The RoanokeSlant

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Roanoke Times, 10-7-11, Pg 4: (80 square inches of coverage with two exciting photos): Obama acknowledges momentum of protests; Obama said he understood the concerns of the protesters, who have grown in number.
Police chief of NYC Kelly “there’s clearly a core group of self-styled anarchists – who want to have a confrontation with police”. NYC has already spent $2 million on the protests.
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Roanoke Times, 10-8-11, Pg 4: (100 square inches of coverage with 2 exciting photos and an impressive mapping graphic): Is occupy Wall Street a tea party for Democrats?
Wed night 23 arrests were made by NYPD to subdue illegal protesters.
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Roanoke Times, 10-8-11, Pg 9: (80 square inches of coverage with big exciting photo in City Market): Occupy Wall Street --- Roanoke’s Wall Street: Showing a 15 minute gathering of SEVEN (7) people.
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Between Obama and the Editorial Girls of the Roanoke Times it’s not clear who are the recruiters and who are the cheer leaders (where’s the pom-poms?) for this “spontaneous” display of anti-business and pro-socialist movement.
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Obama has turned loose a very high risk movement that is unprecedented for The President of The United States. His union thugs of the Wisconsin Campaign:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2011/09/one-walking-out-is-very-bad-fourteen-is.html
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followed up by the Jimmy Hoffa Detroit Attack:
“President Obama, this is your army. We are ready to march. Everybody here’s got a vote. Let’s take these sons of bitches out and get America back to an America where we belong.” Teamsters President James Hoffa warming up the crowd with an anti-Tea Party tirade at a Detroit Labor Day rally for President Obama.
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The extended occupation of the streets of Manhattan by mobs of hostile people with unspeakable sanitary issues and interference with citizen freedom of movement and industry is not the personification of “free speech” or reasonable political discourse.
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There are those who will compare this action to a disturbing reflection back to Hitler’s Brown Shirts and Mussolini’s Black Shirts seizing political power by force and intimidation in the streets; or back to the 60’s with Tom Hayden’s violent-socialist-SDS.
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Clearly there is NO comparison whatsoever to anything we saw from the Tea Party protesters during the past two years, albeit that I personally am not a TeaParty person and view Harry Reid as the sour fruits of their misguided efforts.
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A simple rhetorical question: What do the editors of the Roanoke Times get in return for their support of Obama and his Progressive-Liberal anti-Business support?
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Some prior items:
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2011/09/more-obama-team-violent-and-vicious.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/08/obamas-street-army-in-action.html
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http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2011/02/obama-campaign-community-organizer-.html
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