Chicago's Striking Teachers Take Protest Too Far

[Earth_First]

here's no telling how long the Chicago Teachers Union strike — the first strike of its kind in the city in a quarter-century — will last, but, as this photo clearly shows, the protests have already taken a turn for the dirty.

"Civility has disappeared in Chicago Teachers Union protests," says Daniel Strauss, who snapped the pic. Truly.

Make fun of the mayor's mother, declare him worse than Hitler, plant evidence that he's having an extramarital affair. But calling him a Nickelback fan? Unacceptable.


http://m.gawker.com/5942212/chicagos-striking-teachers-take-protest-too-far

[sadbear]

1. That's just wrong.

[Vidar]

2. i'm glad this was only a joke.

[Lucy Goosey]

3. Me too - I came into this thread expecting to be outraged

But now I'm laughing.

[kysrsoze]

4. Wow, that was really a low blow. Completely over the line.

But... I'll bet he DOES like Nickelback.

[msanthrope]

5. The first comment is brilliant---

This is happening nationwide. I got a robocall yesterday that asked several questions:

1) Would you be less likely to vote for Barack Obama, if you discovered he listened to Nickelback?
2) Would you be surprised to learn that Barack Obama once went to Canada, the same place Nickelback is from?
3) If you learned that Barack Obama ranked the following groups in this order, would you be less likely to vote for him? 1) Nickelback 2) Bell Biv Devoe 3) Lynyrd Skynyrd.
4) If you came to learn that the letters that spell black are in Nickelback, do you think you could still vote for Barack Obama?

It is going to get messy. I hope he doesn't pull a Kerry and ignore this attack. He needs to get in front of it.

[tama]

6. Had to look

Checked a song by the band from youtube, and not that bad, so don't still know how they became this kind of public joke. But I guess there is no publicity... now also I know the name Nickelback.