Palin to AFL-CIO Chief: I Know You Are But What Am I? [Neener-Neener] [Blorg] [Fart] [Giggle]

Richard Trumka had some tough words for Alaska’s Miss Pre-Teen Pretender in a preview of his planned remarks to the Alaska AFL-CIO Biennial Convention.

AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka is calling Sarah Palin “almost a parody of herself” who will “go down in history like McCarthy” in a speech in Alaska today.

Note to Sarah: When someone accuses you of being a parody of yourself, don’t react by by being a parody of yourself.

Posted by StrangeAppar8us on 08/26/10 at 02:49 PM • Permalink

Co-blogger YAFB was all over this on Betty’s Palin thread below, so I’m reposting his comment:

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Snooki’s attracted the ire of AFL-CIO firebrand Richard Trumka, who had the temerity to address the Alaska AFL-CIO in Anchorage today in this vein:

What is this crazy magnet that’s pulling people to the right? I mean, look at your former governor….

Who is she, anyway?

Sarah Palin?

She used to have a job, your governor…. You knew her…. Or thought you did…. I know I thought I did. She seemed like a decent person, an outdoorswoman. Her husband’s a steelworker. She seemed to take some OK stands for working families.

And then things got weird. After she tied herself to John McCain and they lost, she blew off Alaska. I guess she figured she’d trade up…shoot for a national stage. Alaska was too far from the FOX TV spotlight.

I bet most of you, on a clear day, can see her hypocrisy from your house.

I think Sarah Palin quit so she wouldn’t have to be accountable… so she wouldn’t have a record that could be scrutinized…

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And down in Tyler, Texas, she’s talking about—and I quote—“union thugs.”

What? Her husband’s a union man. Is she calling him a thug? Sarah Palin ought to know what union men and women are.

Oh, she goes to great pains to talk differently about unions and the working people who belong to them, knowing full well we’re one and the same.

But using the term “union thug.” That’s poisonous. There’s history behind that rhetoric.
That’s how bosses and politicians in decades past justified the terrorizing of workers, the murdering of organizers….

Snooki’s evidently afeared of a straight wordfight with him, so she’s hunkered down under the bed in the ole homestead of Twitter View with the blinds drawn and a message scrawled on the door reading, “They went thataway”:

Know our hardworking union friends (esp from my days as an IBEW sister, Todd IBEW & USW brother) aren’t sheep, they’ll ask: Trumka’s motive?
about 1 hour ago via Twitter for BlackBerry® 

Oh, I don’t know. I think they’re already pretty well clear about Trumka’s motive in this election year.

Think Trumka’s frustrations r w/Obama, not me (high unemplymnt, deals w/Obama&his; subsequent broken promises)so understandable Rich’s ticked
about 1 hour ago via Twitter for BlackBerry® 

Well, since Trumka’s not been chary of taking on Obama in the past, and unless the president’s now going under the name Sarah Palin using one of his many birth certificates and Social Security numbers, I think it’s pretty clear who Trumka’s currently ticked off with, Snooki.

Whatchagonnadonow?

Here comes the cavalry, led by the rusty dusty shape of Conservatives4Palin‘s top gun of the day, Whitney Pitcher (Where do they get these names? Christmas crackers? What’s wrong with good old-fashioned ones like Tripp or Hunger Tallest?):

Richard Trumka, the president of the AFL-CIO, is in Alaska today speaking to the Alaska AFL-CIO. His prepared remarks takes aim [sic] at Governor Palin for her use of the term, “union thugs”:

[Trumka quote]

If you so choose, you can read more of Trumka’s petty, ad hominem rhetoric here.

Governor Palin has responded with two tweets:

[Palin tweets]

Governor Palin has questioned union leadership in the past, but has been supportive of union members and blue collar workers. See here and here.

Palin’s got copyright on petty, ad hominem rhetoric, dammit. Now let’s completely miss the point. Yeehaw! Poww-zinggg.

But the AFL-CIO’s Ready Eddie Vale’s heading them off at the pass:

AFL-CIO spokesman Eddie Vale quickly fired back, saying that she undermined her message by resigning as governor last year.

“Basically, she’s having a temper tantrum, putting her hands over her ears and yelling ‘la la la la la, I can’t hear you,’ ” Vale said. “Because if she had actually read the speech the motivation and message are crystal clear. She left working families in Alaska behind when she tried to trade up to Fox News and the Tea Party. We understand that she wants to keep up her faux populism and image as caring about ordinary people, but her actions, policies and candidates she supports speak way louder than her tweets.”

Palin and her ghostscrawlers really need to get together and figure out a coherent strategy. One minute on Twitter it’s “oh, he must be ticked at Obama,” and the next its full-on rebuttal on Facebook:

To my hardworking, patriotic brothers and sisters in the labor movement: you don’t have to put up with the scare tactics and the big government agenda of the union bosses. There is a different home for you: the commonsense conservative movement. It cares about the same things you and I care about: a government that doesn’t spend beyond its means, an economy focused on creating good jobs with good wages, and a leadership that is proud of America’s achievements and doesn’t go around apologizing to everyone for who we are.

This November, you have a choice. You can go with the flow and merely pull the lever the way they tell you to. Or you can join millions of others, and take a stand for freedom and independence and dignity, while still being part of a greater working community.

Join us. I promise you, you won’t regret it, and Americans who want good jobs for our families will be better off for it!

Yeah, that’ll work.

Thuggery is in the eye of the beholder, half-Gov. Sharpie, and sometimes the cell-phone.

Unfortunately for you.

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