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Big Labor thug Trumka: Left must “take control of the national conversation”

By Michelle Malkin • September 27, 2010 02:47 PM

From the AFL-CIO blog, violence-promoting labor chief Richard Trumka urged his fellow leftists to seize back power from the Tea Party movement and take back “control of the national conversation.”

Gloves off:

With the economy continuing to stagger and job creation not moving quickly, “working people are justifiably angry and frustrated” as they approach the Nov. 2 elections, says AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka.

Trumka and Working America Executive Director Karen Nussbaum, New York Times columnist Bob Herbert, Eric Alterman, journalist and senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, and moderator Katrina vanden Heuvel, editor and publisher of the Nation, led a panel discussion—Which Way for the Working Class? Elections 2010 and Beyond—Friday afternoon in New York City.

More than 400 people attended the event at the Great Hall at Cooper Union. Trumka said it is vital to channel working-class anger away from Fox News and Tea Party extremists who are delivering

a cynical, deeply dishonest and incoherent message—that big government is somehow to blame for the current crisis that the budget deficit will eat our children, and that illegal immigrants took all the good jobs.

However, he added, “The good news is they haven’t bought into right-wing ideology. They are just confused about who to blame.” But:

We have to offer working people something other than the dead-end choice between the failed agenda of greed and the voices of hate and division and violence…

…In the short term, said Trumka, the labor movement has to “recapture the moment and take control of the national conversation.” Building for the future,

we need to fundamentally restructure our economy and re-establish popular control over the private corporations which have distorted our economy and hijacked our government. That’s a long-term job, but one we should start now.

Of course, Trumka has been fighting with his gloves off for a long time. See my Labor Day retrospective of Trumka’s history of fomenting threats, intimidation, and physical violence against dissenters. And recall that Trumka and his union pals have pooled together an $88 million war chest and Marxist get-out-the-vote alliance to deploy this midterm election season.

Be careful out there.

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#101

On September 28th, 2010 at 1:46 pm, Flyoverman said:

Oh, Rogue, if I was a bit closer, you would have an iron skillet growing out of the top of your head!

Markedly preferable to decapitation by a razor sharp lefsa pan.
#102

On September 28th, 2010 at 1:59 pm, happyscrapper said:

Markedly preferable to decapitation by a razor sharp lefsa pan.

Oh, I don’t think so! Decapitation is far quicker and less painful than the colossal headache I can promise at the end of my skillet.
#103

On September 28th, 2010 at 2:04 pm, Flyoverman said:

On September 28th, 2010 at 1:59 pm, happyscrapper said:

Oh, I don’t think so! Decapitation is far quicker and less painful than the colossal headache I can promise at the end of my skillet.

I think I’d rather be waterboarded.
#104

On September 28th, 2010 at 2:05 pm, Rogue Cheddar said:

On September 28th, 2010 at 1:31 pm, Flyoverman said:
OMG Rogue, you’re going to end up like the inventor of the Segway.

Yeah, but he saved a bundle on his car insurance!
#105

On September 28th, 2010 at 2:12 pm, Rogue Cheddar said:

On September 28th, 2010 at 1:35 pm, happyscrapper said:
On September 28th, 2010 at 1:16 pm,

Oh, Rogue, if I was a bit closer, you would have an iron skillet growing out of the top of your head!

I love the color in your cheeks when you get mad.
#106

On September 28th, 2010 at 3:43 pm, nail49 said:

There are so many people who think it is the duty of others to clean up after their messes.

As squadron commander I kept the key to the beer locker (opened only after the last flight of the day was done). If messes weren’t cleaned up, the key stayed in my possession.

Messes were few and far between!

I love the color in your cheeks when you get mad.

Rogue, watch out, the only color ‘scrapper is seeing is the color RED!
#107

On September 28th, 2010 at 5:24 pm, SpeakEasy said:

we need to fundamentally restructure our economy and re-establish popular control over the private corporations

In other words, fascism. They tell you everything you need to know if you pay attention.
#108

On September 28th, 2010 at 5:53 pm, Blackstone said:

Messes were few and far between!

On the theory that your pilots performed better on an empty stomach?

Oh wait, you mean…
#109

On September 29th, 2010 at 10:34 am, yohannbiimu said:

Fortunately for us, they really need an army of Dick Trumkas in order to fulfill their dreams of a totalitarian fascist police state, and they may still be a few divisions short of that. Still, its disheartening that in our great, opportunity-laden land, that we would still breed evil monsters like him, and those who pull his strings.