Will The MSM Explore Links Between Teabag Movement And Criminally Negligent Killer Mine Owner?

[DemocratSinceBirth]

Massey Energy & Don Blankenship: Million-dollar Tea Party sponsors
By karoli Tuesday Apr 06, 2010 9:00am

Meet Don Blankenship, CEO of Massey Energy Company. Blankenship is also on the Board of Directors of the US Chamber of Commerce. In this speech above, he denies climate change, derisively refers to Speaker Pelosi, Senator Reid, and others as "greeniacs", and calls them all crazy. Watch the speech, you'll see. In his mind, "the greeniacs are taking over the world."

Massey Energy Company, Blankenship's highly successful strip-mining and mountaintop removal operation is the parent company of Performance Coal Co, where a tragic explosion occurred on April 5th. As of this writing, 25 miners have died and 4 more are still missing. Twenty-five families are without a loved one. Four more may discover they have lost someone they love too. 29 families in all, forever changed by one single, violent event in a coal mine. One single violent event in a coal mine run by a company so obsessed with profit it runs roughshod over employees' and neighbors' health and safety.

Here's something else about Don Blankenship and Massey Energy Company: Blankenship spent over $1 million dollars along with other US Chamber buddies like Verizon to sponsor last year's Labor Day Tea Party, also known as the "Friends of America Rally."http://friendsofamericarally.com/sponsors / Here's Massey's pitch. Note how he makes it sound like he isn't one of the corporate enemies of America.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FiAc5IVXI7g&feature=rela ...

The Friends of America Rally featured such notables as Sean Hannity, Ted Nugent, and Hank Williams, Jr., and was graced by Blankenship himself going off on a diatribe that seemed strange at the time, but has come to be commonplace these days. It concerned President Obama, Democrats, and any one who doesn't salute God, coal, and apple pie. Oh, and we're also going to 'steal their jobs,' if Hannity is to be believed.

Blankenship and Massey Energy spend millions to defend unsafe workplaces

more:
http://crooksandliars.com/karoli/massey-energy-don-blan ...

[SpiralHawk]

1. "Move along. Nothing to see here. Smirk." - Bent-knee Republicon-corporate Media

[DCKit]

3. Gaaaackkkkk! That pic is the stuff of nightmares.

It's time for criminal prosecution. Start with the executives at Massey, then start looking (actually investigating) at the banks, Wall St. and the rest of our fellow corporate citizens.

Let's put the DOJ back to work.

[Touchdown]

2. MSM explore links...

:spray:

[tom_paine]

4. No. ROFL. No.

Not a chance.

ha ha ha - but thanks for giving me a laugh.

[LeftinOH]

5. Of course not- that would involve some research; anyway, it's too 'controversial'...

:sarcasm: x(

[Maru Kitteh]

9. Exactly. It's "too controversial" They wouldn't want FOX to accuse them of bias again.

[Brickbat]

6. Union-busting, the disposability of workers and the destructive power of profit-at-any-cost have

predated the Tea Party. The latter is merely an outgrowth of the former, and not a surprise at all.

[senseandsensibility]

7. No.

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[CanonRay]

8. No

It's all one big club, and you can't join.

[Mythbuster]

10. Hellllll No!

They didn't even explore any political links of the idiot that flew his plane into the IRS offices in Austin, much less even talk about him more than a few days. The Tea Baggers seem to be exempt from being exposed when they commit criminal acts... no one wants to piss them off it seems. I say fuck 'em! Piss them all off, establish every existing link found between any Tea Bagger that is dirty as hell or takes a violent stance, and report it on the front page. Expose them for what they are, or rather for what they have been turned into by the rightwing talking heads!

[Scurrilous]

11. Nope. n/t