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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBill Black: Scott Walker’s War on Workers and the Wall Street Journal’s Cleaned-Up Coverage
Walkers War on Workers and the Wall Street Journals Cleaned-Up CoverageBy William K. Black
March 1, 2015
Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker has channeled his inner Mitt Romney and written off an immense swath of Americans as people he would not represent if he were elected President. Romney wrote off 47% of Americans and Walker wrote off Americas workers. Romney channeled his inner Ayn Rand and labeled 47% of Americans as worthless takers. Walker was more extreme. He labeled American workers, peacefully protesting, as analogous to ISIS terrorists. Romneys dismissal of the 47% was made as part of a fund raising pitch to billionaire supporters who responded warmly. Walker war on workers was warmly received by his ultra-conservative base and his ultra-wealthy potential donors.
Romneys dismissal of nearly half of America helped doom his campaign, but Walker is running for the nomination of the Republican Party, so demonstrating how much Walker hates a large portion of Americans made him the (early) leading candidate for his partys nomination. (Consider the hypocrisy of this occurring while Rabid Rudi claims Obama does not love America and Walker responds that he doesnt know whether Obama loves America. It appears that Republicans see nothing inconsistent between loving America and despising nearly half of all Americans. What is America if it is not Americans?)
The Wall Street Journal weighed in on Walkers war on workers in a piece dated February 28, 2015 entitled Scott Walker Confronts Doubts About His Grasp of Foreign Policy by Patrick OConnor with an opening picture of Walker addressing the Club for Growth. The Club is composed of ultra-wealthy and ultra-conservative Republican donors who seek to destroy any effort at effective regulation. This February 28 version of OConnors article contained Walkers slander of American workers.
The exchange came two days after Mr. Walker raised eyebrows at the Conservative Political Action Conference when he compared Islamic State fighters to union members in Wisconsin who protested his decision to limit collective-bargaining rights for state workers, telling the crowd, If I can take on 100,000 protesters, I can do the same across the world.
In the March 1 (printed?) version of OConners piece, however, the photo stayed but the slanderous sentence that was so embarrassing and politically harmful to Walker disappeared from the WSJ coverage. ......................(more)
The complete piece is at: http://neweconomicperspectives.org/2015/03/walkers-war-on-workers-and-the-wall-street-journals-cleaned-up-coverage.html
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Bill Black: Scott Walker’s War on Workers and the Wall Street Journal’s Cleaned-Up Coverage (Original Post)
marmar
Mar 2015
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Stuart G
(38,403 posts)1. Wall Street Journal?...who owns that?? Isn't he the same owner of Fox News?
Yes..indeed..