Now I am about to post something that someone in the Conservative Blogosphere is going to say that proves that I am a fake Conservative. Well, I got one thing to say about that; Screw ’em 🙄
I will explain why this rather tweaks me off after the quote.
The Video: (Via The Politico)
Via The Raw Story:
On Fox & Friends Monday, host Steve Doocy took time to note that a former CNN employee, Mauricio Funes, has been elected President of El Salvador. “He is from a party down in El Salvador that is essentially the communist party,” Doocy explained.
“I wonder if he is just on a leave of absence from CNN, which, given his political inklings CNN could stand for the Communist News Network,” he said.
But Fox was so eager to tie CNN to communism that they couldn’t get the name of Venezuela’s leader right when making an unsourced allegation.
A second Fox pundit pointed out that Funes’ party, Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front, is liberal and said it was essentially communist. He then declared that FMLN “allegedly” has ties to Caesar Chavez.
Except that Caesar Chavez doesn’t lead a party in Latin America. He was a Mexican-American farm worker and labor activist who died in 1993.
It took a few moments before the Fox pundits corrected themselves — they were accusing the former CNN employee of being tied to Hugo Chavez, Venezuela’s sharp-tongued liberal president.
“Scary, guys,” quipped Fox’s Ainsley Earhardt.
Here’s why it bothers me:
Walter Reuther with Ceaser Chevez
- Walter Reuther with Ceaser Chevez
- Walter Reuther with Ceaser Chevez
Anyone that reads this Blog, other than to read just a single entry; knows that I come from a Union family. My Father is a retired General Motors worker, and a member of the United Auto Workers. Walter Reuther was, I personally feel, the United Auto Workers version of President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
In fact:
After Pearl Harbor, Reuther strongly supported the war effort and refused to tolerate wildcat strikes that might disrupt munitions production. He worked for the War Manpower Commission, the Office of Production Management, and the War Production Board. He led a 113-day strike against General Motors in 1945-1946; it only partially succeeded. He never received the power he wanted to inspect company books or have a say in management, but he achieved increasingly lucrative wage and benefits contracts. In 1946 he narrowly defeated R. J. Thomas for the UAW presidency, and soon after he purged the UAW of all Communist elements. He was active in the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) umbrella as well, taking the lead in expelling eleven Communist-dominated unions from the CIO in 1949. – Source Wikipedia
So, you see. Fox News not only insulted the memory of a dead man, who was unable to defend himself. Fox News also insulted the friend of one the greatest union leaders and in the writers opinion, one of the greatest Americans ever.
Hopefully, this will explain to you why that; outside of Bill O’Reilly, I steadfastly refuse to watch Fox News Channel.
And before anyone chides me for cheering for someone who was a Democrat. The Democratic Party of Reuther and Chevez’s day was a totally different party. Unlike the Socialist swine of today, the Democratic Party of the 1940’s was actually a Pro-American party. A pity that it has changed.
I’m a former member of IBEW and long ago moved into management from the union; that said, I don’t necessarily consider Ceaser Chevez a particular hero having grown up during the tenure of his efforts in California. He has been made into a hero of the workers, but in and by himself he didn’t measure up to the myth that has grown around him.
That said, FoxNews treated the whole issue very dismissingly which I considered quite unprofessional. The fact that “news” people cannot keep Hugo and Ceaser seperate could (if I were a socialist) give me reason to consider them racists. After all; what’s one Hispanic Chevez from another? Right?
Ceaser Chevez was a guy doing what he thought was right (and being used as the poster child of a questionable movement outside his own efforts). Hugo Chavez is the leader of a considerable Latin American nation acting little differently in motivation from George Bush in fact. Think about that one for a few moments.
Because Mr Hugo Chavez uses GWB as the object of his rants against the practices of Corporate America, he has been villanized by FoxNews into a “very scary” guy (who we don’t know very much about). Too bad. The US has always mis-understood and disregarded Latin America.
FoxNews? Dumb. But what have you come to expect from a network that pretends they’re a wee bit more conservative than the other guys … just to gain ratings and a market niche?
Thanks for the comments.