"Offensive, Brazen, Cynical, Vile"

Karl Rove, Lt. Governor Peter Kinder and former state Sen. John Loudon are all pounding the pavement luxuriously carpeted hotel ballrooms this week to rally the corporate class against basic workers' rights. Loudon is the head of the Orwellian-named Save Our Secret Ballot organization, which is trying to put a question on the ballot to preempt the proposed Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA).

Karl Rove's sins are well known and well documented.  His involvement in Missouri on behalf of corporate interests should be all a person needs to know that the so-called Save Our Secret Ballot effort is bad news.

More locally, John Loudon has kicked off the SOS Ballot campaign with offensive and manifestly false statements about EFCA. Yesterday, for example, Dave Catanese reported via Twitter:

Fmr. Sen. Loudon calls taking away a right to a secret ballot an "offensive, brazen, cynical, vile" tactic of Big Labor.

This is a doubly false statement. EFCA would not take away a right to a secret ballot. And it's Loudon's SOS Ballot campaign that's offensive, brazen and cynical.

Case in point: Moments after Loudon made the false claim about the proposed legislation, Loudon said unions "blow up cars." Asked to clarify, he said he was only "partly" joking. 

Which part was the joke?