{"id":14477,"date":"2011-11-14T14:41:56","date_gmt":"2011-11-14T22:41:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=14477"},"modified":"2011-11-14T14:45:07","modified_gmt":"2011-11-14T22:45:07","slug":"cartoon-the-ten-stupidest-objections-to-the-occupy-wall-street-movement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=14477","title":{"rendered":"Cartoon: The Ten Stupidest Objections to the Occupy Wall Street Movement"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Panel 1
\nLarge lettering says “The Ten Stupidest Objections to the Occupy Wall Street Movement”
\nIn the lower right-hand corner of the panel, a self-portrait of the cartoonist, a fat guy with long dark hair, says: I’ve heard or read all these myself!<\/p>\n

Panel 2
\nFurious-looking yelling man in polo shirt: Folks in third-world countries are EVEN POORER, so poor people in AMERICA should be GRATEFUL and SHUT UP!<\/p>\n

Panel 3
\nBalding man at laptop: If they don’t have an official media spokesperson, how can we take them seriously?<\/p>\n

Panel 4
\nAngry yelling woman: They criticize corporations, but use SMART PHONES made by CORPORATIONS! HYPOCRITES!
\nSame woman, added as an afterthought: And they wear clothes!<\/p>\n

Panel 5
\nPerson with long hair in a ponytail, shrugging and looking confused: Shouldn’t they protest in WASHINGTON instead? That’s where the people in CHARGE are, right?<\/p>\n

Panel 6
\nAngry man with giant head and a necktie: THEY’RE HIPPIES! HIPPIES SUCK! I HATE GODDAMNED HIPPIES!<\/p>\n

Panel 7
\nConcerned looking woman with long wavy hair that I was happy with how the drawing came out: Why aren’t they wearing NECKTIES, like civil rights marchers fifty years ago?<\/p>\n

Panel 8
\nAngry, strict-looking man wearing a vest and with his shirt buttoned all the way up: There was a bad statistic on a hand-lettered sign! That’s PROOF these people are liars!<\/p>\n

Panel 9
\nSmiling woman in striped shirt who looks as if she thinks she’s making a really telling point: Why aren’t these people at JOBS instead of protesting? HUH? Why not? Huh?<\/p>\n

Panel 10
\nParanoid man in a trenchcoat with the collar turned up, standing against a brick wall, whispering something confidential: “Occupy Wall Street” is OBAMA setting up the country for riots!<\/p>\n

Panel 11
\nA yelling man with a huge open mouth, whose face fills up virtually all of the panel: A movement that FAILS to compress its entire meaning into a simple SOUNDBITE is DOOMED! DOOOOOMED![\/spoiler]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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