Michael Coren and his guests talks with Sid Ryan about his despicable views on compulsory union membership and his consistent antipathy against Israel.
(Video courtesy of the continuing great work of Matt from Mississauga)
Related: Brian Lilley – Tax dollars for radicals
Funny that he sounds exactly like any Nazi/White Supremacist, hate of Israel, enforced socialism…socialists really are all the same, goosestepping in unison…it’s hilarious when the leftys come out at Nazi rallies protesting “hate” when in actuality they believe the same things…just different hairstyles…
I just want to beat the shit our of Sid Ryan … I wouldn’t waste a minute trying to talk to such a piece of crap.
As a 36 year + now retired postal employee, I have seen the CUPW in action for years. You will never find any other organization run by wacky nut jobs such as this anywhere. Their politics and action committees are right out of the Marxist handbook. They send members to Cuba every year to celebrate “May Day” with other “oppressed workers”. However, the rank and file postal worker, no matter what their opinions, through apathy and lack of participation, allow this to go on. They have no one to blame but themselves.
I’m almost glad the show airs at a more inconvenient time now, I don’t have to put myself through the infuriating exercise of listening to POS sid.
A few years back Coren told him that destroying Israel was part of the Hamas charter – he refused to believe it, said it was something crazy that he must have read on the internet.
Coren keeps insisting sid isn’t an anti-Semite…I keep wondering why he’s so sure.
what an odious critter.
Wow . . . who knew stupidity could be going bald and speak with an irish accent?
Could we please add “Defund all NGOs” to the Maple Leaf Party’s poll linked below?
Sid is a waste of skin. I won’t watch the show when he’s on. He’s vile odious man.
Michael Coren is a great guy who does great things often out in front of our disgusting and biased MSM.
He has Sid Ryan on his show which is his choice. When Sid Ryan comes on I change channels because
irrational malevolence is of no interest to me after watching a few episodes.
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The End.
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The CUPW union leaders and Post Office management deserve each other. It’s a pity they couldn’t all be
left permanently in Cuba without external resources to tide them over.
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Just another example of how good workers have it here in Canada they can send their union dues to a bunch of idiots who hate Israel.
Unions should be restricted to jobs considered hazardous.
This is a good time for a postal strike if you don’t like the unions – which could be why they won’t strike. Let’s see where public opinion goes as Sid spends union money on pollyanna geopolitical positions while mail delivery ceases.
It’s an easy fix really.. we just allow UPS, Fedex and Puralator to deliver regular mail and let the chips fall where they may.
Can someone out there please inform Sid Ryan how Israel can form a blockade when Gaza borders with Egypt. Oh I forgot Liberalism is a mental disorder, (Optics through rose coloured glasses don’t reflect reality.)
The stunning mule headedness of Ryan is unreal. I have met people on the left that, just as Ryan does, argue with you that you are wrong even, as Coren did, when you tell them you have been there and seen what we were discussing and they haven’t. They just believe whatever sh*t they are told or read by their fellow lefties and nothing, nothing will change their mind.
Felt the ladies were ignored by Coren and not given a chance to get their say in.
I think Michael Coren keeps Sid Ryan on because he is like some carnival spectacle. Meet the man whose pig-headedness compels him to believe there really are starving masses in the Gaza Strip.
What Sgt Lejaune said @ 2:18, both paragraphs.
What I support Israel said @ 1:31, my wife’s sister, a supervisor or manager of a six person post office in Ontario, is proof of the last sentence.
Thanks Robert and Matt for this.
The left and the social justice (socialist) churches in Canada has completely gone over to the anti-Semitic side.
Glen Beck has featured this terrorist flotilla group on his show several times. One of the ring leaders is Bill Ayres and also his nasty wife. Anyone with one ounce of decency should be too disgusted, by leadership alone,to even consider associating with members of that group. Glen mentioned Canada’s boatload and I winced. That Sid goof should be set afloat with his pals somewhere near Libya, Syria or Egypt, IMO. Good-bye and don’t come back to Canada.
The discussion raises for me the whole issue of NGO’s. One minute they’re not here and the next they’re here. Really? Was there ever a discussion amongst sane people that rationally proceeded with a plan to do an end-run around responsible government and award crazy nutbars oodles of money to do what normal people would never sanction. Sid is a creep and quasi-totalitarian. A coward of the worst sort that hides behind the NGO skirt.
Not that Sid the Red would ever check SDA comments, but in the last three years for which there is data 2007-08-09 Canada sold exactly $0.00 to Syria.
http://www.google.com/fusiontables/DataSource?snapid=163114
Coren: “The markets are overflowing with food.”
Ryan: “They are kept just marginally above starvation level.”
Coren: “Where do they get the money for the rockets?”
Ryan: “There is money being smuggled in all the time.”
Huh?
If unions are going to behave like corporations they should be paying income taxes.
I’m guessing NGOs have been around a long time, but have only become more militant lately. I saw a Yes Minister episode involving Quangos (quasi-NGOs) which was quite a hoot and made it pretty clear that NGOs are not really “N”GOs but really are GOs. Why having the name NGO gives them any legitimacy is beyond me. I imagine they were quite useful back in the cold war days (particularly in Poland), but they seem to have gone off the reservation lately. I know, I’m racist.
Twenty-five years ago Maggie Thatcher chased the likes of this anti-capitalist, commie deadbeat out of Great Britain, fortunately for them.
Unfortunately for Canada, a very large number of them decided to ooze across the atlantic to this country, where they attached themselves to unions like a collection of malign tumours, which of course… is exactly what they are.
I’ve worked with my share of british sid ryan types: lazy do-nothings who never participated in an honest day’s labour in their miserable lives, that some socialist union prevented on their behalf. It’s bad enough they’ve infected the private sector unions, but at least there, the darwinisim of simple economics applies: whack-O private sector unions tend to lose their own jobs, and eventually, even they have to learn about natural selection.
The real full-blown metastasization has occurred in the public sector, where the unions – which, by right, should have zero right to strike – have grown at unprecedented rates. This is turning the taxpayer dollars against the taxpayers themselves, and the country is none the better for it.
mhb23re
Aside from Ryan’s Judenhass, what a sleazy scam these unions are. I mean what if, in some parallel universe, Israel actually were the bad guy? What the hell does that have to do with promoting the workplace interests of postal workers?
P*ss on you, Sid Ryan.
Champ 2:31 Jobs considered hazardous are the last place for a union. Some one will get killed while the union bosses are deciding how to get a job done.
How can a person be so obtuse? Is it deliberate?
I’ll probably be called an anti-immigrant/racist etc for what I’m about to say….but…I’m really sick and tired of these visitors (aka foreigners) taking leftist positions rising to the top of unions and politics (this Irish nut…Dizzy Lizzy…the NDP student that was rightly given the punt from a conservative rally…”Lard Ass” Libby Davies…et al) and trying to change this nation to become the basket case politics of their homelands. There…I said it…let it fly pinkos.
I really like Michale Coren, so it really ticks me off when at 3:38 when Ryan suggests he really doesn’t understand his point, Coren says, “I’m not Sarah Palin”.
This is an unwarranted cheap shot that should be beneath a man like Coren. Unless he really believes that Palin is ‘stupid’, he is simply playing into and reinforcing leftist talking points in order to emphasize how ‘neutral’ his own stance is.
Good point, No Guff – see Kate’s header.
“I really like Michale Coren, so it really ticks me off when at 3:38 when Ryan suggests he really doesn’t understand his point, Coren says, “I’m not Sarah Palin”.
This is an unwarranted cheap shot that should be beneath a man like Coren. Unless he really believes that Palin is ‘stupid’, he is simply playing into and reinforcing leftist talking points in order to emphasize how ‘neutral’ his own stance is.”
Coren is as misogynist as they come. While he can deliver good points in a brawl at times, he has no particular respect for views put forth by women, whatever they are. Only those who can hand him his butt in a public forum, like Ann Coulter, does he give quarter and respect. He is very much of the “pat ’em on the head and send them off to the kitchen” school. Palin would eat him for lunch.
I caught his Palin comment as well.
cheap shot for sure.
i don’t have a lot of respect for coren.
he thinks he’s a lot smarter than he is.
as proven by that comment about palin.
as for ryan, what can one say.
to think jerks like this get a vote!
Abe Froman
“I just want to beat the shit our of Sid Ryan … I wouldn’t waste a minute trying to talk to such a piece of crap.”
Moi aussi! And we are not generally given to violence.
@mhb at May 29, 2011 7:42 PM
Speaking of Sid Ryan and his ilk never doing a day’s work reminds me of the movie I’m All Right Jack with Peter Sellers.
Anyone who despises unionists like Ryan should watch it as it’s a laugh a minute. And, of course, no one could play a pompous toad better than Sellers.
I detest Sid Ryan and all the radical Union leaders who infest our labour movements. They have long ceased to have any positive effect for the working man,and use dues to push their communist agenda,including support for terrorist groups,funding schools in Cuba,etc.
BUT, I have to disagree with the argument that public sector Unions are using public money for their machinations. As Ryan said, it was earned by the Union members.
If the Union members were free to demand that their dues were spent here in Canada on the worker’s pension or health care funds, that’d be so much the better, but in the psuedo-democracy of the Union movement,that doesn’t happen.
Everybody who works accepts “taxpayer’s dollars”. Think about it.
Adler and his fellows should approach this subject without the old saw,”they’re using taxpayer’s dollars to fund your radical agenda”, as ever dollar afloat originated with a taxpayer.
Just a minor point,but one that’s irritated me a while.
The main reason that public sector unions should not exist is that they not only pretend to look out for the interests of their members as employees but are directly involved in the (political) process of who it is they negotiate with, clearly a conflict of interest and a form of conspiracy against taxpayers. Mob rule disguised as democracy.
CUPW, a total ananchronism, Canada Post, another anachronism. Eliminate both.
I have a feeling this collective bargaining agreement between Canada Post and CUPW is the last gasp of this particular Union.
With so many alternatives out there now,I can’t see the old system lasting much longer,especially if they’re going to disrupt the taxpayer’s business with a strike.
I hope CUPW goes on strike until they’re completely broke and accept a settlement lower than what they currently have.
It will also be fun to run through their blockades.
Skip & No Guff, I share your distaste for Coren’s cheap shot at Sarah Palin. I took a few minutes to pen a (respectful) email to him, calling him on the cheap shot. I encourage you to do likewise.
I have always held Coren in very high regard, as I’m sure most of his viewers do. Why he would risk such a reputation over such a stupid comment is inexplicable. I can honestly say he has lost much of my respect from this single, off-handed misogynistic comment.
Sadly I was unable to watch that clip. I had to shut it off moments after Syd Ryan started speed-rapping in that Irish brogue, having been seized with an uncontrollable urge to smash the monitor into shards. Good thing I didn’t get to the part about Israel, probably would have set the pieces on fire.
Public sector unions must be abolished in Canada, if for no other reason than to discomfit and impoverish Syd Ryan.
“Everybody who works accepts “taxpayer’s dollars”. Think about it”
Posted by: dmorris at May 30, 2011 11:55 AM
Huh?
Do you mean “everybody who works for any level of government” accepts taxpayer dollars?
Please clarify and tell us you don’t mean people working in the private sector are recipients of taxpayer funds. I know I’m misreading you.
mhb
mhb,I’m a construction contractor.
I charge by the hour or by the job. All the money I am paid is the after-tax dollar of taxpayers, who have a choice as to how to spend their money.
The Public sector Union members have traded their labor to the government for money,which comes from all us taxpayers. I have no problem with that,SOME of them DO provide an essential service.
Make no mistake,I absolutely hate seeing CUPW and the rest using their members dues for the Union’s political agenda,but Ryan’s right in that the dues are earned by the members and are, in theory, freely given to the Unions.
My point is that Adler and the rest seem to want to create outrage because the Unions are “using taxpayers money”,and they ARE,but in a roundabout way, no different than if a customer pays me for my services and I go out and give the money to the Hell’s Angels for a bag of pot.
IMHO it deflects from the main point which IS that Canadian-based Unions are supporting terrorists and other unsavory types around the world,and they should be forced by law to use the members dues ONLY for the benefit of the members.
There’s enough outrage in the whole situation without trying to manufacture another on the periphery.
Three things:
I had to agree with Ryan—yikes!—about the fact that, after they’ve earned it, the pay union members get is no longer the government’s.
However, union members do not, practically, have a choice about where their fees go: the fact that unions use their members’ fees for political action—always left-wing—is, IMO, a misappropriation of their members’ money. (However, because unions have annual general meetings, to which most members don’t go—hey, they actually have to work long hours every day, versus their union “betters”—the unions have, and I say it reluctantly, a “letter of the law” right to say that what they do with their members’ $$ is OK.)
Michael Coren: he does some difficult things very well, indeed. However—and, having written a book about C.S. Lewis, he’d understand the term—there’s something “bent” about him. He’s often not reliable or charitable. One might be on his side, but one can’t count on him covering one’s back: he can turn on a dime. Many media types, fellow Christians, and those who fit neither description have experienced his capriciousness and his arrogance. There seems to be some kind of an internal conflict here.
dmorris @7:37 – “Ryan’s right in that the dues are earned by the members and are, in theory, freely given to the Unions.”
Except that union dues are madatory, so Sid Ryan doing this nonsense through a public sector union does amount to using taxpayer money to fund Hate Israel stuff – mentally, just skip the middle man (postal worker) and there it is. A laundering scheme that doesn’t even bother with stain remover (or something).
lookout – I’ve never known quite how to feel about Coren either. He’s been and is a valuable voice, but I don’t quite trust him myself. I run hot and cold on him.
re Phantom @5:18 – it’s funny about the Irish accent: It can be so lovely in certain mouths; others people, like Sid Ryan, manage to sound as if they are permanantly on the verge of a rage-meltdown. From what little I’ve observed, this becomes more the case the more northern the accent (Ryan’s from Dublin, middlish and on the right, er, east). With him this stuff is all to do with projecting grievances against Oliver Cromwell onto the Jooooos, a neurosis dovetailing conveniently with a fondness for playing the hero and collecting a big salary. And don’t discount good old Oirish anti-semitism; I’m sorry, but there’s a history of this. That’s my psychiatric opinion.
dmorris, you hit the mark, but didn’t finish the play: “All the money I am paid is the after-tax dollar of taxpayers, who have a choice as to how to spend their money”.
True and true. In a free market economy, your services are open to bids for a variety of prospective customers, as are those of your competitors. If your pricing/service/quality are satisfactory, then demand rises for your services, and you get more (voluntarily-sought) business. If not, you get lean times. That’s economics, or business, and I said as much above that whether or not you charge union rates or not, if you get greedy, demand will shrink for your services.
However, the government has a legal monopoly on its services, and thus, by rights, it should be illegal for them to unionize, as there is no protection for their “customers”, who – unlike yours – have no right not to pay their taxes. They use taxpayer dollars to support union goals that fleece the taxpayer even more, and add to that, the conflict of interest the government elected officials have when balancing taxpayer interests to those of public sector union interests (look at that maniac mcguinty, and how he’s pandered to every public sector union in ontario, to the taxpayer detriment). Even FDR, patron saint of leftoids, agreed that the feds could never allow the government to organize: for years they had the Civil Service, and it wasn’t until JFK allowed the federal government to organize that the troubles began.
There should be no public sector unions. They are merely organizing against their neighbours, who are obligated by law to pay these freeloaders better wages and benefits than similarly-employed private sector workers.
And, lest anyone object to my use of the word, “freeloaders”, sorry: it’s accurate. Any person who works in the public sector, by definition, take out more from the system than they contribute, and “freeloader” is an accurate term for the majority of them. Yes: there ARE essential services, but they too have gone crazy in terms of wages, as witness the $80K+ per year for a toronto police constable. Don’t even get started on wages/benefits for government schoolteachers. Crazy, and unsustainable.
In the more corrupt system stateside, unions have funneled hundreds of millions of dollars into democrat coffers in the last 2 elections (SEIU spent $27 million on obumble’s 08 election alone), and thus have become nothing more than a money laundering scheme for the democrat party.
In a proper system where public sector unions were not allowed to strike or (sigh) not permitted to exist, or they were straight with their members with issues such as this or better yet gave them the option of funding left-wing political causes such as this, I’d say the issue wasn’t as big a deal.
This is hardly “manufactured peripheral outrage”; it needs to be fixed. And sid ryan is a conniving, deceitful slug who’d never admit to the details of how loathsome are the goals and activities of his hord of unionistas.
mhb