You’re A Racist All Day

By Kleinheider Posted on October 24, 2008 at 9:36 am

Jake Ford, brother of Harold Ford, Jr., on his independent race for the Ninth Congressional district seat against white Democratic incumbent Steve Cohen:

Though Ford says comments he made earlier this year indicating the 9th District should be represented by a black candidate were misunderstood, he did say, “As far as I’m concerned, black people should vote together as a special interest group. If that makes me racist, then call me a racist all day.”

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Cohen’s Castle: The Congressman Shows His Keitel Side

By Kleinheider Posted on August 7, 2008 at 8:14 am

“In my house! In my bedroom! Where my wife sleeps, where my children come to play with their toys. My home.”

~ Michael Corleone in Godfather Part II

While a press conference’s intended message, to denounce scurrilous religious and racial attacks by an opponent, went entirely off the rails for Congressman Steve Cohen yesterday, some think it might have been the best thing for him.

“I think it probably helped Cohen,” said John Ryder, a well-known local Republican and a GOP national committeeman. Like numerous other Memphians, Ryder saw the TV footage of the congressman physically ousting an uninvited Tinker supporter who, posing as a photo-journalist and documentarian, was attempting to infiltrate a group of newsmen convened at Cohen’s Midtown residence for a press conference.

“Maybe it’s a guy thing, and it goes beyond black and white,” said an admiring Ryder. “I think all of us around here realize that you can’t just meekly put up with the presence of a hostile invader in your own household.”

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