Thursday, 17 November 2011

Mayor Bloomberg Hammered

Best known for his baiting of Fox anchor and arch-twat Bill O'Reilly, as well as his outspoken criticism of the Bush administration, Keith Olbermann recently took on Mayor Bloomberg over the heavy handed suppression of Occupy Wall Street. And thanked him. Deep par...



There is something wonderfully agitational (or should I say showbiz?) about US politics and media. For example, could you imagine our most flamboyant anchor Jeremy Paxman doing something like this? Of course there is a bad side: Fox News; cringey election videos; Nuremberg-style campaign rallies. But at a time when the message of the Occupy movement - and the resistance to capitalism as a whole - needs articulation and popularisation, all manifestations of revolutionary pedagogy and propaganda should be welcomed.

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