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Hoffa: “No Regrets” Over Speech Calling For Violence Against Conservatives, This Is a “War”…
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Posted on 09/05/2011 6:51:38 PM PDT by Nachum

Thug.

(TPM) — Teamsters union president James Hoffa would say it all again if he could, he told TPM Monday.

Hoffa riled up Fox News and the right wing Monday with a Labor Day speech in Detroit in which he called Republican members of Congress “sons of bitches” and said union workers are ready to “go to war” with the tea party next year and “take out” Republicans at the ballot box.

Hoffa said he’d say the exact same words all over again.

“I would because I believe it,” he said. “They’ve declared war on us. We didn’t declare war on them, they declared war on us. We’re fighting back. The question is, who started the war?”

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To: PhilDragoo
Thanks for reposting Phil.
Oops, looks like Obama ate too many peas and turned green!!


281 posted on 09/06/2011 1:10:03 PM PDT by potlatch
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To: Winstons Julia
I was in no way espousing violence and I'm sorry if you got that impression from my comment.I simply meant that I intend to be just as loud and obnoxious in my defense of the Constitution and traditional American values as the leftist pigs are in their attempts to destroy them.
There are plenty of governments that need to be destroyed before I even think about trashing this one.

Semper Fidelis

282 posted on 09/06/2011 4:07:47 PM PDT by WePledge (Ich werde fur immer ein Hollenhund werden. Semper Fidelis)
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To: WePledge

There has been a small amount of reactionary backfire from the right as a result of what Hoffa said. Some people seem to have decided to match the rhetoric. Sometimes I think we need to be careful not to get ourselves snared in a trap they created. People need to be clear that WE don’t seek a civil war, but if someone tries to bring one to us, we certainly won’t capitulate.


283 posted on 09/06/2011 4:45:46 PM PDT by Winstons Julia (when liberals rant, it's called free speech; when conservatives vent, it's called hate speech.)
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To: Nachum

Hope he’s prepared to chew what he’s bitten off.


284 posted on 09/06/2011 4:49:12 PM PDT by RWB Patriot ("My ability is a value that must be purchased and I don't recognize anyone's need as a claim on me.")
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To: livius; WhistlingPastTheGraveyard

“But the people who are saying this silly “context” thing (and there is NOTHING about the context that makes these words acceptable) are generally the ones I’d expect to be doing so.”

Was that a dig at me? What kind of people are you referring to, exactly? Be careful not to cast aspersions on people who are merely asking for honesty in reporting (no matter where it comes from).

I brought up the fact that the video I watched from FOX news was an excellent editing job, and I honestly could not tell that it had been edited (AT ALL) the first time I watched it. I’m sick of the media making me look like a fool when I come out swinging hard, and then have it shoved in MY face that things were left out...

AGAIN, I hold no illusion as to what Hoffa, Jr. MEANT when he said, “Take those sons of bitches out”. How could ANYONE misinterpret that given the union’s history, AND the history in Hoffa’s family itself? I don’t see how alerting people to the fact that the FOX produced video I watched was edited, vs. the non-edited version put out by ABC, is working against us... If I’m wrong, then please explain this to me. If I’m this pissed about being (slightly) misled how will it be viewed by the left?

AGAIN, Hoffa meant what he said when he referred to this as a war, and being in WI means I’m already on the “front lines”. I’m doing what I can personally to fight against these folks. How is that working AGAINST fellow Conservatives?


285 posted on 09/06/2011 5:56:37 PM PDT by LibertyRocks
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To: Winstons Julia

If you ignore them they only become more brazen in their attacks. As with small yipping dogs you have to bark back at them occasionally to remind them you aren’t prey.


286 posted on 09/06/2011 6:36:49 PM PDT by WePledge (Ich werde fur immer ein Hollenhund werden. Semper Fidelis)
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To: Nachum

A Shovel Ready Job

287 posted on 09/06/2011 7:51:39 PM PDT by VRWC For Truth (Throw the bums out who vote yes on the bailout)
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To: LibertyRocks

It’s not even a seamless cut:

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2011/09/05/jimmy_hoffa_at_obama_event_on_gop_lets_take_these_son_of_bitches_out.html

It’s an obvious edit showing the two relevant sections of a (most likely) drunken, rambling three-minute speech. Networks edit. Always have, always will. The cut didn’t alter the meaning of Junior’s words one iota.


288 posted on 09/07/2011 2:10:47 AM PDT by WhistlingPastTheGraveyard (Some men just want to watch the world burn.)
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To: WhistlingPastTheGraveyard

Like I said... I did not notice the cut in the editing the FIRST time I watched the FOX clip. I honestly thought they only switched cameras because his head was chopped out of the other shot. I was paying more attention to the threat made against me and my family — not the editing of the video...

When I watched the ABC video I was truly confused. I was also not aware that this was “after the fact” coverage that I was watching the first time I saw the clip from FOX news. I honestly thought it was a replay of a live recording, IOW not an edited piece. It ticked me off because I didn’t hear ANYTHING about ballot boxes, jobs, etc... only to be confronted with a charge of “lying” about what was said by a liberal “friend” whom I was arguing with at the time. I know news channels edit all the time, I just was not aware that what I was passing along was an edit.

I disagree that the cut doesn’t alter the meaning of his words one bit, but it’s not by much, and not enough to “let it go” by any means. I’m not about to start defending the SOB, and I know that there are others within his organization who are quite comfortable ignoring the “voting” part. As everyone has pointed out the hypocrisy is unbelievable.

Anyway, next time I will have to be sure I watch SEVERAL clips to make sure I’m not missing something. I hate to be made to look like a fool, and my mistake took the legs right out from under me in my “debate”...


289 posted on 09/07/2011 2:51:30 AM PDT by LibertyRocks
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To: vanilla swirl
You do it your way, but stay out of mine.

The miserable bastards come with the intent to 'take out' me or mine, it'll be the last act on this earth for as many of 'em as I can manage.

290 posted on 09/07/2011 3:05:52 AM PDT by tomkat (si vis pacem, para bellum)
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To: Nachum
“They’ve declared war on us. We didn’t declare war on them, they declared war on us. We’re fighting back. The question is, who started the war?”

Uhhhhh...you just said we did, you idiot. What the hell is wrong with these people.

291 posted on 09/07/2011 3:08:28 AM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: tomkat

“You do it your way, but stay out of mine.”

Don’t misunderstand, any violence toward me or my family or open violence toward conservatives in general will be met with the same. And I do expect it to be my last act.
I think caution but firm conviction is needed. The lefties desperately want somebody to “lose their temper” so they can crack down.


292 posted on 09/07/2011 3:34:37 AM PDT by vanilla swirl (We are the Patrick Henry we have been waiting for!)
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To: vanilla swirl
+1 to your last.

I'll admit to not having read your post above in its entirety.
Got to the 'other cheek' part and had to stop.
That whole concept always struck me as something disturbingly similar to an unfunded mandate.
Especially from one who supposedly kicked ass and took names amongst the moneychanger set.

If that's blasphemous/heretical/etc then so be it.
If whatever God is has a problem with good people protecting their loved ones and their work, or with defensive martial acts against evil bastards raping our Nation, then please mark me down as firmly in the 'heathen' column.

293 posted on 09/07/2011 3:57:02 AM PDT by tomkat (si vis pacem, para bellum)
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To: tomkat

Dietrich Boenhoffer started out as a pacifist but later was involved in plot to kill Hitler. He paid with his life just days before his prison camp was liberated.

I don’t think we have risen yet to the level of Hitler or Stalin purges.
But I am prepared.


294 posted on 09/07/2011 4:30:40 AM PDT by vanilla swirl (We are the Patrick Henry we have been waiting for!)
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To: Windflier; MonicaG; montyspython; WePledge

I explained earlier that the office I posted was not mine, but is an undisclosed location somewhat south... my monitors are not nearly so large.

FRegards!


295 posted on 09/07/2011 6:57:59 PM PDT by One Name
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To: Nachum

So it´s Civil War, is it?

¨May you live in interesting times.¨


296 posted on 09/07/2011 8:35:28 PM PDT by onedoug
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To: twister881

Hey, Hoffa-Kid, come over to the Machus Red Fox and we’ll talk.


297 posted on 09/07/2011 8:44:13 PM PDT by gigster (Cogito, Ergo, Ronaldus Magnus Conservatus)
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To: One Name
...the office I posted was not mine, but is an undisclosed location somewhat south...

Ooooh.....mysterious, even. I like it!

298 posted on 09/07/2011 8:55:31 PM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: One Name
Preparedness - you haz it!!!

/drool

299 posted on 09/07/2011 8:59:57 PM PDT by Danae (Anailnathrach ortha bhais beatha do cheal deanaimha)
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To: Nachum
I'd watch your mouth if I were you, Jimmy. You could end up in a concrete bridge abutment like pop. (Or wherever the friggin' creep is!!!)

LOL!!!!!!!!!!!

300 posted on 09/07/2011 10:12:25 PM PDT by SlightOfTongue
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