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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.

Discussion: Weasel Zippers, The Reaction, The Gateway Pundit, Don Surber, And So it Goes in Shreveport, John Lott's Website, Proof Positive, The Other McCain, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, The Lonely Conservative, Scared Monkeys, Pajamas Media and HotAirPundit

Evan McMorris-Santoro / TPMDC:

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 …

Discussion: Hot Air, Mediaite, Weasel Zippers, NewsBusters.org, Business Insider and HotAirPundit

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.

Discussion: Mediaite, Maggie's Notebook, Daily Kos, emptywheel, Angry Black Lady Chronicles, 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” …

Discussion: Big Government, Breitbart.tv, Althouse, Patterico's Pontifications, Weasel Zippers, Somewhat Reasonable, Instapundit, RealClearPolitics Video Log and Outside the Beltway

Toby Harnden / blogs.telegraph.co.uk:

Will Barack Obama condemn Joe Biden and Jimmy Hoffa for calling Republicans ‘barbarians’ and ‘son of a bitches’ — I enjoy political hardball as much as the next reporter. It's barely concealed truth that campaign reporters, like the operatives we cover, love negative campaigning and revel in OTT insults and martial rhetoric.

Discussion: National Review, The Daily Caller, Ballot Box, BizzyBlog, Scared Monkeys, The Sundries Shack, The Lonely Conservative and The Right Scoop

Zara Golden / Mediaite:
In Warning To Tea Party, James Hoffa Says: 'Let's Take These Sons Of Bitches Out'

Discussion: Big Journalism

Zara Golden / Mediaite:
President Obama's Labor Day Remarks Challenge GOP To Put Country Before Party

Discussion: Wizbang and Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion

Charles Johnson / Little Green Footballs:
Fox News Deceptively Edits Video to Smear Teamsters Pres. Hoffa

Discussion: No More Mister Nice Blog

Michelle Malkin:
Happy Labor Day: Top 10 union thug moments of the year; Update: Jimmy Hoffa makes the list

Discussion: Doug Ross, TBogg, PERRspectives, Pajamas Media, theblogprof, Firedoglake, Nice Deb, The Heritage Foundation, Big Journalism, alicublog, The Gateway Pundit, The Lonely Conservative, Althouse, The TrogloPundit and Wizbang

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.

Discussion: New York Times, Washington Post, CNN, Ballot Box and National Review

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.

Discussion: americanthinker.com, Townhall.com, Iowa Caucuses, The Raw Story, LifeNews.com, Scared Monkeys, Hot Air, National Review, HotAirPundit and CNN

Maggie Haberman / The Politico:
Michele Bachmann 2012 campaign's turnover raises new questions

Discussion: New York Magazine

Emily Schultheis / The Politico:
Rick Perry fires at Mitt Romney at S.C. town hall

Discussion: And So it Goes in Shreveport, Online NewsHour, Rick Perry for President 2012 and Ballot Box

A.Killough / CNN:
Romney: Health care will be one of my ‘best assets’

Discussion: Weasel Zippers

Danny Yadron / Washington Wire:
Palin's Attack on ‘Corporate Crony Capitalism’ Spotlights Gap in GOP Field

Discussion: Conservatives4Palin and Big Government

CBS News:
“Doesn't appear” Palin will run: DeMint

Discussion: Maggie's Notebook, The Hill, The TrogloPundit and Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion

Maggie Haberman / The Politico:
Bachmann bunked at S.C. gov's mansion

Discussion: Associated Press, The Raw Story and Daily Kos

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 …

Discussion: americanthinker.com

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 …

Discussion: Weasel Zippers and The Gateway Pundit

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

Discussion: Maggie's Notebook and Israel Matzav

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

Discussion: Breitbart.tv, Verum Serum and The Lonely Conservative

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 —

Discussion: Washington Post, Washington Wire and Firedoglake

Jonathan Karl / Politics:

DeMint Says He'll Likely Skip Obama's Econ Speech — In an interview this morning in Columbia, SC, Jim DeMint told me he'll probably skip President Obama's speech to joint session of Congress on Thursday. — “If he sent a written proposal over first, I would go hear him explain it …

Discussion: TPMDC