See also at Althouse, "'We got to keep an eye on the battle that we face: The war on workers'."
I realize "let's take these sons of bitches out" can be interpreted to mean let's vote these terrible people out of office. But "take them out" is not an idiomatic expression that corresponds to "vote them out." Take them out? Maybe that's not the phrase he intended to use, but if it was unintended, it was still a gaffe. A revealing gaffe. Unless you're speaking in a positive way — referring to taking someone out on a date, for example — "take them out" is a violent command. With "sons of bitches" right there, it's unmistakably violent. Now, you can say it's only metaphorical, and all Hoffa really wants is to oust these people from office.Also, "Jimmy Hoffa's "Let’s take these sons of bitches out" speech — take 2."
But it was only last January that Obama and many other Democrats were saying that violent metaphors, including a simple target on a map, were dangerous incitements for the unstable irrational folk out there.
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The hypocrisy is unbelievable!
I remember when Congresswoman Giffords was nearly killed by a very deranged individual, there was all the talk about how the terrible vitriol from the right had greatly contributed to, and encouraged the violent attack...I, also, remember that it was mentioned that Wasserman and Giffords were very close friends.
Now, here she is, refusing to speak out against what could be considered a real call to arms, by the man whose father was, no doubt, 'taken out' in a violent way.
Hoffa did say, after all, “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,” so who's to say that some other deranged individual won't take that as a 'marching order,' as Hoffa so crudely put it?
I know...there are those defending him, saying that it was just his way of speaking, his vernacular, but if anything, it was more of a Freudian Slip, in my opinion.
So much for Obama being a uniter, as he said, when he was making all of those other empty promises......he didn't condemn what Hoffa said, either, and he, of all people, should have.
Thanks Jan.
Wasserman's an airhead, and Hoffa's a thug.
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