Hoffa on Tea Baggers: Let’s take these sons of bitches out!

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“President Obama, this is your army. We are ready to march… Everybody here’s got a vote…Let’s take these sons of bitches out and give America back to an America where we belong,”

It goes without saying that the president needs all the friends he can get, and the Teamsters appear to be firmly in his corner, much to the concern of Fox News, who claimed to be frightened by such rhetoric.

Here’s the ABC story:

Warming up the crowd before President Obama’s speech in Detroit this afternoon, Teamsters President Jimmy Hoffa, Jr. had some choice words for the Tea Party.

Hoffa warned the largely union crowd that there was a “war on workers” and urged organized labor to take to the ballot box to fight lawmakers that oppose the president’s agenda.

“We got to keep an eye on the battle that we face: The war on workers. And you see it everywhere, it is the Tea Party. And you know, there is only one way to beat and win that war. The one thing about working people is we like a good fight. And you know what? They’ve got a war, they got a war with us and there’s only going to be one winner. It’s going to be the workers of Michigan, and America. We’re going to win that war,” Hoffa told thousands of workers gathered for the annual Labor Day rally.

“President Obama, this is your army. We are ready to march… Everybody here’s got a vote…Let’s take these sons of bitches out and give America back to an America where we belong,” he concluded.

Not all labor leaders have recently sounded like such willing soldiers. AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka told journalists in Washington last m0nth that the union would seek to take more of a direct role in elections, in part bypassing Democrats.

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Many thanks to Mary Bruce writing for ABC

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12 years ago

James Phillip Hoffa’s father was James Riddle “Jimmy” Hoffa. The legendary labor leader, who mysteriously disappeared in 1975, always went by the name “Jimmy.”

His son, James P. Hoffa is not a Jr., nor does he use the name “Jimmy.”

The White House is still being forced into damage control and are trying their best not to become involved. http://www.wmal.com/article.asp?id=2279665&SPID=28718

At best this is an unwanted distraction for the White House. Every news outlet, even MSNBC is focused on Hoffa’s remarks and NOT ON PRESIDENT OBAMA’S JOB PROPOSALS! President Obama has lost an entire news cycle and his entire media staff is spending valuable time not answering a simple and direct question from major network (real) news reporters.

12 years ago

The blogger you’ve quoted, Mary Bruce, doesn’t even know that James Hoffa is NOT a Junior (he has a different middle name than his father) and genuinely dislikes being called “Jimmy.”

More importantly, Mr. Hoffa has lowered the level of discourse and blurred any line that might once have separated Liberals from Conservatives. We cannot become what we ourselves condemned only a few short weeks ago.

And this is hardly a Fox News issue. Read Jake Trapper’s (ABC News Senior White House Correspondent) discussion at the White House Press Briefing yesterday: http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2011/09/infrastructure-spending-public-disapproval-of-the-president-and-the-new-hoffa-standard-todays-qs-for-os-wh-9620112/

James Hoffa has diminished President Obama’s credibility and left the President hanging in the wind.

Ron Reed
Reply to  Bob Keller
12 years ago

This may be my first time out of the gate at Mad Mike’s but it’s not my first rodeo. The Fox News link takes one directly to a Fox News story that speaks to their concern about the heightened rhetoric. As to the “blogger” I wish I had the time to fact check every story I reproduce or report, but life is just too short and I do the best I can. Thanks for pointing that out nonetheless, as it caused me to do a search and 4 out of 5 sources referred to him as “Jr.” As to the rest of your comment I’m sure I agree with you.

Reply to  Bob Keller
12 years ago

Hi, Ron. Welcome to MMA. I saw this clip, and the propaganda version, last night on Keith Olbermann.

Here’s the Faux version, which conservatives are calling “hate speech”: Let’s take these sons of bitches out. The hard right used the statement out of context to undermine the president.

You’re absolutely right, Bob. The L.A. Times and much of the media ran with the doctored statement.

Here’s Hoffa’s full comment:

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. Jobs. That’s what we’re going to tell him. He’s going to 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 keep the eye on the prize, let’s take these sons of a bitches out and give America back to America where we belong! Thank you very much!

I am troubled by the “sons of bitches” statement. If he had just replaced the comment with something like “, let’s vote them out out of office…” His incendiary remark played into the hard right’s hands.

It’s yet another example of how necessary it is to be civil and separate ourselves from those who aren’t.

Reply to  Dorothy Anderson
12 years ago

You are spot on correct Dorothy. If we insist on wrestling in the mud with the pigs, we all come out looking and smelling alike!

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