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BY TRACY PFEIFFER

ANCHOR JIM FLINK

As the Occupy Wall St protest enters its third week, the spirit of the protest has spread to other cities...

…with ‘Occupy’ groups popping up from Boston… (Video: NECN)

…to outside the Chicago Federal Reserve… (Video: YouTube/OccupyChicagoFootage)

…to Los Angeles’ City Hall... (Video: KABC)

...and even other countries. (Image: OccupyTokyo)

Whether the protests are “gaining steam” seems to depend on who you’re asking.

But what says mainstream success like pundit potshots?

Fox & Friends’ Steve Doocy seemingly couldn’t help himself.

STEVE DOOCY, FOX NEWS: “Would this apply to Occupy Wall St? ‘Half wits talk much but say little.’”

JESSE ANGELO, CO-EDITOR “DEADLINE ARTISTS”: “I wouldn’t go that far.”

Other criticisms have been more substantive. Columnist Charles Krauthammer tells Fox News, he won’t be impressed until the protesters actually lay out what it is they want.

CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER, SYNDICATED COLUMNIST: “A protest without an objective is like a party or a picnic of the unemployed and the indolent. Unless you have an objective, what are you doing out there?”

And a blogger for UK’s The Telegraph says it makes him quote- “ashamed to be Left-wing.”

“Its weird demands, plastered across tongue-in-cheek placards and on super-cool, self-pressed t- shirts, capture the descent of the modern Left into the cesspool of victimology, conspiracy-mongering and disdain for mass society and its allegedly dumb inhabitants.”

But to the question, “why no demands?”, one blogger for The Nation argues other attempts to effect change haven’t worked thus far. So why judge?

“Of course, we need policy ideas... But sometimes, you also need a spark. ‘Occupy Wall Street,’ as an idea and an action, is a stroke of brilliance. ...Maybe this will go nowhere too. The odds are against it, after all. But what do we have to lose? We have to try something new.”

Finally, a First Post blogger adds, in the world of social media, don’t expect the protesters’ fire to get quickly stomped out - so stick around for the ride.

“The Wall Street Movement is immediately a global movement. Where it will end up is anyone’s guess. It will grow, and morph, it could be sidelined and possibly manipulated… but in the end it is fuelled by passion and where there is passion there is the potential to change the world.”