A CLASSIC “WOMAN BITES DOG” STORY…SARAH PALIN AND THE UNIONS

Posted By on August 27th, 2010

Woman of the Year
Editorial of The New York Sun | August 27, 2010

http://www.nysun.com/editorials/woman-of-the-year/87058/

It’s a classic movie plot. Think “Woman of the Year,” with Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn. At first the man and the woman hate each other, then they fall into each other’s arms? Well, feature the fight that has erupted between the president of the AFL-CIO, Richard Trumka, and Governor Palin of Alaska. The leader of Big Labor went to Anchorage to give a speech and attacked Mrs. Palin, accusing her of doing everything from writing notes on her hands to coming out with conspiracy theories about President Obama and his “death panels” to getting close to calling for violence. “Sometimes — about Sarah Palin — you’ve just got to laugh,” Mr. Trumka said. “ . . . But it’s not really funny.”

Mrs. Palin turned around and gave as good as she got, or better, in one of her patented Facebook postings, an astonishing demarche headlined “Union Brothers and Sisters, Join Our Commonsense Cause!” She wrote as a one-time card-carrying sister of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers and United Steelworkers, cards she held by virtue of her husband’s membership in the two unions. She asserted that it was “kind of ironic that a union boss has the gall to accuse anyone of threatening violence,” particularly in light of what she called the “violent attempts” by the Service Employees “to intimidate those who wanted to make their voices heard in last year’s town halls.” She argued the real jobs problem was being caused by the policies of President Obama.

Suddenly the Internet came alive like the silver screen, so much so that a columnist of the Washington Post, E.J. Dionne, issued a long complaint. It seems that Mr. Trumka can’t get anyone to listen to, let alone write about, his usual speeches about what Mr. Dionne characterizes as “social justice, fair wages, dangerous working conditions, and, of course, the role of unions in building the middle class.” But all Mr. Trumka had to do was release the prepared text of the speech attacking Mrs. Palin and suddenly, as Mr. Dionne put it, he’s “drawing big time page views both from her staunch supporters and from her many critics. Maybe if [Mr.] Trumka turns himself into one of [Mrs.] Palin’s leading public adversaries, his substantive comments will start getting attention.”
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