Chamber of Commerce boasts about having ‘planted’ anti-union article in the Wall Street Journal.

[deminks]

http://thinkprogress.org/2009/03/11/chamber-plants-wsj-story/

Yesterday, the Wall Street Journal carried a front-page story warning that “ey Senate Democrats are wavering in their support” of the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA), making it “more likely the bill, in its current form, will be stalled without the 60 votes needed.” Yesterday, Randy Johnson of the Chamber of Commerce — which has vowed to spend $10 million to defeat the bill — boasted that he had “planted” most of the story:

Johnson cautioned against over-confidence, saying that an article on the Wall Street Journal’s front page today about the doubts that six Democratic senators have about the bill may have been “a little optimistic” — “even though I planted a lot of that story.”

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[LiberalFighter]

1. Aren't all stories in the WSJ planted?

[Occam Bandage]

2. That's like the CPC bragging about having "planted" an anti-Dalai Lama article in Xinhua,

or a Kremlin official in the '60s bragging about having "planted" an anti-Kennedy article in Pravda.

[billyoc]

3. We debunked that horseshit 5 minutes later.

We don't need 60 votes for EFCA, their premise is flawed.

[Pacifist Patriot]

4. Wait, wait, wait! According to Faux News crawl it's actually the....

"So Called Employee Free Choice Act"

I saw that at the gymn yesterday and about spit out my teeth. Yes, I had the gym employees change the channel to something more fair, balanced and informative. Last I checked it was on Lifetime or Bravo. :)

[Blue_Tires]

5. who needs to 'plant' an anti-union story in the WSJ?

that's like 'planting' a pic thread in the lounge...

[nichomachus]

6. The average American has more to fear from the US Chamber of Commerce

than from Al Qaeda.