Update: Cohen Beats Racist Tinker in Tennessee 9th
-By Warner Todd Huston
Last week I wrote about the Congressional race between Steve Cohen (D, TN) and challenger Nikki Tinker for the Democratic seat in Tennessee’s 9th Congressional District. I wondered why Barack Obama had not come out to denounce the racist attacks that Tinker was unleashing on a fellow Democrat.
Of course, the reason Obama didn’t attack Tinker for her racist attacks was because she was a black woman and Obama refused to come out against her based on her gender and race (Congressman Cohen is a white, Jew).
The racist Tinker unleashed ads against Cohen that likened him to a KKK member and suggested that he is an apostate Jew. Other Tinker supporters claimed that Cohen couldn’t represent them because he was not a black man. She used every racist trick at her disposal to defeat Steve Cohen’s reelection effort.
So where was Barack Obama to denounce the racist ads Tinker promulgated on the voting public? No where to be seen until half the voters were already done casting their vote. On the day of the election, Obama belatedly issued this comment:
“These incendiary and personal attacks have no place in our politics, and will do nothing to help the good people of Tennessee. It’s time to turn the page on a politics driven by negativity and division so that we can come together to lift up our communities and our country.”
Regardless of Obama’s tepid reactions, the racist tactics of Nikki Tinker lost… and big.
With 100% of the precincts reporting, the result is a 79% to 19% victory for Steve Cohen. This is a major rejection of Tinker’s racist campaign tactics. Tinker heavily lost even the ground she had in the 2006 Primary in which she ran against Cohen, then receiving 25% of the vote. Memphis has a 61% black population.
On Thursday Cohen told the Commercial Appeal that, “The people of Memphis are more sophisticated voters that deal with issues and someone’s record and not simply race.”
Now, I am no Cohen supporter, to be sure. He is a typical far left Liberal. But, it is still good news that the hatemongering, racism, and sexist attacks that Tinker foisted on Memphis lost her this election. Any day that such tactics can be defeated is a good day. Obama should take notice and stop trying to inject race into his election!
(Photo credit: Memphis Commercial Appeal)
Email This
Posted by Warner Todd Huston on August 8, 2008 3:02 am
» Filed Under Bigotry, Elections, Liberal Media/Bias, News, Racism
Trackback URL:
Comments
7 Responses to “Update: Cohen Beats Racist Tinker in Tennessee 9th”
-
-
-
Affiliations
The Giants
Advertise
-
-
Our Store
- Click the design to visit our store and help Stop the ACLU!
-
- More blogs about the ACLU
Syndicate Me
Agreed, that was a disgusting campaign.
PS, please don’t let your hate for liberalism get too wild. It’s just politics. And it’s just ideology when people say “free markets work” or the extreme “everyone deserves a car”. There are things on both sides and the center that work.
I wouldn’t vote for either but I am glad that racist Tinker lost…..I will be expecting the same thing in November for the racist Obama.
Hitler considered himself a “Christian.” He was a right-wing fanatic. Prescott Bush, the grandfather of George Bush, was Hitler’s banker. They were, and are right-wing facists.
There is no connection between left-wing, and anti-semites. Quite the opposite! Learn your history!
YOU learn history, andeliz. Hitler was a socialist. The Nazi party was a national SOCIALIST party. There was nothing “right-wing” about him. He is exactly the same as Lenin, Marx, Stalin, Mao. Hitler is the ultimate and logical conclusion of leftist thinking.
The people of Memphis will not stand for racist thinking. Warner Todd Huston you should look in the mirror and do the same. Somehow this which has nothing to do with Obama becomes an article written almost solely on Obama. Obama now is racist, hilarious! Who is he racist towards? White people? Hilarious!
Hitler was a pagan animist
Black Liberation Theologists church? What in the hell are you talking about? So what is next Joel Osteen is in the KKK? Second when has he ever said he was friends with Farrakhan? Once again lying, but what I can’t grasp is the purpose for lying about stuff that can be disproved.