Bill Maher to Occupy Wall Street: 'Get a job'

In a move that shows Occupy Wall Street is becoming a lost cause, HBO's Bill Maher said Friday he finds himself  "almost agreeing with Newt Gingrich" about the ongoing protests.

"Let me ask you about another occupation, because this is - and you would be good on this too, panel -, the occupation, the Occupy Wall Street, because similar to Afghanistan, when you occupy anything for too long people do get pissed off. And as I watch them on the news now I find myself almost agreeing with Newt Gingrich. Like, you know what - get a job," he said.

Maher added that the people who originally started the protest have now gone home, leaving behind what he called "anarchist stragglers."

"And this is the problem when you, you know, when your movement involves sleeping over in the park. You wind up attracting the people who were sleeping over in the park anyway," he said to laughter and applause.

He went on to say that the protesters did a "great job" bringing the issue of income disparity to the public's attention, but "now it's just a bunch of (d-bags) who think throwing a chair through the Starbucks window is going to bring on the revolution."

Newsbusters' Noel Sheppard added:

Truly surprising, especially coming less than two months after Time magazine gushed and fawned over the Occupy movement as it named "The Protester" its Person of the Year.

Makes you wonder if that magazine will come around, and when the rest of the liberal media will recognize that this movement is not what they hoped for.

CBS San Francisco reported Jan 31 that support for the anti-capitalist movement is slipping in the Bay Area:

A newly released KPIX-TV CBS 5 poll shows Bay Area support for the so-called ‘Occupy’ movement is on a downward spiral after recent violent demonstrations in Oakland that resulted in over 400 arrests and significant damage to City Hall.

The poll, conducted for CBS 5 by the firm SurveyUSA, found 26 percent of Bay Area residents who said that they used to support the Occupy movement had now changed their minds.

The poll also said that 32 percent of those who initially supported the protests do not like the tactics currently being used, and 71 percent do not support protesters taking over vacant buildings.

Support for police action was split with 35 percent saying the police response was about right, while 33 percent said the police weren't harsh enough.  Only 28 percent said the police were too harsh on the protesters.