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Herald: Smelly hippies could kill us all
By adamg on Wed, 10/26/2011 - 7:32am
The Herald sic'ed roughly half its entire reporting staff (yes, six reporters) on the most urgent public-health crisis facing Boston today: Occupy Boston. The scrappy tabloid urgently warns us today that Dewey Square is a ticking time bomb of a fetid cesspool of disease-ridden, overripe hippies and vermin. The paper does, however, note the presence of hand sanitizer at the encampment.
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The Herald doing what it does best...
Manufacturing outrage to go along with manufactured facts...
The only thing missing from this one is Michelle McPhee's horror movies voice doing the narrative.
Oh-noes!
found frequently in Boston area school resident calls.
Oh, sorry, wrong stalking horse.
(Seriously, sexually transmitted diseases?!? And I was bitching that WHDH for hard hitting journalism eariler....)
Just walking by Occupy Boston can give you syphillis
That's how virulent hippies are.
Republican Conventions
Why should they have all the fun?
Dogs and cats, living together!
ahem
"Because you smell...
....smelly."
I support what they're doing, but have to say that walking through there the other day, it did reek of piss from one end to the other. P-U!
Maybe the message is "this is what our nation could end up like if we continue on this path! We'll all reek of piss!!"
WE ARE THE 99 PISSENT!
Do they have Porto-potties to
Do they have Porto-potties to use during the hours South Station bathrooms are closed?
noticed the hand sanitizer as
noticed the hand sanitizer as well (http://cat-pictureday.blogspot.com/2011/10/fake-cl...)
oh-fish-smell
People who make predictions have a need to be perceived as an authority of some kind, perhaps as an authority in general. They often feel powerless and compensate in their interactions with others. Most people are too polite to tell them they're boring and self-obsessed.
Re: oh-fish-smell
"People who make predictions have a need to be perceived as an authority of some kind, perhaps as an authority in general."
Do people who offer remote, unsolicited psychological diagnosis have any "needs to be perceived as an authority?" Do those who resort to the pre-k urge of equating an opponent to a smell feel "powerless" otherwise? Abnormal psychology? Pot? Kettle?
Herald needn't worry, Occu-sty will end with a whimper
As I predicted here some time ago, the biggest threat to Occu-sty isn't the police, who are essentially under the control of the hapless Menino. The real threat is a decline in media interest, which is apparently now well underway. There's a fine line between amusing and annoying and this group crossed it long ago. With their objective incoherent, the only thing left to make news from here on in is the criminal and public health hazards there.
At this stage, with rumors that many of the tents are unoccupied props and Mother Nature helping with a rare October French Toast Alert, my guess is that sometime soon, police surprise the few remaining protesters in the early morning hours, during stormy winter weather, as the protesters attempt to sleep off another night of substance abuse, a la Washington's sneak attack on the Hessians at Trenton. I stand by my earlier prediction that they'll be gone (and forgotten,except for the damage) by Veteran's Day at the latest.
Okay then
Why are you so obsessed with it?
Obsessed?
Merely responding to Adam's many posts on the subject and in this case, reminding readers that long before Reuters confirmed it, O-FISH-L predicted that media disinterest would be the hobgoblin of this group. It's nice to be proven right, again.
Media disinterest?
You are commenting on a thread that started because of yet another front page story in the Herald. How again does that constitute 'media disinterest' ?
Really
And I suppose you predicted this "loss of interest" being expressed in six reporters being dispatched to produce yet another front page story on the subject?
Seems to me that your obsession speaks to the standard impotant rage of a bully toward people you don't like and can't control.
that's going to leave a mark
O-Escolar-L
O-Escolar-L,
Per you, is there anything that you're ever
not "right" about?
Talk about a self-fulling prophecy.
Referring to yourself in the 3rd person really
just adds to your narcissistic world-view.
But then again, I'm sure you like it that way.
Good thing posts are archived
Because then we can see that your "earlier prediction" was two weeks ago, when you said that higher-than-normal precipitation over the next few days would drive them away, or at least all but a few stragglers...which is apparently still enough for the Herald Rapid Smear Team to be called out for. (You did include an Al Gore zinger, though, which is comedy gold, so there's that). See you in two weeks!
When the only coverage is negative, the movement is doomed
@Ron and Swrrly: In case you missed it, I wrote,
Crime, child neglect and public health concerns will always make news, but when that's the only news emerging from camp, the movement is doomed. Now, even the group's two best hopes at socialism, Deval and Betti Warren are at odds over Occupy. I haven't seen many, if any, news reports lately about their objectives, like "forgiveness of all debt," "guaranteed living wage income regardless of employment," "one trillion dollars in ecological restoration planting forests, reestablishing wetlands and the natural flow of river systems" and other such nonsense. When even far-left Reuters is reporting a sharp decline in media coverage, Occupy has a problem.
@Michael: It's my understanding that compared to the peek attendance a few weeks ago, indeed only a few stragglers are left and that many of the (Eddie Bauer, L.L. Bean) tents are vacant, kept up for propaganda purposes only. That's probably not a bad strategy because Menino is certain to move on it by surprise, when he believes the fewest are there. I would keep the tents up too if I were them, maybe even add a few more.
Lack of attention?
You say that attention is waning, yet you and many others like you are still spending potentially-productive workweek time writing multiple posts each day ruminating on their presence? Counting people, reflecting on today's presence in light of days and weeks past, paying close enough attention to know what is or isn't inside tents?
That doesn't sound like indifference to me, it sounds like they are getting exactly what they want.
good point
if oFiskr has no obsession and needs not express contempt for these inconsequential protesters, nor the need to bully those over whom he holds no power, then we'll know by his choice to not comment.
The objectives aren't incoherent
The right wing Murdoch media Faux News talking point is that their objective is incoherent.
Read some Marshall McCluen and some Chompsky, and learn the difference between reality and propaganda.
Not to nit pick..
but it's McLuhan and Chomsky. If one were inclined they could ask if you've read the aforementioned authors.....
fair enough
Although I blame Chrome for the mispelling of McLuhan.
Bear in mind as well that ability to spell and ability to read and critically evaluate ideas are vastly separated skills in our brains. In fact, wrote memorization skills tend to run counter to critical thinking.
Not so unusual to jot down variation for widely recognized names
I know how to spell Chomsky, but although I've read McLuhan in the past and knew exactly who Swrrly meant, I wouldn't take a bet that I could recognize the correct spelling of his name without looking it up.
A new metric a-borning?
When Thomas Friedman kept making predictions that this or that would happen in Iraq in 6 months & nothing ever did, we ended up with the sarcastically invoked yardstick of "the Friedman unit" becoming a blogosphere meme. Ladies & gentleman, I think UniversalHUB has now contributed a new bloviator-inspired metric to the world-- behold "the O-Fish-L unit"!
Look at the heavy-hitting Herald sources!
Even with all that reporting firepower, here are the "officials" the Herald managed to dredge up to support this story:
-"Public health researcher Janelle Vaesa." She's actually a freelance writer for some websites like livestrong.com.
-Boston Public Health Commission PR person Ann Scales who says nothing specific about the scene.
-A San Francisco Health Department person talking about Occupy there.
-"Certified Massachusetts health officer" Patrick Maloney, who is apparently a Brookline health inspector although the Herald doesn't identify him as such.
And that's it. I count zero actual Boston "officials" in this list, and one actual expert (Maloney) who is willing to make specific comments about Occupy Boston. Not much to hang a front page story on.
Not to worry,FISH
I'm sure you can join the new movement that's sweeping across one Congressional office; Occupy Scott Brown.
You can camp out there with Goldman Sachs, Citibank, JP Morgan Chase, B of A, Bain Capital, the Carlyle Group and the other downtrodden.
How's your 401K, btw? And your house is worth how much less than what you paid for it?
Yeah, but fuck those smelly hippies right? What do they know, anyways?
the AVOIDABLE financial crisis of 2007 that caused the recession
cost the average American family 20% of their net worth... and the housing market has a way to go.
The banks that profited selling shitty mortgage-backed securities all over the world (including pension funds for US teachers, police, fire fighter and private pension funds, as well as foreign banks and sovereign debt) also profited when they knew it was junk and profited from other people's misery.
There was fraud, then a market failure, then everyone got screwed, not the least of which are the people who lost their jobs and homes as a result of the recession.
We want justice, which is as American as apple pie. We want criminal justice, economic opportunity, a fair wage, and a future for our kids.
So the City Health Department
doesn't consider the situation serious enough to warrant an inspection, but Inspectional Services is going after Occupy's food tent because they don't have a serving permit.
This alone demostrates what's so wrong with this City and Tommy's minions.
Herald – Boston Health Commission finds no problems at OB
Herald Followup – Inspections today by Boston Health Commission finds no problems at Occupy Boston camp
http://www.bostonherald.com/news/regional/view/201...
…Boston Health Commissioner Barbara Ferrer toured Occupy Boston this morning, saying the encampment appears “well organized.”…Jim Greene, director of the city’s Emergency Shelter Commission [said] “It’s obvious people have taken great care to be as organized and safe and healthy as possible,”…
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Knee-jerk supporters of the govt/corporate status-quo crest-fallen.
Joe Scaccia, editor-in-chief, of Boston Herald
will print this on the front page tomorrow.
What should the headline be?
Meanwhile ...
If the Herald really wants to uncover a scandal in public health, they should investigate businesses and schools who refuse to allow their employees to take sick days, or don't offer sick time, or make sick time impossible to arrange (like some Catholic schools - ahem St. Clements ahem) and thus initiate and massively amplify flu epidemics as sick staff use public transit and deal with the public on their most infectious days.
Some of these same businesses were fighting the mandatory sick time law in the MA House and Senate last year! Should be easy enough to find them.
..back at the Bat Cave...
Good story idea...which means it won't get covered. Certainly not by the Herald. Even budgies turn up their beak to that rag. (And I'll have you know your Adam Ant reference sent me down a late night rathole of youtubing early 80s videos...my baggy eyes this morning are YOUR fault.)