Victoria Jackson descends on Occupy Wall Street and "inflames protestors" says HuffPost, assailing her "hateful commentary."

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STRANGE HOW THE ANONYMOUS AUTHOR OF THIS HUFFPOST ATTACK ARTICLE RAILS AT THIS CONSERVATIVE ACTIVIST, WHO IS TAME COMPARED TO RADICAL LEFT-WING POTTY MOUTH BILL MAHER.

HUFFINGTON POST  10/12/11 Updated: 10/13/11 11:46 AM ET

Former "Saturday Night Live" actress, conservative columnist and avowed enemy of both "Glee" and gay people, Victoria Jackson took a video camera to the Occupy Wall Street protests in New York City, predictably trying to inflame the supporters camped out in Zuccotti Park.

She dove right into her particular brand of hateful commentary early, pointing out Ground Zero from her car window and saying "some Muslims flew in to" the Twin Towers.

Once Jackson got down to the protests, she began interviewing both the protesters and those that happened to be passing by. She began by asking what they were protesting, then seizing on their responses. She often brought up President Obama's connection to GE, calling him a Marxist and socialist.

"Right now, 50 percent of people pay taxes and 50 percent do not. So if everyone gets free stuff, who is going to pay for it?" she asked one protester, who said the government "should end the wars and tax the super rich" to end the deficit. Her response? "Class warfare is Marxist."

Continuing her argument with the same protester, she said, "If you want everyone to be equal, how are you going to make them equal in good looks and smart brains? Everyone's not created equal." She later called Van Jones a communist, and then said, "So you don't think Obama is stirring up racial and class warfare, and it's straight out of 'Rules for Radicals' written by Saul Alinsky?"

Then she brought out Jeremiah Wright, devolving into the old anti-Obama arguments.

Glenn Beck recently spoke about the protesters, telling his listeners, "Capitalists, if you think that you can play footsies with these people, you're wrong. They will come for you and drag you into the streets and kill you ... they're Marxist radicals ... These guys are worse than Robespierre from the French Revolution ... They'll kill everybody."

Jackson is known for her provocative conservative statements; in May, she wrote a column slamming "Glee" and made TV appearances hitting out at the show for its inclusion of gay people in its story lines.

"They should have a celibacy campaign and tell kids that 50 percent of teenagers now have this new STD from oral sex. That's what they should try to be doing instead of making kids gay," the former actress said on Showbiz Tonight.

"I just want to know why the liberals are pro-Muslim and pro-gays. Muslims kill gays. That's what's confusing to me. And the only thing I can come up with is the Mulims hate God and the gays hate his word," she was quoted as saying.

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What do the Occupy Wall Street protesters want? They admit they don't have a clue!

Verne Strickland Blogmaster / October 5, 2011

THE WEEK posted on October 4, 2011, at 1:37 PM

Protesters in Chicago jump on the Occupy Wall Street bandwagon, which has spread to a number of cities since it began in New York three weeks ago. Photo: Scott Olson/Getty Images 
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The amorphous, three-week-old occupation of a New York park just blocks from Wall Street is growing. The occupation is also spreading to other cities — Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, and smaller places like McAllen, Texas. The arrest on Saturday of more than 700 Occupy Wall Street (OWS) protesters on the Brooklyn Bridge pushed the movement into the international spotlight, but the lack of a spokesperson, leader, or easily digestible message has confounded the news media.

As Slate's David Weigel puts it: "The arrests were the hook. What's the story?" Here's what you should know:

What is Occupy Wall Street's driving issue? Unhappiness with Wall Street's power and greed, certainly, as well as the eroding of the middle class. But other than that, the conventional wisdom is right, says Slate's Weigel.

"There is no agenda uniting the people showing up and expressing their anger at finance." They have a "mostly official" blog, a "Declaration of the Occupation of New York City," an open "We are the 99" tumblr forum, and even a FAQ of sorts, says Ezra Klein in The Washington Post. But it's primarily "a protest movement without clear demands, an identifiable leadership, or an evident organizational structure."

So what do they want?"No one knows," says Slate's Weigel. The movement is "happily incoherent," packed with disparate members including Ron Paul 2012 supporters, young anarchists, and veteran lefty activists. "That old standby, 'People Before Profits,' seems to capture the gist fairly well," says Nathan Schneider in The Nation. But the growing consensus among the protesters is that "government institutions are already so shot through with corporate money that making specific demands would be pointless until the movement grew stronger politically."

Is it a Tea Party for the Left? Not exactly, or at least not yet. Broadly speaking, OWS is actually "driven by the same fuel that gave fire to the Tea Party," says Michael Scherer at TIME: "Anger at elites, a feeling of injustice, a concern about jobs, fear about the direction of the economy, and a clear desire to take action." OWS is furious at corporate America, though, while the Tea Party vents its rage at government. But to gain Tea Party-like influence, OWS will probably need a coherent message and some level of professional organizing.

Is anyone calling the shots?The original call for occupying Wall Street was from a group called Adbusters, and other groups have aided, such as "hacktivist" collective Anonymous, says Schneider in The Nation. But the organizers have vested most of their power with the NYC General Assembly, which is a "horizontal," leaderless body that makes decision through consensus.

What's next for Occupy Wall Street? "No one knows what will happen next," says TIME's Scherer, but the movement is spreading to other cities, and it has plenty of room to grow. And on Wednesday, liberal group MoveOn.org and several labor unions are marching to join the protesters near Wall Street. And after that... well, it's anyone's guess.

Sources: CNN, The Nation, New York Times, Occupy Wall Street, Slate (2), TIME, Washington Post (2,3), We Are the 99 Percent

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