Pssst NPR over here Occupy Wall Street is news - even if Ashston Kuche' isn't involved

In the long lurch rightward that has reduced NPR to republican framing and talking points has long saddened this reporter. I watched our old NPR, once a stalwart of old time journalism trimming and trimming it's sails until we get 5 interviews from the Heritage and Hoover economic school, and no alternative analysis.

So you can imagine how bad local and regional news is, that I and many other still depend on the gelded NPR for our national and international news. [as well as BBC, France 24, RTV, New India Times,Al Ghezira and others]
Why did it take more than a week to even notice the Wall Street occupation? There is no excuse despite this "explanation" from Dick Meyer of NPR:

RSN reports We asked the (NPR) newsroom to explain their editorial decision. Executive editor for news Dick Meyer came back: "The recent protests on Wall Street did not involve large numbers of people, prominent people, a great disruption or an especially clear objective."

Hundred protesting peacefully for over a week, protesting WALL STREET ABUSES, MORTGAGE GOUGING, FAILURE OF THE REGULATORS TO PROSECUTE WALL STREET CRIMINALS?
Nobody on the cute list? No Billionaires? NO NEWS HERE? Really NPR? PEPPER SPRAYING PEACEFUL PROTESTORS? No Clear Objective?

"Where else are you going to go?" No not me!

I will not support GOP-lite. I will not support a candidate or a party that will use "progressive" talking points as a means to insure that a corporatist wolf, can  be elected with a real mandate to establish universal single payer, restore the rule of law, and put an end to lawless oligarchy and plutocracy in the land of Jefferson, Adams and Franklin.

A constitutional scholar who only looks forward when it comes to bankers and oil men but remembers to persecute (not prosecute) whistleblowers is not a democrat to my taste. Who stands not on the UNION PICKET LINE as he promised but on the green with CAPTAINS OF GOLD-PLATED SACHS on the lawns of the RULING CAST. 

Mistake me not for some inattentive would be LIBERTARIAN, interested only in Ron Pauls words about War and failing to studies his incomplete understanding of the purpose that was so poetically described by "a more perfect union". Lulled into somnambulism, with independence rhetoric in a world where we are connected to the abandoned baby and the tossed away factory worker.

I neither count myself among the jaded who suggest that the hysterical bloodlust of another BUSHITE MEGLOMANIACAL THEOCRAT would serve the country right [having long ago shed it's moral compass in a headlong rush to a new imperium ] or scare it straight back to "little" d democracy. And I all to well appreciate that the possible damage to the nation and its infrastructure both humane and natural might well see the light of both liberty and science extinguished in a new dark ages by any of the several faux theocrats proffered by the GRAND OLD PARTY at present.

I answer to a higher authority than fear, I serve posterity and the light and life of my true brothers and sisters the life artists some refer to as hippies or free spirits or bohemians. Progressives have been assaulted and betrayed enough by the corporatists currently hiding under the rubric of the Democratic Party. I would sooner spit in my grandchild's eye than offer my sacred ballot to such sinister life denying toadies as habit the White House at present.  Wink at torturers, smile at mercenaries and prosecute wars on the innocent with mercenaries uncounted.  I fear not their insults and their armies the tools of spying, police and security apparatus concern me not. When these tools of fools meet honesty they shrink apologetically and TRUTH STAYS UNSULLIED.

Don't tell me the damage to the house of Democracy was damaged by those who opposed the poisoning of the Gulf. Who stood stalwart against the lies of PIPELINES, the victimization of returned and damaged soldiers. My vote does not belong to the purveyors of Corporatist Lies.

Progressives did not destroy Obama's good name, the GHOULS OF GOLDMAN SACHS and their enablers at CITIBANK and Haliburton, at BP and EXXON merely tore the lambskin off the wolf.

LOOK OBAMA's Got No CLOTHES On!   - The Truth is HANGIN OUT!

FRAGGING, DEFRAGGING and Moore

Memo to OBAMA KoolAid Crewe

So guess who's a "warrior for the middle class" now, that it's campaign time?

The friend of Wall Street, the protector of the Cheney gang, that Credit Company enabler  the  O-man himself! - How do we know - He told us so, standing at the foot of one of this great nation's crumbling infrastructure. Grandstanding at the base of a bridge from one ANTI-Worker Republican "McConnel" district to another RULING CLASS WARRIOR Republican Boehner's district. Ask the UNION BUSTER Govenor's how much grief they took, from when President Community Organizer stood in the snow in February with all those Union Activists. [OOPS - He wasn't there]

Responding to another ANTI-PROGRESSIVE ATTACK by another Obamanaut

I think you over simplify tremendously when you right the left, the vocal left, the "professional" and amateur left, the honorable and religious left, hate OBAMA. We dislike capitulation in the face of opposition. We disagree with policies that promise healthcare for all, and then before the negotiations begin a strategy that gives up first principles, that grovels before big pharma. That refuses to prosecute WALL STREET and Bankers but indicts more whistle blowers than any other administration. We disapprove of policies that put a Bradley Manning in solitary for a year before even beginning the hearings, but gives International War Criminals and torturers like BUSH, CHENEY, RUMSFELD, YOO and others a big friendly smile and wave.

You suggest what all of us that worked to elect the Chameleon President who ran as a progressive and only later revealed his presidential model "Ronnie Rayguns" hate the president. Hate him?  that most of us, worked hard for, and voted for and cried in celebration of his election! You are mistaken, my friend mistaken. We don't hate him, we just disagree with his administrations policies. 

When the REPUBLICAN GOVERNORS in lockstep tore up contracts with Unions... where was the Community Activist President... like his predecessor... He was AWOL! - That's not HATE, that's disappointment, maybe the moderates... will pound the pavement for him, or maybe all those lobbyists whose calls he takes... Maybe they'll walk the precincts.

RESPONDING TO ONE MORE.... don't pick on Obama

While I remain "excited" by the republican (oops) T-Party Operatives, who lead the charge against the middle class. I must explain.

I think you over simplify tremendously when you suggest that the left, the vocal left, the "professional" and amateur left, or even the well meaning but honorable or even the religious left, hate OBAMA. It's not about hate, or like or love or even disappointment. 

We or I if you will dislike capitulation at the first hint of opposition. Or surrender as an opening gambit. We disagree with the kind of politics that promises healthcare for all, and then before the negotiations begin a strategy that gives up first principles, and then follows out with a groveling give away to big pharma. Where an administration refuses to prosecute WALL STREET or Bankers but indicts more whistle blowers than any other administration. We disapprove of policies that put a Bradley Manning in solitary for a year before even beginning the hearings, but gives International War Criminals and torturers like BUSH, CHENEY, RUMSFELD, YOO and others a big friendly smile and wave.

Hate of a president that most of us, worked hard for, and voted for and cried in celebration of his election you are mistaken. We disagree with his and his administrations policies. When the REPUBLICAN GOVERNORS in lockstep tore up contracts with Unions... where was the Community Activist President... like his predecessor... He was AWOL! - That's not HATE, that's disappointment, maybe the moderates... will pound the pavement for him, or maybe all those lobbyists whose calls he takes... Maybe they'll walk the precincts.