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Monday, October 24, 2011

Occupy How Dare This Woman Fight for What She Believes In?

Posted by Paul Constant on Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 1:14 PM

Because she felt so strongly about Occupy Wall Street, Florida woman Stacy Hessler left her family in Florida to go to the protests in New York. Fox News calls Hessler worse than the rest of the "filth" at Occupy Wall Street and notes that she's "clearly having a midlife crisis of some sort," while suggesting that she's having an extramarital affair with a waiter at the protests and intimating that she's protesting the banks because her husband is a banker and they have some underlying marital problems that she's dealing with. This video will make you feel ill:

Wonkette, which introduced me to this story, also links to the Village Voice, which lists some of the adjectives the New York Post uses to describe Hessler, including "Hippie homemaker," "self-obsessed college sophomore," and "Middle-aged flower child." The bright side of this depressing story is this: It proves that the right-wing media is still running scared from the Occupy movement, and they're resorting to slimy character assassination of ordinary Americans to further their narrative.

 

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Well, just because they're assholes doesn't mean they're "running scared." It just means they're assholes.
Posted by Reymont on October 24, 2011 at 1:34 PM · Report
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What part of "they are in support of that" do these guys not understand? Three of those four children sounded old enough to take care of themselves, and why are we pretending that the father is helpless without his wife? Oh god, so many things wrong my head exploded.
Posted by Arboreality on October 24, 2011 at 3:11 PM · Report
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Leaving a 7 yr old at home with a husband who is working (at a bank, no less) doesn't seem too bright though.
When you make the choice to become a mother, I would hope that your kids come before anything else.
Fox commentators are asses though.
Posted by frankieb on October 24, 2011 at 4:29 PM · Report
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FRANKIE! Bro, yours is only the 3rd comment here - WTF?! Usually you're no. 1 with all the Occupy posts. How could you let those two jerks post ahead of you? You're slippin' brother, slippin'...
Posted by DamosA on October 24, 2011 at 4:51 PM · Report
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Unless the rest of us are willing to have Fox News, or anybody else for that matter, all up in our parenting business for no good reason, I think we should give this woman the benefit of the doubt and presume that A: She didn't just skip town, but rather left for the protest with her family's consent; B: Her husband is capable of taking care of the kids on his own, and; C: If he's not, and for some reason the older kids aren't capable of babysitting (three of them are teenagers), he will make whatever arrangements are necessary for their safety and welfare. Oh, and D: It's none of your, or my, or Fox's fucking business in the first place.
Posted by Tommy on October 24, 2011 at 8:09 PM · Report
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Let's not forget the woman chose to make it our business. Fox put it out there, then this rag put it to all of us that likely missed it on Fox.
I'd still like to think that in a one-income family the job of the one staying home is to raise your children - not to run off for weeks / months for a political cause.
She herself put this out there.
It seems rather selfish to me on her part.
Posted by frankieb on October 24, 2011 at 8:53 PM · Report
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She's standing up for what she believes is right. Good for her. Calling her names and trying to poke holes in her beliefs because it isn't what 'they' would choose for themselves is childish and immature. Cheers to Hessler.
Posted by shadeorchid on October 25, 2011 at 9:50 AM · Report

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