Posted on 08/26/2010 3:11:03 PM PDT by Michael Eden
I have said it again and again: the quintessential defining essence of liberalism is hypocrisy.
And it's not just in the big picture, in which 'to be a liberal' means 'to be generous with other peoples' money.' It's in everything they say and do, like that little bit of yeast which works its way through the whole batch of dough (Galatians 5:9).
Today we have AFL-CIO president Richard Trumka showing us what a particularly vile species of hypocrite liberal looks like:
Trumka: 'Palinism' an 'ugly word' By MATT NEGRIN | 8/26/10 10:23 AM EDT Updated: 8/26/10 3:01 PM EDTFor the record, "Trumkaism" has been an ugly word at least since 1993. You'll soon know why, if you don't already.AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka will tell Alaskans on Thursday that there’s something “just not right” with their former governor, Sarah Palin, who he says is “getting close to calling for violence” in her rhetoric.
He’ll also predict that Palin will “go down in history like McCarthy,” referring to Wisconsin Republican Sen. Joseph McCarthy, whose unsubstantiated labeling of Americans as communists and communist sympathizers during the 1950s gave the world the word “McCarthyism.”
“Palinism will become an ugly word,” Trumka will say at a convention in Anchorage, according to prepared remarks. “Who is this woman, anyway? What happened to her?” [snip]
“In this charged political environment, her kind of talk gets dangerous. ‘Don’t retreat … reload’ may seem clever, the kind of bull you hear all the time, but put it in context. She’s using crosshairs to illustrate targeted legislators. She’s on the wrong side of the line there. She’s getting close to calling for violence. And some of her fans take that stuff seriously. We’ve got legislators in America who have been living with death threats since the health care votes,” he will say.
I've dealt with these utterly asinine rantings over Michelle Bachmann's and Sarah Palin's "calls for violence" before. I've written about how Sarah Palin used surveyor symbols, NOT target symbols; and how it was actually DEMOCRATS who used "crosshair" symbols. And how the fact that Democrats are documented liars on issue after issue never keeps them from telling the same lies over and over again.
At least she didn't call upon her followers to bring guns and gun down their opponents, like Barack Obama did, right?
“If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun,” Obama said at a Philadelphia fundraiser Friday night. “Because from what I understand folks in Philly like a good brawl. I’ve seen Eagles fans.”And I must point out that Obama said this in the violent climate of Philadelphia, in which the murder rate is three times the national average.
Why are liberals so violent and so full of hate? Why do they want to bring guns and murder people? Especially when - hypocrites that they are - they routinely seek to take guns away from others?
But enough about talking about Obama and his own hypocritical demagoguery. Let's keep our focus on AFL-CIO President Trumka and his massive demagogic hypocrisy.
The following astonishing video posted on WorldNews.com tells the story of the union's Bizarro-world nonviolence answer to Gandhi:
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Do you mind if I call you "Dick," Richard? Because you surely are one in every derogatory sense of the word.
You really need to watch the video to see how vile and violent a man Trumka truly is. But here's the short version of the story.
On the orders of the United Mine Workers (UMW), 16,000 miners went on strike in 1993. One subcontractor, Eddie York (who was not a UMW member), decided it was important to support his wife and three children and crossed picket lines to get to his job. He was shot in the head as he left the job site to go home. UMW President Richard Trumka (now Secretary-Treasurer at the AFL-CIO) told The Washington Times that "if you strike a match and put your finger in, common sense tells you you're going to burn your finger." UMW strike captain Jerry Dale Lowe was found guilty of weapons charges and conspiracy in York's death, and York's widow Wanda sued the union for her husband's wrongful death. The UMW fought the lawsuit for four years, but settled with Wanda York only two days after federal prosecutors announced that they would share evidence from the criminal trial with York's attorneys.The short version doesn't include the fact that Richad Trumka's union thugs - in addition to shooting a good family man in the head and murdering him - threw rocks at the rescue workers who showed up to try to save Eddie York's life as he lay dying.
As head of the United Mine Workers, Trumka ordered a nationwide strike against Peabody Coal in 1993. On July 22, a non-union worker, Eddie York, was shot in the back of the head and killed as he attempted to pass striking coal workers. Picketers continued to throw rocks after York was shot, preventing his would be rescuers from assisting him.[14]. Trumka and other United Mine Workers officials settled a wrongful death lawsuit with Mr. York's widow out of court in 1997.And it was following that vicious display of supreme ugly violence that Richard Trumka delivered his "he got just what he deserved" remark.
Which is to say, the man whose union thugs murdered a man, and then threw rocks at the rescue workers trying to save his life - the man who subsequently so callously said, "If you strike a match and put your finger in, common sense tells you you're going to burn your finger" - THAT MAN IS DARING TO RAISE THE ISSUE OF SARAH PALIN INCITING VIOLENCE????
What we need is freedom from savage union violence. Not bitching about Sarah Palin's demands for reform of a broken system.
And this ugly, fat, loathsome pig of a man has the naked hypocrisy to claim that Sarah Palin is inciting violence? For using the word "reload" and for using what is now proven to have been surveyor symbols to pinpoint vulnerable Democrat districts? Really?
In promoting Richard Trumka, the AFL-CIO demonstrated that they are perfectly at home with violence. Not only "calling for it," but actively causing it. And until they fire this fat rat bastard, they can kindly keep their obnoxious hypocrite mouths shut when it comes to taking the moral high ground on anything, let alone accusations of inciting violence.
Union thugs, inciters to riot and violence and union bully boy killers call out Sarah Palin: lmao!
I forgot to correct a link.
The link to:
“Picketers continued to throw rocks after York was shot, preventing his would be rescuers from assisting him”
should be
http://cases.justia.com/us-court-of-appeals/F3/65/1137/529527
THE LEFT
Not counting the untold millions of unborn children who they have supported aborting, the Godless leftists have killed more than 160 million people .. time to get these thugs under control.
I’ll go with his being prosecuted. With extreme prejudice.
Only a socialist is capable of such massive chutzpah.
It’s kind of like North Korea sitting on the UN Human Rights Commission and denouncing other countries for their treatment of their people.
Trumka is also a LIAR...
AFL-CIO Chief to Breitbart: I Witnessed Racism at Tea Party Rally
Last night Andrew Breitbart had a confrontation with AFL-CIO Chief on the Harvard University Campus about Tea Party racism. Byron York wrote up the exchange at the Washington Examiner:
In the question-and-answer session, Breitbart said there is no video or audio evidence of either event happening. Breitbart has, in fact, offered a $100,000 award to anyone who produces evidence that the racial insult actually occurred, and so far he has had no takers.
Until now. As Breitbart spoke, Trumka said he himself had seen the events in question. “I watched them spit at people, I watched them call John Lewis the n-word,” Trumka said. “I witnessed it, I witnessed it. I saw it in person. That’s real evidence.” Here is the exchange between the two men, from the Kennedy School video of the event. (The exchange begins with Breitbart’s question at 38:33.
This commie pig can go straight to hell. His kind will eventually receive the same comeuppance as the rulers of the former communist nations of eastern Europe.
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I’m thinking of Benito Mussolini myself.
“I watched them spit at people, I watched them call John Lewis the n-word,” Trumka said. “I witnessed it, I witnessed it. I saw it in person. That’s real evidence.”
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And Trumka was in the room where the Bush administration decided to bring down the WTC Towers on 9/11. That of course being after was he standing in the studio where they faked the moon landing.
Anyone, who in anyway, opposes their communist take over of America is inciting them to respond with violence.
Think Trumka's frustrations r w/Obama, not me (high unemplymnt, deals w/Obama&his subsequent broken promises)so understandable Rich's ticked
about 5 hours ago via Twitter for BlackBerry®
Know our hardworking union friends (esp from my days as an IBEW sister, Todd IBEW & USW brother) aren't sheep, they'll ask: Trumka's motive?
about 5 hours ago via Twitter for BlackBerry®
If Sarah Palin’s body were to die, she would still continue to live on in the heads of liberals for years to come.
It’s as if she carved out a living space for herself inside the minds of liberals, and just repeatedly zaps their few remaining functioning brain cells with a cattle prod.
He was also probably with Dennis Kucinich when he saw all those UFOs too./sarc
Obama To Supporters: "Argue With Friend and Neighbors Get In Their Face!" video
Obama Mocks Fox, "Teabaggers" video
Obama Mocks Republican 'Armageddon' Rhetoric (Again) video
Obama: Police Acted 'stupidly' in Scholar Arrest video
Obama On GOP Running On Repeal: 'Go For It' video
NRA: Barack Obama - "bitter gun owners" video
President Obama, No One in Arizona is Laughing video
Obama, during his private pep talk to Democrats, ... asked, “Does anybody think that the teabag, anti-government people are going to support them if they bring down health care? All it will do is confuse and dispirit” Democratic voters “and it will encourage the extremists.” - Nov. 7, 2009
Obama Attacks Americans – Says Those Who Support AZ Law Are “Anti-Immigrant” (video)
A President who mocks and taunts Americans, who incites his followers to be confrontational, is troublesome.
He was also probably with Dennis Kucinich when he saw all those UFOs too./sarc
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Dennis Kucinich: he who was anally probed by Martians at least one time too many.
Good comeback!!!
That is a GREAT compilation of crap, Tigers eye.
I will copy it to a file so I can deliver it to the next leftwing slimeball who crosses my path.
Sarah and Todd know the workers....personally....Would love to see her bring down THAT good ol boy system.
On Fox this afternoon Cavuto did a segment on this and the hypocrisy was on full display.
This one is obviously about 0bama inciting division. Submissions are very welcome and re-use and dissemination is great.
If you want the HTML for it highlight it all, right click on it and choose 'view selection source' then copy what is highlighted in the new window that pops up. Unfortunately my Yahoo mail messes up the HTML when I paste it in to an e-mail but perhaps a different e-mail client will let you do that. That way you get all the live links in a few steps.
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