Conservatives Worried By Occupy Protests

The Occupy Wall Street protests are spreading and conservatives seem to be worried despite the similarities between the ultimate goal of the Occupy protesters and the original concerns that sprung the tea party movement.

First, news organizations seemingly dismissed the protests, ignoring to cover them, offering little coverage at all, and if covered, report on them in a condescending tone.

Secondly, it was reported that conservative publications like The American Spectator admittedly placed "plants" into the Occupy crowds in an attempt to discredit the protests. Spectator author Patrick Howley once discovered began to rewrite his account of his subversive tactics.

This:

But as far as anyone knew I was part of this cause -- a cause that I had infiltrated the day before in order to mock and undermine in the pages of The American Spectator -- and I wasn't giving up before I had my story. Under a cloud of pepper spray I forced myself into the doors and sprinted blindly across the floor of the Air and Space Museum, drawing the attention of hundreds of stunned khaki-clad tourists (some of whom began snapping off disposable-camera portraits of me). I strained to glance behind me at the dozens of protesters I was sure were backing me up, and then I got hit again, this time with a cold realization: I was the only one who had made it through the doors. As two guards pointed at me and started running, I dodged a circle of gawking old housewives and bolted upstairs.

Became this:

But as far as anyone knew I was part of this cause -- a cause that I had infiltrated the day before -- and I wasn't giving up before I had my story. Under a cloud of pepper spray I forced myself into the doors. Suspecting that the entire crowd would be able to get inside, I ran blindly across the floor of the Air and Space Museum to find a place to observe, drawing the attention of hundreds of stunned khaki-clad tourists (some of whom began snapping off disposable-camera portraits of me). I strained to glance behind me at the dozens of protesters I was sure were backing me up, and then I got hit again, this time with a cold realization: I may have been the only one who had made it through the doors.

Howley then altered his article to claim he only pushed forward for "journalistic purposes."

Now, conservatives are trying to find every little clip imaginable and spouting any nonsense they can to counter the protests.  For instance, the Big propaganda sites have been trying to portray the Occupy Wall Street crowd as a bunch of pot-smoking communist freaks.

Then there is this stupid headline:

The headline claims the protests are racist and fascist but the fourth word in the post claims the organizer is an anarchist.  For those of you who don't know, fascism is an authoritarian nationalistic form of government while anarchism opposes the state.

The post also claims the movement to be racist but take a look at what they are about - they "welcome people from all colors, genders and beliefs to participate in [their] daily assemblies."

Basically, the right-wing is fearful of the Occupy protests becoming a brand like the tea party that is capable of influencing politics.  The right-wing has tried to monopolize protests - only their groups should be reported on, only their groups speak for the people, and only their groups matter.  Based on the comments on conservative sites, they view the tea party as good Christian gatherings while the the Occupy protests are dirty  drug parties.  They also like to underplay the attendance of these gatherings while inflating their own numbers to try and give the appearance that they are the majority.  They are trying to perpetuate the Spiral of Silence.