Busted! Memo reveals campaign to destroy Occupy

To the surprise of nobody who reads this blog, the Occupy protests have been met with a drumbeat of hostile media coverage. Without exception, however, each photo or video that purports to show some serious criminal activity or bigotry by Occupiers has turned out to either be a hoax or has failed to show what the item's purveyors claim. (Occupy critics even changed the location of one damning photo. They couldn't make up their minds whether they took the photo in Los Angeles or Dallas.)

I don't cover all these lies here, because that just lets the Far Right set the parameters of the debate. Our aim is to expose wealth disparity and corporate power - not to answer every right-wing smear against others who expose it.

Now - again to nobody's surprise - it turns out that the right-wing smear pipeline that has gushed against Occupiers is bankrolled by exclusive lobbying firms. A memo has been leaked proving this. (I usually don't link to NBC pages, due to NBC's infamously poor edit of a Michelle Obama speech in 2008, but this is an exception.)

The memo was from Clark Lytle Geduldig & Cranford, a lobbying firm for the financial services industry. This firm has funded an $850,000 media campaign to try to discredit the Occupy movement and any political figure who dares to support it. This campaign also involves "research" against Occupiers.

Well, now we know who's behind all the anti-Occupy stories. Not like it's doing Wall Street any good, because every time I go to Occupy Cincinnati, there's always new faces there. (And I'm not counting the cops who arrested one of the Occupiers last week for the "crime" of photographing an undercover police car.) The only thing that's too big to fail may be the Occupy movement.

Gandhi has been quoted as saying, "First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win." So things seem to be going right on cue. It's exactly what happened when we took on the Pathway Family Center cult.

(Source: http://upwithchrishayes.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/11/19/8896362-exclusive-lobbying-firms-memo-spells-out-plan-to-undermine-occupy-wall-street-video)