WASHINGTON — Two Tea Party luminaries have some advice for the Occupy Wall Street crowd: get a message, and clean up your act.

Not that Reps. Allen West (R-Fla.) or Steve King (R-Iowa) think OWS has anything legitimate to say, or that they sympathize at all with the anger that has been on display in protests from New York to California. Indeed, the lawmakers see the protests as artificial.

“If they knew what their grievance was then maybe one could have some sympathy, but I can’t really identify their grievance,” King told The Huffington Post.

West laughed when asked if he could identify at all with the protesters. “No, I don’t,” he said, adding that their movement was not genuine. “I don’t see what the point is, and I think it’s going to backfire because when you peel the onion back, you find out who’s behind it and who’s financing it — it’s not a true grassroots movement. It’s not a true statement.”

“I don’t know what these kids want. I mean, if they stand up and say ‘We want the end of capitalism, we hate corporations. . .,'” West said, trailing off into a chuckle.

King also suspected unions are behind the movement, but found it far less amusing than West.

“I look at the signs that are there — it’s a human sea of discontent,” King said, adding that he spotted anarchists in the crowds on TV. “This is the Left looking for a cause,” he said. He also added that he’s “seen no evidence” that the movement is organic.