Karen Lewis failed to go to the podium when Weingarten called her up before Biden's speech at
the AFT convention.
And the Chicago delegates held up "Stop Race to the Top" signs for his speech.
By the final day of the convention of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), the main news reports outside the convention told the story of the speech by Vice President Joe Biden and the warm reception Biden had received... But inside the convention itself, the large impact of the relatively small Chicago delegation was still the talk of the town. Chicago's militancy...was showing the way to the nearly dormant union...
Only the Chicago delegation actively (but silently) protested, wearing Chicago Teachers Union red shirts and holding up "Stop Race To The Top" signs. CTU President Karen Lewis was the only member of the AFT Executive Council who did not go on stage when called to do so by AFT President Randi Weingarten as Biden arrived on the stage, getting handshakes from the AFT vice presidents as he went to the podium to deliver a brilliant speech that failed to mention Arne Duncan or Race To The Top once...
But the big story of all that was that the Obama-Biden media handlers. There were dozens of them, the guys all wearing the same ties (tacky). They were playing one-on-one with the corporate reporters who had showed up for the Biden speech... The Obama-Biden kiddie korps (and some of them looked fresh out of high school) were frantically corralling the national TV and other reporters on the riser in the center of the hall, which forced you to photograph or video only what was happening on stage and on the big screen. So it would have been impossible for the national TV and radio reporters to get any other story during the convention (and Biden's speech) — unless they had broken free from the pen they were in and faced the rest of reality.
One group that did was herded back to the proper perspective by one of the gauleiters from the Kiddie Korps...
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