The ballot box was never mentioned; that was some helpful editor trying to put a gloss on the whole thing.
I have also seen it misquoted “we are going to take them,” with no “out,” to make it sound a little less menacing. The media spin machine is working overtime on this one.
Meanwhile, silence from the Community Organizer.
I go to bed last night thinking that what was said in Detroit was about it. Oh well, this greets me after I had gotten up and had my first cup of coffee.
Here’s what I’m wondering... There are two versions I have heard on video - the second at ABC after I posted above.
One, from FOX did not include any of the lines regarding “Jobs, Jobs, Jobs” etc... and didn’t include the mention of “everyone has a vote”. Another I watched over at ABC-News included the lines I briefly mentioned above.
Is it true that FOX “edited” the speech? I know what the Leftists are trying to spin this as. Even if he DID refer to voting, anytime a union Pres. talks about “taking someone out” they are NOT talking about a “vote” taking place. I fully agree that he is attempting to incite violence. However, if FOX did edit portions of the speech, I’m not too happy about that either - there’s no excuse for that, IMHO. If they did edit it, there should have been a clear break...
As I said, I see his statements as exactly what they are - he wasn’t kidding when he talked of war. I’m here in WI, so I KNOW what these people are like. It’s just that it’s going to be hard to convince people of that when we’ve been done a disservice by the media when they edited out some of the context (if they did). It’s hard enough “debating” with liberals, but now they’ll turn it ALL into “FOX news edited it, he said nothing like that, etc...” and they will have a nice convenient talking point to minimize the outrage among Conservatives...