talk about, quote, taking him out, silence. not a word. every media outlet. actually, jake tavern at abc news did something on it. but nobody else. it s been interesting to watch everyone immediately con textualize it, but not to excuse it saying the president wasn t there, he was saying it in response, hoffa was, to other war language used by the tea party saying he s willing to take on this war. a lot of people trying to justify it a little bit. what do you think as a linguist specialist? let me say this, you know who jim hoffa is, a fiery guy, a regular guy, a plain spoken guy. if you invite him to introduce you, he might say something about it. this isn t just jim hoffa. this sabt hoffa, i like hoffa. this isn t about him or joe biden. this is about the president of the united states.
night. we re going to have the president thursday night. these are the big events. absolutely. big, big week. what about the 2012. i would be interested to see if this president talks about civility backs away from jim hoffa s speech and if he makes jim hoffa apologize. let s turn to the 2012 race? i like him? he s a friend. he s a friend. he doesn t need to talk that way. the nbc news wall street journal poll shows rick perry with 38% support. mitt romney follows the texas governor with 23%. the poll comes as five of the republican parties. notice i didn t jump in and say i like rick perry. you do in a special way. they travelled to a debate mediated by jim demint.
okay. so that s two references to the faux greek columns. on maureen dowd on the left, the washington journal on the right. pat buchanan. what does the president need to do thursday? a tough, tough crowd out there. it can be done, can it not? i know he s got a lot of advice from the democrats, go high, go big, go bold. make it throw it in their face. and if you don t get it, run against him. i really think the president s best course would be to get up there and lay down some things that he believes that the republicans will agree some of them at least so you can get something done for the country. that s what the country wants. if you have a flight after that, fine. but i would not go up there and get in their face and do the jim hoffa, barbarians at the gates and the rest of the run. it will make democrats feel
democrats are coming back to town looking for a fight, and, b, they re distracting from barack obama, the substance of the great program when we spend eight, nine minutes talking about jim hoffa. there s real frustration, actually, from democrats. talk to them on the hill. there s frustration that the president isn t fighting enough. and perhaps this is the overreaction. but as we go back to washington, d.c., the focus is on jobs, steve rattner. the president has a huge speech to give. as always, you come to depress as well as educate. i come to ruin your day. you have charts to show that the a administration has ground to make up for, let alone gain on when it comes to jobs, correct? i have lots of charts. we can start wherever you want. dive in. the ps is going to be framing the jobs. a lot of people say there s nothing he can do about jobs. he s given the speech already
what happen? what happened there? well, we had some very, very, very harsh words by the president of the teamsters union that i think there are worse ones being used there than sobs. like what? let s launch into the news. teamsters union, president jim hoffa warming up the crowd before the labor day speech in detroit taking that at the tea party that we played to you coming in to the show, the chairwoman of the tea party wants an apology from hoffa. she said this jimmy hoffa s remarks are inexcusable and amount to a call for violence on peaceful tea party members which include many teamster members. the white house had no comment on the labor leader s language despite the president s repeated calls to change the tone in washington. this wasn t the first time the white house failed to denounce heated rhetoric.