St. Paul’s “Coast to Coast AM” talk show host shit-talks “Stinky Anarchist” on radio program.
Submitted by Anonymous on Sun, 09/07/2008 - 01:01.
Ian Punnett who hosts Coast to Coast AM from St. Paul, Minnesota every Saturday night (the largest overnight talk show program in the world with 5 million listeners on average) starts off his show tonight talking about the few “Stinky Anarchist” who “threw urine and fasces” otherwise disrupting all the good and law abiding peaceful protests. No mention of the police misconduct.
A caller to the show later asked about journalists like Amy Goodman from “Democracy Now” being arrested, but Mr. Punnett assures his listeners that she was the only “journalist” arrested during the RNC.
Corporate Media at it’s best.
Infowars
No - that's wingnut radio, and they tend to have a lot of 9-11 Truth types (who give a bad name to people investigating the very real, documented illegal actions of government that occur in the form of the FBI spying on citizens, assassinations of heads of foreign countries conducted by the CIA, coverups at the Pentagon, graft and theft in spending programs- especially military).
For an example, the popular conspiracy radio host Alex Jones was at the DNC, and his show spent a lot of time saying that all the anarchists are provocateurs on the government payroll. He propagated the idea that anarchists would be flinging poo. This was all based on the video outing some undercover police at a Canadian globalization protest, where they had been holding large rocks and encouraging others (in a very peaceful crowd) to break windows. It was *anarchists* who outted the undercover police.
Alex Jones, who is only 34 (I had placed him at about age 40 several years ago, when he was in his late 20s), has the gift of gab, and his mind is filled with all this historical information, but he seems to have a section of his brain missing so he is unable to understand nuance.
This youtube is the best explanation of the phenomenon. Do you see how he asks 'do you have foundation money'? He keeps saying that anarchists are government agents with grants. He might base this grand extrapolation on some individual member of Code Pink or something who got a grant to do something. At minute 1:05, note how he goes up to a police officer and tells them to go follow and monitor the anarchists. Then he continues to rant about how the anarchists want to physically attack him and that he (jones) will push him first. He goes into total paranoia, saying that 'a beautiful day in the neighborhood' is a code phrase. Jones totally fu*$%ed up this Mint protest by the way, with his yelling. A bunch of perfectly nonviolent, creative people planned that and he came and bellowed at Michelle Malkin and screwed up all the media coverage.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AK1nA6BwFPA&feature=related
The radical organizers of Recreate 68 came up and patiently tried to talk him through his lies and falsehoods about anarchists throwing urine, or radicals wanting to attack him. Alex has a funny moment at the end where he starts bellowing at the end.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OrpRoukZCRc
Anarcho-Capitalist Perspective (Free Market Anarchy)
I think www.infowars.com is one of the more rational voices speaking out against the "New World Order".
Many people on the left and the right don't like Alex Jones because he is abrasive, loud, obnoxious, prone to hyperbole, and asks to many questions. Sort of like a right wing libertarian Michael Moore.
Many "progressive" organizations and individuals are funded by wealthy donors and corporate FOUNDATIONS... In fact the IMC was founded by a corporate grant.
It is a way of the elite to neutralize potential troublemakers by turning them into "proffesional activists". Have you ever heard of the expression "use your enemy's voice against itself", that is exactly what the New World Order has done. In fact there is a whole non-profit industry that provides employment for activists on both the left and right. Once someone is an employee of a non-profit or receiving grant money they are neutralized, because they will spend less time in the street organizing and more time sitting in a office, mostly communicating with a network of other proffesional activists rather than talking with normal people. Plus, they don't want to bite the hand that feeds them
Many Anarchist groups throughout history and the world have been infiltrated by police, so it is not unreasonable to suggest that undercovers can suggest strategies and tactics that appear effective, but are ultimatily designed to sabotage the group. The indictment against the RNC welcoming committee lists almost all the exact same items (poo, ball peen hammers, marbles etc.) that the Daily News Said in 2004 right before the RNC.
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Uh, excuse me "legitimate activist", but many of these "9/11 truth types" consist of family members of those who were killed on 9/11. They consist of many anti-globalization/social justice alumni, they consist of people from all walks of life, thank you very much. The 9/11 truth movement is growing by the day, it's not "going anywhere"...many involved with 9/11 truth activism don't follow Alex Jones as some sort of guru (contrary to the propaganda), and by you marginalizing us with catch phrases like "9/11 truth types" you not only repeat a common corporate media soundbite, but you further the myth that the Bush administration lied about everything in its tenure EXCEPT for what happened on 9/11, which a growing number of activists find a bit naive, to say the absolute least. Not to mention the countless hours of research conducted by many American citizens as well as citizens from all over the world who question the still unproven official conspiracy theory. Please check yourself and show some respect for issues and people that you CHOOSE not to understand. You can believe anything you like, but you need to respect the views of others, many of whom would give you the shirt of their back if you ever needed them to, myself included.
As an anti-authoritarian since well BEFORE 9/11, I except more from my comrades, whether they agree with me on 9/11 or not. I'm not a "type". I'm an activist and a human being who happens to believe the Bush regime lied about what took place on 9/11.
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