Why the revolt downtown is even bigger than it appears

[CLANG]

Robin Vos, a Republican state representative, was telling television talk show host Mike Gousha how he escaped the "howling and chanting" in Madison this weekend and retreated to his barber shop and bar in Burlington in southeast Wisconsin, where he says "real people" are fully backing him and Gov. Scott Walker.

But more than any talking head, the commercial that followed crystallized the cynical essence of recent days in Madison.

The black-and-white ad featured working-class faces and superimposed newspaper headlines about the economic downturn, asserting that public employees have made no sacrifices while ordinary people have suffered mightily. Concessions for workers at Harley-Davidson, Mercury Marine and Sub-Zero were all cited.

Somber music played. The narrator continued: "But state workers haven't had to sacrifice. They pay next to nothing for their pensions, and a fraction of their health care. It's not fair. Call your state legislator and tell them to vote for Gov. Walker's budget repair bill. It's time state employees paid their fair share, just like the rest of us."

http://host.madison.com/ct/news/local/madison_360/article_1e4e7a30-3dec-11e0-905e-001cc4c03286.html

[Pharaoh]

1. Sponsored by

The Koch brothers no doubt!

[HereSince1628]

3. The Club for Growth is the store front

[HereSince1628]

4. The essence of the ad is an emotional appeal to jealousy

that was targeted at t-baggers.

That this sort of ad can be used to manipulate the working class demonstrates the enormity of the failure of the corporate friendly professional dems with their cold shoulder to workers.

Or maybe it isn't a failure, maybe _we_ just forgot who they were working for?

[Poboy]

7. Yep. its to make the dupes jealous and envious. Meanwhile the corporations

steal them blind.

[midnight]

2. I saw it and it made me furious... Time for Koch industries to make sacrifices..

[OnionPatch]

5. When do the greedy rich make sacrifices?

Too bad no one will make a commercial asking that.

[LiberalEsto]

6. PRO

-PAGANDA in its most odious form.

[City Lights]

8. "Real" people always back Republicans.

:thumbsdown: to any and all politicians who claim that their supporters and the only "real" people. Go cheney yourself, Robin, you fucking coward.

[KatyMan]

9. why not take that ad a step further

toward the real target: wall street bankers, etc...if somebody wants to gin up some class jealousy, I'd go with bankers.

[gratuitous]

10. What a remarkable coincidence!

Gosh, the Club for Greed Growth just happened to have this commercial in the can, ready to go, and there was all this unbought commercial time available for them to plug these ads in so serendipitously timed. We know that it's a coincidence because these "independent" political "education" groups are not supposed to coordinate their efforts with elected officials or political parties.

Just a stroke of luck, that's all.

[Poboy]

12. Once again, you have noted a piece of how all of this works.

[HughBeaumont]

11. "I'm getting screwed!! Why aren't THEY getting screwed too???"

When the REAL question we should be asking is "why do ALL of us NEED to be screwn when we can ALL be THRIVING instead??"

Stupid shits. Keep riding that rocket to the bottom, just like they want you to. Meanwhile:



"Looks like we ALL have to tighten our belts . . . e-e-except for the very wealthy man, that is."