RICHARD ENGEL: I spent today on the streets of London, I was in those demonstrations–not taking part, covering them–that were in London’s equivalent of Wall Street, and what was very interesting was that although this was an anti-capitalist demonstration–people were angry about corporate greed, and there some scuffles, smashing up the Royal Bank of Scotland, some of their windows–it was not an anti-American sentiment in any way. There were no American flags burned. It was targeted primarily at British bankers, and I think had this been even a few months ago or a year ago, we certainly would have seen other kinds of effigies being burned.

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ENGEL: And I spoke to one of the anarchist leaders [oxymoron alert?], and he was actually–which is not something you’d expect from an anarchist leader, you’d expect them to hate almost everything. He was welcoming Obama’s trip here and hoping that this could be a new start of relations. And that’s even from a fringe community.

Notes: When I saw those crowds bearing banners proclaiming “Capitalism Doesn’t Work” I first thought it might have been footage from a Democratic caucus meeting. And only in the MSM need a correspondent assure folks that when he says he was “in” an anarchist, anti-capitalist demonstration, he meant he was covering it, not taking part.