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Bozell declares EFCA's binding arbitration "socialism"

July 20, 2009 10:18 am ET

From the July 20 edition of Fox News' Fox & Friends:

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    • Author by puttforever4682 (July 20, 2009 10:30 am ET)
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      Leave it to Fox to miscast the argument. Binding arbitration is very chancy for union workers since the rulings have favored business for years. My experience has been just the opposite of what Bozell said. The employers refuse to bargain and get the arbitrator to give in not to workers but to employers.
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      • Author by ShrinkGov (July 20, 2009 12:37 pm ET)
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        Oh, sure, with this administration the workers will suffer. Yeah, that's right, the arbitration czar will appoint a pro business arbitraitor. Probably someone from that right wing organization acorn.
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    • Author by TheKidFromKountyMeath (July 20, 2009 10:50 am ET)
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      I would love for someone to ask Dr. Zaius here if there's anything he DOESN'T consider socialism.
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      • Author by Easy to refute wingnuts (July 20, 2009 11:38 am ET)
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        The answer would be, "Yes. Actual Socialism."
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      • Author by marco21 (July 20, 2009 11:42 am ET)
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        Shouldn't he be out trying to make sure no black women expose their nipples rather than talking about things he clearly doesn't understand?
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      • Author by Col. Harlan Sanders (July 20, 2009 1:00 pm ET)
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        So some government support for workers translates to "the end of America being able to set wages for its employees",, according to Bozell the Clown.

        Does that mean that the people actually doing work are not Americans, only the people who own the place where they're working?

        Elitist douchebag.

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        • Author by TheKidFromKountyMeath (July 20, 2009 1:15 pm ET)
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          Bozell is still mad at the workingman after the Ghostbusters made him look so stupid.
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          • Author by Col. Harlan Sanders (July 20, 2009 1:29 pm ET)
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            Add to that the pain of dealing with slowly morphing from Dr. Zaius into a hungover Santa Claus. He can't be a happy man.
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    • Author by latanza (July 20, 2009 10:54 am ET)
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      IN CONGRESS, JULY 4, 1776
      The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America
      hen in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

      We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. — Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.

      He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.

      He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.

      He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.

      He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their Public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.

      He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.

      He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected, whereby the Legislative Powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.

      He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.

      He has obstructed the Administration of Justice by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary Powers.

      He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.

      He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people and eat out their substance.

      He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.

      He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil Power.

      He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:

      For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:

      For protecting them, by a mock Trial from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:

      For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:

      For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:

      For depriving us in many cases, of the benefit of Trial by Jury:

      For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:

      For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies

      For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:

      For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.

      He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.

      He has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.

      He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation, and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & Perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.

      He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.

      He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.

      In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.

      Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our British brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.

      We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these united Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States, that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. — And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor.

      — John Hancock

      New Hampshire:
      Josiah Bartlett, William Whipple, Matthew Thornton

      Massachusetts:
      John Hancock, Samuel Adams, John Adams, Robert Treat Paine, Elbridge Gerry

      Rhode Island:
      Stephen Hopkins, William Ellery

      Connecticut:
      Roger Sherman, Samuel Huntington, William Williams, Oliver Wolcott

      New York:
      William Floyd, Philip Livingston, Francis Lewis, Lewis Morris

      New Jersey:
      Richard Stockton, John Witherspoon, Francis Hopkinson, John Hart, Abraham Clark

      Pennsylvania:
      Robert Morris, Benjamin Rush, Benjamin Franklin, John Morton, George Clymer, James Smith, George Taylor, James Wilson, George Ross

      Delaware:
      Caesar Rodney, George Read, Thomas McKean

      Maryland:
      Samuel Chase, William Paca, Thomas Stone, Charles Carroll of Carrollton

      Virginia:
      George Wythe, Richard Henry Lee, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Harrison, Thomas Nelson, Jr., Francis Lightfoot Lee, Carter Braxton

      North Carolina:
      William Hooper, Joseph Hewes, John Penn

      South Carolina:
      Edward Rutledge, Thomas Heyward, Jr., Thomas Lynch, Jr., Arthur Middleton

      Georgia:
      Button Gwinnett, Lyman Hall, George Walton


      I yeild to say that the United States of America is socialist in nature which does not equal communist and that it is dedicated to the greater good more than the great pocket book- NEVER THE LESS, NOT LIMITING PURSUIT OF GAINS AND FREEDOMS INTRINSIC TO THE INDIVIDUAL. SO BE IT,

      Let's Go!
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      • Author by magnolialover (July 20, 2009 11:09 am ET)
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        Remember though, the Declaration has no force of law behind it. It was a well written press release sent to the King to say, we're free from you.

        Just putting that out there.
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        • Author by latanza (July 20, 2009 11:19 am ET)
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          The force behind it is the logic and the philosophy and the doctrine. This is the fiber of the form of the United States of America and the code of integrity of the elected officials of and in office. There is no law behind the Code of Conduct in service organizations either but it is definitive of character and integrity and goals and citizenship. Is this the part where Tony Soprano is valuable, as the enforcer? Meanwhile back at the ranch, this document says it all as far as the goal of "good government".
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    • Author by xdarthveganx (July 20, 2009 12:16 pm ET)
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      Fox, why do you hate workers?
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    • Author by jjamele2880 (July 20, 2009 12:58 pm ET)
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      Eisenhower Interstate Highway System= SOCIALISM!

      Social Security= SOCIALISM!

      Medicaid= SOCIALISM!

      Medicare= SOCIALISM!

      Public Education= SOCIALISM!

      Unemployment Insurance= SOCIALISM!

      Stock Market Regulation= SOCIALISM!

      Minimum Wage= SOCIALISM!

      Lack of all of the above= FREEDOM! (may be substituted with LIBERTY!

      These doofuses needed to stop yelling "Socialism!" every few minutes, and instead explain to us why Socialism is a BAD thing. And do it without lying.

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    • Author by dadre (July 20, 2009 5:02 pm ET)
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      Also I caught what he said in the middle making fun of the fact that the MBA is asking for a bailout....acting like they have a tenth of the money that media research gets. Think about this....ethnic radio stations are struggling just to stay operate but talk radio can afford to pay gas bags hundreds of millions of dollars....and people say that race doesn't matter.
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    • Author by skiploader1111 (July 20, 2009 6:16 pm ET)
         
      GOVERNMENT IS THE PROBLEM! (and now you have cholera) LOL

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QDv4sYwjO0
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    • Author by teabaggers ♥ [wing]NUTS (July 21, 2009 3:31 am ET)
         
      you can tell how little credibility a network has when they bring on bozo the clown with no opposing point of view to discount his misinformation. then again, we all know what kind of credibility there is at fox. if cnn or msnbc did such a thing with somebody from MMfA (like eric boehlert) and nobody from the other side to counterpoint, the wingnuts would go crazy.
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