'Working Stiffed': The Daily Show's Mandvi Exposes Union's Non-Union Picketers of Walmart

[babsbunny]

http://www.bradblog.com/?p=8081

By Brad Friedman on 9/21/2010 10:31AM

Last night on Comedy Central's The Daily Show, correspondent Aasif Mandvi offered some of the best journalism we've seen on television in quite a while.

It wasn't particularly funny, union supporters are going to hate it, Walmart is going to love it, but credit where it's due.

This is the sort of journalism that Rightwing con-men like Andrew Breitbart, James O'Keefe and their acolytes pretend to be producing. It's journalism they could and even should be producing. But as they are political/partisan con-men/hitmen/hacks, they've chosen to throw away all of their credibility to the point where they are outclassed even by a comedian like Mandvi. Then again, the same can be said for many of the so-called journalists in our corporate MSM which rarely manages to offer anything as serious, substantive --- or scathing --- as Mandvi's report from last night...

[TexasObserver]

1. That was a devastating interview. Real media should do so well.

He nailed the guy. They hired non union guys to walk the protest line. Huh?

[underpants]

2. I agree

devastating

[applegrove]

3. Yes it was a good interview.

[Touchdown]

4. It was bad.

Here we all are, trying to make the country union friendly again, and one of us pulls this shit. I hate to say it, but we deserve the criticism.

[Bigmack]

5. I cringed thru the whole thing...

I'm a union guy all the way, but those guys screwed up... bigtime. The union rep should not have had to say what he did. They should have divided up the picket duty. Anything to keep from getting nailed like that.

It gives aid and comfort to the enemy.