So the Hostess Twinkie, HoHo, Ding Dongs and Wonder Bread along with all of the other iconic, and mostly unhealthy, foods and snack made by Hostess will no longer be sold because the company is going out of business.
This has been on the net all day long and it is even posted on the company website, but Brian Williams and NBC Nightly News reporter Kevin Tibbles told a huge lie this evening in reporting on this story.
At the beginning of the report Brian Williams did say that, 'The folks who run Hostess have not been able to reach an agreement to come up with a deal with thousands of union workers' and that is true,
but then Kevin Tibbles in his report never even mentioned the strike that has crippled the Hostess company.
Both Williams and Tibbles attributed the closing of Hostess to hard economic times and a casualty of America's collective move towards more healthy food.
Okay, the truth of the matter is, and it is right on Hostesses website, is that a Socialist, thuggish union has put Hostess out of business.
Right on their website it says, 'One of the Company’s largest unions, the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers International Union,
initiated a nationwide strike that crippled the Company’s ability to produce and deliver products at multiple facilities.
The letter on their website then goes on to say that the greedy union rejected the last, best and final offer designed to lower costs to attract financing to help them emerge from bankruptcy. It says that,
Hostess Brands is unprofitable under its current cost structure, much of which is determined by union wages and pension costs.
So this is what we have. An American company producing products made in America, gets extorted into shutting down and putting 18,500 worker out of a job,
because they are so greedy they can't take a cut in pay from a company that is already in bankruptcy.
And what is worse, is that NBC tells a glaring half truth as to why Hostess is shutting. NBC and Brian Williams never went into the details of why the company is shutting down.
They did not say that Hostess is unprofitable under current wages and pensions, they did not say that Hostess had also previously filed for bankruptcy yet union workers refused to reach an agreement to take a cut in pay.
The story we heard was that Hostess is shutting down because of hard economic times and a demand for healthier foods.
What NBC did was purposely mislead millions of people in the broadcast tonight into believing something that simply wasn't true.
If you can't believe NBC in a little matter like Hostess Twinkies, do you think for a minute you can believe them on matters of great national importance such as Benghazi Libya,
or what comes out of the Liar In Chief, President Obama's mouth every single day?
You might want to think about that the next time you turn on the evening news and they spew their lies.