CNBC’s Erin Burnett In Hot Water Again For Comparing Iranian Election To EFCA
CNBC’s Erin Burnett emerged earlier this year as one of the left’s favorite pummeling dummies, as the economic crisis prompted liberals to begin targeting financial journalists for their too-soft coverage of Wall Street transgressions.
In February, after she was pilloried by liberals as “an apologist for Wall Street’s worst practices” Burnett was forced to respond.
Now Burnett suddenly seems to be in the soup again — this time for comparing the Iranian elections to what would happen under the Employee Free Choice Act — and she’s getting bombarded by a plague of angry emails, courtesy of the SEIU.
Burnett asked whether the situation in Iran “makes a strong point for this whole union conversation that we’re having in this country?” The point being, of course, that EFCA’s supposed elimination of the “secret ballot” for joining unions would be analogous to Iran.
Around an hour ago, SEIU blasted out a demand that members bombard Burnett with email pilloring her “irresponsible journalism” and “reckless reporting.” SEIU claims that more than 4,000 emails have rained down upon Burnett in that time.
Who knows how much Burnett cares about a bunch of emails from grubby union members. But SEIU obviously is grabbing at the chance to juice its membership by tying the sometimes numbing EFCA debate to the hottest story of the moment, hopefully baiting Burnett into responding again.
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This piece is too damn good not to link. It’s somewhat on point, though not about this broadcaster. But conservatives used to stand for something – now all they stand for is batshit insane raving.
the “you’re posting too fast” message is pretty much 100% the first time I try to post today.
I’m going to compare this woman to Ahmadinejad – she just raves like he does. They all do.
How did my postscript about the message from commenter get in the middle of my comment instead of the PS where I put it? Hmmmm-
wait, Tena, how often are you getting that message?
Tena, good catch…it reminds me of a comment I made about sbj last week about him/her hurting my brain. Sometimes I do feel like the righties say stuff that is so awe-inspiringly brain numbing, trying to wrap my head around the logic of it usually makes me feel like my brain is being eaten…
It’s NBC folks, or should I say fools? It is made up. It is TV, it is like Orson Wells doing a radio broadcast in 1939 that scared everyone to soil themselves. It is TV and it is complete fiction.
What the hell don’t people understand about the TV? Do people really think there is any truth or standards of reality that are applicable?
Are Americans really this stupid? It can’t be ignorance any longer, it has to be batshit insanity.
Hey! Some of us do wear clean clothes… sometimes!
Erin Burnett: Purveyor of CW wisdom and Wall Street Talking Points on CNBC, lovingly called an “International Superstar” by he acolytes at Morning Joke.
Greg: I haven’t posted in ages yet your system tells me I am doing it too fast. You have a problem, matey.
It’s not just union members; I am not in a union, but I will be emailing the money honey. What is up with highly paid television personalities spitting on working people with their idiot propaganda? I would start insinuating horrible things about CNBC myself except I think there are already too many comparisons to Pravda floating around out there…
I find it ironic that both liberals AND conservatives are rooting for the the more liberal leaning party rather than rooting for the more social conservative party.
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Now, if we could only play that Jedi Mind Trick on the conservatives in the U.S. regarding our local elections….
David — thanks, I’ll have our tech people check it out, and apologies for the inconvenience.
I just sent a note to CNBC and their “Mad Money” show.
Yea – she also still believes there are weapons of mass destruction–nuke threat and ties to 911–what a lightweight !!