Ed Schultz Asks Hoffa 'Do You Think The Republicans Are Sons of B---hes?'

By Noel Sheppard | September 07, 2011 | 00:14

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Not surprisingly, MSNBC’s Ed Schultz was practically orgasmic with joy Tuesday over Teamsters president James Hoffa’s Labor Day declaration of war against the Tea Party.

After telling his “Ed Show” audience that Obama’s poll numbers have been declining because he hasn’t spoken to the American people like the union boss, Schultz actually asked Hoffa, “Do you think the Republicans are sons of b---hes?” (video follows with transcribed highlights and commentary):

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The program began with an exultant Schultz saying, “It is priceless audio. I love this story. It’s about time somebody stood up and said it just like this.”

After an introduction, Schultz played Hoffa’s comments, and then opined, “Now, this is just Ed talking: I think he’s spot on!”

Schultz proceeded to make some truly absurd remarks about how there was nothing wrong with what Hoffa said because of things previously uttered by conservatives such as former Alaska governor Sarah Palin and Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann.

I guess he forgot about all the calls for civility in political discourse - including from himself! - following the tragic January shootings in Tucson.

Missing his own hypocrisy, Schultz actually told his viewers that President Obama’s poll numbers are down “because liberals in many parts of the country are very frustrated that nobody in the White House is talking like James Hoffa.”

Yeah, he really said that.

But the best was still to come, for as a surprise to his audience, Schultz brought on Hoffa via satellite, and after a little polite small talk asked his guest, “Do you think the Republicans are sons of b---hes?”

Hoffa responded, “Well, I think they are if they’re trying to take away food out of the mouth of working people.” He added, “I’m very proud of what we did.”

Schultz responded, “You’re very proud of what you said. I think a lot of people are proud of you, too.”

I don’t know about that, but there’s one thing for certain: If Hoffa wants to leave the Teamsters, he’s got a future at MSNBC.

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You can't fault fools for

Submitted by okie-pastor on Wed, 09/07/2011 - 12:23am.

You can't fault fools for being foolish.

Why

Submitted by Boudin on Wed, 09/07/2011 - 12:26am.

Not?

Seek Truth, Defend Liberty

How about

Submitted by panzerakc on Wed, 09/07/2011 - 10:51am.

faulting them for running their mouth in the first place?

Of course ed agrees,he is a

Submitted by LAM SON 719 on Wed, 09/07/2011 - 12:43am.

Of course ed agrees,he is a punk wanna-be tough guy too. Just don't ask ed to hire and union people, he prefers illegal aliens.

Non, je ne regrette rien. "You aren't angry because I might be a racist, you're angry because you know I'm right".

'I think they are (sons of

Submitted by killa37 on Wed, 09/07/2011 - 12:49am.

'I think they are (sons of bitches) if they try to take food out of the mouths of working people'??? Hey tough guy - have you been paying attention to your 'General' (since you have given him your 'army')??? He's been taking away ANYTHING he can from Americans since the minute he was ordained.............but since you're in the 'in crowd', maybe you haven't noticed - since you're on the RECEIVING end of everything that has been taken away from US!!!

Both of these punks are morons.............I'd take 'em both on, and place your bets on ME!!!

Scultz

Submitted by Bill Brasky on Wed, 09/07/2011 - 1:29am.

I could kick both of their fat asses without putting down, or spilling, a drop of my beer. Couple of god damn losers.

"If you want to make a Conservative angry, tell him a lie. If you want to make a Liberal angry, tell him the truth." - Rush Limbaugh

So It Goes

Submitted by alvin on Wed, 09/07/2011 - 2:11am.

"We’re on to this gangster government," she declared. "I say it’s time for these little piggies to go home."
She appealed directly for tea partiers to swing behind "constitutional conservatives" in congressional campaigns, just as they contributed to Scott Brown’s upset in the Massachusetts Senate race in an early test of their potency. "I am the No. 1 target for one more extremist group to defeat this November," she said. "We need to have your help for candidates like me. We need you to take out some of these bad guys."
MIchele Bachmann
http://www.bostonherald.com/news/us_politics/view.bg?articleid=1247474

'Gangster

Submitted by killa37 on Wed, 09/07/2011 - 2:31am.

'Gangster government'.............sounds correct to me, especially with Obama and Hoffa.

'Little piggies'................yep, that works for me too.

'Constitutional conservatives'..................that would be me, and milllions like me.

'One more extremist group'..................well, if you haven't seen what they do to Palin, or are trying to do to Bachmann, or what they say about all of us 'teabaggers', then you're living in a parrallel universe.

'Take out some of the bad guys'.................yep, that works for me too.

Michelle Bachmann is a female candidate with NO history of violence or thug behaivior...........it's easy to understand what she is talking about.

James Hoffa comes from a family, and background, and a union that is KNOWN for violence, thuggish behiavior, extortion, fraud, murder, and a whole host of other activities.............so when he says 'take them out', it's a no-brainer trying to figure out what he meant - unless, of course, you're an excuse ridden., alibi giving lib.

Now, tell me what part of my post you don't agree with, meat.

hummmm

Submitted by kinijane on Wed, 09/07/2011 - 9:34am.

Just read an article that Hoffa made $300,000. last year.

kinijane

I'll bet he skimmed a helluva

Submitted by killa37 on Wed, 09/07/2011 - 12:40pm.

I'll bet he skimmed a helluva lot more than that...........

Angry Ed my mom is not a

Submitted by The Right Angle on Wed, 09/07/2011 - 3:33am.

Angry Ed my mom is not a bitch !

ULTRALIBERAL EXPERT

The GOP congressmen elected

Submitted by humanzee on Wed, 09/07/2011 - 3:44am.

The GOP congressmen elected in 2010 were elected to stop Obama's agenda. They were elected to stop the bleeding, stop Obamacare, stop the loss of jobs, stop the fleecing of the country.

Hoffa and Schultz are butthurt that conservatism is growing. The new generation of GOP governors is sticking it to them. Guys like Scott Walker and Chris Christie are having success in union and Democrat strongholds. They fear what an effective tea party president would be able to accomplish.

I agree with Ed. Except that,

Submitted by DaChew on Wed, 09/07/2011 - 6:09am.

I agree with Ed. Except that, I think all the Democrats should start speaking like Hoffa. I can't think of anything that would destroy their electoral chances better than revealing their true character.

Agreed

Submitted by Galvanic on Wed, 09/07/2011 - 9:36am.

Let 'em rant. Everytime Hoffa, or Waters, or Carson, or Weiner, or Moore, or Penn, or Reiner, et al opens his/her mouth, put it on all the networks and cable news. Let the voters see these clowns at their worst.

The unions are dying a little more each year.

Submitted by johnsonl on Wed, 09/07/2011 - 6:19am.

Their usefulness is gone. Now they're just greedy thugs. We no longer need nor want them around.

Jimmy Hoffa Comment

Submitted by janann on Wed, 09/07/2011 - 6:47am.

Not in good taste,,,, but wow is Pinocchio Joe Scarborough upset that "someone" complained that Fox News Ran an edited tape of Hoffa's speech,,,,,anyone who listened to the tape knew before he said about the SOB's or taking them out,,,,He was speaking of Beating them with VOTES. Joe has had one job and one goal since the day obama was elected,,,, to get another Republican into the White House.

Thus one mmore time like an IronWorker on Pay Day at the Tappy,,,, the obnoxious Scarborough,,, Media Manipulator of his time goes on about how much people would be saying it it was poor Sara Palinn or Bachmann,,,, We all know the routine..... If the Media,,, and that includes MSNBC was Liberal,,,, Joe wouldn't have the power he does to get rid of those who cross them,,,,,,,,,Krysta Freeland???? Schuster???? Cenk Unger????? Olberman???? Moulistas??? and how many more.

He is angry,,,,,Thank you Ed for playing the whole tape,,,, even if Pinocchio Joe has his phone on speed dial to HR to have Pat Buchanan replace you.
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Oh Special Ed

Submitted by theduck6 on Wed, 09/07/2011 - 6:56am.

How the heck does this moron have a show anymore? Oh I forgot it's on MSDNC and he's spouting the party line...frothing the line more accurately.

What poor SOB * had to watch that show to report on this tripe? Whatever you're paying them, it ain't enough.

*attrib Jimmy "cement shoes Jr" Hoffa

Schultz: Obama's poll numbers

Submitted by Van Halen on Wed, 09/07/2011 - 6:57am.

Schultz: Obama's poll numbers are declining because he hasn't spoken to the American people like Hoffa did...
Excellent! More utterly wrong analysis by the Left as to why they are getting destroyed in the polls.
November 2012 is going to be fun.

Liberals want a thug president?

Submitted by motherbelt on Wed, 09/07/2011 - 7:02am.

liberals in many parts of the country are very frustrated that nobody in the White House is talking like James Hoffa.”

So, not only is Hoffa right, liberals want the president to talk like that too.

Yeah, that's right, they want a "real" black president.

(Relevant portion starts at 1:10. No need to listen to more of Maher than one has to)

Wonder what Gabrielle Giffords thinks about this hate speech.

Submitted by Red Jeep on Wed, 09/07/2011 - 7:53am.

Guess no one in the MSM wants to know.

yo ed

Submitted by D'saredumbpeople on Wed, 09/07/2011 - 8:44am.

fat ed is the male version of MIKA enough said...

As said earlier-UNIONS a dying industry-Hoffa's statement is-

Submitted by JIMMY1660 on Wed, 09/07/2011 - 8:51am.

perhaps the last gasp of that dying industry.
You can only steal from your member's for so long,they wake up, and poof, there go the dues.
Most Americans are peace loving folks-things being said by unions are falling on deaf ears.

Fast & Furious along with Solyndra are example of who BHO is BHO Policies have caused Failed Economy- Liberals = Wealth Re-distribution

Physical violence via paper

Submitted by Einstein on Wed, 09/07/2011 - 10:09am.

I'm going to beat the crap out of someone with my vote. I will take it and slap you around silly with no apologies.

♡ Einstein

Yawwwn ...

Submitted by Tom Blumer on Sun, 09/11/2011 - 4:44pm.

... there's no excuse for Hoffa's threat ... and it was a threat.

Guns, God, & Country!

Submitted by E.S.Blofeld on Wed, 09/07/2011 - 11:26am.

The things the GOP has over the libs.

Bring it on!

This will be an interesting campaign.

Ernst

"Isn't it pretty to think that way?"-EH

When is it going too far?

Submitted by Peter-in-NYC on Wed, 09/07/2011 - 12:29pm.

I heard many commentators say that Hoffa didn't mean anything violent by it. He was just saying, "we need to take them out," like take them out of power.

I'd love to go on TV and say, "we need to take out Jimmy Hoffa like they took out his daddy. We need to take him out of his house by his hair, stuff his body in a plastic drum and pour in acid, and then take that drum out to sea and dump it so deep in the ocean you never find his body. Now I'm not saying we should do anything violent to this guy, this is just my way of saying we need to take him out of power... by stuffing him in a plastic oil drum and disolving his body in acid. That's all I'm saying about this SOB."

An equitable understanding

Submitted by Quasi-socialist on Wed, 09/07/2011 - 2:07pm.

is preferable. But the gliberals continuing to insist that Palin and Bachmann's phrases are "violent" makes it nothing more than a double standard. They simply want control of the narrative regardless of who on what side says what.

Ed Schultz and the rest of MSNBC's Sons of B---hes...

Submitted by Conservator on Wed, 09/07/2011 - 1:23pm.

...are always good for a laugh. Let Eddy dream that the reason why Obama poll numbers have dropped is that liberals have lost faith. I know it's delusional based on all the polling data I've reviewed. Obama's problem is with Independents. His base will vote for him next year, but unless Obama's team can convince someone on the Republican side to run as a third party candidate, he's doomed.

Palin said

Submitted by Quasi-socialist on Wed, 09/07/2011 - 2:00pm.

"reload". You can reload for defensive fire--in fact you'd better. That's especially true when the other option is "retreat". Bachman said "armed and dangerous", thus the threat of force is the worst in view there.

Hoffa said "take them out". That's direct implication of violence (construed as violence). But maybe he just wants to take us out to dinner...

But it's clear that if all of these are construed as violence, Hoffa's is the most violent. Only liberal self-justification justifies (hell, celebrates) a much more potentially violent phrase by less potentially violent phrases which were vociferously condemned by the left, who insisted on imputing violence in those phrases, and then made this all about "being civil".

New Tone v2.1.23

Oh, Special Ed!

Submitted by ironhead4099 on Wed, 09/07/2011 - 3:10pm.

I only watched this trash to see how bombastic this ass can be. This one was a classic! I dying to see him do his "Pyhsco Talk" segment on himself, that would be an all time classic, but unfortunately this guy is too much of a IDIOT to realize that! He needs to spend some more time on the special bus for his kind, you know the one that you get strapped into a straight jacket when it's time to buckle up, and your room has a padded walls!