It Begins… Unions Use Images of OKC Bombing in Collective Bargaining Ads
Posted by Jim Hoft on Thursday, March 24, 2011, 12:02 PM
They will stop at nothing…
The International Association of Firefighters is using tasteless images from the Oklahoma City Bombing to fight a state bill which changes how public safety labor unions and cities handle contract disputes.
NewsOK reported:
A state senator today blasted a firefighter union television advertisement as “horrific and tasteless” for using images of the Oklahoma City bombing to make a case against his bill.
The advertisement by the International Association of Firefighters began airing today.
It asks residents to oppose Senate Bill 826, which changes how public safety labor unions and cities handle contract disputes.
Several images of firefighters are used in the commercial, including a short clip of the remnants of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building after it was bombed April 19, 1995.
When the image of the bombed Murrah Building is shown in the commercial, a narrator says: “We’re there when you need us. Now we need you. Tell politicians to do what’s right: Oppose SB 826 and support Oklahoma’s firefighters.”
“The AFL-CIO and the IAFF should be ashamed of this horrific and tasteless commercial,” said Sen. David Holt, R-Oklahoma City. “The victims and heroes of April 19th are not political pawns to be exploited whenever the Legislature seeks to reform a union negotiating process.”
Holt, a trustee for the Oklahoma City National Memorial and Museum, asked that the commercial be taken off the airwaves.
SB 826, by Holt, has passed the Senate and is awaiting a hearing in the House. It makes changes to binding arbitration, a process used to settle collective bargaining disputes between cities and public safety labor unions.
The bill has the support of dozens of mayors, city council members and city managers, as well as the state police union.
Hat Tip Scott
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garrett commented:
Whathas one to do with the other. It is so typical of liberals to play to emotions. Firefighters are paid to fight fires. Do your job and keep your employement. Or quit. I don’t care. We’ll find replacements, believe it.
#1AMERICAN commented:
You are a “Civil Servant” and are not entitled to all the benefits you have been getting at tax payer expense. Go get a private sector job and ask that employer for your bargaining rights, see hwere that will get you. We need the fire fighters, etc, however you chose your education level and just how hard you wanted to work, now live with it.
an observer commented:
I thought they were better than this. My respect for their union just went down the toilet.
tommy mc donnell commented:
i was a member of the IAFF for eighteen years. they are a bunch of leftists from canada that came to the united states to unionize firemen. the rank and file membership does no vote for the leadership in washington. the leadership is in complete disconnect from the majority of their membership. for over thirty they have been putting out ads like this and supporting political candidates that the vast majority of their membership neither condone or support. the IAFF is a perfect example of how a political organization has taken over a labor union and use it for the benefit of a political party. fire depts at the local level need to drop out of this leftist organization. the international in washington is not helping you. the local fire depts negociate their own contracts. the international just uses your dues money to advance their marxist agenda.
Mad Hatter commented:
For the Alinsky Unions to use what happened in Oklahoma City as justification to oppose a bill that they don’t like, shows how low these gutter rats are.
Another attempt to guilt down the public since the Alinsky Unions can’t challenge the bill on its merits.
gastorgrab commented:
FACT: Tim McVeigh’s father was a member of the United Auto Workers Union.
bg commented:
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first question i’d ask is..
why didn’t they use images of 9/11??
at any rate, here’s hoping the back-draft from
real Firemen takes care that gaffe and a half..
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bg commented:
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re: #7
care that = care of that
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Paula commented:
This has got to be the most disgusting display I have ever seen. It took me five years before I could go anywhere downtown. It took another 2 to even get me to go through the memorial. I still have a hard time when friends come to visit and want to down there.
Coburn, Inhoffe, Boren and Lankford better step up to the plate and call them out on this one!!!!!
bg commented:
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oh yeah..
re: It Begins…
sorry GP, but puke, and i’m not alone..
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wheezer commented:
Kinetic collective bargaining visual aid?
oldguy commented:
It’s them or us isn’t it?
Wm T Sherman commented:
Any firefighter or policeman who is union member first, and a public safety worker second, does not get to claim this mantle of public service nobility.
By the way – those two jobs are far from the most dangerous jobs around. They aren’t in the top ten. And the only reason I bring that up, is that the unions always bring it up.
Wordygirl commented:
If as the commenter Tommy stated, the IAFF leadership is not representative of firefighters as a whole, then firefighters need to start standing up to their unions and disavowing this crap!
tommy mc donnell commented:
its not the union members its the union leaders. union workers in america have as much to say about what the union leaders do as the people in russia had to say about what the communist party did.
squeaky commented:
bg – probably since they used the world trade center to depict wall street greed during the scott brown campaign. i know they wacked Bush over the head for campaign ads that featured 9-11…….i suppose since they still believed him to be illegitimate and all.
http://hotair.com/archives/2010/01/15/dscc-uses-world-trade-center-image-in-anti-brown-ad/
Jayne on the left coast commented:
Isn’t it their job to put out fires? If they don’t want to go into fires than quit get a desk job.
lakewriter commented:
dont get upset – criminal, yes; tasteless, yes – BUT they are showing their true colors, starting in WI and spreading throughout the states. Do you think these actions are winning support for them? Actually, they are exposing who they really are, what they stand for, how they operate. …and more and more and more are starting to see for the first time….
raybojabo commented:
Where l live we have a volunteer fire department. They are all selfless respectable men. If they are willing to do the job for free, why do these commie union scum feel that they can’t do the job without a union to extort money from their taxpaying benefactors. I refuse to give a free pass to the union members and just blame their leadership. All those idiots marching in the streets are’nt union leaders.
bg commented:
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squeaky #15
sorry, i don’t recall them being “campaign ads”, GWB couldn’t bring 9/11 up in any conversation / speeches he made trying to explain what we were up against.. it was like they pounced on him if they even thought he was even thinking about uttering a anything to do with 9/11.. it was worse than pathetic, they had the poor man walking on eggshells for several years, and he wasn’t the only one.. only the Dems could mention 9/11, mostly in preemptive attacks accusing Bus or the Republicans in trying to somehow benefit from it, meantime, they were the ones profiting off of our enemy behind closed doors, not to mention Obama..
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Ozark Lee commented:
It is obvious that the Unions have gone “All In” but I really don’t think they have that great of a hand.
They can gather a bunch of paid protesters and chant various Hey Hey, Ho Ho simple rhyming chants but, beyond your local TV newsroom, I don’t think anyone is buying it anymore.
I guess we will find out after the river card is dealt.
…Lee
bg commented:
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re: #19 re: #15
oops, there was one Bush ad..
["This is an entirely appropriate effort on our part, we believe, to recall
a memory and to recognize what it is that it's going to take in terms of
leadership to lead the war on terror,"]
i agree, at th4e time it was most appropriate, considering
what the Dems were put to destroy Bush, not to mention
working on pulling a Vietnam Part 2 disgrace via Iraq..
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bg commented:
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first off, we’re talking apples vs oranges when it comes to
Unions using Oklahoma & Presidents using 9/11, that said..
Wolves
Ownership
Windsurfing
Whatever It Takes
how else was GWB supposed to get the truth out??
is this the ad they were pounding him about??
Ashley’s Story
God Bless GBW, the last American President..
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tommy mc donnell commented:
The IAFF was putting out political ads like this for years. you just weren’t paying attention. you don’t remember all the ads they put out for bill clinton.
bg commented:
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re: squeaky #15
as far as them using 9/11, that’s even more despicable..
hopefully not too many people, like me,
even know about it, never mind saw it..
either way unions are a dying breed, they just haven’t woken up to the fact
that while they’re content with bleeding US.. the government, under Obama,
is not only using them, but getting twice as much back in protest returns so
to speak, and pretty soon, in large part due to the unions piggishness, there
won’t be enough to sustain their demands soon enough anyways..
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CommieJuice commented:
Maybe opponents of collective bargaining should use videos of Reagan saying “Tear down this wall” and show the Berlin Wall going down. USSR -to- AFL-CIO, it’s just a lateral movement.
eaglewingz08 commented:
So it’s ok for democraps to use a terrorist attack to support raiding the public purse, but not OK for republicans and conservatives to use the 9/11 terrorist attack for support of their policies? Why, because one was done by an alleged ‘christian’ and the other was done by alleged ‘muslims’? Or is it that the dems think that using the former could benefit them, but using the latter would benefit republicans/conservatives? Anyway, what happened to the civility of Tuscon? Seems so long ago and far away now.
Taqiyyotomist commented:
#27
You got it.
It’s a-ok for a Democrat to do anything at all.
It’s not ok for a Republican to do anything at all.
That about sums it up.
Whatever a Republican does that is bad… when a Democrat does the same thing, only ten times more egregious, that’s good. Yup, you’ve about got it.
Clarence Thomas told a bawdy joke in front of a female worker? BAD BAD BAD
Teddy Kennedy F&*KING KILLED A WOMAN. RE-ELECT. RE-ELECT. RE-ELECT.
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A Repub taps their toes in a public bathroom? BAD BAD BAD
Barney Frank has a gay brothel run out of his apartment? RE-ELECT RE-ELECT RE-ELECT
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I could go on for DAYS and DAYS with these pairings.
Taqiyyotomist commented:
When I look out my window at the city, I think… if only this view were in black and white.
Then everything would match what I’ve seen of 1930′s Europe — especially 1930′s Germany.
Commonman commented:
This is so tasteless, the unions just went from using children to using the dead…………
William commented:
As an Oklahoman, this just makes me sad. I don’t really have anything to say other than that. It’s just shameful.
Opaobie commented:
Maybe they would have done better by paying TRIBUTE to those whose bravery saved many lives and who risked their lives to secure the bomb site and recover the remains of their fellow citizens. One of my wife’s cousins was an OKC police officer who spent the entire first day carrying the remains of babies and infants out of the rubble of what had been the daycare center. He made several trips into the rubble over the next two weeks helping locate and rescue injured victims. He knew many of the victims, including his next door neighbor, whose remains were located on the final day of recovering remains. He also testified at both the McVeigh and Nichols trials.
Wisco commented:
How dare heroes suggest that we help them out when they’re in need!?!?!
Outrage! OUTRAGE!!!
GreaterSapien commented:
I’m not from OK but does 2 secs of practically a still photo of the collapsed building really count as “horrific and tasteless”? Does it even qualify as “images”? Was there other footage in the video I missed?
Horrific images are people jumping to their deaths to escape The Towers. Ash-covered, blood soaked victims fleeing the scene. This is not “horrific” use. There’s someone’s home actually on fire in the commercial, why isn’t that “horrific?”
You people are just grasping at straws trying to pull others into the mud with you.
Opaobie commented:
#40, stated like a true “Alinsky-ite”. Your faux outrage has nothing to do with the topic of this thread or with the actual Senate Bill. You need to worry about how YOUR state is going to deal with unsustainable payments to public sector unions instead of criticizing other states who are trying to head off disaster.
#41“…Was there other footage in the video I missed?”
No, but you might study two words: “Perspective” and “Context” to understand the offensiveness of the ad once you figure out how those two words apply to it. If you want to try for the “Bonus Round”, work on “Subliminal Message”. Would two seconds of a nude photo of your mother in a pro-union ad bother you? Why or why not in 25 words or less…10 additional bonus points.