Tony Katz, host of The Tony Katz Radio Show, was on FOX and Friends to talk with Alisyn Camerota and Clayton Morris about the continued violence at #OWS events across the country, as well as the truth behind their claims of “income inequality.”
He ends with asking the questions that the MSM refuses to ask President Obama - Why do you condone the violence of OWS? Why does you condone the bullying of school children? Why are you silent?
As reported by Founding Bloggers, Occupy Wall Street organizers, like the Progressive Democrats of America, feel that they might be losing the public relations war in the media. The PDA has had board members that are a virtual who’s who of leftism, including Reps. Conyers, Grijalva, Woolsey and Kucinich, along with Medea Benjamin of Code Pink and Jodie Evans (of Hamas Flotilla fame.)
The PDA are arguing against specific tactics on their website. In one post, PDA argued against the violence of the “black bloc.” Yet, as Founding Bloggers points out, it is odd for the PDA to argue against a tactic that members of their board have advocated for over the years:
Here’s the problem. @PDAmerica and @Codepinkalert openly trade in crisis. They boast about crisis being where change is possible. Never let a good crisis go to waste, right? But then they have the nerve to act like they are disappointed when their radical crisis mongers turn violent. The potential for violence is what makes the organizers so irresponsible and culpable.
As for losing the PR war, the reality is that they have lost it. After near two months of OWS activities across the country, the Rap Sheet includes deaths, rapes, sexual assaults, drug use, destruction of property and a child used as a human shield. Whatever their message once may have been, it is now gone. OWS is a violent “movement” that has not forced America to talk about the damage of bailouts and the relationship between Wall Street and government. Rather, OWS is a violent “movement” that has forced America to talk about the damage inflicted by hard-core leftist ideology….and those who back them.
Tony is now a contributor to Daily Caller. In his latest article, he discusses his most recent appearance on RT, and the amazing number of comments he received from probable OWS supporters. What they have to say to Tony, about Tony and about what they want to do to Tony is, in a word, shocking….but one wonders if those words are also not surprising.
In a Wednesday appearance on the Russia Today television network, I discussed the violent confrontations between police officers and Occupy Wall Street protesters earlier this week in Oakland, California. I made it clear that I don’t condone police brutality. In fact, I am vehemently opposed to an oppressive police state. I also explained that though I disagree with the protesters’ radical agenda, I agree that cronyism is a real problem. Government should not be in the business of picking winners and losers on Wall Street, Main Street or any other street.
The segment lasted for the better part of 20 minutes. I had a spirited but friendly back-and-forth with my fellow panelist, OWS supporter Charlie McGrath. We agreed that there is no such thing as “too big to fail.” We agreed that violent rhetoric won’t help Occupy Wall Street get its message across (I still question what OWS’s message is, but certainly large-scale skirmishes with Occupiers hurling paint at police punctuated by tear gas being used on the protesters won’t make the message any clearer.) McGrath and I also agreed that it was strange that the show’s host kept showing clips of Rage Against the Machine guitarist Tom Morello at OWS rallies and asking us to comment on what he was saying.
Despite all these areas of agreement, the OWS-supporting viewers weren’t satisfied. In fact, many were furious. While a few supported my being on the show, the majority focused on my contention that many Occupiers are anti-Semites. Note: I have not edited the below comments from the Russia Today YouTube channel.
One commenter, “largegrainofsalt,” asserted that the fact that the protesters have observed Jewish holidays proves that they aren’t anti-Semitic:
tony wasn’t just an ass, he was demonstrably wrong. the protests are not in any way anti-semetic. several of the larger protest held events for a jewish holiday recently.
His comment was surrounded by others that undermine his thesis:
Tony Katz? What kind of surname is Katz? Another Jew-Zionist pig!!!!! This should speak volumes of what his message and hidden intent is: to protect the criminal dirt-bag jew element who have been ruining the world for decades. — waddietwo
Tony Katz, host of The Tony Katz Radio Show, talks with RT’s Liz Whal and fellow panelist Charlie McGrath about the clashes with police and Occupy Wall Street in Oakland. Is this good for their cause, or has their cause been co-opted by those who want the violence to happen?
Here is my latest piece on TownHall.com, discussing the inability to compare the Tea Party and OWS. One movement – the Tea Party – has a vision and values. One movement – OWS – has no vision, no values and is not a movement at all.
Steve Annear has an article on Metro.US about the new safety team circulating the Tent City Square, a.k.a. Occupy Boston, a satellite of the original Occupy Wall Street. According to Annear, a team of eight people – armed with neon vests and walkie-talkies – patrol the make-shift town to keep the “residents” safe.
Why is this necessary? According to the article:
On the heels of an incident last Sunday night, when a heroin addict allegedly pulled a knife on protesters and urinated on a tent….One guard donning a neon vest, who declined to give his name, said they are trying to keep the peace by “rounding up junkies and trying to kick them out,” adding that the so-called junkies have continually been a problem.
I have organized, hosted and spoken at Tea Party events around the country, and we never – ever! – have had to organize a safety team. Tea Party participants, who’ve gathered in cities and towns all across the country, have never had to worry about their safety from within the movement – - only from without. (see: SEIU) Never once has there been a report of a “heroin addict” urinating on tents….then again, there have been no tents! After each event, Tea Partiers return to their families, work/job search, school, etc. Heroin addicts don’t seem to be attracted to the Tea Party. And we make sure to have our rallies near public restrooms (usually associated with the properly-permitted spaces) or provide port-o-potties.
There is a difference in the participants, because there is a difference in the cause. The Tea Party is based on what I call “The Four Basics” – - The Constitution, Capitalism, Fiscal Responsibility and Smaller Government. In a broader sense, it is based on shared ideals for the country. The Tea Party advocates smaller, leaner, more pragmatic government; equality of opportunity. We do, all of us in the Tea Party, “…hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”
People are made equal. What they do with their lives is up to them! The Occupiers are promoting anti-Semitism, the return of the guillotine (while “maybe” a joke at first, many think it is a good idea, and that I should be under it!), a hodge-podge of hate, vitriol and false truths.
The people of OWS don’t look to the future, to a better America, to a free and prosperous people unencumbered by government overreach to pursue their dreams, wants and desires. OWS is long removed from its proposed (legitimate?) objective – exposing and objecting to the federal government picking winners and losers on Wall Street and the too-close relationship often engaged between – and is now focused on, well, nothing. They are promoting Communism, a failed system of failed people predicated on a impossible, inchoate proposition that all people can be forced into equality.
The Tea Party promotes a better future, based on the prodigy of our Founding Fathers. OWS promotes lies, based on the abject failure of the Marxist thesis. Their once (potentially?) worthwhile message has been, unfortunately, hijacked by proud socialists and Marxists, the Democratic party, the unions, and a smattering of Hollywood – the latter three all hoping that OWS can be the Left’s version of the Tea Party, thus giving them something positive to look to in this upcoming election season.
The article continued, with one of the “guards” explaining the situation:
“People wander in here high and drunk and try and get in tents…You’re always going to have drunk a—holes, wherever you go,” he said. “The safety team is pretty efficient. It’s not like this is a junkie haven.”
The reality is, you don’t have drunk “a—holes” wherever you go. It actually depends on where you go. The Tea Party went towards a more prosperous America, rooted in the Constitution that allows people to live to the moment of their happiness. OWS went towards “eat the rich,” urinating on tents, threatening reporters, blaming the Jews and sexual harassment.
There is no comparison.
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Tony shares the hate email and violent, homophobic and anti-Semitic comments he has received from his RT appearance. Then, Craig Robinson of The Iowa Republican.com talks to Tony about the debate results, and the jockeying for primary position by Iowa, Nevada and New Hampshire.
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In Tony’s latest article on Pajamas Media, he comments on the most recent attack at a fast food restaurant. While most are concentrating on the ever twisted tale of the assault at a Maryland McDonald’s, someone was killed at a McDonald’s in the United Kingdom.
Not only is it a horrifying story, it proves that gun laws do not necessarily keep people safe.
(From Tony’s show, The Conversation with Tony Katz, on PJTV.com)
NEW TONE? WE DON’T NEED NO STINKIN’ NEW TONE!
Since the shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ), much ado has been made of the new tone in America. The concept of civility – how to treat one another, how to talk to one another. How two people can disagree, but not be disagreeable.
But what has come of that moment…that “teachable” moment.
First, before President Obama mentioned the words, there were the lies of Paul Krugman of the New York Times and Dana Milbank of the Washington Post, claiming that the Tea Party is the violent group, while violently lying about the Tea Party. Then, there was the Sadie Hawkins dance known as the State Of The Union, where Democrats like former Speaker Nancy Pelosi refused to sit next to a Republican.
Recently, it focuses on Wisconsin, and the rallies that have been going on around the nation. One after another, the videos appear…of cursing, yelling, shoving. Moveon.org organized rallies at all 50 state capitals to show unity with the employees union in Wisconsin. In Sacramento, this attack on a non union member occurred. Then, again, in Atlanta. While one 17 year old was handing out copies of the United States Constitution, this man offered to show him what “tea-bagging” is:
Massachusetts Congressman Michael Capuano – a Democrat – had this to say:
Heck, we could even go into ancient history, before the new tone speech, and talk about the attack on Kenneth Gladney, the lost finger of a Tea Party member in California (it was bitten off!), the eggs thrown at Andrew Breitbart, or the vicious lies bandied about regarding the use of the “N” word towards Rep. John Lewis (D) of Georgia. It is still unproven, and a $100,000 reward remains for any proof of it.
It would be comical if it weren’t so serious. No one would believe that everyone on one side of an issue were just choir boys. Certainly, I would never claim that of the Tea Party, nor of the anti-union groups that have been protesting. But what we are seeing from pro-union forces, and anti-Tea Party thugs, is a repeated record of violent behavior and assaults. These are not isolated incidents. They are interconnected.
So, The Conversation Is: When does the violence end? And will the left ever recognize their role in it?
Watch The Conversation, with my guests Larry O’ Connor and Christian Hartsock.
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Gen. Petraeus is concerned about troop safety if a church in Florida burns Korans. Tony Katz doesn’t accept that a stupid idea (burning Korans) can endanger troops, unless those troops aren’t allowed to fight to win. Plus, Amy Laff of StateBrief.com fills us in on the DOJ lawsuit against Sheriff Joe Arpaio.
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