available on laura ingraham.com. bill will be back in the no spin zone tomorrow night. again, thanks for watching us. i'm laura ingraham and please remember, the spin stops right here because we are always looking out for you. >> the president: rather than pointing fingers or assigning blame. >> they got a war with us. >> let's use this occasion to

expand or moral imaginations. >> as far as i'm concerned the tea party can go straight to hell. >> listen to each other more carefully. >> the real enemy is the tea party. >> sharpen our intentions. >> you are the only folks keeping the barbarians in the gate. >> remind ourselves of all the ways our hopes and dreams are bound together. >> because only a more civil and honest public discourse can help us face up to the challenges of our nation. >> everybody here has a vote. if we go back and keep the eye on the prize let's take these [ bleep ] out and give america back to america where we belong!

>> sean: civility was nowhere to be found over the holiday weekend. as a union rally in detroit michigan the event headlined by president obama. moments before he took to the table teamster's president jimmy hoffa had this to say about the tea party. >> we have to keep an eye on the balance we face the war on workers. you see it is everywhere, it is the tea party. there's only one way to beat and win that war. the one thing about working people is, we like a good fight. they got a war, they got a war with us and there is only going to be one winner, it is going to be the workers of michigan and america. we are going to win that war. president obama, this is your army. we are ready to march. everybody here has a vote. if we go back and keep the eye on the prize, let's take these [ bleep ] out and give america back to america where we belong. thank you very much!

>> sean: almost immediately following that classless declaration of war was the president's turn address the crowd. rather than condemn the hateful rhetoric spewed by hoffa the president praised him by name, even saying he's proud of him. now we've been one day removed from the speech white house aides continue to coward lay questions on the mary. >> those weren't comments by the president. the president wasn't on stage. he didn't speak for another 20 minutes, he didn't hear it. i cone -- i don't have any comment beyond that >> sean: just like the white house, the chair refused to stand up to hoffa's hateful rhetoric. >> talking about what jimmy hoffa said yesterday. >> i'm talking about -- >> specific response to what jimmy hoffa said yesterday. >> you you are the head of the dnc. >> i know you like to focus on language. that's not what the american people are focused on.

the american people are focused on job creation. are you kidding me? >> no, i'm not. >> sean: what happened to the president's call for civility in the wake of the tucson massacre? why won't the leaders of the democratic party have the courage to speak out against attacks on the tea party? joining me nationally syndicated radio talk show host my buddy bill king ham and tamara holder. back to february, let's listen to the president in february calling for civility. president let us remember it is not because a simple lack of civility caused this tragedy. it did not. but rather because only a more civil and honest public discourse can help us face up to the challenges of our nation. in a way that would make them proud. [ applause ] >> sean: you know, let's get

these sons of bitches. the tea party is the real enemy. they are terrorists. they can go to hell. here's the question tamara, the president lectures on civility. then civility in his own party where over-the-top. where is the president? where is your president? where is barack obama? den you think if he had moral courage he would stand up to his own party. >> again, to deck you, as i always do. this is -- to correct you as i calls do. this is our president -- >> sean: your president barack obama, where is he? >> problem is the right continues to take words from speeches >> sean: words, son of a bitch. excuse me, we can go straight to health, son of a bitch, racist, terrorists, barbarians at the gate. >> jimmy hoffa did not say all of that.

his issue was people to vote. all of the jobs are leaving the united states. not one apple product is made in the united states. not your son's ipod, none of that. >> sean: bill king ham, great american. i -- bill cunningham, great american, i see you laughing, help me out here. >> this is delicious hypocrisy. 16 years ago when mcveigh blew up the federal building in oklahoma city, clinton went after rush limbaugh. now hurricane irene has been blamed on republicans because not enough infrastructure spending. we had in cincinnati biden show up talking about barbarians. as a conservative, i like a red meat bloody debate. the problem is when republicans engage in some of the twisted rhetoric of the democrats, they are lectured by the president not to do. when democrats do it, obama is one of those guys two people

begin to fight pretending he had nothing to do with any of it. what offends me as an american is not the words that are used. look at the kinds of things jefferson said about john adams back and forth that is okay. it is the him y -- it is the hypocrisy on the left. to me it is hypocrisy. >> sean: the president lectured us on civility. he lectured the country. words that would make them proud he said after the tucson tragedy. at that point democrats had been blaming sarah palin for using what bob beckel created which is targeted districts. they took it out of context. the question is, where is the civility? where is the rhetoric that barack obama would be proud of and does he have the moral courage and do you have the moral courage to tell your president stand up to your own party, don't be a hypocrite, don't speak out of both sides of your mouth and don't

politicize the rhetoric? >> hoffa should have really said what he was thinking the unions have supported the democrats. the unions are now without jobs. people in america are without jobs. [ talking over each other ] >> sean: bill cunningham, back to 2008, you actually were a rally in cincinnati, it was then candidate john mccain. you introduced -- you were talking about barack hussein obama. back to the videotape. jay carney was asked about it today. >> some of us covered the campaign and recall a time when somebody paid some harsh comments about then senator obama, during the introduction of a mccain rally and the obama campaign was offended and expected an apology and senator mccain came out and did so. >> mr. hoffa speaks for himself, for the labor movement.

afl-cio. the president speaks for himself. i speak for the president. >> the precedent you are setting now for it election the republican candidates are the ones that we need to pay attention to, introduce them at rallies their surrogates -- >> i think i've said all i can say. >> sean: bill cunningham when you sidebar rock hussein obama, the words he used himself when he took the oath of office. >> as soon as i used the name barack hussein report -- hussein obama, they got on the networks and said do you repudiate the remarks of cunningham. i didn't talk about red meat issues, hanging blacks, the progeny of canines, i used his full name and the media leaped on mccain who leaped on me,

which he considered to be his sister souljah moment. i said nothing except the full name of the president that he employed at his own inaugural. there's such a double standard. when a conservative like joe wilson -- >> who cares about the duck standard. come up with an answer. >> what is going on the president sent out apostles to do his dirty work and asks as if he's the piano player in the whore house not knowing what is going on upstairs. >> it (á÷#rjeq nothing do with corporations -- >> sean: are you best friends with hoffa? hoffa is -- tell hoffa to come on the program. you're buddies with him. wait a minute, let me tell you something. rank and file money and they pour it down the sewer so they can hang out with the rich and famous and lead lives of

luxury. >> sean hannity, i don't mind if an old crusty truck driver like hoffa uses bad language, truck drivers curse all the time, i'm okay with that. i'm worried about the blatant, tasty media hypocrisy on the left that gives conservatives no right -- [ talking over each other ] >> and your foul mouth does good for this society. >> sean: i think so, thank you. ♪

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>> sean: later this week the president will pack up his teleprompter and head out to layout his jobs plan. yesterday in detroit, , michigan he previewed his strategy. wouldn't you know it, it involves spending your money. >> the president: i don't want to give everything away right here. because i want you to tune in thursday. but, i'll give you just a little bit. we've got roads and bridges across this country that need rebuilding. we've got private companies with the equipment and manpower to do the building. we've got more than one million unemployed construction workers ready to get dirty right now. there's work to be done. and there are workers ready to do it.

>> sean: that sounds familiar. because we've heard all of this before. it was called the stimulus. if we've learned anything from that trillion dollar disaster is the government cannot buy its way out of job crisis. joining me is somebody who hinted he may not even attend the address. senator demint welcome back. >> thank you. i am sick and tired of speeches the president told us not only stimulus but obama care would help the economy, dodd-frank, mortgage bailout this is probably the 10th speech of various kinds as he said is his jobs speech. i want to see something in writing way the president is talking about is more of the same. over august i had a chance to talk to dozens of businesses. nothing that he is talking about now relates to what they are telling me. >> sean: it was supposed to be after the vacation, all the hype was, he's gonna give a speech, address the nation, layout his plan. now they are saying he melee

it out incrementally, we may not get the whole plan thursday. i'm thinking, how long do we have to wait for the plan? is it going to be specific? if it is not, why are we having a joint session of congress? >> he needs to write it down. we just went through with the debt limit. he might consider this, that we never got anything in writing and he never agreed to anything. spending the evening listening to him talk about things that are never going to end up in legislation or if they do they will be different, is frustrating. a lot of people are hurting. our economy is in serious danger. the debt is getting worse everyday and the president is just giving speeches and mostly campaigning. i think republicans like we saw in the forum that i was d& g about specific job plans. things that if proven to work in the past, i think that's what we need do, to point out our vision what makes america work is completely opposite

than the president. >> sean: look at how bad it is. zero jobs created. revised downward june and -- june and july numbers by a significant amount. african-american teen unemployment nearly 50% in country. what is missing? the light goes on, there's a little light and a good friend points and says go. there's a sense of urgency i've had about every job i've worked, construction, restaurant business, radio and tv. urgency. the president is taking his time, 2 1/2 years later, another speech on job, we may not be specific. what are they thinking even politically here, besides the attack against people like yourself and me and tea party members? >> well, the president apparently does not understand why the american economy is so unique and so exceptional. why we are so prosperous as a nation. he's trying to micromanage our

economy with temporary targeted, whether it be payroll tax cut or we'll give you 5,000 to hire people. it cost a company 65,000 a year to hire a 40,000 a year person. you are not going to do that unless you were going to do it any way. our economy is different, it is based on individuals taking risk in return for getting reward. he's made the risk higher, rewards lower. that's what is wrong with our economy. he doesn't understand it. what we have to do is minimize the damage. try to stop the spending. and hope the american free enterprise system will survive until we can get another president. >> sean: 2010 the tea party movement had a big impact. biggest midterm election in 70 years. prior to that election the democrats tried to portray the tea party as extreme, as racist, they were called every name in the book. now we are revisiting this. you have the comments of hoffa. that basically we're gonna go

at war with these sons of bitches. in the last week, joe biden sis the barbarians from the gates. you are the only ones keeping the barbarians from the gates. they can go straight to hell. terrorists. the real enemy is the tea party movement. what is the strategy or thinking considering it was not effective in 2010? >> president and democrats are trying to demonize the tea party movement and then everything republicans do like they said my forum was a tea party forum. tea parties weren't involved with organizing the forum. everyone who disagrees with the president now is a tea party member. the problem he has, 60% of americans think we are on the wrong track. 70% think we need to balance the budget. the president is taking on the american people. and the american voters. they disagree him. he's calling them all tea party members if they don't agree with him. he can run on his record.

he's got to demonize the active citizens taking him on. i expect to hear more of it, just like we heard from jim hoffa. if a republican or conservative had said what was said at that meeting, we would be taken to task by every media outlet in the country. >> sean: are you confident that the republicans are going to unite against the president's spending agenda? are you confident that we're not going to have some of the problems we saw this 2011 budget and the more recent deal where republicans were competing against each other? >> sean, a lot of that depends on how active and how loud the american people are. because i'm not completely confident. when you put out a payroll tax cut and these other things that every american wants a little more change in their pocket, it is tempting for republicans to go with that in lieu of a real jobs plan. it will play out it is going to depend on how active the american people are in saying no, let's have a real jobs

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>> sean: president obama announcing -- now sinks to an all time low according to a poll just 44% of americans approve of the job the president is doing. his most dismal number to date. nearly 3/4 of the country think we are headed in the wrong direction. even the liberal mainstream obamamania media can't deny this spells bad news for the president. things not looking much brighter on wall street stocks tumbling third straight session dow ended down again 100 points after plummeting as much as 300 points when they opened. joining me with more on the and the politics of this and why you cannot afford four more years host of varney & company stuart varney. former white house brings secretary fox news contributor,

bob beckel's co-host on the five -- >> anything else? >> sean: no, but i have a secret that i would never reveal. look at her eyes. by a poll of 2-1 americans say not only it is 70 plus percent that obama handling of the economy. 2-1 now sayn"ñ he and his policies have hurt the economy. that's very different from disapproving. >> the president has spent, regulated, demonized america back to recession. i think we are in a recession. >> sean: i agree. >> that's what the position he has put us in. that's why his approval ratings have fallen so far, so fast. that's statistic by a 2-1 margin, americans believe his policies have made the economy worse. that means that what can he do to get us out of this which would have the confidence of the people? nothing. >> sean: infrastructure.

here's an interesting -- i think is the most fascinating piece of news i've picked up today. nancy pelosi has banned the "s" word stimulus. job creation will be used instead of stimulus. make it in america instead of recovery act. this is what i predicted. they came up with focus group poll-tested words but it is the same garbage if you put garbage or something else in a bag, it is the same thing. >> they tried that before. it was so funny to watch them trying to not say that word. economists use that word all the time. 2-1 linking his policies to the current situation is probably the most troubling number for them. expectations for the president's job plans thursday are so low he can help but exceed them. no matter what he says, people will feel like at least he's doing something.

next week he may get a bump in the polls, the dow might do a little better. >> sean: he's going to say we need to come together, we need to work together, republicans and democrats for the good of the people, build roads, bridges and infrastructure. he's talking about the same thing. shovel-ready jobs, never happened. >> if people believe his policies which have made things worse 2-1 margin that's what they believe. what are they going to say when presented with a new trillion dollar infrastructure program? everybody knows what it is. everybody knows that it failed the first time around. everybody knows that it is a political move. it is political spin and won't work. everybody knows this. that's why the dow jones average is tumbling, because it will not -- >> i think it is a little unfair. i think the media of which i am a part we harp on the days that it down. but we don't give praise for the days it is up. >> i think we are in

recession. if we are not we are headed in that direction. passive debt, 9% unemployment. the white house says it will be 9% well into next year. what credit are we supposed to give? >> sean: we have a 15 trillion dollar economy in america. the united states of america and we can't create a single job in august? half african-american youth in this country cannot find a job. these are depression-like numbers. >> that was another interesting number out of the "wall street journal" poll, women and youth. voted for him overwhelmingly in 2008 and they've seen those numbers slip. i think some of the rhetoric and the do as i say and not as i do type of attitude when it comes to calling for civility but not calling out others -- i think that chips away at the women's vote. >> sean: i agree. what is the strategy? why if it didn't work in 2010

to call the tea party all these names, why would you go back to stupidity? >> what is the alternative? the president cannot change course. i've said this week after week on this program, the president cannot change course. he is an ideologue. he must continue -- >> sean: he can change he fuses to. >> i think he will surprise us with something. >> he cannot come up with a policy which is going to work bus you can't reverse course on policy. he must attack the opposition. he must say it is your fault that's what he's going -- >> i don't think he will do that thursday night. >> he will present an infrastructure plan which will not go through the house. >> i don't think that is the own thing he will do. i think he will come forward with something a little bold and edgy that he thinks the republicans and conservatives can come along with, corporate tax rate cut then challenge the congress to pass it. >> sean: capital gains cuts. >> he's going to want more money. it is going to be bridges,

roads infrastructure and government jobs. >> i don't think there is any way -- well -- >> sean: he said it in detroit. >> the house will not accept that. president obama says see, i had a plan i was going to put america to work but those wicked republicans wouldn't let me. >> you are right they have to decide how are they going to draw contrast and say how their new plan is different from their old plan. >> sean: to give him credit, he's done a horrific job on the economy. >> i think when there are fluctuations of the market. >> sean: there is no metric to say the economy is recovering that is his record. that's why hope and change rhetoric is not going to work. >> i'm just talking the daily fluctuations of the market. when it goes up we don't give him any credit. >> sean: we gotta go. ♪

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>> sean: tonight on our great american panel he's a fox news medical contributor our good friend dr. marc siegel is here. he's president executive director of the new york civil rights coalition michael meyers is back. she is a columnist republican strategist noelle nikpour is with us. jimmy hoffa, tone, civility, obama, hypocrisy. >> we got to keep an eye on the battle we face the war on workers. you see it everywhere it is the tea party. there's only one way to beat and win that war. the one thing about working people is that we like a good fight. you know what, they got a war, they got a war with us. there's only going to be one winner the workers of michigan and america. we are going to win that war. president obama this is your

army. we are ready to march. you know what? everybody here has a vote. if we go back and keep the eye on the prize let's take these [ bleep ] out and give america back to america where we belong. thank you very much! >> sean: they got a war with us. they are the enemy, they want blacks hanging from trees. they are terrorists. >> could hoffa not think of any other adjective to use against the republicans, the tea party? did he have to go that low? >> sean: where is obama? >> who pushed with funding to get obama elected in '08? it was the unions. they are a big, big money backer behind these races. this is -- obama knows what he's saying. obama has not come out, no one has condemned any of it. there is never going to be an apology. they rallied the troops to get

everyone behind attacking republicans and tea party. they are a movement. >> two diagnose sees for who have that, -- for hoffa he has the contagion from biden he has the biden disease where he speaks before he thinks like a tourette's syndrome. maybe he has never gotten over his father disappearing. this guy is unstake he's a disgrace this is the problem with the left now. >> sean: what does it say about obama following him? they can go straight to hell, it is a war, they got a war with us. >> it says either of two things. first, i think hoffa's rhetoric was crass and cheap and empty. >> sean: why doesn't obama say that? >> class warfare rhetoric. two things to why obama hasn't says something. one either cowardice on his part in terms of being

tongue-tied or he identifies with that kind of rhetoric. i believe that president obama identifies with that kind of rhetoric. let me finish, obama his own rhetoric, show us what you got. this president has ghetto behavior. it is crass. he lacks grace, he lacks gravitas. and he lacks class. and it is ironic that a person who lacks such class would engage in class warfare rhetoric. >> unions are choking the economy, sitting on the back of the economy and entitlements. unions plus entitles he's trying to writing from that. >> sean: noelle, here's a great opportunity for a sister souljah moment. he's going to lecture republicans on being the opposition, et cetera he gives in speech after the shooting of giffords in tucson. why doesn't he said to his own

party, everybody knows what he said in tucson. everybody hears this rhetoric and they are like this is over-the-top whether you are conservative or liberal, you can hear it. why doesn't he have the moral strength and political savviness to just say this is over-the-top? >> because, according to him, he's a chicago style politician, it is not over-the-top. this is something that obama, if he could would say. >> sean: go straight to hell, sob, racist, jim crow. >> he cannot say these things why doesn't he have people like the beyond people, like mrs. waters. >> sean: the base would hate him more? >> the base is already mad at obama any way because he's not liberal enough. he's not making anyone happy. look at his sinking poll numbers. >> sean: chris matthew's head would explode. >> he has gotten even further to the left. >> fox & friends she would not distance herself. >> sean: time to check in with

greta for a sneak peek for what is on the record in 19 minutes. >> greta: jam-packed show. governor romney versus -- >> sean: sounds like you are in an echo chamber. >> greta: i don't do the audio. governor romney joins us. donald rumsfeld. ambassador tone tells us if he is running or not. one of the football greats emmitt smith joins us. he's an author, dancer, he's everything. we have a jam-packed show. >> sean: i just got a hold of romney's economic plan. guy the whole book. >> greta: i had to read mine quickly because of the interview. >> sean: we'll be watching. we continue more with our we continue more with our great, g [ male announcer ] imagine all of your missed opportunities in one place. the winning horse you could have picked.

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panel. our good friend senator demint who was on earlier, did a south carolina. the highlights. latest -- let's roll the tape. >> the current united states government ain'ts framework is acting outside the bounds of the constitution. >> when the government becomes destructive of those ideals it is the right of the people to that's what the american people are saying right now. >> we are in grave dinger of decaying from citizenship to being subjects. in danger of the center of power of sovereignty leaving you the people and going to washington bureaucrats. >> reason i see us struggling economically is because washington has become too big, too demanding on the lives of the american people. >> sean: rick perry was supposed to be there. he did go back to texas deal with the issue there here's an interesting moment.

romney will be on with greta coming up. governor romney laid out his economic plan. within an hour i saw the perry campaign attacked him. how do you say we created the jobs? >> i think the right going to come didn't i'm sorry for people watching supporting another candidate. right now with the numbers it going to come down to perry and romney unless something else happens. south carolina is a key state to win. last go-round jim demint endorsed romney. i think his endorse is going to weigh heavy. he is the man in south carolina. >> sean: also very influential with the tea party. >> really big. i think south carolina is going to be important for either perry or romney to get. that's why romney changed his plan he wasn't even going to be at the forum he switched his plan and came. >> sean: three important debates coming up culminating with the fox debate in

september in a couple of weeks. we'll know who the front-runners are for sure by the end of that three weeks? >> i watched the forum and thought it was interesting. michelle bachmann made very interesting points about this president not executing all the laws of the land particularly with respect to immigration policy. she could have added his waivers in term of the health care and further education standards to his friends and we have a situation where if you look at the united states department of justice website, it reads like an ethnic minors efficacy website. it doesn't sound like a neutral u.s. justice equal justice website. one more point. i think gingrich was wrong to suggest that the congress should remove the jurisdiction of the supreme court over certain cases many we believe in the rule of law. the supreme court is the final arbiter and decider in terms of what the constitution means. the constitution is very important to our democratic

framework. >> it is definitely all the candidates are coming in. government is too big, over spending. noelle is right it going to come down to romney vs. perry. romney is vulnerable on romney care because massachusetts did not rein in spending they flood the er's unnecessarily. perry doesn't have that problem. romney is on the side of business in a way that the voters are going to see. it going to be romney-perry. romney is vulnerable on romney care. >> i do not think palin is going to get in. >> no. >> sean: those trips to new hampshire and iowa coincidental? >> she is testing the water. >> she is keeping her name out. >> she is testing the waters. >> sean: marco rubio the vice president? >> big time. >> i think perry- knee.

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. >> sean: it is a new book grabbing headlines for its controversial content which criticizes the state of america's educational system. why so many can is are failing in school and who is standing in their way. the left leaning pedia doesn't want to hear it and attacking the author with harsh bias reviews. here to defend himself and explain what does need to happen to put the future of our country on the right track is the author of class warfare steven brill is back. how have you been? >> good. >> sean: go back to ray began and a nation at risk. -- reagan. and a nation at risk. it would be tantamount to an act of war what mass happened to america. >> that's what they said then

and since which was 1983, we've spent two or three times much as we were spending on student education. we haven't paid progress. you and i go way back. i don't have any ax to grind i got interested when i saw the rubber rooms in new york where teachers were!li"ywy being paido nothing. >> sean: a lot of people around the country would be shocked. >> i started to look at this. i did reporting. i went to dozens of schools. i interviewed teachers. i spent hours with the head of the union. i also read the union contracts. i also went to charter schools, some of which occupy the same buildings as the public schools and i saw the difference. the difference is, on page 136 of the union contract, if a principal isn't allowed to competent on the format of the teachers's lesson plan that's not a good formula for having the teachers do well. what you have in the united states of america is

the largest workplace, 3.2 million k-12 teachers. the only workplace where until very recently, performance doesn't count at all. how long you breathe is what counts. and the unions have not liked that message. it is an undeniable message i'm hardly the only one who is saying it. the advantage i have is i did the reporting, instead of quoting people. and i have no ax to grind. >> sean: why the criticism? you were telling me about the reviews, people admit they never read the book. >> for journal -- for a journalist it is shocking to look at the review of your book when the first sentence is now terrible it is. and the second sentence is i haven't read this book and i don't intend to. what is more shocking is the education columnist for "the new york times" a newspaper i usually worship, unlike you, interviewed me and

started to go off on one of the charter schools that i wrote about and started to quote data which i knew was ãk i tried to explain to him that it was wrong, he said ig.fc3m don't hae time for any of this expletive deleted and slammed the phone down. for someone like me who has been a reporter for years and years and respects the new york times that was a rude awakening. what i'm trying to do is get the american people to understand what is really going on in our education system. it is not about money. >> sean: are you convinced that the conservatives like myself, that have been so critical of the "new york times". i just read their editorial pages, slant in their stories. do you think now this experience -- i'm not looking for validation here, do you think maybe we are more right than you thought? >> certainly in this context. when it comes to questioning this union, which is a very powerful union, i have to agree you are right. i'm a reporter, i like to take

things one by one. not try to make a generalization. it is tempting to make a make a generalization when you have this kind of experience or when the website slate reviews the book the only other negative review by any reputable publication. and it turn out the reviewer works for a think tank which all the board members are heads of unions, randi weingarten is on the board. the teacher's union donated $600,000 to that think tank and none of that is disclosed in the author's id. >> sean: i've always said there is an unholy alliance between teachers unions and democrats. there was an all-girl public school in new york, in harlem, kids wore uniforms, all girls, successful, kids loved it, parents loved it, scores went up they sued to close it down. >> they brout