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Apparently NYC's Citi-Bike program is freaking out wingnuttia in a big way. I know this story has been cropping up everywhere. And as usual, the Wall Street Journal is promoting it with the insane editorial board member who is none other than the one, the only, Dorothy Rabinowitz. Her psyche encompasses a very special type of wingnut madness and she made this not-fake-news video for the WSJ to attack those menacing and evil cyclists.

Q: Why would you want a program like this in the first place, are we too fat?

Rabinowitz: Don't ask me to enter the minds of the totalitarians running this city. And I would like to say to all the people that don't live in New York, this means something much more than the specifics of this dreadful program. It means--envision what happens when you got a government that is run by an autocratic mayor, or other leader, a government for which you are helpless. Now look at a city who's best neighborhoods are absolutely begrimed is the word by these blazing blue Citibank bikes. All the finest most picturesque, it is shocking to walk around the city and see how much of this they have sneaked under the radar in the interests of the environment.

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Every citizen knew — who was in any way sentient — that the most important danger in the city is not the yellow cabs...it is the cyclists.

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It's important that people stand up against these repressive tactics, because you have to fight them every step of the way. A federal judge in May ruled that there was "overwhelming evidence" that the practice led to thousands of illegal stops and granted class-action status to a legal challenge, so it looks like the policy's days are numbered:

In a slow, somber procession, several thousand demonstrators conducted a silent march on Sunday down Fifth Avenue to protest the New York Police Department’s stop-and-frisk policies, which the organizers say single out minority groups and create an atmosphere of martial law for the city’s black and Latino residents.

Two and a half hours after it began, the peaceful, disciplined march ended in mild disarray. As many marchers dispersed, police officers at 77th Street and Fifth Avenue began pushing a crowd that defied orders to leave the intersection, shoving some to the ground and forcing the protesters to a sidewalk, where they were corralled behind metal barricades. After protesters pushed back, the officers used an orange net to clear the sidewalk, and appeared to arrest at least three people.

The presence of several elected officials at the march, including the Democratic mayoral hopefuls Bill de Blasio, the public advocate; Christine C. Quinn, the City Council speaker; Scott M. Stringer, the Manhattan borough president; and William C. Thompson, the former city comptroller, seemed to signal a solidifying opposition to the policy, which has long been opposed by civil rights groups.

Wade Cummings, 46, a teacher, attended with his 19-year-old son, Tarik. Both said they had been stopped by police officers — once for the father, three times for the son.

“I’m concerned about him being stopped and it escalating,” the father said. “I like to believe I taught him not to escalate this situation, but you never know how it’s going to go down.”

Police officers stopped nearly 700,000 people last year, 87 percent of them black or Latino. Of those stopped, more than half were also frisked.

This is just wonderful to see. Jesse LaGreca, also known as the Daily Kos blogger MinistryOfTruth, gets in front of a Fox News reporter and lets him know what he and the other 99 percent think of their news coverage.

Here's the transcript:

Fox: Jesse, so Ray, your partner here, your ..

Ray: comrade.

Fox: Your colleague, she’d seen the protests in Greece and Europe and elsewhere. Did you guys take your cue from that? Are you hoping to cite certainly what was a lot of the tension, if not police activity. I know over the weekend there were over 100 arrests and you guys got things fired up. Are you taking your cues from the international movement and how do you want to see this? If you could have it in a perfect way, how would it be?

Jesse: Well I don’t know, its really difficult to answer questions leading to those conclusions. I’d say that we didn’t take our cue leading off of anybody really. It became a more spontaneous movement. As far as seeing this end, I wouldn’t like to see this end. I would like to see the conversation continue. This is what we should have been talking about in 2008 when the economy collapsed. We basically patched a hole on the tire and said let the car keep rolling. Unfortunately it’s fun to talk to the propaganda machine and the media especially conservative media networks such as yourself, because we find that we cant get conversations for the department of Justice’s ongoing investigation of News Corporation, for which you are an employee. But we can certainly ask questions like you know, why are the poor engaging in class warfare? After 30 years of having our living standards decrease while the wealthiest 1% have had it better than ever, I think it’s time for some maybe, I don’t know, participation in our democracy that isn’t funded by news cameras and gentlemen such as yourself.

Fox: But, uh, yeah well, let me give you this challenge Jesse.

Jesse: Sure.

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