Below is an email I just sent to the local NBC affiliate (with the appropriate e-dresses of those that you might want to write to yourself), within which I have embedded a cartoon take on the offending video "news coverage" of a very big local scoop. ("Poop and Pee" is what sometimes passes for news behind the Redwood Curtain!) Directly below that email is a video response by an Occupy Eureka member to the media attack, a YouTube of the Poop and Pee anthem, and then the Lost Coast Journal's take on the "story," including the hilariously satirical song (lyrics & tune!) about the whole "stink."
I have already written several posts linked to the Occupy movement. Like many others, I have been amazed at the movement's staying power, and it's resonance with ordinary people. Here is why "Poop and Pee" is a story worth further consideration:
The elite, and the media and politicians that they control, have hit on a new strategy to undermine this Peoples' Power protest. The monied narrative is to emphasize any "crime" and "violence" at the encampments to demand and even impose with police violence an end to the Occupations. The Eureka "Poop and Pee" story illustrates via farce the transparency of these efforts to discredit the Occupiers.
Enjoy and react!]
| to | kiemnews@hotmail.com, kiembetsy@gmail.com, kiemkelly@gmail.com | ||
| cc | newsroom@northcoastjournal.com, drosso@times-standard.com, LINK@mendocino.org |
11 November 2011
Dear incompetents:
Among other things, this reporter made herself THE "story," from start to finish. In case you don't know, that is the number 1 "no-no" (to continue the baby-talk style of the reporter) in Journalism 101.
What is the station's plan of action in this egregious case?
Thank you for a prompt and accurate reply (which will be posted in full on the Internet), phdauthor, Eureka, CA
“Who Pooped And Peed on the Bank?: The Song”
Seven-O-Heaven’s “Will” was inspired by recent events at the Occupy Eureka encampment and sent us this ode to Betsy Lambert.
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| Click on, hit play, and listen to the new Wall Street anthem, "Ode to Betsy Lambert," just below! |
G Em C G
Come gather ‘round Humboldt, I’ll tell you a tale
G Em C D
‘bout an Occupy camp near the pink county jail
G Em C G
And how the local news station, they done lifted the veil
G Am D
by seeking the truth we all crave
D Am C D
Channel 3 asked the question on everyone’s mind
G Em D G
“Who pooped and peed on the bank?”
The other news media were all out to lunch
But our own Betsy Lambert acted on a hunch
That the poop in the doorway had been left by the bunch
Of the Occupy camp as a prank
So she shook up their tents and she rattled their camp asking
“Who pooped and peed on the bank?”
The protesters resisted, not sure what to think
But Betsy, determined to find the source of the stink,
Was sure the occupiers would be the first to blink
Somebody had to be blamed!
Since, after all, these were essentially kids, she cried
“Who pooped and peed on the bank?”
The poop’s been bagged up, the pee, it has dried
But the perp’s still at large, we should all run and hide
They might poop on us next, but at least Betsy tried
We all owe her great big ol’ “Thanks.”
But the question’s unanswered, we’re still wonderin’
“Hey, who pooped and peed on the bank?”
[My fav "comment" on the above (in rhyme!), below; all comments are at Lost Coast Journal]
‘bout an Occupy camp near the pink county jail
G Em C G
And how the local news station, they done lifted the veil
G Am D
by seeking the truth we all crave
D Am C D
Channel 3 asked the question on everyone’s mind
G Em D G
“Who pooped and peed on the bank?”
The other news media were all out to lunch
But our own Betsy Lambert acted on a hunch
That the poop in the doorway had been left by the bunch
Of the Occupy camp as a prank
So she shook up their tents and she rattled their camp asking
“Who pooped and peed on the bank?”
The protesters resisted, not sure what to think
But Betsy, determined to find the source of the stink,
Was sure the occupiers would be the first to blink
Somebody had to be blamed!
Since, after all, these were essentially kids, she cried
“Who pooped and peed on the bank?”
The poop’s been bagged up, the pee, it has dried
But the perp’s still at large, we should all run and hide
They might poop on us next, but at least Betsy tried
We all owe her great big ol’ “Thanks.”
But the question’s unanswered, we’re still wonderin’
“Hey, who pooped and peed on the bank?”
[My fav "comment" on the above (in rhyme!), below; all comments are at Lost Coast Journal]
COMMENT / BY JEN SAVAGE / NOV. 10, 1:23 P.M.
And over on Twitter, it’s all #DefeGate
And down in the comments there’s oh so much hate
Suggesting her skills might not be quite first-rate
But her fans take those critics to task
Reminding us who had the gumption to ask…
Who pooped and peed on the bank!
