Recruiting America to War on Itself

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from Consortium News:




Recruiting America to War on Itself

By Michael Winship
February 25, 2011


Editor’s Note: In defiance of logic and fairness, the Republican Party and the major U.S. news media have chosen to let the Wall Street big fish off the hook for causing today’s fiscal crisis and put the blame on the little fish – the teachers, the firefighters and other public workers.

Some Democrats are fighting back (though others are hiding in the reeds), but the biggest disappointment may be how successful the Right has been in rallying many working- and middle-class Americans to support this war on public employee unions, as Michael Winship notes in this guest essay:


"More cheese, less sleaze!" That was the funniest group chant at Tuesday’s rally of several hundred union and other progressive activists outside the Manhattan headquarters of Fox News.

Several "cheeseheads" were in attendance, their noggins topped by the now familiar wedge-shaped, orange hatwear made popular by Green Bay Packer fans.

On Tuesday, they were out in the twilight chill expressing their opposition not to lactose intolerance but Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker’s intolerance of organized labor. .................(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.consortiumnews.com/2011/022511b.html

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1. Exactly - why isn't this making the National Media