Unions go after Cantor. Cantor's office responds with this video *Warning LANGUAGE-obscene*

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Cantor’s Office Responds: Video Depicting AFSCME Members As Goons

Updated below with call on Cantor to apologize.

This isn’t going to make the big unions very happy. GOP House leader Eric Cantor’s office has come up with an intriguing response to the AFSCME ad bllitz targeting GOP leaders: Sending over a video that portrays AFSCME union members as 1970s-era goons.

Cantor spokesperson Brad Dayspring emails me the vid, stressing that it’s meant as a joke:

*WARNING the language in this is horrific WARNING*
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3mw49mk_x0

The GOP leadership didn’t make the vid, but it’s Cantor’s office’s (joke) response. It’s not immediately clear what the vid is, but it appears to be a 1970s AFSCME public service announcement with a newly added voice-over by a tough-talking, cursing goombah.
http://theplumline.whorunsgov.com/stimulus-package/gop-leadership-response-video-depicting-afscme-members-as-goons/

http://thinkprogress.org/2009/02/11/cantor-obscenity/

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1. Everything is a "joke" to Republicans, otherwise why would

they nominate McCain/Palin. I hope Cantor loses his leadership role and his seat over this.

[Earth Bound Misfit]

2. Cantor’s Spokesperson Apologizes For Labor Goon Video

“I would like to apologize for a joke that was in no way an official response from Congressman Cantor, but instead an inappropriate email. I apologize to AFSCME for my inappropriate email containing an old video. Let me be clear, we know people are hurting in these trying times and House Republicans completely agree that we must pass an economic recovery bill that preserves, protects and create jobs for Americans facing these economic challenges.”

Dayspring had originally said he intended the vid as a joke that had nothing to do with Cantor, and there were no indications that his boss had known anything about it. But joking about labor amid the economic crisis, at a time when the House GOP opposed the stim package en masse and President Obama is hammering Congress for action, was inevitably going to be depicted by the left as a sign that the GOP leadership is out of touch with the economic pain of ordinary people.


depicted by the left as a SIGN the GOP is out of touch?? As if it took this imbecilic act to actually PROVE it? I guess the drooling frat boy brigade that came in with Gingrich and Rove are still employed with what’s left of the Republican party.

[onethatcares]

3. if my memory serves me correctly,

During the protests of the VietNam war, "union" members were the ones beating up the protesters. Something to do with, uh, patriotism. Now the pukes hate em, sheesh.

[Earth Bound Misfit]

4. I remember it well.

It's one of the subplots of NIXONLAND: the bright-eyed anti-war reform Demorats who formed the core of McGovern's movement became locked in a civil war with the old-line union leaders who were as uncomfortable with reform as they were comfortable with the Vietnam War. It got ugly. Long story short: AFL-CIO president George Meany, who chose to remain neutral in the 1972 presidential election but who obviously favored Richard Nixon, got the last word. At a Steelworkers convention in September, he explained that the "Democratic Party has been taken over by people named Jack who look like Jills and smell like Johns."

http://www.ourfuture.org/blog-entry/2008083419/mcgovern-mystery

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5. Well now that's a pretty piss poor joke even

for a humorless repiglican that wouldn't know funny if it crawled up their ass and took residence next to the gerbil that seems to be lost in there.

[Earth Bound Misfit]

6. ROFL...

:rofl: Can I use that?

[firedupdem]

7. I'm so glad he's being rightfully smeared by this....those pigs

hate unions and seek to bust them. I hope this hangs around his ass forever and he loses in the next election. Little scum bag!