Right rallies for 'Empty Chair Day' - AFSCME president Lee Saunders kicks "Eastwood" chair off stage

Politico ^ | TIM MAK and JUANA SUMMERS

[Cincinatus' Wife]

The right rallied on Labor Day to celebrate “National Empty Chair Day,” a show of solidarity with Clint Eastwood after his infamous address to an invisible President Barack Obama at the Republican National Convention last week.

...Notable conservatives like Michelle Malkin and writers at Breitbart.com, as well blogger Prof. Glenn Reynolds, kicked off the trend, according to the conservative blog Legal Insurrection.

The blog, which had asked readers to send in photos of empty chairs, updated its post midday to say that the response had been so overwhelming — and the backlog of photos so great — that they were forced to close submissions.

....Meanwhile, #Eastwooding — which was trending on Twitter last week after the Hollywood icon’s speech, and refers to an address to an empty chair — has arrived at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte.

....AFSCME president Lee Saunders, capping off a fiery speech to the Wisconsin delegation Monday morning, held a conversation with an invisible Eastwood.

“Dirty Harry, Dirty Harry, make my day,” Saunders yelled, knocking the empty chair off of the stage....

[Cincinatus' Wife]

AFSCME: American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees -- Labor unions made my day.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Cincinatus' Wife.

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[Cincinatus' Wife]

Lee Saunders

[SNIP]

Labor Day message from Lee Saunders [SNIP] "....During the Republican National Convention, the cause of working people has been subjected to numerous attacks designed to undermine public support for unions and the role unions play in promoting an economy that works for all. On the opening night of the convention, South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley accused President Obama of sacrificing American workers "to pacify the bullying union bosses he counts as political allies," when he stood up for union members in the manufacturing sector. New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie denounced teacher unions while falsely claiming that unions oppose high standards and accountability.

The New York Times reports that the GOP platform "calls for numerous steps that could significantly weaken America's labor unions — public-sector and private-sector ones — and help speed organized labor's overall decline." The platform calls for a nationwide Right to Work for Less law and encourages all states to eliminate the right of public employees to engage in collective bargaining. The platform opposes the right of unions in the private sector to organize through majority sign-up, even though that has been the law of the land since the 1930s....." [SNIP]

[FlingWingFlyer]

Obviously, the communists cannot take a joke. Those Neanderthals take themselves way too seriously.

[barmag25]

The chair is bowing. Look at the screen.

[SueRae]

That made MY day! I just love red-blooded American sense of humor!

[Proud2BeRight]

Good to see the empty chair is annoying the radical leftists that much.

[MileHi]

The New York Times reports that the GOP platform "calls for numerous steps that could significantly weaken America's labor unions — public-sector and private-sector ones — and help speed organized labor's overall decline."

GREAT!

[floralamiss]

Very good!

[1_Rain_Drop]

"“Dirty Harry, Dirty Harry, make my day,” Saunders yelled, knocking the empty chair off of the stage...."

Didn't Clint already make his day?

Did Saunders really kick ECOTUS off the stage? Cool! Saunders doesn't obama either! LOL

[lowbridge]

Oh, is that obama bowing? I didn’t recognize him without the teleprompter.

[chiller]

More evidence that Eastwood's performance was inconsequential, embarrassing, etc....nothing to worry about, eh ?

Thou dost protest too much.

[MarkL]

AFSCME president Lee Saunders, capping off a fiery speech to the Wisconsin delegation Monday morning, held a conversation with an invisible Eastwood.

“Dirty Harry, Dirty Harry, make my day,” Saunders yelled, knocking the empty chair off of the stage....

As usual, union bosses trying to incite violence by their thugs.

Obama, Pelosi, and Blabbermouth Schultz talk about being civil, while unleashing their pitbulls in the unions and ministry of propaganda.

Mark

[Spunky]

After to much of this

WE NOW HAVE THIS IN THE WHITE HOUSE.

[Iron Munro]

Sorry Girls - This Seat's Taken

[floralamiss]

Dirty Lee, Dirty Lee soiled his drawers onstage? Our gentleman, Mr. Eastwood, expressed his point without even raising his voice. And he damaged the chair without even using his foot.

[manc]

yet their sister rag the boston globe had problems with their union.

The left are so warped and brainwashed that they fail to see their hypocrisy or the problems their agenda brings to people

[2ndDivisionVet]

In a previous life I belonged to AFSCME. It makes the SEIU look like the Camp Fire Girls. It’s the S.A. of the Left.

[RandallFlagg]

Here's mine:

[FlingWingFlyer]

The freeloading, union knuckledraggers aren’t having a good year. LOL!