Pro-union bloggers unite. Updated.
Rick Berman: The face of evil.
See. I knew having Dr. Homeslice back was good news.
He’s been posting about a Fox-backed PR campaign from the anti-union rat mind of Rick Berman and his front-group, The Center for Union Facts.
The Doctor’s post is here.
Background information on the greasy Rick Berman is here.
His previous campaigns have attacked the disabled, supported drunk driving (No, I’m not kidding. Check it out) and anti-smoking laws. Actually, to be in this company of the enemies of Berman is kind of humbling.
I posted about his devious plans back in November:
Lobbyist for the tobacco industry and opponent of Mothers Against Drunk Driving is now ready to take on teacher unions.
The Las Vegas Sun reports that at the Conservative Leadership Conference last month, Richard Berman announced a plan to roll out a multimarket media campaign attacking teachers unions as impediments to education reform.
Pro-union bloggers: POST AND PASS THE WORD.
Update:
Do you remember the sleazy character that Dan Aykroyd played on the old SNL? The one who sold children’s toys like “Bag-O-Glass?”
That’s the real life Rick Berman.
In an article in the Village Voice, Berman is quoted as telling pregnant women to eat more mercury laden tuna. Really.
Berman’s latest campaign is to convince the public that fears about toxic levels of mercury in tuna are wildly overblown. According to a spokesman at the Center for Consumer Freedom, of which Berman is the executive director (he also heads the PR firm Berman & Co.), overly cautious federal agencies are to blame for understating the amount of mercury-tainted fish a pregnant woman would have to eat before putting her fetus at risk for brain damage. For years, the FDA and the EPA have cautioned children, pregnant women, and those who might become pregnant to avoid eating more than about one serving of white albacore tuna a week and to abstain altogether from four types of large, predatory fish that test high in mercury.
Note to Joanne Jacobs.
Let me explain. See, the Cubs already play in Wrigley Field. So the Onion article is a play on that.
OK. I’ll stop now.
My peeps sent a message yesterday.
Anne and I were checking into a hotel south of San Francisco a few years ago. When I signed the registration card and put my home address as Chicago, the clerk asked, “what state is that in?”
For some, the Midwest is just a place planes fly over when you go from coast to coast.
But yesterday, in a Congressional district southwest of Chicago, the historically Republican district, formerly represented by Tom Delay’s bagman, Denny Hastert, went Democratic. The Democrat, Bill Foster, linked the Republican right-wing xenophobe Jim (The Milk King) Oberweiss to John McCain’s call for a 100 year war in Iraq. Barack Obama made an ad and appeared with Foster. McCain appeared with and made an ad for Oberweiss.
Foster won by five percentage points. I think the RNC knows where we are now.
Note: I still like Oberweiss non-fat, but I don’t buy it anymore. Sacrifice for the cause.
