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AFL-CIO OMG WTF?

Posted on | December 12, 2012 | 19 Comments

Lee Stranahan returned my phone call today. He was in Lansing, Michigan, to cover this week’s union goonfest for Breitbart.com, and he told me the story of what happened to Clint Tarver.

Clint is a beloved local figure, his hot dog stand across from the Michigan state capitol being a sort of institution, a landmark. “This is not a guy who’s about politics,” Lee explained. “He’s about hot dogs.”

Americans for Prosperity hired Clint to serve hot dogs at their tent on the capitol grounds, where AFP officials were presenting the pro-freedom side of the right-to-work argument. And when the union goons decided to assault the AFP tent, Clint became a target.

Union Thugs Shouted Racial
Slurs At Hot Dog Vendor While
Trashing His Business

Good Lord. Of course, they have no sense of shame, but are they also completely lacking a sense of irony? I mean, the Left has spent nearly four years building their “Tea Party is racist” meme, and the AFL-CIO brutes — who were nearly all white, as Stranahan reports and video verifies — decide they’ll just waste all that liberal media propaganda in order to terrorize a guy whose only “crime” is serving hot dogs?

ABC, NBC, CBS, KKK — “civil rights” means whatever liberals say it means, and if you question their judgment, you’re the racist.

UPDATE: Those racist right-wing teabaggers have already raised more than $17,000 to help Clint Tarver.

UPDATE II: Well, I’d been planning a separate blog to comment on Patterico’s further explanation of the accuse-the-accusers strategy, but then a despicable progressive Michigan blogger did a “Marcy Wheeler” on Clint Tarver which can be briefly summarized: His wife is a Republican and he was selling hot dogs to wingnuts, so he deserved it and besides, Breitbot distraction!

Will the last honest liberal leaving Michigan please turn out the lights?

Category: Labor Unions, Michigan, Racism

Comments

19 Responses to “AFL-CIO OMG WTF?”

  1. scarymatt
    December 12th, 2012 @ 6:15 pm

    BBQ

  2. Aaron1960
    December 12th, 2012 @ 6:19 pm

    In communist-liberals’ eyes, Tarver must not be a ‘real’ black.

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    December 12th, 2012 @ 6:39 pm

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  4. Becca Lower
    December 12th, 2012 @ 7:49 pm

    Re: UPDATE II: Being called the James O’Keefe of hot dog vendors is a high compliment!

  5. Kerry Dar-Du
    December 12th, 2012 @ 7:57 pm

    Kerry Dar-Du liked this on Facebook.

  6. Finrod Felagund
    December 12th, 2012 @ 8:08 pm

    Bloody racist union goons. If there were any justice every last one of the bastards would be spending time in the Crossbar Hotel.

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    December 12th, 2012 @ 8:15 pm

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  8. Adjoran
    December 12th, 2012 @ 8:26 pm

    Heh. “honest liberal” – good one!

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  10. Bob Belvedere
    December 12th, 2012 @ 8:59 pm

    I laughed so hard, I hurt myself.

  11. lonely conservative
    December 12th, 2012 @ 10:08 pm

    Thanks for the link. Of course they will blame it all on Tarver, or the other victims of their crimes. Just like they blame us when they stalk, threaten and harass us.

  12. JeffS
    December 12th, 2012 @ 10:48 pm

    That’s a classic oxymoron.

  13. Bob Belvedere
    December 13th, 2012 @ 8:09 am

    Sleight of Left Hand [badly executed].

  14. SDN
    December 13th, 2012 @ 9:01 am

    “Will the last honest liberal leaving Michigan please turn out the lights?”

    You are starting from the obviously incorrect premise that any liberal alive in this country is honest.

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  16. Quartermaster
    December 13th, 2012 @ 4:03 pm

    He was giving them the benefit of the doubt. That’s always a dangerous things with moonbats, but RSM was raised in the south and is trying to be a polite Southern Gentleman. Prolly not a good idea in this case.

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  18. SDN
    December 14th, 2012 @ 12:32 am

    I was born in the South too, but a gentleman isn’t required to be polite to rabble.

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