I’m just gonna cheat, and mostly copy and paste this week, so…
Press the Meat, with Gilligan Gregory: White House senior advisor David “Ollie” Axelrod, 9/11 hero (and genius inventor of the above ground emergency command bunker, not to mention no-bid emergency radio contract evangelist) Guidi Ruliani, former Rep. Harold “Where’re the White Women” Ford, Jr. (D-TN), NBC’s Tom Brokaw and NYT’s Tom “My Head is Flat” Friedman
Faze the Nation: Education Secretary Arne Duncan
This Weak with George Snufalufagus: White House press secretary Robert Gibbs, former Democratic Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle, former Republican Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole, Rep. Mike Pence (R-IN), Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) and a roundtable with former Bush strategist Matthew Dowd, The Nation’s Katrina vanden Heuvel, NYT’s David Sanger and ABC News’ and columnist George :jerk: Will
Fux News Sunday, with Weaselface Wallace: Republican Conference Chairman Lamar Alexander (R-TN), former Democratic National Committee Chairman Gov. Howard Dean, Center for American Progress President and CEO John Podesta, disgraced former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich and this week’s fuxheads, Weekly Standard’s Bill Kristol, NPR’s Mara Liasson, Weekly Standard’s Stephen Hayes and NPR’s Juan Williams
CNN’s State of the Union: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Dr. Thomas Frieden, Gov. Tim “That Bridge Looks Fine to Me” Pawlenty (R-MN), Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), Republican strategist and CNN political contributor Ed Rollins and Democratic strategist Joe “Hippy Dippy” Trippi
CNN’s Reliable Sources with Howie Kurtz: The Baltimore Sun’s TV critic David Zurawik, BBC’s Rome Hartman, The Daily Beast’s Tina Brown and CBS’ chief foreign affairs correspondent Lara :hubba: Logan
CNN’s GPS with Fareed Zakaria: Defense Secretary Robert Gates, former NY Governor Eliot Spitzer and the Dalai Lama
The Chris Matthews Show: Time’s Michael Duffy, BBC’s Chatty Katty Kay, WaPo’s Eugene Robinson and CNN’s Gloria Borger
Washington Week with Gwen Ifill and National Journal: WaPo’s Dan Balz, Slate and CBS News’ John Dickerson, ABC’s Martha Raddatz and NYT’s Jackie Calmes
Notice any talk of Labor Day? Or how organized labor paved the way to create a prosperous middle class in this country? Or, speaking of health care, how the only reason those who have insurance in this country (whether represented by a union or not), have it because unions paved the way for decent pay, safe working conditions, and health insurance for workers and their families?
No, didn’t think so. The corporatists that run this country and the traditional media hate unions because they hate the middle class. Sadly, they’ve also managed to turn much of the middle class against unions and their own self interests.
Health care isn’t the only way Europeans have it all over us, either. We’re the only advanced country that’s a “no vacation nation,” meaning that we are not leagally guaranteed paid vacation or holidays. Twenty-five percent of U.S. workers receive NO paid vacation or paid holidays, and it’s the worst for (surprise, surprise) low-wage and part-time workers, as well as for employees of small businesses (which Republicans pretend to revere, even as they cede power to the mega international corporations undermining those small businesses).
And these idiot tea baggers, birthers, racists, and death panel evangelists are happy to goose step along, demanding that the government screw them, ‘cuz they hate those damn dirty anti-capitalist unions, and you’re goddamn right health insurance ought be for profit, and those CEOs deserve hundreds of millions of dollars more in a year than most of us will make in a lifetime.
You know, they say you get the government you deserve, and for these folks, that’s true. But, damn, how come I have to get stuck with the government they ?
But, hey, at least we’re not Socialists, right?
I am amazed, or at least when I was younger and more naive I was, that in NYC schools we never mention labor history. We have a strong union in the schools but we never teach about labor.
To keep everyone ignorant requires a vast conspiracy in which we all participate either out of ignorance, fear or self interest.
In an effort to balance out the testosterone season AND it is labor intensive!:
albeit outsourced labor….
Thanks, OKat. We need some testosterone balancing around here.
balancing?
OK, I’m for balance.