{"id":15893,"date":"2012-04-24T16:35:56","date_gmt":"2012-04-24T16:35:56","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-04-24T16:35:56","modified_gmt":"2012-04-24T16:35:56","slug":"new_york_times_employees_fit_to_be_tied_over_little_pinch_s_pension_changes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2012\/04\/24\/new_york_times_employees_fit_to_be_tied_over_little_pinch_s_pension_changes\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Times Employees Fit to Be Tied Over Little Pinch\u2019s Pension Changes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH:  The New York Times is in the news twice today.  There is the most hilarious six-minute video.  We\u2019re not gonna play the whole thing for you, but a bunch of employees of the New York Times are just fit to be tied that that Little Pinch wants to change their pension plan on \u2019em.  The New York Times right now has a &#8220;defined benefit plan&#8221; which basically is what General Motors used to have and what a lot of big companies used to have until they found out they couldn\u2019t afford it.  What happened was that in negotiating union contracts, they allowed early retirement in some of these places \u2019cause the jobs were so mundane and boring.<\/p>\n<p>But you could retire early and then after you retired, you got health benefits as part of your pension for the rest of your days. Even though you weren\u2019t producing anything more for the company. For a while it sounded good, looked good, until the moment came when all of these people began to retire at once and it pretty much became obvious that the companies could not afford this. They couldn\u2019t afford lifetime health benefits and pensions for people that weren\u2019t working.  Well, that\u2019s what the New York Times has.  So Little Pinch and the management want to change from a defined benefit plan to a benefit plan where the workers contribute to their own retirement that is matched somewhat by the company. <\/p>\n<p>The company will match 3%, basically a 401(k) plan. <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"585\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xTw0B_lmIHM\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>And the employees at the Times are livid! And they\u2019ve put together a six minute video.  They\u2019ve been in practically bare-knuckle union negotiations over this for a year.  And the reason it\u2019s funny is because it\u2019s happening all over the world. All over the world &#8212; governments, states, cities, federal, companies, whatever &#8212; can\u2019t sustain themselves with these deals.  They\u2019re all having to revise backwards and change it in order to stay solvent and sustainable.  Wisconsin\u2019s a good example.  But the employees of the New York Times, despite reporters covering this seeing the reality that it cannot work and cannot be sustained &#8212; and despite the New York Times being in the news business, and therefore seeing what is happening to that business &#8212; are still saying, &#8220;To heck with it! We want the money!&#8221; The sense of entitlement and greed is on display in this video.  We have that plus they\u2019re promising a hard look at President Obama, editorial.  A hard look at the president coming up soon the New York Times. <\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Now, want to go back to this New York Times employee video.  Folks, this is very telling.  Let\u2019s go around the country.  In Wisconsin and many other places, governments and businesses are no longer able to fulfill agreements. They\u2019re no longer able to meet agreements they made years ago.  The greatest illustration is GM and the United Auto Workers.  By the way, Michael Barone has a great piece about this I want to get to today too.  But the bottom line is that United Auto Workers members were, by contract, allowed to retire long before age 65. And at retirement they were allowed to keep, as a benefit, lifetime pension and primarily health care benefits. <\/p>\n<p>And that is what is sinking every state government, every city government, every town government and many companies.  It\u2019s what\u2019s sinking many foreign governments, this idea that you can continue to pay people either a full salary or 80% (plus health benefits) for 30 years when they\u2019re not working, in addition to having to pay that for current employees.  Just isn\u2019t the money there for it.  So states are revising these plans, as has happened in Wisconsin.  And the unions are so ticked off, that\u2019s why the recall of the governor, the attempt of the recall of Scott Walker.  In Greece, in Spain, wherever you go: The fact of the matter is that lifetime health care benefits and pensions, when you no longer work for the company, cannot be sustained.<\/p>\n<p>The money isn\u2019t there.<\/p>\n<p>And what happens is, if they\u2019re forced to make the payments, they\u2019ll go bankrupt and out of business.  So accommodations have to be made.  The New York Times is having the same thing happen to it, the same exact thing.  They cannot maintain their current defined benefit plan.  Now, these are reporters! These are newspeople!  They see this happening all over the world.  They see it happening all over the country.  Many of them are reporting on it. Now when it happens to them, they are demanding an exemption.  And it\u2019s funny because the New York Times runs around and rips Scott Walker. The New York Times management and editorial rip Scott Walker and rip any company that tries to renegotiate these deals to stay in business and stay solvent.  They rip \u2019em to shreds. Yet here comes that Little Pinch doing the same thing his paper is ripping everybody else for.  So there\u2019s hypocrisy, there\u2019s entitlement. It is delightful to behold this, in a&#8230; Well, it\u2019s not delightful, but it\u2019s as instructive as it can be.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: So the New York Times is having pension problems.  The company cannot afford the defined benefit plan anymore.  Cannot afford it.  Wisconsin couldn\u2019t afford it.  General Motors couldn\u2019t afford it.  Nobody can afford any more to pay lifetime salaries and health benefits for people that don\u2019t work for them, especially for 20 to 30 years.  The Times covers this.  The New York Times rips Scott Walker for making these changes while the New York Times institutes its very same changes.  So the Times reporters, editors have put together a six-minute video whining and complaining.  They think they\u2019re going to get our sympathy! It is the most illustrious example of being out of touch that I\u2019ve ever heard.  It\u2019s 53 seconds.  We\u2019ve edited six minutes to 53 seconds.  Listen to this&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" align=\"right\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/Rush-Disbelief.jpg\"\/><BR\/>WOMAN:  I\u2019m horrified.  I\u2019m sickened by what\u2019s going on at the Times.<\/line><\/p>\n<p>MAN:  They would take $350,000 between 65 and 85.  $350,000 is a lot of money!  $350,000 is worth fighting over.<\/p>\n<p>WOMAN:  This does mean a threat to what I thought my retirement era was gonna look like.<\/p>\n<p>WOMAN:  Even if it\u2019s like a couple of thousand of a month or whatnot, at least it\u2019s there for me in my old age (snickers), if I&#8230; Hopefully I won\u2019t find myself, you know, scruffling [sic] around looking for a cardboard box to work in, for God\u2019s sake.<\/p>\n<p>WOMAN:  If the pension was not frozen and I worked here 30 years, I would collect $58,000 a year until the end of my life.  If the pension is frozen, I will collect $15,000 a year.  I would be one of those elders covered in the Times who\u2019s living on food stamps!<\/p>\n<p>MAN:  What am I gonna do?  Am I gonna eat cat food and am I gonna move in with my kids?  Am I gonna commit suicide?  It\u2019s a very ugly choice to stick people with.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  Welcome to the real world, New York Times reporters. <\/p>\n<p>This is happening all over the world, and you know why?  For those of you at the New York Times: It\u2019s happening because of policies you\u2019ve supported and people you\u2019ve endorsed! You have brought this about with your own reporting.  You\u2019ve brought around your own future with your own reporting choices and your own votes and support of candidates and liberals who have broke the bank!  It\u2019s almost safe to say you deserve this.  This is what you have advocated your entire journalistic lives. <\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Want to do this New York Times video one more time.  I asked Snerdley&#8230; We\u2019ve got new people here and I\u2019m hell-bent on being persuasive and understood. And I understand that sometimes things have to be done more than once.  I hate to be repetitive.  When I am repetitive it\u2019s strategic. It\u2019s not because I\u2019m out of other stuff, because I\u2019m by no means out of other stuff.  But to me this is so instructive.  Another teachable moment.  Around the world and in this country, union benefit packages are unsustainable &#8212; particularly those offered to people who retire and are no longer working. You can\u2019t pay \u2019em for their health care for the rest of their lives. You can\u2019t pay \u2019em 80% of full salary the rest of their lives.<\/p>\n<p>When they can retire at age 45, when they can retire at age 50, you just can\u2019t do it with the actuarial tables.  It\u2019s what brought down General Motors.  It\u2019s going to bring down every city government and state if they don\u2019t do something about it, which is what Scott Walker brilliantly fixed in Wisconsin.  And the unions there are livid, and that\u2019s why the recall election.  But it\u2019s happening in Greece, it\u2019s happening in Spain, it\u2019s gonna happen in the UK.  It\u2019s happening everywhere.  It\u2019s happening in our little town here in Palm Beach.  They\u2019ve had to make all kinds of changes in the contracts with the police and firemen, \u2019cause it\u2019s just not sustainable. <\/p>\n<p>Especially in this economy.  There just isn\u2019t the revenue to pay people who aren\u2019t working anymore!  &#8220;But, Rush! But, Rush! The deals were made!&#8221; Yeah, they were, but what good\u2019s the deal when there\u2019s no money?  What good\u2019s the deal when the business is bankrupt and out of the business.  What good\u2019s the deal when the city defaults?  There has to be, that favorite word of people: compromise.  The unions don\u2019t want to compromise.  Now, the New York Times is in the same situation now.  They have a defined benefit plan which allows people to retire and pay them health care and salary \u2019til they die. <\/p>\n<p>Now, what\u2019s fascinating about it is the New York Times editorial position is to rip these companies that make these changes in order to stay in business.  The New York Times editorial position is to crucify Scott Walker.  The New York Times editorial position is to rip to shreds anybody &#8212; any business, any government, any state government, city government &#8212; which needs to renegotiate these union contracts because they don\u2019t have the money to pay all these people who aren\u2019t working. They just don\u2019t have it or they\u2019ll go out of business.  The second thing about this that\u2019s funny is that these reporters&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>They made a six-minute video.  It\u2019s a very slick-looking video.  We will link to the whole video at RushLimbaugh.com.  We might tweet this thing out, too, just to have it go viral. It\u2019s byline reporters, it\u2019s editors and art directors and so forth. And they\u2019re whining and moaning about how mean the Times is and how they\u2019re gonna end up eating dog food, maybe cat food, sleeping in cardboard boxes.  What\u2019s funny about it is they\u2019re covering this stuff, they\u2019re reporting on it, and yet their sense of entitlement is such that they expect to be immune from it.  The second thing that\u2019s a teachable moment: Who are they?  They\u2019re newspaper people!<\/p>\n<p>What is happening to the newspaper business? <\/p>\n<p>Have you seen what\u2019s happening to circulation and ad revenue?<\/p>\n<p>At the New York Times both are plummeting.  In fact, in 2002, a share of stock at the New York Times was 48 bucks.  It\u2019s now $6.34.  That\u2019s one-tenth, almost one-tenth of what they were worth just ten years ago.  And it\u2019s this liberal bias. It\u2019s the way these reporters have reported. It\u2019s the way they\u2019ve voted. It\u2019s the way they\u2019ve urged everybody else to vote &#8212; this never-ending support of bankrupting liberalism &#8212; that got them where they are. But now they want immunity.  They want the Times to keep paying them no matter what.  They\u2019re threatening to go on strike.  Now, there\u2019s a part of me&#8230; I must be honest. There\u2019s a part of me, a part of me that\u2019s on the side of the union here. (interruption)<\/p>\n<p>No, no, no.  Follow me, Snerdley.  There\u2019s part&#8230; (interruption) Yes, yes! Let the union hold tight; have the Times go out of business.  That might be one of the best things that ever happened to country.  Stop and think about that.  The US would be a better place without the New York Times.  If these writers and all these people you hear in this video, if they get their way, if they don\u2019t buck, they don\u2019t buckle and force the New York Times into bankruptcy? Well, I asked the other day: Can you imagine what a different country we would be if we had a media that actually was as the Founding Fathers envisioned it? <\/p>\n<p>Guardians of democracy.<\/p>\n<p>Suspicious of power. <\/p>\n<p>We now have a media that protects power, that wants to be part of the power structure.  We have a media that\u2019s not doing its constitutional duty as envisioned by the founders.  So if the union wins, no New York Times.  I know it\u2019s not gonna happen, but we can sit here and dream.  So now I\u2019ve set it up. We\u2019ll take a break, we\u2019ll come back, and I\u2019ll play this video again, or the audio from it.  It\u2019s six minutes. When you know the context and you know the history and you listen to these people, they have the most amazing sense of entitlement. <\/p>\n<p>They want immunity from the real world conditions everyone else is subject to.  I\u2019m telling you, it is a wonderful teaching moment.  They got themselves in their own situation by advocating &#8212; by writing the way they wrote, by voting the way they voted &#8212; for all of these bankrupted liberal policies for all of these years. You could say that they are responsible for their own plight, given their liberalism.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  Okay.  New York Times reporters, six minute, five-minute video, whatever it is, complaining and whining about proposed cuts to their pension plan. Which is what people all over the country and all over the world are dealing with right now.  And maybe if they hadn\u2019t worked so hard getting Obama elected, maybe the economy would have grown. Maybe there would be some prosperity going on. And maybe the Times\u2019 stock price wouldn\u2019t be falling. And maybe they wouldn\u2019t have to be renegotiating the deal.  But here it is one more time. <\/p>\n<p>WOMAN:  I\u2019m horrified.  I\u2019m sickened by what\u2019s going on at the Times.<\/p>\n<p>MAN:  They would take $350,000 between 65 and 85.  $350,000 is a lot of money!  $350,000 is worth fighting over.<\/p>\n<p>WOMAN:  This does mean a threat to what I thought my retirement era was gonna look like.<\/p>\n<p>WOMAN:  Even if it\u2019s like a couple of thousand of a month or whatnot, at least it\u2019s there for me in my old age (snickers), if I&#8230; Hopefully I won\u2019t find myself, you know, scruffling [sic] around looking for a cardboard box to work in, for God\u2019s sake.<\/p>\n<p>WOMAN:  If the pension was not frozen and I worked here 30 years, I would collect $58,000 a year until the end of my life.  If the pension is frozen, I will collect $15,000 a year.  I would be one of those elders covered in the Times who\u2019s living on food stamps!<\/p>\n<p>MAN:  What am I gonna do?  Am I gonna eat cat food and am I gonna move in with my kids?  Am I gonna commit suicide?  It\u2019s a very ugly choice to stick people with.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/?page_id=37804\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" align=\"right\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/RushJoinRush247.jpg\"\/><\/a>RUSH: Well, what do you think is happening all over the country? <\/p>\n<p>And, by the way, the New York Times editorial position is to rip companies and cities and states that are doing just exactly what the New York Times is.  I just find this delectable.  Michael Barone has an interesting piece somewhat related:  &#8220;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/articles\/296703\/liberal-nostalgiacs-don-t-understand-jobs-future-michael-barone\">Liberal Nostalgiacs Don\u00c2\u2019t Understand Jobs of the Future<\/a>.&#8221;  Michael Barone.  &#8220;I don\u00c2\u2019t know how many times I\u00c2\u2019ve seen liberal commentators look back with nostalgia to the days when a young man fresh out of high school or military service could get a well-paying job on an assembly line at a unionized auto factory that could carry him through to a comfortable retirement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As it happens, I grew up in Detroit and for a time lived next door to factory workers. And I know something that has eluded the liberal nostalgiacs. Which is that people hated those jobs.&#8221;  Boy, this is such a good piece, because he\u2019s so right.  The nostalgia is for these labor union and assembly line jobs outta high school, all the way to retirement, and supposedly people loved \u2019em. And that\u2019s what Obama\u2019s all about. That\u2019s what he envisions this green job business to be.  &#8220;The assembly-line work was boring and repetitive. That\u00c2\u2019s because management imbibed Frederick W. Taylor\u00c2\u2019s theories that workers were stupid and could not be trusted with any initiative.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was also because the thousands of pages of work rules in United Auto Workers contracts, which forbade assembly-line speedups, also barred any initiative or flexible response. That\u00c2\u2019s why the UAW in 1970 staged a long strike against General Motors to give workers the option of early retirement, 30-and-out. All those guys who had gotten assembly-line jobs at 18 or 21 could quit at 48 or 51. The only problem was that when they retired they lost their health insurance. So the UAW got the Detroit Three auto companies to pay for generous retiree health benefits that covered elective medical and dental procedures with little or no co-payments&#8221; for the rest of their lives.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was those retiree health benefits more than anything else that eventually drove General Motors and Chrysler into bankruptcy and into ownership by the government and the UAW. The liberal nostalgiacs would [LOVE] to see an economy that gives low-skill high-school graduates similar opportunities. That\u00c2\u2019s what Barack Obama seems to be envisioning when he talks about hundreds of thousands of &#8216;green jobs.'&#8221; Folks, this is so good.  This is exactly the way to understand when Obama talks about &#8220;workers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>When the Democrats talk about &#8220;workers,&#8221; and &#8220;green jobs,&#8221; they\u2019re talking about this. They look at everybody as woefully inept and incompetent.  You come out of high school, you\u2019re not good for anything, but get an assembly-line job with a union and then you\u2019ll get a job and you get the rest of your life and you get health benefits. And that\u2019s prosperity to them! That\u2019s as much as most people should hope for.  That\u2019s one of the things that so offends me about liberalism is how limiting it is.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: I want to finish with the Barone piece, because this is really, really good.  &#8220;Liberal Nostalgiacs Don\u00c2\u2019t Understand Jobs of the Future,&#8221; and, by the way: Nothing wrong with this.  But to them this is the epitome. This is the peak.  You come outta high school and you\u2019re not trained to do anything.  You\u2019re just a dork.  And then you get on the assembly line and you work there, and you retire at age 48 or 50, and you get your lifetime benefits.  And that\u2019s cool, and that\u2019s what Obama wants to create with green jobs, and that\u2019s what the libs are looking at.  To them, that\u2019s&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>See, when you and I, as conservatives, look back at nostalgia, we look at entrepreneurism.  We see a massively growing United States economy with people able to participate in it however they wish.  The only limits on people are those that they impose on themselves.  And I\u2019ve often said: Philosophically, most of the limits that people face in life are self-imposed.  The greatest example is somebody who grows up in a small or medium-size town and wants to do something in life that doesn\u2019t exist in that town. That business isn\u2019t there, and they say, &#8220;Well, but I really don\u2019t want to leave. My family\u2019s here. It\u2019s secure.&#8221;  Okay, fine.  Cool.  But, it\u2019s not anybody else fault but yours. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" align=\"right\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/RushReestablishConserve585.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>You coulda moved. You could have followed your dream.  You chose not to.  You chose to do something else.  It wasn\u2019t the country that held you back.  It wasn\u2019t anybody else that held you back.  And I don\u2019t mean this as a criticism.  It\u2019s tough love.  Most of the limitations that people face are self-imposed.  Not by The Man. Not by the system.  The system\u2019s not keeping you down.  There are all kinds of people who work their way around it. Many do.  And that\u2019s what we advocate.  We advocate the pursuit of excellence.  We advocate being the best you can be, whatever that is. Using whatever ambition you want, getting whatever education you think you need. <\/p>\n<p>But look, Barone is right: Liberal nostalgics look at jobs in an entirely different way, particularly mass production jobs on the assembly line. Join the union, get your benefits and your pension, and that\u2019s it.  And if that\u2019s what you want, that\u2019s fine, by the way, don\u2019t misunderstand.  I\u2019m just saying that\u2019s how the people you are voting for look at you.  It\u2019s important to understand this, if you\u2019re a liberal Democrat.  So, &#8220;The liberal nostalgiacs would like to see an economy that gives low-skill high-school graduates similar opportunities.&#8221; And that\u2019s what they think of most people: Low skill, incompetent, need the government to guide you and help you. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That\u00c2\u2019s what Barack Obama seems to be envisioning when he talks about hundreds of thousands of &#8216;green jobs.\u2019 But those &#8216;green jobs\u2019 have not come into existence despite massive government subsidies and crony capitalism.&#8221; Jeff Immelt! With all that crony capitalism, GE still doesn\u2019t have a whole lot of these green jobs.  They\u2019re all shutting down. They\u2019re all going out of business.  There isn\u2019t any business. There is no wind business; there is no solar business.  It\u2019s not there.  There is no energy alternative to oil that\u2019s producing all kinds of wonderful jobs.  &#8220;It\u00c2\u2019s become apparent that the old Detroit model was unsustainable and cannot be revived even by the most gifted community organizer and adjunct law professor,&#8221; and, boy, does that not nail what Obama\u2019s trying to do!<\/p>\n<p>Look what he\u2019s trying to revive: The 1930s in every way you can imagine.  Obama is retro. The liberals are retro, anti-progress, back to the days before all this progress took place.  &#8220;For one thing, in a rapidly changing and technologically advanced economy, the lifetime job seems to be a thing of the past. Particularly &#8216;lifetime\u2019 jobs where you work only 30 years and then get supported for the next 30 or so years of your life.&#8221;  Sorry, can\u2019t do that anymore. The money isn\u2019t there. The template isn\u2019t there. It\u2019s just not possible anymore.  You don\u2019t go to work someplace for 30 years, retire, and make the same amount until you die that you were making when you worked. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Today\u00c2\u2019s young people can\u00c2\u2019t expect to join large organizations and in effect ride escalators for the rest of their careers. The new companies emerging as winners in high tech &#8212; think Apple or Google &#8212; just don\u00c2\u2019t employ that many people, at least in the United States. Similarly, today\u00c2\u2019s manufacturing firms produce about as large a share of the gross national product as they used to, but with a much smaller percentage of the labor force. Moreover, there\u00c2\u2019s evidence that recent growth in some of the professions &#8212; law, higher education &#8212; has been a bubble, and is about to burst.&#8221; I\u2019ve got stories in the Stack: One out of two graduates have nothing to do, no jobs.  (Hang on; that\u2019s coming up.)<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As Walter Russell Mead writes in his brilliant blog, Via Meadia, referring to young people, &#8216;The career paths they\u2019ve been trained for are narrowing and they are going to have to launch out in directions they and their teachers didn\u2019t expect. They were bred and groomed to live as house pets; they are going to have to learn to thrive in the wild.\u2019 But, as Mead continues, &#8216;The future is filled with enterprises not yet born, jobs that don\u2019t yet exist, wealth that hasn\u2019t been created, wonderful products and life-altering service not yet given form.'&#8221; But it isn\u2019t gonna come from the government.  All that magic never has come from the government, and it won\u2019t. <\/p>\n<p>Now, you can have ten stimulus programs. You could have all these new regulations from one of these agencies.  That\u2019s not where the magic has happened in this country, and it\u2019s not gonna happen there ever.  &#8220;What we can be sure of is that creating your own career will produce a stronger sense of satisfaction and fulfillment. Young people who do so won\u2019t hate their work the way those autoworkers hated those assembly-line jobs.&#8221; That\u2019s a key point.  The nostalgia the left has for those union jobs&#8230; You know nostalgia, in a psychological sense, I\u2019ve always believed nostalgia&#8230; For the most part when people get nostalgic, they\u2019re thinking good things. <\/p>\n<p>It reminds them of the wonderful things in the past.  And when the left gets nostalgic for jobs, look at the kind of jobs they\u2019re thinking about. They\u2019re jobs that nobody wants anymore, jobs that don\u2019t have the same structure as they used to have.  They\u2019re dinosaurs.  The left is a bunch of Jurassic Park people.  They are not progressives in any sense of the word.  What they do is retard people. They retard growth. They retard the creation of opportunity.  It\u2019s just a shame.  This is one of Barone\u2019s best columns ever.  He may not even know that, but it is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: The New York Times is in the news twice today. There is the most hilarious six-minute video. We\u2019re not gonna play the whole thing for you, but a bunch of employees of the New York Times are just fit to be tied that that Little Pinch wants to change their pension plan on \u2019em. 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