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Video: Hoffa Blasts Fox News

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simoom9/07/2011 10:59:28 am PDT

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.

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