(CNN) – Sarah Palin is responding to a union leader’s blistering attack Thursday on her home turf, characterizing AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka as a “career union boss” out of touch with mainstream American workers.
“Trumka’s attempts to put himself on the side of the working man and woman would be more convincing if he weren’t a career union boss who’s spent most of his life in DC,” Palin wrote on her Facebook page. “No surprise then that his priorities aren’t the priorities of the average working man or woman, but of the Beltway power player.”
“My fellow union brothers and sisters have had their union dues squandered for far too long by a few of the union bosses who work for partisan politics and not the good blue collar Americans who have to fund their cushy salaries,” the former Alaska governor added.
The comments came hours after Trumka delivered a speech in Anchorage, Alaska in which he called Palin a "crazy magnet that's pulling people to the right."
“After she tied herself to John McCain and they lost, she blew off Alaska. I guess she figured she'd trade up-shoot for a national stage. Alaska was too far from the FOX TV spotlight," Trumka said.
"I bet most of you, on a clear day, can see her hypocrisy from your house,” Trumka also said during his lengthy attack on the former Republican vice presidential nominee.
In her response Thursday night, Palin said laborer’s true plight stems from the policies of the Obama administration – of which the AFL-CIO is a big supporter – and defended her string of television appearances – “It’s called the First Amendment, Rich,” she said.
“To my hardworking, patriotic brothers and sisters in the labor movement: you don’t have to put up with the scare tactics and the big government agenda of the union bosses. There is a different home for you: the commonsense conservative movement,” Palin also said.
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Why is the Union Afraid of Palin she is not even an elected offical? The Thugs have run their course in the American work force now they are little more than leaches on the Tax Payers.
Now, what would one reasonably expect from Sarah?
In a nutshell, "that woman is an idiot."
On a couple of levels "commonsense conservative", as she apparently means it, is an oxymoron.
It is just amazing to me how scared liberals are of Sarah Palin and how obsessed with her they are. This is exemplified by the CNN Political Ticker having at least one Palin story a day to be followed by demeaning and degrading comments about her from the drug addled liberals. Why does CNN Political Ticker not put its efforts in to the daily stories about the lying and incompetence of the current administration and its liberal supporters. This "summer of recovery" hoax is a great example of the sheer magnitude of the incompetence and corruption of the current administration.
As a union member myself and former steward I have to say Sarah speaks the truth. I believe in unions but am insulted at how they try to tell me how to vote! I am a constitutionalist, freedom is in my blood and my soul. Those who would trade an essential liberty for temporary security deserve neither! A quote from Benjamin Franklin, and it sends a message never vote on your selfish desires or for false promises, vote freedom first! Ron Paul in 2012!!
This woman is crazy. Please make her go away!!!
First of all palin I am not ur damn brother. u got more hot air than rush if that is possible.
Poor Sarah, without the Tea Party faithful, she would be just another out of work governor.
She is such an idiot – she puts words togather, "mainstream American Workers" to seem like she is on ourside and to get the attention of all of the Fox Sheeple....we know she is all about your bank account.
They really need some new pictures of her. Id suggest something in a tight sweater.
Way to deflect and shift attention from her critique to something non-relevant and baseless. She can't even take responsibility for leaving her job for the limelight. No-talent hack.
Like or hate her she is one tough cookie folks. She is telling it like it is. The American concept of bigger is better has proven to be a failure and is costing us our jobs and our Freedom!
The time to embrace small is at hand. Smaller Government, more power to local government, smaller taxes, smaller businesses, no more too big to fail and smaller homes, cars, schools...
Just get rid of that Palin creature! She just won't go away!!!
Union people are not her brothers, and her agenda is anything but common sense.
This lady is dangerous and should be checked
I was a CNN viewer ,not anymore? Why must everything be "left" or "right" can it not just be for the good of the American people. Example;this morning CNN commented on the 8/28 (NON POLITICAL)event,never mentioned that Dr Martin Luther King's daughter was speaking but CNN was all over the fact the Sara Palin was speaking! What ever happened to truly reporting the news??
But Palin is completely out of touch with the human race. She's an utter moron.
This woman is an idiot. Sigh...
You aren't my sister. You are an enemy to working class people.
There is no way this woman could be so stupid as to believe what she says. Either she is totally nuts or totally evil. Or maybe I have too much faith in the intelligence of humans. After all there are a lot of people who believe these lies. The obvious truth is the policies of Bush got us in the situation we are in. Since Carter and Clinton didn't even finish undoing the wrongs of Nixon, Reagan and Bush I how would it be possible for Obama to undo Bush II in less than 2 years? We should all be thankful for the programs and policies of FDR, Truman, JFK, Carter and Clinton for without the lasting effects of them the GOP would have totally destroyed not only this country but civilization on this planet in general.
Yahoo! You go, girl! Give Trumka and snarky CNN indigestion!
Yeah Mr. Trumka! About time someone told Sarah how it really is. It is a puzzlement to me how anyone buys this ladies story. She quit a job her constituents elected her to do in order to make the almighty dollar. She seems to do anything and say anything to get in the media, she is always pontificating about hating. Wake up America! This women is a loon!
Trumka is right, there is something seriously wrong with you.
Palin is only looking out for herself. She needs to go home and take care of her children.
Of course, Palin herself has no interest or concern for "the priorities of the average working man or woman," as it is obvious that she seeks benefits for herself only. She pays mere lip service to the "average people," some of whom, foolishly, adore her and look to her for leadership. The rest of us see right through her and her phony populism.
union bosses are like piles of dog crap, all smelly and full of stuff that has been recycled by the dog and now you wash it away with a hose, same thing we should do with then and obama, wash them away and TAKE BACK AMERICA
So how can Palin say she stands up for the average worker when her party screams for tax cuts to the rich? How dare she say she's for the main stream America when she hates main stream media and will not allow herself to be challenged? HOW DARE SHE condemn his remarks or any other freedom of expression (Rahm) when she pulls out the First Amendment card?
Palin is the answer to a question that nobody asked, She is what is wrong with this country. Ignorance hiding behind the very protections she doesn't understand.
As usual, Palin has nothing to come back with but ad hominem attacks and empty rhetoric about evil union bosses. What's worse, she tries to cover up her craven and cowardly decision to quit her job as governor by invoking the First Amendment.
Apparently, she thinks people will believe that she would be forbidden from saying certain things as governor than as a private citizen. The sad part is that people are just stupid enough to buy into that lie.
She's a liar and a demagogue, and America doesn't need her poisoning our public discourse.
i bet when her family was living on her husband,s union wages on payday she would tell her husband that was to much money take half and give it back to the company RIGHT
I have to say, it is amazing how many intelligent people flock to her like she is a great and wise leader. The Rep. party loves her, because she is constantly stirring up the pot with nonsense, taking the spot light off the party of NO.
There must be some fear within the Rep party that she will actually run in 2012 and could possibly be on the Rep ticket. They have created a monster and I'm afraid that they will not be able to stop it. She is not electable, because she has far to much baggage in the short 2 years she has been on the national stage. Obama will shred her in the debates! Dems just love it when she opens her mouth, because all that comes out is hot air!
How is it that sarah palin is a conservative and her daughter got pregnant at 17??? Whatt kind of parent does that make her? Not a very good one in my eyey. The WHOLE movement are a bunch of frauds. Wake up people can't you tell a fruad???
Palin is truly the PIED (Political Improvised Explosive Device) Piperfor the whack jobs on the right and is indeed a "crazy Magnet".
CNN: This woman mens nothing to our lives. Leave her and her family alone, let hem live in peace wherever they chose to perch and look down upon America.
NO MORE PALIN ADVERTISEMENTS, CNN. ENOUGH.
What would a money grubbing quitter know about the average worker?
She will never win the Presidency. I have faith in Americans will see what she would do to America. Rock Star Family...not good for America
And Palin is a career whore that will do ANYTHING for a buck.
I thought Palin was the queen of scare tactics.
He knows that republicans are not working for the union people. Palin probably does not know this – or, more likely, she wants to create her own reality that will feed her ego.
Sarah Palin is trying to get union workers to join the party that's out to destroy unions. this is a new low, even for her. the rethugs have been anti-union, anti-minimum wage, anti-middle class for how long now? how stupid does she think the American people are? as stupid as she is? unfortunately, a whole lot are, otherwise the rethug party would've gone the way of the dinosaur a long time ago. once again she proves the saying that not all republicans are stupid but most stupid people are republicans.
Sarah Palin has absolutely nothing constructive or intelligent to say. She has no clue about the typical blue collar family. If she is so strongly against illegal immigration she would be pro union b/c unions do not employ undocumented workers. Her record shows she stands for big business and not for working families.
he's just another union boss lining his pockets with his members hard earned money...
Who cares what this witch-controlled woman tells her ghost writer to put on her facebook?
What is with the fixation on Sarah Palin by CNN? Who else's FACE BOOK pages is CNN reporting on? Or even reading? This is considered basically stalking and harassment. It is to this publication's utter shame.
Just shut up Stupid.
Sarah should know about cushy salaries. She abandoned her duties to the citizens of Alaska in order to cash in on her failed vice presidential campaign. She sent her unwed mother daughter on a tour preaching "abstinence" for 20K a pop. Two books and millions of dollars later, Sarah Palin has made more money than any other person in history who completely destroyed a presidential bid.
Yes, Sarah knows all about cushy salaries. Look up 'Charlatan' in the dictionary, her picture should be beside it.
Keep kicking azz Palin. The dems have their panties in a bunch over you and can only attack.
Trumka's out of touch! That's rich!
listen to this clown, she must just go away! so dumb, a divider and hater!
Funny how she thinks it is okay to spew criticism on a daily basis to anyone and everyone she doesn't approve of but when the tables are turned...she can dishes it out be she sure can't take it!!
Her complete lack of any moral character astounds me on a daily basis. It is disgusting that she is cashing in on hate and intolerance.
In sum, she totally sucks!
GOD i am so sick of this non-woman tweeting her ignorance to the poor uneducated that hang onto her every word!
this woman is a paricite to america. SHE is the reason hate is now so acceptable in america. she is a racist and bigot and feeds on the fringe and twisted part of this country that was just waiting to get permission to raise their ugly heads. she brings new meaning to the term white trailor trash. her child is learning how easy it is to scam america just by watching what her embocile mother is doing. WHAT A ROLE MODEL SARAH!
What does Palin offer to people who like collective bargining - a.k.a union members who would be at the whim of employers otherwise. Some unions may not fully represent their members because no organization can. The union is there to advocate on the behalf of their members primarily in the job field. It shouldn't matter if someone is a "union boss" or not, they weren't always the boss.
Here we go with Palin again – I can't wait to see her try at 2012 elections . . .maybe she'll pick the "Tooth Fairy" as her running mate.
Unions are ruining this country, have been fro years and they are only ramping up under the Union loving Obama.
She nailed this one... Trumka illustrates the problem with unions in this country. Greedy, out of touch and living off the hard work of others.
“My fellow union brothers and sisters......"
Oh really Caribou Barbie – PLEASE do tell what union YOU ever belonged to???
Sorry, but Mr. Trumka does something YOU don't.
He tells THE TRUTH.
Hurts, doesn't it??? Too bad, so sad.............
Go back to Wasilla and make mooseburgers – at least you are GOOD at that..........
Since Saint Sarah has NEVER completed ANYTHING she started, preferring to QUIT rather than finish the job, I can understand why Saint Sarah has a problem with "career " types.
Go Sarah!!! You've got the liberal heads spinning!!!
I agree with Mr.Trumka..He's the 1st person that had the guts to say exactly what Palin stands for..She's a lunatic with a few followers...She wants violence in our country..Lucky for us..her followers are either the elderly or the dumb.....She will stumble..and when she does..her followers will turn on her...
Palin is an idiot and doesn't speak for me. I am a union member and the people who are so against unions have unions to thank. If the unions weren't getting the wages they are for their members then non-union workers wages would be a lot less.
Palin hasn't worked in a job that would except her as a union member.
Let's see the 1/2 term governor, who makes millions scamming people to follow the corporate owned end of the tea party, who makes millions having someone write her books for her (and then New Corps buys them by the gross so they are best sellers), the woman who had hundreds of thousands of dollars of designer clothes bought for her (and lied about returning them) is claiming some one else is out of touch. The woman can't speak in complete sentences and she thinks she's better than everyone else (have you met her? have you spent any time around her? she is not a nice person, trust me).
Kettle, the tea pot is calling.
Saran Palin you don't work for the blue collar American ether,all you worry about is how much money in your pocket. I'm a republican,but if you run for anything in the republican party you will lose my vote and my family vote,and we have a very big family. We think you and your family are nothing but Alaska hillbilly,trying too get rich on the little bit of frame you got. Fox and TLC TV are dumb too put you on TV and i don't watch either network any more.
I'm not a fan of unions as they are today, but know that they had their place at one time. The US has lost jobs to cheaper labor markets and we pay too much for all products as a result of unions. I see that union workers are compensated a great deal more for the same amount of work as are non-union workers. Having said all that I'd still side with big-labor before Mrs. Palin.
Like a lot of Republican propagandists she thinks that middle Americans can't see what is happening and make our own decisions.
This is so laughable. "The Quitter" is so far out of touch it's truly pathetic. When will she realize that her "endorsements" of other political figures means nothing, that her own political party wishes she would just shut up and go home, and that she doesn't know her butt from a hole in the ground and any political issue of importance.
When the paid appearances stop, she'll just fade away ...
Sorry lady, you are no union member and you do not understand the plight of the American worker for you did, you would zip that potty mouth of yours. You have set workers rights and women's rights, two issues very important to the voters of this country, back a hundred years with you inane comments.
Palin's "conservative movement" wants to eliminate social security, medicare and unemployment benefits while extending and preserving tax cuts for corporations who ship American jobs overseas. If it were not for unions there would be little, if any, protections for workers with regards to wages, working conditions and benefits.
There is nothing common sense about Sarah Palin. She is a money-grubbing user who has certainly capitalized on her 5 minutes of fame. She and others like her (Limbaugh and Beck) are moving this country into a very gloomy and dark place for anyone who is a minority. Glen Beck is the George Wallace of 2010 and Palin is his disciple. God help us all. How could these people consider themselves Christians as they spew and promote such hate.
Palin, you are at the head of the line when it comes to defining what is wrong with America. I have yet to hear or read any product of your mind that has any substance in the effort to help fix or repair our badly damaged country. You can expect a whole heck of a lot more attacks against your character, as you have deserved and earned them. This is no fault of anyone but yourself. You are not a leader but a follower. You are a 'puppet' whose strings are pulled by the most 'UNpatriotic' people people and corporations that now reside within the United States of America. You and your kind are certain to send this once great country of ours 'to hell in a hand basket' should you and your people gain controll of Congress and the White House. This we cannot allow to happen. Our only tools at our disposal is our beloved democractic process, which unfortunately now is corporate owned, manuvered and manipolated NOT in the best interests of the ordinary people, but in the interests of the wealthiest people. Have a nice day and thank you for reading my blog.
A crazy magnet that's pulling people to the right...yea that sounds about right!
Richard Trumka has betrayed all American workers.
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Trumka promises to deliver Card Check legislation so that all American workers can be organised into unions.
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Now 2 years into Obama administration, with Trumka allies Democrats controlling the White House, over 50 seats majority in the House and a filibuster-proof Senate in 2009, where is the Card Check Bill ? Has Trumka forgotten his promise to all American workers ?
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Instead Trumka and his union leader buddies continue their fine dining and wining at the expense of all American hardworking union members while completely ignoring their livelihood and hardship.
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Trumka even flies all the way to Alaska to dine and wine at the expense union members' fees so that he can make personal attacks and serve his politcal buddies in DC. Where is Trumka's pride, dignity and conscience ? Trumka, stop talking and start delivering !
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Richard Trumka is a Judas to all American workers.
I do not believe she has the intelligence to put together a response such as this. Is there anyone out there who believes she wirtes her own stuff? Really?
She is nothing but a two-bit carpetbagger taking advantage of a vulnerable people. She has no honor.
Why would anyone listen to anything Palin has to say??She swore an oath of office and then quit when the going got tough.Fear, hate, and money thats the real Palin. I am still waiting for Palin to suggest a solution to any problem, but she has no solutions just hate and fear thats her tools.
Oh puh-leeze. Like this woman has any notion of what the American worker does. She certainly isn't one herself.
Trumka is right, she is a crazy magnet for the right.
Do people really believe the things this woman says? I guess we need dups and saps.
As if Prissy Palin would know anything about the real working people!!! She wouldn't stoop to get any dirt under her manicured nails like the common people!! She's a LOT more out of touch with the average worker than Trumpka is! Not counting the Palinites of the teabagger right that is!!
While if that's not the pot calling the kettle black.Hypocrisy 101. How much money is Sarah scheduled to make this year? And where would that money be coming from. C'mon man, is that the best she can do. When the governership doesn't pay enough, she bails for more cash. Bails the those "hard working blue collar folks" she so frequently likes to refer to.
Union membership only represents 12% of the US workforce. Foreign
car manufacturers that have plants in the US are non-union shops, and are very profitable. Walmart, the largest employer in the US is a non-union company, very profitable. During the industrial revolution, unions played a very important role for laborers, now we see inefficencies and sub-par performance. I'll paint a scenerio for you: picture a road-work crew, 4 men standing around watching the one guy with the shovel in his hand. Ask any union worker how he feels about illegal immigrants taking away their construction and manufacturing jobs; and why his union supports the Democratic party
who panders to them. Yes, liberalism is a mental disorder and poison.
Oh yeah Sarah, your husband would have not had the safe working conditions he had if it was not for the union he was in. He also would not have had the pay you enjoyed for the menial work he did.
I personally have had it with the politicians who talk out of both sides of their mouth unions, government money, etc. Especially Alaskan politicians. They can't survive without either one.
Sarah, if your husband hated the union all those years than he shouldn't worked for them. Sarah, if you don't want government money than you sure should not work or live in Alaska because that state sucks up a lot of federal dollars that I contribute in Illinois (gee, my grandkids school sure would like to see some of that).
Here is a novel idea for you, Sarah: The state of Alaska only gets the federal dollars it contributes. Nothing more, nothing less. That should stop your whining.
That's right, Sarah, attack the man and totally ignore the message, especially if the message is spot on. This guy spent actual time researching his position and delivering an articulate and convincing speech and you reply with a facebook post and a tweet.
Pay attention, folks. This is what passes for leadership on the far right.
Too bad Trumka didnt know that McCarthy was right on about the infiltration of Communists in the highest levels of the US Government as proven by the release of the Venona Soviet spy secrets in 1995.
Union people work, they don't quit so is Palin suggesting they quit their jobs like she and her husband. Palin tells working people what they don't have to put up with but she isn't saying anything about jobs. This woman has nothing to offer but hate and that doesn't help Americans. It's time hard working Americans ask Palin what her solutions are for jobs, housing, education and etc., Palin's a fraud.
Yeah Palin because you know what the working man and woman is all about. Palin, you are a failure and you should be ashamed for acting as you know anything about what you speak of.
Her response was clearly written by someone else. There's no way she could come up with those complete, grammatically correct, and properly punctuated (well....mostly) sentences.
Palin is a tool.....she invented scare tactics!
IE....Death squads and death panels!
I'll take Palin in my corner any day. This woman speaks the truth and fears no one. It's no wonder the lunatic fringe left fears her more than loosing their welfare check!
So the shrieking cow is pro-union? Who woulda thunk it?.
"Laborer’s true plight stems from the policies of the Obama administration..."
Ahahahahaha! She's totally clueless. As if real wages haven't stagnated for 30 years ever since Ronnie Rayguns declared war on the poor and middle class. What an idiot. Have a nice day!
P.S. They only call it class warfare when we fight back.
Sarah is a union member? What union?
For all her talk of common sense it's a shame that she possesses none.
She never cites evidence, facts, statistics, or basically anything that would lend any legitimacy to her hokey political stump speeches... I guess she doesn't need to when her base wouldn't fact check anyway. Sarah is a "career politician" in the making... if she could finish a job we may be in big trouble.
Funny how it's the 1st Amendment when she speaks, but it is show boating when Obama speaks...Funny how whenever someone disagree w/her, they are a part of the "DC Partisan political machine" and out of touch with the "real Americans", funny how, everything is tied back (union issues in this case) to the Obama adminstration now in its second year. A career politician is calling a career union boss out of touch w/blue collar workers...Hmmm, and you people actually think this woman has a clue.
This woman is an idiot, truly is an idiot, most is an idiot.
Did CNN honestly just use the words "smack down" in a headline?
Yeah.... and after Palin had one of her famous empty-head panic attacks... and after her Washington-based image consultants from the Bush Administration were called in to put a response together for her.
This bird-brain represents not American workers but the mindless zombies of the Right. ... the "drones" who follow their leaders and do what they are told because they have no minds of the own. ... in other words "The Borg".
Sounds like someone didn't like hearing the truth about herself.
There are very few people in this world who are as despicable as the wackjob known as Sarah Palin.
We need a uniter, not a divider
what does she know about unions? about as much as she does about anything else.....not much but CNN will follow her every word.
WOW,WOW.....If any body follows this Imbecile,Lunnatic an Maniac their IQ has to be a notch below hers!
palin is a sickening hate filled ghoul. anyone who supports her should be lobotomized except the end result would be that they have more sense than before
What union does Palin belong to? She has to belong to a union to rightfully refer to anybody as brother or sister. Since when is she an authority on labor issues? She's nobody's brother or sister. She just continues to show her hypocracy. She makes me sick.
What a joke!! Palin has no "fellow union brothers and sisters". There is no one from any union who can identify with her in any way. Her supposed "hit back" wasn't very powerful.
I think your description "smack down" is way over played. She did hit back but nothing like the "smack down" he did deservedly to her.
"My fellow union brothers and sisters..." I thought Sister Sarah was totally against unions and union members. Didn't she rail about the bailout of the auto worker's union at General Motors?
Come on Sarah, you can't have it both ways! Everyone knows that you support big business at the expense of average American workers. You need to shut up and go back to cooking Moose stew.
Why does this idiot always have to resort to her facebook page? What is she 15???
Someone ought to look into her staance at union negotiations during her half term before quitting
Palin's comment sounds like she is a union member (fellow union brothers and sisters), if she is/was a union member I had not heard about it. If it's not one thing then it's another that she whines about.
Yeah, because all you workers would be better off without your unions. Weren't conditions SO much better before you unionized??? Idiot.
Trumpka is part of the overall problem as to why our manufacturing jobs have left the country.
What union does this crazy woman belong to. Who is footing the bill while she parades around the country? And lastly, why are she and her goofy family still news?
The dreamer is at it again. Palin all you care about is your pocket book. If it wasn't for the unions working for the people we wouldn't have the working conditions we do. Who is it that brought us a 40 hour week, vacations time & health care? Certainly not the Republicans. Companies would like us to work like they do in China. CHECK YOUR FACTS LADY BEFORE YOU OPEN YOUR BIG MOUTH AND USE YOUR PEA SIZED BRAIN.
Someone ought to look into her position at union negotiations during her half term before quitting
The last time I checked a union boss didn’t sign the WTO & NAFTA. Allow a massive outflow of jobs to our nation. They never allowed OUR pay scales to be forced down into the ground by outsourcing. Nor did they allow 16 million illegal immigrants work at cutthroat prices & not pay taxes. But change the laws to allow them to get government aid. The GOP did! Palin is just dumb enough to allow the GOP to dance like a puppet. She needs to go back to Alaska & drill baby drill because her & the GOP are the ones that are out of touch with the people.
Palin is the most negative public figure in almost a half century. I think only Joseph McCarthy had her beat. Her plan to divide and conquer is only for political power and not to solve problems in this country. She wants to ID whether you're an American or you're too liberal to be an American. To have some ignorant 'pretender' play this role is a blemish on American politics and history. We should be ashamed to allow this woman to be anything but condemned. But like so many other tyranical leaders in history and throughout the world, bullies like Palin exist because of the ignorance and fear of the people who support such so-called leaders. We're all accountable for this woman's rise to any political power. And a special shame should be directed to John McCain, who birthed this cancer.
Shut up, woman. He spoke the truth.
So let me get this straight... Palin's only problem with the union boss is that he spent most of his life WORKING IN THE CAPITOL when she already abandoned her own office after not getting a job in-town herself? Dude, it's cloudy outside in Texas and *I* can see the hypocrisy from here...
Also: The Union guy didn't say Palin *couldn't* talk on TV, he merely suggested that she's an attention-gathering whore you could never believe if her tongue were notarized.
She would've been more popular today if she took the porn video deal after her big loss.
Yeah, right. Sarah Palin wrote that. The woman who can't string a coherant sentence together in person?
I don't disagree with the sentiments of what was written on her FB page, but c'mon, when are the MSM going to investigate who actually writes for her?
She's is such a classy lady. She'd sell her babies soul for a few minutes in the lime light.
"To my hardworking, patriotic brothers and sisters in the labor movement: you don’t have to put up with the scare tactics and the big government agenda of the union bosses. There is a different home for you: the commonsense conservative movement"
Yeah, where I'm sure there will be nary a union in sight, and no protections for laborers either. Let's hear her thoughts on whether or not people have a right to a living wage in their job, or if we should all just take what we can get...
How much do YOU earn a year, Sarah?
Union folks have long held that whenever there is a Democrat in the White House, there is work... can't really say that now the economy is grinding to a halt. Republicans will never have the union on their side, their only possible appeal is to those in the union with a conservative streak, and that is what Sarah Palin trying to do here... she knows she'll never win over the union majority, but those that can see through all the propaganda and question how a career union boss that draws a salary while traveling the country from a cushy office in Washington whether or not the workers have a job, is really looking out for their best interests... career union bosses are no better than career politicians and are only slightly less icky than lobbyists.
Wow. Just when you think "Quitter" Palin could't say anything more irrelevant and moronic, she tops herself. Like they say, "you can't fix stupid!"!
Out of touch bimbo will teach the GOP a lesson about who you should not go to bed with!
Union bosses don't know the meaning of the word patriotism. They steal from their union employees all day, living off the backs of the hard workers. And do they represent us – NO – they represent how THEY can continue to get more money.
He is correct, she is a crazy magnet that pulls in a lot of nuts and many well meaning people. Of course, remember she can see Russia from her front porch but cannot name one newspaper or magazine she reads...assuming she can read.
Palin is pro-union. You anti-union people better not say anything bad about her.
By the way, doesn't she SHOOT grizzlies?
“My fellow union brothers and sisters ...."
What union has this hoodsie belonged to?
HUH???... “My fellow union brothers and sisters "....
Is she a member of a union?
..."“To my hardworking, patriotic brothers and sisters"...... My brother, sister and I are still working. We didn't have the "cushy salary" to be positioned to walk off our jobs. Geeeesshhhhh.
You tell him Sarah. Dam union bosses getting rich off of the workers while doing nothing. It should be a crime.
I will never vote for Sarah Palin. She spends way too much time responding to the constant criticism and differing opinions of people who have a right to speak up and not agree with her. Who wants a leader who is "tit-for-tat" with all the different opinions. Nope, she would be arguing with people all over the world via modern technology. No thanks.
Lemme' guess . . . Tina Fey really wrote the Sarah posting?
What about the short-sighted Alaskans that voted this freak to their State's highest office? Did they get a public servant? No they have a self-absorbed publicity hound who when the chance to promote her book and her dysfunctional families interests came along she abandoned the "job" she was elected for. Unfortunately, as long as people make no effort to know issues themselves or demand people who are not only educated correctly but have the ability to do the job; you will get people like Palin who belong on a psych.'s couch not in any position of power.
can't we talk without all the bluster, name calling and exaggerated cr@p.
unfortunately
all the garbage aside, i do think ms palin attracts the less intelligent and/or close-minded.
The only reason I click on these Palin links on CNN is for a good laugh. Here in MN we have Bachmann. It amazes me how these women get their foot in the door based on the fact that they seem interesting, then the crazy comes out. This article in particular reminds me of how pointless the politics of speech can be.
What is wrong with this immature, childish moron? Twitter and Facebook, that's all she knows, just like your typical teenage girl.
Palin was here in Jacksonville last night. Her promoters first had her booked at a venue that holds 3,500 people, then moved her to one that only holds 700 because ticket sales were anemic and she couldn't even fill that. 500 pathetic people showed up to listen to the moron from Alaska spout her gibberish. It appears the majority of this country is finally seeing Palin for what she is, a childish, uneducated peice of white trash from the sticks.
I dont care!! I think she is cute. So there!!
Sarah Palin is a loud-mouth nobody. She was the last straw for many ex-Republicans. The GOP will never regain their credibility.
Thank you, Mr. Trumpka, for calling this crazy wack job out for what she really is. It is time for a few more high level officials to do the same. She has been running rampant in this country spreading vile and hatred and inciting violence since the day she showed up as McCain's running mate, and it has got to stop before something really serious happens. She has really brought out the ugly side in Americans, and I feel it is due to her deep hatred of President Obama. She is very spiteful and down right nasty and I am so sick of her whole hillbilly white trash outfit from Alaska. Now we have to put up with her daughter who is not a star on Dancing with the Stars. Their ratings will tank.
I'll tell you one thing she has right, and that is the squandering of Union dues. As a long time Union member and a steward, Union members should have some say on how our dues are spent on politics. Imagine if the Congress passed a law that said you have to mandatory donate a percentage of your paycheck to the Democratic Party? Or the Republican Party for that matter? That's what it is like in Unions today. Members should be able to opt out if they want in voluntary political funding, and make sure their dues go to strike funds, expenses, and pensions etc., not crooked politicians, lobbies, or parties not of our choosing. It's just plain wrong...
Having worked in two UAW plants during my career, I can say, without reservation, that the UAW is little more than a legalize form of organized crime. That is a fact, Jack.
"My fellow union brothers and sisters" – I am unaware of Ms. Palin's union membership.
Sarah Palin sold her soul to the devil for the love of money so she hardly has room to talk about "cushy salaries" and knows nothing about the "working man" as she has quit everything she ever started, except for she started lying and has never quit lying since the day she started.
She is a total nut job!!! And I am a Republican! It is right wing extremists like Palin that in my opinion hurt the party more then help it. I can only pray that the American people will see her for what she is....totally clueless and out of touch with reality so that the Republicans can get back on message
Can anyone imagine if the POTUS "Barrack Obama" went tit for tat with everyone that criticised him.....?
In fact, this President has shown an ability to dust his shoulders off regarding all the criticism he faces....
Sarah Palin would argue with a 3rd grader if they criticised her, this shows how childish and un professional this despicable horrible person can be......
Why wasn't she on the plane that took "Ted Stevens".....!
So funny and audacious to hear palin criticize "cushy salaries," defend the First Amendment (after firing away at the NY Mosque and defending Dr. Laura Slessinger's racist rant by objecting to her detractors as taking away the doctor's First Amendment rights by exercising their own!), and telling people they don't have to put up with "scare tactics" - coming from Death Panel Palin, this is beyond hilarious.
Oh Sarah please go away.
You go Sarah! Unions have overstayed their welcome and are now the PROBLEM in this country rather than the solution for the average worker.
She was never a member of any Union as an elected official so what the hell would she know and how does she explain the criticism she similarly received from groups like the Teamsters?
Sarah Palin is a bold faced liar and propagandist – she appeals to morons and low education voters who barely finished high school and racists, bigots and well, basically anyone born without a soul, brain, or heart.
Since Palin doesn't even write her own facebook and twitter comments, i'm honestly not even sure what Palin thinks. She has turned herself into a brand like McDonalds. The only think i'm sure of is that she has made this change in her life (leaving her governor job) to make millions writing books, speaking fees, and talking on Fox News. She seems more like a sell-out than a servant of the people to me.
And this is news??? HAHAHA
Ms. Palin is politicking too much to tell the complete truth about unions and the damage they have done to our country and to our expectations of what a day's pay is.
She is right about union bosses, however, and quite honest about them, as well as about President Obama's relationship to unions.
Palin wouldn't know what hard work is even if it slapped her in the face.
What a loony tunes.
It always amazes me that there are some folks who are low – mid income earners – that would buy the crud the Sarah Palins and others of her ilk are selling. The only political party that cares for the middle class in this country is the Democrats – and yet, because Sister Sarah dishes out the Kool-aid, there are some willing to drink. Why? Because Sister Sarah and the Church of Conservative Self Interest have become the Grand Inquisitors; adept in using fear, hatred, suspicion, greed and ignorance to perpetuate lies, half-truths, and completely fabricated stories to advance their ideas. Sister Sarah and Brother Glen Beck are the leaders of a very dangerous movement in this country – not a return to the values of our forefathers, but beginning a new creed of the "pure" versus the "impure" – where Sister Sarah and Brother Glen sit in judgement of who those two groups are. Folks, don't drink the Kool-aid.
"Career Union Boss?" What exactly is it that YOU do for a living Sarah?
She absolutely disgusts me!!!! I am glad people are starting to come out and call her for what she is. A total opportunist and a hate monger. Good for you Mr. Trumka. She just can not take any negative remarks from anyone but she sure likes to hand them out. Disgusting.
Crazy is as crazy does and Sarah Palin is certifiably nuts.
Does CNN have a 'PALIN BUREAU" headed by Alecander Mooney. Just curious as almost all reports on Palin originate from this guy/gal. By the way > 99% are negative.
What do you mean Palin.....the conservative right movement is the Party of Scare and Fear......you just can't take any criticizum can you.....whether you like the Union or not this man spoke the truth when he told American what this woman really is........Just like Bachman, Miller, Angle, and Palin they are all White Extremist wanting to take back America with Hate, Anger, and Automatic Weapons (if you saw Bachman yesterday)
Sarah completely dressed-down this tool.
Palin 2012. Accept it already!
Has she ever defined what "Commonsense" means?
What would she know about the "average american worker"? Most "average american workers" do not QUIT their job, as she did. She QUIT her job, to write a book. Instead of taking the heat (as most leaders do) and trying to fight for Alaska, she QUIT amid ethics charges (most of which were unfounded, although some did stick). Why would anyone trust Ms Palin to be President? So, if it gets tough, would she quit again?
If you think of nothing about Ms. Palin, just know she QUIT on her state, to write a book vs. fighting for her state. Also look at the people she's endorsing and their extreme views. Anyway, I say again, what would she know about the "average american worker".
Honestly though, as a conservative libertarian, I have to poke at Palin for this. I mean, come on... making fun of a union boss is like picking on the short bus kids.
Sarah's brain dead "commonsense conservative movement" would be like to roll back all the wage and labor laws passed by union support over the last 50 years.
That way, they can "take their country back"...to about 1960.
Palin does not work for the blue collar worker...they can't afford her fee. Palin works for the person with the biggest check, until somebody comes along with a bigger check. She ran out on the people of the state of Alaska. An oath of office means nothing to her. The entire family is on a mad money grab. Quite a carnival show.
The link for this story (Ticker: Palin called 'Crazy magnet') is a prime example of the bias that CNN and the media has against Palin. I'm not a huge fan, but this is wrong. It could have been 'Palin hit back at union boss' or any number of things.
Palin is absolutely right....again. If people would start listening to her words instead of the media's filter, they would agree with her views more times than not.
Sounds like Sarah knows how Union "Bosses" work and how the workers dues are squandered on buying politicians. Unions were a good thing at inception that have grown into organizations that includes too many things negative to the well being of our nation.
This dumb-down, retarded, racist moron, loser is truely showing her colours. But then again, the worst form of being a retard is not realizing that you are actually retarded. I fear for her followers, for she is leading them down the ditch, and they are just as retarded to realize that.
Why can't Sarah Palin offer to debate the "union Boss"?For how long will she hide behind facebook? Really the dumbest you become in America the more popular you become.
What does Sarah Palin no about hard working? She has money coming out of her ears from all of her stardom. Her book has made millions. She is living the high life and has the audacity to say that she understands the average American ?????????????????
Trumka has taken advantage of union workers and hasn't represented them well !!!
Hallelujah! There IS truth in journalism!
Yet lately the violence has been caused by union members or other far left whack jobs.
Union theory is that American workers are too dumb and stupid to speak up for themselves. The union bosses get huge salaries as compared to the union members themselves, but the union members act like they don't have enough self-reliance to do their own dirty work and they let the strong-arm union people do it for them. However, the union bosses often put the business out of competition with their ever-increasing demands that the businesses cannot provide. But in the meantime, the union bosses have put away enough cash (from the businesses) to sustain themselves while they search for new fools to ruin.
Palin is a moron. Does this boob always have to try to get the last word?
SHUT HER UP
What Union was Sarah Palin ever a member of. How much money has she ever paid in Union Dues? She has no clue what Unions in this country are about and what they have meant to America.
It's a joke for her to even talk about someone lining their pockets off the backs of hard working American's. She just appeared in Jacksonville Florida August 26, 2010. The tickets were $50.00 and $100.00 dollars. Who is making money off the American people.
Now they had to move the location to a smaller venue because the ticket sales were so down, but with that said who is making the most money off the uninformed conservative movement. She is a cancer to our country. Filled with hate and prejudice.That is proven when she accepted the offer to be a Key Note Speakedrat the Beck rally.
"My fellow union brothers and sisters"????? Didn't know you were a union member.
Don't much like union bosses, but this one hit the nail on the head. She is crazy...
Wow. What a surprise. Palin is calling someone who disagrees with her "out of touch." American's rejected her and McCain's politics in 2008, most of the candidates she has endorsed during this year's midterm elections have lost, and even members of her own party have distanced themselves from her. At some point you have to stop and think that maybe...just maybe...SHE'S the one who's out of touch.
America needs to put a cap on union bosses there part of the main reason for industrial downfall by over paying workers and driving industries over seas for cheaper labor .
Trumka; is a typical communist union official who will if given the chance, destroy America!!
“My fellow union brothers and sisters have had their union dues squandered for far too long by a few of the union bosses who work for partisan politics and not the good blue collar Americans who have to fund their cushy salaries”
Cushy salaries?!?!?! You quit your job so you can cash in. Stop with the hypocrisy Silly Sarah. If you were on the side of union wokers, you would support the Employee Free Choice Act. But you uncommonsense psycho conservatives are against the working American. Becuase Sen. Scott Brown has supported bills that helps American workers, Silly Sarah threw him under the bus. She's so full of it.
Why is it that every time Sarah Palin talks about something the left disagrees with, they attack her in such a juvenile manner. Why? Because they have no intelligent way to dispute her, so must resort to these nonsensical statements. Grow up!
And Palin's #1 priority is $$$. She is the biggest hypocrite of all time!
Sarah, shut up and swallow your medicine. You're quiter, a loser, a bigot, a liar and no friend of Americans.
I find this so sad and so depressing – first of all that CNN portrays it as an attack on Palin, then blatantly goes the other way!! What a joke our media has become and what a joke that people have to attack each other instead of figuring out how best to help the country. American politics have gone in the toilet and so has the "media" which is no more than a left wing propaganda machine or a right wing propaganda machine. I can only imagine what things will be like in twenty years – worse and worse!!
Goes to show you the state of the conservative movement if it has to rely on this petty, thin-skinned demagogue to represent it.
And Sarah is in touch with American Workers. Does anyone believe this? What is her labor credibility?
Snakes in her head
Sarah is not afraid to hit right back on these raving attacks with pin point clarity and truth. Then she cheerfully re-loads and waits quietly for the next attack. THAT fortitude–cajones– scares them senseless, leaving them foaming and sputtering with raging tantrums for us all to see. Yes, she has exposed the crazies to the light, but the lunatics are crawling forth from the leftist side of the nation.
Like Palin knows anything about working for a living. Go shoot some more wolves from a helicopter.
LOL. Sarah calls them "...My fellow union brothers and sisters." Did she EVER hold a union job for even a day? And meanwhile a 'career union boss” is out of touch with mainstream American workers?
Talk about out of touch! Sarah must need ankle weights to keep her on the planet.
Whatever you want to call Palin, I think shes actually right on this one. These union boss guys are plain political thugs only looking out for themselves and their paycheck.
The press and the media are mean to Sarah....mostly because they don't want to debate the issues....the issues are that people are fed up with higher taxes, fed up with deficits, fed up with wall street and car company bailouts, fed up with lazy people receiving a check without working for it. If you poll these 5 issues you will find that 80% of america agree with Sarah on these issues even if they don't feel like she is personally ready or experienced enough to be president....Debate the issues don't insult the opponent.
Her grammar is getting better. I wonder who is actually sending her Facebook entries?
Palin- Your a quitter and media scum bag. Your in this for the money. Shame on you.
I get difficulties to understand this Alaska hillbilly. Anyone who has risen at a level of a Governor can not react the way she does. I can't imagine how she can go after Chavez or Ahmadinejad. It will be a circus of its kind anyone has ever witnessed!
Unions once served a useful function, but then they became monopolies on particular types of labour. As such, they've come to share the characteristics of any other type of monopoly: they've made the services they represent over-priced and of poorer quality.
Redouble your efforts CNN . This lady nailed this guy and is a real threat to your liberal agenda!
Wow, sister sarah bad mouthing a union. all she, and the repugs want to do is bust the unions. They have no respect for hard working middle class americans. Sarah is a idiot.
She offers nothing but talking points. Of course, anything more than that would require some real intelligence. She has none of that.
It is clear she doen't even know who Rich Trumka is and his history with the United Mineworkers.
IT has been the union movement, the collective bargaining of workers, that has advanced wages, benefits and working conditions. The employers have never offered up anything to the worker without a fight. Just look at what happened in the latest mine disaster in West Virginia. It was a nonunion mine. The head of Massey Energy couldn't care less what happens to the workers – its just how much profit he can make.
Palin seems to have no understanding about how come her husband can bring home a decent paycheck from his union job.
In nonunion areas of this country workers are paid less, get fewer benefits and suffer more workplace injuries. And the owners and employers just sit back and raise their already high pay even more.
Fingernails on the chalkboard...
Ever notice how liberals always seem to be mad and unhappy with things even though nobummer and liberal demorats in both houses of congress have given them about everything they want. Maybe they realize the power shift is coming and most of the junk passed will be repealed in accordance with the wishes of the majority. They hammer Governor Palin and all Conservatives, but she and us still go on with our lives quite content except for the economy and job losses. I love the way the liberals slam Governor Palin but she just laughs at them and continues to lead the way on change. November is coming and we will make the liberals even madder than they are.
One of the few instances that I agree with Sarah Palin. The union bosses are not looking after workers' interests but those of their own.
How does this nut job get taken seriously??? I assume Sarah, Glen B and Rush L can and will say and do anything for the big money they get . When will the right figure that out?????
She is a crazy magnet. In days when decency and respect were the rule of the day, Sarah Palin would not get the time of day or even the arena to stand and speak. Of course there were better and more decent people to turn to. It is amazing to and sad to see the party that produced the father George Bush is relegated to having Sarah Palin as their spokesperson. In the quest to get ratings and be one up on the competition, the media has sank to these depths. Not since McCarthy have and the Jim Crowe era have there been more divisive and hatemongering. It is given life by the media in the name of journalism. There must be a point where someone says no more.
I like Trumka.
Since Sara Palin is a Crazy Magnet, does that mean the CNN staff, obsessed with reporting her every breath, is crazy?
Go Trumka!
How amazing that Mama Grizzly forgets that she's been milking her celebrity status preaching hate, fear mongering, racism and blantant ignorance to crowds of poor people to pay for tickets to see her; she's been earning millions of cash across the country spewing hate in paid appearances. What an idiot this woman is. The ignorance she possess is of historic proprtions.
Again, I feel so sorry for the poor intern at CNN who has to monitor Palin's FB page 24-7. I hope you are either getting hazard pay or extra course credit for your work.
so we have an attractive, conservative, Christian American.........and a fat, socialist, union thug..........who do you think most will support?? that's what I thought..............
Talk about clueless! How does this woman think she is in touch with America, when she just barely lives in America? She has more to do with NW Canada and of course...her neighbor...Russia.
She touts her experience as mayor of Wasilla...I have been to Wasilla...Betty White could be mayor of Wasilla...there is nothing to manage there, had she been mayor of Anchorage or Fairbanks, then maybe she could have a leg to stand on, but Wasilla? Get real.
The ego this woman has is incredible...she is really a moron who is blinded by the limelight and takes stupid Americans along with her.
Want to see a typical Palin fan? Check out the next car or truck that sports an NRA sticker. Peer at the driver and my bet is that they have more tires on their car than teeth in their mouths..but this is the base who are mesmerized by this dumb blotch on the American landscape.
Good for you Ms. Palin. Let the windbag have it with all barrels blazing. Mr. Trumka and his ilk are ruining our country and President NObama is paying back the unions for their political support with taxpayer funds. Mr. Trumka and our so called president are a bunch of hypocrites.
This man is really a big, fat, windbag idiot!
Right on Ms. Palin!
This idiot woman never worked a hard day in her life. She cant relate to any union one way or the other. Why anyone still pays any attention to her is beyond comprehension. She incites hatred and violence and lies through her teeth. She is the type of person who would yell "fire" in a crowded theatre. She should be locked up for inciting trouble.
Gee, Sarah. You don't have any union brothers and sisters. You're a flakey, failed politician and a horrible example of what an American can become when only money governs her actions. It would be so nice to not have to see your face attached to every right-wing loon coming down the pike.
You made your $12 million dollars, now shut up and let the rest of us get on with fixing the things that your type of short-sightedness has brought down upon all of us.
Palin is an affirmation of the dumbing down of America!!! A quitter opportunist, who decries Socialism yet negotiated a Multi Million dollar State Redistribution of Oil Revenue in Alaska!!! Sound byte after soundbyte - Tweet after tweet - Ignorance beyond measure!!!!
Everything Trumka said about Palin is absolutely accurate. It's funny that Palin champions the "working class" when the reality is that she uses the working class to line her pockets with money. She quit her job as Governor to seek fame and fortune. She doesn't care about the working class, she's a millionaire. She is no different than televangilists who make their money off of the poor and dumb via soundbytes that have no merit.
It makes my day whenever I hear Palin tell someone that they are "out of touch". The sad thing is that people believe her.
"my fellow union brothers and sisters.."
To what union does Palin belong?
Hay Trumka I am a member of the IAM&AW, I support any and all conservatives and I DO NOT support card check or any part of this Obamanation. If my brothers & sisters in all the other unions want to see thier paychecks cut 50% by massive tax increases in order to support all socialistic programs comming out of Washington thats up to them not me .
Can you say Maverick......NOT!.........The Palin's are the secret Russian spies we have yet to kick out of this country......
Irony. It just happens.
What a fundamental (and yet intentional, I believe) misunderstanding of what "rights" are. It does not violate your 1st amendment rights to be called out on saying stupid things, its actually my right to do so! But it sure does fit with the narrative of victimhood to portray any criticism as an attack on your rights. It also marginalizes anyone who disagrees with the talking points to the point where Palin can say anything and it can't be challenged, even with facts! For example: these people actually think that the majority of Americans agree with them! Like I always say: Don't let the facts get in the way of a good story!
Here we go again, Sarah. In my opinion she is a bigoted uneducated fool. She knows nothing
Wow, she got him pretty good!
What Palin forgot to say to the union workers, "There's a new home for you in the conservative movement.....where you can work free like a slave for slave wages and slave hours."
Sarah Palin represents the very worst of us. She is hateful, ignorant and not intelligent. We will look back on this era in years to come as ask how on earth anyone could think that she has anything to offer. She reminds me of Joseph McCarthy of an earlier time.
As if she knows what it means to be a working person! When she asked working people to spend their vote on her to become Alaska's Governor, she couldn't even honor her pledge.
Get real folks. The GOP/TeaParty won't be happy as long as there is one working class American with a living wage job.
She got it right no doubt about it.
Easy to say when you're the one "hiding out" in your Facebook account. Talk about being out of touch. If you want to be taken seriously by anyone but your very curious base, you really need to get into the fray and act like a real political candidate. Otherwise you are just the quitter from Alaska out to make as much money as you can before your 15 minutes is up...tick tock, tick tock!
Sarah Palin is sounding more like a junior high school girl everyday. Whine, whine, whine....attack,attack, attack. Give us all a break and sit down and shut up.
Go girl!! put some lipstick on that pig.
How would SARAH know what the working man in middle America thinks. She is getting paid big bucks by FOX. She doesn't know what is like to live paycheck to paycheck and have your kids take out loans at 12% to go to college and better themselves. Maybe I should send my daughter to dancing with the Stars. Start taking care of your family.
Gotta love the Union – attack anything or anyone that stands against them. YES, there was a place for the Unions at one point, but that time has come and gone. Now, the Unions just want to terrorize the economy so their precious members (who were forced to join) can have lazy jobs.
I'm not a Palin fan by any means. However, she is right on this one. Unions need to revamp their priorities wherein they work with mangement to ensure the long-term health of american workers
Except for SNL writers looking for a good parody, why does anyone care what Palin says. She is this nation's biggest political joke and we are having her shoved down our throats.
If this woman had an once of class, she would rise above such comments, but no she has to sling mud right back. May look 'cute' to her followers, but looks downright stupid and unprofessional to the rest of us. Has this women done one meaningful act for the good of American since she left as Governor? All I see is her running around the country and offering herself up to the highest bidder.
I like how the right wing parasites think that liberals are scared of Palin. We love Palin. Pure entertainment. Although her hate speeches are going to back fire before long.
"Look at me and my hair and pretty clothes – aren't I cute – my name is Sarah, and the media, because they are sooooo easily taken in and downright dumb, keep printing every little thing I,or my daughter, or former son in law, speak or do".
You moronic, shallow, five college to graduate, media hounding, important person wannabee, are not fit to speak against such a man as Trumka.
I invite all readers to track the life accomplishnments of Palin Vs. Trumka in Wikipedia. My favorite is Trumka delivered a speech at the Democrat 2008 Convention, against racism, which has +500,000 hits on YouTube. Palin panders to white racists who showed up at Obama rallies, dropped the "N" word everywhere they could and spit on black personnel. I make no further comment.
Good for Sarah and she is right that union leaders have turned into thugs.
Sarah Palin handled this thoroughly, appropriately and with class.
Of course she didn't even have to respond, but I like that she took this opportunity to welcome people who might have been told by their union leaders that conservative philosophies only benefit the wealthy. That is so far from the case. In general they are powerful for supporting the efforts of all working people besides giving more people the opportunity to actually have a job.
Haha. Funny. A "smack down" from her Facebook page to all her sheep fans. She's such a f/tool.
Palin isn't a crazy magnet and the people listening to her aren't crazy either.. She fuels the hatred and fear of many white people who feel threatened that their centuries old dominance in America is being challenged by a more diverse populace. All this "take back our country" talk is nothing more than a euphemism for get rid of all the colored people. The rally in DC is not only an insult to African Americans, but to all Americans (including a lot of white people) who desire to see this great nation move beyond its hypocracy. America was intended to be the jewel in Gods crown for her democratic principles and should have a place for everybody. Palin and Becks DC rally is a gross perversion of everything thig nation should stand for.
CNN needs a new start and based on your Ticker stories everyday you may as well just try a new name and go with PALIN NEWS NETWORK. Day after day after day.
Why are union crooks, er, bosses even talking about Palin? She's not in any leadership position. I think that they are finally seeing and end to their gravy train.
SEIU and AFL-CIO need to go. Also, there should be NO UNIONS for GOVERNMENT WORKERS (including teachers). If you feel you can be paid better somewhere else–TAKE THAT JOB.
(note: and I'm not even a Palin supporter)
Why doesn't she keep her mouth shut. She is nothing but a troublemaker. Lord help us if she ever gets in a high office. Surely the American people are not that dumb to ever vote her into any office.
This lady fits in the criteria of Hollywood Ma'dam.. she can do a good job being a madam to call ladies than represent the core value of the suffering Americans. She is as poisoneous as snake but intelligently challenged. No wonder she has to run to various universities in order to complete just college deploma. What planet does this woman actually come from.. very lunatic!
Freedom and. Socialism – that's what it's all about. The union boss wants freedom for himself and the elite and socialism for the rest of the peasants.
First thing I've heard good come out of her mouth.
Sarah is dead on with this one. People pay into their UNION dues avery month, and they get absolutely nothing for it. All that money goes to the UNION BOSS' lobbying efforts, and their extravagant salaries. It's time for these well connected over paid thugs to get out of the way of progress.....
The First Amendment? Did she really call upon the First Freaking Amendment to defend her paid tv appearances (which doesn't even make sense, Barbie) WHILE she's trying to shut down the Park51 project in NYC because "those people" worship the wrong man in the sky?
Even in her response, the hypocrisy is astounding. It would be funny if she didn't have an army of the ignorant following her.
She's such a crazy loon...
Right on, Sister! #1 issue with Unions is money, especially to line the pockets of the representatives and help pay those they place in office through so call campaign funds. Now that the Union numbers are dropping, they try to Unionize any one soon they'll go after kids in school.
Wait a sec?
She is actually saying she is now Pro-Union?
What alternate reality does this nutcase live in?
"my fellow union brothers and sisters..."
HUH? YOU DON'T EVEN HAVE A JOB!!!!!!
just because a small constiuency of fanatical right-wingers salivate of this opportunist, doesnt mean she has the rest of us fooled.
it would be nice to click on political ticker and see something else besides this Pailin sideshow. She's an embarrasment.
“It’s called the First Amendment, Rich,”??? Umm, no. The First Amendment does not protect you from private citizens protesting your asinine statements and positions. If you are going to call someone out about the First Amendment, perhaps you should read it sometime, and learn a bit about its meaning.
Secondly, Sarah, being a half-term Governor of Alaska does earn you the privilege of using the phrase “My fellow union brothers and sisters." Neither does your honorary "membership" you received from the IBEW for pushing a pipeline deal. Legally, that does not make you a union member at all. Shame on you for implying one more credential that you do not possess.
Finally, your "conservative movement" strives to weaken the rights of individuals to form unions, and to weaken the rights of the unions to represent and protect their members. It is not common sense for union members to support your "movement." Commonsense would be for you to think before speaking, and to shut up about things you have no knowledge of, such as the U.S. Constitution.
Unions are a big reason this country is in the position we are in. They had there place in time, but when foriegn car companies can come in and pay competetive rates with good benefits without a union and our car companies get bailed out by the government instead of letting them file chapter 11 and restructure, it clearly shows how destructive today's unions are. For this guy to attack Sarah Palin is a Joke in itself. He does not represent all Alaskans in unions. I'm positive that there are many union workers that support her instead of the Democrats that are stearing this country off the freaking cliff. Wake up America!!!
If you have a job and work hard Palin hates you.She and her family are quitters getting rich by being lying sleaze bags without a collective thought between them.
Notice that all of these people are "career" whatevers that are out of touch. Does she not realize that she is a career piece of garbage that can't finish a job. Stop listening to her.
Another daily headline on Palin by CNN.
They ignore that she is an unintelligent radical, is in the back pocket of the oil industry, wouldn't recognize truth and integrity if it hit her in the face.
Unions are the back bone of middle class America. It appears some would rather the CEO's, big business have complete control over us and our livelihood. We had that for eight years and look at the destruction occurred.
The American people cannot allow a political party that has undying support and love for Wall St, the rich over our welfare, who touts propaganda, fear, hate and anger because of no workable, acceptable, credible ideas of their own, and has thrown all integrity, honor, what they were elected to do to the wind, who obstructs anything and everything regardless of merits and benefits back in control as our country will not survive.
“It’s called the First Amendment, Rich,” she said.
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But lying is against the eigth commandment (at least in my church's numbering):
"You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor."
But we can't expect you to remember this, with your faux religious stance. YOu worship the almighty dollar, and nothing else.
"My fellow Union brothers and sisters"??
Wow....I did not know there was a -Ex-governor' Union!
Perhaps.....to keep in line with us fellow union workers...Palin could reveal the source of HER "cushy income"!
Finally.....Palin villifies, tweets, derides, denigrates anyone who disagrees with her...but then defends HER far right fringe policies saying 'It's the First Amendment'??
how dare sista sara to try and align herself to the workingwomen and men of the unions she never had a real job in her life and one thing her speech writers fail to tell her was that Trumka worked his way up to be president he wasn't appointed,sista sara never did ahard days work in her entire life she is a sham.
What is the point in reporting on the dingbat from Wasilla?
Facebook is a one-way street. It allows Palin to say things without any retort.
Want to know what she thinks, get her on CNN. Otherwise ignore her, she is PLAYING the media.
Sarah "GOP Goddess" Palin complaining of some small union hack as the "Beltway Power Player". She's an uber-hypocrite.
Palin made minced meat out of Trumpka. He actually gave her an opportunity to look tough .. and she took advantage.
"The common sense conservative movement..." Haven't seen or heard of it Ms. Palin. All I've seen and heard is your and your Fox News (sic) cohorts' uninformed, bitter, nasty, lying platforms that smack of political opportunism and scare tactics. As a person with conservative friends who have neither patience nor respect for you or your cronies, I have not seen anything that resembles common sense from you or your ridiculous agenda. AK doesn't want you and our country doesn't need you. Just go away Sarah, just go away.
A facebook posting is hardly a "smack down" in my opinion.