‘Good God, Man!’: Fox News Anchor Hammers Wisc. Labor Activist for Teacher ‘Sick-Out’ Protest
- Posted on February 16, 2011 at 10:32pm by
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After thousands of Wisconsin teachers called in sick Wednesday and took students to protest against spending cuts at the state capitol, a fired-up Stuart Varney didn’t hesitate to criticize Robert Craig, executive director for Citizen Action of Wisconsin, a group supporting labor unions’ objections to Republican Gov. Scott Walker’s budget plan.
As Jonathon reported, proposed restrictions on unions’ collective bargaining rights have many public workers up in arms in Madison. But how responsible is it for teachers to use taxpayer-paid sick time to demand they be paid more?
It’s “a very bad example to send to young children,” Varney warned.
Kraig defended the organized protests as a necessary roadblock to the governor’s controversial proposal. When confronted with video of teachers “using their students as political props,” Kraig praised the teachers and students’ involvement for “standing up for their fundamental human rights.”
Kraig also insisted that “collective bargaining laws in Wisconsin were created in the first place to create labor stability so that you didn’t have any kind of public service disruptions.”
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sbenard
Posted on February 16, 2011 at 11:09pmTime to do with this teacher’s union what Reagan did with PATCO!
Report Post »NICE NICE TACO
Posted on February 17, 2011 at 12:31amJust thinking the same thing myself.
Report Post »Ookspay
Posted on February 16, 2011 at 11:07pmIt is ironic that teachers are beloved and remembered so fondly by so many yet they are the main reason for many states going bankrupt. Yeah we love you, but you are way over compensated. Great pay, benefits and retirement, for a job that works 8am to 3pm for nine months with 2 weeks off for Christmas. Even the degree is easily achieved if required. Everyone else is cutting back and making concessions to keep their jobs, but not those noble union teachers.
Report Post »vennoye
Posted on February 16, 2011 at 11:37pmI think the teachers we remember were either before the unions, or they don’t belong to unions…..wonder how these students would describe these teachers.
Report Post »heyjim55
Posted on February 16, 2011 at 11:06pmWe are going to see a lot of this as cuts are made across the country, you will notice that no matter how broke the state is or the country he doesn’t care, none of them do. We will see soon enough how angry the Left will get what they will do once their breast milk is shut off.
Report Post »donh2
Posted on February 16, 2011 at 11:06pmHow about closing the schools for a year and giving the people an 80% reduction in their property tax bill.
Report Post »ONE PIECE
Posted on February 16, 2011 at 11:54pmThat’s not a bad idea! With the money that they’ll save, they can pull together & hire really great teachers to really teach their kids!! Plus that way the parents can really have more control over THEIR SCHOOL & not the unions or the THUGS!! Anther reason why I moved away from Madison WI!!
Report Post »NICE NICE TACO
Posted on February 17, 2011 at 12:46amLove it!
Report Post »staythecourse
Posted on February 17, 2011 at 2:06amgood idea! I am so tired of unions. They do not represent anyone but ARE VERY MUCH FOCUSED ON the destruction of America!
Report Post »Real True American
Posted on February 16, 2011 at 11:05pmso when did a job become a fundamental right to have a job? If that were the case why is it it the country is is at a collective 15% unemployment? If they can’t fire them, just don’t pay them they will look for work some where else….
Report Post »jollylama
Posted on February 21, 2011 at 4:04pmFIRE THEM ALL and Destroy the Union – Pleny of qualified people who would love the work!
Report Post »DashRipRock
Posted on February 16, 2011 at 11:00pmCan you imagine how disappointed those students were in
their teacgers when Justin Bieber didnt show up?
Report Post »silentwatcher
Posted on February 17, 2011 at 12:53amI hear ya…
Report Post »slimkendall
Posted on February 17, 2011 at 7:14amOH… you’re suggesting that possibly the teacher had announced to the students that Justin Bieber would be performing at this event and the whole class was going to watch…. OH… that would be lying, you heard the nice Union man… teachers don’t lie, sir. :)
Report Post »(that was a very funny comment, brianontheblaze)
Tundra4x4
Posted on February 16, 2011 at 10:59pmFire every last one of them!!!!!! No unemployment benifits, etc……
Then you cancel the school year and make everyone of the students take the year over again.
Next year, with an entirely new teaching staff, non-unionized of course, I would be willing to wager the budget would be 1/2 that of what it was this year.
DO IT NOW !!!!!!
Report Post »AndMercy4All
Posted on February 16, 2011 at 10:59pmWhen big labor union’s speak of unity around ever-expanding big government dependency, this “oneness” is definitely not the same as that reflected by the national motto E Pluribus Unum (Out of Many, One) (Rom. 12:5). Christ dwells in the individual, not a collective. God favors the profit motive (you know, to the better steward more will be given), but I don’t think the God of the Declaration favors the public sector at the expense of the private sector …
Report Post »1911a1
Posted on February 16, 2011 at 10:58pmTruthTalker
Posted on February 16, 2011 at 10:45pm
Fire them all. Everyone knows we need to start over from scratch
Thats exactly what needs to happen !!!!
RogueAmeritarian
Posted on February 16, 2011 at 11:36pmAgree again, this is getting ridiculous. Maybe if they knew their jobs were in jeopardy, they would get back to teaching.
Report Post »US Anthem
Posted on February 16, 2011 at 10:58pmTeachers using kids for $monetary$ means. bad teacher, no apple. Where’s the math teachers? They should know how to count – i.e. state out of money = broke.
Report Post »GrannyATL
Posted on February 16, 2011 at 10:58pmBargaining rights are a “fundamental human right”?
Sheesh. Idiots!
Report Post »tweetybirdtwopointO
Posted on February 16, 2011 at 10:54pmThe irony is oozing out of that video like the slime it is. The irony of a fox broadcaster, this time it was varney but it applies to anyone at fox, who is trying to trash a guest because of lying. Lying is something that is celebrated at fox news. Now do you see the irony?
Just_Bubba
Posted on February 17, 2011 at 1:07amFool.
Report Post »Lord_Frostwind
Posted on February 17, 2011 at 1:37amReally? That is the best you can come up with? “It‘s ironic because they’re all liars” that’s even worse than this half arsed excuse for a protest in Wisconsin. If you’re going to make a shot at someone, then at least put some effort into it, just following the drivel of every lefty namby pamby “I deserve everything even though I haven’t done a darn thing that is relevant” peon, is about as tired as people blaming their problems on George Bush.
And for the record, there is no irony in calling someone out on their words when what they are doing is for their own paycheck when they say it is “for the children”. Those Union swine can go pound sand.
Report Post »phil1765
Posted on February 17, 2011 at 2:11amAre you serious? Give me some proof of these so called lies. Now just because you don‘t agree with what they say doesn’t make it a lie, you do understand this don’t you? I have been watching Fox news for years and I can‘t remember one time that they reported a story as truth that you couldn’t research it and find out that it was. The LSM on the other hand doesn’t even know the meaning of truth anymore. So anywho I will be waiting for your reply with your proof that Fox lies constantly.
Report Post »sweet37
Posted on February 17, 2011 at 6:58amFool
Report Post »NC1
Posted on February 17, 2011 at 9:36amThe guest on there was lying through his teeth. He couldn’t even fixate his eyes on one thing for more than 10 seconds, much less look straight at the camera. Classic tell-tale sign of lying.
Report Post »Bluebonnet
Posted on February 17, 2011 at 11:59amWow! What kind of poison bird seed have you been eating? FoX News is the only one I can trust to tell the correct story. You check it out so you don’t make any more stupid, unfounded statements. You might also check out the ones in our Government who are liars and make note of that. Obama has blown with whichever way the wind blows, I’m concerned about people like you who: ” If you don’t stand for something, You’ll fall for anything” and this worries me about you tweetie.
Report Post »Juan Gault
Posted on February 18, 2011 at 3:14pmIn a word,NO!!
Report Post »Jabber
Posted on February 18, 2011 at 6:54pmTool.
Report Post »joefboschsr
Posted on February 16, 2011 at 10:53pmThe real question is what are they telling their union members? Ohio is about to go through this with Gov. Kasick is trying to do the same thing. It is the leaders the members are sheep. At some point in time when you can’t pay the electric bill they shut it off. Then you build up the money to get it turned back on. That is what this country has to do. Entitlements are not part of the constitution.
Report Post »US Anthem
Posted on February 16, 2011 at 10:53pmTeachers using kids for political and $monetary$ gain. bad teacher, no apple. Instead of state paying for all of their health plan, they are only asking them to pay 12%. When I worked with a major private corporation, I paid 37% which later became 50% and was glad to have it.
Report Post »NUTN2SAY
Posted on February 16, 2011 at 10:49pmIt is long past due to make it illegal for any adult to use children as shields or props in order to advance any political agenda! Keep the kids out of politics whether liberal or conservative! Only desperate adults will resort to that kind of negative behavior!
Report Post »Fina_Biscotti
Posted on February 17, 2011 at 12:20amThe parents should file criminal charges against the “teachers” …..who took their kids out of the classroom = kidnapped them……to be used for the teachers’ own personal pursuits = political pawns = child endangerment…….“indoctrination”.
If these kids did not have a signed permission slip/authorization from the parents…..to go on a “field trip” – w their teacher, the parents have cause to file charges – against the “teachers” – that will root out the identities of the scumbag union members – and teachers operating for the union – to “solicit” the students to call in “sick” and be quiet about what they were doing.
The Governor should order a criminal investigation – and fire everyone involved……break the union contract over the solicitation of students – and to conceal their activities = child endangerment.
Report Post »justice
Posted on February 16, 2011 at 10:49pmGovenor Walker tell them there is no money, if the educated idiots do not get it, put them in the unemployment line like the rest of America. There are Grads just waiting for an opening position. Unions are thugs money launders.
Report Post »Jack43
Posted on February 17, 2011 at 6:51pmExactly Right. Public Employee Unions are public enemies–criminal extortionists–no better than mobsters.
Report Post »Bluebonnet
Posted on February 16, 2011 at 10:48pmHa, just listen to anything pertaining to the kids, they cry out “it’s for the Children” but this is hardly
Report Post »for the children, it’s for their own pockets and the Unions pockets. They don’t give a dam about the Children. Just read between the lines. If it was for the children r e a l l y they would accept a cut and continue working and supporting the Wis. Gov. to balance the budget and help all the others in the state who are pulling in their horns to support the effort to keep from going broke. For the children is baloney, nothing they do is for THE CHILDREN< it's for themselves, selfish jerks
ozzie
Posted on February 16, 2011 at 10:46pmThat guy just didn’t shut up- What a spinning sack of carp.
Report Post »sing it out
Posted on February 17, 2011 at 12:45amWhile this whole thing is certainly fishy, I think you meant crap :) and I agree.
Report Post »ozzie
Posted on February 17, 2011 at 1:15am@Sing It Out
I definitely wouldn’t have said “crap” because I don’t like to use foul language; but if that’s what you believe I meant, then I am in agreement. ;)
Report Post »Frank Lee Trickey
Posted on February 16, 2011 at 10:46pmWhat happened to teachers demanding kids go to school?
Report Post »Islesfordian
Posted on February 16, 2011 at 10:46pmGreat spin. “Those kids were lying”
I mean, what are yoiu going to believe, this union hack or your damn lying eyes?
Report Post »Edward
Posted on February 16, 2011 at 10:45pmUnion thugs in action and exploiting the kids as well. Kudos you scumbags!!
Report Post »silentwatcher
Posted on February 17, 2011 at 12:48amTo quote, “Kraig also insisted that “collective bargaining laws in Wisconsin were created in the first place to create labor stability so that you didn’t have any kind of public service disruptions.””
so, calling school off because majority of teachers calling in sick is NOT A PUBLIC SERVICE DISRUPTION?? Are you kidding me?? What do you think a public service disruption is, Wisconsin falling into a sink hole? Are you an idiot?
Report Post »TruthTalker
Posted on February 16, 2011 at 10:45pmFire them all. Everyone knows we need to start over from scratch.
Report Post »truthbetold11
Posted on February 16, 2011 at 10:42pmno no we work for teh kids you know!! 180 days summers off and we teach your kids that there are no jobs out there. me gettin paid!!!!!!
Report Post »CreepingDeath
Posted on February 16, 2011 at 10:42pmRobert Kraig, you should be ashamed of yourself. “Standing up for their fundamental human rights” ?!?!?!?! Give me a break! What a Union slimeball (I shouldn’t insult slimeballs!)
Wake up union sheep!
Report Post »Creestof
Posted on February 17, 2011 at 5:54amYep…too bad Reagan is not still alive and here…he could fire them all just like he did the air traffic controllers who also tried to hold americans hostage with their BS.
Report Post »Freedomisslavery
Posted on February 17, 2011 at 9:04amCan the local school administrators be held legally accountable for the kids not being in school? I think someone should look into this.
Report Post »True American66
Posted on February 17, 2011 at 10:01amI can tell you one thing….If ANY teacher took my child out of school to attend a union protest……they wouldn’t have to worry about their collective bargaining anymore!!!
Report Post »My Two Cents
Posted on February 17, 2011 at 11:23amOne of my nieces will graduate in May with an education degree. Last week a job counselor at the college she attends told her that it might take two years for her to find employment in her chosen field. There are plenty of unemployed teachers and new graduates to go around if the union flunkies hate their jobs so much.
Report Post »Bluebonnet
Posted on February 16, 2011 at 10:40pmAnything connected with Unions is disgusting because it’s either illegal or smells to high heaven. These teachers should be given 1 day to return or lose their jobs. There are plenty of college grads who would love their jobs. Gov. Walker, stick to your guns and don’t let them get away with it. The teachers need to accept some responsibility for balancing the budget the same as all the other citizens of Wis.
Report Post »ozzie
Posted on February 16, 2011 at 10:48pmIf my kid were in school there, I would gladly teach them at home for a year or two while the state/city fired all the teachers and rehired non-union.
Report Post »JD Carp
Posted on February 16, 2011 at 11:18pmPublic service employees should be excluded from collective bargaining i/e/ unionizing. Tenured teachers are counter productive to teaching excellence, no competition and finally DO A RONALD REAGAN ON THEM!
Report Post »gapch68
Posted on February 16, 2011 at 11:19pmI swear, progressives believe anything they want or feel entitled to is a “human right”. Give me a BREAK! Just keep letting them talk – they show their ignorance every time.
Report Post »mtnclimberjim
Posted on February 16, 2011 at 11:25pmIf you agree with and support unions, you are my enemy. I hate the unions
Report Post »Cemoto78
Posted on February 16, 2011 at 11:32pmThe teachers are having a real hard time selling their case. All they can come up with is they are entitled and shouldn’t have to feel any of the pain the rest of us are. How outlandish for the state to want to force the teachers to pay 12% of their healthcare, even though their union probably got an Obama waiver on Obamacare! For supposedly educated persons, these union idiots are really DUMB. Fired=no unemployment checks
Report Post »John_Free
Posted on February 16, 2011 at 11:32pmUnions have destroyed America.
davecoolworld
Posted on February 16, 2011 at 11:45pmI thought unions had dental plans.
Poor people…I feel soooo badly for them. My salary is only down 50% since the economy took a dump. They’ve gotten raises.
Unions are killing America….at only 12% enrollment nation wide.
Report Post »Suzie K.
Posted on February 16, 2011 at 11:53pmI said the same thing- there are plenty of students that would LOVE to have a GREAT job like theirs. And encouraging kids to get involved is insane. They don’t even understand what is TRULY going on! And don‘t think they’re not being brainwashed by these teachers they look up to. What great role models, calling in fake sick.
Report Post »BMartin1776
Posted on February 16, 2011 at 11:59pmThis was probably some of the best TV JOURNALISM you will see. That guy had nowhere to run, Varney hammered him right out of the gates, caught this guy in multiple lies. This vid is going viral and I knew it would when I watched it live today.
I bet these teachers complain about taxes and everything else the rest of us complain about. So the state tries to make cuts to to reduce spending which means some cuts to them and they go off. More do as I say not as I do, bunch of hypocrites!
He doesnt get it Stuart why bother asking, we are too stupid to understand. Oh and we arent a democracy Mr Craig, we are a democratic republic get it right!
This is how you have to start handling these leftist liberal jokes. Bring it to their front door http://www.savingtherepublic.com
Report Post »silentwatcher
Posted on February 17, 2011 at 12:07amLike I said before,,,,calling in sick and attending a rally is an abuse of public funds. I don’t care how you look at it-it’s fraud. Public officials should review the videotapes, identify the teachers present who called in sick and FIRE each one. There are a lot of educated people out of work right now,,,,it won’t be difficult to find qualified replacements.
Also, if they did, indeed, transport minors to the location, they should be charged with child endangerment.
Report Post »godlovinmom
Posted on February 17, 2011 at 1:38amI watched this interview with stuart..and he was quite outraged…as was I…if my child was carted off to some protest like this…darn right I’d be mad…using my child to further their agenda…those kids didn’t even know why they were there…not to mention all those teachers calling in sick…are you kidding me…very troubling times in America
Report Post »dr_funk
Posted on February 17, 2011 at 2:29amNowhere in the constitution does it mention “the right to collective bargaining”. Collective bargaining is the same as price fixing. Its the same as monopolizing an industry and price gouging on goods people can’t do without. Its the same as all the plumbers in a neighborhood getting together and deciding that they’re going to take everyone to the cleaners.
Its illegal to operate a monopoly. Its illegal to price gouge. Its illegal to price fix.
So why do we allow monopolistic, wage-gouging, wage-fixing, extortionist unions to continue operating?
Report Post »Jackers
Posted on February 17, 2011 at 7:20amHooray for Stuart Varney… He’s great! As for the union thugs, they‘re getting desperate as more and more Americans realize just how much they’re being fleeced…
Report Post »Stuck_in_CA
Posted on February 17, 2011 at 8:07amIf kids were actually being taught the three R’s, these greedy employees MIGHT have a point. But good grief. This country’s educational levels are in the neighborhood with Third World countries.
Report Post »Teacher’s wages and benies over the good of the students. Mediocrity and greed rule the day, I guess.
The union’s power MUST be dealt with.
TxGold
Posted on February 17, 2011 at 8:18amAgreed, bluebonnet. Unions are ruining America. Those teachers should be fired and non-union teachers hired. It’s time to take away union power!!
Report Post »ME
Posted on February 17, 2011 at 8:31amhe skipped drinking the kool-aid and what strait to a kool-aid enema. Everything can be justified to keep the gravy train rolling.
Report Post »happyboy
Posted on February 17, 2011 at 8:34amTHAT PICTURE IS A FRAUD.
Its not summer in Wisconsin. Every substitute teacher in the nation should volunteer to work in Wisconsin to help put down the Union Revolution against law and order.
Report Post »ME
Posted on February 17, 2011 at 8:39amone other this is not misuse of state funds a crime the people are paid with state money to educate not indoctrinate.
Report Post »mikelivi
Posted on February 17, 2011 at 9:07amIts very simple, fire all of them! 12% unemployment, people will take their jobs. let them go find other work! Hire folks that WANT to work and arent pigs at the trough. They dont know how good they have it. FIRE THEM TODAY!!!!!!!!!!
Report Post »Cemoto78
Posted on February 17, 2011 at 9:16am“The unions are scared to death they will lose their gravy train, you are forced to join the union upon state employment as a condition of employment, what is more tyrannical than that? So, now, the workers would be able to CHOOSE to join the union or not, and many will leave it. The rest will have to cut an actual check to the union each month, instead of having it garnished from their check, and the union knows people will get tired of that. THAT is what this is really about.
Our benefit package in WI is almost 2nd to none in the US for state workers, this is a minor sacrifice when all is said and done. Under our former Democratic Governor, we had to take a 3% paycut the last two years in the form of mandatory furloughs. Walker intends to stop that, so we could regain that money, couple that with union dues we get back for quitting the union and it’s nearly a wash on the slight increase in pension and health care costs. That proves this is not about those changes, but about a political agenda by the left and the unions being threatened.”
One teacher in WI that gets it.
Report Post »oldoldtimer
Posted on February 17, 2011 at 9:59amSo if I understnd this, they would rather have massive lawoffs than to have to pay for some of their own benefits? Do tese fools not realize that the state can not borrow any more money to pay them? They may all be out of work if the debt can not be reduced to mamagable levels. this is what happens with progressive wild spending just like what Obama is trying to do. Only Obama is intentionally trying to destroy the country.
Report Post »VRW Conspirator
Posted on February 17, 2011 at 10:09am@Blue…
calm down just a bit…even as Glenn says…it isn’t anyone connected with the Unions….it is the Union leadership that does this…and men like Kraig…socialists and communists that have an agenda…the regular union laborer is probably a moderate Dem or Rep that loves his/her country and just wants fairness…..
as a teacher but more importantly a Constitutionalist, i belong to the union, mainly because CA requires you pay the dues even if you don’t belong – so i belong so i can vote against their stupidity even if i am outnumbered 10 to 1, but it shows that we all don’t follow their agenda. my grandfather on both sides was part of a union, my uncle, my grandmother, most of my family is blue collar and belong to their unions….but my family is socially conservative, pro military/ national defense, against higher taxes, and basically just wants the government to stay out of our lives and bedrooms and wallets… much like the majority of the country.
just like in Islam, those of us that don’t buy into the extremist agenda/socialism crap….have to stand up and be heard, even if they scream us down and call us names and try and say we don’t exist….
Report Post »Bluebonnet
Posted on February 17, 2011 at 10:25amHa, just listen to anything pertaining to the kids, they cry out “it’s for the Children” but this is hardly
Report Post »for the children, it’s for their own pockets and the Unions pockets. They don’t give a dam about the Children. Just read between the lines. If it was for the children r e a l l y they would accept a cut and continue working and supporting the Wis. Gov. to balance the budget and help all the others in the state who are pulling in their horns to support the effort to keep from going broke. For the children is baloney, nothing they do is for THE CHILDREN< it's for themselves, selfish jerks these teachers.
Miguelito
Posted on February 17, 2011 at 11:01amTeacher are suppose to be smart! I know a lot of good teachers or should I say retired teachers and they said there is no way they would want to teach in the current system. Teachers you are being used by your evil leadership!
Report Post »My Two Cents
Posted on February 17, 2011 at 11:14amOk kids listen up. Today we are going to learn about socialism…..err……social studies. Now repeat after me. Government cheese is yummy…..Mmmmm….Mmmmm….Mmmmm.
Report Post »Conserve21
Posted on February 17, 2011 at 11:46amI’m a retired teacher and I say, “Fire them all”! The teacher’s unions have almost destroyed education in this country anyway.
Report Post »Rainmaker NYC
Posted on February 17, 2011 at 11:50amWere any students were taken to the rally without parental notification and consent? If I were a parent in that situation, I would call it kidnapping.
Report Post »Tracy McBurney
Posted on February 17, 2011 at 12:23pmThey shouldn’t be given one day they should just be fired!!!
Report Post »grandpa6
Posted on February 17, 2011 at 12:49pmWe need more Governors like him. These public service employees are spoiled brats. Fire their asses and hire new teachers NO UNION EMPLOYEES and NO TENURE. Fire them for cause so they cannot collect unemployment. The expressions of the students and their vocabulary is a statement as to how terrible these teachers are.
Report Post »e4blazeon
Posted on February 17, 2011 at 1:40pmPlease see the reference below regarding George Soros involvement:
Report Post »http://www.soros.org/resources/articles_publications/articles/wisconsin_20040408/wisconsintalk.pdf
catndahat
Posted on February 17, 2011 at 2:29pmExactly!!!
Just imagine any of you in the private sector taking sick days en masse (thus crippling your company) to DEMAND more pay/benefits….think about it. How INSANE is this mentality??? The purpose of unions has been long-gone for more than 50 years–bust ‘em all! And—home school whenever possible.
Report Post »phd1147
Posted on February 17, 2011 at 2:39pmAs a public employee I understand that if I use my sick time for anything other than being sick I WILL lose my job.
Report Post »Kinnison
Posted on February 18, 2011 at 9:50pmI am a retired public school high school teacher from Idaho, not Wisconsin. I am also a retired military officer. In a5 years of public teaching I never took a sick day when I wasn’t sick. Every one of those Wisconsin teachers who lied and called in “sick” in order to shut their schools down and then went to protest in Madison with their students in tow should be either be disciplined by their school district or fired. They are in a position of great trust and responsibility and they violated that trust by knowingly perjuring themselves and setting a terrible example for their students. Collectively they wouldn‘t make a carbuncle on a good teacher’s butt.
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