CNN's Carol Costello Laughs At Longshoreman Vulgarly Threatening Camera Crew
There's a very serious dispute going on between longshoremen and officials at the Port of Longview, Washington.
CNN's Carol Costello clearly doesn't grasp the gravity of the situation, for in an "American Morning: Wake Up Call" report Monday, she couldn't control her laughter (video follows with transcript and commentary):
CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: OK. Let's move on to this story [Laughs] out of Washington state. I don't know why it makes me laugh because it shouldn't because there was a horrible confrontation between longshoremen and the media. So, watch what happens when a news crew just tries to ask questions of these union people.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Hey. Get your camera out of here. That's none of your business (EXPLETIVE DELETED). Unless you want trespassing, get out of here now. Get out of here now!
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: OK. OK.
UNIDENTFIEID MALE: Don't (EXPLETIVE DELETED), partner.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You're not the PR staff, are you?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You don't have to (EXPLETIVE DELETED) worry about who I'm with.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
COSTELLO: [Laughs] I don't think he's the PR staff. But, come on, Tim. They're longshoremen. What else do you expect? [Laughs]
TIM FARLEY, SIRIUS RADIO: Well, I understand that he identified himself as blank you blank sucker. That's his official name. I'm not sure what his title is.
I also wonder what kind of top-secret information might be on these pieces of paper that are posted outside of the building so that anybody walking by could probably see what they are. But this stems a long standing disagreement between the longshoremen's union. And that was KGW in Portland and they have gone out to get the comment and one can only imagine that this guy's never heard of the Internet because he will probably be pretty famous pretty darn soon.
COSTELLO: I guess so. Do even know what they were so upset about? I mean, was the media bothering them? I mean --
FARLEY: Oh, yes, well, that was the point. It's being more heavily covered there. But this is the union that's upset about the fact the company there is outsourcing some of the jobs, they claim and they're taking away some of their rights.
This has been turned into by right wing bloggers as more of an issue that stemmed from what we were seeing from James Hoffa last week, about taking them out. It's unrelated to that. But it plays into the narrative that the unions are thugs. And that something that can't be helping the unions right now.
COSTELLO: No, no. That was unfortunate for the unions, at least from a P.R. standpoint.
Tim Farley, thanks as always. Tim Farley, host of "Morning Briefing" on Sirius POTUS radio.
FARLEY: Thanks.
Yeah, that's some funny stuff, there. Maybe Costello - as a CNN anchor - should clue herself in to what's going on at this port.
As KGW reported at its website Thursday (emphasis added):
Hundreds of Longshoremen stormed the Port of Longview early Thursday, overpowered and held security guards, damaged railroad cars, and dumped grain that is the center of a labor dispute, said Longview Police Chief Jim Duscha.
A federal judge ordered union protesters to stop using illegal tactics Thursday as they battle for the right to work at a new grain terminal in Washington state.
U.S. District Judge Ronald Leighton issued a preliminary injunction to restrict union activity, saying there was no defense for the aggressive tactics used in recent days.
Duscha also said that six guards were held hostage for a couple of hours after 500 or more Longshoremen broke down gates about 4:30 a.m. and smashed windows in the guard shack.
"This was not like the peaceful protests we've seen in the past. The protesters today were loud, aggressive and assaulted my officers," added Cowlitz County Sheriff Mark Nelson. "When our officers went in to make peaceful, lawful trespass arrests, they were rushed by a mob of hundreds of protesters who were resistive and throwing things at the officers."
Yeah, that's some funny stuff, isn't it?
Why is it that no matter what union members do - including taking hostages and breaking the law - they can expect total unwavering support from their shills in the media.
But when average citizens get together at a Tea Party rally to peacefully ask their government to balance its budget, such folks are ridiculed as violent, racist homophobes trying to destroy America?
It's a grave new world, isn't it?
(H/T NB reader Ray Rodda)
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Comments
Guess what MSM? The Public hates you.
Submitted by Red Jeep on Mon, 09/12/2011 - 11:47am.
The Public is sick of the bias, sick of you not reporting stories accurately, and tired of your arrogance.
Got anything to back that up?
Submitted by Lipton on Mon, 09/12/2011 - 12:46pm.
How will we know when the public walks away from the news and entertainment elites for politcal advice? After all the MSM is the ones doing the reporting the polling and the story telling?
Audience size
Submitted by Red Jeep on Mon, 09/12/2011 - 12:59pm.
Except for the Big Three newscasts that combined get 7% of the country to watch. Most 24 hour cable shows are lucky now to get 1% of the country watching and the Sunday political shows draw about 1%.
Internet now is where the news is at.
How about looking to the
Submitted by ant on Mon, 09/12/2011 - 1:19pm.
How about looking to the right of the screen? Over 383,000 followers on Facebook at this moment, thousands of readers at Big Journalism, thousands of Teaparty and conservatives that are aware of the insults and threats cast at them by the media. Remember Susie Roesgen of CNN? Fired! Polls that show a majority distrust of the media's 'information' AND their ever-declining viewership reported by the ratings services. I work with the public and I hear them, people watch local news and as soon as the network National news begins the channel gets changed. Outside money (Soros, for example) is probably the only thing keeping them afloat and the fact that since the advent of cable, advertising dollars and ratings are less of a factor in keeping programs on air. Yes, there are liberals and the moonbats that will not change and will forever be fooled by empty slogans like, "Yes, we can", but they are just a loud, obnoxious minority. The floodwaters of truth and common sense will and do take time to rise, but they are rising, and the dinosaur,ignorant media will be washed away. Another point, they seem to be in desperation mode most of the time, resorting to the most vicious of lies, selective editing, and selective word choices (Newsspeak) in an effort to keep from drowning.
One other thing that I've noticed, if the left's opinions are so 'mainstream' why do internet articles presented by leftists usually forego, disable and/or delete their comments section? Krugman's rant being the most recent example.
NewsBuster's 383,000 followers...
Submitted by Red Jeep on Mon, 09/12/2011 - 1:38pm.
...is far larger than the 25-54 age viewers of any MSNBC "news" program
Tim Farley wants you to know "right wing bloggers" are to blame.
Submitted by SickofLibs on Mon, 09/12/2011 - 11:56am.
What Tim Farley doesn't want you to know is that this is about two unions battling each other over turf. There are no "scabs" involved, hence the absence of giant inflatable rats.
Costello, on the other hand, is not even worth my breath.
Boy, her elevator doesn't go
Submitted by rbosque on Mon, 09/12/2011 - 12:02pm.
Boy, her elevator doesn't go to the top.
LIKE!
Submitted by NC Boy on Mon, 09/12/2011 - 1:17pm.
Like your comment!
When did scum sucking
Submitted by Bodini on Mon, 09/12/2011 - 1:32pm.
bottom feeders start taking the elevator?
HAHAHAHAHA!!! That's just a HOOT!!
Submitted by motherbelt on Mon, 09/12/2011 - 12:03pm.
However, when a conservative says "Boo!" that's a death threat.
So that's it?
Submitted by Cool Arrow on Mon, 09/12/2011 - 12:05pm.
"It plays into the narrative that unions are thugs?"
"They're longshoremen, what do you expect?"
Fill in the blank.
As long as it's a stereotype acting within its stereotypical descriptive, What do you expect?
Aww, they're just longshoremen.
Submitted by KyWriter on Mon, 09/12/2011 - 12:09pm.
Mischevious tykes. They're so cute. Gee, Carol, why don't you pay them a visit? I'm certain they have certain games they would looove to play with you.
I've got a gut
Submitted by Bodini on Mon, 09/12/2011 - 1:36pm.
feeling she'd love to be on her knees at the feet of some big ol' burly ... THUG!
CNN should send her out
Submitted by bkeyser on Mon, 09/12/2011 - 12:12pm.
to interview that gentleman.
they rediculed them.
Submitted by kata on Mon, 09/12/2011 - 12:19pm.
if only unions members would wake up to see they are just useful idiots...
ILWU
Submitted by liberalsarefunny on Mon, 09/12/2011 - 12:25pm.
The ILWU has been a criminal enterprise for years.
Generations, actually, but who's counting?
Submitted by SickofLibs on Mon, 09/12/2011 - 12:31pm.
.
COSTELLO: No, no. That was
Submitted by Snappy on Mon, 09/12/2011 - 12:36pm.
COSTELLO: No, no. That was unfortunate for the unions, at least from a P.R. standpoint.
Are you kidding me? She is lamenting the fact that this puts the unions in a poor light? The ILWU is so out of bounds on this one that the NLRB is actually taking this on from the side of the Employeer!!! How bad do things have to be that THAT to happen.
Unfortunate implies an accident, this was a choice
Submitted by Lipton on Mon, 09/12/2011 - 12:47pm.
Big difference. Costello is pathetic.
MSM keeps lowering the bar on how stupid they think the American people are. They may be right.
Surely you jest!?!?!
Submitted by Now_I_Want_Change on Mon, 09/12/2011 - 1:07pm.
The current NLRB doing anything for an employer? I'm going to run home and get my binoculars, I don't want to miss the flying pigs!
:->
Get your binoculars!
Submitted by Snappy on Mon, 09/12/2011 - 4:03pm.
Get your binoculars!
There are Unions on both
Submitted by Bull Moose Prog... on Mon, 09/12/2011 - 7:31pm.
There are Unions on both sides of this issue. Unsurprisingly they were spinning when they said the jobs were "outsourced". By outsourced they mean "terminated" and given to another Union which doesn't destroy company property when they're mad.
More from Costello
Submitted by Cool Arrow on Mon, 09/12/2011 - 12:39pm.
Liberals have a zany sense of humor.
Could be racism too
Submitted by KornKing on Mon, 09/12/2011 - 1:02pm.
Isn't F**k You C**kS****r a Native American name?
meet me at the mission at midnight
It is ok for union thugs...
Submitted by USMC8411 on Mon, 09/12/2011 - 2:06pm.
to use homophobic slurs, but if a TEA Party member barked like that, I doubt these two clowns would report the same way.
By the way, when the thug touched the camera, and visibly pushed the camera man with it, that was assault.
Isn't that how union thugs are though? Hard working Americans... unless another union thug gets in their way!
Her father was Lou (for the
Submitted by billb on Mon, 09/12/2011 - 1:42pm.
Her father was Lou (for the over 60 crowd)
Different Carole Costello
Submitted by Chaitealover on Mon, 09/12/2011 - 6:37pm.
I almost agreed, thinking that she learned to laugh at everything at Lou's feet. But IMDb says that Lou's daughter died in 1987, and this Carol was born 2 years after Lou died.
No Relation
Submitted by stunned on Tue, 09/13/2011 - 1:27am.
Lou's daughter Carole died of a stroke at the age of 48 in 1987.
tired of liberal lies
Will it be so funny when a
Submitted by LAM SON 719 on Mon, 09/12/2011 - 1:50pm.
Will it be so funny when a muslim rapes her or a black panther or union thug breaks her nose?
They're longshoremen. What do you expect?
Submitted by CO2Maker on Mon, 09/12/2011 - 1:54pm.
Hmmm. Not much stereotyping there, sweetie. Girly girl. Pretty little anchorette.
BTW, when Hoffa told the crowed to "take out" the Tea Party all the pundits tripped over themselves to explain how that didn't refer to physical violence because they were very careful to tip-toe around the stereotype of union leg-busters using the "persuasion of power" as the SEIU chief urges.
Model for Probity
Submitted by Kingfish17 on Mon, 09/12/2011 - 2:15pm.
Actually, I'm pretty sure most unions out there will get a copy of this video and replay it during their meetings as an example of how to engage the press in a manner that results in no physical altercations. As union representatives go, this guy was remarkably constrained.
It's kind of refreshing to see a video of a union member, confronting anybody, where no one get's punched out.
"You can’t go take a trip to Las Vegas...on the taxpayer’s dime." Barack Obama
I still can't believe this is on national news...
Submitted by TeachertT on Mon, 09/12/2011 - 2:47pm.
I grew up in the town, and I can tell you the longshoremen are all jerks. I am related to a few of them too. Longview is a union town, and the longshoremen think they are the best union ever. Most are very arrogant about it too. So this behavior doesn't surprise me. This behavior happens rarely, but it does happen, and it is usually the longshoremen who do this. In the early 80's the unions where all having issues. I even spent some time on the strike line with my Dad. But that union did not once resort to this level of behavior, even though relationships were very strained.
Just a little insight about these longshoremen. Oh, and just to let you in on a little bit of their reputation, a few of my cousins have tried to get in the longshoremen's union b/c it is known the longshoremen work as little as possible for the most money. Yeah, I am a bit biased, they are all jerks.
Sorry Dad, but unions have passed their usefulness.
Liberals are very strange people.
Submitted by mrwiffle on Mon, 09/12/2011 - 3:04pm.
She thinks with her penis.
Those wacky longshoremen!
Submitted by AR72 on Tue, 09/13/2011 - 5:02am.
Good thing he wasn't a Tea Party member or he would have been brought up on federal charges for that assaultive tirade.