You want to know who REALLY killed the Twinkie?
Unions, my friends, did not cause the demise of Hostess, the company that became famous as the maker of Twinkies and other wonderfully sweet snack items. Oh no. Only the foolish and uninformed would ever believe such a naive explanation. And I know that you are much too smart to be foolish and uninformed, which is why you come here to learn about how the world really works.
No, the real explanation begins here:
Need I say more?
“But wait!” I can hear some of you say. “Are you claiming that Michelle Obama killed the Twinkie in some sort of a conspiracy?” Let’s examine the evidence, shall we:
As the noted political expert and Fox News guest Victoria Jackson explains:
“Michelle is a snake.
She is so deceptive. This whole ‘food thing’ she is innocently pushing, is slyly making the government the controller of our children’s food … out from her forked tongue slipped a buzzword, on the Jay Leno show tonight. She actually used the words, ’sustainable food, organic food.’ These are Agenda 21 words. They mean GOVERNMENT CONTROL.”
That’s right, Victoria: Government control. And Agenda 21, that devious plot by which the United Nations is attempting to seize control of the United States and all its bodily fluids. Following the dictates of Agenda 21, the U.S. government is clearly trying to dictate to the American people what we can and cannot eat. Do you think it’s an accident that they delayed this until after Hussein’s re-election, when he no longer has to worry about running again? Do you think they would have won if this had slipped out two weeks ago?
There are no accidents. There is no such thing as coincidence. It all makes perfect sense, once you think about it hard enough.
Other well-known experts agree with Jackson. As Clyde Lewis at IntelHub points out, Agenda 21 is all about buzzwords such as “environmentally unsustainable.” And what is more “environmentally unsustainable” than fat people?
The point ought to be obvious even to liberals by now:
Proud Americans, denied their Twinkies by Agenda 21
“Is it at all surprising that the latest scapegoat is the Obese and how they are now the new target of derision? The Obese consume more than the average human on the planet, they have more health risks and are considered a burden on the idea of global sustainability.
There is in essence a global conspiracy against the obese. It is once again a crisis that has been created by the planners of the global agenda.
It goes against their plan to keep the world order on the brink of starvation. The agenda of the globalists is to tighten the belt on resources and those who consume the most resources will be the first to be considered for the culling….”
That’s right. Face the frightening truth, America. Michelle Obama, as part of Agenda 21, has killed the Twinkie as part of her war on fat people. (Look at her arms. Do you know anybody else with arms like that? Coincidence again?)
Once you know these things, many other things just fall into place, don’t they?
Just yesterday, the Centers for Disease Control released data claiming that the rate of diabetes in the United States is soaring, particularly in the South. Linda Geiss, a supposed “expert” at the CDC, wants us to believe that “the rise in diabetes has really gone hand in hand with the rise in obesity.”
How … convenient.
The foolish and uninformed might think that it’s just coincidence that such an announcement was made JUST ONE DAY before the Twinkie was secretly droned. And it’s just coincidence that they’re focusing SPECIFICALLY on the South. But those of us in the know — and now that means YOU! — understand that there is no such thing as coincidence.
For example, is it coincidence that one of the best ways to fight obesity and diabetes is through exercise, like walking and biking? And that walking and biking is conducted on walking paths and biking paths?
And that walking paths and biking paths are recommended under Agenda 21?
The motive is clear. But how could this plot be implemented?
At the beginning of his administration, you may recall, Hussein bailed out the auto industry, saving hundreds of thousands of union jobs. It just didn’t make sense at the time: Why would a president do that, just to save all those American jobs?
Well, now we know. It comes straight out of the Saul Alinsky playbook. When the opportunity came, Michelle and Hussein called in that favor from Big Labor and insisted that the unions go on strike to kill the Twinkie, putting an end to an important American symbol.
If you ever wondered what Hussein meant when he promised to “fundamentally transform America,” now you know.
Now you know.
– Glenn Beck
– Jay Bookman
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Banderson
November 16th, 2012
4:30 pm
Ben Shockley – It would be very much like that. That’s why any cuts in SS being discussed are aimed at workers who might have time to make other arrangements for retirement. But, as boomers (and I am one) suck up existing funds and average wages go down because of the globalized economy, funds into SS aren’t going to keep up with funds going out.
MANGLER
November 16th, 2012
4:30 pm
If anyone would have gotten off their duffs and make a “healthie” twinkie, that may have saved the company.
Doggone/GA
November 16th, 2012
4:31 pm
“When it comes to sheer, unadultrated, no redeeming qualities junk food…ya’ can’t beat a twinkie! Try one”
So I’ve heard! But I think I’ll stick with the Tastykakes grew up with. Nobody else makes Butterrscotch Krimpets!
jewcowboy
November 16th, 2012
4:31 pm
“Libs sure know a lot about weed.”
And “conservatives” seem to know a lot about those little blue pills.
barking frog
November 16th, 2012
4:31 pm
I would personally blame the Main Stream Media for obesity all of which
encourage sitting or lying down to ingest their fare.
Dirty Dawg
November 16th, 2012
4:32 pm
There’s more still to the story…it wasn’t the union workers striking over the latest cuts in pay and benefits, it was the fact that Hostess was bought, along with a number of other bakery companies, by a vulture capitalist ten years or so ago that then named itself International Bakeries Inc., or some such moniker, with a ton of borrowed money. They’ve been in and out of bankruptcy several times – the whole thing, not just Hostess – over the past 6-8 years, borrowing more and more along the way and, in fact, Fortune was predicting their final demise earlier this year. Of course the bakery operations, along with the brand names will be sold off to whatever bidders, who’ll either reopen a non-union operation and declare victory…and the former workers will do without or if they’re lucky go back to work with the next owners at, probably, less than half what they were making.
josef
November 16th, 2012
4:33 pm
I used to be a twinkie…then I became a Ho-Ho…now I’m just a…maybe I better stop while I’m ahead…
satch7
November 16th, 2012
4:34 pm
Ronald Reagan
November 16th, 2012
3:56 pm
The Union’s have been unraveling the work place since their existence! Google Eastern Airlines & see what a great company that was taken down by Unions
YOU THINK ALL THAT MONEY FRANK LORENZO OWED THE BANKS ON THAT LEVERAGED BUYOUT HAD SOMETHING TO DO WITH EASTERN UNDER.ANYBODY WHO ASKS FOR HIS WORKERS IN A HIGHSKILL JOBS LIKE PILOT AND MECHANIC FOR 50% PAYCUTS ASKING TO GO UNDER,THOSE FOLKS SHOULD HAVE WALKED AND LET EASTERN DIE
Granny Godzilla - Union Thugette
November 16th, 2012
4:34 pm
don’t want second pagers to miss twinkie ingredients sung by a mezzo soprano
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVgzY2Sjf0E
Consider this my contirbution to this weeks FNM.
Aquagirl
November 16th, 2012
4:34 pm
If anyone would have gotten off their duffs and make a “healthie” twinkie,
Delicious seaweed filling wrapped in a whole-grain tofu cake! Mmmmm!
You’d have to re-name them “Edsels.”
jewcowboy
November 16th, 2012
4:34 pm
“I used to be a twinkie…then I became a Ho-Ho”
Which came first…the sexual euphemism or the snack cake?
Joe the Plutocrat
November 16th, 2012
4:34 pm
the real conspiracy is; less than two weeks after pot becomes legal in Washington and Colorado; Twinkies are set to vanish from the planet? coincidence, or Agenda 22?
TM
November 16th, 2012
4:35 pm
“Look at it another way. Imagine that Hostess had agreed to a contract with a major supplier of, say, flour. Imagine that, claiming potential bankruptcy, Hostess had already negotiated a lower flour price with that supplier. Now it says, nope, we need to pay you even less than that for your flour.”
Kinda like what Obama did to GM’s preferred bond holders except he told them we will pay nothing. OK for him but not private enterprise????
Erwin's cat
November 16th, 2012
4:35 pm
And of course, the fact that no one here has taken a bite of a Twinkie in this millenium has NOTHING to do with the company’s collapse, right?
It’s all the unions.
or Michelle.
start a rumor that twinkies will help a bald man grow hair…and see what happens
Keep Up the Good Fight!
November 16th, 2012
4:37 pm
jcb
but wasnt he looking for a Slim Jim?
Okay Colbert got “truthiness” but I am defining “Conspiriness”: a quality characterizing a “conspiracy” that a person claims to know intuitively “from the gut”, “the absence of evidence to the contracy”, or because it “all makes sense” without regard to evidence, logic, intellectual examination, facts or reality. Moreover “conspiriness” can be maintained as “accurante” without regard to the original conspiriness claim based on real evidence that proves the original “conspiriness” claim wrong. It is up to those accused to prove sufficient facts to the “conspiriness” asserters to prove them wrong. The failure to do so is more evidence of the “conspiriness”. Those who attempt to refute a conspiriness claim are not informed and a failure to “connect the dots”.
skipper
November 16th, 2012
4:38 pm
@barking frog
U right-on ’bout the Ding-Dongs! I ate ‘em right up until I became diabetic…..and I am in shape! (Practically every male on my Dad’s side is type II.) I ride the bike, stay in shape, etc. and pretty much always have! So, my diagnosos was a suprise! I still loved ‘em, though! And the Little Debbies? I kept then in business for years!!!
Doggone/GA
November 16th, 2012
4:38 pm
“start a rumor that twinkies will help a bald man grow hair…and see what happens”
Nah, that one will only cause a short-term increase in sales that will die a sad death when it comes out it doesn’t. What’s needed it so start a rumor that it’s an aphrodisiac…that’s MUCH more susceptible to the “placebo effect”
satch7
November 16th, 2012
4:39 pm
dirty dawg, thanks there is always more to the story than what the media is given by mgt.
i would advise anybody to make sure they keep upgrading their skills .the MBA’s are looking to hose you if you are blue collar and making a livable wage=got to get that bonus right?
Erwin's cat
November 16th, 2012
4:39 pm
Doggone – touche
ByteMe - Got ilk?
November 16th, 2012
4:39 pm
So no one else thinks it funny that Fox got Victoria Jackson to be the defender of Twinkies?
josef
November 16th, 2012
4:40 pm
GRANNY
JANEY
Ding Dongs? So many lines, so little time!
jewcowboy
Tee-hee..
Erwin's cat
November 16th, 2012
4:40 pm
satch7…or go get an MBA
ByteMe - Got ilk?
November 16th, 2012
4:41 pm
see what Twinkies really needed was to have a medical need that was just outside legal bounds… like it would settle nerves or something… then we’d have a Medical Twinkie movement and laws passed in Colorado and Washington to make Twinkie consumption legal and….
cloudodust
November 16th, 2012
4:41 pm
As one said last night, the Dems want people to keep their noses out of other peoples bedrooms but they sure don’t mind sticking their noses into other peoples kitchens…
Keep Up the Good Fight!
November 16th, 2012
4:42 pm
see what Twinkies really needed was to have a medical need that was just outside legal bounds
TwinkieCare?
Doggone/GA
November 16th, 2012
4:43 pm
“Doggone – touche”
Maybe some, but think about it: baldness only increases the male purchasers. An aphrodisiac could affect both men AND women. That’s double the “audience”
Matti
November 16th, 2012
4:43 pm
“If anyone would have gotten off their duffs and make a “healthie” twinkie, that may have saved the company.”
A NY company called KIND (www.kindsnacks.com) makes a variety of frut & nut bars that are abso-freakin-lutely delicious, as well as being healthy and natural. I hope one of their execs is on the way to Texas now to buy up this plant for a song, and give these good people something worthwhile to manufacture. One snack bar, and you’re hooked, without killing your colon!
Striving for someting better is what made America great, IMO. Forward is the way.
Paul
November 16th, 2012
4:44 pm
I sat out the prior post ’cause I thought, “oh great, I read this and some of the usual suspects will come on and say BUT IT”S ALL TRUTH!!!”
And they did.
Now this. Jay, Jay, Jay. Their synapses are gonna fry and fuse with the exertion of convincing us ignorant fools what’s so utterly obvious. Wait… their brains are gonna fry?
Keep up the good work, Jay!
Jay
November 16th, 2012
4:44 pm
Byteme, she didn’t say that on Fox, it was her own website. Click on the link.
Her statement also had nothing to do with Twinkies.
Doggone/GA
November 16th, 2012
4:44 pm
“but they sure don’t mind sticking their noses into other peoples kitchens…”
Oh, but we do. Nobody sticks their nose in MY kitchen. And no one has even tried.
Erwin's cat
November 16th, 2012
4:44 pm
see what Twinkies really needed was to have a medical need that was just outside legal bounds…
or better claim it is a form of female contraception and make it a right…what ever happened to the sponge?
ByteMe - Got ilk?
November 16th, 2012
4:45 pm
Sorry Jay…. I guess I got ahead of FOX on that. I’m prescient!!
ByteMe - Got ilk?
November 16th, 2012
4:46 pm
what ever happened to the sponge?
Umm… I think it’s not supposed to start out cream-filled….
Peter
November 16th, 2012
4:47 pm
yes…… Don Abernethy.
Pretty soon all the typewriter factories will be closing as well…..those those those Democrat’s !!!!!!!
Erwin's cat
November 16th, 2012
4:47 pm
ByteMe
josef
November 16th, 2012
4:48 pm
BYTE ME
Oooohhhh…that was bad…
Granny Godzilla - Union Thugette
November 16th, 2012
4:49 pm
byte me…..
bite me! then clean up the monitor…
jewcowboy
November 16th, 2012
4:49 pm
“I think it’s not supposed to start out cream-filled”
Well done! The zinger of the evening…
Paul
November 16th, 2012
4:50 pm
“but I did love me some Ding-Dongs!”
Jaynie, stick around.
You’ll find plenty to love on Jay’s blog.
Matti
November 16th, 2012
4:53 pm
Uh…. if I remember correctly from some of my distraught college friends after that blurry spring break, the sponge was about as effective as a twinkie.
josef
November 16th, 2012
4:53 pm
IMAM
Well, you’re certainly on a roll this p.m. First this, and then your theme for FNM…way to go!
RB from Gwinnett
November 16th, 2012
4:53 pm
Nice job keeping the masses talking about something other than Petraus’s terrorism comments being deleted from his briefings, Jay. The DNC should throw in a few extra $$$ for you this week.
Never mind those unfunded pensions and silly “3 driver” work rules, Jay. Good managers should be able to sell comperable products with significanly higher production costs, right? Sounds like some shoddy management along the line too, btw.
Michael
November 16th, 2012
4:58 pm
man I hope that is not a picture of my wife and me. Let me check what I am wearing!
ByteMe - Got ilk?
November 16th, 2012
4:58 pm
RB needs needs some Medical Twinkie love.
RB from Gwinnett
November 16th, 2012
5:00 pm
“RB needs needs some Medical Twinkie love”
Did CO approve that too?!!
Jack ®
November 16th, 2012
5:01 pm
I think I have this Twinkie thing figured out: Bookman likes unions and doesn’t like Twinkies. Newsweek is going out of the print business likely because they don’t like unions and like Twinkies. I really learned a lot of good stuff from today’s blog.
ByteMe - Got ilk?
November 16th, 2012
5:01 pm
Did CO approve that too?!!
See above. If they had, we’d still have the Twinkie to kick around.
bleary
November 16th, 2012
5:05 pm
I feel so foolish. How could I have missed these signs.
cmac
November 16th, 2012
5:11 pm
Its the unions you idiot …. hope the morons enjoy their permanent strike!!
Joe Hussein Mama
November 16th, 2012
5:16 pm
But did General Petraeus enjoy Twinkies? That’s really the burning question here!
Anita
November 16th, 2012
5:20 pm
OMG! I can’t believe that you are actually blaming the First Lady for the demise of Hostess. Our children are heading to a health crisis and you are worried about a damn twinkie that has a shelf life of years. Only in America!!!
Jim
November 16th, 2012
5:22 pm
Of course, Jay; it had nothing to do with the guy who drove the truck being “protected” from unloading the truck, and only certain employees being able to unload the Wonderbread. Hostess had to pay 4 people to do the job of one. It is amazing they stayed in business as long as they did…not coincidentally, the Twinkies had taken on a certain Hammer and Sickle appearance recently.
BobFromcobb
November 16th, 2012
5:24 pm
Union labor has never and will never destroy a company or industry. Poor management, poor marketing, poor sales, poor product, or corporate greed are the normal cause.
The loss of good jobs always sux.
People associate unions with communism in the south so the masses favor business leaders. It’s ok to have a fraternal order, the AMA, the Bar Association, or any other organized industry or craft as long as you don’t call it a union.
Time to push the no carb diet.
Tom
November 16th, 2012
5:28 pm
Of course the unions killed Twinkies. Their personal selfishness and refusal to work with the company resulted in over 15000 people losing their jobs. Just like Eastern Airlines some years ago. And whatever alternate “theory” you can come up with is just that “theory.”
Dum-Bass
November 16th, 2012
5:28 pm
My wife will be very upset tonight when I tell her the Ding Dong is out of existence!
Sure, double down on conservative crap
November 16th, 2012
5:29 pm
Someone needs to regulate what that clown woman puts in her hair……for the good of the poor souls forced to view her.
Look before I leap...
November 16th, 2012
5:30 pm
This is what killed the Twinkie:
Enriched wheat flour, sugar, corn syrup, niacin, water, high fructose corn syrup, vegetable and/or animal shortening – containing one or more of partially hydrogenated soybean, cottonseed and canola oil, and beef fat, dextrose, whole eggs, modified corn starch, cellulose gum, whey, leavenings (sodium acid pyrophosphate, baking soda, monocalcium phosphate), salt, cornstarch, corn flour, corn syrup, solids, mono and diglycerides, soy lecithin, polysorbate 60, dextrin, calcium caseinate, sodium stearoyl lactylate, wheat gluten, calcium sulphate, natural and artificial flavors, caramel color, yellow #5, red #40
Common Sense isn't very Common
November 16th, 2012
5:31 pm
RB
Sounds like some shoddy management along the line too
————————————————————————–
RB knows a lot about shoddy management
Sure, double down on conservative crap
November 16th, 2012
5:31 pm
Maybe Mittens will swoop in to save the Ding Dong……now that is a great slogan “Save the Ding Dong” for for Mitt
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
November 16th, 2012
5:31 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWJH-8tAqvE
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
November 16th, 2012
5:32 pm
“Well, now we know. It comes straight out of the Saul Alinsky playbook. When the opportunity came, Michelle and Hussein called in that favor from Big Labor and insisted that the unions go on strike to kill the Twinkie, putting an end to an important American symbol.”
…………… spoken like a true liberal while 18,500 people lose their jobs.
Sure, double down on conservative crap
November 16th, 2012
5:33 pm
This the worst, Zombieland without Twinkies
bucket
November 16th, 2012
5:37 pm
“Hussein bailed out the auto industry, saving hundreds of thousands of union jobs.” Funny how you guys never mention that a structured bankruptcy would have accomplished the same thing and wouldn’t have put the tab on the taxpayers of America. Of course, the unions would have had to renegotiate their pension plans and the POTUS couldn’t allow that with elections to win.
markie mark
November 16th, 2012
5:39 pm
relax, children….you can always find Twinkies in mid town…..(did I just say that?)
Shine
November 16th, 2012
5:40 pm
lmao!
Durrrr
November 16th, 2012
5:40 pm
You f@cking naggers and socialist will reap what you sow. Last white man out cut the lights. With no rich white men who will pay the bills?
Joe Hussein Mama
November 16th, 2012
5:41 pm
bucket — “Funny how you guys never mention that a structured bankruptcy would have accomplished the same thing and wouldn’t have put the tab on the taxpayers of America.”
We don’t bother mentioning it because it wouldn’t have happened.
The banks made it clear that they had no intention whatsoever in participating in or supporting such a bankruptcy. So the US government, as lender of last resort, stepped in and did what the free market said that it couldn’t/wouldn’t do.
Rose
November 16th, 2012
5:41 pm
I can remember watching “All in the Family”, in the 70’s, and Archie Bunker had a Twinkie in his lunch box every day. My point being, that the product has been around forever and obesity at the level it is now has not. So all that BS about what they’re made out of and how horrible they are for you (which I’m sure they are) is just now making people obese?
Joe Hussein Mama
November 16th, 2012
5:41 pm
I’m out, all be well and drive safely.
Betty
November 16th, 2012
5:43 pm
If you like junk food eat it. If you like being fat that’s okay too. Feed your children whatever you like. I don’t see Michelle Obama in my grocery store or in my home. Doctors have talked about over weight , bad foods, and the consequences for a very long time and chatter was never filled with this much hate. When the talk was aimed at certain people it was okay, but now it’s all people that’s being talked about, you guys are having melt downs of the worse kind. I say eat what you want, get sick and be happy.
Jay
November 16th, 2012
5:44 pm
Double down;
I feel bad for Valdosta.
cmac
November 16th, 2012
5:46 pm
“Hussein bailed out the auto industry, saving hundreds of thousands of union jobs.” Funny how you guys never mention that a structured bankruptcy would have accomplished the same thing and wouldn’t have put the tab on the taxpayers of America. Of course, the unions would have had to renegotiate their pension plans and the POTUS couldn’t allow that with elections to win.
Exactly!! The only thing obozo bailed out was the unions … and he broke the law to do it!
cmac
November 16th, 2012
5:49 pm
If I go on strike from my job, I get fired. I am so glad to see it happen to the “forces” of organized labor!!! Best of luck in your job search. Should not be a problem with all millions of jobs that obozo’s awesome economy is adding!! HAHAHAHAHA!
cmac
November 16th, 2012
5:51 pm
Lastly, moochele obozo needs to look in the mirror and work on her own big butt before being so worried about my family diet!!
Look before I leap...
November 16th, 2012
5:54 pm
I think Durrr is still miffed that the south lost the Civil War.
Finn
November 16th, 2012
5:54 pm
Poor attempt at humor.
The Union blew it big time! Now now how many more are unemployed?
BobFromcobb
November 16th, 2012
5:54 pm
I hate the thought of minimum wage day labor baking the future Twinkies.
Jay
November 16th, 2012
5:57 pm
“I think Durrr is still miffed that the south lost the Civil War.
They didn’t lose. It’s only halftime, doncha know?
Carl
November 16th, 2012
5:57 pm
There is no need to worry about the union workers that lost their job. Obama is creating ten of thousands of jobs each month. They will all have new jobs in just a few short days.
guy
November 16th, 2012
6:02 pm
I can’t believe AJC would pay anyone for these unimportant and simple minded columns. Simple minds fall for anything. It is very entertaining! WOW!.
Georgia
November 16th, 2012
6:03 pm
So, under the guise of a constitutional threat to underwriting, the Tea Party is forming language for the legislative face of rebellion. The Rushannity Block is the media face of it. And the Aryan guys are right there with them, probably directing. An Axis of Rebellion. The enemy to our union is standing up and drawing lines in their etch-a-sketch legal sand. We have to start a dialogue and quit underestimating the enemy to our union (and our toys).
Ghoti
November 16th, 2012
6:03 pm
Oh noes! No more Twinkies or Ho Hos? I can’t stand those nasty Little Debbies!!
Have no fear, Hostess fans. The brands are for sale!
Child, please
November 16th, 2012
6:04 pm
Hostess had filed for bankruptcy protection previously and was using the lawful exercise of the trustee’s right to negotiate/adjust contracts. The Teamsters had agreed to the adjustments, the bakers’ union said no thanks and when informed that they needed to accept it by a certain date or the company would liquidate, the union continued to say “no” and the company is liquidating. A real bitch when someone tells you something will happen as a result of your action and then the promise is carried through (kind of like dealing with your children). Also unfortunate for the Teamsters and the non union members that lost their jobs. Someone will probably acquire the brands and continue, so fat people everyone can rejoice after a short hiatus in supply. Those in the bakers’ union willingly chose unemployment over a job, albeit one with lower total compensation.
Jay
November 16th, 2012
6:09 pm
Child, you forgot about the part where the private-equity investors who tried to play hardball lost their investment of well over $100 million, because the working man called their bluff.
Vast Right Wing Conspiracy (aka "Knuckle-Dragger")
November 16th, 2012
6:10 pm
This is all certainly interesting, and certainly makes more sense than 99.9% of your postings.
The reality remains, however, that another 18,500 jobs are down the tubes. More are on the way, as companies announce further layoffs as a direct result of supremeleadercare. It makes more sense for them to layoff full-time employees and hire part time employees. This is, no doubt, one of the intended results of the legislation.
Also noticed the upward revision in recent unemployment claims, particularly in Ohio and Pennsylvania. This is shocking!, shocking!, to paraphrase “Casablanca”. I guess the lies will continue until morale improves. It will be interesting to see how y’all blame emperornerocare on Bush.
Georgia
November 16th, 2012
6:19 pm
The Benghazi attack could have been the side we armed and tried to align with. That would be a worse case scenario blunder by our foreign policy.. Patraeus knows all, but he’s too much of a patriot to give this classified information away, even though he let the wrong word slip while kissing persuasive lips, the lucky son of a ……..
Rush thinks this will expose a CIA blunder into a deal with mullahs and militias where we dealt with al queda operatives themselves.
Democrat Man
November 16th, 2012
6:24 pm
I’m certain that Obama will offer to bail out this company so that the union workers will not lose their job.
David
November 16th, 2012
6:26 pm
Good to see that Jay has proven beyond a reasonable doubt that he is what we always new who he was…the biggest @$$ clown to ever write an op-ed
W
November 16th, 2012
6:29 pm
You are an a$$. I get the humor, ha ha. Problem is there is some truth in what people like Beck are saying. If 10% is true, we are completely screwed.
You my friend are part of the problem. A patsy for the globalist whether you realize it or not. This is what they want, make jokes. Write it all off as conspiracy.
The truth is the union could have accepted a 2% pension cut and 8% pay cut. They didn’t.
Now 18,500 are put of work.
The numbers economically keep getting worse. Joke about that.
Dave
November 16th, 2012
6:43 pm
I was going to link to this on Facebook and then realized some of my more stout friends might not appreciate it as much as I do.
Eugene V. Debs
November 16th, 2012
6:44 pm
Ah, Twinkies and Ho Hos…a favorite guilty pleasure.
If you believe the rights and dignity of the working man/woman should be respected, vote Democratic.
If you want to be a lifelong serf, content with the pittance your oh-so-godly employer chooses to give you, vote Republican.
phil
November 16th, 2012
6:44 pm
You’re a great spimeister Jay. True, Hostess was not run well as of late. They did not change with the times. But, when ask to take a pay cut or have no job, the union EMPLOYEES DECIDED, no job was better. Simple as that. Maybe survive, or don’t survive at all. I guess they know Dear Leader will take care of them.
Vet
November 16th, 2012
6:47 pm
Hell just blame BUSH….Big O still does— but tell the 18,500 who lost their job.
Twinkie would of had to pay Obamacare $37,000,000.00 if it stayed open for it 18,500 workers.
So blame who the hell you wish and its going to get worse.
Not a Neal Boortz Redneck
November 16th, 2012
6:51 pm
Great stuff, Jay.
Keyser Soze
November 16th, 2012
6:51 pm
They told me if I voted for Mitt Romney that there would be mass layoffs and they were right!
Ryan
November 16th, 2012
6:53 pm
Jay- Have you ever made a payroll? I own a small business, it is rare I meet other business owners who see things like you do. It is so frustrating that journalists cannot fathom that profit is a good thing!
Kevin Riley proclaimed the AJC was going to be more balanced, that lasted a few months. The last weeks before the election and the paper is back to being a Cynthia Tucker styled fish wrapper. Very disappointing!!
eddy
November 16th, 2012
6:54 pm
Unions….dumb to the bone! But then again, so many of Jay’s posse are in favor of everything with a union label. 18,000+ out of work, whining all the way when they are not victims unless you consider a circular firing squad to be victims. Nature has a way of sorting out the stupid. Good luck with the unemployment line. And you can hear them now…..but, but ,but…..we’re working for minimum wages. PS…you were working when so many would gladly take your jobs. Union arrogance is not a pretty sight!!
Vet
November 16th, 2012
6:57 pm
@6:44 EVD..what a idiot, without your employer there would be no jobs unless Govt control jobs.
Doggone/GA
November 16th, 2012
6:58 pm
“It is so frustrating that journalists cannot fathom that profit is a good thing!”
“A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.”
Henry Ford
Not a Neal Boortz Redneck
November 16th, 2012
7:00 pm
Ryan – I have made plenty of payrolls.
Obama passed 17 tax cuts and credits for small biz – I took advantage of just three in 2009-10.
He extended NOL to five years. I needed that. He also allowed full depreciation of capital equipment in 2010 – check.
Obama is a friend to small business.