“President Obama, this is your army. We are ready to march. Let’s take these son of bitches out and give America back to an America where we belong.”
That was the Labor Day threat issued by Teamsters Union President James Hoffa, Jr. in a warmup to a Labor Day speech by President Obama here in Michigan. The link chides CNN’s John King for failing to make any mention of Hoffa’s remarks in his later interview with Hoffa. No surprise there, because after all, CNN is a rankly partisan outfit.
As to the “son of bitches” Hoffa was talking about taking out, he stated unequivocally that “it is the Tea Party.”
What’s more telling than CNN’s silence is the failure of the president (in theory the representative of all Americans and leader of the free world) to say anything about Hoffa’s eliminationist rhetoric. Can anyone imagine the outcry had a warmup speaker said something similar before George Bush spoke?
Leftists like Dave Neiwert and company would have been apoplectic (over the “eliminationist rhetoric” natch), and the final countdown to fascism. Time to call the SPLC and the Justice Department, and demand something be done!
As far as the lefties doing what they accuse the right of doing is concerned…
Eliminationist sheliminationist!
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Remember, violent rhetoric is only bad when it comes from the right.
President Obama, this is your army. We are ready to march. Let’s take these son of bitches out and give America back to an America where we belong.
Hoffa, that son of a bitch, and the other one who got on stage after him, are little better than California Governor “Sunny Jim” Rolph who egged on a lynch mob. This is where that kind of talk political leaders can lead during a depression:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ug1YWzJwis
With actor Jackie Coogan helping get the rope, the two were hanged in a park in downtown San Jose and the bodies burned. Yeah, let’s “take these (Tea Partiers) son of bitches out”.
Jimmy Hoffa should be arrested for inciting violence, and Obama should be publicly shamed for remaining silent in the face of it.
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Hoffa is about to get a reminder not to let his alligator mouth overload his hummingbird back side. We have nothing to lose on the Tea Party side and everything to gain. The unions are about to pick a fight with people who have been preparing to fight back. Too bad for them. Cheers –
Frank, where did you find the “Jackie Coogan” factoid? He would have been about 19 then — old enough to have participated, I suppose. Just wondering.
Lin:
It’s from the wiki article. The relevant quote is:
Child movie star Jackie Coogan, a friend of Brooke Hart from Santa Clara University, was reported to be one of the mob that prepared and held the rope for lynching.[3]
The complete article is here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooke_Hart
Something you won’t find in any article is that Vincent Hallinan who was hired to represent the accused, was afraid to go down to San Jose from San Francisco and stand guard with his clients. When word got out, a young idealistic attorney names Barceloux, from Chico which is 200 miles away headed south on a train for San Jose. When he arrived on the day of the hangings, he was met by a contingent of the San Jose police department and some of the lynching party. They didn’t allow him to get off the train. The police and Governor Rolph, who wouldn’t call out the National Guard, were in on it.
Barceloux and his wife Oreon, who is still alive at 103, were friends of my parents, so I’m reporting this directly from the source.
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