Video: Hoffa Blasts Fox News

And the mainstream media follows Fox’s lead
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I can hardly believe it, but right wing radio, blogs and politicians are still whining about James Hoffa’s speech in Michigan, crying and complaining and demanding apologies. What the hell is wrong with these people?

And to make matters worse, even non-Fox News sources are running the Fox-edited quotes of Hoffa’s remarks: Like Fox News, Washington Post , USA Today  And CNN All Run Hoffa Comments Out Of Context.

This is definitely not the media’s finest hour. Don’t any of these journalists care that Fox News deceptively edited Hoffa’s speech?

Meanwhile, Hoffa appeared on the Ed Schultz show to talk about this ridiculous manufactured outrage:

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35 comments
1 Kronocide  Wed, Sep 7, 2011 10:32:48am

Hoffa won't back down, nor should he. I hope this gets a lot of airplay now.

2 jamesfirecat  Wed, Sep 7, 2011 10:33:58am

Good for Hoffa he should sue Fox the same way he Sherrod is suing Brietbart.

3 Killgore Trout  Wed, Sep 7, 2011 10:35:52am

Lazy press. They did the same thing with the Israel '67 borders thing. Just another manufactured outraged that they're happy to exploit to generate web traffic.

4 Kragar  Wed, Sep 7, 2011 10:36:05am

Stewart: Conservatives suddenly allergic to violent rhetoric

After Fox News aired a heavily edited clip of Hoffa encouraging supporters to “take these sons of bitches out” at the ballot box, conservatives declared the remarks “hate speech.”

“It’s odd that the tea party and the right have suddenly developed an allergic reaction to violent rhetoric,” Stewart observed.

The Comedy Central host then recalled that tea party favorite Rep. Allen West (R-FL) had encouraged his supporters use “muskets” and “bayonets” to defeat Democrats.

5 Cinnabar  Wed, Sep 7, 2011 10:37:39am

Please, Mr. Hoffa, make my day and SUE THOSE JERKS!

Thank you.

6 Bulworth  Wed, Sep 7, 2011 10:40:28am

Finally, somebody with guts. I hope Hoffa keeps giving the fauxbots and teabags crap.

7 Four More Tears  Wed, Sep 7, 2011 10:50:43am

Best thing I've seen all day.

Image: FEDvf.jpg

8 Tigger2  Wed, Sep 7, 2011 10:53:21am

The media is a big part of what is wrong in this country, you cant get factual reporting.

9 (I Stand By What I Said Whatever It Was)  Wed, Sep 7, 2011 10:56:25am

re: #3 Killgore Trout

Lazy press. They did the same thing with the Israel '67 borders thing. Just another manufactured outraged that they're happy to exploit to generate web traffic.

This is why Fox News is avantgarde.

10 Kragar  Wed, Sep 7, 2011 10:58:22am

re: #9 000G

This is why Fox News is avantgarde.

Too French.

11 simoom  Wed, Sep 7, 2011 10:59:28am

Media Matters can add ABC to their bad journalists list too. Yesterday they posted this:

“President Obama, this is your army,” Hoffa concluded to applause, his voice raising to a shout. “We are ready to march. Let’s take these sons of bitches out and give America back to an America where we belong,” he said, stepping back from the lectern where President Obama would speak less than an hour later.

So the author added descriptions of how Hoffa sounded, but then in that second quoted bit she merges the start and end of an entire paragraph, stripping out several sentences in the middle, without even using an ellipses. Either it's intentional dishonesty or she was reporting off of viewing the Fox clip.

[Link: abcnews.go.com...]

12 Gus  Wed, Sep 7, 2011 10:59:29am

re: #10 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

Too French.

Bongos, berets, turtlenecks, cigarettes, and Beat poetry. That's Fox News.

13 Obdicut  Wed, Sep 7, 2011 11:00:24am

re: #4 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

I would have much less problem with Hoffa's critics in this if they were only saying that this is hypocritical, or saying "See, they do it too!"

The fact that they're calling it 'hate speech' and the like is just ridiculous. If it is, then they're condemning tons of people on their own 'side'. Limbaugh, for example, would be condemned out of his own mouth.

And that, ironically, is hypocrisy, which would be the only actual charge they could even try to launch against Hoffa-- though since Hoffa never talked about the need to restrain rhetoric, it's bullshit anyway.

14 Gus  Wed, Sep 7, 2011 11:02:04am

Fox News is like cubism. You're looking at a cubist painting (the news) and you don't know the object you're looking at represented in that painting. "There's a guitar in there somewhere."

Fox News: Cubist News™

//

15 Gus  Wed, Sep 7, 2011 11:02:49am

Others argue that they're more like minimalist music.

//

16 Obdicut  Wed, Sep 7, 2011 11:13:09am

Boy, wouldn't it be great if this was an honest effort from those in the media to draw attention to violent discourse and decry it?

The pillars of America seem to be really weak these days. Government is crippled by an intractable party of zealots. The media is basically more of a problem than a benefit, spreading disinformation and hysteria, failing to inform. Industries hire far more workers in Asia and elsewhere than they do here and have lost any form of patriotism they may once have had. The hyper-religious want to fundamentally transform the country.

There's so many things that need fixing it's hard to know where to start.

17 (I Stand By What I Said Whatever It Was)  Wed, Sep 7, 2011 11:14:27am

re: #11 simoom

Media Matters can add ABC to their bad journalists list too.

I was going to mention the LA Times, but MMfA is on it already:

[Link: mediamatters.org...]

18 A Man for all Seasons  Wed, Sep 7, 2011 11:16:49am

Hi Lizards..
So a guy with a last name of Hoffa talks tough about the right wing...
Color me surprised.. Better get used to it wingnuts..This is a war of ideas...
And there will be words...
OT: Winston has to go to the doggie doctor today at 3pm..Poor Winston is sick...
Dang Winston! I was supposed to be on the OU golf course playing a round this afternoon.. He is such a pain..
*wink*

19 makeitstop  Wed, Sep 7, 2011 11:23:38am

You go, Mr. Hoffa.

I hope he keeps this up and gives as good as he gets. What he is saying needs to be said.

20 albusteve  Wed, Sep 7, 2011 11:26:00am

OUR VIEW EDITORIAL: Failure to rebuke Hoffa another failure of leadership

a lot of this stuff around the net...BO is not responsible for rebuking democrats or anybody else if he chooses not to...just another unfair backhanded swipe trying to drag him into another nontroversy

[Link: morningjournal.com...]

21 Talking Point Detective  Wed, Sep 7, 2011 11:34:15am

Nothing new here, but still, ugh.

Fox News Poll: Most Believe Prayer Heals, 45 Percent Believe in Creationism

Some 45 percent of voters accept the Biblical account of creation as the explanation for the origin of human life on Earth, while 21 percent say the theory of evolution as outlined by Darwin and other scientists is correct. Another 27 percent say both explanations are true.

[Link: www.foxnews.com...]

22 makeitstop  Wed, Sep 7, 2011 11:36:07am

OT, but relevant to Fox:

(Re-posted from downstairs)

News Corp. Columnist Holding Press Conference On "Why The GOP Must Win White America For Victory In 2012"

On September 9, The National Policy Institute will present a comprehensive, yet simple, strategy for a Republican victory in 2012--Win the White vote. "The Majority Strategy" is based on the GOP expanding its traditional White voting base, as opposed to continuing its failed "outreach" programs to racial minorities.

Peter Brimelow of VDARE.com, radio host James Edwards, Jared Taylor of American Renaissance, and NPI's Richard Spencer will speak.

And it's even spreading to the Sports wing now...

Fox Sports apologizes for "inappropriate" video

Fox Sports is apologizing for what it calls an "inappropriate" segment filmed on the University of Southern California campus that critics say mocks Asian students.

Fox Sports Network sent the apology after the Daily Camera newspaper in Boulder, Colo., reported about the video. It shows a comedian approaching Asian students at USC and asking them to welcome the universities of Colorado and Utah to the Pac-12 Conference. The comedian tells the students to give the new Pac-12 members an "all-American welcome" and then mocks students' accents.

How do you stop an entity like Fox? The veil over the veiled racism is slowly slipping.

23 Talking Point Detective  Wed, Sep 7, 2011 11:36:19am

I think that focusing on whether or not Hoffa should or shouldn't use violent rhetoric misses the real point here. The rhetoric was stupid - but as I said yesterday, how can you even think of holding Hoffa accountable for a feakin' completely misleading edit of his comments?

How can someone avoid deliberate manipulation of what they do or don't say?

24 Sol Berdinowitz  Wed, Sep 7, 2011 11:42:52am

Mr. Hoffa is just taking Sarah Palin's words to heart: Don't retreat, reolad!

25 Tigger2  Wed, Sep 7, 2011 11:43:43am

re: #22 makeitstop

"Why the GOP Must Win White America for Victory in 2012."
The GOP has lost this white voter.

26 CuriousLurker  Wed, Sep 7, 2011 11:49:27am

re: #22 makeitstop

OT, but relevant to Fox:

(Re-posted from downstairs)

News Corp. Columnist Holding Press Conference On "Why The GOP Must Win White America For Victory In 2012"

And it's even spreading to the Sports wing now...

Fox Sports apologizes for "inappropriate" video

How do you stop an entity like Fox? The veil over the veiled racism is slowly slipping.

Slowly slipping? They've already torn off all veils and have moved on to performing a bump & grind lap dances in a g-string stuffed with dollar bills.

27 Bulworth  Wed, Sep 7, 2011 11:55:50am

re: #24 ralphieboy

Mr. Hoffa is just taking Sarah Palin's words to heart: Don't retreat, reolad!

But, but, but that's not what Sarah meant! The bullseye wasn't a bullseye, it was....OK I forgot.

28 HappyWarrior  Wed, Sep 7, 2011 12:16:09pm

Good for him. Someone needs to stand up to that crap.

29 Amory Blaine  Wed, Sep 7, 2011 1:17:24pm

re: #3 Killgore Trout

Lazy press. They did the same thing with the Israel '67 borders thing. Just another manufactured outraged that they're happy to exploit to generate web traffic.

Corrupt perhaps and sharing synergy with corporations most certainly.

30 Holidays are Family Fun Time  Wed, Sep 7, 2011 1:42:55pm

It's like fauxtography--they don't look any further than the ends of their noses. Just "cut & paste" and "LOOK, we have our own new's story to publish."

Frankly, I feel for the journalists who really work hard at their profession and try to maintain a certain level of integrity. Unless they can write and sell a book, I don't think we get to see any of their work, they way I'd like to anyway.

How is everyone today?

31 Holidays are Family Fun Time  Wed, Sep 7, 2011 1:45:44pm

re: #21 Talking Point Detective

Nothing new here, but still, ugh.

[Link: www.foxnews.com...]

Yah know, if prayer can help promote a positive outlook towards healing and help someone in working with the medical community as a partner in one's health --then, sure, pray away.

Prayer alone? Yeah, I'll go to the doctor.

32 Holidays are Family Fun Time  Wed, Sep 7, 2011 1:46:35pm

re: #18 HoosierHoops

Hi Lizards..
So a guy with a last name of Hoffa talks tough about the right wing...
Color me surprised.. Better get used to it wingnuts..This is a war of ideas...
And there will be words...
OT: Winston has to go to the doggie doctor today at 3pm..Poor Winston is sick...
Dang Winston! I was supposed to be on the OU golf course playing a round this afternoon.. He is such a pain..
*wink*

It must be a week for vet visits. One of mine went this week as well, Urinary Tract Infection . . .

Hope Winston feels better soon!

33 Holidays are Family Fun Time  Wed, Sep 7, 2011 1:48:49pm

re: #8 Tigger2

The media is a big part of what is wrong in this country, you cant get factual reporting.

With internet access you can.

I get really disappointed with my friends who should know better, but wouldn't think of looking something up in the Congressional Register or State Law codes.

34 Holidays are Family Fun Time  Wed, Sep 7, 2011 1:50:14pm

2nd time I've done this this week --I think I'm at the top of the page and I'm on the Post below it.

Sorry all for the multiple posts.

going upstairs now. . .

35 Tigger2  Wed, Sep 7, 2011 5:09:22pm

re: #33 ggt

With internet access you can.

I get really disappointed with my friends who should know better, but wouldn't think of looking something up in the Congressional Register or State Law codes.

I'm thinking of all the voters in rural areas that dont have access to the Internet.


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