Commercial Appeal – The Bully Pulpit of Bigotry

Pesky Fly beat me to the punch on this one and put up a remarkable post. As far as I’m concerned, the word “Fucktard” is now the sole property of the bloggers at The Flypaper Theory. I’ve edited it out of the few posts where I’ve used it, replacing it with “asshead”. I’m content with [...]

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Shocking Development in the Republican Senate Primary!

There appears to have been a shocking development in the US Senate Republican Primary in Tennessee.
Fact Check, the site that seemed to have handled the 2004 presidential race in a way that can only be described as “Fair and Balanced”, has looked at the Republican Senate Primary and reached the conclusion that the Republican candidates [...]

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A Breath of Fresh Air…

In all honesty, I wasn’t quite sure what to expect out of the Steve Haley event held at his house this afternoon. I certainly support him— I’ve made my feelings on Ophelia Ford abundantly clear in the past. I met him when he was running against her the first time around, and I [...]

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Papa Top’s West Coast Turnaround

Country music, under normal circumstances, is not my thing.  I love Johnny Cash’s music.  I like Willie Nelson, but I think that may be as much about who he is than the music itself.  My father loved the old time country music singers, and he and my mother used to listen to Patsy Cline fairly often.
But that’s roughly [...]

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The Playbook

As most know by now, Harold Ford Sr. and A.C. Wharton both opened their wallets for Julian Bolton in the TN 9th District Congressional race.
What very few are talking about is what this actually means.
Nikki Tinker has been playing up the “I worked for Ford Jr.” angle in an attempt to make herself look like [...]

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Dear Emily…

Carrie Giddinspress@emilyslist.orgI can’t begin to fathom what your organization was thinking.You once seemed to be somewhat selective in the company you kept. The smart women, the women most likely to succeed… It makes one of your recent choices puzzling.Hooking up with Nikki Tinker, simply put, was a stupid mistake more worthy of a political novice [...]

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Head to Head: Cohen vs. Tinker

So I went to the Tinker website, and I was simply stunned at how little she actually says.  Particularly since her Anonytrolls have been bombarding several of the local bloggers with comments about how much she talks about “the issues”.
For contrast, I provided some of Steve Cohen’s platform on here.  I wanted to show people the difference [...]

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14:55, 14:56, 14:57…

It appears that Nikki Tinker’s weak-minded staff has decided to anonymously post drivel on the blogs of everyone not endorsing their sad excuse for a candidate.
Tell me— Do you think that by coming here and making asses of yourselves, you’ve helped her chances of getting elected? Tinker’s Tools are alienating even more people than the [...]

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But Is This Tinker’s HQ Or EMILY’S List HQ?

It’s one or the other, based on the return address from Tinker’s mailout.
Hat tip to Wintermute for snapping these pictures.

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9th District Revisited

After reading the news and local blogs today, I thought this race was worth revisiting.  You know, what with the seismic shifts brought on by Joe Towns getting out of the race and telling his single digit list of supporters to vote for Julian Bolton.There are some genuinely good people in this race.  Many of them are [...]

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100

At this time last year, we only had 90 murders in this city. It’s sad that ninety almost seems like an acceptable number now.
Memphis is like a great ship, upon a torrential wave… And the captain has let go of the wheel.
It’s not hard to predict where the murders will take place. [...]

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The Truth in Black and White

Once upon a time, nothing terrified white people more than the idea of facing black people as equals.  And nothing terrified black people more than white people.
And with good reason.  Cowards, some in white robes, and some so indifferent that they didn’t even bother to hide their identities prowled the night, hanging “Strange Fruit” from the tree [...]

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Meet the New Coulter, Same as the Old Coulter

So the Augusta Chronicle has ditched the Coultergeist…  But is this what passes for an improvement?“We think you’ll like Michelle Malkin. The daughter of Filipino immigrants, Malkin has burned a meteoric trail since her start as an editorial writer/columnist for the Los Angeles Daily News in 1992. She also was on the editorial board of the [...]

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Blackface

Reposted in honor of Fearless (snicker) Leader’s NAACP Convention Speech…He lamented the lack of black support for Republicans.  It might help to remind him why.  “Probably nothing.” – Jeb Bush when asked during his failed 1994 campaign for governor what he would do for Florida’s black population.  “Conrad, how can you live in Washington with all [...]

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And the Band Still Plays On

A couple of days ago, Pesky Fly wrote a remarkable and moving piece for his friend T. By all accounts, T is the kind of friend everyone should have, and he just left this world a poorer place on Tuesday when he succumbed to AIDS.
I wasn’t fortunate enough to know T, so I’ll leave it [...]

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Morons of the Right: Part 61,254,985

It’s not very often that we see such a profound, shining example of Right Wing Dumbth. How, pray tell, can you see something like this and not comment on it?
The Onion wrote a satirical piece in which a woman told readers how “psyched” she was to be getting an abortion. Some choice nuggets from the [...]

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7/19/06 – The Day Alberto Gonzales Got Deported

Senator Arlen Specter looked at the Attorney General and sternly asked “Many other lawyers in the Department of Justice had clearance. Why not OPR?” It was a reasonable question. When an illegal wiretapping program flourishes under the nose of the Justice, someone has to answer some questions.
Alberto looked at him and said “The President of [...]

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I’ll Get By With a Little Help From My Friends…

I generally try to avoid writing the “what I’ve been up to” posts. I’m an avid reader of Serrabee’s over at Rock’n’Roll Minor Planets, and any kind of “a day in the life” posts that I could do come up woefully short against hers (If you’re not an avid reader of hers, you should [...]

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John Dean in The Boston Globe

First, allow me to say that I’m an admirer of John Dean. He’s certainly more conservative than me, but time and again, he’s demonstrated more integrity than anyone else associated with the conservative movement. His book Worse Than Watergate is a must-read, and I plan to get his book Conservatives Without Conscience.
I [...]

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A Prominent Democrat???

I took WMC-TV to task on this site once for sloppy, slanted reporting (Be one if you must, but being both should get you voted off of the island). And it appears they’ve done it again.
Richard Fields circulated a letter naming all the people that he endorses for office this year. And of [...]

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