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Andrew O'Hehir's ignorance and condescending attitude toward the idea of "card check" is typical of a yuppified, college-boy liberal, who doesn't really care a fig about the fates and fortunes of the millions of working and middle class Americans who should be voting Democratic routinely in every election. Card Check is a method of approving a union which is designed to prevent employers from coercing and intimidating their employees to keep them from unionizing. These activities are all illegal as unfair labor practices, but the right-wing hacks appointed by Bush refuse to enforce the law. The Fox News people don't really care if unionization will help make life a little easier and better for millions of their fellow Americans. They see it purely in terms of brute power politics. If it helps the unions it hurts the right-wing Republicans and their Big Business allies. Accordingly, they're against it and, of course, that's all too proletarian and trivial for the likes of Andrew O'Hehir. At least Obama knows all about card check.
