Remember this? Mika Brzezinski on Unions: "They cripple the system that makes a company work."

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/art-levine/while-morning-joe-crew-sa_b_211212.html

Posted: June 4, 2009 06:00 AM

While Morning Joe Crew Says All Unionized Business Fail, 1,000 Execs Endorse Pro-Union Bill

<snip>Compare those comments with the clueless smackdown of unions joined in by all the Morning Joe guests, sparked by Mad Money's Jim Cramer denouncing "card check" and The New York Times business reporter, Andrew Ross Sorkin, who said, "Name a successful unionized company. Think. You're gonna go to break before you come up with one."

As Media Matters pointed out, "If Andrew Ross Sorkin's name sounds familiar, that's probably because he's the reporter who started the myth about the average GM worker being paid $70 an hour. MSNBC's Keith Olbermann named him "Worst Person in the World" for that bit of blatantly false anti-union, anti-worker propaganda."

Indeed, Sorkin and his allies on The Morning Joe show came in for a thorough thrashing from union leaders and progressive bloggers yesterday for their ignorance. Media Matters capsulized progressive outrage at the show's mindless echoing of anti-union Big Business talking points:

The Morning Joe crew was on an anti-union tear this morning, claiming the union label on a company means "sell." Mika Brzezinski went so far as to say of unions: "They cripple the system that makes a company work." Collectively, the journalists on Morning Joe couldn't name a single "successful" unionized company.

This says more about their qualifications to discuss public policy and labor relations than it says about unions. To pick just one obvious example, UPS is unionized -- and the company made more than $3 billion last year. That's "billion" with a "b," and those are profits, not revenues.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. Aren't all those media talking heads union members themselves?

But I suppose it's different for them. :sarcasm:

[closeupready]

4. It always is, isn't it? 'Do as I say, not as I do,' is their recipe for career success.

:eyes: :mad:

[Ikonoklast]

2. When I worked as a casual for UPS ten years ago,

management stated at the pre-employment orientation meeting that they would not be the company they were without the Teamsters as their partners.

That was from management.

[Enrique]

3. look around, Mika

tv studios are filled with union workers.

[Mrs. Ted Nancy]

5. I love this quote

From a small business owner in Maine, "Ben Wootten said: "The US Chamber of Commerce doesn't speak for small businesses any more than Burger King speaks for cows"

[Bake]

6. AT&T is unionized, and they haven't exactly gone broke.

:hi:

Bake

[sufrommich]

7. Joe and Mika are both morons. I honestly don't get the

popularity of that show, it's like watching politics being discussed in a republican frat house.