Newt Gingrich & Herman Cain: Occupy Wall Streeters Jealous, Uneducated

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2012 GOP presidential candidates Herman Cain and Newt Gingrich are positive that this whole Occupy Wall Street thing is overblown. This is because they represent all of the everyday millionaire pizza moguls and Tiffany's marketers/serial adulterers who know that these nurses, students, union members and other "people" are just jealous. "Part of it is jealousy…My parents never said that we hope the rich people lose something so that we can get something," Cain said at a joint appearance on Face the Nation, presumably forgetting that time he left a flaming bag of poo on John Schnattner's doorstep.

Gingrich can see the jealousy angle (who isn't jealous of Newt Gingrich?) but it's moreso that the protesters are uneducated:

We have had a strain of hostility to free enterprise and frankly, a strain of hostility to classic America starting in our academic institutions and spreading across this country and I regard the Wall Street protesters as a natural outcome of a bad education system teaching them really dumb ideas.

Newt knows a lot about "dumb ideas" because it's his job to come up with them. And while commie pinko/"intellectual" Slavoj Žižek may have spoken in support of the protesters at Zuccotti Park for an hour today, the author of Hegel and the Infinite: Religion, Politics, and Dialectic is no match for the wordsmith behind Drill Here, Drill Now, Pay Less and Divorcing Your Wife on Her Deathbed For Dummies.

Not to be outclassed, Peter King, speaking on non-racist Laura Ingraham's radio show, called the protesters a "ragtag mob" and noted, "The fact is these people are anarchists." He's right: look at how disordered and nihilistic this food they prepared was put on the plate! He continued:

“We have to be careful not to allow this to get any legitimacy,” he said, adding “I’m taking this seriously in that I’m old enough to remember what happened in the 1960s when the left-wing took to the streets and somehow the media glorified them and it ended up shaping policy. We can’t allow that to happen.”

If King wants America to un-learn the lessons of Vietnam, Feminism, and the Civil Rights movement, we're waaaayyyy ahead of him.

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By Christopher Robbins in News on October 9, 2011 6:40 PM

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Meaghan

Marine Vet at #OccupyWallStreet Tells Sean Hannity to "F**k Off" for calling OWS protestors "Unamerican" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...

CurmudgeonNYC

And one lesson is lost in the thrum of point-counter point: Newt and Cain are two assholes with zero ideas on how to solve anything.

constructonomics

I went to Occupy Wall Street and posted a blog about it with some photos I'm sure you won't see in the normal media.....http://www.constructonomics.com/blog/...

divawidfevah

Cain is completely clueless. I'm a single, childless woman with a Masters Degree who agrees with the 99%. Because I'm single with no children, I already pay more in taxes -because I don't get all those wonderful married credits and dependent credits, but you don't hear me - and others like me complaining... and if I did, people like him and Newt would call me "Un-American."

whiteiris

http://the53.tumblr.com

Matt F.

Excuse me. The reason why parents get those credits is because it's really fucking expensive to raise kids.

Seriously, you're not going to complain but you're complaining because your single and childless and have to pay more. That's kind of passive aggressive, isn't it?

I mean, it's circular logic - parents get those tax breaks to raise kids, you know, maybe put a little away to save for college so - guess what - those kids won't have to get student loans!

SoranSetsuna

College education in American and in Europe is one of e biggest scams you can fall into. American students are bombarded with the myth that a college education is the key to a successful that you all don't even bother questioning the claims validity. Then there is the fact that most of you end up in useless majors like Psychology, Sociology and Philosophy which have no job prospects in the future and current time. Along with all of this you end up in 20-30k and even up to 150k of dollars into student loan debt which you will never pay back.

The truth of the matter is that if everyone has a degree then the result is degree inflation where the degree itself is useless simply because everyone has one. The Netherlands has degree inflation and college graduates have to attend all these tedious clubs for several years instead of just joining the work force.

Colleges today don't even teach anything, instead the professors teach you WHAT to think which is often a bad view they are imposing on you while taking your money. It's no wonder that the campus is so ripe with anti-capitalist mentalities.

This documentary fully exposes the college scam.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpZtX3...

Matt F.

So you're telling me that degrees in mathematics and engineering are worthless because they are just "what the professor thinks"?

SoranSetsuna

If everyone had a degree in mathematics and engineering do you think the degrees would have any worth? Read the comment more carefully and watch the documentary linked. Then again you don't even need a degree in these fields, the lie that Unis propagate is that business and corporation won't hire unless you have a degree. I don't have a degree but I'm a intern in I.T and Robotics which is much more important then studying these fields at the University level.

illferris

Who is Legion and why do they not forgive? Read Mark 5.

Guest

Classic America: freshly scrubbed suburban white protestant kids behaving morally at the sock hop.

Taylor

they aren't all children, there are many ages, many socioeconomic backgrounds and many races

Guest

*sigh*

antimisogynycrusader

Exact quote from Herman Cain: "All dem cats be hatin' yo, dag....."

oneye

The uneducated have the same inalienable rights as Gingrich and Cain. So do the jealous. The FIRST of those rights is the right to protest. And that's how we know that the GOP is anti-Constitutional, anti-democratic, and yes, anti-Republic.

AND corrupt. Their argument is that the educated (read powerful rich) Wallsters should be allowed to rob the uneducated (read powerless poor), and that the uneducated powerless poor should jes shadup.

BottomlessChips

Did Cain and Gingrich say the government should quash the protest?

Red River Rover

Oh my my ...

Daddy Newt and Poppa Cain dressing down the children?

It should be stressed that Gingrich & Cain's occasional demonstrations of paternalistic benevolence are not genuine. Nor are their premises. In fact, Gingrich & Cain are inherently arrogant, boorish, and noisome. Oh, and they also have an insufferable mode of blowing BS out their pieholes.

Others may disagree, but I claim that Gingrich & Cain find reality too difficult to swallow. Or maybe they just get lost in the editorial and business pages. In either case, what we're seeing is a domino effect of events that started with Gingrich & Cain stating that they are the bearers and agents of the Creator's purpose.

That prevarication incited their mindless followers to increase society's cycle of hostility. If I had to choose the most small-minded specimen from Gingrich & Cain's welter of beastly BS, it would have to be Gingrich & Cain's claim that the ideas of "freedom" and "economic servitude" are Siamese twins.

The MO that Gingrich & Cain normally use is that the bogeyman is going to get us if we don't agree to their ding-battery. As usual, they can be counted on to wrap every actual fact in six layers of BS. The truth is that one of the things I find quite interesting is listening to other people's takes on things. For instance, I recently overheard some folks remark that seeing Gingrich & Cain succeed at infiltrating the media with the express purpose of disseminating horse-crap information has left me with a number of unanswered questions—questions such as, why can't they relieve their aching sense of inadequacy without having to abandon the idea of universal principles of fairness and reputability?

The answer to that? Gingrich & Cain are LOSERS!

ElizabethConley

Contrast these small men's remarks with those of Dr. Ron Paul:

“If they were demonstrating peacefully, and making a point, and arguing our case, and drawing attention to the Fed — I would say, good!” Paul said.
When told that a New York police officer pepper-sprayed protesters, Paul reflexively took the side of the radicals. “I didn’t read the stories about it. But that means government doesn’t like to be receiving any criticism at all. And my argument is, government should be in the open — the people’s privacy ought to be protected. So I don’t like it.”

Which man's statements reflect your values? Who do you want as President?

Guest

You know, I disagree with some of what Matt F. is saying, but I found myself rooting for him throughout this thread. Some of the posts replying to him are unnecessarily condescending.