Yesterday a union boss introduced the President of the United States at a rally by telling him that the union workers present were Obama’s “army” before yelling that tea partiers are “sons of bitches” and vowing to “take them out.”
So far, only a handful of press has reported. The list below.
*(Update) Washington Post:
Yes, this is the voice of organized labor. Teamsters President Jimmy Hoffa Jr. at his Labor Day rally: “President Obama, this is your army. We are ready to march. Let’s take these sons of bitches out and give America back to an America where we belong.” I await Paul Krugman’s condemnation of the incitement to violence.
At two separate Labor Day events yesterday, Jimmy Hoffa, the head of the Teamsters spoke just before President Obama. His speech was aimed at the Tea Party Members and ended with “Take these Sons of bitches out!” Hear his speech here: Take these sons of bitches out!
There is a certain pleasure, a sense of everything in its right place, when watching Jimmy Hoffa share a stage with Barack Obama and use the phrase “Mr. President” within five seconds of “sons of bitches.” Jimmy Hoffa is being over-the-top and threatening. Of course he is. Why would he defy his reputation (some of it inherited from his father, sure, fine) just because the president of the United States is with him?
Hoffa’s remarks come after Rep. Andre Carson (D-IN), D-Ind., said that some in the Tea Party want to “lynch” blacks, and after Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA), D-Ca., told the Tea Party to “go to hell.” One, two, three — we have a trend, folks. Progressives have figured that the downside for “violent rhetoric” is pretty minimal, because as far as they can tell, the Tea Party keeps doing it, then getting what it whats. Now, that’s not quite how it works. The conservatives who use the harshest rhetoric to attack Democrats get dinged for it — think of Sharron Angle becoming an unelectable laughingstock after she warned of “Second Amendment remedies” if she didn’t win. But in the aggregate, they see the Tea Party getting what it wants. Solution: Copy them. They’re doing it poorly, and with incorrect assumptions (unions and radical members of the CBC have certain disadvantages with the electorate that elderly white people don’t have), but they’re doing it.
Um, hi.
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I ask that Slate provide examples of tea partiers screaming “sons of bitches!” or Republican legislators telling progressives to “go to hell and I’ll help you get there.” Just one example for each to make their story honest.
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