Posted on 02/24/2015 8:50:21 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
It’s fascinating to watch the national media slowly come to realize just how fundamentally dishonest Gov. Scott Walker can be.
Walker’s likable, low-key personality makes a good first impression. But it didn’t take many in Wisconsin long to recognize the double-talking radical extremist behind that bland persona.
That’s why Wisconsin may now be the angriest, most politically polarized state in the nation. Now the rest of the country is beginning to see why.
Walker may seem like a wide-eyed, Midwestern innocent next to crude political thugs like former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani or Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, but that’s just because he’s perfected a mild-mannered, gentler form of dishonesty.
No one in Wisconsin is surprised that even though Walker said publicly during his re-election he wouldn’t support a right-to-work law in the current Legislature, Republicans are now rushing the law through with little public discussion and Walker’s support.
In Wisconsin, we know that what Walker says he’ll do when running for office bears little resemblance to what he does after he’s elected.
Walker biggest priority after he was elected in 2010 turned out to be something he never mentioned in his campaign—repealing half a century of labor law in Wisconsin to destroy collective bargaining rights for public employees.
Walker doesn’t even consider it a lie to support and sign a state right-to-work law after saying he wouldn’t. It’s just politics as he practices it.
Walker may not consider the other lies that Republicans tell—for example, to destroy people’s right to vote or refuse to expand health care—to be lies either. They’re just things Republicans say to justify the ugly things they do.
On right to work, Walker and right-wing Republicans say they’re really worried about the freedom of workers represented by unions. They want those workers to be free to receive higher pay and fringe benefits negotiated by unions without having to pay any union dues.
How do we know they’re lying? Because we already know what Republicans think of people they say receive something for nothing from the government.
Walker and his gang think all those people are lazy deadbeats who should be drug-tested within an inch of their lives.
The real reason Republicans support right-to-work laws is to cut wages for working people. Weaker unions mean lower wages. Walker and Republicans are simply delivering what the wealthy employers who contribute to their political campaigns want.
Smearing the President
Walker is now taking his personal form of dishonesty national. The performances of Walker and Giuliani at a Walker fundraiser in New York illustrated the difference between Giuliani’s old-style, political dishonesty and Walker’s new, improved version.
Giuliani smeared President Barack Obama in the old-fashioned, red-baiting way by accusing him of being un-American, saying America’s first black president wasn’t raised properly like the Republicans in the room.
“I know this is a horrible thing to say, but I do not believe that the president loves America,” Giuliani said.
Unlike other potential Republican presidential candidates, including Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio, who immediately distanced themselves from Giuliani’s offensive remarks, Walker denied the former mayor had crossed a line on his behalf.
Then, unbelievably, Walker said he really didn’t know whether the president of the United States was a patriotic American who loved his country or not.
“I’ve never asked the president so I don’t really know what his opinions are on that one way or another,” Walker said.
None of the rest of us has ever asked President Obama about his patriotism either, but anyone not blinded by racial hatred or dishonestly trying to attract votes from those haters certainly knows Obama, twice elected president based on his vision of how great America can and should be, loves his country.
Walker, however, apparently was so pleased with his clever, politically dishonest attack on the president that he attempted an even more outrageous version of it a few days later.
Walker, a Baptist minister’s son supported by the religious right, told reporters for The Washington Post he didn’t actually know whether President Obama was even a Christian.
“I don’t know,” Walker said. “I’ve actually never talked [to Obama] about it or I haven’t read about that. I’ve never asked him that.”
It’s remotely possible Walker really doesn’t read much and doesn’t know Obama is one of the most openly Christian presidents in American history, a man who sometimes inserts Bible verses and allusions to parables into his public speeches.
More likely Walker was simply sounding a racial dog whistle to get the attention of vicious racists who believe Obama is a Kenyan-born, Muslim terrorist.
After that blew up in Walker’s face with ugly headlines and Sunday talk show derision, his spokeswoman quickly backtracked: “Of course, the governor thinks the president is a Christian.” Well, why didn’t he say so?
It didn’t take long for the bright national spotlight to expose the dark, fundamentally dishonest side of Walker Wisconsin already knows.
I just saw the hit piece was from Joel McNally. Ardent socialist. He’s been screeding hatred for Walker since he was Milw County Exec. If Walker passed away he’d write an lengthy article about how Walker had just selfishly abandoned his family.
You mean like GW Bush?
The very same guy you excoriated for doing that?
I'd call this author an idiot, but I don't want to insult any idiots out there.
That is what they have always been, they just took a short break for WW II then as McCarthy learned they came back with a vengeance. Most people would not even know they had been had for all these years if not for FOX News and they are only slightly right of center.
Of course we now have the internet, at least for a couple more days any way, FCC votes to fix the internet on Thursday.
If unions are SO great, why are people dropping out of them?
Don't the peons know how much the unions "care" about them?
I know. Who knew that SEIU unionistas were "working people"?
The only time I see them is when they are bussed in by the thousands, wearing their purple shirts, in the middle of a "WORKDAY". Causing mayhem, piling up garbage, and beating people up.
THAT'S where union dues are going.
In addition to the pockets of the union bosses.
The SEIU "working people" get a free box lunch and a bus ride to a protest.
What the left’s “media” hate most about Walker is that he refuses to meekly allow himself to be boxed in. They spew out an incendiary, agenda-packed question, and he flummoxes them with a response that frustrates that divide-and-conquer agenda.
These stories were already written long before now... templated and prepped up, needing only unique bits of information to fill them out. Yet, these Stepford hacks still wonder why their ratings remain in the toilet.
The writer would have credibility if he substituted the half breed’s name for Walker’s. As it is, it is an angry hit piece devoid of meaningfulness.
“It’s fascinating to watch the national media slowly come to realize just how fundamentally dishonest Gov. Scott Walker can be.”
Bitter...party of one...your table is ready.
He does quote Scripture in many of his speeches, you know. ;)
...Like Bible says ‘People who live in glass houses should not throw stones.’ But he didn’t tell me what chapter and verse that came from.
McNally is a leftist columnist or ex-columnist for the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel. He’s been writing stupid, anti right-wing screeds for decades.
This is the sound of liberal heads exploding.
I doubt that Wisconsin is any more polarized than any other state in the nation.
Joe Mc Nutty and his birdcage liner arer are not credible sources for anything. Shepherd Express is like a paper from a very liberal university. Everything a young liberal or an old hippie wants to hear. It’s given away free on a rack in the entryway of the grocery store!
McNally’s attack on Walker tells me that another liberal demodummie sees that he (Walker) is indeed someone to fear.
Are these people vampires that the can't see themselves in the mirror? Are they so sheltered in their bubble, that the believe their own lies and smears? Either way, they're sick, sick, sick.
The Sheppard Express is a locally published ‘newspaper’ which fashions itself as an edgy, hip, progressive news source. The back pages are filled with ads for strip clubs, paraphernalia shops and rave concerts.
Joel McNally used to be a writer/commentator for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel until he was kicked to the curb. He was apparently too far left for even the Journal Sentinel to stomach.
There was a time when I enjoyed reading his Maureen Dowd styled columns at MJS. Then his psychosis went into full bloom.
I can appreciate the courage of the FReeper who dares to post an article he or she may not agree with, risking the lock-step assumption by others who assume the poster must somehow agree with the content of the article. That said, I’ve endured enough of Joel’s spittle soaked rantings to last me several lifetimes and will summarily bypass the hate filled ravings by this lunatic.
In his perfect world people like me would have their heads displayed on pikes in Red Rock park.
My understanding of the dilemma which Wisconsin faced when Walker was elected Governor was this; the previous Democrat governor, Jim Doyle, had totally caved to the Wisconsin teachers’ unions and had given them all a huge raise in salary and benefits. It was far beyond what the Wisconsin treasury had, so Doyle went into the teachers’ union retirement savings and bankrupted their treasury. So, the newly retiring teachers were facing an empty fund to pay them their retirement bennies.
I think I have it right. Perhaps Diana in Wisconsin can clarify this for us.
That’s kinda what I meant.
Joel McNally doesn’t even deserve the respect of a
bad journalist. He comes across like a rank amateur.
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