Rush Limbaugh Mocks 6 Minute Video Defending New York Times Writers’ Strike Over Pension Cut
- Posted on April 24, 2012 at 4:21pm by
Mytheos Holt
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“Welcome to the real world, New York Times reporters!”
Those were the words that famed radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh leveled against the staff at the New York Times over a video where they bemoan cuts in their staff pensions, in a video released by the Daily Rushbo. “They think they’re going to get our sympathy!” Limbaugh crows. “The New York Times rips Scott Walker for making these changes while the New York Times institutes these very same changes.”
The video Limbaugh is responding to was released as part of contract negotiations between the unionized journalists who work for the New York Times and their publisher, Arthur Sulzberger. The video is below, followed by commentary from the New York Post:
The nearly six-minute video comes as representatives of the Times and the Guild are slated to meet today in a bid to try and make some progress in the talks.
The unionized reporters and editors at the Times have been without a contract for more than a year.
The Times, after initially demanding a three-year wage freeze, is now offering a one-year freeze and 1 percent pay hikes in years two and three.
UPDATE: Limbaugh doubled down on these sentiments further on in his show, delivering a monologue arguing that the reports should strike so the Times will fail. The Daily Rushbo has cut out the most forceful part:
RUSH: No, no, no. Follow me, Snerdley. There’s part… (interruption) Yes, yes! Let the union hold tight; have the Times go out of business. That might be one of the best things that ever happened to country. Stop and think about that. The US would be a better place without the New York Times. If these writers and all these people you hear in this video, if they get their way, if they don’t buck, they don’t buckle and force the New York Times into bankruptcy? Well, I asked the other day: Can you imagine what a different country we would be if we had a media that actually was as the Founding Fathers envisioned it?
The full segment, cut out to form a video, can be heard here:
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Comments (61)
oldchevyguy
Posted on April 24, 2012 at 7:04pmHave your union give them hell! See how that works.
Report Post »db321
Posted on April 24, 2012 at 7:11pmThe Unions only care about themselves!
Report Post »bumfuzeled
Posted on April 24, 2012 at 6:51pmSee it’s not just the Obama money people it is any and all progressive thinker. None of them understand that if they strike and cause the paper to fold (pun intended) there will be NO pension only a few fat cat libs at the top taking the money away.
Report Post »Mil Mom
Posted on April 24, 2012 at 7:15pmBut if they bankrupt the Times, who will carry the water during the campaign? I can hear the Too Big to Fail shouts from OHIO
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Report Post »Free2speakRN
Posted on April 24, 2012 at 6:46pmIt breaks my heart.
Report Post »MAMMY_NUNN
Posted on April 24, 2012 at 10:23pmHA HA and you thought you were immune. Next stop the Government.
Report Post »South Philly Boy
Posted on April 24, 2012 at 6:33pmThey want their Cake and Eat it TOO
Report Post »slightlymperfect
Posted on April 24, 2012 at 9:04pmI’ve always wondered: Why have cake if you can’t eat it?
Report Post »SPOT_OF_TEA
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 12:19amOh yeah now it makes sense…actually a more appropriate saying is you can’t keep eating golden eggs after you eat the goose…Ok I just made that up.
Report Post »vtxphantom
Posted on April 24, 2012 at 6:29pmGet over it boys and girls at the NYT. This is just the beginning of obama’s socialist paradise. I worked at GE, and my job went to China. You writers need to adapt. as do all the overpaid workers in our society, including government workers.
Report Post »tolstoyx
Posted on April 24, 2012 at 5:56pmThis video made be feel bad. What made me feel horrible was that after watching the whole video I couldn’t work up an ounce of sympathy for anyone on the video.
Report Post »love the kids
Posted on April 24, 2012 at 5:44pmThe NYTimes should be charged with environmental excursion charges anyway. How many trees are killed in a day to spread their paper around when you can get real news from Fox on the internet?
Report Post »barber2
Posted on April 24, 2012 at 5:31pmCould not happen to a Far Left, anti American rag more worthy of trouble. Nothing like a little of that “ social justice” for the Red Lady who carries water for the Obama administration and has nothing good to say about conservatives or America.
Report Post »BuzzardSays
Posted on April 24, 2012 at 5:27pmNYT Blind guides to the blind. Everyone ends up in a ditch or off the cliff. Biblical truth can not be grasped by the lost and dying world. They might change if they only could meet Jesus. But most sleep in on Sundays to make up for their late nights of living for this world, and BHO their king.
When God said your righteous is like dirty rags…yes…dirty snot, vomit covered, puss and crusty scab covered rags…and most NYT reporters feel at home in their choice garment. How repulsive.
Report Post »RJJinGadsden
Posted on April 24, 2012 at 5:18pmListen to these supposed well educated people. They had rather burn the place down around them as long as nobody touches their pile. Their legacy is unsustainable and they refuse to see the forest for the trees.
Report Post »Mil Mom
Posted on April 24, 2012 at 7:18pmDo they really believe that when they help to crash the economy and destroy the dollar they‘ll still be able to count all those benefits they’re crying about?
Report Post »BRAVEATHEART
Posted on April 24, 2012 at 5:11pmThis is just the beginning. Newspapers are hanging by a thread for two reasons: 1) The Internet and 2) Liberal slant. Their business model seems to be to alienate half their potential audience. Just report the news, do investigative journalism on democrats like you do republicans and watch your world turn around.
Report Post »drattastic
Posted on April 24, 2012 at 5:08pmPlease by all means go on strike. BTW welcome to the real world. Also who are all theses other organizations willing to pick off all the“talent”at the NY Times(for more money…LOL)? Hey lefty they are all broke and cutting cost too, your medium is dying and you don’t get to dictate what is news anymore. So enjoy the obama economy and reap what you have sewn.
Report Post »Paleo2k
Posted on April 24, 2012 at 5:14pm…sown…
Report Post »BuzzardSays
Posted on April 24, 2012 at 5:20pmTo Paleo2K congratulations on your spelling bee award. Jack wagon.
Report Post »standpat
Posted on April 24, 2012 at 5:03pmPrepare for yourself you college elitist … welcome to the jungle .LMAO…Oh wait …Invest in Wall Street , that’s to big to fail …LMFAO…
Report Post »mils
Posted on April 24, 2012 at 5:25pmthe six minute tape was so great to “hear”…whinewhinewhine..
Report Post ».one lady might just have to end up living on $2,000 a month, horror…
with a pension, $56,000…none $15,000…
welcome to the real world folks.
my m.i.l, gets a $1,800 a month pension, plus medicare $, and full medical the rest of her life..she reitred at 55, she’s now 83…she has lived longer on union pension than she worked for that company.. she took early retirement at 25 years of service…last year was the first time she did not get a cost of living raise in 28 years of retirement.
when unions are no longer of service to obama…he will , yes he will..close their doors and retirements plans will fall by the wayside..and the insurance plans
whine on New york Times!!
freedomisasfreedomdoes
Posted on April 24, 2012 at 4:59pmSADLY, welcome to today’s economical woes… perhaps you will write about it lol
Report Post »bhelmet
Posted on April 24, 2012 at 4:58pm“Socialism is for the people NOT the Socialists” – Andrew Wilkow
Report Post »jnobfan
Posted on April 24, 2012 at 4:49pmThese guys are nuts!
Report Post »If the NYT goes away do they really think anyone would hire newspaper guys to do anything at those salaries. Shut your hole and cash the biggest checks you are EVER gonna get in your life.
Newspaper guys making demands is hilarious. Maybe they can get some advice from the old buggy whip union guys down at the SS office.
chickster
Posted on April 24, 2012 at 4:44pmIt’s only just begun….
Report Post »jhaydeng
Posted on April 24, 2012 at 4:58pmyippee!
Report Post »drphil69
Posted on April 24, 2012 at 4:43pmDon’t give in! Force the NYT to do the “right” thing!
Then when the NYT sells for $1, Murdoch can buy it and replace ALL of you!
How many NYTimes reporters does it take to falsify a story? Just 1!!!
Report Post »barber2
Posted on April 24, 2012 at 5:34pmThe New York Times is so busy trying to carry out the Murdoch witch hunt and close down Fox that I am surprised they had time to deal with their employee troubles. Such a distraction from carrying out their Left wing agenda .
Report Post »Mil Mom
Posted on April 24, 2012 at 7:23pmBut it takes a whole slew of them to bury it so no one can find it again. Look how they’re trying with the videos that BreitBart found.
Report Post »aChameleon
Posted on April 24, 2012 at 4:40pmKeep finding ways to raise taxes in New York. That will solve everything.
Report Post »Mark0331
Posted on April 24, 2012 at 4:40pmToo funny, the Times is being destroyed by Union Demands and the reality that their circulation is on a downward spiral. Broke is Broke in any language.
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on April 24, 2012 at 4:43pmNot in ObamaEse!
Report Post »term limits for congress
Posted on April 24, 2012 at 4:53pmNot true. NYT, save yourself some grief. Gve the unions whatever they want.
When NYT failes, BHO will deem it too big to fail (or some excuse) and bail them out. We already know they’re the “state controlled media.” Failure will just seal the deal and make it official. Why pretend to fight it?
Report Post »Mark0331
Posted on April 24, 2012 at 5:05pmYour both probably right…scary to think We, The People would ever stomach another multi-billion bailout for a failed company…but we are so far down the rabbit hole with Barry at the helm, I half expect to wake up one day and see a blue sun and a yellow sky…
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on April 24, 2012 at 4:36pmPay your fair share NYT reporters!
Report Post »korbin
Posted on April 24, 2012 at 4:35pmReap what you sow. Hahaha Lifetime benefits who do they think they are? a state or federal worker. Whaaaaa
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on April 24, 2012 at 4:28pmNYT: Do you know what “irony” means?
Report Post »RightPolitically
Posted on April 24, 2012 at 4:52pmOnly when it happens to someone else!
Report Post »RightPolitically
Posted on April 24, 2012 at 4:27pmAt the New York Times, reality strikes……. AND THEY CAN’T TAKE IT!
Report Post »Larry E
Posted on April 24, 2012 at 4:25pmI heard Rush this morning jabbing those NY Times hypocrites. Maybe when the left wakes up and sees the light…, nah they’re too stupid to see and understand the truth.
Report Post »angelcat
Posted on April 24, 2012 at 4:43pmAnd even if they did SEE it, they wouldn’t recognize and/or acknowledge it because it doesn’t match what they prefer to believe.
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