Hoffa's call to arms against the TEA partiers.

I hope this makes the Tea Party stronger...I hopw that they do not back down because of all of the threats they are getting...This is just plain wrong!

ted, this is one of the few times i agree with you. what did you write about the tea party gatherings where members were encouraged to carry weapons to the meetings, obama depicted as hitler,etc.? i missed those statements expressing your outrage.

Let not the pot call the kettle black. Last I remember, Rush, Mark Levine, Michael Berry et al were recruiting dim-witted goons to attack people with ideas unlike theirs; and we saw a perfect example in the Arizona case involving congresswoman Giffords.

Ted where were you when tea party members at an Ohio town hall meeting said this: "The "shot in the head" comment came after a woman told Mr. Latta that "the man they put in as President and everybody he put around him" are following a radical agenda to "break" the country and should be viewed by Latta not as peers but as "the enemy." The speaker was urging Latta to "get them impeached, ... get them thrown in jail," when Voska added, in a loud voice, "shot in the head." Your silence was deafening.!!!!

In the famous words of Rodney King. "Can't we get along?"

after reading the comments here, i'm more convinced that no one's mind is going to be changed by anything anyone else says. to assume that what hoffa said was okay just because he didn't say the word kill, or to assume that weapons carried to a political meeting don't present a threat to people there, are foolish statements by people who clearly will defend their opinions to an extreme. given that so many of us practice this defense of our beliefs, and the rest of us are too busy to educate ourselves in politics in the u.s., but still will vote, we can't hold out much hope for our future no matter who wins. how ridiculous is the opinion that we shouldn't pay any taxes? that the wealthy need more money and the middle class less? that corporations which pay zero taxes need further tax breaks? that we need troops in almost every country on earth? that gop governors' efforts to tighten up voting requirements constitutes vote suppression? we really should all wake up and stop defending our little corner of the world.

I am amazed to see all these people defending the Union leader that calls for a war and to take out the SOB's in the Tea Party and this is OK because he means to get out to vote and get the Republicans voted out of office. We need to look into what the man is saying. After all its not like he engaged in violent rhetoric or worse yet put a target on a congressional district. Since President Obama saw nothing wrong with the comment we must accept that the party of civility is saying that this is civil talk.

None and and dont he need to retire!?

This is alarming, at least to me. Especially on the heels of reports from the Wisconsin state fair about flashmobs attacking people of a different race. Here in Ohio the other day we had the same thing on a campus except on a much smaller scale. It seems to me like the race and class war is really cranking up. Rhetoric like Hoffa's seems to be increasing, strategically placed to reach certain groups who have the potential for volatility. The 2012 election season is going to be very, very ugly.