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“WE WANT THE DOG”: Conservative Media Puts Occupy Denver In Its Place

by Admin on November 16, 2011 in BlogCon11, New Mafia, Occupy Denver with 1 Comment

by: ColoradoPeakPolitics

Tue Nov 15, 2011 at 11:43 45 MST

No one has ever accused the Occupy Denver squatter horde from being savvy or even possessing the remotest amount of intelligence. This past weekend they put their stupidity on display again. Only this time conservative bloggers from across Colorado and the country were there to document their latest inane attempt at relevance.

Video and coverage from Peoples Press Collective (here & here) show a band of unbathed boobs trying to “storm” the conference room last Friday where the Blog Con 2011 conservative blogger conference was meeting. Apparently the protesters incorrectly believed the conference was funded by the infamous Koch Brothers. The Google button on their corporatist iPhones must not have been working, as the conference was sponsored by FreedomWorks, which has no affiliation with the conservative donor siblings. Oops.

Never mind the fact that a group of people exercising their first amendment rights is probably not the best target for a group who claims their first amendment rights are being infringed upon when the cops shut down their squatter camp. What was truly amazing about the Occupier’s stupidity is they chose to crash an event that was populated by conservative bloggers with a combined audience in the millions.

Did they not realize they were setting themselves up to be shamed and mocked ruthlessly?

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Within minutes of the altercation, we started seeing stories pop up on outlets from Breitbart.tv to Hot Air. Last we counted, the cumulative Youtube views of the failed Occupier effort had crossed 100,000.

Footage shot by bloggers also made its way to CBS4 and Fox News, ensuring an even wider audience would know the depths of the Occupiers’ ineptitude.

Even The Denver Post joined in the coverage, noting that the small group of Occupiers were chanting “We are the 99%” with the bloggers chanting back “We want the dog” — a reference to Occupy Denver’s elected leader, a border collie named Shelby.ColoradoPeakPolitics :: “WE WANT THE DOG”: Conservative Media Puts Occupy Denver In Its Place

Saul Alinsky‘s spirit was alive and well with the bloggers. One of Alinsky’s famous “Rules for Radicals” is man’s most potent weapon is ridicule.

It seems all the Occupiers succeeded in doing was to give great content to a group of bloggers and further expose themselves to be nothing more than an angry and mindless group of leftist activists with nothing better to do than attack those they disagree with.

Also caught on tape and covered by Gateway Pundit’s Jim Hoft was the fact that a private school teacher from Denver’s St. Mary’s Academy had taken a class of students to watch the Occupiers trespass on private property and barge in on a private conference. You know…a learning opportunity. That blog coverage led to a report on Channel 7, highlighting a brazen act of poor judgment that would have gone uncovered if not for the conservative media’s effort.

The following day the “stubborn” Occupiers had their weekly Saturday march, leading to yet another violent confrontation with police, who had warned them for days that it was illegal to continue to squat on public property. Not to be deterred from their selfish belief that wherever they feel like squatting is all of the sudden their property, the protesters proceeded to shut down public streets with chants of “Whose streets? Our streets.”

The drivers of the cars that were trying to get down Colfax probably felt differently about who owned the streets, but we digress.

We were able to follow these events not because the mainstream media was covering it, which it barely was, but because of the good work of conservative media outlets. In Colorado, you can find the most extensive collection of coverage on all things Occupy Denver from Complete Colorado. On Saturday night we were able to watch the Occupiers make fools of themselves and get chased up and down the 16th St Mall thanks to Complete’s embedding of a livestream of the events.

Peoples Press Collective had video up from the Occupier crashing of the conservative blogger confab minutes after the confrontation. Kelly Maher has covered the violent threats and roving mob mentality of the Occupiers for the Daily Caller and WhoSaidYouSaid, giving the world a peek behind the curtain of absurdity and sometimes downright violent intentions.

Had there been weekly violent confrontations between police and the Tea Party, we don’t doubt for a second that the street would be lined with news trucks covering the events ad nauseam. Violent leftist radicals is apparently a played out narrative for the mainstream media. Nothing we haven’t seen here before. Better get back to covering the latest snow storm.

The behavior exposed by the conservative media, including the burning of an American flag at Occupy Denver, led even ProgressNow’s Alan Franklin to say he was “disappointed” in the protesters. Consider that a victory. How often do you see the Left castigating its own?

It used to be said that you should never pick a battle with those that buy ink by the barrel. The new reality seems to be never pick a battle with someone who generates clicks by the thousands. In this case the Obama-backed Occupiers charged the lion’s den, only to see their credibility and influence destroyed in a fit of blog posts and cell phone video clips.

We wonder if Rep. Wes McKinley is regretting setting up his TeePee alongside the squatter hordes at this point? We know we wouldn’t want the association to be brought up with our rural constituents back home.

(Photo credit: Peoples Press Collective)

 

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Horrible. St. Mary’s Academy Supports Far Left Teacher Celia Bard in Bringing Students to Storm BlogCon11 With Occupy Denver Goons

by Admin on November 15, 2011 in BlogCon11, Occupy Denver with No comments

Posted by Jim Hoft on Monday, November 14, 2011, 7:36 PM

On Friday far left teacher-activist brought Celia Bard brought members of her “21st Century: Challenges and Choices” class down to the Occupy Denver squatters camp in downtown Denver. From there the teacher and her 17 year-old girls marched three blocksover to the Crowne Plaza Hotel to disrupt the BlogCon 2011 conservative conference. Ms. Bard said they were learning about “free speech” by joining protesters in violently disrupting the conference.

One protester was arrested by police and at least one incident of physical abuse was caught on tape.

Jeff Goldstein also filmed the 17 year-old girls cussing at conservative bloggers and telling the bloggers that this is what they learn at school.

The school costs $14,000 a year.

Today the Academy President Deirdre Cryor defended the radical teacher and the dangerous field trip on Friday. Sadly, President Cryor was less than honest about the events.
Channel 7 reported:

Bard and another teacher from St. Mary’s Academy in Denver took 10 students on a field trip Friday, explained Academy President Deirdre Cryor.

“We have a class called 21st Century Challenges and Choices,” said Cryor. “They’re studying the current world. They went on a field trip to see Occupy Denver.”

The students walked to Civic Center Park and interviewed police officers, then walked to a nearby hotel to observe Occupy Denver members, said Cryor.

That hotel was hosting a conference called BlogCon 11. There some Occupy Denver members got into a confrontation with some members of the blogging conference.

It was during that confrontation that cameras got turned on the students and their teacher.

In a video posted on YouTube, a woman is seen yelling and one of the students yells, “Yeah.”

At that point, someone off camera starts yelling at the girls and arguing with them about bloggers and what they do.

“The students are in class today talking what happened on Friday,” Cryor said Monday.

In one of the YouTube videos, Bard is asked if she is concerned about the students’ physical safety.

“We’re aware that we need to be safe,” said Bard. “We want them to see the democratic process in action.”

“They were never in harm’s way,” said Cryor. “They did nothing wrong. They were on a field trip, observing not demonstrating. They were learning, inquiring and taking notes.”

Just to be clear – There have been 7 deaths, over 3,000 arrests, several overdoses, sexual abuse, rapes, physical attacks and drug use. And, this is considered a safe place for school girls at St. Mary’s Academy? Outrageous.

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Occupy Denver protesters invade conservative conference, one man arrested

by Admin on November 13, 2011 in Anarchy, BlogCon11, Occupy Denver with 1 Comment

By Marla Gillaspie

Examiner provided some of the excerpts.

Occupy Denver protesters attempted to “occupy” a conference of conservative bloggers Friday afternoon, but failed miserably.

BlogCon 2011, a conference held by FreedomWorks at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in downtown Denver, was scheduled to continue through Saturday, Nov 12.

The Denver Post reported that protesters first arrived at 2 pm, three hours earlier than originally scheduled.

The Post adds:

Attendees of Blogcon say they knew Occupy Denver was going to try to disrupt their conference because the group had advertised their intentions on Twitter.

This was the arrestee’s first mistake, barging into Tony Katz, All Patriots Media; live radio show and demanding that he sit and speak with him while on the air. He was promptly removed by hotel security and then continued on outside to shove a cop and that is when he was arrested. See the arrest, 2 videos below.

Tony Katz and Tabitha Hale interviewed by more MSM at Blogcon in Denver after the first occupy confrontation, 11/11/11 Denver

Tabitha Hale, new media director of the conference, said Blogcon was prepared for the onslaught and had purchased Milk Bones earlier in the day for Occupy Denver’s elected leader, a 3-year-old Border Collie named Shelby.

Another view of the arrest by Denver resident Nancy McKiernan, founder, Tea Party Brewing, caught this video as she went outside to check on her car that was parked directly in front of the hotel.
 
But the protesters got more than they bargained for.

John Hawkins of Right Wing News wrote:

They succeeded — but, not in the way they expected because after they started chanting, bloggers poured out of the conference to take pics and videos. Soon, there were 30 bloggers surrounding 15 Occupy people and chanting things like “We love Koch money” and “Breitbart, Breitbart!” There was lots of chanting, lots of yelling, and Steven Crowder got shoved by one of the female Occupiers.

According to Ed Morrissey of Hot Air:

The clash erupted before I had a chance to get too close to the Occupiers themselves.  They were briefly in sight, but got swallowed up by the BlogCon attendees. Frankly, the BlogCon response overwhelmed whatever the protesters tried to say — with chants of “Mike check!” and “We paid for your student loans!”, among others, the Occupiers got roundly shouted down. At one point, the entire BlogCon contingent in the lobby started chanting, “We want the dog!”, a reference to the elected leader of Occupy Denver — a pooch named Shelby.

In this clip, note that at the 0:31 sec mark the punk with the green hat walks behind Steve Crowder, wiping his nose on his back. Then at the 4:23 the heavy set blond woman tries to break for the door to enter the conference. At the 4:46 mark the same punk that wiped his nose on Steve Crowder’s back crawls on the floor and tries to break through to the door where Matt Arnold, Clear The Bench Colorado, stands holding up a Coke can symbolizing the anarchists/marxist/communists chants that the conference was brought to Denver by the Koch brothers.   Andrew Breitbart‘s editors and contributors held a heavy presence at the conference, reflecting the Chants by the bloggers Breitbart, Breitbart, Breitbart. In this video: Steve Crowder, StevenCrowder.net; Ben Howe, Mister Smith Media; Michael Sandoval, Peoples Press Collective; Larry O’Conner, Breitbart.tv; Dana Loesch, Big Journalism; John Notle, Big Hollywood.
 

Jim Hoft of Gateway Pundit wrote that conference attendees “bought bars of soap to hand out as gifts.”

According to Hoft, conservative columnist “Michelle Malkin brought face masks for disease protection.”

In a separate report, Hoft said a teacher brought her students to the protest, allegedly to teach them about democracy:

A Denver high school teacher brought students to an Occupy Denver event for a field trip today where they joined Occupy Denver activists as they storm the BlogCon conference. The teacher said she was showing them how democracy worked.

The teacher was too ashamed to give her name or the name of the private girls school she teaches at.

Morrissey adds that as the protesters left the lobby, bloggers began singing “Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye.”

But the protesters returned and began chanting outside the hotel.  Hawkins reported:

Occupy Denver came back and again, I don’t think it came off like they expected. There were more of them this time and it was outside the hotel instead of inside. They did their chants, bloggers came out, we mixed in. They chanted, we chanted, someone offered them soap and it was quasi-friendly as we started. Emily Zanotti and I even got a pic in the middle of the scrum. But, as they moved on, some chick shoved Steven Crowder and bellied up to him like she wanted to fight, which was perfectly ridiculous. Then there was a threat to kill him and a bunch of angry comments as they stormed off.

Tina Korbe of Hot Air added:

Personally, my favorite moment of the conference counter-protest came when one blogger shouted over the crowd, “Who here gets Koch money?” To which another blogger responded by raising a Coke can high over the crowd. Laughs all around — although I’m pretty sure the Occupiers didn’t get the joke.

A post at Ace of Spades concludes: “What they are angry at is, ultimately, the universe itself for giving them life but not giving them ability.”

On Saturday Keith W Peterson of Hear Us Now and Elliot Fladen did a great job confronting the Occupy Denver anarchists.

And later that night Ben Howe, Mister Smith Media; was over at Civic Center Park to watch the eviction process of the Occupiers after months of little or no action on the parts of Governor Hickenlooper or Mayor Hancock. Good job Governor and Mayor for letting this get so out of hand that it came to violence before you had it shut down, let alone the expense to taxpayers of the clean up, overtime paid to law enforcement and extra security detail to maintain peace.

There is much more video over at Breitbart.com and Breitbart.tv if you haven’t heard and seen enough from the “useful idiots” yet.

In conclusion, do you think the anarchists/marxists/communists really thought it through when they decided to crash Bloncon11, a technology conference for bloggers all packed to the hilt with video cameras, laptops and the networks and technology to move it quickly out onto the internet?

I wouldn’t exactly call these people brainiacs.

Thanks to Occupy Denver for the most successful BlogCon11 Conference ever.