Fox news idiots owned by mayor of Lansing MI

**grab_grab_the_haddock** · February 18th, 2009, 05:33 PM

The fox news anchor whines like a little bitch because auto industry workers have the temerity to want decent wages and health care. The Mayor sets him straight.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-nLS6FJtSM

**Sephiroth** · February 18th, 2009, 07:13 PM

The auto industry works already have decent wages and healthcare, so much so along with shitty management it is bankrupting the US auto industry.

I find it hypocritical for the auto unions to claim they are the middle class, and all this shit when its billions of tax payer dollars that is paying for all their wages and perks. Management isn't paying its the real hardworking american taxpayers now.

Yes thank the mayor for standing up for the poor Auto Execs private jets, they might actually had to start driving the POS cars they sell.

Meanwhile CNN gets pwned by peanuts...

**Signa** · February 18th, 2009, 07:36 PM

I can only hope that if that mayor is as mad at wall street as he sounds he will be the president in a few years. We don't need "change" we need some one to balance the inequities from the working class and the rich bastards who step on everyone else.

**Hath** · February 18th, 2009, 08:33 PM

That was so awesome. Words cannot describe the respect I have for that Mayor. :P

**mountain_rage** · February 18th, 2009, 08:57 PM

I'm a little confused here, did the "newscaster" make insinuations in past shows, or was the mayor being asked questions by someone else? Because his initial rant did not fit the question. Good rant, but I can't figure out whether is just went on a tangent or was antagonized before the interview.

**Signa** · February 19th, 2009, 12:05 AM

The Fox guy was pretty much goading him into saying something he didn't feel by asking him a question a certain way. The mayor is a smart one, he didn't fall for it, and it threw him off the handle.

**beat@pp** · February 19th, 2009, 04:46 AM

man i love it when once in a blue moon fox lets someone actually speak from the otherside, have you ever noticed that when someone actually begins to win the arguement that whoever is interviewing laughs at them and implies they are mental? theyve got a new guy on there called glen beck and hes the worse, i never thought id say that bill orielly isnt the most crazy person but this guy is a real nutjob. and of course the mayor is spot on about they way they bailed the wall street fat cats out but then start to moan when the working man is getting a fair wage for once.

**don webb** · February 19th, 2009, 05:33 AM

Originally Posted by mountain_rage

I'm a little confused here, did the "newscaster" make insinuations in past shows, or was the mayor being asked questions by someone else? Because his initial rant did not fit the question. Good rant, but I can't figure out whether is just went on a tangent or was antagonized before the interview.

Just another Liberal foaming at the mouth

The big three American auto companies, Ford, American Motors and Chrysler are trying once again to convince Congress to give them the billions they had asked for the other day. They say it is the only way to save the American auto industry from bankruptcy

Their most vocal advocate is the mayor of Lansing, Michigan Mayor Virg Bernero. He sits in front of the television cameras time and time again speaking in an arrogant aggressive voice, demanding that we the tax payers step up to the plate and rescue the auto industry with a thirty-five billion plus dollar bailout or he predicts, the world as we know it will collapse.

Bernero is chairman of the newly established Mayors and Municipalities Automotive Coalition. Bernero says the group wants Congress to approve $6 billion to replace old industrial sites and retrain workers.

The $6 billion is not part of the trillion dollar economic stimulus bill being debated by Congress.

He has visited Washington a few times in the past few months to lobby for the approval of a federal bailout for the Detroit Three automakers.

I watched Mayor Virg Bernero speaking with numerous auto industry employees standing behind him and shouting their support and cheering him on.

I wondered if Mayor Virg Bernero palms were coming a bit sweaty at the thought that prehaps,Congress might decide not to bail out the auto industry, that his constituent would hold him personally to blame, especially the unions whom surely supported his election.

So is it possible that an auto bailout might also be a bailout for the honorable mayor's future political aspirations that just might dissipate into the smog surrounding Lansing, Michigan.

Just some random thoughts going around........................:drunken_s

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**grab_grab_the_haddock** · February 19th, 2009, 07:22 AM

Originally Posted by don webb

Just another Liberal foaming at the mouth

The big three American auto companies, Ford, American Motors and Chrysler are trying once again to convince Congress to give them the billions they had asked for the other day. They say it is the only way to save the American auto industry from bankruptcy

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I wondered if Mayor Virg Bernero palms were coming a bit sweaty at the thought that prehaps,Congress might decide not to bail out the auto industry, that his constituent would hold him personally to blame, especially the unions whom surely supported his election.

So is it possible that an auto bailout might also be a bailout for the honorable mayor's future political aspirations that just might dissipate into the smog surrounding Lansing, Michigan.

Just some random thoughts going around........................:drunken_s

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Those aren't random thoughts at all, they are the thoughts of a blogger whose sentences you have once again stolen without providing attribution.

A sorry creature is our don: so little going on between his ears that he relies on right wing bloggers to do his writing (and thinking) on his behalf.

**don webb** · February 19th, 2009, 08:59 AM

Originally Posted by grab_grab_the_haddock

Those aren't random thoughts at all, they are the thoughts of a blogger whose sentences you have once again stolen without providing attribution.

I did forget to mention that he is also known as the Angriest Mayor, I got 21,300 hits on Google on the search this mornig……..……..:icon_thum

PS..... Since you like rants so much............:drunken_s

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**MoonMan** · February 19th, 2009, 10:14 AM

It's really easy to knock the 3 automakers of Detroit, but their collapse will have devastating ramifications to the region. The national unemployment rate is at an "amazing" 7.6%.. but it's over 10% in Michigan.

What can be done? It seems like these roll backs in worker pay and benefits are futile and ultimately harmful since these companies are likely going to implode pretty soon regardless. That's just what I have been reading though (everywhere).

**Mels_Smileys45** · February 19th, 2009, 10:29 AM

About the only thing they can do is what they are about to implement. Cut thousands of jobs and stop making shitty vehicles like the Hummer. Unless they cut the fat they will burn through the next billions about to be handed to them just as fast as they did the first. Its troubling that it took them so long to figure out how to cut cost to save the companies IMO. The government had to make them come up with a plan, other wise they would have simply let the industry burn around their heads as they wondered how to put out fire.

**Sephiroth** · February 19th, 2009, 08:04 PM

My biggest problem with the auto industry both the unions and the companies themselves is that they are all so arrogant that they truly believe that the world will stop spinning if they go under.

The problem with the US Auto Industry has existed for decades, they stopped listening to the marketplace and what people want. A recent example is when they continued to make and push SUVs and Trucks when gas was $5 a gallon. GM has mismanaged Saturn so badly that they are probably going to drop it.

A chapter 11 reorganization may be the only thing that can truly fix the US auto companies. I don't see how continuing to pump billions of taxpayer dollars is going to fix the real problems with these companies.

Any government plan is just for show, the Democrats will not allow these companies to fail because they benefit too much from them.

**thelastfreeman** · February 19th, 2009, 08:08 PM

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**Mels_Smileys45** · February 19th, 2009, 08:29 PM

And Saturn has a HUGE following among the young people. Its hard to believe they might drop it. I bet the Satty Fan forum is buzzing right now. I love my Satty. Ive never had a car that gets such good gas millage. 40MPG on the highway