Yo! Bum Rush The Press Conference
October 21st, 2006 at 1:22 pm by Smantix
Not since KRS-One bum rushed PM Dawn on stage has a mic-jack backfired so badly.
Your local Know-It-All mentioned it last week and it seems my Karnac turban was securely fastened. Though Drudge is running the video and the usual blogotards are cheering Harold Ford’s staged crashing of a Corker campaign stop, our statewide paper (that endorsed Ford last week) has yet to even deem the story worthy of a thimble full of ink.
After all, isn’t it easier to ignore this story outright and continue demanding that the Corker people magically pull an ad that’s being run by a PAC?
I was going to sit this one out. Me, of all people.
I wanted Ed Bryant to beat Corker in the primary and feel that the underhanded candidate Van Hilleary was running at the request of Corker to split the conservative vote. I still feel that way.
But thanks to the Reverend Harold Gotti, Jr., I’ll be spending this sunny Saturday afternoon to go early vote for his opponent.
Some have said “the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree”. I prefer to say that the loser doesn’t fall from from the bastard.
I can choose to hold my nose for 5 minutes and pull the lever for Corker or be forced to hold my nose for six years while the stench of the Ford Crime Family’s corruption makes it’s way through the Senate.
Those of us who don’t live in Memphis have never been able to register a vote against the kleptocratic thugocracy that has reigned in the Mud City for the last 40 years. For me, that changed today.
Thank you Harold Gotti! Link to the video.
October 21st, 2006 at 1:52 pm
Damn…your Tennessee politics are fun.
I am just a simple Californian. Your ways frighten and confuse me…
(and my state’s politics are boring as hell this year…)
October 21st, 2006 at 2:16 pm
It would be more fun if there were two parties running.
Here, the Republican candidates go buy a red pick-up truck and start travelling the state to glad hand. The Democrats buy a red truck and start loading up the bed with illegal aliens to vote at the polls with the driver’s licenses they gave them.
October 21st, 2006 at 3:27 pm
I’m such an idiot, I just emailed this story to Preston before I saw this post!
Hilarious!
Billy, Alabama’s are boring this year too. They get all the fun in TN. Hilarious how Ford went to go get all up in Corker’s grill ‘n’ shit. Whadda maroon!
October 21st, 2006 at 3:35 pm
Yeah…we got the Governator vs. Phil Angelides…can you imagine that wuss getting up in Ahnold’s face?
I don’t even know who is running against Feinstein…not that it matters.
What we need is a good anti-immigrant, “racist” ballot proposition…
October 21st, 2006 at 3:52 pm
[...] Check out “Rev. Harold Gotti, Jr.” and his goons hunting down Bob Corker in a parking lot! Harold Ford seems to have a thing for getting up in people’s grills. What’s up with that? Is “Harold Gotti Jr.” running for the US Senate, or for capo? Would he debate issues like an adult, or is physically challenging his ideological opponents his M.O.? Can you imagine this clown in a Senate floor debate? [...]
October 21st, 2006 at 6:56 pm
Hey Smantix – I know that Ford opened the door for ‘family talk’ when he chimed in about his grandmother and her moral teachings, and I know that family money paid for his education, but you can’t choose your parents.
I guess my question is this, (and i’m not trying to be contrary or argumentative here), is there any evidence that Ford, as a congressman, has done anything dirty, sold votes, or diddled anyone under the age of consent?
I’m not thrilled about either candidate to be sure. I’d feel a lot better about Ford if he would endorse Cohen and quit endorsing the baby Jesus.
October 21st, 2006 at 7:49 pm
Some bullet points John.
Everything Gotti, Jr. has is fruit from the poisonous tree of Gotti Sr. His education, his congressional seat, and the government teat he’s suckled at since leaving Ivy League College. And right down to his father lobbying him to influence legislation as we speak. Black Commentator magazine jumped all over Ford about his grandmamma.
Ford has demonstrated, with his father in tow, that he is having his father’s clients lobby him to influence legislation. A lot of lobbyists in the world. Not all of ‘em are your crooked assed father.
Ford’s constant Christophile pose is beyond sickening. It’s sickening to me no matter who’s doing it. If a Republican was filming campaign ads in churches, quotin’ the bible and talking Jesus while slutting it up with every piece of tail that switched her fine ass (or at least that’s how he portrays himself), the oft-thrown charge of Hypocrite would permeate every peppered question from reporters.
The real question to me that no one ever seems to ask is – is Ford gay or bi? (The Mayor is a closeted gay. He has some gay people in government in Nashville that he keeps on the down low.) Not that there’s anything wrong with that. Unless you’re a Republican. He meets the Seinfeld criteria – Late 30s, neat, thin, never married. No long term relationships.
Back to the Foley jibe. Prior to this IM chatting scandal, I’d never heard of him but after these interviews with the Priest who he said molested him. Christ. Have you heard them?
This sick priest who fled the country to Italy is on interview as saying that he liked to fondle him and all kinds of crazy stuff – but that it was ok because it wasn’t rape. My first impression when Foley played the victim card was “yea, right. How’s he going to prove this one?” And then priest comes out and says “we went skinny dipping and had him stay overnight so I could rub his 13 year old peepee in the sauna” admission.
What kind of fricking church has a damn sauna? Some 1970s, Velvet Underground – “White Light, White Meat” bath-house?
I was at a loss.
October 21st, 2006 at 10:50 pm
I thought Ford Jr had this whole thing wrapped up?
I suppose I’ll go and early vote as soon as I get back to Knoxville. Might as well hold my nose and vote for Corker. Being from Memphis myself, the thought of the Ford Crime Family taking over the senate isn’t very appetizing. Though he would probably feel right at home with the rest of the Senatorial criminals.
October 22nd, 2006 at 11:29 am
Not that this REALLY matters…
Is there some confusion over the ethnicity of this Ford dude?
I mean, if I lived in Tennessee I wouldn’t care if the guy was green…a crook is a crook, a slimy politician is a slimy politician.
Can one of y’all Tennessee folk enlighten me?
(Oh…and congrats on your comeback vs. Bama)
October 22nd, 2006 at 12:18 pm
Sunday Funnies…
Church and State: Harold Ford Jr. – “Deja Gore”
Patterico shows us how one becomes a right wing pundit.
Dan Collins encounters the sock puppet army
Ace announces Haiku Contest Winners
The Chatterbox Chronicles shares some good funnies.
I…
October 22nd, 2006 at 12:28 pm
Ford likes to play the Christian card. He’s not one but he claims his grandmammy taughts him all about it. The problem is that he’s lied in public about his granny’s race and it’s upset some black folk.
Now just looking at Ford in a picture, it would be hard to tell. He’s practically translucent. But he does play the Race Card whenever it’s convenient.
Earlier this year, in conjunction with a Donk PR firm out of New York, he started circulating a rumor that Republicans were going after him for dating white women at some posh Meat District restaurant near Manhattan called “Sasha”.
Naturally, the usual suspects were all up in arms about those racist Republicans until it came out that it was a “false flag” play by their home team to incite racial tensions. Coming from the people who put Joe Lieberman and Michael Steele in blackface it is unsurprising to say the least.
October 22nd, 2006 at 2:59 pm
Harold’s stunt has put him in the tank.