Sep. 8th, 2011

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So, Jimmy Hoffa threatens the Tea Party? Could it be, one of the left-wing leaders calling for violence? "They want a war..." "We are ready to march..." "Take these sons of bitches out..." Sure sounds like it.
And here I was all ready to be all self-righteous and morally superior by condemning such rhetoric.
Only... not so much. In order to condemn it properly, of course, I needed to quote the source. While out looking for it, I found the original that wasn't Carefully Fairly and Balancedly edited.

What he actually said was:


President Obama, this is your army. We are ready to march. And President Obama, we want one thing: jobs, jobs, jobs, jobs, jobs, jobs, jobs… That’s what we’re going to tell him. He’s gonna be … and when he sees what we’re doing here, he will be inspired. But he needs help. And you know what? Everybody here’s got to vote. If we go back, and we keep the eye on the prize, let’s take these son of a bitches out and give America back to an America where we belong.


Fox News edited out the part about jobs and voting, so as to make it sound more like a call to violence so they could be outraged. Of course, a lot more people will listen to Fox News than will read my blog. Good thing Little Green Footballs (among others) also pointed out the truth. They also have the original video there. They still don't have the readership, but anyone who cares can Google the truth.

Fox News counts on people not caring for the truth enough to Google for it.
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