So, Where’s the Media & OWS Outrage Over Lib Millionaire Rapper Jay-Z Not Sharing His Occupy Wall Street T-Shirt Profits?
Posted By Vicki McClure Davidson on November 12, 2011
Sweet Hypocrisy: Democrat millionaire rapper, investor, & businessman Jay-Z will likely make a huge profit off his Rocaware OWS T-shirts... but he won't spread the wealth and share the clothing profits with Occupy protestors
Reminder: Only bankers, Wall Street muckety-mucks, nameless corporate heads, and other rich Republicans or conservatives must share their wealth with the 99 percent, be stripped of their affluence — while being dangerously close to beheading.
But when wealthy, liberal rappers-turned-businessmen stand to make huge big-business T-shirt profits off the radical, anti-capitalism Occupy Wall Street protests, it’s no biggie? When Jay-Z’s bank accounts bulge more from all the OWS vandalism and rapes, shootings and child pimping and escalating violent mayhem, and won’t share the wealth raked in, uh, it’s all good, bro. ‘Cuz Jay-Z says he’s on our side, right?
No outrage, no nothin’ from the fawning liberal media, the Flea Party squatters, the Communist Party, the KKK, or Obama’s White House. I’m enjoying the fact that Jay-Z is financially benefiting from American free market principles and capitalism’s law of supply and demand, despite his clueless hypocrisy, and that he and the unwashed liberal sheeples just don’t get it.
Delicious irony all around. And typical socialist/liberal/progressive idiocy.
Jay-Z (birth name, Shawn Corey Carter) claims he is taking a stand against the 1 percent of America’s very rich (of which indisputably he belongs, with an estimated net worth of $450 to $500 million), against so-called corporate greed and corruption.
But, don’t you dare touch any of his money, dudes.
From Hollywood Reporter, Jay-Z Selling Occupy Wall Street T-Shirts; No Plans to Share Profits With Protestors:
A Rocawear rep says there is not an “official commitment to monetarily support the movement,” which is taking a stand against corporate greed and corruption.
Jay-Z is releasing a new line of T-shirts in support of the Occupy Wall Street movement Friday via his Rocawear clothing label, but he doesn’t plan to share any of the profits with the protesters.
The rapper was recently seen wearing one of the shirts, which tweaks the phrase “Occupy Wall Street” by crossing out the “W” and adding an “S” to make it read “Occupy All Streets.” The protests, which started Sept. 17 in New York, have since spread to Los Angeles and other cities as demonstrators protest corporate greed and corruption.
The Business Insider noted the “irony” in that Jay-Z has no intention to distribute any of the proceeds to protestors.
A Rocawear spokesperson told the publication: “The ‘Occupy All Streets’ T-shirt was created in support of the ‘Occupy Wall Street’ movement. Rocawear strongly encourages all forms of constructive expression, whether it be artistic, political or social. ‘Occupy All Streets’ is our way of reminding people that there is change to be made everywhere, not just on Wall Street. At this time we have not made an official commitment to monetarily support the movement.”
Millionaire rapper Jay-Z and his new OWS T-shirts
From Michelle Malkin, Occupy Jay-Z’s Wallet!:
Awwwwwwww yeah.
Michael Moore isn’t the only one cashing in on the increasingly violent, deadly Occupy Wall Street Movement.
He’s selling books. Rappyer Jay Z’s hawking t-shirts.
And he’s got no plans to redistribute the wealth.
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Jay-Z has the support of fellow 1 percenter-posing-as-99 percenter Russell Simmons.
$22 a pop. Come on, cough it up, progs.
Occupy Jay-Z’s Wallet!
Written last month by Brad Essex at Big Government — #OccupyLOLStreet: As Protests Become More Futile, the Productive Sector Laughs:
I was watching coverage of the Occupy Wall Street protests the other day and couldn’t help but laugh at how pitiful the whole ordeal has become. It’s almost become a cliché to note how the protesters go on and on about big business when they sport corporate swag such as iPads and Rolexes. Now, the burnout kids who started the protests are being co-opted by labor unions, the type of people who are so charismatic and idealistic they have to pay demonstrators to march with them.
Despite the sympathetic — even fawning — media coverage they’ve received, the message of Occupy Wall Street protesters isn’t being taken seriously by America. Take, for instance, a manifesto posted online by an early O.W.S. participant. This is the most laughable lefty pipe dream list ever. Here are a few of the demands:
Institute a universal single payer healthcare system. To do this all private insurers must be banned from the healthcare market as their only effect on the health of patients is to take money away from doctors, nurses and hospitals preventing them from doing their jobs and hand that money to Wall St. investors.
Put more simply, they want free healthcare because saving money for emergencies will cut into their nachos budget. They lack the basic self-awareness to understand that cutting into the profits of hospitals will destroy the healthcare industry’s ability to improve equipment and competitively compensate the best doctors and nurses, thus giving incentive for doctors to leave their trade due to lower wages and higher work loads.
Guaranteed living wage income regardless of employment.
I call this the Slackers’ Investment Act. This is a way for them to make money and achieve their wildest dreams without any of those annoyances like hard work or self-respect. Plus, without an employer, no one would ever damage their fragile egos with heartless evaluations of the quality of their work.
I’ve looked over the OWS manifesto — there is no “millionaire liberals who are part of the corrupt, evil ’1 percent’ must share their wealth and profits with the movement if they make a bundle off our radical Occupy efforts while pandering to our socialist cries” provision in its list of demands.
An oversight, maybe?
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