Union Hater Rush Limbaugh Member of a Union?

#RushLimbaugh bashes unions, is a member of a union. WTF?

Bill O'Reily, Micheal Medved are union members too.

Most people who have worked their way up through the radio/tv business are union members.

Folks, you just don't get it. The problem is the conflict of interest in PUBLIC SECTOR unions. EVEN Franklin Roosevelt said it was a conflict of interest!

Pray tell, what is the conflict of interest?

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2011/02/20/why_fdr_warned_against_public_unions_250811.html

Sure Winston. But given their words of late against unions and they didnt specify PUBLIC unions it would make them big hypocrits. But continue to blindly follow it shows your intelligence.

That's right, actors, media personalities all apart of a UNION; them damn socialist are everywhere, Ronald Reagan, John Wayne, Bill O'Rielly, and old Sean Hannity The right wing Conservatives, they lie through their teeth.
It's what they do and I don't trust none of them,so I say, President Obama four more years, for president in 2012, it is the only hope we got left.

I dont know if this is true but I do know from experience that a Union is only as strong as the ones who are running it... Having in my past belonged to a few unions... The ones that I belonged to, didnt do squat for us... They took our dues but they were more for the company than they ever were for us... So, to say all unions are greedy isnt always the truth but many of them are greedy...I dont know what kind of Unions if they do belong to, so I cant really condemn them...

Vickey, you are absolutely right about that. My ex was a member of several unions and while one did nothing for the workers, the other was strong. It looks like the unions in Wisconsin are getting stronger. I sincerely hope they do not give up.

Winston Smith:

The Times article you site is from the Heritage Foundation, a right-wing think tank in Washington, where Tucker Carlson et al. got their start. Look up the Heritage Foundation and particularly their sources of funding and their board. It's all rightist propaganda and people. I'd have to research all of what Roosevelt said about unions and governments, and even if he said it, that's really no reason to believe unions are detrimental to the government. After all, government workers are just workers and deserve to be able to organize too. The Heritage Foundation is no more credible than anyone on the street.

And here is two sources of Heritage Foundation funding, mission statement and some board members. This is old stuff. The NY Times does occasionally give the Heritage Foundation some space, but gee-whiz, some people in Hell do get ice-water breaks:

Heritage Foundation's mission is to formulate and promote conservative public policies based on the principles of free enterprise, limited government, individual freedom, traditional American values, and a strong national defense.

Major funding is provided by two extremely anti-union families:

Charles G. Koch Charitable Foundation
and
Walton Family Foundation

Some board members. All board members are noted conservatives.

Vice Chairman
Richard Mellon Scaife, financed the anti-Clinton Arkansas Project.

Secretary
J. Frederic Rench, Heritage Trustee Since 1973
Rench is leader of the movement to spur citizen activism in electoral politics, having pioneered new methods of mobilizing conservative political involvement at the local level.

Midge Decter, Heritage Trustee Since 1981, noted conservative.
New York, New York

Edwin J. Feulner, Heritage Trustee Since 1973
President, The Heritage Foundation, Washington, D.C.
Heritage's President Edwin J. Feulner is the recipient of the Presidential Citizens Medal from Ronald Reagan for his work as "a leader of the conservative movement."

The Right Honourable The Baroness Thatcher, LG, PC, OM, FRS. The name says it all.
Former British Prime Minister.

Ed, good research. Thanks for posting.

So, here are some links from other sources, all of which say basically the same thing.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/22/us/22koch.html
http://www.politicsdaily.com/2011/02/24/poland-in-1980-and-wisconsin-2011-history-rhymes/?icid=webmail_plugin_news_en_us
http://www.dailyfinance.com/article/largest-crowd-yet-descends-on-wisconsin/1591824/


And how do you justify his willingness to bring in troops to try to quash the protests? It stinks of oppression. Nothing you say can deter me from this belief: Walker is puppet for the Koch brothers.

Doug R.

I don't dispute that he said the words, but to say that "the words of FDR are true" is just an opinion. Like an elbow, everybody has one. I try to source things from mainstream places. It's a fact that the Koch brothers have given Walker a lot of money and it's true that they fund right-wing places like the Heritage Foundation and other foundations that are anti-union. The Heritage Foundation writers are used as sources by a number of publications, but it's always described as a right-wing think-tank. To call them "union bosses" reeks of that same propaganda. I'd rather read facts about people than opinions. I didn't know Media Matters or other leftist publications sponsored union rallies. Do you have proof of that, rather than opinion? I'd be surprised.

That Roosevelt said and believed the things quoted might be a fact, but so what? Last time I checked he was just a fallible human being, not God. He didn't have the last word.

You seem to be so dismissive of legitimate concern, but we ain't going away.

This, from one of Reno Berkeley's sources is good:

"The right to unions and collective bargaining is also necessary for human freedom. As both the Solidarity movement and Catholic social teaching have attested, freedom is fulfilled by participating in the construction of a just society. Unions safeguard workers' ability to function in this capacity."

Without a union, workers will be forced to accept whatever an employer offers, just as the serf or slave had to accept his conditions. If you don't like it, go somewhere else. To dismiss unions as being controlled by corrupt "union bosses" is simplistic at best, at worst it's a damn lie. Corruption can be found anywhere.

The Times had a story a few days ago setting out exactly what Gov. Walker and his financial supporters are trying to do: Break the unions and end the money flow that goes from unions to the Democratic Party. Why would unions give money to the Republican Party? Why be stupid?

I read a Charles Krauthammer piece in the Post the other day in which the columnist railed in one paragraph about the people who want to do something about climate change, which the majority of climate scientists agree is a serious problem that is ongoing. And you can look that up too, but please, use mainstream sources. So at the end of the piece it said the columnist works for the American Enterprise Institute. If you look up AEI you find that one of the major donors is The Koch Foundation. David Koch opposes any research into climate change because his oil and gas industry would be hurt by legislation to control it. So Mr. Karuthammer is opposed to the belief in climate change and one of his financial supporters stands to lose actual money if climate change legislation is approved. Interesting people, these Koch people.

Ed, that's one of the reasons why I included it. I thought the writer made an excellent point. Thanks!

Here is an AFTRA vote result from 2010 listing Glenn Beck (though they misspelled his first name) and Bill O'Reilly on page 7 and Limbaugh on page 6. They are card-carrying union members. Communists, in other words.
http://www.aftra.com/documents/LA_2010_General_Election_Voting_Results.pdf

Wow, lots of interesting characters. What I'd like to know is, who are Tomato and I.P. Freely?

I didn't notice I.P. Freely and I've used that name, as well as C. Moore Butts!

Obviously, someone in that union has a sense of humor!

"However the words of FDR are true and his beliefs of not unionizing federal workers is a fact."

No it's not. He didn't believe that public employees shouldn't unionize, he simply believed that they had a duty to the public not to strike.

Read the whole letter.

Limbaugh, Beck, and other radio and TV personalities have to belong to AFTRA. They work in union shops. They are paid a bit above scale. :)