Posted on 06/04/2012 7:05:50 PM PDT by Kaslin
On Sunday's CBS Evening News, John Dickerson candidly admitted that a failed recall attempt of Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker "would be a big blow" to the unions, and that it "would be a sign to any Republican contemplating similar action to limit unions that you could survive, and Walker will become the poster child and hero of that effort." Poster child?
Dickerson predicted that there "would be a lot of infighting in Democratic circles, with unions saying the national Democratic parties and their president didn't do enough" if Walker won. But he immediately added a more sunny spin, that "it might galvanize union supporters for the presidential election, on the theory that they're under threat and they need a president who's on their side. "
Anchor Jeff Glor brought on Dickerson for his take on the upcoming election in Wisconsin. Glor noted that "the latest polling would seem to indicate that Scott Walker does survive," and then asked, "If that happen, what does that mean moving forward?"
The former Time journalist said Walker’s victory should be seen as imported: "In part, you would survive because you got outside help. Walker outspent his opponent three to one. Anyone raising money for conservative causes could point to Walker's survival and say, we can defeat the vaunted machine of organized labor if we just have the money."
Dickerson gave his spin immediately after noting the potential for "infighting" between the unions and prominent Democrats. Glor followed up by asking about President Obama's hands-off approach to the recall: "John, Wisconsin is a battleground state. Why is the President not been campaigning there?"
In reply, the CBS on-air personality played up that Wisconsin is "a battleground state in which the President is ahead, at the moment, of Mitt Romney in the polls, and his approval rating is above 51 percent, which is above where he is nationally. That means he's healthier politically in Wisconsin." But he added that "it doesn't mean he has enough power to sway the recall election. So, if he did insert himself, the recall might have become a referendum on him, dealing him a blow in a contest over which he really doesn't have much control."
Three weeks earlier, on the May 11, 2012 edition of CBS Evening News, Dickerson touted the supposed veracity of the allegation that probable Obama opponent Mitt Romney bullied a classmate in high school: "He's [Romney] in a pickle there because, on the one hand, he can say it didn't happen at all. The reporting of the story seems pretty solid. Every single detail may not be exactly as it happened, but certainly, something happened, and a lot of people are on the record."
[Update: The full transcript of the Dickerson segment, which began six minutes into the 6 pm Eastern hour on Sunday's CBS Evening News, is available at MRC.org.]
[Special thanks to MRC intern Kelly McGarey for transcribing the Dickerson segment].
They are still clinging to the corpse of the “bullying” desperately trying to secure the pantywaist vote.
Walker is going to need to win the rhetorical war as much as the recall election. His response to this nonsense should be: “I’m not anti-union, I’m pro-Wisconsin!”
Remember to send your support and love tomorrow to Wisconsin Governor, Scott Walker. The recall election initiated by big labor and radical liberal activists is not only one of the most petty and negligent, but one of the most expensive in history. I commend Mr. Walker for standing up for his beliefs, the welfare of those Americans who foot the bill, despite the incessant threats of Union thugs. I have no problem respecting the right of workers to organize, but it is less and less a movement born out of necessity - working conditions, discrimination, unfair compensation - and more and more a means of holding businesses and state governments hostage to unscrupulous politics and absurd demands.
Instead of adopting a no nonsense bargaining mantra, unions have become the puppets of the Democratic party; selling out the liberties of their brethren, the cornerstone of America’s blessings, for the anti-capitalist platform of leftist twits who will stop at nothing to conceal the Constitution - the rights of individual, taxpaying Americans - beneath the usurping umbrella of Big Government. In other words, they don’t want you to think for yourself, they want your blind allegiance, another bullet in the gun of coercion to fulfill their egocentric agenda, to empty your wallets in the name of corporate envy and egalitarian excuses; which has nothing to do with what’s best for you or this country. No More! God Bless Scott Walker and may his victory tomorrow be a beacon of strength for millions living under the boot of Big Brother: aka, liberal fascism!
Pay no attention to the clenched black fist. That's a symbol of "freedom", right?
Oh, a clenched fist. How original.
“But he immediately added a more sunny spin, that “it might galvanize union supporters for the presidential election, on the theory that they’re under threat and they need a president who’s on their side.””
Is that the same President that did 6 fundraisers 20 minutes away from Wisconsin and didn’t bother to stop in and offer support?
Funny thing is that the unions themselves played a big part in electing Rick Snyder and he’s wishy washy on unions outside of signing legislation sent to his desk.
On the other hand, they don’t list the Indiana governor where they actually got a right to work law passed.
So why would being the “anti-union poster child” be a bad thing? Sounds good to me.
Poster Child? Let’s hope so.
One step in the line of many to defeat the insane.
Considering that Wisconsin AFSCME lost 60% of its membership when dues became voluntary... what’s the downside again?
That’s a cleaned up version. I saw a version where they were all dressed in Nazi regalia and with moustaches.
Aint it great? We get to pay taxes so “artists” can develop propaganda that calls us fascists. I think I’ll ask Walker to stop that in the rest of his term.
The only clenched fists I ever saw were raised by leftists or black power zealots(I also remember the 60s and Hanoi Jane and many others giving that salute).
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker is the “Anti-Union/Pro-American Poster Child”.
Cool....see how I did that?
There isn't. It's over, one way or another. Hard Landing, or Soft Landing. Make your choice, idiots.
Get It Straight,we are Talking about GOVERNMENT WORKERS BEING UNIONIZED!!!!!! NOT PRIVATE SECTOR UNIONS!!! Cant anyone walk and Chew Gum at the same time? Even the patron saint of the Democrats Franklin Delano Roosevelt Knew That Government Workers being Unionized was a Disaster for Private Citizens who are left Paying the Freight for all the Corruption between the Politicians and the Government workers,the General Public gets Screwed,Period end of story.
If you want to Unionize in the private sector FINE GO AHEAD,but not GOVERNMENT WORKERS! Why cant Reporters Get the Difference?
Chris Christie earned that title; he cost a lot of public employees their jobs in an attempt to keep taxes affordable in NJ. He would handily win re-election today.
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