Amazing how much progressives love unions until they have to deal with them. The Washington Examiner reports:

John MacArthur, publisher of the lefty opinon magazine, is pouring millions of his own dollars into magazine as he refuses to embrace an internet strategy for the magazine. Now he wants to make staff cuts. In order to protect against staff cuts, the employees are trying to form a union, which MacArthur is trying to prevent, even though as a good lefty he’s on record as a staunch union supporter.

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Staffers couldn’t help but chuckle at the irony: The staunch defender of unions, who in a 2009 Harper’s piece called the UAW “the country’s best and traditionally most honest mass labor organization,” was now on the other side of the table as the “worst kind of factory owner,” as one staffer put it to me.

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As a frequent and vocal critic of Ezra Klein for reasons I won’t revive now, it pains me to note that he is practically the lone voice of reason in the series of JournoList installments from the Daily Caller. The focus this time is a discussion of message coordination for team Obama, i.e. should the JournoList come right out and overtly collude on media strategy to help him win?After the idea is floated by Luke Mitchell of Harpers, Klein comes in and slaps it down:

Nope, no message coordination. I’m not even sure that would be legal. This is a discussion list, though, and I want it to retain that character…

It’s almost enough to make me wonder if Klein’s problem isn’t dishonesty but self-deception. Perhaps his motives for this monstrosity really were academic. Perhaps, at some deep level he is reticent to now express, he too is disappointed at what it actually became. There must have been a moment when it first began that truly was inspiring and hopeful…

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