Media Bias 101

In early 2011, the Wisconsin state legislature was considering legislation disfavored by government employee unions and many left-leaning media outlets. Union organizers distributed leaflets urging supporters to react to the proposed legislation. According to a local press account, on February 15, 2011, “Thousands of protesters rushed to the state Capitol Wednesday night, forcing their way through doors, crawling through windows and jamming corridors.”

In the early afternoon of January 6, 2021, over 700 protesters, some who may have attended the Stop the Steal rally, entered the US Capitol. According to the Washington Post, most protesters were “taking selfiesand stealing souvenirs” while a joint session of Congress was meeting to certify the November 2020 election.

The New York Times was not shy about assigning blame. The weekslong occupation of the Wisconsin Capitol Building was the fault of Walker, according to liberal columnist Paul Krugman. He wrote, “What Mr. Walker and his backers are trying to do is to make Wisconsin - and eventually, America - less of a functioning democracy and more of a third-world-style oligarchy.” After the US Capitol was cleared that evening, the New York Times wrote, “the insurrection failed.” It was not a protest, but an insurrection. Presumably, the Times labeled it an insurrection because the protest took place in the Capitol, interrupted elected representatives from performing their jobs, and it was an attempt to stop a legislative measure from being completed. The 2011 protests were identical to the 2021 protests in their location, goal, and impact. Yet, the Times, Post and CNN characterized the two protests completely differently.

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I heard from Scott Walker’s Freedom Summit speech what the union thugs did to him and his family. As he told the Iowa Freedom summit:

“. . . all the death threats and the visits to our home . . . at one point, in all of this, there were literally thousands of protesters out in front of our family home in Wauwatosa; where my two sons were still going to high school. And where my two parents were living at the time. In fact, my kids were targeted on Facebook.

“And at one point I remember my mother, in her seventies; and my youngest son, Alex, were literally at the grocery store where protesters followed them down the aisle just to yell at them; even though it was me that was doing the policies out there.”

“Even more so, than just the visits in front of our home, was the fact that, at one point, the threats were just overwhelming. Most of those death threats were directed at me, but some of the worst were directed at my family. I remember one of the ones that bothered me the most, was someone literally sent me a threat that said,

“they were going to gut my wife like a deer.”

Another time a protester sent a threat directly to my wife that said that if she didn’t do something to stop me,

“I would be the first Wisconsin governor ever assassinated.”

The writer went on in greater detail to point out where exactly my children were going to school; where my wife worked; where my father-in-law was still living at that time. You could see what they were doing and so, I tell you today that . . . the protesters were trying to intimidate us.”

“But, you know what, all they did was remind me how important it was to stand up for the people of my state. They reminded me of why I ran for governor in the first place.”

The rhetoric coming from the Wisconsin union protestors (many from out of state) would come out of scripts written by the extremist Islamic savages. The union forces will hock their mothers to serve their self interests. Their immense war chest stocked with union dues derived from incomes our tax money have provided, will pay for a Walker defeat if he runs for President. I say,

Bring them on!

The union’s noble purposes that helped the worker have stability in their working years has been corrupted into a union-government symbiosis. This noble relationship has evolved, not to the benefit of the worker, but to the benefit of the union and the pocketbooks of the politicians. It has abandoned its noble purpose for greed.

The unions have evolved over the decades into parasites for their own self-serving purposes—not the worker’s. The life cycle of money thrives off the taxes taken from the life’s blood of our hard earned wages. The government unions have sucked off our hard earned money for decades as this parasitical species has evolved into a more deadly being. To maintain its existence, they have sucked from the money flow to such an extent, that our cities have become wastelands and, the middle class, an endangered species. They will cry a river over greedy corporations and the greedy rich while their own greed for the public dollar has no comparison. It will be music to my ears to hear the squealing pigs as they go down with a Walker victory.

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