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Video: Daily Show Shows OWS's "Class Divide" At Zuccotti Park
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Jen Chung
Published Nov 17, 2011
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Yes, Occupy Wall Street has been a rich source of material for The Daily Show, from protesters pooping in—and ruining—local businesses' bathrooms to the temperature checks. Jon Stewart himself has questioned the group's theatrics (though "I am very much interested in the message that's being articulated") and pooping on cop cars, so he enjoyed correspondent Samantha Bee's visit to Zuccotti Park before the police raid. Bee found that the class war was alive and kicking—within the encampment—as some referred to one part of the park as the "aristocratic" part where Brooklyn hipsters reign and another as "the ghetto."
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Gawker called the segment "another Occupy Wall Street hit piece."
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