DU this poll: The Chicken Little Sky Is Falling Bizarre Corporate Panic over Workers’ Rights Award

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by Seth Michaels, Mar 9, 2009

The wing nuts speaking for Corporate America are getting—well, wing nuttier. Their anti-worker, anti-union lies and distortions about the Employee Free Choice Act have reached just plain bizarre levels.

Now it’s your turn to weigh in: Who deserves the Chicken Little Sky Is Falling Bizarre Corporate Panic over Workers’ Rights Award? The award will go to the corporate mouthpiece that spews the most outrageous claims about the Employee Free Choice Act—proposed federal legislation that strikes fear in the heart of corporate giants because it would restore workers’ freedom to form unions and bargain for a better life.

http://blog.aflcio.org/2009/03/09/the-chicken-little-sky-is-falling-bizarre-corporate-panic-over-workers-rights-award/

Who's earned The Chicken Little Sky Is Falling Bizarre Corporate Panic Disorder Over Workers' Rights Award?

"A mortal threat to American freedom." Newt Gingrich

...The fight against Employee Free Choice will be "a firestorm bordering on Armageddon." Randel Johnson, U.S. Chamber of Commerce

"The demise of a civilization." Bernie Marcus

"The road to poverty” that would “quickly put our American way of life at risk.” Gary Shapiro, Consumer Electronics Association

"Calamitous.” Mitt Romney

"The anti-free choice, pro slavery bill.” Mike Ozanian, Forbes

"A Gestapo tactic.” John Rutledge, Fox News

"One of the two fundamental threats to society." (The other is "radical Islam.") Sheldon Adelson, casino billionaire

DU the poll at link

[sinkingfeeling]

1. That was fun and such a great bunch of nominees!

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2. Can these gasbags be any more melodramatic?

"A mortal threat to American freedom." Newt Gingrich

"The anti-free choice, pro slavery bill.” Mike Ozanian, Forbes

"A Gestapo tactic.” John Rutledge, Fox News

"One of the two fundamental threats to society." (The other is "radical Islam.") Sheldon Adelson, casino billionaire

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3. Surprised they haven't used the "Dogs & Cats" speech from GHOSTBUSTERS...

...we are headed for a disaster of biblical proportions. We are talking Old Testament, real wrath of God type stuff. Fire and brimstone coming down from the skies! Rivers and seas boiling. Forty years of darkness! Earthquakes, volcanoes. The dead rising from the grave. Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together... mass hysteria

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w91-GMc3j7I


Mayor: Is this true?

Murray: Yes it's true. This man has no dick.

:rofl:

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4. Results so far:

"A mortal threat to American freedom." Newt Gingrich 17%

...The fight against Employee Free Choice will be "a firestorm bordering on Armageddon." Randel Johnson, U.S. Chamber of Commerce 21%

"The demise of a civilization." Bernie Marcus 15%

"The road to poverty” that would “quickly put our American way of life at risk.” Gary Shapiro, Consumer Electronics Association 6%

"Calamitous.” Mitt Romney 1%

"The anti-free choice, pro slavery bill.” Mike Ozanian, Forbes 9%

"A Gestapo tactic.” John Rutledge, Fox News 4%

"One of the two fundamental threats to society." (The other is "radical Islam.") Sheldon Adelson, casino billionaire 27%