{"id":4802,"date":"2011-09-05T19:33:08","date_gmt":"2011-09-05T23:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freethoughtblogs.com\/xblog\/?p=70"},"modified":"2011-09-05T19:33:08","modified_gmt":"2011-09-05T23:33:08","slug":"fox-news-makes-up-hate-speech-for-hoffa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/05\/fox-news-makes-up-hate-speech-for-hoffa\/","title":{"rendered":"Fox News Makes Up Hate Speech for Hoffa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fox News got all huffy and pissy while reporting that James Hoffa Junior told Democratic Party voters to murder Tea Party Republicans that had been put in office during the Great Stupidity that happened last November.  But he didn&#8217;t.  In order to make it look like Hoffa had said this Fox had to lie.  <\/p>\n<p>Hoffa said, &#8220;Everybody here&#8217;s got to vote. If we go back and keep the eye on the prize, let&#8217;s take these son of a bitches out and give America back to America where we belong! Thank you very much!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Now, observe what Fox News says he said:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>At about 20 seconds, you hear the Fox reporter actually warn listeners that his langauge was going to get pretty tough. Blease refer back to the quote I give above of Hoffa&#8217;s actual words &#8230;  <\/p>\n<p>Keep Listening, because they make it worse by being &#8220;very certain&#8221; of what they are reporting and by vaguely linking Obama to the hate speech.  Then, the reporter actually tells us, in a ham handed way, about the &#8220;sentence before&#8221; the &#8220;kill the teabaggers&#8221; language itself.  But he lies. Just watch. <\/p>\n<p>What a load of crap.<\/p>\n<p>Details at <a href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/blog\/201109050003#.TmVIQPoFm_4.facebook\">Media Matters.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fox News got all huffy and pissy while reporting that James Hoffa Junior told Democratic Party voters to murder Tea Party Republicans that had been put in office during the Great Stupidity that happened last November. But he didn&#8217;t. In order to make it look like Hoffa had said this Fox had to lie. Hoffa &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/05\/fox-news-makes-up-hate-speech-for-hoffa\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Fox News Makes Up Hate Speech for Hoffa<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[425,301,893,306],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-1fs","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4802"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4802\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}