Conservatives Claim Unions Caused NY Snow Jam

[Better with a Union Man]

http://www.ourfuture.org/blog-entry/2010...y-snow-jam

By Dave Johnson

December 30, 2010 - 12:42pm ET

The right's propaganda machine begins with a simple narrative, repeats it endlessly, and then ties current events to the narrative to drive the point home. The corporate/conservative right are currently working a narrative that public employees and their unions are the reason for state and local budget problems. This is repeated endlessly, and every current event that hits the news is then used to support the claim. This is how an untruth becomes "conventional wisdom."

Source Of Story: Three "Unidentified" Workers

Huge headline at the Drudge Report: NYC SNOW JOB: SLOW CLEAN-UP WAS UNION 'PROTEST' The headline links to a NY Post story, Sanitation Department's slow snow cleanup was a budget protest. The source of the claim? Three "unidentified" plow workers.

Halloran said he met with three plow workers from the Sanitation Department -- and two Department of Transportation supervisors who were on loan -- at his office after he was flooded with irate calls from constituents.

The story claims the unions did this to protest budget cuts. Of course the obvious cause of the snow mess was that budget cuts caused the problem because there were not enough people employed to clear the snow.

FULL story at link.

[Born_A_Truman]

Conservatives love tax cuts and starving governments but hate shoveling snow when that's the results of their politics.

[NJMaverick]

Conservatives are lying. It's a preemptive strike against their failed philosophy of tiny government

[jaxx]

Ruperts NYP....as bad as his Faux Noise. They do love those unidentified sources.

Idiots.

[spazito]

What a crock, but then again it IS Drudge and a Murdoch rag pushing this. Typical repub/conservative 'blame the unions/teachers/anyone while the real culprit which is their own 'drown goverment in a bathtub' philosophy.

[Capn Sunshine]

why, Roy , it's a New Year with the resolution by the Norquist anti- union wing to ramp up the noise attack on unions.