You gotta leave it to that crack research team at the Worldnutdaily. Nothing gets passed those guys, especially Aaron Klein, who is stone cold nuts. His latest expose` catches the AFL-CIO red-handed supporting freedom and democracy. The headline screams:
Largest U.S. union behind Mideast riots?
Sordid ties to group targeting American ally fighting terrorism
You see, Klein has discovered that the AFL-CIO, the largest union in the United States, thinks it’s a good idea to have independent trade unions in other countries.
The executive council of the AFL-CIO, the nation’s largest union, has praised the role workers and trade unions are playing in the revolutions sweeping the Middle East and North Africa…
In a statement last week, the AFL-CIO praised the role of unions and workers in what it called the “popular mobilizations against corrupt, oppressive regimes in Tunisia, Egypt, Bahrain and throughout the Middle East and North Africa.”
And just wait till you see what those commie pinkos supported:
The AFL-CIO statement said: “After enduring decades of repression exercised by governments with the support of the West, including the United States, the workers and people of Tunisia and Egypt have mobilized by the millions for democracy and fundamental rights.”
“The AFL-CIO and the global labor movement salute the independent trade union movements in both of these countries and support their aspirations for social justice,” the statement continued.
Democracy! Justice! Fundamental rights! Why, those leftist Nazi communist pagan demons! Their whole argument comes down to this: Some of the people protesting against the oppressive dictators we’ve supported throughout the Arab world are “Islamists” and therefore just like Osama Bin Laden. And this, without actually making it explicit, apparently means democracy is bad and we should keep supporting dictators — oh, and that anyone who thinks we shouldn’t is pro-terrorist.
Yes, this is what passes for thinking on Planet Wingnuttia.
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SLC
August 11, 2011 at 10:15 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
They might have been better off citing President Franklin Delano Roosevelt on the subject of dictator Trujillo of the Dominican Republic: he’s a son of a bitch but he’s our son of a bitch. Of course, the likelihood that the fucktards over at the whacknutdaily would ever quote FDR is about the same the likelihood of my winning the Tour de France next year.
Phillip IV
August 11, 2011 at 10:16 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
That’s the key phrase. As Glenn Beck has amply demonstrated, the idea of “social justice” is a communist plot to inhibit man’s natural and God-given instinct to trample down on everybody who isn’t able to trample back.
If they had written “and support their aspiration for religious liberty, so they can accept Jesus as their Lord and Saviour, Hallelujah”, it might have gone over slightly better with the WND folks.
Nomen Nescio
August 11, 2011 at 10:17 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
how is it again that unions are waning steadily more marginalized in U.S. politics, while tea party wingnuts are ascendant? i can only hope their absolute levels of influence (if such can be measured, or sensibly spoken of) are still in the unions’ favor — but i don’t dare hope very much for even that.
Chiroptera
August 11, 2011 at 10:21 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Nomen Nescio: i can only hope their absolute levels of influence (if such can be measured, or sensibly spoken of) are still in the unions’ favor — but i don’t dare hope very much for even that.
I hate to disappoint you, but I have to remind you that the unions are stuck supporting a party that takes their base for granted.
Katherine Lorraine, Chaton de la Mort
August 11, 2011 at 10:22 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Can we actually send these people to Planet Wingnuttia? That would be wonderful.
Tualha
August 11, 2011 at 10:37 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Yeah, how dare they demand the right to run their own affairs when that might go against American interests! They didn’t read the fine print on their imported packages of democracy, clearly!
DaveD
August 11, 2011 at 12:15 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
FDR said that about some of the corrupt machine politicians who supported his administration. The Trujillo quote, even assuming anyone ever said it, was from either Cordell Hull or Thaddeus Stevens, probably.
SLC
August 11, 2011 at 1:08 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Re DaveD
Thaddeus Stevens certainly never said it about Trujillo because he was dead before Trujillo was born.
There seems to be some question as to who said it about whom. I found one source that claimed that FDR said it about dictator Somoza of Nicaragua.
Traveler
August 11, 2011 at 4:58 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
This is entirely in keeping with conservative logic. If granting marriage to gays cheapens heterosexual marriage then by extension granting democracy to non Americans cheapens American democracy.
Modusoperandi
August 11, 2011 at 5:38 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Traveler, you’ve got to look at freedom like a pie…
abusedbypenguins
August 11, 2011 at 8:04 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Is that like the one where Winston Chirchill was supposed to have a conversation with a lady when he asked her if she would sleep with him for $1,000,000 and she said “Yes” and he asked if she would sleep with him for $10, to which she replied “What kind of woman do you think I am?”. His responce was “We have already established that, now we’re haggling over price”. Sort of like the koch brothers and teabaggers.