One is a center, right-wing tonsil who's stance on the Occupy Oakland clash with the police is downright boorish. "The Voice of Reason?" Yeah, sure.
The other is KSFO's utterly goofy Brian Sussman.
Most already know about the strange "SussMAN", who went after the Oakland protesters en mass, rather ghoulishly, even by 'Suss standards, on his KSFO show Friday morning, referring to the crowd as "filth", and a classic, "you could very well 'catch a disease being around them.'" Lovely. (I'm paraphrasing, but I heard the Suss rant loud and clear. Vintage KKKSFO.
He went further: "You don't see filth at a tea-party rally." (Yeah, when you get financial backing by Fox News and the Koch brothers, it's more internal filth.)
Owens, who made a point of trashing the Occupiers on his Wednesday KGO show, was equally gleeful of the Tea-Partiers. "They don't seem to leave a mess." Maybe they buy mattresses too--could be a bonus.
To be fair, Owens said the mostly peaceful assemblers had a right to march, but his tone was very decidedly anti-Occupy Oakland.
This is NOT a post about whether or not you support the Occupy movement. We'll leave that to the opinion-makers, although a great many of the "bums" are teachers, nurses, college students, even a few firefighters and architects. One was an Iraq war veteran who was seriously hurt in the mayhem. And yes, a few morons who will take advantage of a situation and make trouble. It happens. It happens on the other side too when some of their followers blows up a federal building in Oklahoma City and create terror.
By and large, the Oakland assembly has been mostly peaceful--noisy, but peaceful. The unlawful encampment and the open flames and tent-city is another story. Again, we'll leave that to the others to decide.
The venom coming from Owens and his ilk, including Sussman, is another story. We expect that from the Limbaugh/Hannity/Levin right-wing echo machine. We didn't expect that from the so-called Voice of Reason, but the SussMAN? Book him, Dano!
Curiously, Owens chose not to talk about the events in Oakland on his Thursday show. Gees, I have to wonder why. Did he feel sort of sensitive and guilty? Maybe his penchant for being pissed about being inconvenienced by those who feel the wrath of the economic climate that grips the nation, got to him. Poor baby. He can only hope that Occupy SF doesn't make its way to Union Street.
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