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...
I think Fox reported on the things that were unusual about the speech. The “jobs, jobs, jobs” stuff was pretty standard issue and I doubt that anyone would have reported much on the Hoffa speech (he was just the warm-up act) had he not said those outrageous words. So I don’t think it was “editing” it to make it look worse, but simply editing it the way a news organization (theoretically) does, in other words, to highlight the most interesting part of something. Maybe we could say more accurately that the left-wing press edited it by leaving out those words whenever they thought they could get away with it.
I don’t think the Dems can deny that Hoffa was fomenting a thug mentality, something that is always just under the surface with unions, particularly the Teamsters, who are famous for the violence of their strikes and “negotiations.”
Yes. Written reports also lack the context of his remarks. This is typical - the media is nothing more than a bunch of two-bit agitators.