Drop The Negro And Get With The Hero
Posted on January 27, 2009 at 11:12 amThe Rev. T.J. Graham, best known in Nashville political circles as the black voice of nativism, is firing back today at those responsible for the creation and dissemination of ‘Barack the Magic Negro‘, a parody sung to the tune of ‘Puff the Magic Dragon’ by parodying the parody.
It’s called ‘Barack the Magic Hero’ and its got its share of controversial lines:
“Obama said come join us. Republicans can ride, too. Just look way in the back of the bus we’ve saved a seat for you.”
Read all about it here and listen to the whole song below:
More On The RINO Hunt: Steve Gill Explains The Embryonic Group
Posted on December 10, 2008 at 10:01 pmRep. Bill Dunn and Rep. Brian Kelsey have already denied involvement in a group described in a Metropulse article as a confederation of conservative Republicans committed to ideological purity in the state legislature.
Via email, radio talker Steve Gill (also mentioned in the article) describes the as-yet unnamed, unannounced group:
There is a group that is in the formative and discussion stages. Dunn, Kelsey and other legislators are in the category of legislators that we have talked about as the kind of legislators we would want to have involved. I have not talked to either of them at this point. I don’t know if they have had any other contact from those who are involved in the development of the group.
The same is true of some of the other names mentioned. Some have weighed in, others have not been contacted yet. There are others not listed who have expressed interest as well. We are seeking input and developing a more concrete plan with some of the key individuals involved and then hope to be able to take that basic plan to a wider audience to seek additional input and involvement. There is a draft working paper that has some prospects listed that is apparently the basis of the Metropulse article.
It is not a PAC that will be targeted at any particular legislator, including Steve McDaniel. The idea is to support conservative house and senate candidates in both primary and general election campaigns. The Left has poured millions into state races, including into Colorado for example, and there is no counterbalance in Tennessee at this point.
Here is a link that gives some insight into how the extremist Left is turning its attention to state races, including plans to insure that they are in position to put their “allies” into positions that decide those races.
The principles that are included in the draft working paper are intended to provide a discussion point for clarifying the type of conservative issues that have broad support among Tennessee voters. Most, if not all of those issues, poll well over 50-60% among Tennessee voters so they are clearly not “wedge” issues. They are mainstream issues to Tennessee voters.
I would expect that by mid-January we should be in position to make a formal announcement of the intents and purposes of the group.
Be Wery, Wery Qwiet, They’re Hunting WRINOs
Posted on at 6:13 pmUPDATE: Rep. Bill Dunn states in the comments that he is not a member of any group of the type described below and Rep. Brian Kelsey has posted on the original article the following:
This is Rep. Brian Kelsey (R-Germantown). The statement that I am a member of any so-called “RINO Hunters” group is 100% false. Please remove my name from this posting immediately. I don’t have anything to do with this group (if it even exists) and haven’t been contacted even once by anybody who does.
A group of Tennessee conservatives are reportedly getting together to pool their money in the pursuit of taking down a few moderates:
The group is attempting to find 15 founding donors good for $20,000 each for each election cycle ($10,000 annual) and other donors to achieve a $375,000 annual budget. The acting chair of the group is Steve Gill, a Nashville radio talk show host. The group also includes major Republican Party donors like Lee Beaman, A.J. McCall, Jimmy Wallace, and James Peach. Legislative members include Republican state Reps. Bill Dunn, Frank Niceley, Brian Kelsey, Donna Rowland, Glen Casada, and Bill Ketron, among others.
The group has a list of 18 conservative positions having to do with opposition to a state income tax, Second Amendment protections, pro-life, traditional marriage, pro-business, repeal of the Hall Income Tax, strict border enforcement, and pro-drilling for energy independence.
The Values Of A Good Breakfast
Posted on September 16, 2008 at 7:38 amThe producer of Steve Gill’s radio program can’t believe that a product featuring this cartoon visage of Barack Obama on a box of waffles would be controversial:
“We are very surprised by the charges of racism for a product based simply on political satire,” said Noelle Federico of Nashville-based Gill Media Inc., which represents Obama Waffle creators Bob DeMoss and Mark Whitlock.
“It is quite unbelievable that people would attack a harmless box of waffles with such vehemence,” Ms. Federico said. “We are not making a statement about anything with this product, we are simply in the business of political satire.”
Mr. DeMoss and Mr. Whitlock were selling boxes of the waffle mix, which featured a caricature of U.S. Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., for $10 each at this weekend’s Voter Values Summit in Washington, D.C., according to The Associated Press. The summit’s organizers cut off sales of the waffle mix Saturday, the AP said.
Wade Munday, a spokesman for the Tennessee Democratic Party, called the novelty item “a classless advertisement.” He said they did not show respect for Sen. Obama, the Democratic presidential nominee.
“Those aren’t the values I grew up with,” Mr. Munday said.
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Talk To The Associated Press, Because Gill Ain’t Listening
Posted on September 8, 2008 at 11:26 amBruce Barry chastises Steve Gill for reporting in error the amount of folks who tuned in for Sarah Palin’s convention speech:
This will strike some, understandably, as relatively small-bore prevarication in the grand scheme of things. But it came in the form of a direct and unqualified assertion of outright fiction as truth by a guy whom Mueller introduces on air as a “media and political expert.” Will WKRN correct the record and rebuke its “expert”? Or is the point of Mueller’s panel each Sunday to showcase expertise as the fine art of propaganda?
Only one problem with Barry’s critique of Gill here. It doesn’t line up with the Associated Press’s reporting of the numbers.
UPDATE: Grantham goes Nielson on both Gill and Barry.
Did The Bredesen Bunker Serve Small Government Conservatism?
Posted on May 20, 2008 at 11:16 amSteve Gill this morning was talking with his listeners (or at them) and raised an interesting beef about the Bredesen administration’s proposed buyout of state employees.
Gill predicted that not only would the buyout end up costing more than projected he also believes that the buyout will not save as much money as is predicted. The buyout, he seemed to be saying, was ill-advised.
Gill also questioned whether the so-called Bredesen Bunker should have been built as the money used for the renovation on the Governor’s Executive residence could have been used for these employee buyouts.
Some points here that conservatives should consider. This buyout is purported to be for non-essential employees. These employees, that will be voluntarily dismissed from service from the state, are, in fact, the very kind of government job conservatives always rail against. What Bredesen is doing here is purchasing a reduction of the state bureaucracy. He is reducing not only the government’s size here, but also its scope.
Conservatives often complain that once big government moves in, once it is entrenched, it is impossible to unroot. The power of inertia, they believe, keeps big government going.
What will happen with this buyout is the opposite. Once these non-essential jobs have been emblazened with the non-essential tag they are unlikely to be filled again, even in fat times. These workers and their salaries, this reoccurring government expense, will be gone forever.
If you are a conservative, is not this one-time buyout of big government, a step in the right direction — no matter what the cost ?
On the flipside, the Bredesen bunker is, in fact, a one time expense. It is a capital expenditure as opposed to a reoccurring expense. It is not bureaucracy.
Furthermore, the conservative must consider this: What if the Bredesen Bunker had not been built? What if that money had not been outlayed?
Well, the Steve Gill’s of the world might say, we would not be in this budget crisis. We would have been saved from this “catastrophe.”
But if we were saved from this budget shortfall then Bredesen would have been saved from having to make these tough choices.
The thing is, if you want to say that bunker is responsible for the budget mess, what you must also admit is that if it wasn’t for the bunker this buyout would not have been necessary, these nonessential jobs would continue to be filled and the leviathan would continue to drift along.
So following conservative logic and conservative principles was the Bredesen Bunker a good thing or a bad thing?
He Who Smelt it Dealt It
Posted on April 21, 2008 at 9:48 amMary Mancini has a bit of a problem with conservative talker Steve Gill’s assertion that the Democratic takeover of Congress in 2006 is responsible for the recent hike in gas prices:
So what does it mean that the average price of gas rose a stunning $1.50 between January 2001 and August 2006 when Republicans had control of both Congress and the White House?
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Christian Grantham
Enclave
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Somebody’s Been Listening To Some Talk Radio
Posted on April 18, 2008 at 12:47 pmVia a press release:
Congressman John J. Duncan, Jr. (R-TN) voiced his continued support for middle class Americans by signing onto legislation earlier this week giving the wealthiest taxpayers the option of returning more of their incomes to the federal government.
The legislation, H.R. 5783, the “Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is” Act, amends the U.S. Tax Code to allow citizens to make voluntary donations above their normal tax liability to pay for federal government programs. The legislation was introduced on April 10 by Congressman John Campbell of California.
Post Politics: 8 April 2008
Posted on April 8, 2008 at 10:07 amThe Columbia Daily Herald reports that at least five underage teens told police that they drank alcohol at a Mule Day celebration at the home of State Rep. Tom Dubois. Dubois says that no underage children were served at his party and that everyone drinking was carded. Those arrested by police stated that they had brought their own alcohol to the party and were not served by Dubois.
Tennessee’s current-year budget shortfall is expected to hit $300 million when new revenue figures are released today.
Former Thompson campaign manager Bill Lacy discusses the Fred Thompson with the benefit of 20/20 hindsight.
Brentwood’s Truman Bean takes a look at Rep. Charles Sargeant’s primary challenger, Connie Reguli.
Bill Frist’s political action committee blog roundups of accounts of the former Senator’s travels around the state helping various state legislative candidates as he ponders a run for Governor.
R. Neal tracks the state Senate Democratic Caucus proposals this week.
Sen. Bob Corker on the progress being made in Iraq: “I think all of us realize we’re disappointed at where we are.”
An East Tennessee Blogger is concerned by a bill before Congress which seeks to clamp down on ideologically-based violence.
Those looking for clean water in Tennessee now have a place in the blogsphere.
Three city workers in La Vergne were put on administrative leave after being accused of making racial comments to other town employees.
A study out of Wisconsin reports that smoking bans increase incidents of drunk driving.
West Tennessee favorite Newscoma got a chance to sit down with Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Mike Padgett to talk rural politics filing this extensive report on the encounter.
Radio talker Steve Gill argues that the state legislature is where the real political battle will take place in 2008.
Blogger Mick Wright, who filed a petition to take on state Rep. Curry Todd in the District 95 Republican primary, has decided against pulling the trigger and has withdrawn his paperwork.
Metro Councilwoman Emily Evans posts the first installment in her “Dummy’s Guide” to the Metro Budget.
The National Taxpayer’s Union grades the Tennessee Congressional delegation and, surprise, surprise, the conservative outfit gave almost every Democrat a failing mark.
Nashville political operative Alex Youn, formerly of the David Briley for Mayor and John Edwards for President campaigns, has traveled north to run the re-election campaign of Congressman Brad Ellsworth. In 2006, Ellsworth unseated incumbent John Hostettler, one of six Republican congressman to vote against the initial authorization of force in Iraq.
Ken Whitehouse was again on the case yesterday (and this morning) reporting up a storm on the cable compromise bill, the tax liens of congressional candidates and more. Now, if you are clicking on those links and you can’t read the articles you may have a disease but, luckily, there is a cure.
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Post Politics: 2 April 2008
Posted on at 9:38 amAl Gore confidant Roy Neel dismissed speculation that Gore might step up as a compromise candidate at a fractured Democratic Convention during a “Kitchen Cabinet” meeting of Nashville progressives.
Our Gannett-owned daily fell prey to a bit of April Fool’s mischief by a local progressive radio duo’s farcical press release about a joint venture with conservative talk maven Steve Gill.
Tennessee Republican Party spokesman Bill Hobbs was told to cough up $200 to procure a copy of a tape capturing the construction going on at the Governor’s Executive Residence. Department of Finance and Administration spokeswoman Lola Potter subsequently relayed to Hobbs that the state has no obligation to release the tape to him under open records laws as the tape is in the possession of the contractor.
Salemtown blogger Mike Byrd reports that police tell him that they are investigating alleged prostitution by residents of the Union Rescue mission.
Former School Board member Kay Brooks discusses the departure of incumbent Marsha Warden from the District 9 race for the board. Councilman Eric Crafton has picked up papers to run for that seat. Alan Coverstone, a blogger and an economics and government teacher at Montgomery Bell Academy, has also picked up the necessary papers to make the race.
Two bloggers from the left side of the aisle note and take issue with the appointment of an attorney who resides in Belle Meade, a satellite city not subject to Metro zoning laws, to the Metro Zoning Board of Appeals.
And finally, a blast from the past. While our Governor has as of late struck a pose as an impartial, uncommitted superdelegate in search of closure in the Democratic race for President, he did not always seem as such.
In 2005, Phil Bredesen had this to say about the imminent Hillary Clinton campaign for President:
“People love her or they hate her and I don’t know in the end how all that plays out. But I sure hope there are other people who would step forward.”
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