Yearly Kos morons wonder: Should bloggers unionize?
posted at 2:49 pm on August 4, 2007 by Allahpundit
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How else are they going to squeeze a living wage out of the imaginary employers who pay their imaginary salaries? Seriously, are they so enthralled with the idea of the proletariat that they’d rather pretend they don’t own their own businesses? Or is this actually a proposal to form a Blogads consortium and force advertisers to buy from all if they want to buy from one?
Maybe it’s just their way of applying the Fairness Doctrine to the ‘Net. Free expression as a closed shop:
During the meeting there were surreal arguments over whether the union would be strictly for political bloggers. “There are knitting bloggers and nature bloggers and all kinds of bloggers and we have to include them as well, do we not?” one clearly miffed young woman asked. The man from the Teamsters counseled inclusiveness. Perhaps sore-knuckled knitters can find a place in an international brotherhood after all. The sky is the collectively bargained limit, even for conservatives.
“I would want to include conservative blogs because if they have to adhere to the journalistic standards the union sets…” the moderator began.
“…they’ll go out of business!” a woman finished.
Cue predictably spontaneous applause.
Nice to see the AFL-CIO and Teamsters devoting their time to this very serious endeavor.
I reserve further judgment until I find out whether union demands include iPhones for employees. Now, follow the AmSpec link and see for yourself who floated this new motto for the fightin’ fightin’ nutroots: “We’re supposed to be shrill and self-destructive.” Here’s a hint: She knows a thing or two about both.
Update: Never mind Hamsher. This is better: “They’re so painfully craving any type of mainstream acceptance that they’re prone to the crassest kind of flattery and pandering, which weakens them.”
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I had some expletives I was about to type but decorum got the better of me!
MCPO Airdale on August 4, 2007 at 2:57 PM
For a bunch of communists they are way too concerned about how much money they are making or could make.
Hypocrites as usual.
SouthernGent on August 4, 2007 at 3:02 PM
Having their own self-destruction an objective makes them look much more level-headed.
Dusty on August 4, 2007 at 3:04 PM
Yes, they should. They need to get what is rightfully theirs from the man.
Harpoon on August 4, 2007 at 3:09 PM
How’d that Ned Lamont for Senator campaign work out for Ms. Shrill and Self-destructive?
Blake on August 4, 2007 at 3:13 PM
Oh, absolutely unionize. Form a commune, a five year plan and elect commissars. Idiots.
mcgilvra on August 4, 2007 at 3:21 PM
The Left is an endless font of ideas almost stupifying in their idiocy.
ahem on August 4, 2007 at 3:23 PM
I knew it had to be Hamsher- but of course.
Topsecretk9 on August 4, 2007 at 3:25 PM
When I opened up my homepage and read this..In all honesty..I thought you were drinking and goofing off…I should have known better..Now to this:
to the journalistic standards the union sets
Are the unions setting the standards now?
Pam on August 4, 2007 at 3:32 PM
Let them form a union. Nothing like the enemy’s using 100-year-old, obsolete technology to gain the upper hand.
windbag on August 4, 2007 at 3:32 PM
Over the last few days, I’ve seen a couple of threads on DU about the atrocities being committed by Walmart in Mexico because they have thousands of grocery baggers that receive no wages from the company. They work only for tips from the customers. It would seem that Walmart has taken up the dailyKos business model.
The last thing that Kos would like to see is his army of unpaid diarists unionizing and demanding a slice of his very lucrative pie, with a side of health benefits.
rw on August 4, 2007 at 3:35 PM
Note: the above was the INTRODUCTION.
I’m sure that the moonbats vaguely suspect that unionizing somehow creates free money for all the good liberal girls and, well, other girls…
But that’s not the real reason they’re doing it. This is some crackpot to institute some insane “journalistic eethics” regulation scheme that the Kos can pass, and Drudge would fail.
logis on August 4, 2007 at 3:41 PM
Did anyone else chuckle at the rich irony of nutters advocating the importance of using “fear” in their online content after years of squealing about the fake war on terror designed to prey on our “fears”?
Topsecretk9 on August 4, 2007 at 3:41 PM
FEAR is a synonym for TERROR
Progressive is a synonym for communism
TheSitRep on August 4, 2007 at 3:47 PM
There should be material for campaign commercials here.
You’re known by the company you keep.
Birds of a feather flock together.
I’m sure there are more but not being in politics metaphors and platitudes are not my specialty.
Whoever runs for POTUS as Republican should dip a big brush in the Kos filth and paint the dem with it from the Dems foot to the dim head.
TunaTalon on August 4, 2007 at 3:49 PM
I will unionize only with people who actually work for a living. NOT with a bunch of heterophobic lesbians and f*#s!
DfDeportation on August 4, 2007 at 3:51 PM
I reserve further judgment until I find out whether union demands include iPhones for employees.
ROFL!
So if an iPhone is included, you’re going to send union thugs over to Michelle?
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Carvin Guitar Man on August 4, 2007 at 4:20 PM
So if they go on strike, whose basement do they picket?
James on August 4, 2007 at 4:30 PM
Power to the People’s Party and the Workers Revolution. Err. Bloggers Revolution. Down with the Internet!
Egfrow on August 4, 2007 at 4:42 PM
I blog with someone that is stationed at Ramstein…Walmart is not involved, but the baggers are tipped when she shops…
Pam on August 4, 2007 at 4:49 PM
If they unionize, will we start seeing illegals doing the blogging they are to lazy to do?
TheSitRep on August 4, 2007 at 5:32 PM
For some reason, the federal antitrust laws come to mind. As the left-o-blogs are presently constituted, they simply may not agree to dictate uniform terms to advertisers. Don’t tell them, though, they might stop broadcasting their
conspiraciesforums.quixote on August 4, 2007 at 5:34 PM
Possibly to be filed under “I’m mad as hell and I’m not going to take it anymore!” category, but SERIOUSLY
WHEN CAN WE HAVE OUR OWN “YEARLY HOTAIR” CONVENTION?
NightmareOnKStreet on August 4, 2007 at 5:40 PM
rw on August 4, 2007 at 3:35 PM
Grocery baggers in military commisaries in the US work for tips only. Waitresses in some states work for tips only. Is it only bad if Walmart does it?
speed911 on August 4, 2007 at 5:49 PM
Full steam ahead and let them unionize.
Who reads their propaganda anyhow.
If they strike who cares.
canopfor on August 4, 2007 at 5:54 PM
A lot of good that did him!
JammieWearingFool on August 4, 2007 at 6:27 PM
I didn’t make a judgment either way. I just reported that DU viewed the practice as a crime against humanity and then pointed out that the Kos business plan uses an even more slavish model.
The bloggers in the linked article seem to be confusing unions with guilds, cartels or trade associations. Blogs are small businesses, not employees.
dKos brings in a lot of revenue, but has almost no labor cost because 99% of its content is generated for free. Kos could have his business threatened by labor organizing liberals that see the inequity of the profit distribution in his business model. A prankster could have a lot of fun organizing a union of dKos diarists. Progressive dogma would demand that Kos allow his diarists to unionize and negotiate compensation for their content production, but the bottom line would demand that Kos work to defeat the unionization of his content providers. Labor would then push boycotts by both advertisers and readers. O’Reilly can show all the photoshops he likes to discredit dKos, but if someone were to tag Kos with a “unionbuster” label, then his progressive days would be numbered.
An enterprising progressive could take down dKos by attacking its capitalist practices and progressive hypocrisy while offering an alternative online community that operates as co-op.
rw on August 4, 2007 at 6:38 PM
How cool would that be?! The teamsters could set up a booth in the convention hall… I guess Apple could too!
Ordinary1 on August 4, 2007 at 6:59 PM
I dreamed I saw Joe Hill last night…
Kevin M on August 4, 2007 at 7:00 PM
These people are truly living in a fantasy world.
infidel4life on August 4, 2007 at 7:16 PM
Don’t anyone tell them that it happens in this country at Commisaries (on military bases)!
They’d blame Bush and assume it’s part of the Patriot Act or something equally stupid.
MamaAJ on August 4, 2007 at 7:48 PM
*Singing* Look for, the Nutroots label
when you are typing that hate screed or rant
Bad Candy on August 4, 2007 at 8:14 PM
Heh.
Jump!
Juuummmmpp!
Jaibones on August 4, 2007 at 8:53 PM
What will they have to say when the government sends them their daily blog.
oakpack on August 4, 2007 at 9:47 PM
Funniest thing I have read all day!
Talking to raging liberals is like talking to a tantruming 6 year old. They have no concept of history and while they think their world view is all encompassing, in reality, it reaches barely past their juvenile emotional development.
deepdiver on August 4, 2007 at 11:00 PM
Maybe it’s just their way of applying the Fairness Doctrine to the ‘Net. Free expression by Allahpundit
Me and Rush are safe. Florida is a right to work state, which means there is no such thing as a closed shop.
sonnyspats1 on August 4, 2007 at 11:08 PM
Bloggers forming a union is as worthwhile as the French forming a military.
- The Cat
P.S. I mean doing what PJs has done makes sence but this is like ummm what??!
MirCat on August 4, 2007 at 11:20 PM
The UFO/CIA?
mojo on August 5, 2007 at 1:54 AM
But, but… I thought they did their work for the good of mankind? Isn’t the thanks of a grateful nation enough!?
Warner Todd Huston on August 5, 2007 at 6:47 AM
LOL at Kos, you can’t force anyone to unionize. If Democrat bloggers want to form a Union be our guest, your union fees are going to who you want anyway, though probably not to any specific campaign. Thanks for giving in the AFL-CIO, the biggest big labor lobby there is. Hilldog would be proud Kossacks.
I’m also LOL at the idea a non-union blog wouldn’t be able to compete with a union one. Look at any two companies that do the produce the same or similar products, one union and one nonunion. Who, generally, has the higher quality and lower cost product? The one whose employees aren’t sitting on their duffs because the union boss told them they could.
BKennedy on August 5, 2007 at 8:39 AM
These idiots continue to prive that “progressives” (code for Stalin-lovin’ traitorous liberals) are barking mad and foaming at the mouth.
georgej on August 5, 2007 at 2:23 PM
According to my union steward at the International Brotherhood of Bloggers Local 456, Hot Air owes me $29.50 for posting this comment. It only took me thirty seconds to write it, but union rules say I must be paid for a minimum hour of work. If you contest this rule and force me to write a response, we go into overtime. I’m going on my union-mandated break now.
Tantor on August 5, 2007 at 8:05 PM
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