Dirty, Bigoted Political Campaign: Republicans Play RACE CARD In Tennessee Against Black Democratic Senate Candidate, Rep. Harold Ford, Jr. - RI10

Dirty, Bigoted Political

Campaign: Republicans

Play RACE CARD In

Tennessee Against Black

Democratic Senate

Candidate, Rep. Harold

Ford, Jr. - RI10

Fighting the radical right in Tennessee and the nation

Saturday, October 21, 2006

GOP Aims Sleazy Blonde-Bimbo Ad At Ford!

Republican TV AD Swift-boats Harold Ford (D-TN):

See this Republican ad in its entirety (Yes, they do take credit); go to

http://guerillawomentn.blogspot.com/2006/10/gop-aims-sleazy-blonde-bimbo-ad-at.html

She's a brassy trailer-trash blonde. She wears cheap make-up, gaudy K-Mart jewelry, and speaks in dumb-blonde-bimbo dialect. We don't get a full body shot, and we're glad. Her shoulders are bare. We can only imagine what she is, or is not, wearing.

She gushes, "I met Harold at the Playboy Party." Yeah, right. With her looks she couldn't get on a Girls Gone Wild video, let alone anywhere near the Playboy mansion. We think the RNC found her on the street, and given the newly discovered Republican fondness for perversion, there's probably a story there.

At the end of the ad, she winks and delivers the Girls Gone Wild line, "Harold, call me!"

Other sleazy characters include the sloppy black woman who forgot to comb her hair and appears to need a bath and the shady-looking dude who seems to be a porn consumer and says it's no big deal if Ford takes money from porn producers.

Best part of the ad: "The Republican National Committee is responsible for the content of this advertisement."

They don't even have the sense to be embarrassed.

Harold Ford's Republican opponent is playing the role of the shocked and morally superior candidate.

Bob Corker -- who has been called the "King of Lies" by a fellow conservative -- has issued an indignant press release urging the RNC to pull the "tacky" ad.

Tabacco: When you see Corker on TV denying culpability, note that he cannot help himself – he smiles continually. One more indication of Corker’s insincerity!

Only recently, Corker hired tycoon Bob Perry, "a major financier of the 'Swiftboat Veterans for Truth' to finance another series of disgusting untrue negative ads against Ford." But as the story goes, this sleazy ad is from the RNC.

Both Moderate Matt over at Tennessee Progressive Report and Kleinheider think this ad is going to do some major damage to Ford. It might. Or it might help Ford.

There is no doubt about it; this is going to make a lot of people angry. And it just might make some people mad enough to get out and vote for Harold Ford. Already, predominantly black Memphis has seen "explosive numbers" of early voters.

Slimy attack ads are certainly not going to dampen the black vote. Any way you slice it, blacks are the most progressive and reliably democratic voters in this state. If they vote in large numbers, Ford is going to win!

Tabacco: There is a good deal about Harold Ford, Jr., that Tabacco abhors. But I will leave those aspects until after the election. The racist Republican tactics have taken all other issues off the table. Added to this is the fact that Ford is a Democrat. Other than Joe Lieberman, there is no Democrat in Congress lower than Republican politicians.

Please note that no one in the Mainstream Media this time is using that oft-used term “RACE CARD”!  

They love to accuse Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton of playing the “race card”.  But when it really applies, when a White man plays the ”RACE CARD”, nobody says a word.  SHHHHHH, QUIET, DOUBLE-STANDARD HYPOCRITES AT WORK!

In the event there is 1 person in America, who does not get this, allow me to be explicit. Harold Ford, Jr., is a light-skinned Negro, but still Black. The Playboy actress is WHITE. The State is Tennessee. Black men, running for public office in Tennessee, do not express any SEXUAL INTEREST IN WHITE WOMEN PERIOD! The Republican ad implies very specifically that Ford has prurient interest in WHITE WOMEN - THIS CHANGES VOTES IN TENNESSEE. Racists, who may have voted for Ford, will now vote for his White opponent, Corker, for that reason alone.  Have I made it clear enough for you!

If Ford were Republican, does anyone truly believe the DNC of 2006 would permit, let alone sponsor such an ad!




 

Harold Ford Eyes Senate Upset, Denies

Being a Playboy

On the Trail: Ford vs. Corker In Battle That Could Sway the Senate
By ED O'KEEFE

Oct. 15, 2006 — - Rep. Harold Ford, D-Tenn., discussed the spirited and surprisingly close campaign he has waged in a fight with former Chattanooga Mayor Bob Corker for the open Senate seat of retiring Majority Leader Bill Frist, in an exclusive appearance on "This Week with George Stephanopoulos."

Defending himself against accusations made by his political opponents that the five-term Democratic congressman is a "churchgoer by day and playboy by night," Ford told ABC News, "I have never been to the Playboy mansion."

"Here we are in the South, a race in which the majority leader of the Senate, Bill Frist, has held this seat now for 12 years," Ford told ABC News, in another of 'This Week's' series of "On the Trail" interviews leading up to the critical Congressional midterm elections in November and the 2008 presidential campaign. "You would think that my opponent would be out bragging that, 'Hey, I'm going to go to the Senate and do what Bill Frist has done."

Indeed, many political experts predicted Corker, a wealthy real estate developer, would be coasting to victory over the 36-year-old congressman in the increasingly Republican state of Tennessee.

Also appearing exclusively on "This Week," Corker said, "It's just a big race. I think the national environment is what it is, and I think people throughout the country have a lot of concerns that make the water a little choppy, but I am absolutely convinced I'm going to win this race."

Ford, a bachelor, has served in Congress virtually since graduating from the University of Michigan Law School in 1996. If elected, he would be the first black senator from the South since Reconstruction. Ford has framed himself in the campaign as a "different kind of Democrat," who voted for the war in Iraq, but now favors a change in course. He also frequently invokes God on the trail and even filmed an ad in a church.

"I grew up in that church. I was baptized in that church. And the kind of attacks that we're taking in this campaign have been so fierce and so unrelenting, that I've relied on my faith a whole lot in this campaign," Ford said, insisting he had not crossed the line with the ad. "So it seemed pretty natural to me."

Corker disagreed.

"He is a person whose way of life is being in politics," Corker charged. "This is, to him, not about a sense of mission, if you will, about solving our country's problems."

Chief Washington correspondent George Stephanopoulos asked Ford (what) message he means to convey by handing out business cards with the Ten Commandments on the back.

"Elect me, I know the difference between right and wrong," Ford said. "I don't always live my life perfect, but I try my hardest to follow somebody that does, and I just don't believe that, from looking at this politically, that Democrats ought to cede any ground to any Republican when it comes to morality and faith."

Corker continued to press Ford on the matter.

"This is a person whose way of life is being in politics -- and so when a race like this comes up, obviously, his voting record is very, very, very different than the way he portrays himself," Corker said. "He's running now to try to portray himself as someone who does, in fact, represent the values of Tennesseans, and that has not been the case over the last 10 years."

Asked by Stephanopoulos whether or not Ford is a "hypocrite," Corker replied, "I don't use words like that, but he's certainly running as somebody that he's not."

Ford also brushed back charges by the Corker campaign that the history of Ford's political family does not bode well for promoting the 36-year-old to the Senate.

The son of former Rep. Harold Ford, Sr., Ford comes from a powerful, if notorious, political family. Two of Ford's uncles resigned their legislative positions amid charges of bribery and fraud, and his father was also charged, but later acquitted, of similar charges.

Corker has "nothing else to campaign on," Ford countered. "He didn't mention anything about the Bush political machine. Our little family down here has run for city council, county commissioner, Congress and state senate. The Bush family has governors and former senators and former presidents. I'm sure he wouldn't call the Bush family a political machine, but he has a different standard when it comes to my family."

Corker denies that he has made Ford's family an issue in the campaign.

"There's never been a comment ever, never a personal comment ever made about the family," Corker said. "To talk about the Ford political machine, I mean, that's something that members of the press had written about for decades."

In a counterpunch, however, the Ford campaign has taken out ads claiming that Corker, while mayor of Chattanooga, voted himself pay raises while his personal fortunate grew due to the rapid development of his real estate business.

"That's another ridiculous distortion by the congressman and just absolutely absurd and untrue," Corker said.

"First of all, the mayor if Chattanooga doesn't vote on his own pay raises," Corker continued. "It's tied to another public official by charter."

On the charge that his net worth increased while in office, the former mayor retorted, "No local paper has ever said my net worth went up. That's absolutely not true. Not based on fact, no. Somebody might have speculated, but that's just not true. I may have followed the best opportunity in my career with low interest rates and what I do to really do well in that regard. And, certainly, I had no involvement in business during that time. And that's just not true."

Ford has also been on the attack on bigger issues.

"My opponent has yet to share whether or not he believes we should engage in bilateral talks with North Korea. He has yet to talk about whether we need a new strategy on the ground in Iraq. He actually said we should just stay the course," Ford charged.

Regarding Iraq, Corker claimed that Ford was taking his "stay the course" comments "out of context."

"When asked about whether we should leave Iraq before the people of Iraq were able to secure themselves, maybe that statement was made," Corker said. "As it relates to what we ought to do on the ground to ensure that we do that, we certainly need to listen to the military commanders. We need to be flexible in our approach and we need to do whatever is necessary to cause that to happen. And so that's different than just, if you will, staying the course and doing exactly what we're doing today, which is what was intended when I said that."

Corker argued that Ford is "out of step" with Tennesseans.

"I think it's really about somebody going to Washington that has been shaped by Tennessee values," he said. "I think that voters, voters, by the time these races end, have a true sense of who the person is."

Ford repeatedly invokes his faith.

"The Bible doesn't belong to any party or any candidate and I'm certainly not going to allow my opponent to make me something that I'm not," Ford told ABC News.

On moral issues, Ford treads carefully, meticulously explaining his 10-year voting record in Congress.

When asked by Stephanopoulos when he believes life begins, Ford, who describes himself as "pro-life" replied, "The goal here should be to reduce the number of abortions. We can debate day in and day out when it starts, when it doesn't start. The reality is we want to reduce the number and we've done nothing in this country for 50 years other than debate this."

When he first arrived in the House a decade ago, Ford voted against a ban on partial birth abortions, but has since voted in favor of such a ban numerous times. The Congressman explained the contradiction.

"It was a personal decision on my part. It had nothing to do with anything other than seeing something that said, 'You know what? The other side has a point on this,' " he told ABC News. "And I'm just a believer that we don't advance the cause of life nor do we advance any effort to promote a woman's inalienable rights or Supreme Court protected rights by allowing partial birth abortions. So I decided differently."

Corker claimed that the sudden resignation of Rep. Mark Foley, R-Fla., in the wake of revelations by ABC News regarding sexually explicit e-mails Foley had exchanged with former House pages had not affected the Senate race in Tennessee.

Nevertheless, Corker strongly rebuked Foley.

"I think it's absolutely deplorable that there are people who serve in those positions and who abuse those positions and take advantage of young people," he said. "And I think people across the country, regardless of what background, feel the same way."

The former mayor called for a "swift investigation."

"If there have been improprieties by leadership, if you will, people need to be punished," he added.

On the subject of a possible Democratic takeover in the House -- with the possibility perhaps increased by the Foley scandal, some experts say -- Ford did not necessarily come to the defense of his party's leader, Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, R-Calif., who could become the lower chamber's next speaker.

"She's been my leader for four years, and I wish her the very best, but she's not on the ballot here and I'm not on the ballot the ballot in California," said Ford, who ran against Pelosi for a House leadership post in 2002.

Ford refused to engage the question of what would happen if a national tide were to take both Ford to the Senate and Pelosi to the top of the House.

"I'm running for the Senate. I'm running in a different chamber. The leader of the Senate would be a different person," he said. "But before we get there, I've got three weeks and two or three days to focus on and that's where my energy, where my focus and where my intensity will be over the next three and a half weeks."

And, if the past year of charges and countercharges have been any example, the last three weeks in Tennessee will surely be a barnburner.

Corker claims he's ready for that fight.

"What we need to do over the next 25 days," he said, "is the same thing that we've been doing.

"I think there's a tremendous amount of energy around our efforts and, again, I have to say I have faith in the voters of our state to see the true differences that exist between us and really to focus on our ability to work with other people to solve the complex issues that our country deals with," he added.

For his part, the feisty congressman who has made a race in a state that has not always been kind to its native sons or career politicians will certainly be fighting to the finish.

"Only voters know what they're going to do when they walk in that booth. But I've got to tell you, I'm a feel politician, F-E-E-L, and when I'm out all across this state, you feel it," Ford told ABC News. "I mean, the momentum is growing."

"We've got three hard, hard weeks in front of us," Ford concluded. "I don't think any candidate in the country -- a lot of them are going to take a lot of tough hits -- but I don't think anyone is going to take what we're going to take and have to endure over the next weeks."

Stephanopoulos' entire interviews with both Ford and Corker can be viewed at "This Week's" Web page at www.abcnews.com.
http://abcnews.go.com/ThisWeek/print?id=2569351

Tabacco: Reading between the lines – Harold Ford, Jr., in denying he is a “playboy”, is forced to say publicly to Whites in Tennessee that he DOES NOT CHASE AFTER WHITE WOMEN! Nobody cares if he chases after Black women, except as political ammunition to defeat him of course. Go ahead and tell me that things have changed in the South, that Blacks are treated equally in America, and that a Black man has the same chance as a comparable White man.







U.S. Rep. Harold Ford Jr., left, talks
with former President Bill Clinton at
a rally in Nashville in August.

Tabacco: You have to look very closely to see the difference in coloration between these two men. Ford’s hair is the only salient feature betraying his ethnicity. Carol Channing and J. Edgar Hoover are just two examples of Blacks, who succeeded extraordinarily in America because nobody could tell the difference. If skin color sometimes does not differentiate Blacks from Whites, then what is the problem with undereducated Southern White bigots? We need a dialogue on this issue. We need to bring it out of the closet and discuss it now. Without it, Blacks will only go backward, not forward. America always exploits the Weak and the Reticent! Without such a dialogue, Martin L. King’s “not by the color of their skin, but the content of their character” prediction will never come to pass. No one in America achieves anything by “blending in with the scenery”. Social advancement only comes through activism, loud and frequent complaining, disruption and dedication of purpose. That’s how we made progress in the Civil Rights struggles of the 1960s. Moreover, if we don’t press forward, we will fall backward – perhaps as far back as 1953 or 1862.




Black Senate candidates seek votes across party lines
Updated 10/6/2006 12:14 AM ET
By Jill Lawrence, USA TODAY

BRIGHTON, Tenn. — Rep. Harold Ford was waxing nostalgic here this week for a man he said had made America admired and respected, a man who had defeated the evil of his day without firing a missile or a weapon.

"I miss the moment that he evoked and the spirit that he evoked," Ford told teenagers jammed into a high school gymnasium, cheering for him and also for that man: Ronald Reagan.

Ford, one of two black Senate candidates this year, is a Democrat trying to win in a conservative state. Maryland Lt. Gov. Michael Steele is a Republican trying to win in a liberal state. Both are trying to draw votes across party lines, beat expectations and make history.

Steele, 47, is 15 points behind Democratic Rep. Ben Cardin in a new USA TODAY/Gallup Poll of likely voters. Ford, 36, holds a 5-point lead over Republican Bob Corker, a former Chattanooga mayor.

A Roman Catholic who opposes abortion and stem cell research, Steele is pitching his likable personality. Thomas Schaller, a political scientist at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, says that's smart, given his situation: "He's a socially conservative Republican running in the third or fourth most Democratic state in the union in a down Republican year."

Campaigning began early

Tennessee has become increasingly Republican in federal races; even native son Al Gore couldn't win it in 2000. Ford's 10-year record in Congress includes support for business tax cuts, nuclear power, a balanced-budget amendment and tough border control.

"His voting record and views are somewhat pragmatic. They're not readily predictable," says Bruce Oppenheimer, a political scientist at Vanderbilt University. "The Corker campaign keeps trying to stamp him with the liberal label, but it's been harder to make that stick."

If Ford wins, he'd be the first black senator from the South in 125 years. Steele would be the second black Republican in the Senate since Reconstruction.

Schaller, author of a new book called Whistling Past Dixie: How Democrats Can Win Without the South, says Ford's fate carries larger implications. "He is running a great campaign in a good Democratic year" in a relatively moderate Southern state, Schaller says; if he falls short, "that will be very telling about Democrats' long-term prospects in the South."

In June 2005, Ford ran the first ad of any candidate running for Congress in 2006 — a tribute to U.S. troops in Iraq. More recent spots have shown him in his church and in a classroom, recounting his advice to children: "Work hard, play by the rules and keep God first."

Corker won the GOP nomination in August after a brutal primary against Ed Bryant and Van Hilleary, two conservative former House members. A self-made construction company magnate, he depicts himself as a can-do mayor who cut crime, improved education and lowered taxes.

Corker calls himself "a real Tennessean who has proven his ability to help people solve complicated problems." He calls Ford "an attractive young man whose total life experience has been about Washington, politics and perpetuating the Ford political machine."

Ford's large and controversial family is a fixture in Memphis politics. His father was a congressman who moved the family to Washington, D.C., when Ford was 9 years old. He grew up there and started his House campaign before graduating from law school.

Along with calling Ford a career politician, Corker is painting him as liberal on immigration, security and other issues. Ford counters by noting that immigration agents arrested four illegal immigrants hired by a Corker subcontractor in 1988. Staff shake-ups have marked Corker's campaign. In another distraction, a judge ordered Corker to testify about his company's $4.7 million sale of land to Wal-Mart. The Tennessee Environmental Council filed a lawsuit saying the store damaged protected wetlands.

The Reagan reverie at Brighton High School was a typical multilayered moment in Ford's portrayal of himself as a "post-partisan" problem-solver. There was the integrated crowd of kids. The symbolism of his youth and theirs, playing into his "new generation of leadership" slogan. The location, an outer Memphis suburb that's trending GOP. The homage to a Republican president and the implied comparison to the current president.

Ford found plenty of Republicans at a Kiwanis lunch Wednesday in downtown Memphis. One asked him to pledge that he would never vote to raise taxes. "Absolutely not," Ford said. He called the idea dogmatic and ideological, and added: "I don't take pledges like that because I don't know what's going to happen tomorrow."

Later, Ford told the Kiwanis what they already knew: "If you want a parakeet, I'm not your guy."

Few racial issues surface

Steele also portrays himself as independent-minded. He doesn't have a voting record, however, and he doesn't offer many specifics.

Democratic candidate Cardin says he supports a minimum-wage increase, stem cell research funds and reducing troops in Iraq, and asks where Steele stands. "It is clear to me that he is just not interested in talking about issues," Cardin said in an interview. "His positions are not popular with Maryland voters."

Steele often focuses on his personal story. His mother was a sharecropper's daughter, and he started working at age 14 cleaning toilets for $2 an hour. "I represent something different and he doesn't," Steele says of Cardin.

Steele won his first endorsement from an elected black Democrat on Tuesday. Seat Pleasant Mayor Eugene Grant said he agrees with Steele on some issues and has found him responsive as a state official. He also said Maryland Democrats have "long ignored" blacks.

Grant's frustration with Maryland Democrats is one of the few racial issues to surface so far in either race. Tennessee Republicans sent a fundraising letter that calls Ford "a smooth operator" and shows him with what Democrats contend is darkened skin.

Ford said this week that Republicans are using "code words" and other means "to draw attention to my race." The GOP denied any photo alteration or racial allusions.

Political analysts say the country has moved beyond 1982, when Democratic Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley lost the California governor's race after polls showed he would win.

"Race was a far more major consideration 20, 30 or 40 years ago," says Herb Smith, a political scientist at McDaniel College in Westminster, Md. "We're not in the content-of-character society yet, but that's the direction we're moving in."

                                          
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2006-10-05-blacks-senate_x.htm




   

October 24, 2006, 6:16 a.m.

Ford and Corker: The Ad War and the Question of Temperament
Has the Tennessee Senate race reached a “pivotal moment”?

By Byron York

Republican Senate candidate Bob Corker has asked Tennessee television stations not to run an advertisement created by the Republican National Committee attacking Corker’s opponent, Rep. Harold Ford Jr.

“On Friday afternoon, the Corker for Senate campaign denounced a new RNC advertisement that is ‘over the top, tacky and not reflective of the kind of campaign we are running,’“ wrote Tom Ingram, chairman of the Corker campaign, in a letter to station managers. “We are disappointed that the advertisement continues to run and request that station managers across the state strongly consider pulling this advertisement immediately.”

The ad features several people posing as man-in-the-street interviews, all attacking Ford. “Terrorists need their privacy,” says the first person. “When I die, Harold Ford will let me pay taxes again,” says another. “Ford’s right,” says a third, “I do have too many guns.” Then, in the part of the ad that has gotten the most attention, a young woman in a sexy outfit says, “I met Harold at the Playboy party.” After a few other people speak, the ad returns to the woman, who says, “Harold — call me.”

The mention of Playboy is a reference to reports that Ford attended a party thrown by Playboy magazine at the 2005 Super Bowl in Jacksonville, Florida. The issue has popped up occasionally in the campaign, most recently after Ford broadcast an ad of himself in church. The National Republican Senatorial Committee responded with an ad that said, “What kind of man parties with Playboy playmates in lingerie, then films political ads from a church pew?” Ford, who has not denied attending the event, has tried to avoid talking about it. Appearing on ABC, he said, “I’ve never been to a Playboy mansion party,” apparently referring to the famed Playboy house in California, not the Super Bowl party in Florida. Now that another ad making reference to the party, this one produced by the RNC, has appeared, the Corker campaign has released a statement saying that Corker “believes this new ad has no place in this, or any other campaign.”

Meanwhile, Corker campaign staffers say they think the race may have reached a “pivotal moment” last week with Ford’s unannounced appearance at a Corker press conference in Memphis. The purpose of the conference was to announce a new lobbying reform plan that Corker says he will introduce if he is elected to the Senate. Its main feature would bar immediate family members of senators and representatives from lobbying the body of Congress in which their relative serves. The proposal is a reference to the fact that Ford’s father, former Rep. Harold Ford Sr., is a lobbyist representing the financial giant Fannie Mae, while his son serves on the House Financial Services Committee. Corker has suggested that Ford Sr. may have improperly lobbied Ford Jr., a charge Ford Jr. has strongly denied.

Ford apparently wanted a confrontation on the issue when he showed up at Corker’s news conference. “I know you’re here to talk about my family,” Ford said. “No, I’m here to talk about you,” Corker answered. Ford said he wanted to engage Corker in a discussion about Iraq, but Corker didn’t cooperate. “I came to talk about ethics, and I have a press conference,” Corker told Ford. “It’s a true sign of desperation that you would pull your bus up when I’m having a press conference.”

“No sir,” Ford answered. “I can never find you anywhere in the state.” The two men have had two debates televised state-wide, are scheduled to take part in another this Saturday, and have made other joint appearances.

The press-conference face-off received big play on television in Memphis and around the state. “It was a juvenile stunt,” one Corker official told National Review Online. “We are pleased with it, because it draws more attention to the lobby reform plan that Bob unveiled.”

But it does more than that, Corker’s advisers believe. They are now trying to use the incident — which they have dubbed the “Memphis Meltdown” — to question Ford’s temperament and fitness to serve in the Senate. On Monday, the Corker campaign sent out a press release headlined, “Ford’s Temperament, Un-Senatorial Behavior, Lack of Maturity, Become Major Issue in Tennessee Senate Race.” The incident, Corker’s campaign claims, underscores allegations that Ford can sometimes be hot-headed.

The Corker release also pointed to a November 2005 incident in the House during which Republican Rep. Jean Schmidt delivered a scathing speech attacking Democratic Rep. John Murtha over Murtha’s call to “redeploy” troops from Iraq. Corker cited an account of the event in the New York Times, which said, “Representative Harold Ford, Democrat of Tennessee, charged across the chamber’s center aisle to the Republican side screaming that Ms. Schmidt’s attack had been unwarranted.” The Corker release suggested that Ford’s temperament has become a “front and center issue” in the Senate campaign.

In turn, Ford has said that the Corker campaign is “in the gutter.” “I think my opponent has gotten very nervous and skittish, and this isn’t the first ad that’s been in the gutter,” Ford said on CNN Sunday. “He’s been in the gutter on this campaign since the [Republican] primary ended in August.”

 — Byron York, NR’s White House correspondent, is the author of the book The Vast Left Wing Conspiracy: The Untold Story of How Democratic Operatives, Eccentric Billionaires, Liberal Activists, and Assorted Celebrities Tried to Bring Down a President — and Why They’ll Try Even Harder Next Time.
http://article.nationalreview.com/print/?q=MGZjMTU2NTU3OTFmM2Y0NWVmNjUxNzUzNGExNWFjNjg=

Tabacco: All you Right-Wing types out there, please note that Tabacco is not afraid of quoting Right-Wing types, who play loose with the truth like the National Review.  What Right-Wing blogger would dare republish ‘Democracy Now’ or ‘Tabacco’ in toto? I think it’s good for my Readers to see how easy it is to skew both facts and the truth with just a little tweaking and withholding a few very important facts.

Readers: please note that the last article (from the National Review) was published with the following warning

“— Byron York, NR’s White House correspondent, is the author of the book The Vast Left Wing Conspiracy: The Untold Story of How Democratic Operatives, Eccentric Billionaires, Liberal Activists, and Assorted Celebrities Tried to Bring Down a President — and Why They’ll Try Even Harder Next Time.” – That alone should reveal the sort of person (Byron York) we are dealing with here.  

Note how York begins his article, making Corker appear innocent and blameless, even the Good Samaritan.  Does anyone believe Corker knew nothing in advance?  After all, it is Corker’s career we’re talking about:

“Republican Senate candidate Bob Corker has asked Tennessee television stations not to run an advertisement created by the Republican National Committee attacking Corker’s opponent, Rep. Harold Ford Jr.”

This is an advocacy technique, which all op-ed scribes use (including Tabacco), so I recognize the prejudicial aspects. After all, isn't Corker a Republican? When will Republicans stop playing that particular trick: "I'm Republican, but I oppose the President; I'm a Republican Senate candidate, but I'm not responsible for the actions of the Republican National Committee"?  Oh yeah, then just when will any Republican take responsibility for anything?  Better yet, when will the atrocities cease? Answer: When you, the people, stop falling for the tricks!

Oh yeah, Dubya, saying “I’m sorry” and doing nothing to correct it won’t work anymore either. Talk is cheap! 

Critiquing both bigots, Byron York and Bob Corker:

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