Racism: Leftist Racism in Wisconsin

Here's video of leftist racism at the Wisconsin Tea Party protest in Madison.

Palin @ Madison Wisconsin Tea Party

Here's video of Mrs. Palin's full speech to the Madison, Wisconsin Tea Party.

The New Civility of the Left

Here's the Left's new civility in action: 



It doesn't look like the MSM will condemn the death threats that the GOP legislator's are receiving from union thugs in Wisconsin.  Nor will Mr. Obama...in fact, his Organizing for America is actually funding these protests. Furthermore, by attempting to disrupt the Wisconsin House of Representatives, the Left has entered the realm of the socialist Nazi party of the 1920's. 

Scott Walker, Meet The [Biased] Press

The Governor of Wisconsin, Scott Walker was on Meet the Press this morning.   Here's the transcript of the appearance.   As expected David Gregory kept on trying to interject, interrupt with the same tire talking points that the liberal media has been trying to pin on this controversy.  

GREGORY: So that context is important, because there's collective bargaining, which you'd like to limit. And there are those, the specific contributions that you ask the unions. They said they would do that. They would meet those demands.


So the question that comes up again and again, is if you want to deal with the budget and the deficit, why not take yes for an answer?
WALKER: Well, because we've seen that actions speak louder than words. For us to balance the $3.6 billion deficit we have, not only now, but to insure we can continue to do it in the future, so our kids don't inherit the same dire consequences, we've got to have assurances. And over the past two weeks even after they made those promises we've seen local union after local union rush to their school boards, their city councils, their technical school boards and rush through contracts in the past two weeks that had no contribution to the pension and no contribution to health care.

And in fact one case in Janesville, they actually were pushing through a pay increase. Actions speaks louder than words --
(CROSS TALK)
GREGORY: But governor, you could have extended the bill -- you could have extended the bill to those local government agencies. You chose not to.
WALKER: No, that's just the opposite. I was a local government official for eight years. This bill precisely helps local governments and it's effective once it passes.

In fact, we're -- we're facing a $3.6 billion deficit. Like nearly every other state across the country, we're going to have to cut more than $1 billion from our schools and local governments. You know, in New York and California where there are Democrats for governors, they're doing that. The difference here is with this budget repair bill, we give those schools and local governments more -- almost $1.5 billion worth of savings.

So the savings they get from our budget repair bill exceed the amount --
(CROSS TALK)
GREGORY: But --
WALKER: -- that they're costing that state budget --
GREGORY: -- all right, but let me -- let me be clear, if the unions, who -- who it seems to me have been clear in saying that they would agree to those extra contributions, if they did that, and you say you're concerned about the budget shortfall, why not accept that?
WALKER: But when I -- my point is, they can't. Because they, the two people that suggested [that] are statewide union leaders. There are 1,000-plus municipalities, there's 400 -- more than 424 school districts, there's 72 counties. I know -- I used to be a county executive for eight years -- I know that collective bargaining has to be done in every jurisdiction. They can't guarantee that. And the actions of those local unions in the past two weeks show that.

If they were serious about it, they would have offered up contracts that -- that paid something for health care and something more for pensions. But they're not. The reality is, even beyond the five and the 12, collective bargaining does have a cost. In Wisconsin, a great example of that is, we have -- in many of our school districts, a requirement to collective bargaining contract that they have to buy their health insurance from a company that's owned by our state teachers union, W.A. Trust.

Because of that it costs them up to $68 million more than if they could just buy it from the state employee health care plans. Those are real costs, about putting real money in the classrooms, instead -- in -- into these collective bargaining agreements.
(CROSS TALK)
GREGORY: What's wrong -- but governor let me just --
WALKER: And to me at this -- at this county level I tried to avoid layoffs.
GREGORY: -- but what -- what's wrong with collective bargaining? Let's be clear so unions organize public employees, they're able to bargain not just about wages, but also about health benefits and pension benefits. What you're trying to do is say no, you can just collectively bargain when it comes to how much you make, but not those other benefits.
WALKER: Right.
GREGORY: What's so wrong with that, collective bargaining?
WALKER: Well, our proposal is less restrictive than the federal government is today. Under Barack Obama, he presides over federal government when most federal employees do not have collective bargaining for benefits nor for pay. So what we're asking for something less restrictive than what the federal government has in fact --
(CROSS TALK)
GREGORY: But I asked you a more specific question, which is what's wrong with collective bargaining?
WALKER: Well for us it's -- it's about the fact that again, as a local official, I can tell you personally, time and time again, because of collective bargaining when we had tough budgets in the past when I was at the county presiding as a C.O. there, I tried to do modest changes in pension, I tried to do modest changes in health care.

In fact, one year, I literally tried to do a 35-hour work week to try and avoid massive layoffs and furloughs and the union said, forget it. Embodied, emboldened by the fact that they had collective bargaining agreements, they said go ahead, literally lay off 400 or 500 people. And to me, laying off people in this economy is just completely unacceptable.
(CROSS TALK)
GREGORY: Let me -- let me ask you about --
WALKER: If we do not get these changes and the Senate Democrats don't come back. We're going to be forced to make up the savings in layoffs and that to me is just unacceptable.

If, Mr. Obama manages to hang on in 2012...Mr. Walker would be one hell of a candidate for 2016!

The Rudeness Expert

Ann Althouse and her husband Mead have been covering the Wisconsin protest rather well...but when they started asking questions, a "rudeness expert" butted in:



From Althouse:

A woman who does not have a Wisconsin accent noses in to tell me I'm "rude" to take pictures.


I say: "Let me ask you a question about 'rudeness.' This is a Veterans Memorial, for people who died in the war. These are all things..."

The rudeness expert interrupts me: "They do things for democracy, which is what we're trying to save right now."
I say: "What would you say to people that are..." And she's turned her back on me and walked away. The rudeness expert.

She had her point and she made it: The memorialized veterans "do things for democracy." That's a poor use of the present tense. They did "things." They died. They fought and they died. But what's important "right now" — according to her — is that the protesters are "trying to save" democracy.

I didn't get to ask follow-up questions, but I think her point was to equate the protesters to the veterans and to make that a justification for piling sleeping bags and all sorts of junk up against the monument. I didn't get to ask how trying to undo the results of the last election is an effort to "save democracy," and, obviously, she wasn't interested in having a conversation with me.

Ms. Althouse has done great work covering this mess in Madison.  If you can afford to do so, please hit her tip jar to help defray the costs she's run up trying to get out the Tea Party message....for that matter hit mine to the right as well!  [while I'm finally back to working full-time, we're still in dire financial straights, every little bit helps.]

H/T Instapundit

Typical Public Union Supporter

Here's video of a typical public union supporter in Wisconsin:



Here's Mike Tobin's report on Geraldo At Large:

On Saturday night’s broadcast of “Geraldo at Large,”

Fox News correspondent Mike Tobin took some critical shots at protesters attempting to shout down and disrupt his broadcast. He told host Geraldo Rivera he has observed hate and an effort to shut out other viewpoints.

“One thing I think should make clear – the people coming after us from every live shot here, these people hate,” Tobin said. “These are people who don’t respect diverse viewpoints. In fact, they’re so afraid I’ll present a diverse viewpoint, that’s why they try to heckle me and shut down every live shot. They’ve made it clear, that what they want to make it harder for me to do my job. They are proud of that when they disrupt a live shot, when they really trample over the First Amendment rights or the First Amendment’s obligations of a reporter. Now, I am not saying that’s all of the people. Those are the people that come here and heckle and try to disrupt things. I look in their eyes – there is hate in their eyes. They don’t want to hear any kind of viewpoint that is different from their own. That’s why they do what they do.”

Pretty much  everything the MSM has tried to pin on the Tea Party movement in particular and the conservative movement in general is projection of what they and the Liberal Left think and feel.  The hatred that's oozed out of the Left over the past two years has come to the forefront in the past 6 weeks, starting with the assasination attempt on Congresswoman Gifford in Arizona, and the hate fest that's occuring in Wisconsin and now spreading all across the country.

Instead of the "new civility" we have Democratic Congressman from Massachusetts calling for union suporters to get their enemies "to get a little bloody." 

Capuano to unions: You have 'get a little bloody'': MyFoxBOSTON.com

The mere thought that Sarah Palin was encouraging her supports to do this...sent the media into a frenzy of blame and recimination...yet this Congressman gets off lightly with little or no punishment from the enablers in the media.  This is not helping the public union's cause, nor that of the Democratic Party...independent voters, those people who win elections turned away from the spending binge of the Democrats last fall, and this sort of rhetoric is pushing them turning them off in ever greater numbers.

Public Employee Unions: What's At Stake...

Here's an excellent video on what's at stake with the public employee unions.



Via Powerline

Here's another video from Tim Pawlenty in solidarity with Scott Walker of Wisconsin


Also via Powerline

But not to be outdone...here's a video showing the hypocrisy of the left on civility.  Listen around 7:30 or so into for the money quote:

Wisconsin Protests: Myth Vs Fact

Here's a great video on what really is the root of the issues in Wisconsin




thanks Instapundit for finding it.