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12:30 PM ET, September 6, 2011

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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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Sarah Palin / Facebook:
Welcome, Union Brothers and Sisters  —  In my speech on Saturday in Iowa, I said: “Between bailouts for Wall Street cronies and stimulus projects for union bosses' security and ‘green energy’ giveaways, [Barack Obama] took care of his friends.  And now they're on course to raise a billion dollars …
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 …
Mackenzie Weinger / The Politico:
Wasserman Schultz attacks Fox, ducks Hoffa  —  In a heated exchanged, Democratic National Committee chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz repeatedly ducked questions on “Fox and Friends” Tuesday about Teamsters President Jimmy Hoffa's call for workers to combat the tea party and “take these son-of-a-bitches out.”
RealClearPolitics Video Log:
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.
Mary Bruce / Politics:
White House Declines To Comment On Union Leader's Anti-Tea Party Rhetoric At Labor Day Rally  —  Despite President Obama's repeated claims to change the tone in Washington, the White House had no comment this afternoon after Teamsters Union leader James Hoffa, speaking at an event before President Obama …
Toby Harnden / blogs.telegraph.co.uk:
Will Barack Obama condemn Joe Biden and Jimmy Hoffa for calling Republicans ‘barbarians’ and ‘son of a bitches’
Jon Cohen / Washington Post:
Obama ratings sink to new lows as hope fades  —  Public pessimism about the direction of the country has jumped to its highest level in nearly three years, erasing the sense of hope that followed President Obama's inauguration and pushing his approval ratings to a record low, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll.
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Carrie Budoff Brown / The Politico:
Battleground Poll: Obama approval rating down amid deep economic fears  —  The debt-limit showdown and the stalled economy have tarnished President Barack Obama's standing with voters and dampened their optimism about America's future, with nearly three out of four voters now saying the country …
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
They like him  —  There's a deluge of terrible poll numbers for the White House today, but I think this one from our Battleground Poll is the most interesting:  —  Obama receives particularly low marks for his economic stewardship, with only 39 percent saying they approve and 59 percent saying they disapprove.
Byron York / Campaign 2012:
Poll: 81% say Obama economic policies not working
Ramesh Ponnuru / Bloomberg:
Obama's Weakness Leading to Republican Overreach: Ramesh Ponnuru
Jonathan Weisman / Wall Street Journal:
Voter Discontent Deepens Ahead of Obama Jobs Plan
Discussion: Don Surber and MarketBeat
Steven Hayward / Power Line:
World Ends Today; Markets to Close Early?  —  The news out of Europe yesterday and this morning somehow puts me in mind of the long opening sequence in the John Landis feature film rendering of The Twilight Zone, in which Dan Ackroyd says to Albert Brooks, “You want to see something really scary?”
Discussion: americanthinker.com
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Courtney Comstock / Business Insider:
Deutsche Bank CEO Just Gave A Terrifying Speech In Frankfurt  —  Josef Ackermann just gave a terrifying speech about the fragility of the Euro banking sector right now.  —  At a conference in Frankfurt he said, “It is an open secret that numerous European banks would not survive having …
Discussion: The Awl
Tyler Durden / zerohedge.com/fullrss2.xml:
Bring Out Your Dead - UBS Quantifies Costs Of Euro Break Up, Warns Of Collapse Of Banking System And Civil War
Mitch McConnell / Washington Post:
Why are three free-trade deals languishing on Obama's desk?  —  According to the White House, President Obama has been huddling with advisers on a jobs plan he'll present to Congress this week.  One thing he could do immediately is finalize the free-trade deals with Colombia …
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Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
POTUS shows some fight in Detroit
Bloomberg:
Obama Mulls Tax Cuts Beyond Republican Plans
Dan Hirschhorn / The Politico:
Ron Paul to attack Rick Perry in new ad  —  Ron Paul is taking on Rick Perry in a new television ad blasting the Texas governor for for supporting Al Gore's 1988 presidential campaign, POLITICO has learned.  —  The 60-second spot, backed by a six-figure ad buy — the first negative ad attacking Perry …
Discussion: CNN, Outside the Beltway, GOP 12 and TPMDC
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Brent Budowsky / Pundits Blog:
Sarah Palin attacking Rick Perry and Mitt Romney?
Discussion: CNN
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.”
New York Times:
Europeans Talk of Sharp Change in Fiscal Affairs  —  As leaders in Europe try to contain a deepening financial crisis, they are also increasingly talking about making fundamental changes to the way their 17-nation economic union works.  —  The idea is to create a central financial authority …
Larry J. Sabato / Wall Street Journal:
The 2012 Election Will Come Down to Seven States  —  National polls are nice, but Electoral College math is what matters.  —  Straw polls, real polls, debates, caucuses, primaries—that's the public side of presidential campaigns 14 months before Election Day.
Shawn Millerick / New Hampshire Journal:
EXCLUSIVE: Palin's surprise visit delights bride and groom  —  On the eve of Sarah Palin's speech before the Tea Party Express in New Hampshire, the former Alaska Governor shocked diners and delighted wedding guests by making an unannounced visit to The Puritan Backroom restaurant for some of their famous chicken fingers.
Discussion: Don Surber and Conservatives4Palin
Josh Gerstein / The Politico:
Janet Napolitano: Shoes-on flight in sight  —  Air travelers will eventually be able to keep their shoes on to pass through security, but the restrictions on carrying liquids on board are likely to remain in place for some time, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano told a POLITICO Playbook breakfast Tuesday.
Discussion: ThinkProgress and Hit & Run
Brad Friedman / MoJo Articles:
Exclusive Audio: Inside the Koch Brothers' Secret Seminar  —  Check back tomorrow for Part 2 of this report, on the GOP superstar who rocked the Koch seminar crowd.  —  “We have Saddam Hussein,” declared billionaire industrialist Charles Koch, apparently referring to President Barack Obama …
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
Palin is in very good shape  —  I was among a pack of reporters following Sarah Palin around the boiling Iowa State Fair, a pack that got smaller as she gamely answered question after question until most of the reporters had dropped off and the questions were, to her mild surprise, exhausted.
Discussion: Salon, Gretawire and The TrogloPundit
Jeffrey Goldberg / Bloomberg:
About Jeffrey Goldberg  —  Jeffrey Goldberg, a national correspondent for the Atlantic, is the author of “Prisoners: A Story of Friendship and Terror.”  He was formerly a Washington correspondent and a Middle East correspondent for the New Yorker.  —  Robert Gates Says Israel Is an Ungrateful Ally: Jeffrey Goldberg
Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
In Jobs Data, “Surprises” Mean Bad News  —  Friday's jobs report was suggestive of an economy at stall speed.  The United States neither added or subtracted jobs in August, according to the initial estimates from government's establishment survey.  The numbers hadn't been good before …
Discussion: Business Insider
Garrett Epps / The Atlantic Online:
Arizona's Case Against the Voting Rights Act  —  As ballot restrictions multiply, the state is bringing a lawsuit against the right to vote  —  In the past few years, the right to vote—basic to any real democratic self-government—has become controversial again.
 
 
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