Jay Bookman

By Jay's brother

June 17, 2008 6:30 PM | Link to this

I’m sure it was a Democrat operative that made them to create a “racist” stunt.

I’m sure my bro Jay is as equally offended when he sees the “F” the president signs, or the “village idiot from Texas” bumper stickers. But wait, I don’t remember him blogging about those, do you?

And why the uproar about Curious George—-I think him to be quite cute, loyal, and funny. My kid loves that show, what gives?

By Taxpayer

June 17, 2008 6:35 PM | Link to this

From Scholastic.com:

At various times in history, the White House has been known as the “President’s Palace,” the “President’s House,” and the “Executive Mansion.” President Theodore Roosevelt officially gave the White House its current name in 1901.

I didn’t notice why Roosevelt chose “White House” as the name but could it have been because of the color? If Obama wins, he should definitely paint the place black and have the Stones playing “Paint it, Black” live on the front lawn. How fitting.

By Jay's brother

June 17, 2008 7:28 PM | Link to this

Thanks for the update Jay—my long lost brother. Are you insinuating that the SAME Clinton DEMOCRATIC operatives that sent whispering rumors of Obama being a Muslim, sending out pictures of him wearing Muslim garb, and using drugs would DARE NOT make similar badges if Rice or Powell were the candidates for the Repubs? You mean the same democrats that call Rice Bush’s personal black ‘ho and Powell a bluthering Uncle Tom? You mean THOSE same Democrats wouldn’t do such a thing. PUH-leese…..

By Me

June 17, 2008 9:31 PM | Link to this

What this country needs is another Andrew Jackson.

By Dusty

June 18, 2008 12:08 AM | Link to this

Well, golly gee, Bookman’s all upset about an ugly pin that nobody would even know about if he and his liberal newspaper friends did not broadcast this horrible vengeful incident…a bad pin. BUT…

For years I have observed ugly discriminating caricatures of President Bush as drawn by Bookman’s liberal AJC buddy Luckovich. Not only was the President ridiculed but there were drawings of US soldiers being roasted on a spit like barbeque. This ridicule went out with every AJC print edition and on ajc.com.

Did we hear any sobs and shouts of objection from Bookman about the nasty ol’ libs? NOT A ONE. His delicate nature was not offended one bit. It would seem that Bookman is offended only by Republican “trash”. Liberals can pile up the “trash” and Bookman never even notices. Oh well, what’s new??? Not Bookman for sure.

By Mike

June 18, 2008 6:36 AM | Link to this

Spare us your incessant hypocrisy Jay and read the hate speech coming from the left. Go to Daily Kos or the AJC blogs and see the constant agist attacks against McCain and ant-Christian cracks.

Of course, you never criticize liberal hate speech. As a matter of fact, based on your post, one would come to the conclusion that you think only Republicans are bigots. As ususal, your dogmatic partisanship has led you to the laughbable conclusions that those who don’t share your narrow views are immoral. Hence, you are no different than Sean Hannity.

Why don’t you shock us for once and post something that isn’t hyper-partisan. I don’t think you are capable.

By Taxpayer

June 18, 2008 6:43 AM | Link to this

I think that President Bush should tell ours soldiers exactly what he means if he invites them to a barbecue or offers them a deal on a house or other such thing. After all, if you are going to volunteer for something, then you ought to know exactly what it is that you are volunteering for — even if you are not educated enough to figure it out for yourself.

By GOPs got to go

June 18, 2008 6:43 AM | Link to this

Oh Dusty, Please get a reality check.

I know you are the world’s biggest Fox news addict. You have to have seen the sexist remarks about Hilliary. You could not have missed the references to Muslims, terrorists fist-bumping ect about Obama.

I believe ALL presidents have been characterized by any one who draws cartoons, thus the name cartoon. I am sure you have taken your home-schooled brood down to Disney World and had them drawn by a cartoonist. You know, the one who drew you in your Hawaii Moo Moo with a huge mouth and ears?

By Bud Wiser

June 18, 2008 6:56 AM | Link to this

Dusty, of course you are never going to hear Bookman object to the ‘F—- Bush’ bumperstickers, or caricatures of Bush having a head that looks like a Volkswagon with the doors open! Where do you think stuff like that comes from? It is the typical liberal way, to laugh and joke and curse (or worse) anyone that disagrees with them, but folding instantly into the victim mode when the same tactics are used against them. Think back to your childhood days, when some kid in the playground tried to bully the others, but when other children fought back, the bully went crying and screaming to the teacher. The left was deeply psychologically scarred by the loss to Bush TWICE, thinking there was no way in hell their superior intelligence, and Presidential candidates, could be rejected by Americans TWICE (did I say TWICE twice?). They, like the elephants they despise, have long memories, but their venomous attacks for the last eight years has poisoned and rotted their souls.

Jay Bookman has supped long at the liberal table, and drunk so deep the Kool Aid of the Democratic Party that the fluid pumps furiously through his veins. He is no reporter, just a puppet of the DNC. If you read his drivel like I do, you will notice absolutely no original thought expressed, just the same tired old crap from the left. The media types like Jay have allowed themselves to be hollowed out echoes for Howard Dean, Harry Reid, and Nancy Pelosi. Notice that I did not mention Bill Clinton? He is now longer in power, therefore they are no longer FOB’s. Like a good hound dog sniffing a trail, Jay and the Media (hey, that’s a good sounding rock band name!) have their noses far up the south side of the north bound Donkeys of Dem.

The vast majority of African Americans, who claim they opposed slavery, have enslaved themselves to the Democratic party. Almost fifty years and trillions of dollars in welfare and other governmental giveaways have molded them a lot into the culture they are today. Yet, they continue to tie their future to the Democrats, who have done absolutely nothing to really help them climb the societal ladder towards personal success. So too has much of the print media tied themselves to the Dems, but for much less in return. Maybe we’ll be on the short list for Obama’s first White House party after we help get him elected is their prayer. Or, Maybe we’ll get all front row seats for White House press conferences is just as likely. Like most Dems, they just want a crumb thrown their way. Jay still has a tux in the closet, waiting for that invite.

By GodHatesTrash

June 18, 2008 7:06 AM | Link to this

Seriously, God does hate the knuckkkledragging morons that come up with this childish moronic crap, and these liars and misanthropes will spend eternity slow-roasting on skewers in Hell.

Along with a whole lotta dumb Germans from the 1930s there will be a whole lotta Bush voters amongst Lucifer’s minions… Hell will be crowded with stupid pasty obese mofos, for sure.

By Mike

June 18, 2008 7:21 AM | Link to this

GodHatesTrash -

Thanks for showing us how much more “tolerant” liberals are.

In a thin 60 words, you managed to spew at least 15 ignorant ad hominem attacks.

Jay -

Does “GodHatesTrash’s” comments deserve condemnation from you? Of course not, because it isn’t the hatred or intolerance that bothers you, it is just your own intolerance for other viewpoints.

That aside, do you hold “Democrats” responsible for the low-minded hate speech of some of their members, like “GodHatesTrash”? Of course not.

By Taxpayer

June 18, 2008 7:25 AM | Link to this

I like this approach. Get the emotions all stirred up early in the year. Now is this tactic intended to get out the vote for the primary or maybe it’s intended to burn out some of the hate and venom in people before the general election. Hmmmm. I wonder just what strategies are in the working and by whom. I mean Carville and Rove are both has-beens but they most certainly have viable replacements in the two main encampments. I don’t know but anyone on the outside looking in ought to be amused.

By GodHatesTrash

June 18, 2008 7:26 AM | Link to this

I’m sure many of your regular rightwingnut posters here think this is no news, Jay.

Their inboxes are full of this kind of puerile scum and lies, and they love it.

They’ve been getting their racist propaganda pins and crap all along from their local Stormfront unit, SCV local, League of the South chapter, Conservative Citizen Council meetings, Dent Myers, or their favorite Southern Baptist church. That’s only if they stopped attending their KKK meetings because their sheets were dirty, or they got too fat for king-size sheets.

I bet it’s hard to keep your sheets white living in the filthy fantasy alcoholic meth-addicted world that these morons live in.

By GodHatesTrash

June 18, 2008 7:33 AM | Link to this

Mike, are you objecting to the “stupid pasty obese” comment?

That mirror tells the truth, Mikey.

Go to the gymn, stay out of Ceci’s Pizza buffet, and read the newspaper daily. Your attitude about life will improve, but you gotta give it a couple of months, at least.

Stop the lying the whining and the hating.

What I am doing is very different from what you are doing - you hate everyone that is not you - I am just hating on the haters.

By Mike

June 18, 2008 7:46 AM | Link to this

Jay -

Read the ignorant and deranged hate speech coming from “GodLovesTrash” and ask yourself if it is possible that someone so hateful could distribute the button you describe at a Republican convention.

Your assertion that hate speech is the exclusive province of conservatives is laughable. Fortunately, “GodHatesTrash” is here to demonstrate how absurd your premise truly is.

By reebok

June 18, 2008 8:01 AM | Link to this

My only objection to the button is that it is inaccurate. Instead of “If Obama is President,” it should say “WHEN Obama is President.”

By ron

June 18, 2008 8:16 AM | Link to this

Good morning,I have already given some thought as to what the White House would be called should Obama be elected President.I’ve been watching the print for references to The President’s Home,Or The Presidential Mansion.So far I haven’t seen it.I’m fairly sure things will change though.

By Taxpayer

June 18, 2008 8:17 AM | Link to this

I think the world is long overdue for another lovefest. We need to abandon the ways of the corn and the fossilized remains and plant cannabis instead. These plants should then be harvested and burned as fuel all over the world. Everyone should drive large pickup trucks with the beds filled with potting soil for their fuel crop. There will no longer be a need for re-fueling stations — just pick a plant from the back and burn it as needed. Just remember to save the seeds. In no time at all, wars will cease. The claim, “But I didn’t inhale”, will have no meaning. Axes of evil will transform into Love Triangles. President Bush will invite the Kennedy, Clinton, and Gore clans to Texas for the Biggest Dang Barbecue You Ever Did See In Yore Life. Yessireee. Of course, John McCain will spoil the festivities by offering to invite Obama to the White House to eat crow after he wins in November. The nerve. Some people just don’t know how to have a good time.

By Bud Wiser

June 18, 2008 8:21 AM | Link to this

Okay, I cannot told it back any longer……GodHatesTrash is an idiot. The hate and vitriol coming from the mouth of such an pitiable clown surely shows the sad condition of our mental health facilities when a moron like that is out on the streets. Where did you get the computer, fool? Did you steal it or cash in some of those welfare checks? I am astounded you have the ability to type your half-a* thoughts, or did you dictate it to your stepsister who was in for a sleep-over?

By bubbatech02

June 18, 2008 8:24 AM | Link to this

Jay,

You and the rest of your communist wannabee liberal lackies are so full of it. Some of the most vile and hate filled commentary is spewed from the left. The FCC continually fines liberal radio personalities and their stations for speech violations.

just like that piece of crap article you posted the other day, this one stinks to high heaven.

the content of the ajc is already in the toilet. i wish someone would just flush it.

By Taxpayer

June 18, 2008 8:27 AM | Link to this

BudWiser is not the King of Beers. However, it may well be a Crafty blend of Truth with something. I don’t know for sure but I’ll bet that Mr. Bookman has a good idea.

By yankee

June 18, 2008 8:33 AM | Link to this

Trashing Ceci’s is a bit over the line.

By zeke

June 18, 2008 8:38 AM | Link to this

No, the dems would have out something branding Powell or Rice as traitors and turncoats because they are not black enough for being sensible and choosing the Republican way!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

By AH

June 18, 2008 8:41 AM | Link to this

Can you remove this trash and post a real editorial?

By jasper

June 18, 2008 8:43 AM | Link to this

Is it worth pondering the proposition that most of these idiotic comments towards Obama are actually instigated or fabricated by the far left, in an attempt to maintain an element of victimhood. If Soros can pay Barr to run as a Libertarian, surely he can find some klansmen out there to come up with these gems for Jay. Any you libbies just eat it up.

By hillbilly ragger

June 18, 2008 8:45 AM | Link to this

Zeke, thanks for actually taking up Jay on his thought experiment—interesting that none of your right-wing ideological friends have bothered to do so.

So what would such a button say? You really think “the dems” would be ok with selling buttons calling Condi a “race traitor?” Colin an “Oreo?”

Really?

By KP

June 18, 2008 8:47 AM | Link to this

Do people really wake up each and every morning with so much hate and venom? Have we really gone that far that the only way we can talk with one another is to scream the most vicious speech possible at someone because they disagree with this opinion or that opinion, or is it the anonymity of the Internet that let’s our worst side run free. Somethings are just wrong, no matter who says them. This is an example of one of those times and yes there are plenty examples when those on the left cross the line as well. I know that Clinton and Bush are not the only ones to blame, but our country seems to have lost a common decency… a level of civility of the past 15 years that is really sad.

By Bud Wiser

June 18, 2008 8:49 AM | Link to this

Sam Adams dark, Heineken, and/or a good shot of Wild Turkey administered to GodHatesTrash under strict medical supervision might improve his attitude. The shame though is that it would be a damn waste of fine beer or whiskey.

By Joe

June 18, 2008 8:58 AM | Link to this

Lighten up Jay. Is this as bad as the Daily Cos and Media Matters saying they wish Dick Cheney would die or that George Bush should be assassinated? Hell no.. The far left is the most viscous of all…. Most of the time they are just overlooked by the so called main stream media… wink wink….

By hillbilly ragger

June 18, 2008 9:01 AM | Link to this

And now Ye Olde “Liberals paid people to post as racist Republicans to make us look bad” tinfoil theory appears @ 8.43.

In my experience, you don’t have to pay Republicans to be racist and ignorant. Some kinda tend to gravitate that way without much pushing. (Not all, of course, but enough to be an embarrassment to those who pay lip service to attracting African Americans to vote Republican, anyway.)

By JAY BOOKMAN

June 18, 2008 9:02 AM | Link to this

By the way, I agree with what a lot of you say about the posts by GodHatesTrash. I have taken down a lot of his more vile posts, and told him why I had done so. He clearly does cross the line many times, and tiptoes right up to it on other occasions.

By hillbilly ragger

June 18, 2008 9:10 AM | Link to this

Joe, kindly provide cites for the “Daily Cos (sic) and Media Matters saying they wish Dick Cheney would die or that George Bush should be assassinated”

Or kindly shut up.

Here’s a clue, no charge: Just because you hear Sean or Rush or the Savage Weiner whining about something, doesn’t make it true.

By newkid

June 18, 2008 9:26 AM | Link to this

C’mon Jay, our world is in the midst of a tetonic shift and you offer us a wayward opportunity to get mired in this sort of infantile disorder? You’re better than this; leave it to smaller minds.

Here’s a thought. Edward Wong had an article in Tuesday’s NYTimes entitled “A Booming China Faults U.S. Policy on the Economy”. Wrap your head around the implications of the content of that piece and give us something a bit more worthy of discussion.

Thanks.

By Joe Brown

June 18, 2008 9:37 AM | Link to this

Yes, I can imagine a similar button being sold if it was black republican. Why? Because this is America and if someone believes there is a chance to make money then they will make it and sell it.

The first thing I thought of when I saw the button was Parliament, George Clinton, and PFunk. The song Chocolate City opens with: “uh, What’s happening CC?, They still call it the White House but that is a temporary condition, too…”

Didn’t realize Republicans listened to Parliament. Now where is my greatest hits CD….

By Mike

June 18, 2008 9:45 AM | Link to this

Jay -

I appreciate you recognizing the mindless hatred of “GodHatesTrash”. The concern I have is that it seems that you believe his hatred is anomalous to liberals, while the hate speech you point out is consistant with conservative thought.

It would be nice if the partisans of the world just acknowledged that there are plenty of hateful and tolerant, informed and ignorant, intelligent and less intelligent people on both sides instead of constantly looking for evidence that those who don’t share their views are inherently hateful, ignorant and less intelligent. Which by the way, seems to be the intent of today’s post.

By Mike

June 18, 2008 9:54 AM | Link to this

hillbilly ragger -

If you don’t see the constant hate speech at Daily Kos as what it is then you have your own problems.

After a quick Google search on Kos Cheney assasination, I noticed the Kos did a fine job of cleaning up quotes to enable folks like you to claim such things have not been said.

Some conservative bloggers saved some choice bits however:

“At First I thought A Patriot General Attacked (2+ / 1-) Cheney. I mean, I thought that maybe it wasn’t a terrorist after all. Maybe it was one of those Generals who threatened to resign if the Cheney administration attacked Iran.

My first thought was too bad he missed.”

You can read the rest of this hateful rant here:

http://thunderrun.blogspot.com/2007/02/daily-kos-quote-of-day.html

Do we still have to “shut up”? More importantly, are you so rude and obnoxious to people’s faces? Or do you suddenly get aggressive when hiding behind the veil of anonymity?

By Hillbilly Deluxe

June 18, 2008 10:25 AM | Link to this

Mr. Bookman:

I have an idea. Why not rent out Phillips Arena, take all the people in here who are constantly degrading each other (not differences of opinion but personal attacks), have a no holds barred, no disqualification cage match. The money could go to some non-idealogical charity, say Shriner’s Hospital or something like that. I for one would pay to see this although I bet most of them would just stand there and look at each other and there would be very little action.

By JAY BOOKMAN

June 18, 2008 10:42 AM | Link to this

To Mike:

I guess I see a difference between the rantings of an individual, which reflect pretty much only on that individual, and the public sale of items at a well-attended political convention that apparently drew no complaint whatosever from those who saw it and in some cases bought it.

By GodHatesTrash

June 18, 2008 11:56 AM | Link to this

Gee, Jay, vicious stupid criminals are killing innocent Iraqis by the thousands, and running this country into the ground, and you want to make nicey nice with the people that elected them?

Not me.

God won’t either.

By lrd

June 18, 2008 2:34 PM | Link to this

Seems everyone is talking around the topic than to the topic. Why will not the topic be addressed? Is folks to scared of their on racism to wonder if the DNC would slander Rice and Powell? Better yet, if Powell comes out and supports Obama, I guess everyone would say he is voting for Obama just because they are both black, instead of looking at the issues Powell then is supporting