WaPo's Nakamura Fails to Note Hoffa's Violent Rhetoric at Obama Labor

Ken Shepherd
September 6th, 2011 10:12 AM
The Washington Post treated President Obama's Detroit Labor Day rally to page A3 coverage, with a 19-paragraph September 6 story by staffer David Nakamura. Controversial Teamsters president James P. Hoffa -- son of the late Jimmy Hoffa -- was quoted, but not the infamous "take these sons of bitches out" line that has been reported elsewhere. Indeed, Nakamura aimed to paint the partisanship…
 

CNN's John King Interviews Hoffa Without Asking About 'Son of a B---he

Noel Sheppard
September 6th, 2011 12:30 AM
As NewsBusters previously reported, Teamsters president James Hoffa Jr. on Monday, at a Labor Day rally addressed by President Obama moments later, made some disgraceful comments about the Tea Party and his political rivals. Later in the day, Hoffa was interviewed for six minutes by CNN's John King, and although the union leader's comments were played at the beginning of the segment and…