Comedy gold: The end of the NYU occupation
posted at 7:50 pm on February 23, 2009 by Allahpundit
Don’t be daunted by the length. This is 24 karat. To set the scene: A student group holed up in the campus cafeteria last week for three days with a list of demands including, among various other items, scholarships for Palestinian students, greater budgetary transparency, and complete amnesty for themselves, of course. On day three, NYU got bored with taking them semi-seriously and moved to end it. This picks up, I believe, right around this point in the story…
The end became evident at 10 a.m. when four student negotiators went up to the sixth floor of the building to talk with NYU officials – and were ambushed by campus cops.
After that, cops tore down the barricades barring the entrance to the third-floor cafeteria and started evicting the Take Back NYU! Coalition protesters.
The offenders have been banned from all student buildings until their expulsion hearings, according to the Daily News. As for what you’re about to see, like Gutfeld, I’m almost speechless. To be this far over the line into self-parody and yet somehow oblivious to it is hard to fathom; it feels like satire, but it isn’t. I’ll leave you with Gut’s litmus test: “This footage should be mandatory viewing for every young person in America. If the person watching sympathizes with these students, then you know she or she is beyond hope.” Please observe your official content warning and click the image to watch.
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Now we see the idiocracy inherent in the system.
This is exactly what is going on. Thus the we need concensus for every decision. These idiot regressives are the reason the founding fathers did not want a pure democracy. I can see it now.
WH Mil. Advisor: Mr. President the russian bombers are coming over the pole and their missles are airborne.
President Libratard: We need to get concensus on what to do next begin polling the people to se what they want.
20 min later
Advisor: Sir, with 2000 votes in; 68% say we should respond to the attack, 29% say send diplomats, and 3% are undecided.
Pres: That is not concensus poll again….
DC is vaporized in a giant mushroom cloud.
cobrakai99 on February 23, 2009 at 8:47 PM
The head libtard commented on the video:
Glenn Jericho on February 23, 2009 at 8:47 PM
That footage is sweeter then honey. Only think that could possibly make it any better would be if the guards had tasers.
And used them.
Extensively.
//can’t stand snobby self-righteous commie “students”
madne0 on February 23, 2009 at 8:48 PM
Damn. Meant to say “thing” not “think” obviously.
madne0 on February 23, 2009 at 8:49 PM
I really can’t put into words just how much the douchebag with the camera annoys me.
madne0 on February 23, 2009 at 8:51 PM
i go to NYU, and let me say the majority of students thought the protesters were idiots.
Chiasmos on February 23, 2009 at 8:51 PM
That was like herding cats. I don’t quite understand the inventory. Anyway I feel so much better about our future.
Cindy Munford on February 23, 2009 at 8:52 PM
I finally finished watching it. I can honestly say that even if I were inclined to express solidarity with any of these D-bags over anything, I would have drowned that cameraman in corporate water by minute five.
Are they seriously voting on whether to cooperate and show ID? I don’t know how crippled their enforcement is, but I would think that as soon as the guy refused to identify himself they would have ordered him off the property. When he peacefully protested by taking a seat and refusing they could have peacefully hit him with the OC and dragged him out of the building screaming about trying to reach a consensus or something.
blankminde on February 23, 2009 at 8:52 PM
My daughter attended college about six years ago. If you did not think and speak and support liberal agendas , then you got a bad grade , simple as that!
What happened at NYU is yet another example of our liberal teaching establishment trying to , and apparently succeeding, in brainwashing our young children. This kind of thinking by these kids started much earlier in their educations.
It is no wonder to me that this nation is now almost as Socialistic as Venezuela and Russia.
jerseyjoe99982002 on February 23, 2009 at 8:53 PM
I love it. These students have the opportunity to get a degree from one of the top universities in the nation, and they just screwed it up (hopefully). And I say “degree” instead of “education” because the only useful thing to get out of NYU is the paper that says you went there. I wouldn’t be surprised if a professor put this idea in the kids’ heads.
Sir Corky on February 23, 2009 at 8:53 PM
Thank for all the help everyone. Y’all are the best.
Cindy Munford on February 23, 2009 at 8:53 PM
Its a story of triumph,and the will of the spirit,pushing their own boundaries of justice,and hopeing for,no,demand
ing a fairy tale ending!
You’ll cry,and you’ll laugh,its a journey of a bunch of
Liberal nitwits trying to make sense of the world they
live in and created!
Its a mezmerizing thrill ride,from demands,the hope’s
and dreams,and the break-down of negotiations gone horr
ible wrong!
‘Two thumbs up,a must see’
-New York Times.
‘A Tour De Force,Inspirational’
-CNN
Five*Stars,A New Direction in Film Making.
-Los Angles Times.
‘An Emotional Thrill Ride,Best Movie of The year’.
-Time Magazine.
(Snark!)
canopfor on February 23, 2009 at 8:54 PM
Can’t…stop…laughing.
All the buzzwords were there. Every stereotype about overindulged college hippie wannabes, right down to the guy with dreads, and the fact that the cameraman isn’t even a student there.
I don’t know what was best, the “you can come in here!”, “we’re filming you!”, “corporate water”…
Just wow. If there was ever a time that security guards deserved a free-pass to deliver a beating, there it is haha
brak on February 23, 2009 at 8:55 PM
The video was way too short! Was just gettin’ good when the little creep turned his camera off. I wanted to see some heavy facilitator-action….
These are Octobama’s babies. You’ll see their faces in D.C. soon.
MrScribbler on February 23, 2009 at 8:55 PM
Hahaha! The security guy he was trying to intimidate with his camera, pulled out his own camera and started filming him.
Blake on February 23, 2009 at 8:55 PM
Silly me. You’re right of course. If they want to do away with property rights, then I say we should propose a moratorium on people that live in a socialist fantasy land.
Since my idea makes them non-existent I guess we could go ahead and reinstate property rights…
blankminde on February 23, 2009 at 8:56 PM
I laughed so hard my sides are aching. That was wonderful! The only thing that would have made it better was some honest to goodness “brutality” and maybe footage of the actual ejection from the room.
Someone mentioned expulsion hearings. Please tell me these douches are going to be expelled. O, how delicious that would be!
Kensington on February 23, 2009 at 8:57 PM
Darn, No gun fire.
mindhacker on February 23, 2009 at 8:57 PM
What you have just witnessed is the new birth of a Marxist socialist bureaucrat………. well done NYU!
……… although the police used every restraint, I am sure this fool will say he was “traumatized”, and books, songs, movies, documentaries will soon follow,
along with a job offer by the Teleprompter administration…….
Seven Percent Solution on February 23, 2009 at 8:58 PM
That’s pretty much how I expect the Democrats to act when they’re being ejected from Congress two years from now.
Kensington on February 23, 2009 at 8:58 PM
Did anyone catch the word of the day?
Cindy Munford on February 23, 2009 at 8:59 PM
Just watched it again, because it was that entertaining. My favorite part is where he tells the security guard to use “earmuffs” so she can’t hear the “consensus” they are trying to get together, once they find someone to “facilitate,” of course.
Sir Corky on February 23, 2009 at 8:59 PM
How many years before one of these geniuses is wearing a suit, drinking corporate water? Five, max.
Cindy Munford on February 23, 2009 at 9:00 PM
Marxists are overcharging marxists?
JiangxiDad on February 23, 2009 at 9:00 PM
Lordamercy.
Truly, that was comedy gold. In the sense that it’s utterly depressing at the same time. It’s just sad that the kids didn’t get the sht kicked out of them for once in their lives….
hippie_chucker on February 23, 2009 at 9:01 PM
Oh my goodness, you have to read the comments over there! The douchebag behind the camera is posting, trying to defend himself and shame everybody else. More comedy gold!
Kensington on February 23, 2009 at 9:01 PM
Let’s be honest, one of those douches is a future POTUS probably, now that the bar has been set so low.
Kensington on February 23, 2009 at 9:02 PM
‘Cause, y’know, bro…
Tzetzes on February 23, 2009 at 9:04 PM
So if not leaving someone else’s property is practicing democracy, what is wrong with us having troops on the ground in Iraq and Afghanistan again? These are kids that you will be handing $23.85 to for a $8.85 meal at McDondalds to next week and they will need the cash register to tell them what money to give you back. Wait, I am wrong. With their useless B.S. in Art History, they will surely be able to get a job at Starbucks or the Apple store.
cobrakai99 on February 23, 2009 at 9:05 PM
yeah, it’s NYU. Was probably a project for his community organizing class. Wish they had burned the whole place down. Frankly, the school’s a cesspool.
JiangxiDad on February 23, 2009 at 9:05 PM
Oh, btw, someone should send this to the Opie & Anthony show. Can’t wait to hear Jimmy and the gang tear these douchebags to pieces.
madne0 on February 23, 2009 at 9:05 PM
I love the “we have the right not to cooperate with you until you explain what you are doing here.”
Uh, no you don’t. As I often tell people, you are suffering from a false belief that you have unlimited rights. In fact, you have very rights, if any, at all.
Blake on February 23, 2009 at 9:06 PM
I kept thinking-’what a bunch of children’. They thought they made the rules. Hilarious.
Jamson64 on February 23, 2009 at 9:06 PM
Good news! More to come on April 1st at the New School!
(fast forward to 6:10)
Glenn Jericho on February 23, 2009 at 9:06 PM
Bite your tongue. There is an extensive two-week training course to become an Apple “genius.”
/sarc
Sir Corky on February 23, 2009 at 9:07 PM
Makes me feel good that we DO have a 50% HS drop out rate.
Star20 on February 23, 2009 at 9:08 PM
Tahehehe. THe loser chick who kept flashing the “peace” sign made me chuckle. How very brave of her.
SouthernGent on February 23, 2009 at 9:09 PM
I am glad that the university system is producing useless, clueless people like these folks. The day is fast approaching where their hopes for dialogue and consensus will be about as realistic as lollipop fields and money trees. When the competition starts, they won’t be very competitive. I see a them huddled in small groups aimless walking in circles with a video camera muttering “you may not come in here,” and “we need to form a consensus.”
King of the Britons on February 23, 2009 at 9:09 PM
They are still as dirty looking and unwashed as they they were 40+ years ago, and why is *fukc*(ing) still the strongest word in their vocabulary??? Their libtard parents/grandparents must be real proud.
OmahaConservative on February 23, 2009 at 9:09 PM
HAHAHAHAHAH!!
Oh man, that was funny.
What a bunch of nitwits.
Some highlights from memory (what I could recall when I was literally on my floor laughing)
1. Democratic Process!!!
Oh reaallllly? Democratic process that entails taking over property you don’t own? Hah! And, umm, does your “Democracy include all the students who think you’re a moron? Or the faculty or the admins or the Police? Ya thought not…
2. Consensus Consensus Consensus!! COLLECTIVE Consensus!
Ok this was the funniest running bit. If that camera man would have said consensus one more time I would have created a time and teleportation machine just to smack him upside the head. Then of the lovely socialist word COLLECTIVE comes in. And the clincher? At one point he urges his fellow protesters to use consensus then within seconds he gets annoyed with one of them and says:
“We’ll use consensus without you.” Ho ho ho!!!
3. Corporate Water
Another snort-worthy comment. “They probably drink corporate water?” As opposed to the Corporate made water bottles the protester has? And where did the water inside come from? Mystic non-corporate-fairy-land?
Then he goes through a list of his other precious belongings…which includes an iPOD. Ya…iPOD…made by a commune of hippies no doubt. Ya…
4. Brutality!
Oh my my…life has some surprises for this weenie.
5. Guns, Tasers!
The protester thinks it would horrible if the police actually had guns and tasers!! Oh the horror! I bet those jack-booted thugs have corporate water too!
Ok, I have to stop…but AP is right: this is so absurd you would hope it’s a staged spoof. But I fear it isn’t.
Oh wait..one more..
6. Skate Board Equipped White Kid with Dreadlocks.
No elaboration required.
Montana on February 23, 2009 at 9:09 PM
The guy with the camera yapping isn’t even a student. He’s a trespasser. Beat him and arrest him.
Blake on February 23, 2009 at 9:10 PM
Figures they’re Mac users.
Tzetzes on February 23, 2009 at 9:11 PM
If parents would just spend A LITTLE time with their children….. or maybe that’s the problem. R.I.P. common damn sense.
Gulfcoastconservative on February 23, 2009 at 9:11 PM
That should have been a B.A. Sorry, I went to a school where the core curriculum contained so much engineering, math and science that even us fuzzy History majors earned a B.S.
cobrakai99 on February 23, 2009 at 9:12 PM
No, you were absolutely right the first time.
Sir Corky on February 23, 2009 at 9:12 PM
They purchased bottled water and claim that the NYU authorities probably drink “corporate water” Huh?
Hummer53 on February 23, 2009 at 9:13 PM
If you took a drink every time you heard “consensus” you’d be on the floor before the tape ended.
Wethal on February 23, 2009 at 9:15 PM
hmmm I wonder who they voted for
Jamson64 on February 23, 2009 at 9:16 PM
goll-damned hippies! (as gramps always said)
OmahaConservative on February 23, 2009 at 9:17 PM
Yes! Think different but be in CONSENSUS!
I got the feeling the weenie-camera-kid was referring to some printed out Power Point(c) slide about CONSENSUS BASED DEMOCRATIC PROTESTS WITHOUT CORPORATE WATER.
When do they trace this all back to a Liberal Arts Sociology Professor on the NYU campus? Hmm?
Montana on February 23, 2009 at 9:19 PM
(dou)Che.
Jim Treacher on February 23, 2009 at 9:19 PM
Jamson64, one of the commenters on the tape said this to the cameraman:
Wethal on February 23, 2009 at 9:20 PM
Alcoholic coma, no doubt.
madne0 on February 23, 2009 at 9:20 PM
Six Pack of Whoop Ass Needed
Wade on February 23, 2009 at 9:21 PM
Bahahahaha!!
Those security guys showed the patience of a saint. Reminds me of the two years I spent as a bouncer across the street from a university with 30,000 students. Imagine these douchebags with a dozen beers in them. Fun times.
trubble on February 23, 2009 at 9:23 PM
You guys should read all of Alex’s (the kid taking the video) comments at the video site AP links to above.
After reading some of his comments, I must conclude that he ‘punked’ his fellow protesters. No one…NO ONE can be that stupid to say what he is saying. I have that much faith left in the Left’s “collective” brain.
Montana on February 23, 2009 at 9:26 PM
And now, the takeaway from this whole episode:
The objective of a protest is not to let the point you’re trying to make get overwhelmed by demonstrating that you’re a total douchebag. More people will remember this asshat simply for being an asshat than will ever learn what the whole thing was about in the first place.
For example…does anyone remember what point the ‘don’t taze me, bro’ guy was trying to get across?
James on February 23, 2009 at 9:27 PM
The most awesome video of bags of douche I have ever seen. Way to go ass clowns of NYU. You made my day.
kahall on February 23, 2009 at 9:27 PM
“Consensus … consensus … consensus…”
“You keep using that word. I don’t think you know what it means…”
Ace ODale on February 23, 2009 at 9:28 PM
They kept throwing the fcuk bomb around as if it lent some credibility to their cause.
OmahaConservative on February 23, 2009 at 9:30 PM
you mean it doesn’t? many an eighth grader would disagree.
Jamson64 on February 23, 2009 at 9:32 PM
you weren’t kidding allah.
i think the point i laughed out loud was about the eight minute mark when he says, “who wants to be a facilitator?”
eh on February 23, 2009 at 9:33 PM
Hurry up, we need to group think our way through this..where’s my Ipod dude?
It would be glorious to able to implant thoughts like, jump off the roof into their concensus planning sessions.
BobMbx on February 23, 2009 at 9:35 PM
Didn’t you see the chairs set up as barriers?
Wethal on Feb 23,2009 at 8:35PM.
Wethal: Oh for pete’s sake,lol,I went back over the vid,
ya your right,chairs and their comfort blankets!:)
canopfor on February 23, 2009 at 9:37 PM
I’m taking a wild guess here, but I believe “facilitator” is libtard for “in charge”?
BobMbx on February 23, 2009 at 9:38 PM
“Hey, the four outside people refuse to come in and join our collective consensus–
SPLITTERS!”
LexisTexas2 on February 23, 2009 at 9:38 PM
Same here. Are there people who really think in such terms? I thought it was just a code.
Tzetzes on February 23, 2009 at 9:39 PM
Snuggie sighting!
BobMbx on February 23, 2009 at 9:39 PM
The future leaders of your country…
Shannow on February 23, 2009 at 9:39 PM
What time on Friday do we start the concensus drinking game? Sorry trolls, but some of us do work for a living you will have to wait for the end of the week…..
Wait where are the trolls? Did they get tazed?
cobrakai99 on February 23, 2009 at 9:39 PM
Another Alex Lotorto gem (if it’s really the same kid):
Jim Treacher on February 23, 2009 at 9:39 PM
Didn’t I see Consensus Man sitting on a shelf at the pharmacy next to the tampons?
Sekhmet on February 23, 2009 at 9:44 PM
Should have called Billy and Bernie for some radical insight.
thomasaur on February 23, 2009 at 9:45 PM
No protester bros got tazed…damn.
Dr. ZhivBlago on February 23, 2009 at 9:47 PM
Wow. Will these kids ever be employable? Maybe camera douche will intern for Olberman someday.
Splunge on February 23, 2009 at 9:49 PM
Snugging sighting!
BobMbx on Feb 23,2009 at 9:39PM.
BobMbx: The technical term,as my daughter would call it,
when she was younger,is the ‘Binky’! haha:)
canopfor on February 23, 2009 at 9:50 PM
They’ll be Dem Congressional staffers?
Wethal on February 23, 2009 at 9:50 PM
The revolution has been canceled due to the they stole the chargers, turned of the power and the mac books’ batteries have died.
tjexcite on February 23, 2009 at 9:53 PM
“Don’t use brutality! Don’t use implements of force! Lets Democratically decide this in a consensus area.”
Bunch of self-absorbed punks.
BKennedy on February 23, 2009 at 9:54 PM
LOL
I gots your fucking ‘consensus’ right here.
(where’s the second installment?)
EZnSF on February 23, 2009 at 9:55 PM
And so whiny, so wussy. Really brings home Mark Steyns writings about the loss of masculinity and the masculine voice.
Splunge on February 23, 2009 at 9:56 PM
Hilarious. I love it when the huge African American security guy just walks in, over the desks, over the students, and plants himself in their “consensus space.”
Sort of like that movie Cloverdale, but funnier!
PattyJ on February 23, 2009 at 9:57 PM
Sorry, can’t stop commenting about this one.
“We have ten minutes.”
Ooh, look, shiny things in my bag! A Macbook! A red ledger! Red, get it? I’m so cool.
I want to see the part where the ten minutes ended while they were still flailing around.
Splunge on February 23, 2009 at 9:58 PM
When you see the wheels of the skateboard, that’s all you need to know…..
Gulfcoastconservative on February 23, 2009 at 9:59 PM
O.K. children, time to get your bath, brush teeth and go to bed.
Gulfcoastconservative on February 23, 2009 at 10:00 PM
Not one skull split?
Damn…
BallisticBob on February 23, 2009 at 10:00 PM
Can I be the facilitator?
Dr.Cwac.Cwac on February 23, 2009 at 10:01 PM
I say we taze them, bro.
Erik Doombolt on February 23, 2009 at 10:02 PM
Corporate. Living in the SF Bay Area (close to Berkeley), I hear that word thrown around too much. Like these NYU kids think they have Fair Trade MacBooks or something! And the camera used to record this hilariousness (and sadness)–made by orphanages is Mexico? Do think they think without the big, evil telecoms that they would be able to upload and disperse this nonsense over the thousands of miles of fiber-optic cable laid all over the world? Blah.
JoelD on February 23, 2009 at 10:02 PM
Consensus, collaboration, facilitators, break-out sessions. Typical lefties. (Bet they had a mission statement, too.)
Wethal on February 23, 2009 at 10:02 PM
“you can’t come in here!”
Yeah, I’m sure the sheer force of your logic will provide an impervious wall.
Reminds me of the “Gun Free Zone!” on the shortlived Half-Hour-News-Hour.
cs89 on February 23, 2009 at 10:06 PM
I’ll stay in flyover country clinging to my God and guns thank you very much. I would say that at least once a week I read of an excellent reason to not only not visit NYC but to view it with derision, disdain and suspicion.
deepdiver on February 23, 2009 at 10:06 PM
Mr Alex Lotorto , the idiotic cameraman is a film student from Muhlenberg College and not NYU . I have no idea why this idiot was able to pass himself off as an NYU student , but one thing is clear , the NYU students that were with him that day will be expelled and at worse , will have a hard time in getting into another college or university to complete their college education if ever . As for Mr Lotorto , he will return back to Muhlenberg College and continue on his education and indoctrination without paying any penalty whatsoever for his actions at NYU .
DinobotPrime on February 23, 2009 at 10:06 PM
Cap’n Ed, Allah:
Please Please oh Please
Invite Mr. Irritating Camera guy to be a regular poster here
BobMbx on February 23, 2009 at 10:09 PM
Oh, there are plenty of colleges that will take these little mindless morons. This is exactly what they are looking for.
Gulfcoastconservative on February 23, 2009 at 10:11 PM
Wow. How does he get paid?
Anarchists are funny to me. I’m glad I watched the video. Now I’ll never have to watch another one every again.
My bet is that this guy not only doesn’t have a job (meaning he does not pay taxes) but he probably isn’t qualified for flipping burgers at the jail kitchen.
So my question to him is, “When are you going to get a job?”
watson007 on February 23, 2009 at 10:11 PM
Man, I know I’m not supposed to hate anyone… but these douches make it tough.
BTW, I love how they assume the campus cops don’t want to confiscate their water bottles because “they probably drink corporate water”… right around the time we get to see their iPods and macbooks that their parents bought them… items these campus cops probably can’t even afford. Oh, and dreadlocks and skateboard… so edgy.
RightWinged on February 23, 2009 at 10:13 PM
no, it’s worse, secretary. it means, “who wants to shut up and take notes while i direct the conversation?”
the whole “concensus model” is like that. it’s exactly like an ordinary meeting, except soft words and the passive voice are used to replace “hegemonic language”.
other words in the glossary:
affinity group: proles
spokescouncel: executive board
spokesleader: ceo
the whole system is devised to convince the participants that each one of them is directly involved in the final resolution of every detail. in fact what happens is that the spokesleaders set the agenda, including the parameters for debate before the affinity group convenes.
in other words, the spokesleader proposes something, gets a second from a colluder, and from there the peer dynamics of “concensus based direct democracy” can be relied upon to produce the appearance of uncoerced assent for the spokesleader’s agenda.
the vote in concensus is not private and concensus is required – a majority isn’t good enough. so, debate isn’t any longer about the merits of the proposal, but along the lines of “why are you trying to hold things up?” massive guilt and peer pressure is brought to bear on any dissenters. if a person’s dissent persists, their motivations are questioned – in private, they’re branded a traitor and sabateur – and the decision is made to disinvite them from future arbitrations.
a better description can be found in this document, starting in the last paragraph of page 15:
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/Articles/Peace%20Movement.pdf
a good pull-quote:
eh on February 23, 2009 at 10:13 PM
Dinobot, you must be fairly new to Planet Bizaro. There you’ll find the species known as the Libtards.
These kids are most likely already in receipt of full scholarship offers from Berkeley or Colorado-Boulder. They may even be nominated for the Sheehan award for most self-humiliating protest.
BobMbx on February 23, 2009 at 10:13 PM
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