Forum Post: O-M-G It really IS a FAKE Wall Street Protest! Imposters and Media Whores Exposed!! VIDEO!

LOL click whoring is fun and so, apparently, is media whoring.

Two Fox-connected media whores staged a fake counter protest to the Nov 17th Wall St protest.

QUOTE:

"A Fox contributor and failed talk radio host with a penchant for publicity-seeking takes to the streets against OWS"

When brothers John and Derek Tabacco showed up at the big Occupy Wall Street protest Thursday holding “Occupy a Desk” and “Get a Job” signs, they claimed they were engaging in an organic counter-protest against dirty hippies who were preventing them from getting to work. The local, national, and even international media promptly picked up their story.

But it turns out the Tabacco brothers have a long and sometimes checkered history of publicity-seeking and relentless self-promotion — and their claim that 50 local businessmen are supporting the anti-Occupy protest is entirely unsubstantiated.

Besides owning a finance company called LocateStock in lower Manhattan, John Tabacco is a Fox News contributor, a failed talk radio host, an unsuccessful city council candidate from Staten Island, and a onetime participant in the VH1 show “My Coolest Years.”

Each Tabacco brother was dressed more like a “Wall Street businessman” from central casting than an actual Wall Street businessman. They repeatedly said that occupiers were preventing them from getting to work; this seemed unlikely, as the police barricades were efficiently sorting protesters from actual office workers.

I asked them the name of the company they worked for a few times. They refused to say.

It all seemed like a pre-planned stunt designed exclusively for the benefit of the media, rather than any kind of organic counter-protest. And, as a media stunt, it worked remarkably well.

The story was picked up by multiple regional and national media outlets, as well as the Daily Mail. In one interview, Derek Tabacco referred to the occupiers as “these animals.” In another, John Tabacco referred to himself as “a member of the 53 percent,” a reference to the right-wing campaign around those Americans who “pay more in federal income taxes than they receive back in deductions or credits.”

John Tabacco was promptly brought in to Fox News for a sit-down interview with Neil Cavuto

More here plus video:

http://www.salon.com/2011/11/18/the_bizarre_history_of_the_ows_counter_protesters/singleton/