such support that it originally attracted from mainstream America. As Charles C.W. Cook notes in this story for NRO, even liberals are having second thoughts about the wisdom of defending a movement characterized by radical extremism, anti-Semitism, violence and criminality, not to mention squalor and filth:
[E]ven in the nation’s most liberal major city [San Francisco], 71 percent opposed the willful breaking of the law. Likewise, while 28 percent of respondents regarded the police response as “too harsh,” 68 percent considered it either “not harsh enough” or “just about right.” On this question, there is no particular split between Republicans and Democrats: 70 percent of registered Democrats answered that the police reaction was either “not harsh enough” or “just about right,” compared with 76 percent of Republicans.
Which is to say that Bob Beckel and the Occupy movement are on the opposite side of the barricades from the so-called 99%. Oops.
