Joseph Stiglitz Occupies Wall Street
Diane Ellis, Ed. ·
Oct 4, 2011 at 3:48pm
I post this not for the content of the Stiglitz-led group monologue, but to point out the eeriness of the technique, which NY Mag's Jonathan Chait cleverly compares to this scene from Monty Python's Life of Brian.
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Re: Joseph Stiglitz Occupies Wall Street
Oh my god I can't watch this. Is there a version of this without the congregation reciting it back?
Mar '11
Re: Joseph Stiglitz Occupies Wall Street
So, we have anarchists, protesting for more government.
All you lot, repeat after me: "This is what stupidity looks like! This is what stupidity looks like!"
Jul '10
Re: Joseph Stiglitz Occupies Wall Street
Just give the government the power to make everything right. What could go wrong? It worked for Nazi Germany, didn't it? And the Soviet Union? It's not some flimsy bit of tissue like the US Constitution. That will never last.
Mar '11
Re: Joseph Stiglitz Occupies Wall Street
It's a good thing I'm nowhere near any of these twerps, otherwise I'd be out there with my "Preserve Our Precious Bodily Essences" sign.
Jul '10
Re: Joseph Stiglitz Occupies Wall Street
Are all of these in gun ban jurisdictions?
Jul '10
Re: Joseph Stiglitz Occupies Wall Street
This might kill your dream of turning Ricochet into a food blog, Diane.
Smoking isn't half the appetite suppressant Uncle Joe jr and the creepshow choir are.
The really horrid part is that Stiglitz knows better. Oh sure he's a partisan... half-baked, misleading figures for "foreign adventures" I expect. But it's like he wanted to play David Koresh for a day and couldn't resist the temptation.
Those chanting cretins are people. Mostly ignorant, whiny people, & more than a few of them are stupid. But they're still people, and Stiglitz is toying with them with a smirk on his face.
Mar '11
Re: Joseph Stiglitz Occupies Wall Street
Reminds me of "Barack Hussein Obama, mmm, mmm, mmm". The products of a liberal education.
Edited on Oct 4, 2011 at 5:14pmOct '10
Re: Joseph Stiglitz Occupies Wall Street
Creepy. At least Stiglitz isn't as annoying as Krugman. Speaking of whom, why wasn't Krugman there? Seems like the perfect event for him.
Apr '11
Re: Joseph Stiglitz Occupies Wall Street
Catechizing the proletariat masses. Mmmm, Mmmm, Mmmm.
Mar '11
Re: Joseph Stiglitz Occupies Wall Street
How fascinating, they have managed to merge the meaning of both noun and verb for the word drone.
Jul '10
Re: Joseph Stiglitz Occupies Wall Street
I think this call-and-response thing is a terrible idea. The crowds seem to think it's cute and fun, but to normal people it looks creepy, and it pretty much guarantees that none of their soundbites will end up on the news or go viral. Nobody wants to watch a one-paragraph speech that takes ten minutes.
Apr '11
Re: Joseph Stiglitz Occupies Wall Street
It is worth listening to all the way through for the demagoguery and lies. Stiglitz and the other suit don't say much that is wrong, but they don't name names or point to the fact that the financial sector disturbance was the result of Democratic policies. They just makes vague references to the "powers that be".
Being a Democrat means never having to say you're sorry.