Ehrlich learns nothing from Occupy

Most of the hostile media is smart enough to take away one important lesson from the ongoing Occupy movement: Instead of continuing to portray income inequality as something America deserves, as if the 1% truly works harder than the 99%, it's better to just shut up about it.

But this lesson is lost on fascist former Gov. Bob Ehrlich of Maryland, now a Baltimore Sun columnist who heads Mitt Romney's hopeless Maryland campaign. In his latest rambling piece, Ehrlich snivels that Occupy is motivated by "class envy" and that the movement is just an "opportunity to attack capitalism and all those wealthy folks who never seem to pay their 'fair share.'"

More significantly, he gushes that the Occupy coalition simply doesn't represent America's "values." In Ehrlich's world, everybody is supposed to just be quiet and accept their lot in life. He says "it's difficult to get the 99 percent to resent the 1 percent when much of the 99 percent wishes to join the 1 percent."

Wrong, Bob. The real 99% resents a system that unfairly favors the 1%. It's not just the big cities or the East Coast where the 99% believes this. This belief is also honored in the vast expanses of the Midwest and small-town America - a land Ehrlich doesn't get.

I was raised in a working-class town in Kentucky of 5,000. It's an America I understand. The media punditry doesn't get to decide whether or not we should support Occupy. If the press doesn't like our Occupy support, tough toilets.

Bob Ehrlich has learned nothing from the Occupy revolution. He writes like it's the Gingrich era, when media writers seemed to enjoy rubbing it in when we lost out in what Ehrlich calls a system of "inherent winners and losers." That doesn't fly today. On the other hand, I doubt Ehrlich is really who Occupy is trying to reach. He was a lost cause from the giddy-up.

Also, I find it hilarious that Ehrlich continues The Media's 11-month-long obituary for Occupy even while Occupy anniversary marches are drawing as many marchers as the events a year ago did. The press wants us gone so badly that they think they can wish us away.