{"id":531262,"date":"2010-04-17T08:44:44","date_gmt":"2010-04-17T12:44:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/climateprogress.org\/?p=22994"},"modified":"2010-04-17T08:44:44","modified_gmt":"2010-04-17T12:44:44","slug":"limbaugh-sarcastically-admits-don-blankenship-is-%e2%80%9cfor-big-profit-at-the-expense-of-the-working-man%e2%80%9d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/531262","title":{"rendered":"Limbaugh sarcastically admits Don Blankenship is \u201cfor big profit at the expense of the working man\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last week, Rush Limbaugh responded to the West Virginia mining disaster by attacking \u201cthe left.\u201d Limbaugh was especially incensed that \u201cpropagandists\u201d linked the disaster to \u201ctea parties<\/a>, global warming, and capitalism.\u201d<\/p>\n

Limbaugh rallied to the defense of killer coal baron Don Blankenship<\/a>, the CEO of Massey Energy, who promotes his radical philosophy of coal profits above all else on the board of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce<\/a>.\u00a0 In this Wonk Room’s <\/em>repost<\/a><\/em>,<\/em> Brad Johnson has the story and the audio clips:<\/p>\n

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At Crooks and Liars, they\u2019re the ones that are putting out the notion that this guy Blankenship \u2014 by the way he\u2019s committed another crime, too \u2014 he\u2019s on the board of directors of the Chamber of Commerce. Yeah, that\u2019s reported as though that\u2019s a strike against him. Oh, yeah, he\u2019s one of those guys, Chamber of Commerce guys. That means he\u2019s for big profit at the expense of the working man<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Listen here:<\/p>\n

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Blankenship has, in fact, repeatedly admitted that he is \u201cfor big profit at the expense of the working man.\u201d In 1984, he described how he works to \u201csell coal cheaper<\/a> to drive union coal out of business.\u201d He continued that \u201cunions, communities, people, everybody\u2019s going to have to learn\u201d that capitalism is \u201csurvival of the most productive<\/a>.\u201d In 2005, he told his workers to \u201cignore\u201d requests by safety inspectors \u201cto do anything other than run coal\u201d because \u201cthe coal pays the bills<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

Limbaugh also questioned why people are blaming Republicans who \u201cfought new regulations\u201d instead of the \u201cObama regime\u201d:<\/p>\n

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Now, what the hell here? We\u2019re going to blame Republicans for this<\/strong>? It was Bush\u2019s fault at the Sago mine. Now we\u2019re gonna blame this guy for contributing to Republicans because I guess Republicans fought new regulations<\/strong>? And now the Obama regime is angry? Has the Obama regime not been in office for over a year, have they not had their own labor board people in there<\/strong>? I\u2019ll tell you, I don\u2019t have a word to describe my disgust for these people. Every damn thing that happens gets politicized. I tell you what, folks, they are purposely dividing this country to create the chaos and the unrest that exists<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Listen here:<\/p>\n

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The Obama administration has, in fact, significantly stepped up enforcement of mine safety, even though Obama\u2019s labor board nominees were filibustered<\/a> by Republicans, and only recess appointed on April 1, 2010. Joe Main, Obama\u2019s pick to run the Mine Health and Safety Administration, was confirmed<\/a> by the Senate after a three-and-a-half month delay<\/a>. Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis\u2019s nomination was blocked by Republicans<\/a> for over a month. Coal mining companies have been appealing twice as many of the citations<\/a> \u2014 especially the major ones. Under current law, unsafe mines can\u2019t be shut down<\/a> while the violations are being appealed.<\/p>\n

(HT Dave Wiegel<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last week, Rush Limbaugh responded to the West Virginia mining disaster by attacking \u201cthe left.\u201d Limbaugh was especially incensed that \u201cpropagandists\u201d linked the disaster to \u201ctea parties, global warming, and capitalism.\u201d Limbaugh rallied to the defense of killer coal baron Don Blankenship, the CEO of Massey Energy, who promotes his radical philosophy of coal profits […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6435,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-531262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6435"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=531262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531262\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=531262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=531262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=531262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}