Nearly 2 million employees, remember. You’d think this would merit a front page story or maybe even a blog post:
According to a digital recording of a Wal-Mart meeting made by a Wal-Mart employee and reviewed by the WSJ, the meeting leader told employees that their wages may be reduced to minimum wage for up to three months before a contract is negotiated, that union authorization cards violate workers’ right to privacy by including their Social Security numbers on them and that if a small unit within a store votes to unionize, the entire store will be unionized.
“The statements are not correct representations of what the law would require even under the current law,†said Jeffrey Hirsch, a labor lawyer in Boston. “It would be a violation of the national labor relations act to say those things.â€
Wal-Mart said that the three comments don’t reflect Wal-Mart’s understanding of the law and weren’t included in its training.
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Tim is all over The PeeDee and Bizzy Boy Blogger Tom Blumer this morning. It seems the two are up in arms over ACORN. The problem? 5 fraudulent voter registrations. Out of 75,000 submitted.
5.
Of 75,000 submitted.
They find 5.
What’s that? Like .006%? Bizzy himself ought to know that this is a pretty damn good error rate. You might even describe this as “near zero”. General Motors would. Hell, even Honda would.
Yet the cries are loud from Wingnuttia today. You’d think the Plain Dealer would be objective, but apparently they’ve been overtaken by wingnuts too. Their plea is clear: “We won’t have this registration of poor black people who might vote for Obama”.
Meanwhile, in Wal-Mart land, they are having forced meetings with employees telling them not to vote for Obama or the evil union might come and get their low paying jobs with no benefits!
How many employees does Wal-Mart have? Oh, nearly 2 million is all.
I shit you not.
What happens when you search for Wal-Mart on the PeeDee? It asks you if you meant “Awl-Mart”. Again, I shit you not:
Did you mean awl-mart?
Number of matches at the P to the D on Wal-Mart? 7.
Number that talk about reports of Wal-Mart managers and employees complaining of meetings where they are told not to vote for Barack Obama? 0.
In what fucking alternate reality universe does a major paper and wingnut blogger go absolutely apeshit over .006% while ignoring the possibility that nearly 2 million people are being harassed to vote in what can only be described as pervasive illegal activity? The only universe this makes sense in is overly partisan hackery.
These people are fucking crazy. And hypocritical to a degree that is breathtaking.
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The faux outrage over public financing is laughable when you remember the deal John McCain too with the devil back when he was an also-ran. Finally the Obama camp (normally timely with this type of thing), thumps Senator McCain over the head with it:
David Plouffe brought a prop to his briefing with reporter: a copy of John McCain’s signature on a state election document in which he attested that he’d be taking public financing.
“John McCain is spending tens of millions of dollars, we believe, unlawfully,’ he said, waving the document.
The details of the argument over whether McCain used an acceptable or unacceptable loophole to secure a loan with the possibility of public financing is now before a court in a DNC lawsuit and subject to the FEC’s consideration.
“John McCain signed his name, ‘John McCain,” Ploufe said. “He got on the ballot attesting he would be in the primary system.”
“They’re out there throwing stones in glass houses on this,” he said of McCain’s attacks on Obama on public financing.
Thanks David. Little quicker on the trigger next time bro. Narratives set pretty quickly nowadays…like super glue.
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