Tearing Up Contracts - A Tale of Two Groups

Atrios, via digby:

Atrios points out that "if the government was tearing up union contracts and slashing wages, the equivalent story would be told from a different perspective." In fact, it was. Explicitly:

Atlanta-based talk show host Neal Boortz told viewers on the Nov. 11 “CNN Newsroom” if the government were to bail out General Motors (NYSE:GM), then it should void the labor agreements some blame for getting the automakers in trouble in the first place.

“I did not say don’t bail them out,” Boortz said. “I did say, ‘Look – if you’re going to bail them out, void these union contracts. These union contracts are totally absurd and the benefits that they pay people that aren’t even working anymore, salaries that they pay people who aren’t working.”