Sen. Alexander: Using Reconciliation To Pass Health Care Reform Would ‘End The Senate’–Think Progress headline, 2/28/2010
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Archive for the 'Tennessee' Category
Since the Tennessee Republican Party was able to squeak by the Democratic, African-American Senatorial candidate Harold Ford with the ever effective–”WHERE THE WHITE WOMEN AT…”
Monday, May 19th, 2008is it only using patriotism to soften up the public for the real push:
“You white ladies better lock up your husbands!”
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Obama tells Tenn.’s GOP: ‘Lay off my wife’
2 hours ago
WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrat Barack Obama has a message for Tennessee’s Republican Party: “Lay off my wife.”
Obama, his party’s presidential front-runner, and his wife, Michelle, […]
This is dedicated to all those folks who had been told they were over-qualified during a job interview.
Wednesday, May 14th, 2008News Channel 5
NC5 Investigates: 911 Emergency
911 Operator: ‘I Don’t Give a S***t’
Nashville, TN
Posted: May 12, 2008 06:05 PM
911 Officials Say No Excuse for Response
2:08 p.m. — Sheila Jones calls for help
2:19 p.m. — Cable technician makes second call
2:39 p.m. — 911 operator tells Sheila officer diverted
2:42 p.m. — 911 operator tells Sheila help is on […]
Oklahoma: Sooners Tout their license to kill…
Wednesday, August 15th, 2007OK: Oklahoma license plate touts terror fight
For Sooners looking to show their terror-fighting pride while tearing up the asphalt, the Oklahoma Tax Commission has extended the deadline to order the global war on terrorism license plate (aka GWOT) pictured here.
It’s a great idea which will fire the imagination of other states’
departments of motor vehicles…
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Sadly, how can we be surprised…
Thursday, May 24th, 2007 after the high-class ad in Tennessee’s 2006 senate race.
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Racial demons resurface with nooses on Louisiana tree
Thu May 24, 11:28 AM ET
The racial demons of the Old South have resurfaced in a rural Louisiana town where black students who tried to sit on the white side of the school yard were met by three hangmen’s […]
No wonder Davy Crockett left…
Wednesday, February 14th, 2007Death certificates on abortions proposed
By ERIK SCHELZIG, Associated Press Writer Wed Feb 14, 1:41 PM ET
NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Legislation introduced in Tennessee would require death certificates for aborted fetuses, which likely would create public records identifying women who have abortions.
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Rep. Stacey Campfield, a Republican, said his bill would provide a way to track how many […]
Who would have thought that one of Rover’s attack dogs could have had anything to do with the racist Tennessee ad?
Friday, October 27th, 2006The Associated Press and CBS report that Scott Howell, the former political director of Rove’s consultiing company, was responsible for the ad. He is also known for the ad which cast triple Vietnam amputee Senator Max Cleland as a traitor. There are more examples of Howell’s deft touch in the article.
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Code? That word implies a degree of subtlety. The spots in question could have been the work of Goebbels, Himmler & Heydrich Advertising, GmbH.
Thursday, October 26th, 2006‘Thursday, 10/26/06
VU prof sees racial ‘code’ in canceled ad attacking Ford
Corker team says idea ridiculous
By BONNA de la CRUZ
Staff Writer
A blond, white woman tells the African-American candidate, Democrat Harold Ford Jr., to “Call me” in a commercial.
The white opponent in the U.S. Senate race, Republican Bob Corker, tells Tennesseans that Ford is not one of […]
While the Bob Corker television ad is obviously appealing to useless racism, why did it employ someone who resembles Robert Morley more than Lili Von Shtupp?
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Like most people who think, I had believed this anti-Harold Ford ad shown in Tennessee was simply an attempt to appeal to racial bigotry in order to win Republican Bob Corker the senatorial election.
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To say this ad plays the race card is not giving credit to the other 51 race cards in the deck.
WONKETTE prefaced […]
It is a shame no one studies American history or they would know that the Pilgrims left England because they wanted to avoid state religions. Once here, they made certain that clerics did not hold political positions. The separation of Church and State is an American benchmark because of the 160 years before the ratification of the Constitution.
Thursday, July 6th, 2006*
Rollin Riggs for The New York Times
At a megachurch in Memphis, the Statue of Liberation Through Christ was consecrated Tuesday. The statue, says the church’s pastor, is a way of “letting people know that God is the foundation of our nation.”
July 5, 2006
‘Memphis Journal
Lady Liberty Trades In Some Trappings
By SHAILA DEWAN
MEMPHIS, July 4 — On […]