Folks, here you have the anatomy of a well planned smear campaign. You have sensationalistic, tabloid trash that is worthy of Karl Rove or Rupert Murdoch's best efforts. Lets break down how you make a great smear campaign as evidenced above:

First, The Manager, Carl, 80Knots, OccupyRestSeat, and every other Delta pilot is paid by Delta Air Lines. EVERY ONE. So The Manager starts off with this bolded statement:

as if this is some secret revelation that is scandal worthy and new. Every Delta Pilot is paid by Delta Air Lines, and regardless of whether or not a pilot is covered by 24J, they will ALWAYS BE PAID BY DELTA UNTIL THE COMPANY FOLDS. The only question is whether or not, the union takes your dues money and gives it back to Delta at the end of the month.

So somehow, recklessly wasting your dues money by forcing your union to pay back all the flight pay loss money has become a rallying cry for an independent union. Yes, our plan is to waste your dues money when we don't have to. Why, because your pay will come from Delta Air Lines instead of Delta Air Lines. Awesome plan.

So let's have another shocking headline:

The Sun rose in the East this morning and tonight it will set in the West. Oh the horrors.

That was just the warmup, now we get to the real sleaze ball masterpiece:

In the sleaze ball propaganda world that is called separation and deniability. Not confirmed, see that allows him to walk away from his sleazy attack with no harm no foul. It is not confirmed, but I will throw out the mud anyway, see what sticks.

DPA claims, this is separation. See how The Manager doesn't claim but someone else does. In this case it's not just another person but a vague entity. Who is DPA, what phone number do I call to talk to DPA to confirm this?

See, I could type "Some people say that The Manager steals candy from children." So I am not making an accusation, it is just 'some people". I don't have to offer any proof, any details, any names or dates, I just get a free pass to throw that out there and I never have to take responsibility for it. For some people the mud will stick to The Manager and he gets tarred just the same as if I made a real accusation that I could be held accountable for. (Note: he does not steal candy from children.)

More masterful work. Why "debit cards" and not "credit cards." Everyone knows that an organization the size of ALPA uses corporate credit cards for purchasing and cost accounting so "credit cards" doesn't sound menacing enough. No, they use "debit cards" because that conjures up images of cash payments with no accountability. I mean who really records all the times they buy a cup of coffee at Starbucks with a debit card. Who could ever track where these mysterious debit cards are being used?

He also talks about them being handed out to "reps" sure, let's pick a large group so we can never nail down a specific allegation, let's just pick "reps" because if your rep denies it, then it could be another rep. You set it up so each pilot would have to call each rep to confirm whether or not they got this "debit card." (Note: this whole "debit card" smear is purely made up fiction, never existed, never will)

Excellent walkback to the deniability stage. There is a reason why hearsay is not allowed in evidence in court rooms, but hey, when you are making a sleaze ball attack, why not? See, The Manager doesn't have to take responsibility for this sleaze, it is just hearsay.

He starts with FACT all bolded as if that proves it. Here is quick fact. C2K pay for a 767 Captain was $268 per hour. At the time he posted this a 767 Captain's pay was $182 per hour. Average pay hours during C2K was 83 hours per pilot. ALPA uses 87 hours for committee members and 92 for the Negotiating Committee which is the only committee that are designated pilots.

C2K: 268 x 83 = $22,244
Average Committee guy : 182 x 87 = $15,834
Average Delta line holder : 182 x 87 = $15,834
Negotiating Committee : 182 x 92 = $16,744

If you count the per diem of $1,000 per month you do not get to C2K pay, no matter how you slice it. It is not a fact it is pure bunk. Plus, does anyone think that working more hours after bankruptcy is a pay raise? Please, someone tell me that the DPA doesn't think we get a pay raise when we work more hours.

It seems to me that DPA has morphed from being an alternative union concept to a sleazy ALPA attack machine. They have this website with no accountability and no ethics and just toss out sleazy trash to attack pilots that work for ALPA.