Fox Doctors Hoffa Speech To Fabricate Call For Violence

[deminks]

http://mediamatters.org/blog/201109050003

Right-wing bloggers misled by dishonest Fox News video editing are attacking Teamsters President James Hoffa, Jr. for supposedly urging violence against Tea Party activists during a Labor Day speech. Conservatives are also attacking President Obama, who appeared at the event, for "sanctioning violence against fellow Americans" by failing to denounce Hoffa. But fuller context included in other Fox segments makes clear that Hoffa wasn't calling for violence but was actually urging the crowd to vote out Republican members of Congress.

During the segment that the bloggers have latched onto, Fox edited out the bolded portion of Hoffa's comments:

HOFFA: Everybody here's got to vote. If we go back and keep the eye on the prize, let's take these son of a bitches out and give America back to America where we belong! Thank you very much!

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But in a second segment that ran at roughly the same time as Henry's tweet, Fox News dishonestly edited the speech in the manner seen above. Andrew Breitbart's Big sites, Real Clear Politics, The Daily Caller, the Media Research Center, and the Drudge Report have all highlighted that footage, using it to condemn "the violence emanating from union thug bosses" and demand that Obama "denounce" the comments.

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You just knew Breitbart was involved.

[orpupilofnature57]

1. Fox it up again ,the channel that helped usurp Shrub in the World.

If Ruppert is a piece of sh-t ,what are they?

[Waiting For Everyman]

2. If the RW is so correct as it pretends, why does it have to LIE continually?

The American sense of "fair play" is what is most broken of all today. Until the Repubs constant lying is utterly rejected by most voters, nothing will get any better.

It's poison. And it almost goes without notice by now, after so much of it for so long. We expect it, so we ignore it. That has to stop.

[ChandlerJr]

3. Oh BS Media Matters, this is not the time to go all weak-kneed

Hoffa says he meant what he said and he'd say it again. Nobody needs to walk anything back.

Eff Media Matters and let the Right Wingers whine all they want.

It's about time, NO APOLOGIES!

[starroute]

4. The OP confused things by not putting in bold the part that was edited out

"Everybody here's got to vote. If we go back and keep the eye on the prize, let's take these son of a bitches out and give America back to America where we belong! Thank you very much!"

See -- they removed the context that made it clear he was talking voting and about taking people out of office and made it sound as though he was promoting violence.

Nobody's walking anything back, and Media Matters is not going all weak-kneed.

[deminks]

5. I edited the op to include the bolded portion.

[nadinbrzezinski]

6. Oh historically when have I seen this?

Oh yes, the early days of the rise of the Nazi party.

[otohara]

7. It Worked, I'm Ready to Rumble

who's with me?