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   XPost: alt.atheism   
   From: olrik666@yahoo.com   
      
   On 2012-01-01 00:10, Vick Hammerston wrote:   
   > MarkA wrote:   
   >> On Sat, 31 Dec 2011 08:44:55 -0800, George Plimpton wrote:   
   >>> The most consistently (over)used rhetoric of the late Occupy Wall Street   
   >>> movement (b. ca. Aug 2011, d. ca. Nov 2011 - RIP), also known as the   
   >>> Flea Party or the Fleabaggers, also known as the Wienie Roasters   
   >>> (because their squalid encampments really were just like giant   
   >>> months-long wienie roasts), was this "99% v. 1%" fake juxtaposition.   
   >>> And of course, you couldn't read or hear "the 1%" without understanding   
   >>> the word "eeeeeeeeevil" to be in the middle of it.   
   >>   
   >>> But the Fleabaggers really don't have any idea who the 1% are, or what   
   >>> any of them actually *do*.  Oh, sure, there are a few famous names that   
   >>> everyone knows - Buffet, Gates, Trump, the Walton heirs - and a very   
   >>> small handful that a few of the Wienie Roasters made it a point to know,   
   >>> like Blankfein (CEO Goldman Sachs), Moynihan (CEO Bank of America),   
   >>> Dimon (CEO JP Morgan Chase).  However, most Wienie Roasters wouldn't   
   >>> even know how to get a look at the Forbes 400 list of richest Americans.   
   >>>    They don't really know who the eeeeeeevil 1% are or how they make   
   >>> their money, nor do they really care - the label is what's important to   
   >>> the Fleabaggers.  It's their comforting, simple-minded division of the   
   >>> world into good guys and bad guys that matters to them.   
   >>   
   >>> By contrast, everyone knows who the Fleabaggers are - not by name, but   
   >>> certainly by sight.  Certainly the Fleabaggers / Wienie Roasters are not   
   >>> all of the 99%, but huge numbers of 99 percenters who weren't at the   
   >>> wienie roasts have very vocally said they strongly sympathize with the   
   >>> Fleabaggers, and that the Fleabaggers do in fact speak for them.   
   >>   
   >>> This great Forbes article shows just how far from reality the caricature   
   >>> is:  http://www.forbes.com/sites/kenrapoza/2011/11/14/who-are-the-real-1/   
   >>   
   >> We know exactly who the 1% are: by definition, they are the top 1% wealth   
   >> holders in this country.   
   >   
   > I always thought they were the 30 million (slightly less than 1%)   
      
   That would be *10*%, not 1%.   
      
   > who watch Fox News on a weekly basis?   
      
   The idiots who watch and admire Fox News earn minimum wage. The owners,   
   programers and producers of Fox News are the 1%.   
      
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