About 100 Occupy Wall Street protesters shut down production of an episode of “Law & Order: SVU” after they swarmed a park that had been made up to look like the now-cleared Zuccotti Park encampment. Starting around midnight Friday, protesters roamed around Foley Square in Lower Manhattan, examining set pieces which included tents, protest signs and even a mock kitchen and library, according to the New York Daily News . Among the fake signs were ones that read “End War on Workers” “Greed No” and “War Profiteers.” “This is not us,” Drew Hornbein, 24, told the newspaper. “We are not part of corporate TV America.” “Law & Order: SVU” is an NBC drama whose episodes involve investigations of sexual assault. Multiple instances of sexual assault have been reported at Occupy encampments around the country.
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Real OWS Protesters Shut Down ‘Law & Order’ Filming Scene at…Fake Encampment
Yesterday we brought you a picture (above) of a banner flying over Lower Manhattan delivering a very stern message in relation to the S&P downgrading the U.S.: “THANKS FOR THE DOWNGRADE. YOU SHOULD ALL BE FIRED!” At the time, the identity of the woman behind it was a mystery, as she wanted to remain anonymous. That didn’t last long. Today, the woman has been exposed as municipal bond broker Lucy Nobbe. She told the Associated Press she was fed up with Congress and angry over the U.S. credit downgrade, and she wanted the world to know. So the self-described Midwestern mom hired a plane to fly a banner over New York City with a message blaming federal lawmakers for the downgrade – and making herself something of a populist hero in the process. “I’m just so overwhelmed,” Nobbe, a 51-year-old divorced mother of two, told the AP on Wednesday regarding her new-found celebrity and the largely positive response to her protest. “I had no idea it would make that big of an impact.” Nobbe’s anger bubbled over on Friday when Standard & Poor’s announced that it was cutting the U.S. credit rating, a move that set off a volatile week for the stock market and escalated concerns that the country could be heading back into a recession. So she went on the Internet, found a pilot, and hired him to fly a banner over New York at lunchtime Tuesday with a the message for Congress stating in large red letters. “My friends and I were ranting and raving ever since we heard about the downgrade,” she said in a telephone interview from her home in the St. Louis suburb of Kirkwood. “I work in municipal bonds so I know the consequences, and it made me even madder.” The sentiment seemed to connect with many people frustrated by the sour economy, the near-shutdown of the government, the stuttering stock market and increasing debt. Nobbe’s banner created an immediate online stir and turned heads on Wall Street. It also created confusion – some onlookers, bloggers and journalists thought it was aimed at New York-based S&P. Nobbe said it was strictly meant for Congress – both Democrats and Republicans. She initially wanted the plane to fly over Washington, D.C., but was told it couldn’t because of air restrictions. “I’m very apolitical,” Nobbe said. “But the fact that they won’t compromise angered me. They’re acting like children. They leave the place in a shambles and go on vacation. It causes the market to crash. “I don’t even have an opinion on what they did,” she told Fox News on Wednesday, referring to S&P’s downgrade. “I’m sure they had their reasons, but they did it … and I thought it was a total embarrassment to the United States, especially because it was mostly because of politicians.” You can watch that interview below: Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.com “I know they’re tough issues, but they have to be dealt with. Get us back in financial shape,” Nobbe said. Less than five minutes after the brief flight over New York, Nobbe received a call from Fortune magazine asking if she was responsible. She had hoped to remain anonymous and wasn’t sure how her name was leaked. By Tuesday evening, she was getting flooded with calls, some from journalists but many from well-wishers. “I’ve had individual people calling me going, `Bravo,’ `thanks,’ `good job,’” Nobbe said. The praise isn’t enough to spur Nobbe into considering her own foray into politics, but she would consider a follow-up banner if Congress helps get the economy back on track. “I’d be happy to send an applaud message if they make it right,” she said. The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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Identity Revealed: Meet the Single Mom Behind the Mysterious Downgrade Banner in NYC
When 29-year old Jason Fordell was traveling home from Lower Manhattan in the wee hours of Sunday morning, he didn’t expect to be brutally mugged and robbed. But the young man who sells hand-designed leather accessories at local night clubs says that’s exactly what happened while riding the subway. Police confirm that part of his story. But what’s still in question is why he was attacked. According to Fordell, it was because he was white.
29-year-old Jason Fordell, who says he was attacked for being white.
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‘Cracker’: Man Says He Was Assaulted on NYC Subway for Being White
In a very short while, I'll be on Bill Bennett's Morning in America program. Even by the standards of getting up early to write the Jolt, this is early. Speaking of the Jolt . . . I Don’t Want to Get Into the Jihadis’ Heads; I Want Bullets In There Instead. A few folks didn’t like the brusque tone of yesterday’s discussion of the mosque, in which I invited those who had declared Imam Rauf a moderate to shut the hell up. So if any of you were offended . . . %^&$^ off — no, no, just kidding! I should not be abrasive like that. I hope the stuff I write that you like makes putting up with my occasional off-color or excessively pugnacious moments worthwhile. Anyway, the latest argument in the mosque-saga, a.k.a., the Ultimate August News-Hole-Filling Story, is that those of us who oppose the mosque’s construction at that site are . . . helping al-Qaeda. Yes, a short while ago I wrote that if we didn’t give Hamas what they wanted by building the mosque, then the terrorists would win. What I intended as satire, NPR contended with a straight face : “Experts worry the controversy surrounding an Islamic center near ground zero in Lower Manhattan is playing right into the hands of radical extremists. The supercharged debate over the proposed center has attracted the attention of a quiet, underground audience — young Muslims who drift in and out of jihadi chat rooms and frequent radical Islamic sites on the Web. It has become the No. 1 topic of discussion in recent days and proof positive, according to some of the posted messages, that America is indeed at war with Islam.” Their headline? “Rancor Over Mosque Could Fuel Islamic Extremists.” You know what else fuels Islamic extremists? Everything, it seems. We’ve been told extremists are motivated by the secular nature of our society; our notions of the rights of women; our belief in democracy and the idea that laws are written by elected representatives with the consent of the governed, not handed down on high from a religious authority; our foreign policy; our libertine pop culture; our 1980s support and assistance in Afghanistan; our late-80s abandonment of Afghanistan; our embrace of the Saudi rulers; our disrespect for Saudi customs; the presence of U.S. troops in Saudi Arabia; the departure of U.S. troops from Saudi Arabia via Iraq; poverty; globalization; anti-Semitism; conspiracy theories; envy; sexual frustration; and Faisal Shahzad’s inability to make his mortgage payments. Apparently al-Qaeda is motivated by everything except the Koran’s more incendiary passages. Hey, you know what? Maybe they’re just [bad word of your choice here]s. Abu Zarqawi always seemed like a guy who was just into it for the killing; having somebody tell him he was doing God’s work was just a nice bonus. Jim Geraghty
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Hey, What Doesn’t Motivate These Guys?
Another poll finding roughly two-thirds of Americans against a Victory Mosque at Ground Zero: Now 62% oppose the building of a mosque near where the World Trade Center stood in Lower Manhattan, compared to 54% in the previous survey. Twenty-five percent (25%) favor allowing the mosque to go ahead, and 13% more are not sure. Sixty-eight percent (68%) of the Political Class, however, favor building the mosque near Ground Zero. Seventy-seven percent (77%) of Mainstream voters are opposed. Since the July survey, the local New York City zoning debate over the planned 13-story Cordoba mosque has escalated into a national controversy. It has even been addressed by President Obama, who supports the building of the mosque in the name of religious tolerance. Opponents of the project, including many who lost loved ones in the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, see the mosque as a deliberate provocation that dishonors the memories of the 3,000 people who died that day. In mid-July, most voters in New York (58%) opposed the building of the mosque near Ground Zero. Twenty percent (20%) supported it, and 21% were undecided. And yet leftists continue to claim they’re the compassionate, enlightened ones. Talk about “the political class.” It’s pretty much the extreme left-wing and its jihadi allies who support this thing. Most regular folks see this as an affront to decency at least, if not another foot in the door to sharia.
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Rasmussen Reports: 62% Oppose Ground Zero Mosque/Only 25% Support
Yep, from the same paper that repeatedly aids and abets global jihad , now we’re told that Ground Zero Mosque opponents are “lifting extremists.” This is truly perverted : Some counterterrorism experts say the anti-Muslim sentiment that has saturated the airwaves and blogs in the debate over plans for an Islamic center near ground zero in Lower Manhattan is playing into the hands of extremists by bolstering their claims that the United States is hostile to Islam. Opposition to the center by prominent politicians and other public figures in the United States has been covered extensively by the news media in Muslim countries. At a time of concern about radicalization of young Muslims in the West, it risks adding new fuel to Al Qaeda’s claim that Islam is under attack by the West and must be defended with violence, some specialists on Islamic militancy say. “I know people in this debate don’t intend it, but there are consequences for these kinds of remarks,” said Brian Fishman, who studies terrorism for the New America Foundation here. He said that Anwar al-Awlaki, an American-born cleric hiding in Yemen who has been linked to several terrorist plots, has been arguing for months in Web speeches and in a new Qaeda magazine that American Muslims face a dark future of ever-worsening discrimination and vilification. “When the rhetoric is so inflammatory that it serves the interests of a jihadi recruiter like Awlaki, politicians need to be called on it,” Mr. Fishman said. Evan F. Kohlmann, who tracks militant Web sites at the security consulting firm Flashpoint Global Partners, said supporters of Al Qaeda have seized on the controversy “with glee.” On radical Web forums, he said, the dispute over the Islamic center, which would include space for worship, is lumped together with fringe developments like a Florida pastor’s call for making Sept. 11 “Burn a Koran Day.” Yes. Of course. And who else does NYT cite as authoritative on ” lifting extremists “? Well, an extremist, who else? Dalia Mogahed of the Gallup Center for Muslim Studies said the outcry over the proposed center “plays into Awlaki’s arguments and Osama bin Laden’s arguments” by suggesting that Islam has no place in the United States. She said that extreme anti-Muslim views in the United States ironically mirror a central tenet of extreme Islamists: “That the world is divided into two camps, and they’re irreconcilable, and Muslims have to choose which side they’re on.” Not mentioned by NYT is that Mogahed has been denounced as a pro-sharia (yet well-spoken) Islamist fanatic working the inside angle to appease the Muslim Brotherhood . I mean, seriously, if these are America’s “moderate Muslims,” who needs global jihad? We’ll just burn the house down from within, preparing the way for the next victory mosque on hallowed ground.
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Once More From New York Times (Sigh): ‘U.S. Anti-Islam Protest Seen as Lift for Extremists’
**Written by Doug Powers The Associated Press is now prohibiting its staff from using the words “Ground Zero mosque” in stories: The Associated Press, one of world’s most powerful news organizations, issued a memo today advising staff to avoid the phrase “Ground Zero mosque.” The Upshot reported Tuesday that the AP started using the phrase “Ground Zero mosque” in some headlines in late May. The New York Times, for one, has consciously avoided that phrasing. The AP began using the phrase as the controversy over the proposed Islamic cultural center and mosque in Lower Manhattan started bubbling up to the national level. Many news organizations, across platforms, routinely dub the project the “Ground Zero Mosque.” The AP has always been clear in the text of stories that the project would be built two blocks from Ground Zero and not on the actual site. But AP headlines, at times, ran with the phrase adopted by opponents of the project and amplified by the media. Now the news organization is taking steps to make sure that no longer occurs. The AP memo is here . Give it a read and see if you think it’s simply a re-tread of a pro-mosque talking points memo (including a quote reminding AP staff that “the United States has more Muslim blood on its hands than al-Qaida has on its hands of innocent non-Muslims”). Fortunately for AP fact checkers, this mosque debate is taking place in between Sarah Palin book releases. There’s no official line around the WTC site where “ground zero” ends, however I’m fairly certain that if the Associated Press office was two blocks away and hit by debris on 9/11, we’d be reading AP stories about “the horror we experienced at Ground Zero” to this day. In any case, since “Ground Zero Mosque” is officially a no-no for the AP, here are a couple of suggestions for Associated Press writers to choose from to get us started. They could even use these on a rotating basis to avoid repetition. Feel free to add to this short list and I’ll try and put some of them up when I get home later: -“The Hope & Change Experience” -“House of worship in relative proximity to where Russell Simmons believes Christians bombed the WTC” -“Project Bloomberg” -“Site very far from WTC crater where faulty landing gear struck a now defunct Burlington Coat Factory turned peaceful multi-faith cultural center” -“TAI Fridays” Update: Naturally, nutmuffin Florida Rep. Alan Grayson has opined. After blaming 9/11 on Bush (of course), Grayson referred to the Ground Zero mosque as an “athletic center” and a “health club” — which is about as wildly exaggerated as calling Grayson a “lucid Congressman”: **Written by Doug Powers Twitter @ThePowersThatBe
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Jane Hamsher’s Henchmen going after Charles Krauthammer. Unreal: * ” Krauthammer is a bigot? Who would’ve thunk it? ” * ” Krauthammer Krauthummer’s picture is great, looks just like a creature out of Outer Limits with their heads all swollen with their brains. But in Krauthummers case his head is swollen with Bigotry/Bullshit! ” * ” we reap what we sow. instead of calling ignorant piece of shit fucks like krauthammer ignorant piece of shit fucks, we obfuscate and twiddle and twaddle and twitter … and sternly wag our fingers… and they blather on with too much silence and too little scorn. to hell with civility with people like this. rmm .” * ” Charles Krauthammer should be in prison .” * ” There is some guilt in Krauthammer’s family tree somewhere. He’s totally unhinged whenever he speaks of Muslims vs Jews. It’s more than the normal right wing apology tour .” * ” there is no comparison between Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and the AL Qaeda attack on Twin Towers. Japan is a country, AlQaeda is a terrorist group it represents a few extremists and is not a reflection of the muslim community. Islam is a worldwide religion and in the US the right to practice one’s religion is in the constitution and is not debatable. The center needs to be built just like St. Patrick’s cathedral etc… ” * ” Krauthammer’s thinking is as twisted and crippled as his body, eh? Perhaps there is a god .” * ” I wish some prominent Jews would stop playing the victim card at the drop of a hat. It’s really getting old .” * ” This discussion tells me why we are becoming more and more ignored in today’s discourse. There is a legitimate point of view that is different than ours. The placement of the cultural centeral is a political statement. If it were purely religious, they would take up the offer from Governor Patterson and put the site elsewhere in Manhattan. If it were purely for reconcilement they would offer to live up to American mores, including a complete acceptance of our LGBT crowd and full and complete equality for women. And they would be a lot more outspoken about the prolems that Islam has caused. It is spurposefl stick in the eye, and being against it is not simply a bigoted response .” * “[In response] You offer no sound reasoning, just rants. It’s not a “political statement” — they don’t have to put it “elsewhere” because you say it’s offensive — and it’s not a “stick in the eye” just because you say it is. The fact that you view it as such says more about you than about them. The Catholic Church and Mormons and Orthodox Jews are also intolerant of LGBTs and don’t offer equality for women. Should we ban them from Lower Manhattan as well? Should we tear down the Mosque at the Pentagon? ” * ” This whole issue is ugly, nasty, racist, bigoted and intolerant, plus stupid. I think I’ve pretty much described any conservative who agrees with Krauthammer. Their attitudes are unconstitutional, btw. I’m offended on behalf of my many friends and acquaintances who happen to be Muslims. It’s despicable to lump them all into one big grouping and assign some special blame to them. I agree with a prior post. I’m getting tired of being “polite” about such bigoted crap. The whole argument is b.s. and petty and reflects the rightwing’s desire to pit “small” people against one another to distract the “small” people from the real issues of the day, which is that we’re being massively ripped off the by banksters on Wall ST, amongst other billionaires .” Today’s “professional left,” on display.
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