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Lords of the Flies? Chris Matthews & AFL-CIO Boss Target Tea Partiers

If trapped in a mine, Tea Partiers would be 'killing each other after about two days'...

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  October 14th, 2010 at 01:00 PM  | 

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Taking pot shots at Americans who participate in Tea Parties is nothing new. However, union bosses know that the Tea Party movement is the most significant threat to advancing their Marxist agenda since the Cold War.  As a result, AFL-CIO boss Richard Trumka has been attacking the Americans who participate in Tea Parties whenever the opportunity presents itself.

Yesterday, the AFL-CIO boss was on Chris Matthews’ Hardball, ostensibly to discuss the Chilean miners’ rescue (Trumka is the former head of the United Mine Workers). However, when the door was opened for him, Trumka became Matthews go-along sidekick in bashing the Tea Parties.

If the trapped Chilean miners had subscribed to the tea party’s “every-man-for-himself” philosophy, “they would have been killing each other after about two days,” MSNBC host Chris Matthews said on his “Hardball” show Wednesday night.

In an interview with AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka, Matthews railed against the tea party, saying its central belief is “every man for himself. …No more taxes, no more government, no more everything. No more safety net.”

“You know these people, if they were every man for himself down in that mine, they wouldn’t have gotten out,” Matthews added.

“That’s exactly right,” Trumka chimed in.

Matthews continued: “They would have been killing each other after about two days.”

Given Trumka’s own sordid past, and less than three weeks before the mid-term election, the Lord of the Flies analogy is interesting to say the least.

Maybe it gave them both tingles in their legs?

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  • http://www.gmsplace.com/ civil_truth

    More projection on their part – just put a roomful of Chris and his “refined” buddies in this situation – or any situation where they need to work together to survive, and see how quickly they turn on each other.

    Or a meeting where the Revolutionary Communist Party folks decide to participate in take over.

    A few adults would shape up these toddlers in drag real fast – or send them off to a lengthy and well-deserved “time out”.

    • http://lheal.amplify.com Socrates

      … although it’s as good an explanation as anything.

      But there is clearly an obsession here. What does being buried in a mine have to do with the Tea Party movement? Nothing, unless your mind is fully occupied with them.

      I’ll be willing to bet, however, that the miner capitan will turn out to be Christian, probably Catholic, and that faith played an important part in keeping the group together.

      And it’s also a safe bet that none of the men survived by, during group hugs, raising awareness of each other’s instinctive determination to pass on their genetic code through procreation and the mutual defense of their offspring.

      • http://lheal.amplify.com Socrates

        Sorry.

  • fpete13527

    …..depict their ideas of teamwork.

    For these two clowns, teamwork means anything that will tear down the U.S. and build Communist Sharia big government. For them you are a team player only if you support their doctrine…….. Communism.

    If you support freedom, and if you support the U.S. Constitution, then to these two bozos, you are selfish and would never support your fellow man.
    (They don’t like mentioning that their ideology, Marxism, simply chooses to kill the team when “they” don’t feel they are the “team” they want.)

    The brave Chilean miners would make perfect Tea Partiers. Chile was smart enough to reject Marxism (the ideology that tingles and trumples so much love and cherish.) The fact that the miners rejected Marxism further demonstrates the clown display that these two bozos are.

  • mustango

    …they’d have defined being trapped in the mine as “the new normal”.

    Yeah, keep ratcheting up the rhetoric there, Chrissy. See what it gets you.

    • bigblue

      LMAO!

    • Robert Allen Leeper

      Classic!

  • http://beaglescout.wordpress.com Beaglescout

    Where is your Christian charity, Chrissy Matthews? Or did your partisan hatred for TEA Partiers blind you to the most apparent similarity between the Chilean miners and TEA Party folks: Their common Christian faith?

  • bobojake
  • momcat200

    by Mr. Matthews. He is an example of the failure of our educational system. He has failed to learn how to look at any situation objectively. He reminds me of a ten year old that doesn’t know how to engage his brain before he opens his mouth. He should apologize for his hate-speech. If a Tea Party member or Republican had said what he said about a liberal, progressive, Democrat, lawsuits for hate-speech and summons to a Congressional Hearing would already be in the works! Mr. Matthews lacks character and integrity and should be replaced.

  • merryj1

    If Matthews thinks the TEA Partiers have an “every man for himself” mentality, consistency should demand that he be cheering for them and talking about the “tingle up his leg” — Or, am I mistaken in interpreting the One’s failure to donate a couple of bucks to his impoverished brother, who lives in a hut in Kenya with no running water or indoor plumbing, no electricity and no creature comforts, on the equivalent of One Dollar per month … as an “every man for himself” type of neglect?

    EVEN worse, according to Dinesh D’Souza’s “Roots of Obama’s Rage,” when a collection was taken up for the impoverished George Obama, the check was returned uncashed because the ‘red-headed step-brother’ had been given orders to ‘stay out of sight’ (mustn’t cause any VIP relative the discomfort of bad publicity I suppose).

    And the aunt — an illegal alien living in public housing on the American taxpayers’ dime — no financial assistance from a very wealthy nephew? Sounds like an “every man for himself” predisposition to me.

    Conservatives, on the other hand, are first in line for charitable giving to strangers needing help, let alone close relatives — as evidenced by the collection taken up to help some poor guy in a hut in Kenya.