Videos: Rush Slaps Back At “Sons Of Bitches” Obama And Hoffa And Their “Army”

The Left is outraged, as usual, this time over the fact that conservatives are using its own tactics against it. At a Labor Day rally in Detroit, featuring a keynote address from the president, Teamsters boss James Hoffa said, “President Obama, this is your army. We are ready to march.” Hoffa rallied the troops to war against the forces of the Tea Party, saying, “Let’s take these sons of bitches out and give America back to an America where we belong!”

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Judging from Hoffa’s multiple incoherent statements, union fat cats celebrate Labor Day the way migrant farm workers celebrate Cinco de Mayo. (Hick!) But conservatives have made the most of Hoffa’s 100-proof, violent-sounding rhetoric.

DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman-Schultz, Media Matters, Alan Colmes, and others have protested that Hoffa’s full statement was: “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!”

The full “context,” they insist, proves Hoffa only encouraged voting, not violence. For once. Hoffa apparently meant to tell Obama the entire rank-and-file of the labor movement is entirely at his disposal; all of his minions will vote as they are told, “volunteer” for Democratic campaigns (or else!), and mindlessly carry out the president’s wishes. It was not a call to violence; it was a pledge of perpetual slavery.

Conservatives are rightly jittery when union leaders begin speaking in military cadences. Unlike Tea Party members, unions have a long and well-established history of violence from their inception forward. The blood-soaked history of the the labor movement — with offenders on both sides — stretches from the eight policemen killed in the 1886 Haymarket riot, to the beating of black Tea Party member Kenneth Gladney and other activists, to the shooting of “scab” electrical contractor John King outside Toledo last month. AFL-CIO President Rich Trumka has a disturbing history of matching violent rhetoric to physical force.

Hoffa’s liberal defenders are correct that his full sentence is defensible as spoken. They hypocritically ignore labor unions’ long history of battering their competitors while insisting the most hum-drum political statements of their enemies will touch off a civil war. They also ignore the fact that the full sentence makes Hoffa sound even more soused.

The same day the Teamsters threatened to “take out” an entire political, cultural, and intellectual movement, Joe Biden told an AFL-CIO rally, “You are the only folks keeping the barbarians from the gates.”

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Asked about Hoffa’s tone, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney refused to say whether the president found the comment appropriate. Carney sounded a familiar note, asking, “Can we move on?” In 2008, Milquetoast McCain threw talk show host Bill Cunningham under the bus when Cunningham referred to the Democratic nominee as “Barack Hussein Obama” — a move that drew the swift approbation of the Obama campaign. Apparently the use of the man’s Christian birth name is a greater offense than another three-word phrase applied to one-quarter of the American people.

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For his part, Hoffa was not so retiring. He told the Talking Points Memo website he would say it all over again, “because I believe it.” Hoffa thundered that, like a rape victim or an uppity nigra who done got hisself lynched, the Tea Party brought it on itself. “We didn’t declare war on them; they declared war on us,” he lied. “We’re fighting back. The question is, who started the war?” (For more on this question, see Susan Stamper Brown’s article, “It’s Not an ‘Assault on Unions.’ It’s Retaliation.”)

On his radio program Tuesday, Rush Limbaugh noted that Barack Obama sent the labor leader a friendly shout out after Hoffa’s declaration of war. Rush asked why Obama would condemn Hoffa’s rhetoric when his own is equally toxic.

Why should he? Obama laughed out loud when Wanda Sykes said she hoped Rush Limbaugh’s kidneys fail at the 2009 White House Correspondents Dinner.

The Left perpetually ping-pongs between inciting violence against its enemies and accusing its enemies of inciting violence. Left-wingers claim anyone who opposes the socialist agenda is a murderer-in-waiting, then hold signs saying, “Bush is the Disease. Death is the Cure.” They pretend legitimate concerns about Barack Obama’s ultra-secrecy are “dog-whistles” to would-be assassins, after writing screenplays about the assassination of George W. Bush. They lecture endlessly about civility, then equate everyone who disagrees with them to the Visigoths, the Nazis, and petty murderers.

At least Hoffa has the defense that he sounded drunk. His defenders must come up with some other reason to explain why they are incapable of coherent thought.

Rush Limbaugh, pt. 1
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Rush Limbaugh, pt. 2