Last night, The Daily Show ran a devastating package on the class divisions in Occupy Wall Street’s “new society.” “Let me get this straight, you’ve been here for eight weeks and you already have a ghetto?” Samantha Bee asked a “moocher class” occupier.
This was not the first time The Daily Show covered Occupy Wall Street. Bee filed an earlier piece on the occupiers troubled relationship with local merchants. But the tone in that story was almost maternal. She was mocking them, but also gently instructing them on how to modify their anti-social behavior.
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