CNBC Hosts Catch Fire For Drawing EFCA Parallel to Lack of Secret Ballots in Iranian Elections
Last week, CNBC financial host Jim Cramer made news decrying Labor's pursuit of "card check" on the "Morning Joe" program. This week, he's involved in another conversation criticizing the effort, but the focus-slash-backlash is directed to network-mate Erin Burnett.
As reported earlier by Greg Sargent at the WhoRunsGov blog:
Now Burnett suddenly seems to be in the soup again — this time for comparing the Iranian elections to what would happen under the Employee Free Choice Act — and she’s getting bombarded by a plague of angry emails, courtesy of the SEIU.
Burnett asked whether the situation in Iran “makes a strong point for this whole union conversation that we’re having in this country?” The point being, of course, that EFCA’s supposed elimination of the “secret ballot” for joining unions would be analogous to Iran.
Around an hour ago, SEIU blasted out a demand that members bombard Burnett with email pilloring her “irresponsible journalism” and “reckless reporting.” SEIU claims that more than 4,000 emails have rained down upon Burnett in that time.
Who knows how much Burnett cares about a bunch of emails from grubby union members. But SEIU obviously is grabbing at the chance to juice its membership by tying the sometimes numbing EFCA debate to the hottest story of the moment, hopefully baiting Burnett into responding again.
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More:
- "Cramer, Burnett: Iran Election Results Expected; Lesson for Card Check Proponents" -- Business & Media Institute
- "CNBC Fail: Anchors Compare Iran Elections to EFCA" -- SEIU blog
