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The Wisconsin Protest Features Mr. Monk and the Case of Fox News
At the Wisconsin protest today actor Tony Shaloub, better known as TV’s Monk, addressed the crowd and had some choice words for Fox News. Shaloub called out Fox News for vilifying the protesters as a bunch of union thugs. He also said, “In terms of the governor’s future we will not reelect. We will recall.”
Here is the video from The Uptake (Shaloub begins at 15:11):
Actor and Green Bay native Tony Shaloub first praised the Wisconsin 14, “I can’t tell you what an incredible privilege it is to be standing here literally in the footsteps of the Wisconsin 14. My friends, ladies and gentleman, these senators are what representative democracy looks like, and I want to extend my gratitude to them for their courage and their commitment to the will of the people of Wisconsin.”
Shaloub saluted the protesters for what they have accomplished and will accomplish, and he called them the heart of America. Shaloub said that Wisconsin is the birth of a nationwide movement, “A movement that is destined to restore the rights of workers, safeguard quality education for our children, to reassemble and reconstitute the fragmented and wounded middle class, and above all a movement to hold our elected officials feet to the fire and force them to hear our voices.”
The man who played Monk on TV later came out against Fox News, “I’m here because I care deeply about Wisconsin families. All of them, including my own. You know recently we have been hearing a lot of talk from places like Fox News and (the crowd interrupts with a Fox News lies chant), we’ve been hearing a lot of silly talk from places like that, and places like where else? Oh yeah, the governor’s office, vilifying the unions in this country with this divisive talk charactering union workers as malcontents, bullies and thugs, so I thought today I would give you a chance to meet one of these hoodlums face to face. Look out now. Hold on tight to your little ones. Please allow me to introduce to you one of my sisters from Green Bay.”
Shaloub shattered the Walker/Fox News stereotype of the union thug. He said of his sister, “For the past 25 years this thug, this lazy ass malcontent, good for nothing bully has dedicated herself to working with young children and their family as a school based language speech therapist….So what do think dangerous? Self-serving right?”
Tony Shaloub had a message for Scott Walker, “In terms of the legislative battle we will not retreat. We will recommit, and in terms of the governor’s future we will not reelect. We will recall. In terms of worker’s rights, we will not relinquish them. We will reclaim them.”
Shaloub may not be as well-known as Michael Moore but his speech was just as powerful. I agree with his sense that the great Republican overreach of 2011 has awoken a movement that is ready to push back against the theory that government is of the corporate interests, by the corporate interests, and for the corporate interests.
It wasn’t just Scott Walker’s abuse of the middle class that set this off. The roots of this movement go back to the Bush years when the gap between the haves and the have nots reached a record distance. It is tied to a government that in the face of economic collapse has been perceived as being more responsive to corporate needs than individual needs, and has everyday Americans have felt their right to self-determination slip away, they are ready to rebel against the these thieves of democracy and take back what had always been ours.
It was great that Shaloub went after the Walker/Fox News union thug characterization. It is also important that people like Tony Shaloub use the microphone granted to them by celebrity to call out the lies of Fox News. The more these lies are exposed, the more discredited Fox News will become.
Real Americans are taking back their freedoms, and not even authoritarian Republican governors backed by the media mudslide of Fox News can stop the shining sword of freedom from piercing the heart of evil that has polluted our liberties.
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18 Responses to The Wisconsin Protest Features Mr. Monk and the Case of Fox News
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Bayman
Mar. 12th, 2011 at 8:26 pm
Mr. Shaloub you are a great American, along with all you Wisconsinites! Any NON c0rrupt corporate giant, wealthy person or business person (along with the rest of US) should be strongly against this c0rrupt c0llusion- K0ch/Walker, the G0P and the entire sham Teapuppet leaders. They are going to de str0y our Country. Their agenda is going r0b us of education (we will have NO innovation), it will r0b us of infrastructure (our roads and bridges will crumble), it will r0b us of independence from foreign oil (not allowing alternative energy and high speed rail) and it will r0b us of OUR RIGHTS (giving special interest favors to only their m0n0poly driven gains). We have to stand up against this, get them out of office and restore the laws that protect our Democratic Republic! Stand up NOW and don’t stop.
daisydem
Mar. 12th, 2011 at 8:41 pm
Yes, thank you Tony Shaloub and thank you Politicusa for covering this.
it'smeain't
Mar. 13th, 2011 at 8:59 pm
Tony Shaloub just proved himself to be a total tool of the lefty loon crowd.
Shiva (Moderator)
Mar. 13th, 2011 at 10:15 pm
So lets review. You have an opinion that is owned by the Koch brothers, yet you refuse to recognize that others have opinions too?
Kevin Karstens
Mar. 27th, 2011 at 4:19 am
“Tony Shaloub just proved himself to be a total tool of the lefty loon crowd”
Yes, because if Tony happens to AGREE with the left, he’s a ‘tool’ and a ‘loony’
Thanks for making it crystal clear via PROOF of your own idiotic post what an absolute, undeniable tool and a loon YOU are, sir.
Anne
Mar. 12th, 2011 at 9:12 pm
I also thank Tony Shaloub from the bottom of my heart and am glad I discovered Politicus.usa back in May. It’s a refreshing antidote to the lies and hate coming from Fox Noise and its mouthpieces like Limbaugh, Beck, Palin, and others. I would also like to find a concrete way to support the people in Wisconsin, Michigan, Indiana, Ohio, Tennessee, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Idaho as they fight back against such blatant encroachment on their rights.
Shiva (Moderator)
Mar. 12th, 2011 at 9:18 pm
KIller stuff.Recalls have to happen in any state that does this. This is not America, this is not the way Americans act or govern.
Alli
Mar. 12th, 2011 at 11:42 pm
the video is very messed up. How can I fix this before I send it to someone?
George Kolbe
Mar. 13th, 2011 at 10:38 am
Thank you Mr. Shaloub. It looks like we are going to need you, and others like you, here in Michigan.
Ted Hoise
Mar. 13th, 2011 at 11:22 am
I really don’t get where the liberals are coming from. While there are clearly political overtones to this whole issue, our country is facing serious economic issues, and we all really need to face the fact that our government needs to do some serious belt tightening. While you may not agree with Walker’s approach here, I am really happy to see a politician making tough but realistic choices. Saying that the unions were already willing to concede on this issue just seems like a bandaid. Taxing the rich is not something that is realistic — people are just too mobile today.
Shiva (Moderator)
Mar. 13th, 2011 at 12:20 pm
And I really dont get where you come from.
The “rich” must be taxed in the same way the middle and lower class is. Can you see any reason why they shouldnt be? Mobile?
The unions already made all the concessions Walker wanted. Now he wants to bust the unions and it will not save him a penny except for the fact with no unions, there will be a tremendous drop in wages. Walker isnt making a tough choice for fiscal reasons, he is doing what his rich benefactors want him to do.
You seem to support the rich being rich and not being taxed while saying the people who make vastly less money should not make anything at all. If the rich paid the same % of taxes that you do, we would not be in the situation we are in today. And the republicans keep dropping the taxers on the rich and adding them to the far less fortunate.
Richard
Mar. 13th, 2011 at 12:34 pm
@Shiva, where do you get your information? If the rich are taxed the same way the middle and lower class are, we would have drastically lower tax revenue because the rich pay more than 70% of all taxes. The only way for the rich to pay what everybody else does is to implement the Fair Tax, which is a tax based on consumption, (as the founding fathers intended), not on earnings. Go to the IRS website and look this up for yourself and stop taking other people’s opinions as fact.
Shiva (Moderator)
Mar. 13th, 2011 at 1:21 pm
And that is because the rich have almost 80% of the wealth in the country. Of course they pay 70% of the taxes.
Go here and scroll down to a chart called Your Loss, their gain.
bit.ly/hfXS2L
We all know the rich get out of paying much of their taxes the same as corporations do.
Thanks for the advice, but your statement without backup does not make sense
Kevin Karstens
Mar. 27th, 2011 at 4:20 am
“Taxing the rich is not something that is realistic”
Spoken like a true Koch sucker.
tz
Mar. 13th, 2011 at 2:07 pm
Let me present it to you this way. Those at the top have not felt a “recession” at all. They continue to prosper while huge numbers of fellow citizens fall further behind. Lots of the reason there is economic hardship in the first place is due to gambling speculation and outright the malfeasance, of those at the top.
This is not so much a recession as it is a deliberate restructuring of the economy by the plutocrats.
Now the newly empowered Republicans are literally cutting jobs in their holy war against the public sector.
And this whole state of affairs is framed with the extensions of the Bush tax cuts in the background.
If you make less than about a million a year, you are either an astro turfer, a troll, or simply misguided.
Our government, and the Republican party in particular are blatantly transferring wealth from those most in need to those who need it the least, those at the top.
Wake up.
Brian
Mar. 13th, 2011 at 7:02 pm
I think many of us can identify.
We work hard.
We are in the private sector.
And we have family.
They are bright.
Hard working.
Dedicated.
Perhaps, over educated.
And incredibly underpaid.
In jobs that are thankless.
It makes us angry.
It outrages us.
When these kind, intelligent people are painted with broad strokes.
Described as lazy.
Portrayed as unambitious.
Demonized as worthless.
I am made to feel extraordinarily sad.
When my family and friends are not shown the same respect as I.
I pray that the day comes when we can be proud of each other.
Kevin Karstens
Mar. 27th, 2011 at 4:21 am
Brian…PERFECTLY STATED Sir…thank you.