I believe there's a similar campaign underway in Florida.

Nikki Tinker is a stinker,
Lets all cast a vote to sink her.

Anti semitism and racist remarks are generally subtle, this bimbo shoots them out with a howitzer.

There can be no doubt that this is anti-Semitic. The above commenter is correct that there is no subtlety. There is no place for this in the Democratic Party. Her outside supporters have an obligation to stand up and be counted. Silence convicts them of being just as bigoted. On an historical note, it is more subtle than the attacks on Leo Frank, but not much.

And then people wonder why McCain is getting a large amount of the Jewish vote.

Emily's List (202) 326-1400
Tinker for Congress (901) 345-5070

Hi,
If you don't like Ms. Tinker's racist, anti-semitic approach to campaigning, give her office a "hi, how are you?" at the number above. As for Emily's List, I called them too . . . and according to the poor lady stuck on phone duty, they are popular, in an unpopular kinda way today. Just tell 'em you'll give to Planned Parenthood going forward to help Emily's List avoid supporting race-baiting, anti-semitic candidates even if the racist, anti-semite has the proper genitalia. And, have a blessed day.

Nobody's commented on the background “Now I lay me down to sleep” prayer. I don’t know that it is an explicitly Christian prayer, but it certainly isn’t a Jewish one. And it isn’t one a child would say in school, so it isn’t consistent with the superficial message about Cohen’s voting against the religious liberties law. I think it reinforces the “our churches” message.

Mitch

Ah Emily's List. A champion for paleo-feminists who put humans with vaginas over anything else.

Emily's List has condemned the ad.

I was gonna say I think some have been unfairly tough on EL until I read further. While condemning the ad EL did not say they would no longer be supporting Ms. Tinker's candidacy. I feel the only right thing for EL to do is stop supporting Ms. Tinker in her primary bid. They condemn her ad, but that is not a strong enough statement. They should be condemning her candidacy!! Someone as overtly racist as her has no place in power.

Mr. Rosenberg, you are wrong. Ms. Taylor is NOT A LIBERAL she is a protoge of Harold Ford, current head of the DLC.

She may or may not be a racist anti-Semite, but she is no liberal.

From the inimitable and courageous Skeptical Brotha:

"Longtime readers of this blog know of the animosity I have for Harold Ford Jr and his demagogic brand of corporate prostitution that masquerades as political centrism. Everything he touches turns to shit and the same could be said of his protégé.

I didn’t think it was possible to be more repellent than Ford, but Aunt Nikki is the willing overseer on Pinnacle Airlines corporate plantation as Vice President for Labor Relations and General Counsel. Aunt Nikki is representative of the lowest form of human life and is the worst kind of counterfeit Negress imaginable. As an employment lawyer, she specializes in destroying employee rights to collectively bargain and be free from workplace racial discrimination, harassment, and retaliation.

Her campaign report is full of two kinds of people, acquaintances from her home state of Alabama and her motley collection of crooked contacts in the business world. The CEO of Pinnacle Airlines, Phil Trenary, her boss and corporate puppet master, is represented, as are Republican corporate employment lawyers from her former law firm, John and Ruth Alley. Finally, there is a member of Pinnacle’s Board of Directors, GOP rainmaker and real estate magnate James McGehee and his kith and kin. "

and again:

"My colleagues at Black Agenda Report, in their former incarnation as the writers behind Black Commentator, came up with the nifty moniker of Trojan Horse to describe Black Democrats backed surreptitiously by Republican money and the corporate and right-wing foundation elite. They highlighted BET’s Bob Johnson and politicians Cory Booker and Harold Whore, Jr. Speaking of the Whore, he has used his new wife, Emily Threlkeld Ford, to funnel more than $3300 to his protégé. The Trojan Horse moniker definitely fits Nikki Tinker to a T because as her campaign finance report shows, she is a a member in good standing of this right-wing club.

As the moniker from Greek mythology implies, Aunt Nikki is a stealth weapon of the right-wing that optimally would be used to destroy progressive black representation and the social, political, and economic viability of Black Memphis. Unfortunately for our corporate enemies on the right, Aunt Nikki’s campaign exploded today like an IED in a war zone when it released an ad which strikes a note of false religiosity and implies that Steve Cohen is an Jewish interloper unwelcome in black churches and alludes to a bill to protect “religious freedom” and the unfettered right of religious organizations to discriminate against gay and lesbian people. This is the culmination of her clumsy attempts to make inroads with the black ministerial community by pandering to the homophobia of a select group of black pastors."

Obama Statement on Tenn. Primary

Statement of Senator Barack Obama on Tennessee’s 9th Congressional District primary

“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,” said Barack Obama.

MJ, no we're not! Would've been much better to have Ford in there than who we have.

I do think Cohen's toast, sooner or later. The dog whistle's work both ways. People should never forget that. This is a southern district, and race relations are raw in the south. "They" will want their man in there, whether or not it's this time he is taken out or not.

Congressman Rodino only survived so long in a majority black district because he was the Chairman of a committee.

Her anti-semitism is stupid, and the ad is truly rancid, in my view. But Cohen in my view, is facing the same crap Obama is across the country. What's surprising is that she will stoop this low to take him out. But Cohen is facing the same crap as Obama, and whispering campaigns have an impact.

I should add that I don't think it's the fact that he's Jewish, per se, but that he's white.

Now I must go to Drinking Liberally.

She went down to defeat...In a BIG way. With 67% reporting she is getting beat 79% - 19%.

http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/08/tennesse_jewbaiter_loses_prima.php