Saturday, November 3, 2012

Mike Elk, Labor Reporter, Has Microphone Yanked Out Of His Hands For Questioning CEO (VIDEO)

Mike Elk, Labor Reporter, Has Microphone Yanked Out Of His Hands For Questioning CEO (VIDEO):

'via Blog this'A labor reporter found his microphone ripped out of his hand on Thursday when he asked a major CEO about his company's business practices.
Mike Elk, who writes for In These Times magazine, was attending a forum on Capitol Hill where David Cote, the CEO of Honeywell, was taking questions. Cote has close ties to the Obama administration, and President Obama is appearing at a Honeywell plant on Friday. At this forum, however, he was the guest of a Republican congressman.
During the question-and-answer portion, Elk (who used to blog for The Huffington Post) stood up and began asking Cote about anti-union practices within the company, as well as a recent radioactive gas leak at one of his plants. A videographer for Republic Report filmed what happened next.
As he continued his question, though, a man in a suit kept trying to lunge for his microphone. Eventually, he yanked it out of Elk's hands.

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