A few months ago, The O'Reilly Factor caught up with hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons who was attending a swanky polo match in the Hamptons. Last Friday Simmons made his second visit to Zuccotti Park to show his support for the Occupy Wall Street protesters.
If you haven't been to Zuccotti Park recently, it is pretty much the antithesis of a polo match in the Hamptons. But, when we asked Simmons if there was a double standard inherent in his attendance at both events, Simmons insisted that there was absolutely no hypocrisy whatsoever in mingling with millionaires one day and protesting their wealth the next.
If there is a sport that exemplifies the excesses of the uber-wealthy, it's polo. It's almost as if the sport was invented simply in order to give horses something to do while their wealthy owners mingled.
But Simmons made it clear that his goal is to make sure that all of the protesters at OWS could someday attend a polo match themselves.
A noble goal, no doubt. But if everyone could afford to attend polo matches in the Hamptons, then the rich would quickly find another hobby since Polo isn't interesting enough to survive as a stand alone spectator sport.
Alas, Simmons dreams will likely never come to fruition in his lifetime. But keep on fighting the good fight Russell.