Jay Bookman

By Mike

October 30, 2008 7:28 AM | Link to this

Wow! A liberal pundit with no sense of self-awareness guilty of hypocrisy? Don’t see that every day. At the AJC.com. On Bookman’s blog.

By AJC/DNC Management

October 30, 2008 7:38 AM | Link to this

If you post an article to the kookman blog it has to be attributed or the goony libs will whine and moan that you are “making it up.”

Funny how these McCain advisers have no names, ain’t it?

By ByteMe

October 30, 2008 7:40 AM | Link to this

Mike: Wow, a conservative blog commenter with no sense of irony or humor. Don’t see that every day.

Ok, yes, we do.

By Taxpayer

October 30, 2008 7:42 AM | Link to this

You’re just making that up. Oh. Not you, Jay. Andy.

By AJC/DNC Management

October 30, 2008 7:45 AM | Link to this

Just as an aside to the braying from kookman about Quinn Hillyer of Amspec and his disagreements with McCain, who he now says he is voting for:

To be fully honest, it would go to some lengths to explain that the best reason to vote for John McCain is probably that it would keep Barack Obama from being president — because Obama is a radical with very few real achievements, incredibly thin experience, and no record of having been tested in a crisis. Starting from when he was 12 years old and was mentored by an openly Communist poet, continuing through his days at Columbia (the same time terrorist William Ayers was there), his long and extensive associations with Ayers and with PLO apologist whatshisame Khalidi and with hate-spewing clergymen Jeremiah Wright and Michael Pfleger and with the corrupt organization ACORN and apparently with thuggish Marxist Kenyan leader Raila Odinga and with convicted political fixer/felon Tony Rezko, Obama has deliberately and repeatedly associated with people who express contempt for America or for the mainstream of American thought. And Obama’s outrageous opposition to the Born-Alive Infant Protection Act shows him not just to be “pro-choice,” but to be the most radically and indeed brutally pro-abortion presidential nominee in history. And don’t even think about his view on how judges should be more concerned with “empathy” and with helping the “outcast” than with actually applying the words of the laws or the Constitution-AmSpec

By "The Corporal"

October 30, 2008 7:53 AM | Link to this

L.A. Times release the Video !!!

By E

October 30, 2008 7:59 AM | Link to this

Bimbo Barbie will be the scapegoat. The blame should be laid squarely at McNasty’s feet. He chose the unqualified BB.

The Repubs will never put one of their qualified women on their national ticket until they can give up being a one-issue party obsessed with abortion.

Kay Bailey Hutchison, who would have been a very intelligent choice for McCain, was probably unacceptable because she’s not rabidly pro-life; same goes for Snowe, Collins, and Whitman.

As long as the theocons insist on this particular litmus test you will see candidates like Bimbo Barbie or even that b*tch Michelle Bachmann on the ticket, but never one of their truly qualified moderates.

Obama/Biden ‘08

By AJC/DNC Management

October 30, 2008 8:00 AM | Link to this

Fourth, the war in Iraq is no longer even a war in a traditional sense. Four times as many Americans were murdered just in the city of Chicago at peace in July than all those Americans who were killed in Iraq at war in the same period. The cost of deploying American troops in Iraq is nearing the expense to station them elsewhere abroad. As Iraqis continue to take over additional provinces, the American presence will further shrink.-Victor Davis Hanson, Real Clear

And you can thank McCain and Bush for fighting not only al Qaeda but also surrender monkey US Congressman like Oblahma.

But yet the libs still natter on against America, the country that they “love,” using the Republican victory in Iraq as a stage prop for their kkkampaign of lies and hate.

By Paul

October 30, 2008 8:11 AM | Link to this

Jay

What a perfectly horrid, obviously jealous man who has absolutely no understanding of the tremendous effort it takes to eliminate ego and bring light and understanding to the masses. May I suggest you forward him a copy of “The Columnist’s Lament”?

Link: Columnist’s Lament

By Bud Wiser

October 30, 2008 8:16 AM | Link to this

A life-sized likeness of Barack Obama was found hanging from a tree with a noose around its neck Wednesday at the University of Kentucky, the second time in about a month such an effigy of the Democratic presidential nominee was reported on a college campus.

UK spokesman Carl Nathe said the effigy was found in a high-traffic area between a classroom building and parking garage. Police immediately took it down but released no information about their investigation.

University President Lee Todd said he planned to apologize to the Obama family on behalf of the school and that he is “personally offended and deeply embarrassed by this disgusting episode.”

Federal authorities have been notified, Todd said.

George Fox University in Oregon, a small Christian college, recently punished four students who confessed to hanging a likeness of Obama from a tree.

Hmmm. Disgusting? Well, yes.

Halloween draws nigh and with it not only scary things, but attempts to be funny and macabre at the same time. For Chad Michael Morisette of West Hollywood that means an effigy of Sarah Palin hanging by a noose from the roof of his house.

The Sarah Palin effigy is dressed in a red suit, a bee hive wig, and even with a replica of her famous glasses. The display also depicts John McCain emerging from the chimney in flames. Chad Michael Morisette defends the display of Sarah Palin dangling from a hangman’s noose as “art.” The local Sheriff’s office claims that the display does not rise to the level of a hate crime. Chad Michael Morisette’s neighbors are up in arms, though, and officials are monitoring the house just to make sure things don’t get out of hand.

Hmmm. Disgusting? Well yes,but since it is in California, apparently it is being treated as free speech or freedom of expression, take your pick.

I believe you’ll find your answer to the double standard here:

Of course the obvious question arises. What if someone hanged Barack Obama in effigy in the same way that Chad Michael Morisette has hanged Sarah Palin? That, of course, would be a different thing, partly because of unfortunate historical parallels and partly because one just does not do that to a liberal Democrat. There would be outrage, threats of violence, and the effigy would be taken down and the perpetrator taken away to have some sensitivity brow beaten into him.

McCain is closing the gap just because the Obamaniacs are demonstrating the true nature of themselves. Stupid, astoundingly STUPID.

Obama/Biden ‘08 - making it easy to be stupid, and keeping the double standard alive and well

By Joey

October 30, 2008 8:17 AM | Link to this

The Politico is a group of “journalist”, and Roger Simon is a commentary writer for The Politico.

First: Being described as a journalist is no longer a compliment. It has in fact become an insult.

Second: A Commentary Writer is a person who writes stuff in an effort to influence people or to please those he looks up to. All to often the material has no basis in fact.

By GMAN

October 30, 2008 8:39 AM | Link to this

There is no video… but jealousy is a B!TCH!!!

By Bud Wiser

October 30, 2008 8:39 AM | Link to this

I guess that when the pundits tire of bashing everyone in sight, just like the crocodiles of the Nile River the largest crocs in the world), they turn on their own and begin to devour them.

‘Journalists’ are now competing with lawyers to see whose belly drags the lowest and the longest distance through the mud.

I don’t think that this was what they had in mind for the future of “The Fourth Estate”. My oh my, what happens when a group so willingly trashes any set of ethics they may have had, just for a story, or worse still, a political ideology.

Tragic, senseless, and incredibly stupid.

And they wonder why the sales and rates keep falling and falling and falling………..

By Mrs. Godzilla

October 30, 2008 8:41 AM | Link to this

CORPORAL

Would that be the video of the guy McCain funded?

McCain Funded Work Of Palestinian His Campaign Hopes To Tie To Obama

During the 1990s, while he served as chairman of the International Republican Institute (IRI), McCain distributed several grants to the Palestinian research center co-founded by Khalidi, including one worth half a million dollars.

A 1998 tax filing for the McCain-led group shows a $448,873 grant to Khalidi’s Center for Palestine Research and Studies for work in the West Bank. (See grant number 5180, “West Bank: CPRS” on page 14 of this PDF.)

The relationship extends back as far as 1993, when John McCain joined IRI as chairman in January. Foreign Affairs noted in September of that year that IRI had helped fund several extensive studies in Palestine run by Khalidi’s group, including over 30 public opinion polls and a study of “sociopolitical attitudes.”

From Huff Post

How many times do we have to remind the McCain camp that there is this thing called the “inter-tubes”??

Goofballs, all.

By Taxpayer

October 30, 2008 8:41 AM | Link to this

When [Sadie] Fields discovered that her only daughter, Tess, is a lesbian, she “came over to where I worked, screaming, and told me I was ‘dead’ to the family,” Tess Fields wrote in an essay in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution in 2002. “She called me ‘sick,’ ‘crazy,’ and ‘of the devil.’ “

By RW-(the original)

October 30, 2008 8:43 AM | Link to this

I’m not sure whether Tapper is considered a journalist, columnist, blogger, or some combination, but he’s one of the very, very few media people doing his job these days.

Shelly Mandell, president of Los Angeles chapter of the National Organization for Women: “I am outraged by the new ad put out by Barack Obama. It is sexist and demeaning to women. These tactics started with Hillary Clinton and continue, growing even more disgusting with Gov. Palin. I was a Hillstar for Hillary and an avid supporter. Trashing two women clearly in a sexist manner in one election is an outrage and must be identified and stopped. There must be consequences. Let female Obama supporters take a good look at this and still believe their candidate supports women’s rights and women’s dignity.”

Prameela Bartholomeusz, DNC Platform Committee Member: “I am once again stunned at the personal and sexist attacks by the Obama campaign against Gov. Palin. This latest ad is sexist and offensive. The Gov. of Alaska has been managing and balancing a budget of $10 billion; I think she knows a bit about economics. Sen. Obama never spoke up against sexism during the primary season, and is not speaking out against misogyny during this phase of the election season — he is contributing to it. I have no confidence that Sen. Obama will fight for women’s issues if elected. This sets women back decades.”

Off to the forest, see y’all upstairs at Happy Hour!

By Mrs. Godzilla

October 30, 2008 8:45 AM | Link to this

BUD LIE-TE

Effigy of noosed Palin prompts visit from feds

By Ray

October 30, 2008 8:49 AM | Link to this

Charles Barkley once said that he was not in sports to be a role model and told everyone not to force him to assume this mantra. Unfortunately, when someone steps forward and performs admirably, has shirts and other gear sold in their name and money is made off of this enterprise, the term role model fits. Same with journalism. Journalism has often said that people who support an opinion, like Bookman, Tucker or Luko, that they appear on the editorial page so it is OK to try to influence the opinion of others. They are not role models, just people who have an opinion to share with others. Influencing others is not a responsibility that we should take lightly. That works OK with people like BudWeiser, Andy, Dusty and company who don’t swallow this crap but then there are those who couldn’t find Ohio on a map if you put a target on it. These are the voters who would follow most any opinion just because some “journalist” said it was so. It would be informative to see where “journalism” has fallen in this country and to see where people place “journalism” in the trusted professions. Maybe just a little above or below lawyers and used car sales. When “journalists” take their responsibility too lightly and place their opinion above responsible dialog, voters like the ones in the Harlem You Tube video are sure to elect our president.

By RB from Gwinnett

October 30, 2008 8:59 AM | Link to this

Hey Jay, Take note of the leading online Vent today. Those are your customers telling you what thay think of the job you’re doing. It’s not good, Jay. 13.5% reduction in subscriptions, Jay. Can you tie it all together?

You just keep sticking your finger in the eye of your customers and see where it gets you. We the people are tired of it. We no longer trust you and it appears you either don’t care or think it’s funny. It’s not. Watch what happens to the LA Times over the next few months. Ain’t gonna be pretty.

BTW, you never answered my question. If you had the tape, would you release it or hide it?

By Taxpayer

October 30, 2008 9:01 AM | Link to this

Jay,

I think Ray wants you to let him know which brand of ink pen and computer monitor, etc., you endorse. I think he’s trying to put together his Christmas shopping list but that’s just my opinion.

By GMAN

October 30, 2008 9:03 AM | Link to this

There is no video… but jealousy is a B!TCH!!!

By Mr Snarky

October 30, 2008 9:12 AM | Link to this

So Ray, when you agree with someone, they’re a journalist, but when you don’t agree with them, they’re a “journalist”?

By RB from Gwinnett

October 30, 2008 9:12 AM | Link to this

GMAN, there wasn’t a stained blue dress either, was there?

There’s smoke there, GMAN, for those willing to acknowledge it.

By AmVet

October 30, 2008 9:13 AM | Link to this

E @7:59, one of the better posts I have read in some time.

The old school “theocons” (LOVE that!) are never, ever, ever going to evolve.

And when confronted with the reality that they are WAY out of touch with the reasoned and reasonable center, their senseless and sophomoric reaction is, “Yeah, that’s what we need to become, liberals!”

We’ve seen that very sentiment posited here by the more intransigent elements of their party.

No, fools, not liberals. Moderates. Like the Republican Party used to be in it’s saner days. Not pig-headed rogue cowboys who believe their extremists political doctrines inviolable.

The reality is, that in this nation now, the faux conservatives are as irrelevant as the Creation Museum.

And I believe that will be borne out once again, next Tuesday.

But just perhaps there will be a new cadre of young Republicans who see that fundamental change away from neo-conservatism to actual conservatism with a healthy does of moderation is their only salvation.

But again, I implore, where are they?

By Paul

October 30, 2008 9:13 AM | Link to this

Mike Luckovich appeared with Mike Peters (another fine editorial cartoonist) on NPR’s Morning Edition discussing what it’ll be like with an Obama Presidency. I’d recommend listening to the video - I think some of the comments were tongue-in-cheek.

Another blogger noted that among many editorial cartoonists who think it’ll be difficult to find themes with which to mock Obama, well, they should take a look at Michael Ramirez’s work at Investors Business Daily. He finds plenty to mock - and seems to be making up for his colleague’s lack of imagination.

Link: Luckovich on Election 98

All these other editorial cartoonists don’t let their personal politics get in the way of who they mock, so I don’t see why an Obama Presidency should be so difficult…

By Bosch

October 30, 2008 9:15 AM | Link to this

While I was away yesterday, it seems that Real Clear Politics (sorry hillbilly ragger) has put Georgia in the Toss Up State column.

Along with Arizona in the Leaning McCain column. Hell, that sucks for your own state to only be “leaning” towards you.

Anyway, that might be old news for all I know. Yes, my vote is looking more and more important this time!

I saw McCain last night on Larry King. What a washed up old bag. He was seething with jealousy at the Obamamercial.

Bwa!

But, I’m still not getting my hopes up. If Obama wins, what will I have to b*** about? My God, I might have to stop being so sarcastic about life.

By Mr Snarky

October 30, 2008 9:20 AM | Link to this

McCain was looking for a quick-fix hence we get Palin. Plenty of conservative pundits had horses in the race for VP…of course they have opinions, I don’t see how you blame them for McCain’s decision. He was the decider and upheld a tradition of bad ones.

By Bosch

October 30, 2008 9:21 AM | Link to this

Good morning Paul!

I heard that Luckovich clip the other day. He’s a funny guy.

By AJC/DNC Management

October 30, 2008 9:23 AM | Link to this

Oct. 30 (Bloomberg) — U.S. stock-index futures advanced after the government said the economy contracted less than forecast in the third quarter and investors speculated global interest-rate cuts will stem a further slump.

GDP estimates always get revised upwards, by the way.

It looks like the only way you libs will get the recession your so incestuously long for is for Oblahmasan to get elected.

Ain’t gonna happen.

By Ray

October 30, 2008 9:25 AM | Link to this

One more observation…

One time, not too long ago, Walter Cronkite was considered America’s most trusted person. He came on every night and told us about the events of the day, made comments to support both sides of an argument and even though he was a liberal, he seemed to give people of all political opinion some solace in thinking that he was a person we could trust. We especially felt comforted when he was the one on the screen reporting Kennedy’s demise. I wonder where this has all gone and what the Fourth Estate has become. Off the deep end with a taste for power and influence that any corrupt politician would envy. And they can say anything they want, true or not. And most times they really don’t care, as long as it furthers their agenda. Power is very corrupting and the last place we need it is in our journalistic community.
“And that’s the way it is, Thursday, October 30th…..Good Luck and Goodnight”. Walter, where are you, my friend?

By RB from Gwinnett

October 30, 2008 9:25 AM | Link to this

Bosch,

Gore 47.7% Bush 52%

In Tennesee

It sucks to have data doesn’t it.

By AJC/DNC Management

October 30, 2008 9:26 AM | Link to this

All of the whining and moaning about Bushie invading people’s privacy and destroying the Constitution, things that the left have no proof of, look at this:

A state agency has revealed that its checks of computer systems for potential information on “Joe the Plumber” were more extensive than it first acknowledged.

Helen Jones-Kelley, director of the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services, disclosed today that computer inquiries on Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher were not restricted to a child-support system.

The agency also checked Wurzelbacher in its computer systems to determine whether he was receiving welfare assistance or owed unemployment compensation taxes, she wrote.-Columbus Dispatch

They crawled up this guy’s as-s.

Gestapo tactics, anyone?

By Eric1

October 30, 2008 9:28 AM | Link to this

It’s a good thing McPalin and the rest of you “whack jobs” are irrelevant. Say what you like, spew hate and hypocrisy and pretend to be patriotic christians….your act ain’t working. President Obama will prove everyone of you WRONG!! He’ll be a real uniter. He’ll keep his campaign promises and end the war, reduce taxes on the middle class, improve education, enact a sensible energy policy, create new jobs, repair broken relations with other countries, improve our world wide image and foster cooperation with our allies and our enemies. An Obama presidency may well turn out to be the best thing that could possibly happen to our country in decades. Finally, someone to give not only our country, but the whole world a sense of hope for the possibility peace and prosperity. The days of “cowboy diplomacy” and war mongering are over.

By Bosch

October 30, 2008 9:31 AM | Link to this

RB,

I’m sorry, your posts are so chocked full of wisdom that my poor pea brain can not compute. I’ll have to call upon other bloggers to interpret your posts for me from now on because I’m such a moron.

I think I’m going to drive down the interstate today and see if I can find a billboard that can help me interpret the polling numbers from this election, do you think they’ll have one? Maybe they’ll even have a billboard that can help me interpret data from an election from 8 years ago. One can only hope.

By CINDIE

October 30, 2008 9:33 AM | Link to this

Bud Wiser RE:830 post

The issue of the effigy’s is a simple matter of who owns the property. The college campuses own the property the students are on and can make them adhere to any rules they wish, i.e., no alcohol in dorms, no visitors past a certain time, no materials or displays they find inappropriate.

The california couple own their property, thus they retain the right of “free speech” to display whatever they wish on their property.

so it’s not a “double-standard conspiracy” by the left. If the students lived in a house they owned, they would have every right to keep their effigy up as well.

Remember even local schools retain the right to decide what clothing is appropriate and inappropriate. Private and public schools can demand you wear a uniform and if you don’t you can’t go to the school, i’m sure this limits many a students “free speech” but it is the school’s right.

By Paul

October 30, 2008 9:39 AM | Link to this

Hey there, Bosch

And Peters is absolutely insane. I heard him in an interview during Clinton’s second campaign and was asked who he hoped would win. He grimaced and grinned and said “how can you pass up on a guy who’s guaranteed to give you loads of great material for four solid years?”

Missed you last night. Getalife mentioned Clinton about the time I was downloading “Rasputin” by Boney M. I thought you’d appreciate the symbolism - I mentioned the calls of the nobility with Rasputin and the farfarright with Clinton. I linked to the video (at 7:16 in the Mysterious Memo thread)- unless you’re older than I think or into obscure period groups I doubt you’ve heard them - but AmVet and RW - well, another case where music bridges the great divide.

Hey, here’s another question for you. Fox is farfarright, neocon, biased, while those listening are political Neanderthals with no reasoning ability who get the rest of their news from the likes of Rush. Correct?

So…. why did Sen Obama choose to spend some of his millions broadcasting his infomercial on Fox? Unless the viewer base is more diverse than portrayed, where he thought there were a large number of undecideds whom he could sway?

By Ray

October 30, 2008 9:39 AM | Link to this

Mr. Snarkey,

My point, again, is that journalists have a responsibility to the public to whom they preach. They are obliged to tell the truth, present opinion in a manner that does not distort or lie…… Nothing wrong with an opinion, we all have one. When “journalists” have an obvious bias, report untruths, give their readers some distorted piece of the truth, they are no longer considered journalists. They are political hacks with an agenda. And most thinking people can tell the difference.

By Paul

October 30, 2008 9:42 AM | Link to this

Ray 9:25

Cronkite was a professional. That, I believe, is the difference.

By reebok

October 30, 2008 9:42 AM | Link to this

As of this morning, Obama is on track to win 310 Electoral votes, with another 90 too close to call…which means MCain has to hold ever state he’s currently leading, sweep the undecideds, and take 41 electoral votes that are right now in Obama’s column. This is ALL THE FAULT OF THE LIBERAL MEDIA, who persist in their America-hating strategy of printing the things that McCain and Palin say.

By Citizen of the World

October 30, 2008 9:42 AM | Link to this

I dislike anonymous quotes, although I understand why they must be used when a fact-based revelation of an important nature is made by someone who has too much to lose to speak out on the record. And if this is the case, it’s incumbent upon the journalist to do everything possible to verify the veracity of the source’s claim before publishing it.

In what was passed along by Jay, though, it’s pure opinion, so it shouldn’t be quoted, however tempting it is to reveal the McCain camp’s dislike of Palin. (And I know that Jay was trying to show that journalists can take it along with dishing it out!)

At any rate, we don’t need an anonymous source to tell us that Sarah Palin is a whack job. We can see that for ourselves.

The evidence is mounting that she plays fast and loose with ethics, abusing her power for personal gain and to advance her political agenda. She’s not fit for the office of the vice presidency. McCain should never have chosen her as his running mate.

By reebok

October 30, 2008 9:44 AM | Link to this

As of this morning, Obama is on track to win 310 Electoral votes, with another 90 too close to call…which means McCain has to hold ever state he’s currently leading, sweep the undecideds, and take 41 electoral votes that are right now in Obama’s column. This is ALL THE FAULT OF THE LIBERAL MEDIA, who persist in their America-hating strategy of reporting the things that McCain and Palin say.

By getalife

October 30, 2008 9:46 AM | Link to this

Oh no, John said the blogs are not real journalism.

They do not spin like his pundits. You know, the ones that were dead wrong with w.

Those days are over John, thanks to the blogs.

By AlphaDog

October 30, 2008 9:47 AM | Link to this

Does this guy do anything other than quote other people????

By GMAN

October 30, 2008 9:49 AM | Link to this

RB from Gwinnett 9:12 AM

*GMAN, there wasn’t a stained blue dress either, was there?

There’s smoke there, GMAN, for those willing to acknowledge it.*

Are we talking about the smoke Bush/McCain have been blowing up your A55 the past 8 years? Or the smoke that FAKE News has been blowing up your A55 and in your face the past 4 weeks?

There is no video… but jealousy is a B!TCH!!!

By Taxpayer

October 30, 2008 9:51 AM | Link to this

Some excerpts from one of Cynthia Tucker’s columns:

“On the last Sunday in September, a group of conservative Christian pastors defied federal regulations by making narrowly partisan political statements from their pulpits. Egged on by a right-wing outfit called the Alliance Defense Fund, some of the pastors went so far as to endorse John McCain.”

“In Indiana, according to The Washington Post, the Rev. Ron Johnson Jr. stopped short of an explicit endorsement but told his congregants that Barack Obama’s positions on abortion and gay rights were “in direct opposition to God’s truth as He has revealed it in the Scriptures” and that a vote for Obama would be evidence of “severe moral schizophrenia.” “

Thanks, Ms. Tucker, for sharing those revealing little tidbits that must surely be at least partially responsible for driving some of the other whack jobs, such as Andy, to such extremes as calling the AJC, the Urinal. I look forward to reading your column almost as much as I look forward to envisioning Andy’s bloviated blood vessels after he posts another round of rants. Not that I’m singling out Andy. I also enjoy the rants and ravings of others such as Ray, RB, Dusty, and even @@ on occassion. Y’all keep up the good work now, Ya hear. Yee Haw.

P.S. Jay, I do enjoy your work as well. That other guy, the one to your “right”, that you work with though, well, I’m sure he has his base too.

By tcoach

October 30, 2008 9:51 AM | Link to this

Eric1 Not saying you are wrong but the media is. You should check out he AP fact check on Obama’s commercial last night.

No fewer than 8 lies or half truths by Obama just last night. And he could talk about whatever he wanted and STILL chose to LIE.

So why should I believe he will be honest if in office.

By RB from Gwinnett

October 30, 2008 9:52 AM | Link to this

Eric1,

Uniter?

Can you show any evidence where he’s ever reached across the aisle to accomplish anything? Never has, never will.

Sheep.

Obama ‘08 - Grabbing the cash!

By Bosch

October 30, 2008 9:54 AM | Link to this

Paul,

Wow! That Boney M Cat’s got some moves! [Ra Ra Rasputin, lover of the Russian Queen….].

Oh God, now that’s stuck in my head. Thanks.

Yes, music is one of the true unifiers (?sp) in this world.

I missed the Obamamercial last night. Like I’ve said before, I work, really, I do, and that’s what I was doing last night.

Good point about Fox, I don’t have an answer, but maybe he just wanted to rub his millions IN THEIR FACE!!! Take that Hannity!

Have you seen DL Hughley’s new show on CNN? He’s a funny guy too. I used to enjoy him when he’d show up on Bill Maher’s show.

By Rocco Pedestrian

October 30, 2008 10:06 AM | Link to this

I read Cal Thomas’ column in my gwinnett free daily post this morning and I was about to try and email him when it occurred to me that he is done. In two or three years, Jay Bookman will be nationally syndicated and Cal will be ranting incoherently at a John Birch society meeting somewhere. Palin’s epic fail will finally bring an end to the religious right’s excellent adventure into politics. We are absolutely a secular nation. We are moving more toward a modern, european cultural model. It’s a good thing.

By leni

October 30, 2008 10:07 AM | Link to this

Der Helden Luckovich once wrote a letter to the AJC complaining about a group of black youths who sat next to his children at Centennial Park. Seems they “intimidated” him.

By RB from Gwinnett

October 30, 2008 10:11 AM | Link to this

GMAN, you and your BDS cohorts have been whining and accusing Bush of everything from blowing Plame’s cover to jaywalking for the last 7.5 years and you don’t have crap for evidence. If you have something, charge the man. If he’s guilty, throw him out. If you don’t, you’re another in a lengthy line of BDS hacks who can’t think for themselves. Produce the goods or go away.

By tcoach

October 30, 2008 10:15 AM | Link to this

Sorry in advance for copy/paste. In a hurry. Dems. why can’t we just let people give to who they want instead of forcing the wealthy to give out charity. How many of you have done anything like this.

“DALLAS — A Texas woman went to a housing auction distraught about the prospect of watching strangers bid on her foreclosed home.

Then one of those strangers bought it back for her.

Now Tracy Orr can return to her Pottsboro home, making payments to the woman who unexpectedly and impulsively bought it for her.

“It means so much to all of us,” Orr told Dallas television station WFAA. “It’s not just a house.”

Marilyn Mock said she was acting on instinct on Saturday when she decided to buy a house she had never seen for a woman she had never met. Mock was at the foreclosure auction to help her 27-year-old son bid on a house when she struck up a conversation with Orr, who was crying about losing her home.

Orr had bought the house for $80,000 in 2004 but fell behind on the payments. She lost her job a month after taking out the loan, and earlier this year she lost the house. On the spot, Mock decided to buy it, eventually bidding $30,000.

“She didn’t even know if I had a job or was a nut case,” Orr said in a story for Wednesday’s online edition of The Dallas Morning News. “She didn’t even see a picture of the house.”

Mock told a crying Orr she could stay in the house, making payments to her instead of a bank.

“She needed help. That was it,” Mock told the newspaper. “I just happened to be there and anybody else would have done the same thing.”

Orr said she hopes others will do as Mock did.

“More than my house, she gave me something inside, and that’s more important than material or financial things,” she said.

The two are waiting on final approval from Fannie Mae before visiting the home.

Mock’s son also got a home at the auction.”

So dems how many of you have done anything like this? That’s right it is other peoples money you want to spend.

By Bosch

October 30, 2008 10:15 AM | Link to this

I wonder what Saxby Chambliss meant when he told Politico, “The other folks are voting?”

In Paul’s fashion:

Link: [Obama shakes up Georgia’s Senate race] (http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1008/15076.html)

By Joey

October 30, 2008 10:19 AM | Link to this

Taxpayer and Cynthia Tucker:

Do you suppose it is likely that in some church somewhere in the U.S. a minister has made and will make partisan pplitical statements in favor of Obama/Biden?

I do. I am opposed to tax exempt status for any church and many non-profits. But that position is not based upon a minister expressing his political views from the pulpit. This is why Wright is not wrong to preach his politics from his pulpit.

However, because Wright is not wrong to preach, it does not follow that Obama was right to stay and support Wright’s positions.

Ditto me. If I were to stay in the congregation and support a minister who preached hatred of Jews or Muslims, I cannot claim later that I never agreed with his sermons.

By GMAN

October 30, 2008 10:24 AM | Link to this

RB from Gwinnett, do I sense a pitcher of hater-aid in your tone? As you roll around on the floor kicking, screaming, and spitting, just know that there are many of us that still love you but will spank your A55 if you continue to act up! By the way, would you like some cheddar jack with that whine?

Jealousy is a B!TCH!!!

By TN Gelding

October 30, 2008 10:32 AM | Link to this

The guy sounds like some of the regulars here. Could it be?

Let’s get something meaty on Obama to discuss. Times awastin’.

By mm

October 30, 2008 10:37 AM | Link to this

Duh, you are wrong as usual.

Economy shrinks in 3rd quarter

RB, can’t you understand why newspaper sales are down across the country? Try real hard. Hint: It’s the internet, stupid. The internet you are using right now to post your tripe. Trying to tie subscription declines to a columnist? Please.

I predict many newspapers to disappear in the next few years as they move toward internet subscriptions.

By E

October 30, 2008 10:37 AM | Link to this

Senator Obama is an eloquent and brilliant man who, if he is elected, will make the United States a country that other countries will once again respect.

So, get out there and vote…and take someone with you.

Obama/Biden ‘08

By getalife

October 30, 2008 10:40 AM | Link to this

Ah, now Andy has flipped flopped on freedom.

Remember this Andy?:

If Joe the plumber is not a terrorist, he has nothing to worry about.

You know they listen to our troops calling home and having phone sex with their wives.

Are you outraged now?

Were we right?

Welcome to the real world Andy.

It is about time.

By AmVet

October 30, 2008 10:40 AM | Link to this

mm, I hear that the teletype business is also way off…

By Taxpayer

October 30, 2008 10:43 AM | Link to this

Joey,

I’m fairly certain, based on your comments, that you simply have not read and understood the column that I posted the excerpts from. Here is a link. Please, feel free to read it and comment if you like on its actual content.

By Mrs. Godzilla

October 30, 2008 10:47 AM | Link to this

AMvet

Should I upgrade my tin can and string for a rotary phone now?

By RealityKing

October 30, 2008 11:02 AM | Link to this

“Columnists”

Good one Jay…., now we know what to call today’s MSM.

> A new Pew Research study shows about 70 percent of Americans feel the press favors Obama.

ABC, NBC and CBS ran a total of 69 stories on Palin. Two were deemed positive, 37 negative and 30 neutral. None of the evening news shows ran a positive story about Palin.

Twenty-one stories portrayed Palin as unintelligent and unqualified, 14 characterized her as John McCain’s attack dog and nine emphasized attacks on Palin by conservatives.

By Joey

October 30, 2008 11:15 AM | Link to this

Taxman:

I think I understand. My first paragraph was about the actual content. Then I took another path. Cynthia focused her condemnation upon “the Christian Right which is a whole owned subsidiary of the Rupblican Party.”

I may be at a disadvantage because I am not a religious person. Particularly I do not support the Christian Right. Even though I have friends and relatives who are Christian Righters.

My position about Bible, Koran or Talmud teachings is that, in reality, the interpretation is up to the interpreter. It is the responsiblity of the individual to stay or go or object.

By gadem

October 30, 2008 11:16 AM | Link to this

Andi girl were crying this loud about Valerie Plame or do you feel better defending big strong men? Inquiring minds would like to know. Andi is a plumber because he likes “pipe”…pipe in his back door that is!

By RB from Gwinnett

October 30, 2008 11:20 AM | Link to this

GMAN, what kind of embecile makes threats from behind the veil of an annomous blog? Are you that hard up for attention?

BTW, I noticed you didn’t produce any evidence of Bush doing anything wrong, so I’ll asssume you’re in the line with all the other mindless BDS nut cases.

Typical liberal. Can’t discuss facts so you change the subject and call people names.

mm. how’s the online volume looking? I haven’t seen those numbers. Do they separate the 5 times a day hits from the same machine? Ad revenue keeping up? I hear the excuse, but I haven’t seen the supporting numbers. Please share.

By Just_Me

October 30, 2008 11:34 AM | Link to this

Bosch

Cheer up, friend. Apparently you and I have been dubbed “idiots” by that RB slug. I consider it good company, btw.

I know you, as I am, are crying tears over that. Hey, if someone as unevolved as that RB is is calling me an idiot, well then I know I’m juuuuuuuuuuuuust_FINE!

Didn’t you just get so upset about his quoting the 2000 election percentages?

Guess he hasn’t looked at a calendar in a while…

;-)

Would love to stay and laugh at the frothing going on today, but my “Lunch break” lasts about 17 minutes!

No bloodshed today (or at least not worse than usual).

By GMAN

October 30, 2008 11:45 AM | Link to this

RB from Gwinnett, Here are some facts for you…

Jealousy is a B!TCH!!!

By Taxpayer

October 30, 2008 11:48 AM | Link to this

Joey,

Cynthia Tucker did not focus “condemnation” on anyone. Quite the contrary. Here’s some more from Cynthia’s column:

The group’s so-called Pulpit Initiative is designed to “secure the First Amendment rights of pastors in the pulpit,” according to the statement.

Now, I think that makes the efforts of the ADF pretty clear. They want the attention on themselves and for a clearly stated reason. The one thing that they are choosing to ignore, however, is their tax-exempt status. This is what Cynthia Tucker is highlighting — Let people preach “whatever”, just don’t expect to do “whatever” tax-free. There’s limits and rightfully so unless you are trying to redefine the US as a theocracy, for example, or “whatever”. Some folks, including me, have a problem with that.

By GMAN

October 30, 2008 11:52 AM | Link to this

RB from Gwinnet, Here are some more facts for you. Have you had enough? Now get up of that floor kicking, rolling, screaming, and kicking and have some cheese with that whine!

Jealousy is a B!TCH!!!

By Bud Wiser

October 30, 2008 11:59 AM | Link to this

Erase the numbers Mrs G, and I bet you cannot place a call……..

Obamaniacs - ignorant to the end

By Joey

October 30, 2008 12:06 PM | Link to this

Taxpayer;

I guess we will disagree about the sum of what Tucker wrote.

I think we agree that Politics from the Pulpit, either conserative or liberal, extreme left or extreme right, does and should impact the tax exempt status of a place of worship. Regardless of who or what one worships.