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The Spectacle Blog
Call it a wardrobe malfunction. A protester at Sunday’s “Occupy Raleigh” event — the version of Occupy Wall Street local to my home town in North Carolina — wore a Fidelity Investments t-shirt, even while grousing about the evils of corporate America to a television station.
It’s safe to call this a Fidelity fail.
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Anastasia Mather| 10.10.11 @ 2:23PM
And when are you folks going to deal with your assistant editor who tried to provoke a scene by breaking into the Air and Space Museum? Is there more to the story, or are you going to try to out-liberal the liberals when it comes to wrongdoing?
Spambalaya| 10.10.11 @ 3:15PM
Let's see now... Patrick Howley, while "pursuing" a story for The American Spectator, admitted in his article that he
1) attended an event with the express purpose of undermining its organizers
2) committed criminal trespass on federal property
3) deliberately resisted arrest
4) alarmed "hundreds of stunned khaki-clad tourists" and "a circle of gawking old housewives" (as well as dozens of museum employees, no doubt) in a city where terrorism is always a possibility and one museum had suffered a terrorist shooting by a right-wing fanatic only two summers ago, and
5) forced the early closure of the Smithsonian Air & Space Museum as a result of his headlong flight through the museum, inconveniencing or even ruining the plans of untold hundreds if not thousands of tourists and locals.
And those are just the things he openly admits to. You could add the fact that he probably caused the pepper-spraying of several other protesters as a result of his successful attempt to slip past security guards, as well as putting the guards' safety at risk (acceptable losses, right?) from possible violent escalation (which thankfully did not occur).
If AmSpec was a publicly traded stock, I'd be shorting the crap out of it today. Several security guards, dozens of protesters, hundreds if not thousands of museum attendees and employees, and the October 2011 organization all have an excellent civil damages case here against Howley and AmSpec if they choose to pursue it.
Pete| 10.10.11 @ 4:03PM
If violence should be associated with the 99% movement we will know who to blame. The 1% will stop at nothing in their efforts to preserve their exploitation of people and our environment.
Skippy| 10.10.11 @ 4:25PM
Still the wrong article, Einstein.
Spambalaya| 10.10.11 @ 5:10PM
AmSpec deleted all the comments at the "right" article and won't allow any new ones, "Skippy," so blame them. Gotta discuss this issue somewhere on this site, right?
Skippy| 10.10.11 @ 5:50PM
Well, I saw all 478 comments in living typeface 1 minute ago.
There appears to be room for more.
Have at it!
MikeBee| 10.10.11 @ 2:36PM
What do you expect from someone who gets his clothes from the local Salvation Army? I think that if all of us who have "Elect W" T-shirts would simply give them to a charity, more and more of these protesters would be seen "supporting" our side.
Second point: Anyone notice how many protesters there seem to be on Wall Street? My take is that every one of these protesters has seen the path one must walk on to become POTUS. Obama has spawned an entirely new generation of protestors, those who wish to be POTUS.
Pete| 10.10.11 @ 4:05PM
Maybe the guy worked for Fidelity and was tired of being a cog in machine that picks his pocket.
Skippy| 10.10.11 @ 4:27PM
I'd like to see him and his Occupy-pals begging in the streets like in Bombay(Mumbai is an Islamic slur).
Then I could step over their lifeless husks as I pass by without guilt.
Paul McGrath| 10.10.11 @ 2:44PM
It's actually rather interesting from a social standpoint. These young people are upset, and rightly so, at the horrible economy. But they don't know where to put the blame because they've been taught since birth that the Democrat party and the left in general are society's saviors. So they mill about restlessly hoping they might do some good, but with no idea what is the cause of this mess.
It's remarkable. And sad. For this country to survive, teacher's unions must be abolished.
thecrow | 10.10.11 @ 2:50PM
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Al Adab| 10.10.11 @ 3:28PM
The true irony here isn't in the shirt, but in the fact that these protesters agree with the TEA Party that the bailouts were wrong. Add to that the world they hope to create with their thirteen point manifesto and it gets delicious. The world they seek would put them on a wall.
Pete| 10.10.11 @ 4:11PM
As one of the 99% I don't think the bailouts were the wrong thing to do and I doubt that most others in the 99% movement think it was the wrong thing to do. What we do think is wrong is what happened after the bailouts - no significant legislation has been passed to prevent future economic calamity caused by Wall Street and, although there has been much wrong doing, few have been prosecuted while the political influence of big corporations rages out of control.
So you are wrong and you are trying to shape the ideas of others to fit your own. Why not just ask what others are thinking if you want to know - IF you want to know.
Occam's Tool| 10.10.11 @ 4:21PM
No one is arguing that the banks, Goldman Sachs, etc. aren't assholes who need spanking, and that bailing them out was idiotic. But a nanny state/ socialist worker's paradise would be worse.
I paid my $80 K in student loans off within 18 months of starting my private practice in rural Alabama. I worked long, hard hours to do it. I didn't major in "perverted sex" as an undergrad either, which is apparently possible these days. If you want to make a living in that, go to San Fran or the San Fernando Valley, otherwise, yeah, you're gonna be unemployed in Topeka.
Al Adab| 10.10.11 @ 6:45PM
Pete:
Have you not read the thirteen point manifesto of demands on the occupywallstreet.org site?
What it seems the protesters are demanding is their own bailout not an end to bailouts. Your call for more regulation and legislation is simply an additional push for centralized control of the economy. That clearly is in no ones' best interest.
If the protest does not oppose bailouts then I stand corrected. Does that not though leave them in the position of coveting what others have?
Clint| 10.10.11 @ 3:57PM
" What Are We For" !
" Ummmmmm " !
" When Do We We Want It " !
" Huh "!
" Go Anarchists For Big Government" !
" What " !
Pete| 10.10.11 @ 4:15PM
Go to a 99% occupation and you will find how very wrong your characterization is. There will be one near you so it will be easy for you to find out whether your fact-free characterization is remotely similar to reality.
Or you could just keep making crap up.
Clint| 10.10.11 @ 4:28PM
Anarchists For Big Government Sign:
" We're Making Crap Here "
"This Toilet Is Occupied."
Skippy| 10.10.11 @ 4:30PM
They are coming to Sonoma Co. next weekend.
I look forward to ridiculing them in person.
beebop2| 10.11.11 @ 5:44AM
Or you can watch them defecate on cop cars or cop a feel good in public .... Listening to these losers on talk radio has given me more laughs this last four days than I would have thought possible. It starts to rain and snow soon. Except for the usual collection on the left coast, they will all return to sleeping on their more successful friends sofas or seek haven in mom's basement. Their 15 minutes has tolled.
martin j smith| 10.10.11 @ 4:07PM
What makes this funny and ironic is the reality that many in corporate America contribute big bucks to the LEFT and Obama. And this includes many Wall Street. I think this whole anti-Wall Street thing and anti-Corporate thing is BS--the real issue is disrupt the nation and change the subject from the economy. That is what this is about. And we have people like mayor Bloomberg who does not care at all about the people of NYC or anyone. He cares about himself. So he will let the occupiers carry on and then at other end of
his mouth pretend to criticize them. G-d Help US.
Southern_Comment| 10.10.11 @ 4:31PM
I checked out my local occupy group's fb page
and the best post on the page came from a young girl.
- Figures, anytime something cool happens I have to work 3rd shift.
Nothing like them sticking to their guns - as long as it doesn't interfere with a paycheck from those evil corporations.
Big Swede| 10.10.11 @ 6:02PM
Haha!!
Is this you guys on the amspec's version of a SCOOP or what?
Silly...
The other day Howley got maced, but darned, he wasn't givin' up til he had the story....
...and now this.. scoop?
It's safe to call this desperate times at the American Spectator.
Clint| 10.10.11 @ 7:57PM
Desperate times for Obooboo.
Monday, October 10, 2011
The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Monday shows that 21% of the nation's voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as president. Forty-one percent (41%) Strongly Disapprove, giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -20.
The Tea Party Rebellion Is Here.
Big Swede| 10.12.11 @ 4:44AM
And the 38% you left out?
Will they also, in addition to the first 21%, vote for Obama?
martin j smith| 10.11.11 @ 6:47AM
Here is our Tea Shirt
We Survived the Obama MOB
Big Swede| 10.11.11 @ 10:21AM
I've read there are people demonstrating against Obama
in these protests.
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mark| 10.25.11 @ 1:13PM
Fidelity is not an investment bank and is a private company with zero dollars of bailout money asked for or needed.
Raleigh Occupant | 1.24.12 @ 10:43PM
Fidelity Kid here. Very proud to see I successfully trolled another conservative think tank. For the record, I've also facilitated at our General Assemblies, and am actively participating in several working groups toward accomplishing those goals that we allegedly lack.
You are just too funny.
The irony of my shirt may have been lost on some in the crowd, but not me. As was guessed above…I was once a financial advisor. I even worked for Fidelity Investments. I once held two NASD securities licenses and two NC insurance licenses, and sold financial plans for a living. Fidelity Investments GAVE me that free shirt in 2008 when I still worked there.
Now I’m a happily employed member of the 99%.
Cheers!