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Hoffa Threatens GOP At Obama Event: “Take These Son Of Bitches Out” — Teamsters President Jimmy Hoffa had some profane, combative words for Republicans while warming up the crowd for President Obama in Detroit, Michigan on Monday. “We got to keep an eye on the battle that we face: The war on workers.
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Teamsters President: ‘No Regrets’ After Fiery Speech Draws Right-Wing Criticism — Teamsters union president James Hoffa would say it all again if he could, he told TPM Monday. — Hoffa riled up Fox News and the right wing Monday with a Labor Day speech in Detroit in which he called Republican members …
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Matt Gertz / Media Matters for America:
Fox Doctors Hoffa Speech To Fabricate Call For Violence — Right-wing bloggers misled by dishonest Fox News video editing are attacking Teamsters President James Hoffa, Jr. for supposedly urging violence against Tea Party activists during a Labor Day speech.
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Mediaite, Maggie's Notebook, Daily Kos, Angry Black Lady Chronicles, emptywheel, The Gateway Pundit and TPMDC
Mary Bruce / Politics:
Hoffa On Tea Party: 'Let's Take These Sons Of Bitches Out!' — Warming up the crowd before President Obama's speech in Detroit this afternoon, Teamsters President Jimmy Hoffa, Jr. had some choice words for the Tea Party. — Hoffa warned the largely union crowd that there was a “war on workers” …
Toby Harnden / blogs.telegraph.co.uk:
Will Barack Obama condemn Joe Biden and Jimmy Hoffa for calling Republicans ‘barbarians’ and ‘son of a bitches’
Will Barack Obama condemn Joe Biden and Jimmy Hoffa for calling Republicans ‘barbarians’ and ‘son of a bitches’
Zara Golden / Mediaite:
In Warning To Tea Party, James Hoffa Says: 'Let's Take These Sons Of Bitches Out'
In Warning To Tea Party, James Hoffa Says: 'Let's Take These Sons Of Bitches Out'
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Big Journalism
Zara Golden / Mediaite:
President Obama's Labor Day Remarks Challenge GOP To Put Country Before Party
President Obama's Labor Day Remarks Challenge GOP To Put Country Before Party
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Wizbang and Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion
Charles Johnson / Little Green Footballs:
Fox News Deceptively Edits Video to Smear Teamsters Pres. Hoffa
Fox News Deceptively Edits Video to Smear Teamsters Pres. Hoffa
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No More Mister Nice Blog
Maggie Haberman / The Politico:
Rollins to step back from Bachmann role — Ed Rollins is going to be stepping back from day-to-day management of the Michele Bachmann campaign, and moving into a senior advisory role, he said in an interview. — Rollins said the reason for the change is personal — his health and the rigors of a campaign.
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Rasmussen Reports:
Iowa Caucus: Iowa GOP: Perry 29%, Bachmann 18%, Romney 17%, Paul 14% — Confirming a surge seen in polling across the nation, Texas Governor Rick Perry has moved into first place among Republican voters in Iowa, host state to the first-in-the-nation caucus early next year.
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Maggie Haberman / The Politico:
Michele Bachmann 2012 campaign's turnover raises new questions — Top-level staff departures from Michele Bachmann's campaign are raising fresh questions about her durability heading into the post-Labor Day stretch of the 2012 presidential primary contest. — As POLITICO first reported Sunday …
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GOP 12, msnbc.com and New York Magazine
Emily Schultheis / The Politico:
Rick Perry fires at Mitt Romney at S.C. town hall
Rick Perry fires at Mitt Romney at S.C. town hall
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And So it Goes in Shreveport, Online NewsHour, Rick Perry for President 2012 and Ballot Box
Danny Yadron / Washington Wire:
Palin's Attack on ‘Corporate Crony Capitalism’ Spotlights Gap in GOP Field
Palin's Attack on ‘Corporate Crony Capitalism’ Spotlights Gap in GOP Field
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Conservatives4Palin and Big Government
CBS News:
“Doesn't appear” Palin will run: DeMint
“Doesn't appear” Palin will run: DeMint
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Maggie's Notebook, The TrogloPundit and Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion
Meghashyam Mali / The Hill:
Perry to skip DeMint's presidential forum, will return to Texas to deal with wildfires
Perry to skip DeMint's presidential forum, will return to Texas to deal with wildfires
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CNN and Austin American-Statesman
John Podhoretz / Commentary Magazine:
Obama's “Country Before Party” Nonsense — News reports suggest that on Thursday night, the president will tell Republicans in the House and Senate that they should put “country before party” and endorse his proposals for job creation. The “country before party” line has become Obama's …
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Fars News Agency:
Senior Diplomat Asks for Identification of Main Culprits behind 9/11 Attacks — TEHRAN (FNA)- A senior Iranian Foreign Ministry official and a career diplomat, Mohsen Pakaein, blames the American Neoconservatives for the September 11 attacks on the US, saying that Neocons have victimized thousands …
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HotAirPundit:
Biden At AFL-CIO Rally: “You Are The Only Folks Keeping The Barbarians From the Gates” (Video) — The opposition is called “son of a bitches” at one Labor rally and “barbarians” at another rally. Here's an angry Joe Biden at the AFL-CIO rally in Cincinnati just a short time ago
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Yoav Zitun / Ynetnews:
IDF general: Likelihood of regional war growing — Senior IDF officer warns of ‘radical Islamic winter’ that may lead to regional war, could prompt use of WMDs; new, more lethal weapons discovered in hands of terrorists during latest round of fighting in Gaza, Major General Eisenberg says
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Maggie's Notebook and Israel Matzav
The White House:
Remarks by the President at Detroit Labor Day Event GM Plant Parking Lot — THE PRESIDENT: Thank you, Detroit! (Applause.) Thank you, Michigan! (Applause.) Oh, this is a — AUDIENCE: Four more years! — THE PRESIDENT: Thank you. (Applause.) Thank you, everybody. It is —
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Scott Shane / New York Times:
Leak Offers Look at Efforts by U.S. to Spy on Israel — WASHINGTON — When Shamai K. Leibowitz, an F.B.I. translator, was sentenced to 20 months in prison last year for leaking classified information to a blogger, prosecutors revealed little about the case. They identified the blogger in court papers only as “Recipient A.”
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Israel Matzav, Pajamas Media and Mondoweiss