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We are all Cheeseheads now!
It's time to do more than just critique the news, let's start to make our own.
Keith destroys the New York Times for their anti-union front page story Here.
A hard working union man backs Walker! He is a union man who believes in union ,"but thinks those in the public sector lead to wasteful spending because of what he sees as lavish benefits and endless negotiations. Something needs to be done,” he said, “and quickly.”"
Problem is, A.G. Sulzberger’s featured disillusioned unionist interviewee…wasn’t in a union.
The obvious point about Sulzberger’s story is that, at best, the Times made a terrible mistake rendering fraudulent a featured piece on imperiled American freedom in the middle of an info-war over that freedom by a reporter whose name is synonymous with its power structure and then tried to whitewash itself (or, at worst, it wasn’t an amazing coincidence, and the Times got played like the proverbial three-dollar banjo and then tried to whitewash itself)
Love that three dollar banjo! Keith sure has a way of mixing up them big words with folksy sayins.
This clear picture of a bunch of agendas happily coinciding – ‘Sulzberger! Find me a Wisconsin union guy who agrees with the Governor!’ – and to hell with the facts or the fact-checking or the spelling, with the truth coming to light only from – gasp! – an actual union guy (from the devil UAW itself!), has been reduced to a “PS, the publisher’s kid kinda screwed up on the most important domestic news story of the moment”
How did the Times respond to the problem that their source didn't actually belong to a union?
The times later printed a retraction of word salad gobbletygook , buried in the back pages, explaining he "described himself to a reporter as a “union guy,” he now says that he has worked at unionized factories, but was not himself a union member".
The story had legs on Fox News and Governor Walker even told the fake Koch
Walker to Fake Koch: The lead on this story’s about a guy who was laid off two years ago, he’d been laid off twice by GM, who points out that everybody else in his town has had to sacrifice except for all these public employees, and it’s about damn time they do and he supports me. And they had a bartender, they had—every stereotypical blue collar worker-type, they interviewed, and the only ones who weren’t with us were ones who were either a public employee or married to a public employee. It’s an unbelievable—
Keith ends the commentary with..
This is the first time I’ve agreed with Governor Walker: An unbelievable? Indeed, it is an unbelievable!