Right Wing’s Pearl-Clutching Faux Outrage

Ken AshfordElection 20121 Comment

So the right wing has its collective panties in a twist over a Labor Day speech that Teamsters President James Hoffa Jr. delivered in Detroit. 

Here's the quote from the speech that conservatives are whining about:

"Let's take these son of a bitches out and give America back to America where we belong! Thank you very much!"

And here's the context of the quote:

"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!"

In other words, he was talking about voting. This was not a call to violence — Hoffa wants to take the far-right politicians out of office, not out of existence.

The right almost certainly realizes this, but that's not stopping them from trying to make political hay out of this.