A big, fat, public lie trumps a word-choice any day of the week.

[Waiting For Everyman]

The RW's deliberate lies about this is the issue, not Hoffa's wording.

Hoffa's words were verbal, not written. He deserves some leeway about how perfectly his words were said. Besides, it's a failure of comprehension on the RW's part. (And as for the SOB comment, politics is not church, it's good to keep that clear too.)

But in contrast to that, the RW premeditated and deliberately created a public smear of a guy by altering his words and passing it off as genuine - a deliberate deception of the public... for the sole purpose of whipping up an ACTUAL frenzy against him - the very thing they're complaining about. It's the classic "make the victim the bad guy" move.

THAT, is a big deal. Hoffa's is a little deal, if anything at all. Until we (the public) can tell the difference and put the outrage where it belongs, we are not going to make any progress at all.

The media wind-up dolls are not innocent in this. They're just as guilty as the RW liars, for participating in promoting the lie. Both the RW and the media, and any who give them any sympathy, are morally disgusting and cowardly. Those two camps should be fearing the public's opinion on this, not the man who speaks the truth.

A big, fat, public lie trumps a word-choice any day of the week.

[EFerrari]

1. These are the same assholes that took weapons to townhalls

and political rallies, remember?

Fuck them.

[Waiting For Everyman]

2. Exactly. And they wish to bring guns to Congress too. n/t

[Mz Pip]

3. Hypocrites

They weren't outraged when Sharonn Angle, who was an actual candidate for the US Senate, talked about Second Amendment remedies or the reload comments by Palin or her damn targets.

IMHO, they do not have any high moral ground to stand on regarding Hoffa's words.

[Supersedeas]

4. that famous liberal bias

[Waiting For Everyman]

5. Relevant link to the story about FOX changing Hoffa's quote.

I wanted to include a link to this story in the OP, but I couldn't find it. Hissyspit had an earlier OP on it but forgot to bolden the missing part of the quote, so this one is clearer.

Fox Doctors Hoffa Speech To Fabricate Call For Violence
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x1886703

[kentuck]

6. Very true.

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