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Chris Matthews Loves Union Guest’s SDS Background
- Posted on February 23, 2011 at 6:01pm by
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On Wednesday, MSNBC host Chris Matthews welcomed Wisconsin AFCSME executive director Marty Beil, calling him “the real thing” when it comes to knowing what workers need and want in a workplace. According to Beil, workers who don’t belong to a union “have no dignity.”
Following the interview, Matthews discovers Beil is a former organizer from Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), a radical and sometimes violent 1960s-era organization known for their undaunted pursuit of “social justice” — a left-wing background Matthews praises as “just great”:
h/t Greg Hengler
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Conservative redneck
Posted on February 24, 2011 at 1:33pmMost Dems I know are lazy stingy bums and I know alot since I‘m from the People’s Republic of Illinois.
Report Post »sawhorse1950
Posted on February 24, 2011 at 12:04pmRush Limbaugh is so right on about the unions and the Democrats…MSNBC is in bed with Obama and all leftists in this country..Chris Matthews is an absolute loon..Why would anyone in their right mind want to be affiliated with the Democratic Party. Democrats are good for nothing…
Report Post »Arc
Posted on February 24, 2011 at 10:58amSecretly Matthews wishes he was a member of an “underground outfit”. Allow me to point him in the direction of a funeral parlor.
Report Post »thetang
Posted on February 24, 2011 at 10:43amSounds like Chris was sorry he didn’t become a member of SDS back them? Then again maby he did?
Report Post »MUDFLAPS
Posted on February 24, 2011 at 10:31amUnions Suck! You people are idiots!
Report Post »MUDFLAPS
Posted on February 24, 2011 at 10:30amWe’re gonna give you free advertising???? Hell thats all that station does.
Report Post »2gether
Posted on February 24, 2011 at 9:07amMight I remind everyone how the unions at GM dragged the auto company to bankruptcy and how we are still supporting the company with our tax dollars and how even though the stock was selling at $26 but we need to make $56 to break even with the company all the union members got their big bonus checks…up to $10,000?
Report Post »wash1776
Posted on February 24, 2011 at 8:58amMatthews is the real thing too along with this clown. ONE OF THE BIGGEST CREEPS ON THE PLANET!
Report Post »jedi.kep
Posted on February 24, 2011 at 8:29amChris Matthews didn’t do his homework? Didn’t check the guys history? Wow. What a surprise!
Actually not. Chris is an idiot with a microphone.
Report Post »Mike Z4000
Posted on February 24, 2011 at 8:20amIf Capitalism and Big Oil is so bad!!! You commies need to devoid yourselves of both. Write a check to a homeless guy of your savings that you earned through a capitalistic company and throw away everything you own that is derived from oil. I always laugh at the “hypocrite” who is for animal rights who wears a leather belt and leather shoes!!! And the anti-big oil person who owns material things made from a biproduct of oil and who incidently drives a car to work. “Hypocrites”!!! Need I say more.
Report Post »MJR
Posted on February 24, 2011 at 8:20amI hope this air head crokes soon, taking up needed space!
Report Post »glennisright.com
Posted on February 24, 2011 at 8:16amI don’t work for a union and I have a lot of dignity in the workplace because I am treated as an individual, not just a number or a machine, which is the way I felt when I was in a union.
http://www.glennisright.com
Report Post »yhtmstr
Posted on February 24, 2011 at 7:57amIs that chris Matthew’s father? Looks like it.
M—Mostly
Report Post »S—Selling
N—Nothing
B—But
C—Crap
cece959
Posted on February 24, 2011 at 7:57amIf I live to be 100 I’ll never understand how ANYone could actually WANT to live in a socialist country. These are people who *claim* to know their history. Well I loved history; I couldn‘t get enough of it and I don’t ever remember reading about a successful socialist country where the government and people lived and worked happily, hand in hand, in a utopian existence.
Report Post »3boysamma
Posted on February 24, 2011 at 7:11amSo Chris Matthews gets a thrill up his leg about former SDS members….he’s a SDS wannabee??? And this surprises people?
Report Post »martnee777
Posted on February 24, 2011 at 6:44amThe most criminal act in the Vietnam war was Jane Fondas act of Treason. Giving aid and comfort to the enemy is the definition of treason.
Report Post »Just_Bubba
Posted on February 24, 2011 at 7:08amIt worked out real well for her didn’t it. Can you say Jane who? When you have to do exercise videos for $ because you are black listed you have hit the bottom for Hollywood. Even her old man‘s connections couldn’t save the #%&*# .
Report Post »exdem
Posted on February 24, 2011 at 8:29amJane Fonda gave birth to a big commie baby– CODE PINK.
Report Post »The difference between then and now is the court of public opionion and the media seem to welcome treason and with the Obama joke of a Department of Justice they are gaining ground.
chickster
Posted on February 24, 2011 at 6:34amThe key word in SDS is “SOCIALIST”. apparently 1966 believes in it. I was there in ‘68-71. and yes it felt so good being called names for serving my country. JJ1640.. SEMPER FI.
Report Post »ProgressiveLiberalMarine
Posted on February 24, 2011 at 11:26amSocialist isn’t even in the name, so it’s not really the key work for anything.
Report Post »ProgressiveLiberalMarine
Posted on February 24, 2011 at 11:29amOops, key WORD.
Report Post »TimCotter
Posted on February 24, 2011 at 6:33amJJ1640
Report Post »Roger that! I absolutely agree.
Justthefactsmam
Posted on February 24, 2011 at 6:09amDon’t try to confuse people like walkwithme1966 with the facts, it only makes them uncomfortable in their “reality”
Report Post »kaydeebeau
Posted on February 24, 2011 at 5:19amIf 1966 is your birth year you are hardly old enough to remember those days of the SDS protests or have actually been taught real history concerning any of that time
Report Post »One1
Posted on February 24, 2011 at 3:40amfreedom = power
Report Post »Quote; “Feedom like energy is neither created nor destroyed, it can only be transferred. If you lose your freedom who has your power? by: Daniel Bell
walkwithme1966
Posted on February 24, 2011 at 2:55amNo matter what Beck says – not all SDS members were bad or criminals. Most of them were just protesting an illegal war where our friends and neighbors were getting drafted to go. Most of you probably have no idea what it is to live under a draft in a war that most of the country did not believe in!
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Psychosis
Posted on February 24, 2011 at 3:22amand you have no idea what your talking about — typical for you though
Report Post »JJ1640
Posted on February 24, 2011 at 5:46amActually “66- I lived through that era. Proudly served in Vietnam with the Marines. Illegal war? In your revolutionary, leftist delusions!! The country started out in support of Viet Nam; support waned over time as the political will of the liberal left (LBJ et al) waned. It lacked the courage to go for victory. As for the SDS and other “resistance” groups- you were successful; your side won! We left the Vietnamese in the hands of the communists with their reeducation camps and other forms of totalitarianism. Your ilk escaped being held responsible for your traitorous acts. And now it seems
that you are safely esconced in academia, union movement, media, and enviromental causes. You were gutless, self centered phonies then and now. You may not get off so lucky this time around!
Jarski
Posted on February 24, 2011 at 6:51amWell said JJ, well said!
Report Post »Just_Bubba
Posted on February 24, 2011 at 7:03amAnd what was your number? I lived through the era and the same low lifes that hated America then are coming out of the woodwork and now they have all of their dirty little grown up kids with them.
Report Post »Peace and Love…remember? By the way, I enlisted…did you?
The war was a cause grabbed by the ultra-left to enlist people to their cause who were disspleased with their life and with the USA; it was a hobby for people. Notice how many brag about their youth versus the ones who would rather you not know about their indescretions. Big crowd behind you now?
After all the hate for America, they still didn’t move out did they. Funny how no matter how bad they say it is here, they never leave.
cece959
Posted on February 24, 2011 at 7:52am@Just_Bubba———-VERY well said!!!
Report Post »seeker9
Posted on February 24, 2011 at 8:12amCM is a balloon head.
Report Post »HillBillySam1
Posted on February 24, 2011 at 9:50amWALKWITHME, you continue to astound……
Report Post »patriot308
Posted on February 24, 2011 at 11:49amHey, walklikeanidiot! So……. by that “thinking”(really a stretch); I suppose you think not all KKK members were bad either?????????? I know thinking is hard, leave it for your betters.
Report Post »ProgressiveLiberalMarine
Posted on February 24, 2011 at 11:57amThat depends, did the SDS lynch returning soldiers from bridges? Not really two comparable groups.
Report Post »SoCalWalt
Posted on February 24, 2011 at 12:05pmDude, I was drafted in 1966 and served my year in Southeast Asia. I didn’t want to go, but I was proud to serve my country! I disagreed with the SDS types even then, and disagree with them even more now.
Report Post »ProgressiveLiberalMarine
Posted on February 24, 2011 at 12:10pmComparing them to the KKK is a little much though.
Report Post »uncleherbert
Posted on February 24, 2011 at 1:23pmYou have no idea what you are talking about! I voluntered for service, honorable discharged in 1966. Do not try to blow sunshine up our butts!
Report Post »ProgressiveLiberalMarine
Posted on February 24, 2011 at 2:21pmWait, am I the one blowing smoke? I can’t tell, it seemed to be a general insult.
Report Post »dontbotherme
Posted on February 24, 2011 at 3:45pmwalk My draft # was “1”. What was yours?
Report Post »WImom
Posted on February 24, 2011 at 4:48pmThe Armed Forces are voluntary….everyone signed up. No coercion.
Report Post »dudeman4
Posted on February 24, 2011 at 6:52pmHowever, they wanted to lose in Vietnam, which we did. Losing wars is a bad idea.
Report Post »Dick Blitskreig
Posted on February 24, 2011 at 1:06amWhat a clown.
Report Post »GHill7.62
Posted on February 24, 2011 at 8:49amDignity!! that’s what I think of when I think of unions….
Report Post »GONESURFING
Posted on February 24, 2011 at 6:55pmLooks like a bunch of clowns to me. Labour Unions never had any dignity.
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