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Published: 5/4/2012 4:29 PM
Last Modified: 5/4/2012 4:29 PM

Which is more irrelevant: Newt Gingrich or the Occupy Movement?

I think it’s a tie.

Earlier this week, Gingrich finally announced what everyone already knew: He was giving up on his run for the Republican nomination for president. He told us a week earlier that he was going to have the announcement in one week.

I suppose he expected everyone to hold their breath until he made the big announcement. Turns out, nobody paid much attention at all. There was a small crowd at the announcement, which might have been outnumbered by the press. Even Fox news noticed the small turnout.

On the other side, the leaders – if you can call them that – of the Occupy Movement announced that on May Day, the 99 Percenters would be encouraged to walk off their jobs and join the protest to show the One Percenters how important the 99 Percenters are.

It would be sort of a reverse “Atlas Shrugged” event, I suppose. Sort of a, “Take that, Ayn Rand.”

Like Gingrich’s announcement, hardly anyone paid attention and the working world continued as it does most Mondays. The Occupiers tried their darndest to make an impact, marching, getting peppered sprayed some and doing some physical damage to some buildings. But, on the whole, like Gingrich's big announcement, few people other than some TV cameras were on hand.

Gingrich is a victim of his own hubris and moral flaws. The Occupiers are simply disorganized, unfunded, unfocused and have never made much of an impact.

I guess they have more in common with Gingrich I thought.



Reader Comments 6 Total
OU68 (10 months ago)
Mike, I hammer you on your illegal pieces, so I have to give you your due when you hit one like this. Nice piece.
miss myrtle (10 months ago)
Mike, the Occupy Movement changed the national conversation. Where it was all-deficit-all-the-time, now it's much more about income inequality.

Did Newt change the debate?

We haven't heard the last of Occupy. I think and hope that we HAVE heard the last of Newt.
Dr. Strangelove (10 months ago)
I don't think the occupy movement had any impact, Obama has been the one preaching the whole income inequality piece. The occupiers were nothing but a sideshow, just like Gingrich.
                    
miss myrtle (10 months ago)
Obama was being dragged along with the deficit-reduction/austerity bandwagon before Occupy came along.

Chicken? Or egg?
JDH (10 months ago)
Both managed to make me giggle like a schoolgirl.
miss myrtle (10 months ago)
I think all are LOSERS. Mike should stick with Winners.
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Mike Jones is a native Oklahoman (not an Okie), born and raised in Seminole, Okla. He began his career at the Tulsa World in 1971 as an oil writer for the late Riley Wilson. After three years as an oil writer, he became a copy editor on the national desk. He moved to the city desk in 1974 where he also worked as a general assignment reporter. After stints on the late city desk, he became assistant city editor and in 1979 succeeded longtime city editor John Gold, one of his mentors, as city editor. He served as city editor for almost four years before joining the editorial staff as a layout editor and editorial writer in 1985. He was named associate editor and has since written a Sunday column and daily editorials. He has a son, Sam, who is a local musician with the reggae band Sam and the Stylees. Jones is the honorary CEO of that group, a title of which he is most proud.

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