"So, first, you know, when early Americans were throwing boxes of tea from private corporations into the Boston Harbor, they were initially labeled as criminal elements, too," sounded Kohn. [Video below the break. Click here for audio.
"So, history does tend to look more favorably on protests and see the protesters as justified and as patriots rather than as problems," she added, meaning that history would probably vindicate the Wall Street protesters.
Kohn was the second liberal guest American Morning hosted to talk about Occupy Wall Street, the first being one of the protesters. No conservative guests or opponents of the protests were interviewed on American Morning. Kohn, a community organizer, is the founder of the progressive Movement Vision Lab and is working to "make the world safe for radical ideas."
In the previous hour, co-host Carol Costello gave a very soft interview to protester Dan Cantor, who oddly compared the protesters with fans of the "Twilight" movies.
Cantor defended the protest encampments in Zuccotti Park, saying that "people wait in line in New York, they camp out for a week to buy the tickets to the new 'Twilight' movie, so it's not like we're not used to encampments here."
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