Posted on 09/02/2010 2:59:13 PM PDT by KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka charged Thursday that if Republican political star Sarah Palin is not more careful in her choice of words, the political movement she has helped to create will be linked with McCarthyism, the 1950s-era crusade by Sen. Joseph McCarthy to brand political enemies as communists.
Mr. Trumka’s comments about his strained relations with Ms. Palin came at a Monitor-sponsored breakfast for reporters, where he was asked how his previous critical words about the 2008 GOP vice-presidential nominee squared with his call for union members to save their anger for “corporate lapdogs” and Senate Republicans.
The comments were “totally consistent,” Trumka said. “She has taken on a position of leadership, and whether it is rightfully given to her or not, she is there. And so she can’t use loose language that foments … changing that anger to hatred or that action to violence.” He continued, “If she doesn’t change her ways, then Palinism will be equated with other forms of McCarthyism that fomented division among the populace and acts of hatred among the populace.”
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Me to AFL-CIO president: Change or be linked to the hemorrhoid attached to my sphincter.
Conservative to AFL-CIO president, change or be linked to Stalin.
Duck Season, Wabbit Season, Duck Season, Wabbit Season, Wabbit Season, Duck Season, Dumb Look...KABOOM!
Hate campaigns are like noxious viruses - they inoculate the victim if they fail to kill her. And she doesn't look very dead to me.
Who the hell cares? Most people are too dumb anymore to know about McCarthyism. Whatta dope. McCarthy must have been right on.
I suggest people in 2010 be more concerned about Obamaism.
“Sarah Palin is not more careful in her choice of words, the political movement she has helped to create will be linked with McCarthyism”
Oooh—Sarah better be afraid—next thing you know they’ll be calling her a racist.
Shut your mouth, you guys are nothing more then a bunch of union thugs.
Let us talk about mandatory union dues and closed shop states from which you get your exclusive golf courses and those vital union leader conferences that are always in luxury spas. Let’s talk about union corruption that is swept under the rug because it is a brother or cousin. Let’s talk about killing companies because the current generation of workers need to get theirs even though everyone knows the company will die from the excess. Yes, let us talk Mr Trumka!
Trumpka: The sagitally-crested, mouth-breathing knuckledragger who thinks Sarah Palin is the throwback.
by Sarah Palin on Thursday, August 26, 2010 at 5:57pm.Two years ago almost to the day, I was thrilled to meet with union members at the Alaska AFL-CIO Convention in Anchorage to sign important job-creation legislation related to the Alaska Gasline Inducement Act. As a former card-carrying IBEW sister married to a proud former IBEW and later USW member, it was a great moment for all of us. Our Alaska union brothers and sisters helped build our state! Many of them risked their lives to complete our infrastructure, including the Trans-Alaska Pipeline that stretches over treacherous mountain ranges from the North Slope oil fields to Valdez. By signing that job-creation bill surrounded by union members, I was paying tribute to them and acknowledging that they would be valued partners in the construction of Alaska’s long awaited natural gas pipeline. I was honored that day to receive a standing ovation from them for signing a bill that provided a Project Labor Agreement to bring good jobs to these good men and women.
Today, AFL-CIO president Richard Trumka came to Alaska (on a trip paid for with union dues) to preach the usual Beltway nonsense. There was a bit of the politics of personal destruction thrown around, and he mixed it in with the same old big government agenda that has been rejected in union halls, town halls, and voting booths all over our country.
I’m not sure why he’s attacking my record when I’m not the one responsible for the policies resulting in continued mass unemployment and a weak economy (that would be the man in the large white house on Pennsylvania Avenue). Among my “crimes,” the union boss cited the fact that I sometimes write notes on my hand (guilty as charged!); that I appear on cable television every once in a while to comment on the news (it’s called the First Amendment, Rich); and that my commonsense conservatism makes him laugh. Well, I guess that’s better than the failed leftwing big government policies of “his friend” Barack Obama, which makes the rest of us cry.
Trumka’s even worried I’m going to get violent against him. It’s kind of ironic that a union boss has the gall to accuse anyone of threatening violence. After all, we remember the violent attempts by SEIU to intimidate those who wanted to make their voices heard in last year’s town halls. And unlike Trumka, I never threatened that any effort to break a picket line would lead to violence. Come to think of it, neither did I ever hide behind the Fifth Amendment during a federal investigation about union corruption. Then again, I was just an ordinary, card-carrying union member, not one of the big shots who ended up, unfortunately, giving unions a bad name.
Trumka’s attempts to put himself on the side of the working man and woman would be more convincing if he weren’t a career union boss who’s spent most of his life in DC. No surprise then that his priorities aren’t the priorities of the average working man or woman, but of the Beltway power player. My fellow union brothers and sisters have had their union dues squandered for far too long by a few of the union bosses who work for partisan politics and not the good blue collar Americans who have to fund their cushy salaries.
Trumka purposely misquoted something I said in a speech I gave in Texas a few months ago. Let me clarify things for him: I never called union members “thugs.” You lie. I called some union leaders “thugs.” And I refuse to apologize for that because they have acted like thugs – at least in this day and age.
In the past there were many great union leaders who courageously defended the rights of workers. Unions were founded for all the right reasons! They were to give working men and women the clout to negotiate fairly with their employers and to fight for decent pay and working conditions. The unions of old would often end up fighting big government on behalf of the little guy. Today’s unions seem to be big government’s most enthusiastic supporters. It’s turned into some nonsense when union bosses back the government takeover of the car industry, and the mortgage industry, and the entire health care sector. And with the help of big government they aim to push through card check legislation that some characterize as being unfair to workers, and even un-American, because of its insistence on stripping workers of their right to privacy with a secret ballot. And that’s not just me voicing concern over card check – ask current union members how comfortable they are with what some of their leaders are saying about the legislation.
To my hardworking, patriotic brothers and sisters in the labor movement: you don’t have to put up with the scare tactics and the big government agenda of the union bosses. There is a different home for you: the commonsense conservative movement. It cares about the same things you and I care about: a government that doesn’t spend beyond its means, an economy focused on creating good jobs with good wages, and a leadership that is proud of America’s achievements and doesn’t go around apologizing to everyone for who we are.
This November, you have a choice. You can go with the flow and merely pull the lever the way they tell you to. Or you can join millions of others, and take a stand for freedom and independence and dignity, while still being part of a greater working community.
Join us. I promise you, you won’t regret it, and Americans who want good jobs for our families will be better off for it!
- Sarah Palin
Show 'em the pimp hand, Sarah! *WHACK* -- !!! ;)
This union thug is trying to get her attention (again). I think he has a crush on her.
Furthermore, he’s worried sick that her FB entry was read and accepted by a whole lot of union families. FB reaches zillions.
Oh, great. Sarah comes home late one evening... notices a large, covered pot boiling away merrily atop the stove... walks over, lifts the lid... screams as she sees the parboiled bunny... ;)
Trumka is a fat punk. You get his idiot union boys alone, in a dark parking lot, with no witnesses around, they agree with whatever you say.
I know his union guys well. I’m a 30-year MI resident.
Beck and his new website The Blaze have a video of Trumka on a conference call with creepy Euro-Socialists with Trumka advocating for a UN Worldwide tax. Beck will defend his friend Sarah Palin. Trumka’s losing on this one. Creepy Euro-Socialist tax-raiser vs. Patriotic American Mom. Who wins? You decide.
Unions are nothing more than a branch of socialism...which is a branch of communisum.
Pack sand commies!
McCarthy was an american hero!!!
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