Wonkette special correspondent Riley Waggaman is like the child you threw out and then, years later, kind of felt bad about. What ever happened to him? Well, after a triumphant week or two of posting dispatches from the Occupy Wall Street campout, Riley had to hitchhike back to New Hampshire for some other kind of "personal liberty," but now he's back at Zuccotti. Here is the entirety of his email today:
Uh oh, looks like <a href="http:\/\/independentfilmnewsandmedia...\/peasant-king-media\/" target="_blank">Breitbart was just at &quot;Riley&#039;s Farm&quot;</a> where he apparently has a cameo role in a new episode of &quot;Courage, New Hampshire.&quot; Is that what Riley was gone for? How much courage did it take, exactly?
Lady Noonington wadeth in:<i> OWS is not in itself important&mdash;it is obvious at this point that it&#039;s less a political movement than a be-in. It&#039;s unfocused, unserious in its aims. ... A movement that will go nowhere but could do real damage would be &quot;We hate the rich, let&#039;s stick it to them.&quot; Movements built on hatred are corrosive, and in the end corrode themselves. Ask Robespierre. In any case, the rich would leave. The rich are old, they feel like refugees in the new America anyway. </i>
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The National Lawyers Guild confirms to TPM that one of its legal observers was injured and arrested in an incident involving a NYPD motor scooter that was captured on video Friday morning during the Occupy Wall Street protests. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watc..." target="_blank">" rel="nofollow noopener" title="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VrzQedHM6SY&amp;fe...">http://www.youtube.com/watc...
He&#039;s not dead yet! He&#039;s getting better!
It&#039;s like the &#039;68 Democratic Convention meets <i>Monty Python and the Holy Grail</i>, I tells ya!
Uh oh, looks like <a href="http:\/\/independentfilmnewsandmedia...\/peasant-king-media\/" target="_blank">Breitbart was just at &quot;Riley&#039;s Farm&quot;</a> where he apparently has a cameo role in a new episode of &quot;Courage, New Hampshire.&quot; Is that what Riley was gone for? How much courage did it take, exactly?
Bill O&#039;Reilly Says Wall Street Occupiers are Infested with Rats, Drugs and Outdoor Sex.
What&#039;s up with the rats?
Lady Noonington wadeth in:<i> OWS is not in itself important&mdash;it is obvious at this point that it&#039;s less a political movement than a be-in. It&#039;s unfocused, unserious in its aims. ... A movement that will go nowhere but could do real damage would be &quot;We hate the rich, let&#039;s stick it to them.&quot; Movements built on hatred are corrosive, and in the end corrode themselves. Ask Robespierre. In any case, the rich would leave. The rich are old, they feel like refugees in the new America anyway. </i>