The mother of one of the trapped miners is breaking my heart

[CatWoman]

she is on Countdown, and are talking about the inhumane treatment they have suffered via Murray.

He yelled and screamed at the family members when telling them that their loved ones were SOL.

[IndyOp]

1. I am glad they are getting to speak out on Countdown - NPR had Murray on

this morning and he was telling a sad, sad story about how the families are like bratty children and are demanding the impossible.

Poor, poor Mr. Murray.

:grr:

[Gregorian]

2. They just discovered the true republican values, the hard way.

Incredible. They're coming out one way or another. And then he turned around and decided to let them stay underground. Can you believe it? Those bodies aren't going to stay down there. What an idiot.

And after watching, I said to myself "The guy will get a medal of honor from Bush". But I know he won't. It's just so familiar, and sickening.

Those people who were working to bring America the coal. Probably just barely surviving. Man, it's hard to take. Total bastards running this country. Heartless bastards. We must find our way out of this.

[SoCalDem]

3. What gets me is this

If you had asked these miners and their families a few months ago, what they thought about unions, I wonder if they would have regurgitated the rightwing spin about how they didn't want any union stealing their money in the form of dues..

These shifty dudes like Murray know all the angles to keep their mines free on unions..and there's a reason..

[idgiehkt]

5. people died for the right to have

unions for mine workers...it is so sad that now things have gone in the other direction. This is awful.

[The Vinyl Ripper]

8. Johnny Cash knew about miners...

Big John
Big John

Every mornning at the mine, you could see him arrive.
He stood 6 foot 6, weighed 245.
Kind of broad at the shoulders, narrow at the hip.
And everybody knew you didn't give no lip to Big John.

Big John
Big John
Big Bad John
Big John

Nobody seemed to know where John called home
He just drifted into town and stayed all alone.
He didn't say much, kind of quiet and shy
And if you spoke at all, you'd just said hi to Big John.
Somebody said he came from New Orleans,
Where he got into a fight over a Cajun Queen.
And a crash and a blow from a huge right hand,
sent a Lousiana fella to the promise land.

Big John
Big John
Big bad John
Big John

Then came the day at the bottom of the mine,
when a timber cracked and men started crying.
Minors were praying, and hearts beat fast
and everybody thought they had breathed thier last
cept' John.
Through the dust and the smoke of this man made hell,
walked a giant of a man that the minors knew well.
Grabbed a sagging timber and gave out with a groan,
and like a giant oak tree he just stood there alone, Big John

Big John
Big John
Big Bad John
Big John

And with all of his strength, he gave a mighty shove.
Then a minor yelled out, 'theres a light up above!'.
And 20 men scrambled from a 'would be' grave
now theres only one left down there to save, Big John.
With jacks and timbers, they started back down,
then came that rumble way down in the ground.
And as smoke and gas smelched out of that mine,
everybody knew it was the end of the line, for Big John.

Big John
Big John
Big Bad John
Big John

Now they never re-opend that wortheless pit,
they just placed a marble stand in front of it.
These few words are written on that stand,
'At the bottom of this mine, lies one Hell of a man, Big John'

Big John
Big John
Big Bad John
Big John.

[Webster Green]

4. I read somewhere that some of those miners work for $7.00 hr.

If true, that is just sick. That kind of work should be more like $40.00 hr. (at least).

Personally, I won't even bother getting out of bed for less than $20 hr, and you couldn't pay me enough to even enter a coal mine, much less work in one.

[blogslut]

6. Shouldn't old Bob

Be conducting those personally guided tours through his mines for the press? How come he's not doing that anymore?

That man is just leading himself closer and closer to the precipice. Keep pushing, Bob.

[MikeNearMcChord]

7. I want his butt in a maximum security facility!

Bob Murphy should be the national face, on why we need unions!

[tularetom]

9. When he was running around like a decapitated chiicken

trying to cover his ass over the original collapse he blurted out a lot of statements which could have been interpreted by the miners families as meaning he was going to do everything in his power to get them out (like when he said "I'm going to do everything in my power to get them out"). Now he is already in potential deep shit for the death of the rescuers there is nothing for him to gain and a lot to lose by risking any further rescue or recovery attempts so he'll just shit can the whole idea, ignoring the statements he made right after the initial collapse.

The families are angry but not angry enough. It's time to get the tar and feathers. This asswipe is not entitled to the presumption of innocence, since he's had a free pass from the federal government for at least the past six years.

[Lint Head]

10. Murray is a cynical sociopath that says what people want to hear

as long as it makes him money. :dem: