6 Sep 2011 3:33 pm
Fox News Alters Hoffas Speech to Mislead Public of Violent ThreatTurns out Hoffas Speech was not the violent Call to Arms Fox News wanted you to believe. They edited the speech to make it look like he was calling for a violent threat against Republicans and Tea Parties. What Fox Said: President Obama, this is your army. We are ready to march. Lets take these son of [female dogs] out and give America back to an America where we belong, Hoffa added. What was Actually Said: Everybody heres got to vote. If we go back and keep the eye on the prize, lets take these son of a [female dogs] out and give America back to America where we belong! Thank you very much!In an initial report on Hoffa's speech at 1 p.m. on Fox News, Ed Henry reported that Hoffa said that "we'll remember in November who's with the working people" and "said of the Tea Party and of Republicans, 'let's take these sons of [female dogs] out.'" Henry made clear during that segment that Hoffa's comments were references to voting out Republican members of Congress, not to violence. And roughly 20 minutes later, he explained on Twitter that the "full quote" of the "take these son of a [female dogs] out" comment is "Everybody here's got to vote. If we go back & keep the eye on the prize, let's take these sons of [female dogs] out":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.In the Fox News segment that included the dishonestly cropped video, Republican consultant Brad Blakeman decried the comments as "thuggery at its best" and "the kind of remarks you'd expect out of Tony Soprano," and commented that "when a union president says 'let's take these sons of [female dogs] out,' that usually means someone's legs are going to get broken, somebody's going to disappear." Fox wouldn't do something like that, would they? Edited by MistyBlue, 06 September 2011 - 03:38 PM.