Here’s the understatement of the day, courtesy of the poor reporter who found himself on the receiving end of this unhinged union member’s profane tirade:

“You’re not part of the PR staff, are ya?”

MAJOR LANGUAGE WARNING:

Via Townhall. Background here.

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UPDATE: Guy Benson linked to this 9/11 “tribute” essay by Richard Trumka in his post at Townhall, and I am going to repost it here as well. It has to be read to be believed. Safe to say that the inspiration for the kind of psychotic rage on display in this video is coming straight from Big Union leadership. And to think, Trumka was a guest of honor last night at Obama’s jobs speech. Truly sickening.

A Message from AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka

All of us will remember the horror and anguish we experienced 10 years ago. Whether we lost loved ones ourselves—family members, union brothers and sisters—or felt the shock of a society that lost nearly 3,000 people and was forever changed, we need no reminding.

Instead, I would like to reflect on doors that were opened on Sept. 11, 2001, and what has come of them in the 10 years since.

Working men and women rushed through doors to danger and became America’s everyday heroes. Firefighters, construction workers, nurses and EMTs—all kinds of professionals and volunteers—were there not just on the fateful day but some for weeks and months and even years after. And we swore we would never forget.

Doors opened within us to each other. We came together. We flew the flag. We comforted one another. In our grief, we found the best in ourselves.

What an overwhelming sense of unity we shared, all across our nation. And it was this unity that allowed us to begin healing and rebuilding. There is no time in my memory of a more proud example of what we can accomplish when we work together. Solidarity, the cornerstone of the union movement, flowed through all of us and carried us through.

But other doors opened, too—doors to hate, suspicion of “others” and self-centered greed. Our fear was twisted into something much more dangerous.

The unity that had helped us survive faded as divisiveness took root. I look around today in amazement at just how far apart our nation has become—the endless possibilities that came with our unity have all but vanished.

Just 10 years after 9/11, despite our vows, the public servants, construction workers and others who lost their lives or still suffer with the cancerous remnants of the Twin Towers haven’t just been forgotten. They’ve been vilified. The extremist small government posse has turned them into public enemy No. 1, as though teachers and firefighters, EMTs and nurses and union construction workers ruined America’s economy.

In state after state this year—with the heroism of 9/11 less than a decade behind us—politicians targeted the paychecks, benefits and basic rights of these workers in a rabid campaign to shift government support to tax breaks for the wealthy and already profitable corporations.

Wealthy CEOs, anti-government extremist front groups and frothing talk show hosts—from the Rush Limbaughs and Glenn Becks to the Koch brothers, Karl Rove’s American Crossroads group, Americans for Prosperity, the Club for Growth, FreedomWorks and the American Legislative Exchange Council—also pushed open the door to hate.

Make no mistake—setting workers against workers is a highly profitable endeavor. How many times during the vilest state attacks on public workers did we hear the question: “Other people don’t have pensions. Why should he?” Prompting that question required twisting the American psyche—which, by its founding nature, seeks to lift the common good. The appropriate question should have been, “Why doesn’t everybody have a pension?” followed by collective action for retirement security.

We’ve seen the costs of hatred in ill-thought wars, in shameful attacks on immigrants and our LGBT neighbors. We saw it in the shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords. We saw it in the racism that has found overt and covert expression since Barack Obama began his run for office—from outright declarations of people who said out loud they would never vote for a black man to the ridiculously persistent obsession with our president’s birth certificate. Regardless of his policies or priorities, President Obama is shadowed by the drumbeat of suspicion based on his “other”-ness. And those suspicions are fed and watered constantly by forces that were threatened by his message of “hope and change.”

We’ve seen the cost of greed in the recklessness of financial institutions that created the greatest economic collapse since the Great Depression and the devastating jobs crisis that persists today.
But I remember that other door that opened on 9/11—the door to our better selves, to our understanding that we are one and our values require us to care for one another.

That’s what sent 347 firefighters to their death at the Twin Towers 10 years ago. It’s also what sent firefighters to stand with teachers in Wisconsin even though Gov. Scott Walker had exempted them from his attack on public employees. It’s what moves employed people now to demand good jobs for the 26 million Americans who are looking for work. It’s what gives us the courage to take on a crumbling economy and the politicians preaching austerity and ignoring our jobs crisis—to take them on and say, “We are America. We are better than this. And we are one.”

Brothers and sisters, friends, I hope you will join me in marking this solemn anniversary by committing to redouble your activism on behalf of America’s everyday working heroes. We will rise or fall together.




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64 comments
Larry Gibby
Larry Gibby

For all the libs out there, this is a prime exmple of American education. This is also a shining example of a true American redneck, a term libs like to bandy about irresponsibly. This dummy may be from Longview, WA or the area which is not short on them. Further, this dispute, if anyone has bothered to pay any attention, is not about anti-unionism, it's a problem between the Longshoremen and the Operating Engineers union. Two tines of the same pitchfork. It would appear there is an educational shortfall among the posters here.

Jackie Dale Midkiff Jr
Jackie Dale Midkiff Jr

No matter what's going on, That foul mouth ignorant little jerk should be fired for treating people in that manner.

AmericanborninCanada
AmericanborninCanada

I know it. It's a disgrace. I don't know how people can live with themselves sometimes. :-/

Ben
Ben

Just another greedy union goon practicing the civility as preached by the obamessia.

Now, I wonder how the libfag lamestream media would react if some tea party person did what this union goon did. They'd be all over him and probably have him arrested for assault, if not worse. But as a greedy union goon, brainwashed for years with this stalinist street thug propaganda, he is only capable of regurgitating the propaganda that he's been spoon fed.

Dan
Dan

i can see the kids now in their wife beater shirts saying to daddy dearest...hi dad you MFer how the FK you doing today you lazy CSer ...dad can i have the MFing car ...why the F_-k not you MFin no good CSin F-face ....

this is not your FATHER KNOWS BEST kind of dialog...but hey the kids beat their mother up so at least they share something with the papa other than their foul mouth...this also may be a new tv pilot for MTV...and now the new MTV smash hit...HOW I BECAME A TOTAL A***&^%^&$$%$@#CS$#((*&*@@#$MF@&^%(#$%#GD WHIT OUT REALLY TRYING....

Joe
Joe

Obviously he was angry or under the influence BUT

This is not the way to get the point across

He'll realize that when he watches himself

Frederick
Frederick

Trumka is using the 9/11 attacks as an instrument to stur emotion within, without the ranks of unions. A-hole.

Dan
Dan

this should go all over the world so every one can see how loveable we Americans are and how a good civil society works together in peace and harmony and how our language has advanced over the years to even surpass the Queens English of Old to the flowery descriptive symbols strung together to assure love one to another...every one please pass this Jewel around so everyone can see what experiments with the gene pool does

Dan
Dan

this should go all over the world so every one can see how loveable we Americans are and how a good civil society works together in peace and harmony and how our language has advanced over the years to even surpass the Queens English of Old to the flowery descriptive symbols strung together to assure love one to another...every one please pass this Jewel around so everyone can see what experiments with the gene pool does

Sam R
Sam R

But remember Glenn was crazy for saying that there was going to be unrest in our country. One union upset that another union was given the job instead of them and here I thought it was the nature of competition that sometimes you lose. Oh dang it I forgot their union is created more equal that the other union and should therefore get all the jobs.

Dan
Dan

i am surprised he didn't have a wife beater shirt on THAT AND THE SWEARING WOULD HAVE BEEN PRICELESS...

Dan
Dan

sorry but the unions were set up by the communist to get a foot hold in the U.S....UNIONS ARE 100% COMMUNIST...were else do you get paid to not work as hard as the guy who makes the same as you not working...in other words in a union you get paid not to work hard so you can not work longer...and get paid to do it....

Dan
Dan

sorry but the unions were set up by the communist to get a foot hold in the U.S....UNIONS ARE 100% COMMUNIST...were else do you get paid to not work as hard as the guy who makes the same as you not working...in other words in a union you get paid not to work hard so you can not work longer...and get paid to do it....

Dan
Dan

is this really there info.....please let it be so....

Brian Skinner
Brian Skinner

the guy with the camera was a son of a bitch serves him right.

Dan
Dan

this is unions???...THIS IS THE UNION... THEY NEED TO BE DESTROYED AND I MEAN TOTALLY DESTROYED...from the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks...this is filth on display and we support this with our money when we buy union made or transported items.....i can smell the crap in his mouth from here...some one should have slammed him in the face with one of the shovels he leans on while pretending to work...lazy pig sucker....hehe now i sound like him...LOL...that was not as rich as his tirade but i don't think i can come up with that many bad words...he is a pro..

Teresa Wendt
Teresa Wendt

Pretty hard to feel sorry for a guy with a mouth like that. You can like or dislike unions but wasn't it just a few months ago that President Obama called for civility?

Philo Beddoe
Philo Beddoe

Look kids, daddy's on the news!

Dan
Dan

now that there is funny....TRUE....but funny rotfl....

Dan
Dan

now that there is funny....TRUE....but funny rotfl....

Philo Beddoe
Philo Beddoe

NEWS FLASH:

Missing Link Found in Pacific Northwest!!!

Dan
Dan

UPDATE:NEWS FLASH...disregard last alert what we thought was the missing link turned out to be a genetically altered monkey trained to swear alot

Philo Beddoe
Philo Beddoe

NEWS FLASH:

Missing Link Found in Pacific Northwest!!!

Philo Beddoe
Philo Beddoe

NEWS FLASH:

Missing Link Found in Pacific Northwest!!!

jonathon b
jonathon b

are you damning me for talking against unions? can't understand your post

jonathon b
jonathon b

and by the way, name calling is for democraps and other argument losers! i didn't think you were one of those people

jonathon b
jonathon b

and by the way, name calling is for democraps and other argument losers! i didn't think you were one of those people

jonathon b
jonathon b

and by the way, name calling is for democraps and other argument losers! i didn't think you were one of those people

jonathon b
jonathon b

unions get attacked because that's what they have sown, how many unions do you know that ask their dues payers how to spend that dues or don't have squat left in their pension fund because they spent it on democraps?

trumka was right in one way; after 9-11 we came together, but as individuals helping each other, not as goonion members, goonion members have to be told specifically what to do or else it doesn't get done! that is the goonion way!

Nick Jacob
Nick Jacob

Top comment on YouTube:

"His name is F.U. Cocksucker?...what were his parents thinking?"

ROFL.

PunditPawn
PunditPawn

Hell, I swear more than he does just from watching any Obama speech.

Dan
Dan

ya i admit it too...obama dose that to me...but this guy was a natural...

AmericanborninCanada
AmericanborninCanada

There are millions of "little men" out in the country today who have no jobs, and are not union. Do you think these people care one whit about them?

Maybe once upon a time, Unions were a help against big corporations- but now, they ARE big corporations themselves.

jonathon b
jonathon b

right on! and as such these corps. won't let their employees unionize because they know just what it does to the work force

jonathon b
jonathon b

right on! and as such these corps. won't let their employees unionize because they know just what it does to the work force

AmericanborninCanada
AmericanborninCanada

OK, first off- does this "man" kiss his wife and children with that mouth? What filth.

Now for the next part:

To Mr. Trumpka,

After reading your letter about 9/11, the first thought in my head is how dare you?

How dare you use that day, those people who died, those who helped save lives and those who also died while trying?! How dare you use the coming together as a Nation after that day, to show strength against an enemy who many Americans didn't even know existed to promote something that you people have used to divide the Nation more than anything else in the past 3 years?

You talk about hate. You need to look in your own mirror, you need to look around you to those you surround yourselves with. To take a national day of rememberance of those who lost their lives because of an ideology of those who hate, and to turn it into a litany of percieved grievances which have nothing to do with the terrorist act of Muslims is a disgrace.

You talk about workers. My husband is an out of work construction man mr. He has been unemployed for 3 years because of many of the policies which have come from YOUR party. You may claim to care about construction workers and others who hold blue collar jobs, but the only ones you care about are those who belong to a union. Even some of them, who may belong because they were forced to, and have their dues stolen out of their paycheck to give you and your cronies and connections is nothing but legalized theft. What you claim is a bald faced lie.

You say that 9/11 taught us "the door to our better selves, to our understanding that we are one and our values require us to care for one another."

I actually agree in some ways with that, although millions of regular Americans have been doing just that long before that day, and will continue long after- and we do it without government, without unions. We do it every day Mr. Trumpka, and we do not, kind of like those selfless people who rushed into two crashing towers to save strangers and brothers, do not expect any kind of reward.

You equate this 10 year anniversary with "politicians preaching austerity and ignoring our jobs crisis to take them on and say, “We are America. We are better than this. And we are one"

You would do well to take your own advice and spread it to your "army". Oh, I know that wasn't you who called us Americans SOB's, but hey, I don't see much difference between hateful, hurtful thug groups. The reason we are so divided-you may want to hang out some more at your favorite house, talk to your dear leader, and look around. It is you all who are dividing this Nation.

I will be spending the day of the 10th Anniversary of 9/11 at church, and I will spend the rest of the day in quiet rememberance of all of those who died that day. I will talk about it with my child and help him to understand something he's still too young to know. I will be thanking God for those who survived that day, and blessing me so much that I am able to live in America. I will also be thinking of those 1st responders who risked everything to help that day.

It is too bad that some folks from your side can not honor God or the responders. I pity you.

Signed, a Canadian who longs to be an American.

Van Zandt Rhonda
Van Zandt Rhonda

Ex Union and been union most of my life..Carpenters and Millrights..in Ny you could not work unless you were Union and they shove it down youre throat till you choke on it..they want to to vote Dem or you dont work..same thing happening in Alaska, you dont work unlee you are Union, at least up here they dont control youre vote. I am no longer union and proud of it..they have got to get control of the crony capatilists in charge of these unions because they are killing the workers!

Van Zandt Rhonda
Van Zandt Rhonda

Ex Union and been union most of my life..Carpenters and Millrights..in Ny you could not work unless you were Union and they shove it down youre throat till you choke on it..they want to to vote Dem or you dont work..same thing happening in Alaska, you dont work unlee you are Union, at least up here they dont control youre vote. I am no longer union and proud of it..they have got to get control of the crony capatilists in charge of these unions because they are killing the workers!

Dialla
Dialla

They never worked this before, this is a new business. This is a shake down.

Everyone knows that Long Shoremen claim the right to handle/load/unload any freight that is coming into or out of the United Stated via Ocean.

This is how they enforce these claims, if you don't no comply with them you will be PUNISHED!.

You can bet, this will escalate to Baseball bats, Broken Kneecaps, Hunting Rifles, Explosives, etc.. before this is all over.

Since this is a Democrat State, nothing will be done other than misdemeanor charges.

People say the Unions are in Obama's pocket,......well your kind of right, just got it backwards

The businesses only hope is to lobby the feds to step in because the State Police are being kept on a short leash.

Lets think what would have happened if this was 100 Mexicans? or 100 Black Folks? They would have all been arrested or shot dead on the spot.

Some how these guys go in there and held hostages and threatened cops and all they got was a misdemeanor.

If it was you or I, the State Police would have put a bullet in our head.

Where in the hell is equal protection here? Equal protection for the business and for me if I did the same thing.

BayouCoyote
BayouCoyote

This guy is the reason why PR Firms exist. The damage done by him is already irreversible.

Dialla
Dialla

wow, these people need to be locked up for 6 months, all of them

Dan
Dan

do you think it would improve their disposition....nahhhh....of coarse maybe they will learn how to control the spite coming out of there mouth...