TPN--JUDSON PHILLIPS

The Thug Presidency


September 6, 2011

The liberal double standards on civility were on full display yesterday. Jimmy Hoffa, the President of the Teamsters Union called on supporters to “take those SOBs out.”

Who are the SOBs?  You and me of course.

Coming from the President of the Teamsters, we know what he means by “take those SOBs out.” The Teamsters Union has a long and storied history, punctuated with frequent violence and ties to organized crime.

Jimmy Hoffa called for violence against the Tea Party.

What makes this worse is Hoffa did it at an event where Obama was the key speaker. Hoffa said, “Obama, we are your army. We are ready to march.” Obama was not present when Hoffa made his remarks, but is certainly aware of them.

The silence we hear from the Obama regime is not shocking. Obama and the liberals have a double standard on civility. Threats and even violence from the left is ignored. There is no violence from the Tea Party so the Obama compliant media manufactures the myth of it.

In January, Gabrielle Giffords was shot. The left immediately jumped out accusing conservatives of being responsible for the shooting. As it turned out, what little political beliefs the shooter had were on the liberal side. Then the liberal line went from conservatives caused the shooting to the corrosive environment based on the hate speech, which they conveniently blamed on the Tea Party.

On January 13, Obama went to Arizona where he called for civility. Since then, there has been no civility. The Tea Party and Conservatives have been talking about the problems and the solutions. The left has been telling us to “go straight to hell,” and claiming Conservatives wanted to see black people “hanging from trees.”

The ball is in Obama’s court right now. The Illinois Tea Party has called for Jimmy Hoffa to resign. Hoffa will not resign from the Teamsters Union. Thuggery is a long-standing and cherished Union tradition.

But it is time to make Obama live up to his words.

Obama must repudiate the words of Hoffa and he must do it today.

In January, Obama called for a more civil discourse. When the Teamsters President wants to “take those SOBs out,” we know exactly what he means. It is a call to violence and it is unacceptable.

Either Obama condemns this speech or he does not. If he does, then perhaps it is a step towards the hard left moving away from their rhetoric of violence.

I’m not holding my breath.

Obama will not condemn this type of rhetoric because he believes it. He will not condemn Hoffa because he needs Hoffa and the Unions.

We need to call them out on this. There is a myth that the Tea Party is the source of the heated rhetoric. We need to take this to the streets of social media and every time a liberal tries to claim the Tea Party is responsible for the heated rhetoric, we need to remind them of Maxine Waters, Andre Carson and Jimmy Hoffa.

And we also need to remind them of the silence of Barack Obama.