As absolutely pathetic as this is, we all knew it was coming.
Via Fox Nation:
A comment about race and unions on MSNBC touched off a heated debate this morning between The Five co-hosts Bob Beckel and Andrea Tantaros.
Timothy Noah, a contributing writer for MSNBC, raised eyebrows yesterday by suggesting that race was a factor in a recent vote by Tennessee auto workers against unionization.
The Volkswagen plant employees in Chattanooga voted 712 to 626 against joining the United Auto Workers Union.
“The opposition, I gather, portrayed this as a kind of Northern invasion, a re-fighting of the Civil War. Apparently there are not a lot of black employees in this particular plant, and so that kind of – waving the Confederate flag – was an effective strategy,” said Noah.
Tantaros called it a “really tired, desperate argument” when the issue is really about workers not wanting to lose wages to a union.
Beckel pushed back, saying he knows the area very well and believes a “cultural undercurrent” played a role in the union vote failing.