Pre-publicity for Occupy Wall Street

Someone recently told me that Occupy Wall Street didn't get the 'benefit' of the pre-publicity that Fox News gave to the Tea Party movement.
Which, of course, is bunk.


September 6th, CBS news:

An online group dubbed “Occupy Wall Street” is calling for 20,000 people to “flood into lower Manhattan, set up tents, kitchens, peaceful barricades and occupy Wall Street for a few months,” according to the website

Huffington Post, September 2nd:

A group of activists plans to bring 20,000 people to occupy Wall Street for months.

CNN, September 16th:

Egyptians did it for democracy. So did people in Tunisia, Yemen, Bahrain and Syria. Now, activist groups are hoping Americans will launch their own uprising -- in the form of thousands of protesters descending on Wall Street this weekend.

New York Magazine, September 16th:

Saturday at noon, a group that calls itself "Occupy Wall Street" is going to try to live up to their name for as long as they can. But first, they'll be meeting at Bowling Green Park for a program that includes yoga, a pillow fight, face-painting, small break-out groups to discuss topics like derivatives, and a lecture from an author. There's an arts and culture committee. Plus, there's yoga and a planned "Thriller" dance. It sounds a little bit like camp, or maybe one of those pre-college orientation bonding sessions. But as the group says on its website, it's actually a "leaderless resistance movement" meant to protest the concentration of wealth at the top of society — the "99 percent" standing up against the "1 percent."

Whew. All of this cutting and pasting is getting tiring.

HuffPo, again, on the 15th:

The large-scale event, originally published back in July by Adbusters, a not-for-profit magazine aimed to "topple existing power structures," was inspired by the revolutionary events that swept through the Middle East earlier this year. The group's site reveals their hopes to transform Lower Manhattan into an "American Tahrir Square."

It goes on. And I'm sure you get the idea by now.

Center For Automobile Research, propaganda

Fox had this story about the president and the auto industry.
The president is going on a victory tour to discuss how great everything is now after he bailed them out.

While watching the video, I noted that part of the video seemed to be kinda cut in, by a guy named David Cole from the Center for Automobile Research.
Watch it, and note how David comes in to defend the auto industry.

Now I know that sometimes, special interest groups will supply television studios with pre-cut footage of them commenting on an issue. And this certainly seemed to be the case. But I googled to find out if it was.
That's how I found this, by the NYTPicker:

The center has been cited in 137 different Times stories since 2001, most of them quoting David Cole -- who has been variously identified by Times reporters as its "director," "executive director," "president," "chairman" and "head." (CAR's website give his title as "chairman.")

Clearly, its a special interest group that does a great job of feeding quotes the the NY Times.
I think they have outsourced their influence.

The New Republic, on Palin

Its pretty funny to watch the left try to figure out who Palin is. In the latest New Republic, the latest spin is that she's a media genius. Check out these two lines:

In the midst of this aggressive visibility, however, Palin keeps a tight grip on her time in the public eye.

Uh huh. She's so smart, that she keeps out of the public eye in her aggressive visibility.