Elizabeth Warren heckler

The man, who said he'd been unemployed since February 2010, objected to Warren's expressed affiliation with the frustrations of Occupy Wall Street, and argued that the Tea Party has been protesting Wall Street excess for longer than the nascent global movement.

The crowd tried to shout the man down, but Warren told her supporters to let him speak. "No, no, it's alright. Let me say two things," she said. "I'm very sorry that you've been out of work. I'm also very sorry that the recent jobs bill that would've brought 22,000 jobs to Massachusetts did not pass in the Senate."

Speaking in a packed VFW hall, Warren went on to address his question about her association with Occupy Wall Street. "I've been protesting what's been going on on Wall Street for a very long time," she said, but added that the movement has its own independent agenda and will proceed along its own course.

"Yeah, so has the Tea Party," the man said, before losing his cool.

"Well, if you're the intellectual creator of that so-called party," he said, "you're a socialist whore. I don't want anything to do with you." The crowd shouted him down as he added that Warren's "boss," presumably referring to the president, was "foreign-born." He then attempted to storm out through a side door. Finding it locked, he retreated out the back of the VFW hall instead.

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Aunt Spiker said:

So what was the point he was trying to make anyway?

"I've been unemployed" . . . "I don't like you" . . . "I'm a tea-party supporter - which opposes our fiscal policies and feel that's led to the degradation of our country" . . . "You support the OWS which opposes our unemployment situation and what created it."

:shrug:

To me these two are very similar to each other (Tea-party and OWS) but some support one and not the other?

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Samhain said:

That exchange couldn't have been scripted better.

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iliveonramen said:

Elizabeth Warren Heckled By Tea Party Supporter

Best response towards a heckler I've ever seen. Warren is the real deal. Like her I do wish the guy well but apparently he's latched onto the reasons provided by right wing media and right wing news sources. He has funneled his frustrations at OWS which didn't even exist and has nothing to do with him being unemployed
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The crowd tried to shout the man down, but Warren told her supporters to let him speak. "No, no, it's alright. Let me say two things," she said. "I'm very sorry that you've been out of work. I'm also very sorry that the recent jobs bill that would've brought 22,000 jobs to Massachusetts did not pass in the Senate."

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roughdraft274 said:

Well I can't imagine there's a huge job pool for people that are so stupid they still believe Obama wasn't born here. Why doesn't he go bitch at Herman Cane since apparently anyone that is unemployed is directly responsible for their current situation.

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iliveonramen said:

So much cognitive dissonance with a guy like this.

It reminds me of someone that my friend complains about. She's like an aunt or something and railed against Obamacare. She railed against government and handouts....while receiving medicaid for her child because her full time job at a doctors office doesn't provide health insurance...and they can't afford it.

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roughdraft274 said:

Well that's how it goes. My parents have gone for years without insurance. When they get sick they travel an hour to a free clinic to get taken care of and for emergencies they just go to the hospital and skip on the bill. Then they bitch about how they're being forced to get insurance. I'd like to ask them to pay part of my health insurance every month because it's people like them that are skimping on their bills that are just adding to the rising cost of healthcare for everyone else.

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Redress said:

[anti-OWS logic]So those tea partiers are rude unemployed people taking it out on those better than them.[/anti-OWS logic]

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Aunt Spiker said:

So what was the point he was trying to make anyway?

"I've been unemployed" . . . "I don't like you" . . . "I'm a tea-party supporter - which opposes our fiscal policies and feel that's led to the degradation of our country" . . . "You support the OWS which opposes our unemployment situation and what created it."

:shrug:

To me these two are very similar to each other (Tea-party and OWS) but some support one and not the other?

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