A Hearty Welcome…

… to a recent and welcome addition to Memphis Bloggers’ Row—
Nutmeg has made her first post at David Holt’s site, and all I can say is that it’s about damn time she makes her voice heard. I’ve had the pleasure of knowing this smart lady since the 2004 Kerry campaign, and now you get [...]

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Cohen Rally— Be There!

Date: Saturday, November 4, 2006
Time: 4:00pm
Location: Cohen Headquarters1803 Union Avenue
Bring home-made signs that express Democratic Unity and Victory!

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A Class Ac”T”

In my rush to adequately convey the absolute absence of political gravitas in the Jake Ford campaign and the thuggish Napoleon complex exhibited by his brother Isaac, I’ve overlooked a valued member of Team Ford— T.
I can’t bring myself to follow the lead of Joe Ford Jr. and refer to him as “Mr. T”, for [...]

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I Get Around…

Gotta love the combination of Volunteer Voters and YouTube. My recording of Isaac Ford has now been made into an ad…

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Another Day, Another Meltdown

Just when you think that the Ford campaign staff can’t get any more incompetent…
(Nashville) – Just days after Congressman Harold Ford Jr. (D-Memphis) was caught on camera during his Memphis Meltdown, Ford senior staffers were caught on tape using profanity and aggressively manhandling a young Republican staffer – all while Congressman Ford stood by watching [...]

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Early Screw-up

And just when you think that Jake has gotten his congressional act together (well, not that any of us actually thought that he would get his act together –ever– but that aside…) he has done it again. So what is it this time?
He did not file his FEC financial disclosure. [...]

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Single Issue Voters

I had been trying like hell to avoid a political discussion with this guy. I was in my workplace, and I try to avoid bringing my politics there. Plus, he walked in complaining about how a travel show with a scene of girls in bikinis was getting in the way of him [...]

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The Judas Goat

I usually don’t do this, but once in a while, I have to make an exception. I do this not to call out someone who’s made a comment here, but because I think this is something that should be addressed publicly.
TennMom wrote to me in a response to another post:
As a lifelong Tennessee Democrat, [...]

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That Is SO Jake…

For all those who wondered, Harold Ford Jr. has proven once again that yes, he and Jake are related. For Harold’s latest campaign stunt clearly seems to be more in line with the Jake Ford “This is WWE stuff. We gotta bark at each other. Bark!” campaign style than anything one could expect to see [...]

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WOW.

Sometimes, that’s all you can say about a news story.
Remains found at World Trade Center site

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Two and a Half Men – The Ninth District Congressional Debate

When a candidate as ill-suited for public life as Jake Ford comes along, the people that are writing about him hold back a little bit. Telling the truth can start to look like a rambling polemic if you’re not careful, and the line separating the two is a delicate one.
But sometimes, the elephant in the [...]

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Voting Ford— Aid and Comfort to the Enemy

If you ever needed proof that the political world has been turned upside down, this is it. The Democratic Senate Campaign Committee has posted a response to “blatantly false accusations” that Ford… acted like a Democrat.

To borrow a phrase from my friend Pesky Fly— I’m shitting you negative. The DSCC, in defending [...]

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Jake Ford to Miss Tonight’s Debate

I have the story here.

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Even Worse Than We Knew…

From Jackson Baker’s masterful “Jake Ford’s Attacks on Family: Then and Now“:
The chronology of arrests, however, shows that at least one of them, for DUI, occurred in 1994, well after his father’s acquittal of all charges during the second of his two trials. And another charge admitted to Thursday by Jake Ford, assault against [...]

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The Wages of Spin

Jake Ford held a press conference. That’s part of the playbook for a politician whose campaign is about to be rocked by scandal; When you find out that the story will be broken by a major media outlet the next day, you hold a press conference as the story goes to press so that [...]

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Jake Ford’s Arrest Record

I wasn’t expecting it online until much later tonight, but the Commercial Appeal has given us a taste of tomorrow morning’s cover story: Jake’s arrest record.
Go check it out. Try to keep a straight face as he insists that getting arrested over and over is simply a case of “mistaken identity” and discrimination.
Also [...]

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The Eternal Bosom of Hot Love, Scare Tactics, and the MMA

North Korea has been in the news for the last several days because they’ve allegedly tested a nuclear weapon. But did it really even happen?
Is anyone suspicious of the fact that the Financial Times website has overhead satellite views of the North Korean nuclear facilities, yet the North Koreans managed to test a nuclear [...]

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Anna Politkovskaya

Journalism, at its best, goes beyond the bald recitation of facts. Sometimes it fails, and sometimes it succeeds, but it always carries the responsibility of giving a voice to the voiceless. It gives us facts we do not know while giving us a perspective that we can’t find anywhere else.
Such a journalist was [...]

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Damn Yankees.

Yet another year of postseason humiliation… You would think that as damn much as Steinbrenner pays for the team, they would be unbeatable.
But no, my boys have yet again found a way to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory…

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La Cage Aux Foley II: Got Irony?

Man, someone has to hit me with some instructions on how to get footage from my cable DVR into the computer and upload it onto YouTube…
I love those “To Catch a Predator” shows on Dateline NBC. I’m violently opposed to adults preying on underage kids for sex, and I damn near jump up and [...]

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