The Cardinal Sin: Tinker Removes Her Flirtation With Antisemitism

By Kleinheider Posted on August 7, 2008 at 9:01 am

While putting a progressive Congressman’s beside an image of Klansman with a burning cross would appear to be all in good fun, suggesting that same Congressman, a Jew, is an interloper in the Black community is not.

As of this posting, Democratic insurgent Congressional candidate Nikki Tinker’s infamous Nathan Bedford Forrest ad remains featured on her YouTube channel. An ad suggesting that Congressman Steve Cohen was preventing black children from practicing their faith, however, has been removed.

Keith Olbermann’s declaration of Tinker as “The Worst Person In The World” for her tactics probably didn’t help, but it was likely a rebuke from Emily’s List, her financial benefactor in both this and her 2006 race, that led to the video’s removal.

Post Politics has been unable to reach the Tinker campaign for comment at the time of posting.

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Congressman Cohen To Come Back On Tinker

By Kleinheider Posted on August 6, 2008 at 10:49 am

From a campaign media advisory:

Congressman Steve Cohen will hold a press conference at his home at 349 Kenilworth at 11:30 AM to discuss the latest attack ad by Nikki Tinker’s congressional campaign.

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Nikki Tinker, After Toe-Tapping Around Race, Moves On To Religion

By Kleinheider Posted on at 8:03 am

Insurgent Ninth District Democratic Congressional challenger Nikki Tinker, not content to sit back and reap the rewards from a racially divisive ad linking Rep. Steve Cohen to Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest, is now attacking Cohen on another front: religion.

In the ad, a child’s voice is heard praying while the narrator, clearly meant to be a black woman but not Tinker, wonders who “the real Steve Cohen is anyway” while questioning one of Cohen votes on school prayer while in the state Senate.

While he’s is OUR churches clapping his hands and tapping his feet, he was the only Senator who thought OUR kids shouldn’t be allowed to pray in school.

With all the talk recently in the presidential race about coded language and messages in political pitches, Tinker’s new ad will surely lead some to see an attempt to paint the Jewish Cohen as an anti-Christian interloper in his majority black and majority Christian district.

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Tags: antisemitism, Christian, FUBU, jewish interloper, Nikki Tinker, school prayer, Steve Cohen