Posted on 03/23/2011 10:26:14 AM PDT by Libloather
What to Make of SEIU Official's Supposed Socialist Fantasy Plan
By John Hudson Mar 22, 2011
A new tape posted on Glenn Beck's political website, The Blaze, purportedly shows a former Service Employees International Union official sharing plans to "destabilize the country."
In the seven-minute video, a voice that sounds like Stephen Lerner, the former director of private equity at the SEIU pictured above, details plans to "bring down the stock market," bankrupt major U.S. banks and create an environment where a weakened financial sector cedes power to union organizers and the middle class in general.
The talk purportedly happened at a closed session at Pace University over the weekend. The plan, which smacks of socialist fantasy, is to bankrupt the nation's banks by convincing students, homeowners and city and state governments to stop paying their loans in a coordinated debt strike.
Given past episodes of "shocking" recordings proving less shocking upon review, as well as The Blaze's strong conservative leanings, this should probably be taken with a deep dose of skepticism. That said, earlier this month, The Blaze did publish a fair-minded report on the misleading editing job of James O'Keefe's NPR sting, which shifted the public perception of the hit job.
Business Insider's Henry Blodget has picked the up the Stephen Lerner story though noting that he couldn't verify Lerner's voice.
What saith Media Matters, the liberal watchdog group that makes a habit out of aggressively dismissing such videos? Thus far the group is just posting stand-alone excerpts from Glenn Beck's show this morning. We'll update if anything more comes of Lerner's anti-capitalist coup plans. Here's the video:
(Excerpt) Read more at theatlanticwire.com ...
Rush actually very clearly said the video is posted at theblaze.com. all the holier than thou types can cite business insider as the source, and beck secondarily - which, in the end, might get the story more exposure than if it was beck exclusively. Even though that is unfair, I think it’s the reality of the landscape re beck. atleast the story is out there.
Well Maybe we Can ask the Purported Mr Lerner What he was Doing at The White House after he was let Go By SEIU.
Sort Of Like The Purported Presidency of Barack Obama,we can take what he says about anything to the Bank Right?
For example the end Game in Libya,Take your Pick behind Door Number 1,2 Or 3
I disagree. 75percent of the people in the country haven't a clue that this is happening and probably another 10 or 15 % don't believe that it is possible.So much for public education. We all live in Rio Linda now.
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This isn’t rocket science. If leftist pigs want to kill you and your family, you kill them and their families first.
It’s called war.
Can you back that up or is it just hot air and wishful thinking??
capitalism is not perfect, but at least the premise is if you work hard, you can attain some semblence of a comfortable life on your terms....
Better still, they'll explain how the transcript and quotes are decontextualized and/or polemically spun by untrustworthy intermediaries (not like professional MSM), so that they can't be trusted anymore.
Fallback one, the quotes are mostly correct, but background and key atmospherics are missing from the bald and therefore unrepresentative quotations. More context and, frankly, expertise (as in, "I went to Columbia J-School and you, on the other hand ..... did not!!") are needed to place the quotes in a truer light and to understand at a truly broad level what was actually being said, and intended, and meant, by these provocative and unfortunately sensationalized recordings.
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“Can you back that up or is it just hot air and wishful thinking??”
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Thanks. What a despicable situation!!
What a pile of you-know-what!
Yellow journalism at it’s worst....
“...a voice that sounds like Stephen Lerner...,” and “..noting that he couldn’t verify Lerner’s voice...”
Just read an interview with Lerner acknowledging and “justifying” his statements.
Bottom line here: Beck consistently says, “don’t believe anything I say just because I say it.....Check it out yourself!.” And consistently Beck makes a point of digging up and showing, usually at a length disproving the “out of context” claim, the progressives own words, in their own voice - often their own videos.....
Interesting that none of the criticism of Beck seems to actually dispute, or even attempt to dispute, the facts (or if you prefer evidence) presented by Beck, but rather focus on hanging “labels” on him......”crazy”.....”conspiracist”....”nut case”.....
Sorta reminds you of the attacks on Sarah Palin doesn’t it?
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