Posted on 08/26/2010 12:28:26 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka is calling Sarah Palin "almost a parody of herself" who will "go down in history like McCarthy" in a speech in Alaska today.
When it comes to Palin, he plans to say, according to prepared remarks released this morning, "you just have to laugh -- but it's not really funny."
"In this charged political environment, her kind of talk gets dangerous," Trumka will say at the Alaska AFL-CIO Biennial Convention. "'Don't retreat... reload' may seem clever, the kind of bull you hear all the time, but put it in context. She's using crosshairs to illustrate targeted legislators. She's on the wrong side of the line there. She's getting close to calling for violence. And some of her fans take that stuff seriously. We've got legislators in America who have been living with death threats since the health-care votes."
Trumka complains about Palin railing against "union thugs" despite the fact that her husband is in a union. He asks: "Is she calling him a thug?"
The term, he argues, is "poisonous."
"There's history behind that rhetoric," Trumka will say. "That's how bosses and politicians in decades past justified the terrorizing of workers, the murdering of organizers."
"Quite frankly, America works because lots of people contribute lots of ideas--that's good--even when some of them are just plain wrong," he will add. "But people need to come to the table in good faith. That's not Sarah Palin. She'll go down in history like McCarthy. Palinism will become an ugly word."
Trumka will make the speech to about 300 delegates and guests at the convention, which has the theme "Defending the Union Way of Life." In addition to Palin, he criticizes Remington_Hotel Corporation (which owns and operates Sheraton, Hilton, and other hotel chains) as "one of the biggest union-busters around."
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Whistling past the grave yard.
Leftists pretend that part didn't happen.
And Mr. Trumka will go down the drain like so much waste.
She’s in good company, then. McCarthy was right.
God willing may we all go down in history like the late, great Sen. Joseph McCarthy.
Palinism is 1000000X less vile than Liberalism!!!!!!
All Libs must be run from office
Oh yeah the NEA is just so great to its members, especially its new ones. They refuse to take a pay cut and or freeze, instead they butcher up their newest members and lay them off.
Hey Chumpka
Is that paragon of virtue, the SEIU, part of your organization?
Say what you will about her, she has the right enemies.She's like some kind of magnet for Evil. They can't resist "coming out" against her.
Oooh, oooh, Trumka musta read a book. Otherwise he could just as easily compare SP to Hitler to illustrate his own flaming idiocy.
Wonder if he is up there to help find some lost votes?
Someone should clue this clown Trumka in that history has proven McCarthy correct in many cases.
Union thugs have very sensitive feelings and tend to scream when confronted with “gun language”.
AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka who claims to represent the working man, certainly does not reside in their same neighborhoods and I’m betting has a FULLY funded pension plan along with the obligatory golden parachute.
Unions yes, but their leadership is more corrupt than the Corleone’s.
They’ll do to her what they did to McCarthy, and Judge Thomas, and Judge Bork, in fact they’ve already tried with her and are trying still. It worked in the past because they had a media monopoly.
They are going to push hard to get control of those shreds of communications media they don’t control. Expect it.
Stupid ass unions..just whores for the Democratic Party
If she accurately accused certain union members of a specific action -- either intimidation or violence -- then "thug" is correct.
However, being a union member doesn't automatically make you a thug. Acting like a thug, in pursuit of union objectives, makes you "union thug".
Maybe Trumka should look in the mirror and decide whether he is a thug, or not.
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