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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Waiting For Junior: Will Harold Ford Condemn The Tinker Toy Tactics?

OTHERS ON TINKER:
CQ Politics
Ilissa Gold
Skeptical Brotha
The Moderate Voice
The Nigh Seen Creeder

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Tags: antisemitism, Emily's list, Jew, Nathan Bedford Forrest, Nikki Tinker, Steve Cohen, That's racist  

Waiting For Junior: Will Harold Ford Condemn The Tinker Toy Tactics In His Former Stomping Grounds?

By Kleinheider Posted on August 6, 2008 at 11:00 pm

Aunt B. asks and answers her own questions on where Nikki Tinker’s money to create of those racially and religiously inflammatory ads comes from — but only partially. Yes, Tinker gets her money from Armenians. Republicans? I’m not so sure.

Regardless, one place we know Nikki Tinker did get her money from was Emily Threlkeld Ford, wife of Harold Ford, Jr. the former Congressman from the very district in question here.

In 2006, the year Cohen originally won his seat, Ford the U.S. Senate candidate was noticeably cold towards the candidate Cohen — and for good reason. His brother Jake, supported by Harold, Sr., was an independent candidate for the seat.

However, when his brother again filed to run against Cohen this year, again as an independent, declaring that the Ninth District should have a black Congressman, Harold Ford, Jr. condemned him in the harshest possible terms.

“It’s beyond concern. I want to make clear my brothers’ comments are not mine. I reject them. … I don’t believe any candidate’s fitness for office should be measured or determined by race or gender.”

Where is Harold Ford, Jr. now? This is not just one negative ad, it is a pattern. Nikki Tinker is attempting to divide Harold Ford’s former district along racial and religious lines. Where is the reprimand, the censure?

The blowback on Tinker has been significant. The rebukes are starting to roll in.

Post Politics has made its requests for comment formally to the office of Harold Ford and those requests have gone unanswered. I hate to get all Scenester on the issue but, in this case, I have to say, “Harold, call me.”

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Tags: Emily Threlkeld Ford, FUBU, Harold Ford, Jake Ford, Junior, KKK, Klan, Nathan Bedford Forrest, negative ads, Nikki Tinker, Steve Cohen, That's racist  

Ku Klux Kohen: Tinker Goes To The Sheets

By Kleinheider Posted on August 2, 2008 at 8:20 pm

Supporters of Congressman Steve Cohen are outraged by a negative ad currently running on Memphis television criticising him for his refusal to vote for the excavation of the body of Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest while a member of the Center City Commission:

Among the things that stuck in the craw of Cohen’s supporters, including several prominent ministers and public officials, was the ad’s juxtaposition of Cohen’s image next to those of Ku Klux Klansmen.

“For this ad to come up at the last minute is an attempt to divide this community racially. And this community isn’t going to be divided. We’re all in favor of our congressman, Steve Cohen,” said Myron Lowery, the longtime city councilman who, at the time off the most recent Forrest Park controversy, floated a compromise proposal for adding anti-slavery exhibits to the grounds of Forrest Park.

UPDATE:
Video of the ad in a TV news report
The Commercial Appeal
Mediaverse

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Tags: Ku Klux Klan, Memphis, Nathan Bedford Forrest, negative ad, Nikki Tinker, Steve Cohen  

Partner Him With The Devil Himself

By Kleinheider Posted on June 11, 2008 at 11:01 am

As long as it gets him elected, Obamafanatic Sean Braisted doesn’t care who Obama’s ticket mate is:

Webb’s vocal support for the confederate soldiers may not be a positive quality in my book - in fact it is probably detracts from my support of his vice-presidential candidacy - but quite frankly I didn’t support Webb because I found an ideological kinship with him; I support him because I think he’ll help Obama win. My dream ticket would be Obama/Feingold, but I know that isn’t going to happen, and I’m realistic. Obama could pick David Duke or Geraldine Ferraro to be his VP, and I’d still support him vociferously…to me, his VP pick only matters so far as it helps him get elected.

UPDATE: Jim Webb explains

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Tags: David Duke, Nathan Bedford Forrest, opportunism, pragmatism, sellout, The Devil