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AFL-CIO Highlights Leftist’s Prank Call to Gov. Walker in New Ad

The Wisconsin chapter of the AFL-CIO has released a new television advertisement that highlights portions of a recorded prank call conversation between Gov. Scott Walker and a liberal writer impersonating industrialist David Koch.  Note the tiny mention of how the phone call was a set-up:

Since the prank call, the Koch impersonator has been identified as Ian Murphy, a liberal writer from Buffalo, N.Y.

MSNBC‘s Lawrence O’Donnell seemed happy to shine to the limelight on Murphy Wednesday evening during a primetime interview.  However, the left should be wary in crowning Murphy as their new hero.  Murphy’s writings at his Buffalo Beast publication are downright despicable.  In one article, titled “F**k the Troops,” Murphy unleashes a tirade against American service members serving in Iraq and Afghanistan, characterizing them as rapists who “volunteer to murder people.”

(Warning: excerpt contains graphic language.)

So, 4000 rubes are dead. Cry me the Tigris. Another 30,000 have been seriously wounded. Boo fucking hoo. They got what they asked for—and cool robotic limbs, too.

Likely, just reading the above paragraph made you uncomfortable. But why?

The benevolence of America’s “troops” is sacrosanct. Questioning their rectitude simply isn’t done. It’s the forbidden zone. We may rail against this tragic war, but our soldiers are lauded by all as saints. Why? They volunteered to partake in this savage idiocy, and for this they deserve our utmost respect? I think not.

The nearly two-thirds of us who know this war is bullshit need to stop sucking off the troops. They get enough action raping female soldiers and sodomizing Iraqi detainees. The political left is intent on “supporting” the troops by bringing them home, which is a good thing. But after rightly denouncing the administration’s lies and condemning this awful war, relatively sensible pundits—like Keith Olbermann—turn around and lovingly praise the soldiers’ brave service to the country. Why?

What service are they providing? I don’t remember ordering 300,000 dead Iraqis—although I was doing a lot of heavy narcotics back in ‘03. Our soldiers are not providing a service to the country, they’re providing a service to a criminal administration and their oil company cronies. When a mafia don orders a hit, is the assassin absolved of personal responsibility when it’s carried out? Of course not. What if the hit man was fooled into service? We’d all say, “Tough shit, you dumb Guido,” then lock him up and throw away the key.

As a society, we need to discard our blind deference to military service. There’s nothing admirable about volunteering to murder people. There’s nothing admirable about being rooked by obvious propaganda. There’s nothing admirable about doing what you’re told if what you’re told to do is terrible.

Like I said, despicable.

But despite his amazingly radical views, CNN also heaped praise on Murphy Thursday:

Given his new-found popularity in leftist circles for “duping” Gov. Walker, will anyone on the left bother to condemn his disparaging remarks?

Since O’Donnell the first to happily grant Murphy national television exposure, might I suggest he be the first to step forward?

Comments (48)

  • Rational Thoughts
    Posted on February 28, 2011 at 6:18pm

    Mr. Trumka, Mr. Trumka, who killed Peter York?

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  • ALMOSTLOST
    Posted on February 25, 2011 at 3:26pm

    as long as it takes meteorsexual as long as it takes!

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  • MeteoricLimbo
    Posted on February 25, 2011 at 2:15pm

    the Limbo party! how low can you go

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  • Zinovas
    Posted on February 25, 2011 at 12:58pm

    Where, in Wisconsin, do I send my donation to help pay for the at risk notices?

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  • Sister_Mary
    Posted on February 25, 2011 at 10:01am

    America highlights the leader of the AFL-CIO in a new ad – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUVpJnHZNw8

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  • Deutscher
    Posted on February 25, 2011 at 9:21am

    I think these gimmicks are more than a little sleazy.
    But I have to ask, if this is “leftist” what would you call O’keefe and his pimp act?

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  • matt708
    Posted on February 25, 2011 at 8:53am

    so the union uses a iidiot who bashes the troops ,as their main man. Union members how long are you going to let this go on, as it says you also don’t respect the troops.

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  • jedi.kep
    Posted on February 25, 2011 at 7:59am

    So the left exalts a known and proven liar who uses deception to point out that Governor Walker is guilty of saying what he has consistently said. What else is new here? Liberals lie and deceive. That is all that is proven here.

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  • matt708
    Posted on February 25, 2011 at 7:42am

    they need to ship this guys azz over to afghan and see how tough he is, he would probablt cry like a baby. The union is so wrong with their lies and it will come back and bite them, especially the commie Trumpka

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  • QuantumVerp
    Posted on February 25, 2011 at 5:25am

    The Union named the United States of America is ‘The Union’. If the US Union was operating constitutionally we should NOT allow violent competition from other ‘unions’. Something wrong at work? Call the sheriff ! Do these 12 citizens agree with you?

    If this is how the ‘unions’ envision the US is to be broken down, we wish you bad luck. At least our enemies are naught but loud-mouthed babies who will cease when an appropriate pacifier is replaced. I suggest the pacifier named ‘starvation’, the only God-approved mass unpopulation social product! or, we could access my ‘new and improved’ democratic republic computer tools for advanced civilizations?

    Ok, your ‘religions’ tend more toward the ‘dark age’ solutions to problems.

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  • Diane TX
    Posted on February 25, 2011 at 3:44am

    I lived in Carroll County, MD for five years, and Howard County, MD for eight years. Both Counties are predominately conservative, with Carroll County being a bit more conservative, and Howard County having some Socialist type cities. All the Socialists live in Baltimore City (where Nancy Pelosi grew up) and is not in any county for some unknown reason, Baltimore County, and Prince George County. There are other counties in Maryland that are politically mixed.

    Carroll County is mostly rural. It has a lot of farmland, and most single family homes sit on an acre or more. The people of Carroll County are the salt of the earth. In any kind of disaster, they would survive because they know how to take care of theirselves. They grow food, raise chickens, and have cattle farms. They see no reason to have government take care of them, when they have been taking care of theirselves, all of their lives.

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    • Sparky101
      Posted on February 25, 2011 at 8:40am

      You gotta toss Montgomery County into your list. Baltimore City, PG county and Montgomery County elect Maryland’s Senators and Congressmen. The other counties don’t matter.

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  • Psychosis
    Posted on February 25, 2011 at 2:08am

    SOMETHING YOU ALL SHOULD BE AWARE OF ( AND THANK GOD THESE NEW POLITICIANS KNEW)

    Maryland County Abolishes Sustainable Development Office
    James Simpson
    Carroll County, Maryland elected five new County Commissioners in November. These brave souls voted unanimously to get rid of all traces of the “Sustainability” agenda in the county. They abolished their “Sustainability” office and dropped out of ICLEI (the International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives), the first county to do so.

    This may not sound like much but is in fact, huge. The ICLEI has been busy training local governments in implementing the UN’s Agenda 21. If you recall, this was the key product of the 1992 Rio de Janeiro “Earth Summit,” where Maurice Strong, Secretary-General of the UN Conference on Environment and Development, set the tone with the following memorable quotes:

    “It is clear that current lifestyles and consumption patterns of the affluent middle class, involving high meat intake, consumption of large amounts of frozen and convenience foods, use of fossil fuels, appliances, home and workplace air conditioning, and suburban housing, are not sustainable.

    “Isn’t the only hope for the planet that the industrialized civilizations collapse? Isn’t it our responsibility to bring about?

    Carroll County Commissioner Richard Rothschild campaigned on this issue, framing it as the threat to private property rights that it is. He has become something of an expert on the subject. Listen to his radio discussion of the topic here. Why aren’t more politicians this knowledgeable?

    Rich is fully aware of the threats posed by Agenda 21. In a nutshell, they are:

    * Abolition of private property rights
    * Massive redistribution of income, wealth, property and even populations
    * Shifting rural voting from right to left

    The first two bullet points are emphasized throughout Agenda 21 “sustainable development” documents. They are not hiding anything. The last point however-the subterranean effort to dilute the conservative vote, is one that many analysts have missed. I have written a three part series on Agenda 21, here, here and here. Part III deals extensively with this issue. Read it if you can.

    Agenda 21 and sustainable development are issues custom-tailored to tea party activism. Implementation is occurring at the state and local level where tea partiers have the most leverage with elected officials. States and localities have signed unconstitutional agreements with ICLEI, agreements that have a corrupting effect on government from bottom to top, and will entrench socialism within planning and zoning mandates. This must be stopped.

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  • ALMOSTLOST
    Posted on February 25, 2011 at 1:52am

    hey da mook i thought you were puttin down marcus,,,,,,,my bad !!! didnt read it right…to much in a hurry to post…iam new at this…..iam not a troll either…i think

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  • KL
    Posted on February 25, 2011 at 1:43am

    As usual…….the ads these people produce are lies. ANOTHER reason libs and unions need to be silenced!

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  • Cherished Emblems
    Posted on February 25, 2011 at 1:38am

    It all boils down to this: I’ll give you a union job, make you dependent on me and you’ll vote me into power. It really is that simple! No…”I’m for working families” crap, just good old fashion palm greasing!

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  • ALMOSTLOST
    Posted on February 25, 2011 at 1:27am

    The truth has no agenda

     
  • ALMOSTLOST
    Posted on February 25, 2011 at 1:17am

    Hey dave iam on your side …i think?….just because they walk the walk and talk on the phone all tingley in there pants too big money with out verifying whos calling makes him an EAGER whore!!! this is how it works on both sides o.k.?Thus the root of the problem!

     
  • ALMOSTLOST
    Posted on February 25, 2011 at 1:00am

    Hey darmook whay cant you run away somewhere too???? i love you

     
  • I-HATE-THE-WORD-DISENFRANCHISE
    Posted on February 25, 2011 at 12:58am

    Maybe someone should do that to this jack=&#, but it needs to sound like one of his supporters. Can anyone imitate satan?

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  • ALMOSTLOST
    Posted on February 25, 2011 at 12:55am

    Admit it he dont look so good..kissin a%% too big money masters!What ever happend to haliburton? oh thats right they never directly call!! there smart,,,,,,like the most of them.What a whore ! and an idiot! but what do you expect??Somthing different?

     
    • thepatriotdave
      Posted on February 25, 2011 at 1:06am

      ALMOSTLOST
      Posted on February 25, 2011 at 12:55am
      “…but what do you expect??Somthing different?”
      ———————————————————————

      We expect nothing less from you.

      http://tinyurl.com/4rv8xsm

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    • Sparky101
      Posted on February 25, 2011 at 1:11am

      Not from a troll.

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  • NickDeringer
    Posted on February 25, 2011 at 12:45am

    The Tea Parties will vindicate Walker. 2012 is coming.

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  • ALMOSTLOST
    Posted on February 25, 2011 at 12:44am

    he got burned …..They learn quickly!!!

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  • cheezwhiz
    Posted on February 25, 2011 at 12:44am

    When Murphy bad-mouths our troops, he is actually speaking publically what Obama says in private to Trumka, right ?
    Just connecting the dollars…er…errrrr. dots

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    • Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
      Posted on February 25, 2011 at 12:54am

      I would like to give Marcus Luttrell, 5 minutes in a room alone with him. I think after 30 seconds he would mess himself and cry for momma.
      This is what I spent 22 years defending, the right for a complete moron to disgrace himself.
      If he really believes what he is saying, he really should go down to the local VA hospital and pull the plugs and kick the wounded. Then he can claim he has integrity and backs up his beliefs.
      But we all know he won’t do that, he will sit in a nice safe broadcast booth and spew.
      The only thing I hope is some night, when he is walking to his car, he meets up with a drug crazed mugger, and a military member comes to his rescue, he could then thank the Vet while standing there in his urine soaked pants searching for his manhood.

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    • thepatriotdave
      Posted on February 25, 2011 at 1:09am

      This guy Murphy better hope he needs to be rescued by a military person. He’s toast if he does!

      Maybe one of our geniuses can find this guys home address and post it?!?!

      http://tinyurl.com/4rv8xsm

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    • cheezwhiz
      Posted on February 25, 2011 at 1:48am

      @ Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
      I have a nephew who is student @ Bezerkeley and very active politically, specially against anything and everything related to US military and Walmart.
      A few months ago , him and his buddies went out rioting against UCB raising tuition fee , again .
      I asked him what they were protesting about and he said :
      ” University profs gave themselves a raise, again and raised the fee on students , again”
      He blamed it on Arnold the Gov, Bush ( who hadn’t been Prez for almost 2 years then ), for ruining the economy.
      So I asked him a simple question :
      ” Where does money come from ? ”
      Here is how the conversation went :
      Me : Where does money come from
      Him: When people get paychecks
      Me: Who pays paychecks
      Him: People who hire employees
      Me: Who hires employees
      Him: People who need any kind of work done
      Me : So how do employers get money to pay employees
      Him: They make money on the backs of working people
      Me : Again, where does THEIR money come from
      Him: Bush and Cheney are evil, they made billions of dollars by killing innocent civilians
      Me : If a person is not Bush and Cheney, where does he or she get money from
      Him: The feds print money for us
      Me: So what are you guys rioting about, just ask feds to give more money to UC, so that fees don’t go up. Why do you pay fees anyway ?
      Him: Our fee sustains the Univ Prof salaries
      Me : So you are the funding UC employees with your fees , right ? What do you call those who pay their fee to the government?
      Him: Taxpayers
      Me : Where do those who pay taxes to the government , get their money , if they don’t work for the government
      He called his boyfriend to come on over and pick him up .

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    • Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
      Posted on February 25, 2011 at 6:16pm

      @cheezwhiz
      I have a friend with the same mentality, you just can’t get through to them. And in every debate I have with him, he always falls back to the Bush/Cheney blame game.
      One thanksgiving I told my wife to time how long it took him to blame Bush. As we were watching football he started in on politics, and after 15 minutes, on a subject that had nothing to do with Bush, he suddenly said, “Oh yeah, well, Bush lied and got us into a war!” My wife yelled the time, he was pissed the rest of the day.

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  • ares338
    Posted on February 25, 2011 at 12:43am

    This phone call changes nothing. The governor is 100% right.

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    • thepatriotdave
      Posted on February 25, 2011 at 12:49am

      It was a stupid prank that got nowhere. But the moron got his 15 mins of you-know-what.

      http://tinyurl.com/4rv8xsm

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    • Showtime
      Posted on February 25, 2011 at 12:58am

      This is the same reason that Jesse Waters did the right thing by not giving credence to the fake reporter — avoiding something that could be used against him.

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    • thepatriotdave
      Posted on February 25, 2011 at 1:01am

      I’m sick of seeing union people and democrat politicians with signs and T-shirts that say things like “We support working families”, or “Fighting for working families”. Those cute little slogans mean butt-kiss as far as I’m concerned. If they really were FOR working families they would understand why so many people don’t like what they are doing.

      The truth is… there are many more millions of working families out there that heavily outnumber union workers. You and I call them taxpayers. What our more Conservative Governors are doing is to help working families to keep more of what they worked hard for. If taxes have to be raised in order to pay union benefits, the real working families will be forking over more of their money so people that are supposed to be public servants, can have a better life than the average taxpayer. THEY WORK FOR US! If they don’t like it, they can quit and go find another job. I’m tired of unions holding a gun to the heads of our legislatures.

      There needs to be a law enacted that keeps unions out of the public sector, and the reasoning is simple… they are bad for the taxpayer, you know, “the people”!

      http://tinyurl.com/4rv8xsm

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    • Sparky101
      Posted on February 25, 2011 at 1:08am

      In some states, it is illegal to tape phone conversations unless you tell the person that you intend to tape the call. Does Wisconsin law address this at all?

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    • Okie from Muskogee
      Posted on February 25, 2011 at 1:10am

      It sure would be cool if someone punked him……That would be hilarious…..

      In fact we need to start a site for those we want to punk with a phone call…..People can send the number in once found……

      1. Lawrence O’donnell
      2. Dick Trumpka
      3. Ed Schultz
      4. Van Jones
      5. Nancy Pelosi

      I think if I could get any of these on the phone it would be one revealing and hilarious conversation.  Just my thoughts……

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    • Okie from Muskogee
      Posted on February 25, 2011 at 1:17am

      @Sparky101

      Not illegal to tape phone calls. Just not admissible in court for evidence unless you inform both parties of the recording unless the operation is warranted under covert investigations. 

      You can tape anything you want, you just can’t use in court I believe. 

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    • CatB
      Posted on February 25, 2011 at 1:55am

      So anyone else doubt that the “prank” was to make this ad? People who are union members need to stand up to the union bosses … now … they do not give a D*mn about you. Only the dues you pay them.

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    • Showtime
      Posted on February 25, 2011 at 2:35am

      Okie from Muskogee
      Posted on February 25, 2011 at 1:17am
      @Sparky101

      Not illegal to tape phone calls. Just not admissible in court for evidence unless you inform both parties of the recording unless the operation is warranted under covert investigations.

      You can tape anything you want, you just can’t use in court I believe.
      ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
      It depends upon what state you are in. Different states allow different things. I found the Wisconsin law (summary) for the story about Gov. Walker’s telephone call and posted it in a comment.

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    • proudconservative
      Posted on February 25, 2011 at 4:50am

      This Ian Murphy is despicable, and then he brags about all the drugs he was wasted on. Any organization that would praise this guy is as despicable as he is.

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    • APatriotFirst
      Posted on February 25, 2011 at 7:12am

      Tape recording conversations….

      Some states have a “both parties informed” while others have a “only one party informed.
      Wisconson is a one party state. So was legal.

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    • cnsrvtvj
      Posted on February 25, 2011 at 7:35am

      @ares338 – You’re right, it changes nothing. This is a typical liberal tactic by the media in an effort to try and prop up their union buddies. I support Scott Walker 100% on this issue. Wisconsin is broke and can no longer afford to ignore that fact.

      http://www.donsmithshow.com – Political Humor

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    • grandmaof5
      Posted on February 25, 2011 at 8:13am

      They seem to have so much money to flush down the toilet, I mean with all the struggling union’s pensions suffering short fall, how can the members justify that much waste after all the money spent on losing elections. Is the AFL-CIO just getting people mentally prepared for the fact they are going to spend millions more of the worker’s hard earned dollars on the next election? How much short fall would they have if all the money they took out of the coffers had gone into the pension fund instead of to political candidates? Workers of the US, wake up and realize you are being used – the ends justify the means – it’s not about you at all.

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    • ImahaIngttta
      Posted on February 25, 2011 at 10:11am

      @Granda
      And remember that we all donate to the democratic party through our property taxes:
      Property tax —> public worker salaries –> union dues —> democratic party

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    • encinom
      Posted on February 25, 2011 at 10:46am

      The phone call proves just how petty a man the dictator in the Governor’s office is and how criminal. The fact that he was thinking about using his supports to disrupt the protests (which now the Madison police chief wants answers about). Teh fact that he bends over backwards for his fat cat donors.

      THe man is on the road to impeachment and a popularity that even Nixon would pity.

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    • hifi74
      Posted on February 25, 2011 at 9:46pm

      Screw the impersonator routine, for me that just took a second fiddle to his outright disrespect of our nations men and women in the military. I’m all for freedom of speech, but someone like him is THE lowest form of life. To speak like that about the men and women who support his rights and freedoms to do exactly what he is doing. He is less then human to me.

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    • Malachai
      Posted on February 26, 2011 at 1:35pm

      The endless hypocrisies of this site continue. Had this exact same thing happened to a pro-union guy, the cheers would be going up with posts saying “See, this just shows what scum bags they are!!”

      But now, since it’s a pro-union guy? “Oh, this changes nothing!!“ ”Is this even legal??“ ”This guy just wants his 15 minutes of fame!”

      Keep living in your glass houses, folks.

      Don’t get me wrong, I hate unions. However, at some point, if you actually were an intelligent, critical thinker, you’d have to look at a situation and go “Gee, this person who I normally agree with really is in the wrong.” Obviously that never happens here or in general with Beck fans.

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