The right, so fine with Palin’s gun scopes on Dems as targets and the outrageous behaviour and violent language of conservative pundits and GOP politicians, is getting its panties in a wad over teamster boss Hoffa calling them “sons of a bitches”. Even the hapless UK’s Telegraph is on the game – per its far right agenda – whining that Obama has not apologized to Republicans for Hoffa and his VP, who once called them ‘barbarians’. Michelle Malkin had a coronary yesterday over Hoffa’s invective and Breitbart’s staff today are nursing large ego welts requiring plenty of mothering care.
Fox News and the rightosphere have gone so far as to doctor a video of Hoffa’s comments to make them seem far more incendiary than they were. But that’s just par for the course of a bunch of kids clutching at pearls without any semblance of an ethical compass.
This cry reeks not just of hypocrisy and a pitiful need to be portrayed as perennial victims. But it’s really just a desperate PR ploy to hide its own violent rhetoric and actions. If it weren’t all so sad it would be funny. Memeorandum is absolutely filled with entertaining rants, indignation and calls for Obama’s head. Here’s just a tiny sample of the outrage:
