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 Right-Wing Hitman Andrew Breitbart Targets Union-Friendly ProfessorsPosted on Apr 30, 2011
Andrew Breitbart, founder and publisher of America’s premier right-wing smear outfit, BigGovernment.com, has released yet another candid cam hatchet job, this one supposedly showing two professors at the University of Missouri instructing students on how to use violence to further the goals of the labor movement. The only problem is that the videos appear to be a heavily edited fraud, like the ones Breitbart released targeting ACORN, Shirley Sherrod, NPR and other political targets in the GOP’s cross hairs. While publicly the university defended the professors against Breitbart’s charges, school administrators demanded in private that one of the professors submit his resignation. The professor said after quitting, “Teachers here are no longer going to be able to express comments, theories or counter-positions or make statements to force students to push back and critically challenge the comments and statements of the teacher.” The takeaway message: Breitbart’s Internet video hit jobs are extremely effective. Welcome to McCarthyism 2.0. —YL
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By Leefeller, May 1, 2011 at 8:22 pm Link to this comment
It is a well known fact, union bashing is a favorite past time of the Republicans/Tea Bags sponsored by their money bags benefactors. Since the Steel workers strikes in the early 20th century, the corporate bosses bought adds calling the steel workers unions Bolsheviks and Communists and did a great job getting the people to go against their own best interests, against labor, the steel workers.
Britt has researched Fascist regimes and came up with 14 points of Fascism, here is number 10!
“10. Power of labor suppressed or eliminated”
by Dr. Laurence Britt
“Since organized labor was seen as the one power center that could challenge the political hegemony of the ruling elite and its corporate allies, it was inevitably crushed or made powerless. The poor formed an underclass, viewed with suspicion or outright contempt. Under some regimes, being poor was considered akin to a vice.”
Labor is the most important commodity, people as labor should have the right to negotiate their working conditions and they should have a right to collective bargaining thought a union if they want..
Report thisBy mackTN, May 1, 2011 at 5:54 pm Link to this comment
I don’t get this. Violence in the labor industry, used as a tactic, has been an
option for both union people and owners/management. Heck, corporations hired
their own security, like the Pinkertons, to beat up and kill people who threatened
their profits.
I don’t understand this story. Is the university claiming that the professor was
telling her students to use violence at work?
Your insight, please.
Report thisBy kerryrose, May 1, 2011 at 12:41 pm Link to this comment
Somehow it is OK for this guy’s minions to film people without their permission BUT it is now illegal to film agribusiness’s inhumane practices… punishable by 30 years jail time.
This right-wing intimidation factor simply makes any left-leaning person fearful to speak their mind. The professor is correct. Where were the dissenting opinions in class? Secretly and cowardly exacting revenge for the audacity of non-conformity.
Report thisBy samosamo, May 1, 2011 at 10:01 am Link to this comment
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Report thisAnyone with a face like the one in the picture can only be just
one of the lowest pieces of crud to crawl around on this planet.
Of course since he upholds and promotes neoconservative
agendas, he is right and everybody else should be shot. Talk
about hypocritical, kill it all and start over with them in charge
which will stack the deck just right for a piece of fecal matter like
breitfart. Neocons don’t have to know anything about real
government as long as they pull the strings, write the rules and
enforce them, and ‘founding fathers’ is an aberration to them.
By gerard, May 1, 2011 at 9:42 am Link to this comment
Could I just point out that talking about non-violence cannot be done without talking about violence. And that even mere talking about non-violence scares people who “believe in” violence—whether they advocate it or not, and regardless of the hellish amount of evidence against it.
Report thisBy robert puglia, May 1, 2011 at 8:10 am Link to this comment
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ozarkmike; with friends like you, who needs animus?
Report thisBy ardee, May 1, 2011 at 8:09 am Link to this comment
Any who haven’t yet caught Breitbart’s act should view the latest Bill Maher show as he has, among two others, the snake Breitbart on the panel. Another member of the panel, a republican fund raiser and organizer, can be seen to shake his head in disbelief at Breitbart’s shenanigans which include continuing to shout down any who attempt to voice opinion.
Report thisBy ardee, May 1, 2011 at 8:05 am Link to this comment
OzarkMichael, May 1 at 6:26 am attempts to emulate both Breitbart and Beck in a somewhat vicious hit piece that uses the same tactics as do the aforementioned duo. That he concludes his attack with the admonition that no one on his side bother to defend his position may be a wise decision on his part because his comments, like those of Breitbart are reprehensible and just plain stupidly wrong.
After noting ( a principled action belying what else is contained in this post) that the comments were thought to be “heavily edited” he continues to seemingly lose his mind and sinks downward ever faster.
I recall, some years earlier the right wing junkie ( refute that Michael) Limbaugh took a speech by a senior senator and reversed the order of the paragraphs to completely distort the meaning of the speech. The right has used such tactics for decades in fact, despite the churlish and sophomoric comments by Michael here. I have come to expect a far more sophisticated defense of the right from this poster. I am very disappointed in him, frankly. This is far more reminiscent of our resident fairy tale king, brother Grym in fact than of one who I had thought to be far more clever than this.
After posting what is basically a hit piece, urging all to ignore the debate that should follow is both unacceptable and reeks of the author knowing full well how weak his position must be to any with an actual brain. Freedom to post inflammatory bullshite and scurry away is not what I have come to expect from OzarkMichael in fact
Report thisBy Ehrenstein, May 1, 2011 at 6:59 am Link to this comment
“We must demand a level playing field”
With a “Mainstream” meeadia bought and paid for by the Republican party?
Shirley (Sherrod) you jest!
Report thisBy Ehrenstein, May 1, 2011 at 6:48 am Link to this comment
“Level playing field”? ROTFALMAO!!!!
Report thisBy OzarkMichael, May 1, 2011 at 5:26 am Link to this comment
Conservative activists have come of age. We have learned that one stray word is enough to destroy a good speech, one stray sentence is enough to ruin a career. It is an excellent way to undermine the entire message of the other side.
Who did we learn it from?
We learned it from Leftist activists, at places like Truthdig. Hasnt Truthdig used that technique against conservatives? Finding that one stray sentence uttered by a conservative is a Truthdig specialty and the readers here lap it up. Do we ever get the whole story from a Truthdig article? Is it ever placed in context? No.
It is hypocritical for Truthdig(of all outlets!) to complain about this. Look at the article title, look at the way it characterized Breitbart, and lumps all his work together and applies a label to it:
“The only problem is that the videos appear to be a heavily edited fraud, like the ones Breitbart released targeting ACORN, Shirley Sherrod, NPR and other political targets in the GOP’s cross hairs.”
Truthdig advises you to ignore anything that happened. Nevermind anything that was said on any of those tapes. Nothing to see here! Nothing to learn, since they were all “heavily edited fraud” by “right-wing hitmen”.
Typical Leftist hatchet-job, typical sweeping it all under the rug, but most of all it is the typical Leftist double standard.
I advise any thoughtful conservative to avoid the trap of defending this or that tape of Breitbart’s for now. It is far more important to keep pointing out the double standard of the Leftists, who want unlimited freedom for themselves, but chains for us. We must demand a level playing field before having an argument, or we will always find ourselves sliding back downhill.
Report thisBy Chris Herz, April 30, 2011 at 6:41 pm Link to this comment
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ALL of the tactics used during Great Depression, version 1.0, are now illegal: Secondary boycotts, the sit-down strike, the general strike, etc., etc.
Report thisFew working men and women make it into the legislature or the courthouse (except as defendants), so their laws are never an impartial protection.
In the 1930’s our grandparents fought, literally, with guns and their fists against cops, Pinkerton agents, and the FBI in order to win basic stuff like the weekend! People in this struggle should remember the history and also be reminded that the same forces of reaction oppose us now as opposed our grandparents then.