Quantcast


Advertisement

The God Blog

Email | Print | Text - Text +

August 7, 2008 | 5:02 pm

Anti-semitism again rears its head in Tennessee election

Posted by Brad A. Greenberg


Nikki Tinker race baits Steve Cohen. @ Yahoo! Video

Last week I mentioned the entertaining anti-Semitic fan mail I received from George Brooks, a Tennessee minister who has been circulating fliers attacking U.S. Rep. Steve Cohen as “anti-Jesus.” Cohen, as you probably guessed, is Jewish, and as Memphis’ congressional representative is the only white U.S. congressman to hail from a predominantly black district. He’s running for re-election and his opponent today’s Democratic primary is Nikki Tinker, a black attorney.

I don’t know much about either candidate, but I do know that Tinker hasn’t stayed above the fray in her campaign. Her latest ad was so objectionable that it warranted not only the condemnation of the National Jewish Democratic Council, which typical avoids primary fights, but also the criticism of Sen. Barack Obama, whose name you might as a fan favorite of African-Americans. (He’s also running for president.)

“These incendiary and personal attacks have no place in our politics,” Obama said, “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.”

What exactly is so offensive about Tinker’s ad? You can see for yourself in the video above; I’ve posted a summary from ABC’s politics blog after the jump:

Tinker has been accused of playing some of the more ugly racial politics of the campaign season.

She put the image of a Klansman standing before a burning cross in a TV ad to drive home the point that Cohen, as a member of the downtown development board in 2005, opposed renaming a park that is named for Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest, a founder of the Ku Klux Klan. (Watch the ad HERE.)

But what aroused the condemnation of Sen. Obama is Tinker’s new TV ad that not-so-subtly points out that Cohen is Jewish.

The ad states that Cohen has voted against allowing children to pray in schools “while he’s in OUR churches slapping hands and tapping his feet.”

“Our” churches?

Even EMILY’s List, which is backing Tinker, condemned the ad. “We were shocked to see the recent ads run by the Nikki Tinker for Congress campaign. We believe the ads are offensive and divisive,” said Ellen Malcolm, the group’s director. “EMILY’s List does not condone or support these types of attacks.”

12 Comments — Leave your comment

Share this post: del.icio.us Favicondel.icio.us Digg FaviconDigg Facebook FaviconFacebook Google FaviconGoogle Reddit FaviconReddit StumbleUpon FaviconStumbleUpon Technorati FaviconTechnorati YahooMyWeb FaviconYahooMyWeb

COMMENTS

We welcome your feedback. Comments may not exceed 700 characters.

Privacy Policy

Your information will not be shared or sold without your consent. Get all the details.

Terms of Service

JewishJournal.com has rules for its commenting community.Get all the details.

I kept waiting for it.  That was the most anti-climactic “anti-Semitic” thing I think I’ve ever seen.  It’s a fair-game attack on his policies.  Should they have said “the” churches or what?  They are “their” churches, aren’t they? 

This ad could have run against just about any liberal, Christian or Jewish.  It’s not anti-Semitic just because the target is Jewish.

Seems to me like she’s being anti-White more than anti-Semitic.

Anyway, I’m glad to be Jewish if I live in a country where this passes for anti-Semitic.  (sigh of relief)

Comment by Jon on 8/07/08 at 6:58 pm

Fair enough, Jon. I was surprised to see Obama enter the fray on this one. Anti-Semitism certainly has played a part in this campaign, but maybe for the purpose of this reporting on this ad I should have begun the headline with “Allegations of ...”

Comment by Brad A. Greenberg on 8/07/08 at 8:12 pm

It’s sad that a person has to stoop so low as to use another’s person belief against them. I wish Ilived in the district I would certainly vote AGAINST Tinker, if-no no other reason than her small mind.

Comment by marrie bruce on 8/07/08 at 8:31 pm

Your J-Dar is malfunctioning, Jon. This is obviously an anti-Semitic message, and pandering to black people with a black naarator. Why don’t you try switching the names and ethnic groups and seeing if it works as a bigoted message. Hint - it does. The whole context in this campaign has been the antisemitic black support for Tinker. Not surprising since black antisemitism is significantly higher than white, which is bad enough.

I would bet anyuthing that Nikki Tinker is a direct beneficiary of Jewish civil rights activism.
“How sharper than a serpent’s tooth it is to have a thankless child! Away, away!” - King Lear

Comment by Ben Plonie on 8/08/08 at 2:18 am

So full of hate.

So ready to point fingers.

So sure you know.

Sad.

Comment by The Web Guy on 8/08/08 at 2:46 am

Yes, I know, I’m the Hate Guy around here. And I’m sure the ‘National Jewish Democratic Council’ are hate mongers, and Barack Obama is a helpless vitim of AIPAC and the Zionist overlords as well.

Of course I don’t ‘know’ anything in Tenessee I don’t read in the papers, but my instincts are good and I just Googled “Steven Cohen” for Web and News, and the discussion and analysis of antiSemitism in that campaign just leaped out at me. Note that in this case it is focused on Cohen being too liberal and catering to progressive agendas, not a ‘Kahanist’ or catering to Jewish interests. You of course are free to contribute the results of your knowledge and research to the discussion.

As far as I am concerned you have no cred to comment on my hatefulness while you leave that knuckle-dragging rant-tard stalking me untouched and uncommented upon.

Comment by Ben Plonie on 8/08/08 at 7:27 am

Cohen just shmeered Tinker 79% to 19%. It is heartening to know that lowlife tactics are on the way out.

Comment by Ben Plonie on 8/08/08 at 7:02 pm

Ben wrote:

It is heartening to know that lowlife tactics are on the way out.

Apparently you haven’t seen recent McCain commercials

Comment by The Web Guy on 8/08/08 at 8:01 pm

You mean this ad?

Comment by Brad A. Greenberg on 8/08/08 at 8:15 pm

Oh, man.

In the words of the Church Lady, my naughty parts are engorged and tingly.

Comment by The Web Guy on 8/08/08 at 9:05 pm

Americans are fed up with israels money extortion of up to 100 billion each year paid by their tax money.

...that is pure and simple the truth.

It is also the jew led Wallstreet which brought inflation and the misery of low wages or unemployment over Americas none jewish citizens.

Enough is enough.

Moreover the acts of these group of jewish occupants who call themselves israel are very inhumane! Ethnical cleansing, cluster bombing of civilians in Lebanon etc..

We have enough from the new “master race” find a nice place in the middle of the Sahara and stay there.

Comment by Guenter on 8/11/08 at 12:28 am

America and the world receives a multiple return on investment for every penny invested in economic relationships with the Jewish State, just as they have for all of history when investing in economic relationships with the Jewish nation in exile. The best thing America could do to get out of the current recession is to immediately quadruple investments in Israel on a crash emergency basis.

Just ask non-Jewish non-Zionists Warren Buffett and Bill Gates, who are independent minded enough to ignore nutballs like you and have large investment programs in Israel.

It is also relatively recently that Jews even managed to break into the notoriously antisemitic banking and Wall Street investing fields. In typical fashion they did it by starting their own candy stores and leaving the white-shoe crowd to gnash their teeth in frustration to se the Jews succeeding in so obvious and spectacular a fashion. Must be a hangover from all that Talmud study.

The obvious answer to your Sahara proposal is that if the Jews went there and built it up enough to become worth stealing, like they did in Palestine, then a bunch of Arabs would be pushed forward with a story that they are ancient Saharans and the Jews have to get out. But since the Jews are only motivated to work on their own ancient original aboriginal sacred eternal homeland and inheritance of Israel, the Saharans can eat their dust in peace.

Comment by Ben Plonie on 8/11/08 at 11:53 am

Post a Comment

Name:  
Email:  

Type the word you see below:

Comment:


About this Blog

Blog Home
About the Blogger(s)
Contact

RSS


Blog Archive






Newspaper

Serving a community of 600,000, The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles is the largest Jewish weekly outside New York City. Our award-winning paper reaches over 150,000 educated, involved and affluent readers each week. Subscribe here.

© Copyright 2012 Tribe Media Corp.
All rights reserved. JewishJournal.com is hosted by Nexcess.net. Homepage design by Koret Communications.
Widgets by Mijits. Site construction by Hop Studios.

counter fake hit page