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Pundits Side With Wall Street Over Main Street

by Robert Scheer

How dare you throw that tea in Boston Harbor! Such is the anti-democratic arrogance of the fearmongering pundits and politicians who tell us if we taxpayers don't instantly give the Wall Street banking bandits a $700 billion bailout, then we are destroying America. Instead of applauding representatives from both parties who, for once, heeded the public rather than the fat cats, the established pundits blasted those who dared get out of line.

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Posted by: michael nola
Comment: #1
Fri Oct 3, 2008 5:02 PM

This is basic. Assuming Obama wins and does not start putting the interests of regular citizens over Wall Street, but instead tries a few fig leaves to paper over the takeover of our government by corporate interests, we will either rid ourselves of both the Dems and Repubs and find replacements for them or we will keep eating the junk food, watching TV idiocy and becoming parodies of real Americans.

Posted by: liz
Comment: #2
Mon Oct 6, 2008 7:50 AM

In a previous column you asked "just how dumb do they think we are?". Well, I guess we're finding out whether how dumb we are is close to how dumb they think we are. The age of enlightenment, ha! All that enlightenment seems to have dulled our vision.

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