Posted on 12/19/2013 3:37:08 PM PST by ThethoughtsofGreg
If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, what a compliment Michigan AFL-CIO President Karla Swift just paid to the liberal Center for Media and Democracy.
In an op-ed piece in the Detroit News published Wednesday, Swift breathlessly rails against the American Legislative Exchange Council and the State Policy Network, describing each as “corporate-funded, right-wing organizations that push an agenda focused on attacking workers’ rights, blocking access to affordable (health care), defunding and privatizing public education, suppressing voting rights, lowering taxes for corporations and the ultra-wealthy, cutting essential public spending and destroying the environment.”
Her critique certainly is not a surprising characterization from Big Labor against a conservative model legislation organization and a free-market think tank that unions and liberals despise.
Except Swift’s vitriol isn’t her own. She appears to have lifted much of her attack word for word from a Center for Media and Democracy state “toolkit” pushed out to “friends and allies” in all 50 states.
It’s Madison-based CMD’s gift that keeps on giving in its crusade in “exposing” ALEC and SPN.
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“corporate-funded, right-wing organizations that push an agenda much like corporate funded left wing organizations that push a mental disorder?
“Free speech” — to the left — has always meant shouting down opposing viewpoints.
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