A Tinker’s Damn
Aug 7
This is a bad person:
But that wasn’t bad enough. Tinker then released this ad just today, and it has drawn so much negative reaction from all over the country, that her campaign has already removed it from YouTube. But we still have the transcript.
CHILD’S VOICE: “Now I lay me down to sleep…”
ANNCR: “Who is the real Steve Cohen anyway?”
CHILD’S VOICE: “I pray the Lord my soul to keep…”
ANNCR: “While he’s in our churches, clapping his hands and tapping his feet…”
CHILD’S VOICE: “If I should die before I wake…”
ANNCR: “He is the only senator who thought our kids shouldn’t be allowed to pray in school.”
CHILD’S VOICE: I pray the Lord my soul to take.
ANNCR: “Congressman, sometimes apologies just aren’t enough.”
TINKER: “I’m Nikki Tinker, and I approve this message.”The announcer’s voice specifically stressed “our” in that ad. That’s about as blatant as an anti-Semitic dog whistle you’re ever going to hear on TV.
There is much more: blatant racism from her supporters and a flier that says “Steve Cohen and the Jews HATE Jesus”. This reprehensible piece of work, this walking embodiment of the politics of hate is Niki Tinker and she is running in the Tn-09 Democratic primary against the current occupier of the seat, Steve Cohen. If you live in the Ninth (which covers almost all of Memphis), please, please, please vote for Cohen today. Not only has he been a strong progressive for the district (voting against the FISA capitulation and sponsoring a bill apologizing for slavery, for example) but we don;t need Tinker’s kind of filth anywhere near Congress.
#1 by Derf's Irom at August 7th, 2008
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“The announcer’s voice specifically stressed “our” in that ad. That’s about as blatant as an anti-Semitic dog whistle you’re ever going to hear on TV.”
Good grief!
#2 by Big U at August 7th, 2008
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So why focus on the religious angle (which I agree is disgusting) and ignore the very blatant racism???
#3 by Derf's Irom at August 7th, 2008
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I’m glad there’s never been any criticims in here about anyone’s religion. That would be unthinkable from enlightened liberals. I didn’t know there were any racist democrats left. I’ve been told many times in here that they all left and went to the Republican party.
#4 by Dan M. at August 8th, 2008
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I find it impressively cheeky to suggest that a Jew supports the KKK. I think Dave Chapelle has a piece about something like that.
BU,
Neither KTK nor the post he links to ignores the racism. Both mention it specifically. The post he links to suggests that Tinker’s primary argument against Cohen was his race, not his religion. The transcript that KTK reprinted isn’t particularly specific between Cohen’s race and religion, since it only stresses his difference from the black, christian woman. What exactly did you want KTK to do different here?
Derf,
Actually, I don’t see in the post any criticism of Cohen’s religion. There’s objection to it, but not criticism of it. And that’s not really surprising, since his religion doesn’t seem to have any observable effect on his politics.
See, nobody would mind you using your religion to support your bigotry if you then didn’t try using the religion as an excuse for your evil politics. Feel free to not like gays having civil rights; just don’t expect your sky fairy to help you implement your yearned-for oppression.
#5 by Derf's Irom at August 8th, 2008
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“Feel free to not like gays having civil rights;”
What civil rights do I have that homosexuals don’t have? My life partner and I have all the civil rights anyone else does.
#6 by Dan M. at August 8th, 2008
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Duuuuuuhhhh, could it be getting legal recognition of a life relationship with someone they’re sexually intimate with?
#7 by tgirsch at August 8th, 2008
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Dan M:
You’ve got the wrong Kevin this time.
Big U:
How does explicitly mentioning the blatant racism constitute “ignoring the blatant racism?”
Derf:
Yes, because I’m sure you can easily find places where we argue that somebody’s religion — and that alone — is a reason they shouldn’t be elected.
What civil rights do I have that homosexuals don’t have?
You could openly serve in the military. Not that you ever actually would, of course…
#8 by digglahhh at August 8th, 2008
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Dan M.,
C’mon dude, you know damn well Fred is a virgin!
#9 by tgirsch at August 8th, 2008
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Anyway, for what it’s worth, despite all the race-baiting and antisemitism, Cohen won by a wide margin. All of the also-ran candidates (there were at least four of them) split about 24% of the vote.
#10 by Derf's Irom at August 8th, 2008
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“Duuuuuuhhhh, could it be getting legal recognition of a life relationship with someone they’re sexually intimate with?”
What makes you think you have the right to marry anyone you please without regard to the standards of society in which you live? Everyone has restrictions on whom they marry. You can’t marry your first cousin, your sister, your mother, your father, your daughter, or your dog.
BTW, go ahead and take your last shot in your support of perversion. This blog is not about homosexuality. For some perverse reason, you seem to think your perversion belongs in every discussion.
#11 by LarryE at August 8th, 2008
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What civil rights do I have that homosexuals don’t have?
Normally I don’t respond to you because you normally say nothing worthy of response, and even though I suspect you lack the minimal honesty required for you to admit that you don’t really want an answer to that question because no matter how many times you get an answer you keep asking it, still for the sake of the record here are a few:
- In 30 states you legally can be fired (or not hired) if you’re homosexual.
- In 37 states you legally can be denied housing if you’re homosexual.
- There is no federal law against discrimination in housing or employment based on sexual preference.
- You can’t serve openly in the armed forces if you’re homosexual.
- In 48 states you can’t get legally married if you’re homosexual; in 37 states your relationship has no legal recognition or standing of any form in any way whatsoever, even if you were legally married elsewhere.
- The federal government does not recognize same sex marriage, which affects among other things your tax status and your eligibility for a variety of federal programs and benefits available to straight couples.
- If your same-sex partner is not a citizen, they can be denied immigrant status or deported.
As for “perversion,” the only perversion here is the stench arising from the putrefaction riddling your excuse for a soul.
And go ahead, resort to your cheap all-purpose response, say I’m “intolerant.” Of hate-spewing bigots like you, damn straight I am.
#12 by Derf's Irom at August 9th, 2008
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“admit that you don’t really want an answer to that question because no matter how many times you get an answer you keep asking it,”
And nothing you wrote shows that I have any rights a homosexual doesn’t have. What rights do I have that a homosexual doesn’t have?
#13 by tgirsch at August 9th, 2008
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Equal protection under the law isn’t a “right,” according to you?
#14 by Dan M. at August 9th, 2008
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What I always find striking about social conservatives is that they think civil authority should be used to punish “perversion”.
Okay, even if we taking something that really is perverse, say masturbating on stuffed animals while watching animals on National Geographic, SO THE FUCK WHAT? Okay, it’s perverse, so what? Why should there be a law against it?
If my girlfriend and I can only get off by fisting to the elbow, who the fuck cares other than us? “It’s a perversion” is an even worse excuse for policy than “cuz God said so”, since it doesn’t even matter whether the invisible monsters are real.
#15 by LarryE at August 10th, 2008
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What rights do I have that a homosexual doesn’t have?
Thank you for proving my point. You can go back to sucking your thumb now.
#16 by Derf's Irom at August 10th, 2008
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“Thank you for proving my point.”
What point would that me? It certainly is not an answer to the question: “What rights do I have that a homosexual doesn’t have?”
You just seem to want to argue for what new rights homosexuals should have.