I was stuck on a business trip to Atlantic City yesterday (no… seriously), but fortunately that just provided me with time to find those a bit (ok, a lot) more articulate than to support some of the things that I have been trying to say over the past 3 weeks, and round them up.

Eric Boehlert covers one of the most obvious (to me), that seems to be playing out with those against providing support to Detroit, The media myth: Detroit’s $70-an-hour autoworker.

That of course dovetails in nicely with Mark Phelan’s article in the Free Republic about the 6 myths about the Detroit 3.

I of course have been saying for a while that the big reason for stalling aid to the automakers is a concerted effort to bust the unions, but Crooks and Liars’ David Neiwerthas has Rick Berman on Faux News explicity blaming the unions for Detroit and the desire to bust the unions.

And of course there are those that simply think the difference going on is that White Collar work get the money while the blue collar jobs are left to twist in the breeze. Rachel Maddow has more on that:

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