They're claiming that their widdle feelings are hurt because Teamster President Jim Hoffa said this in Detroit on Labor Day.
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!Fox News doctored the video (there's a shock) to make it sound as if he said something quite different:
President Obama, this is your army. We are ready to march. Let's take these son-of-a-bitches out.The Tea Party, their paid trolls and their Murdoch media stooges immediately went into paroxysms of faux outrage about, you know, union thugs advocating violence.
Please.
Addicting Info makes short work of the Tea Party's phony outrage.
See, I recall what Representative Steve King said at a tea party event: “If I could start a country with a bunch of people it would be the folks standing out here the last few days. Let’s hope we don’t have to do that. Let’s beat that other side to a pulp. Let’s take them out, let’s chase them down.”
Queen teabagger Michele Bachmann said she wanted her followers “armed and dangerous.
Representative Michael McCaul addressed tea partiers, saying, “They fought against tyranny and oppressive taxes, do that sound familiar? We’re continuing that revolution right here in Austin, Texas today. Thomas Jefferson said the Tree of Liberty will be fed by the blood of tyrants and patriots. You are the modern day patriots . . . .”
Orange County teabagging Republican, Marilyn Davenport, sent out an e-mail depicting President Obama as the child of primates.Oh it goes on and on, the vile things that come out of those Tea Party mouths. (You can read it all here.) But here's what's interesting: They don't object to Hoffa's statement that they're waging a war on workers. Because they are.
Never forget that the Tea Party -- FreedomWorks and Americans for Prosperity -- is funded by the Koch brothers and other anti-worker extremists whose anti-union, anti-government, pro-corporate agenda is destroying the middle class.
Isn't that what all this phony outrage is all about? Making sure nobody notices what Hoffa actually said?
