Westword’s Kelsey Whipple reports on an incident we heard about last week. Warning–this video and text contains explicit language:
When Occupy Denver members mark the group’s six-month anniversary next week, they’ll focus on accomplishments. One example: A handful of protesters recently interrupted and shut down a live Fox 31 broadcast with complaints of subpar previous coverage. From there, as you’ll see in the video below, the F-bombs fly, with reporter Eli Stokols cursing at the protestors and arguing that such actions are “not a good way to get anybody to respect your point of view.” And the protesters curse back.
Although the video’s YouTube title suggests otherwise by referencing Fox News, Fox 31 is locally run and not a part of the larger national network. But whatever the case, Stokols rebuffs allegations of coverage shortfalls by pointing out that he and his coworkers have reported about a visit by Michael Moore, meetings with the police and “regular people on the street.”
“I’m in the middle of a live shot, so this is not the time to debate with you guys,” Stokols says. “If you want to act like grownups, then we can have a conversation. When I’m live on fucking television — and you can film this — you don’t come up and fuck us up.”
The Occupy Denver protesters were holding signs behind FOX 31 reporter Eli Stokols that read “f— the police.” This obviously has the effect of making it difficult for a live TV feed to continue. The protesters were apparently upset with “media lies,” though it’s not clear if they are targeting the media in general, “FOX News” (even though KDVR-TV is locally owned), or perhaps reporting by Stokols personally or his local affiliate. We suspect it was fairly random, or mistargeted anger at the national FOX News (which is not very kind to the Occupy movement).
Whatever their motive, this is certainly not the first time we’ve watched aghast as local “Occupiers,” claiming to be part of a movement many Americans would like to support, have rendered themselves unsupportable through their own foolish and pointlessly belligerent behavior. The absolute last people on Earth that Occupy Denver should be harassing like this are members of the media who they need to reach the public with their message. This is the kind of behavior that convinces members of the real “99%” you do not speak for them.
Enough, Occupy Denver. Smarten up or go away.
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Uh no, you’re not. You’re just making giant asses out of yourselves and undermined every good point Occupy had to make.
Here’s me, exercising my First Amendment rights–go away and shut up. You’re not helping anyone or changing a damn thing.
and think he is a pretty damn fair dude. That shit isn’t right.
Wasn’t the same guy arrested again, the one the gropped Eli, this time for attacking a Peace Officer?
After they helped build their movement, apparently they discovered the rest of America doesn’t appreciate people who vandalize Wall Street and use our parks for their restrooms.
And if that isn’t enough, Occupy is spreading communicable disease now.
http://www.denverpost.com/comm…
What a cool monster the Dems created.
Doesn’t mean the imbalance between the 1% and the rest of us is any less true. Nor that the bank bailouts and TARP were any less corrupt.
Obama bailouts were corrupt – yet you are still voting for him. So much for hope and change. Imbalance? – we cannot correct the intelligence imbalance between these occutards and the rest of the world – unless we make everyone stupid through shock therapy or something.
What I don’t get is why you want to make everyone poor to balance everthing out – while intelligent folks want to bring equal opportunity to all – so that we raise the standard of living. There will never be a “balance”. When your beloved Utopia is realized ala Red China, there still will be no balance – the redistributors will all be rich and the poor will be poorer – but at least we get rid of people who earn money honestly (greedy bastages).
Because they’re better human beings than you are.
Next point?
I realize comedy is tough – I never said, and neither has any other serious person said – that tht we want to make everything balanced.
I respect a healthy free will, and the freedom of choice that goes along with that. You choose to blow off education, and be a sub standard employee who really doesn’t work much, you deserve what you get.
And if you choose to leverage your “bank” to the moon and get burned by a collapsing market of your own creation, you should fail. Except TBTF is real, so the Bush administration realizes that flusing the whole economy is a worse choice than bailing out your overcompensated ass, and the consequence is and should be that that gov’t gets to regulate the risk right out of your industry. Don’t like it? It hurts your profit margin? Don’t make your risk taking my problem.
Obama saved GM & Chrysler. And, yes I’m glad he did.
I was hoping Libertard was getting kicked off of Pols for good.
that long . . .
http://www.coloradopols.com/sh…
None of us would. In every movement, there are a few wackadoos.
it’s pretty f***ing obvious.
The Occupy movement spontaneously grew out of widespread frustration over the economic royalists who screwed 99% of us (that’s a fact). At one point Occupy had a 37% approval rating, mine included.
But that frustration hasn’t been channeled into anything constructive that has changed anything. Any movement to be effective has to be organized and focused, like the civil rights movement led by MLK.
Unfortunately the Occupy movement is going the way of the anti-war movement in the late sixties, which became splintered and factionalized (SDS) and thus increasingly marginalized as a credible instrument of change.
Kick the press out – give them no reason nor motivation to cover you – and there is no story. No story – no change. No cameras no nothing. They have video – and 38 people not them have seen it.
It’s the difference between paper law and trial law. Louden Downey needed a trial lawyer out there.
Eli Stokols does the most in-depth and accurate reporting of state and local politics of any local news station.
Shame those tards had to ruin his live shot. I’d be pissed, too.
Hands down the best political reporter.
Pretty much explains why Occutards don’t have jobs.
Yeah, that has a real obvious connection with the 99% movement.
Occupy Denver has been co-opted and marginalized by a few extremists. Just as the Tea Party was, but even more so.
The “F*** the Police” signs are just as dumb as the birther and transvaginal ultrasound nonsense infecting some of the Tea Party.