Flopping Asshats/Mike’s America spreads the lies

The lies just never end with the wingnuts. At Flopping Aces, a hack calling himself “Mike” pimps another lie that the far right has been spreading lately. Quoting from a column by another hack named Lawrence Kudlow, Mikey cites a fabricated statistic:

Average compensation for the Detroit little three is $72.31.

This is a lie, and Mikey repeats it at his own site. As has been well documented — and as GM itself now acknowledges — this bogus figure is arrived at by including the cost of retiree benefits. In other words, this number includes in the wages of current GM workers the cost of benefits paid to other people.

Can the wingnuts get much more dishonest than this? Actually, they can. Mikey goes on to quote Kudlow:

But the UAW refused to make concessions.

Kudlow (and Mikey) utterly ignore the parade of concessions that the UAW has in fact made in recent contracts. In 2007, the union agreed to the transfer of retiree health-care payments from GM to the union, to forego annual raises over the course of the contract, and to a cut in wages for new hires. And the union had already agreed to new concessions as part of the effort to assist the Big Three automakers secure federal aid.

Remember this, folks: There is no lie that the far right will not tell in their quest to destroy the American economy and cost Americans jobs. If Mikey were a decent human being, he would apologize for his part in spreading this lie.

I expect he’ll do no such thing. Instead, we can expect Mikey and his fellow fools to go right on parroting the falsehoods they are fed.