Here we see former Sen. Russ Feingold taking stock of the Occupy Wall Street phenomenon on Monday’s “Countdown With Keith Olbermann,” declaring that the “unholy alliance” between big business and certain political operatives on the right (although not exclusively from that side of the aisle) is being challenged.

The free-range Feingold also got in a couple of digs at his former GOP adversaries on Capitol Hill, not to mention Fox News, echoing Paul Krugman’s feather-ruffling sentiments from his New York Times Op-Ed column headlined “Panic of the Plutocrats.” Over to you, plutocrats. –KA

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