The Newsroom - Occupy Wallstreet Interview

thirty seconds back and here comes dinner are you doing good thank you yeah good I'm sorry I was talking to my producer how do I look good no producer again is he's your screen with her mm-hmm come on in three two it's been two weeks since a group of protesters began camping out in Zuccotti Park here in New York City the Occupy Wall Street movement has turned to social media and held marches through the streets of the financial district here in the studio today is one of the leaders of Occupy Wall Street Shelly Wexler Shelly the baby it's good to be here but I am NOT one of the leaders of OWS we don't have leaders is that a good idea not having leaders yeah yes because this way everyone's sure to have a voice sounds like a lot of people talking at once but tell us in a few words what OWS is protesting we are protesting a variety of issues the co-opting of the government by the rich the lack of any prosecution for the crimes that led to the collapse of 2008 citizens united social inequality so not any particular thing not one particular thing you're protesting against lots of things the list of things we're protesting against is as varied as the protesters themselves I've seen protesters holding signs that say we are the 99% yes I am the 1% some people would say I'm overpaid but I'm not I'm paid exactly what the market will bear which means I'm paid what I'm worth so which system would you replace capitalism with we would I wouldn't replace it with any system I would make the system fairer by passing new laws yes it's Congress who does that yes it's legislation like dodd-frank at the banks really fear right yes if your Congressman or your senator or the chairman of the House Financial Services Committee or the Speaker of the House wanted to hear the demands about WS Hill would they meet with we're not looking for a meeting they wouldn't be able to meet with anyone right look I'm trying to find out the virtue of a leaderless movement where everyone's voices are heard that is at the point we want everyone to look at Occupy Wall Street and ask themselves the question why is this happening I think that's been taken care of but what happens after people ask so exact change we hope huh the same way change has always happened what is your best case scenario for how this ends but it doesn't end that it doesn't end that's right even if you put the heads of the banks in jail overturn a Supreme Court decision ensure greater social equality and give everybody money you're still going to be sleeping in Zuccotti Park like most of the media I don't think you're taking this seriously is there any chance that's because you're not hey dink O's out badly [ __ ] off come on I am to Milly ated in shock this whole thing is messed up and he's a [ __ ] [ __ ] by the way he's not but trying to be funny the expense of the gang I didn't think he was this bad as you say dude we gotta get out of here you need to take me to the guy what the kind [ __ ] you think i'm disposed to doing you a favor no Shelly Shelly we need to meet this guy we need to read the report he wrote no Shelly forget it no I can't tell you what this is about but it's way too important he's a baby where I did this as a favor to you I need you to take me to this guy then we're both having a bad night he didn't do anything to you you tanked

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Views: 780,106

Rating: 4.7847533 out of 5

Keywords: The Newsroom, The Newsroom Occupy Wallstreet, Occupy Wallstreet

Id: kwk_Ot8orPY

Length: 3min 24sec (204 seconds)

Published: Mon Aug 05 2013

Reddit Comments

[u/SmashKapital]

Is there anything that gets Sorkin harder than a 'smart' woman explicitly saying that the middle-aged know-it-all writer-stand-in made her "humiliated"?

Not even defending OWS or whatever, it's just kinda staggering that as his career progressed every TV show he wrote became more and more nakedly a vehicle for his psycho-sexual frisson, and he was getting paid for it, to boot. GWB really did a number on liberals that they could just shamelessly sit and watch a man masturbate while yelling hot takes.

[u/WillowWorker]

Goddamn I can't believe people watched this. I don't even really disagree with the critique of Occupy but jeez...

[u/[deleted]]

Aaron Dorkin

[u/Jackfruitistaken]

I don't give a fuck what he thinks.

[u/MilkshakeMixup]

Fucking cringe

[u/ChineseDangerfield]

damn sorkin is so fucking gay dude

[u/Juelz_Santana]

The chapo eps on the sorkin shows are among their best

I liked the writing in Social Network tho cus it felt appropriate that every character was such a smug shit

[u/[deleted]]

2013 take on a 2011 event in 2019

got em BRAP BRAPPP

[u/seeking-abyss]

Is this The West Wing but for journalism?