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Pesk, I hope I wasn't as abject and passive as you make it sound. Yes, I was trying to be reasonable, but I wasn't all THAT meek about it. At the reference to my mother in the insulting remark, I did permit myself a quite emphatic "Shut up!" if you recall. (Whereupoon he and his entourage started chorusing "He told him to shut up!" as if Jake had finally struck gold with his blatant unprovoked provocation.)
And let's not be selective respecters of persons. Henry Turley, one of the great men locally, needs no such protection. It was he whom Jake accused of saying, "Women and blacks are the cause of all Memphis' problems" and repeated the charge in Henry's face when an astonished Turley pointed out that neither he nor anyone else with sanity would have thought or said anything like that.
Throwing a note in over the transom, Brad Watkins theorizes (correctly, I think) that Jake is trying to stage a provocation so as concoct some white-vs.-black issue or to come off as mistreated by the media. He's not got enough moxie to take on the CA (did you catch Sister Wendi's takedown of the Jakester?). The CA is too big for him.
God, what MUST Harold Jr. (a class act even if you disagree with him) think of the Jake-and-Isaac show? What must his loyal, forgiving father (subject of that not-so-long-ago assault) think?
I shudder to speculate.
Still, it's possible to follow his campaign, such as it is, without rancor, and to give him his due, when he doesn't insist on cancelling it out.
And I honestly think Jr.'s campaign is going well enough that even Jake can't screw it up for him.
Hmmm. I can't write about this without writing about it. We'll see.
JB, you sounded like a cop trying to talk a crazy man down from the ledge. That's not passive, but it isn't exactly aggressive either. I have to admit I may have missed your, "shut up," as I did turn away to make sure my neighbors weren't missing the action.
I was wise to stay home and drink gin, else I might have caused an international incident.
I saw John Ford physically attack a TV crew in the Legislative Plaza in Nashville one evening a few feet from where I was standing. If I were in the media, I wouldn't want to worry about my equipment or my teeth around these Fords any longer.
Oh and JB, thank's for clarifying the HT business. I heard what he said, but wasn't sure I had it right, so I didn't want to name names. Turns out, I had it right.
He was talking to me? I don't think I did... I'd been trying to reserve that one for you, as you weave it quite well, but I had to break it out for the whacko church that said we were going to be nuked on September 12...
Although I'd hardly be surprised to find out he's not happy with me. I'm not entirely pleased myself. Him changing his mind on showing up tonight means I lost a bet and owe a friend a Huey burger.
I couldn't even believe what I was seeing tonight. I've never seen a candidate lose it like that. A display like that is simply insane.
Rick, he was looking at you, and he knows you, and blames you for things. He doesn't know me from Joe Palooka (I'm an eyes&ears unit, I don't engage unless I have to). I assumed it was you given the Brother Act story which states:
"Hearsay of this sort begat further hearsay, and soon an honest blogger or two had picked up on a gathering outrage among supporters of 9th District Democratic nominee Steve Cohen that the "fucktard brother" (i.e., independent congressional candidate Jake Ford) had benefited from what had now, in some tellings, become a "handoff" at the rally from Representative Ford."
I've never called the guy an efftard (until now).
Who knows WHO he was talking to? The guy was unhinged.
It's embarassing just to read about it.
I am SO sorry I missed that!
Wow. What an eccentric performance! You'd better be careful or he might taunt you a second time.
No wait, I get it. He was doing his impersonation of a young George W. Bush, hoping it would win him some Republican votes.
However, Pesky, I must disagree. His performance is not worthy of a coveted fucktard award.
A more accurate moniker is "Whiny Ass Titty Baby."
You ever get the feeling that maybe he didn't really want to run and his daddy made him?
Pesky, as I explained to you, the "fucktard" reference to Jake Ford was made — in an email, actually — by a College Democrat (whoim I have identified to you). This was one of the three College Democrats whose hearsay testimony begat the erroneous story of a "handoff" from Jr. to Jake at a Harold Jr. rally. The email was quoted from in my story rebutting that version of events.
It could have been me. I made no effort to hide my identity from him when I called him for comment Sunday, and I spoke to him again last night, so the idea that he might have fixated on me was not an absurd one; And frankly, I think I ruined the excuse he was trying to provide himself to skip the debate last night. He couldn't get away with saying Ransom wasn't really co-moderator--- I told him so during our conversation, then confirmed it with two sources. So I'm certain he wasn't happy with me.
I've just never used the fucktard moniker for him, so I didn't connect myself with his little piece of cheap theatrics last night.
Jeff: this wasn't a fucktard award-- unless the readers think it should be. I'll consider your comment a vote for WATB.
And JB. I gotcha. The closest I'd found in my searching prior to our email exchange was a spot in comments.
I actually think that if anyone gets the coveted award, it should be Harold Senior.
Jake can be forgiven, he's never run for office before. He's obviously in over his head. The sad part is that, as Pesky said, he was presenting a fairly polished act for a minute there. When he's not trying to pick a fight, he makes a good first impression.
Harold Senior knows better than this, and look at what he's putting both his sons through. Jake is not taking this well, and there is a real chance this could knock him even farther off balance than he already is. Harold Junior hasn't voiced his opinion on this, but you know he has one, and you know that this can't be easy for him to watch.
I don't see how either of them can let this go on. Somebody needs to put a stop to this, before Jake really does some damage to himself or someone else.
I hear the latest internal polling has jake ford at like 12%. no need to worry about that fool.
rumor is Harold Jr told a recent fundraiser that Steve Cohen would represent the 9th district well. no clue why he just doesnt endorse him.
I'd like to see that poll. Feel free to leak it to one of us if you get a hardcopy. My email is in my blogger profile.
After reading the Bugle's transcript of HFSr.'s remarks on Saturday, he came off like a "seagull politician" -- flies in, craps all over everything and leaves.
Wish I'd been there last night -- what's up with the CA's article? It has this graf
Independent candidate Jake Ford, who organizers originally thought would not attend, led the charge of volleys by making asides about the event's co-sponsors, the South Main Association, and about Democratic opponent Steve Cohen's trouble shutting off his cell phone.
But then never references the cell phone part again....but then again, I look at the byline. You know, it's not the apparent bias that bugs me so much as that she either can't write or is the victim of a very bad editor.
My bad... it was Jackson that had the transcript of HF Sr.... sorry.
I wish somebody had a video camera and had put Jake on YouTube. Jake has entered the pantheon of batshit crazy political candidates with my girl Katherine Harris and that lady in Minnesota who fasted for three days and thinks God told her to run for congress. Maybe Jake did inherit the political sense of the family, but he definitely got the concentrated lunatic gene of the Fords.
Maybe Jake should mate with Katherine...
Out of all the Fucktards post... this reader votes this one #1 for the year 2006. It will not surprise me if someone recorded it via his or her cell phone.
My GOD that's nuts!
Did this really happen? Because I am beginning to feel like I've inadvertently smoked some crack.
I was in Nashville this weekend and I talked to my mom's neighbor, a member of the city council there, and he asked me for my take on it. I told him that Jake Ford kind of looked like a reluctant kid whose parents had shoved him onto the stage for the school talent show.
That was before I read this insanity.
I really picked the wrong weekend to go out of town. Geez...
"TFT didn't pick that story up because it didn't pass the pesky one's sniff test."
Oh, somehow I thought you were stayed at least partly because of my eyewitness account debunking the Junior-to-Jake handoff story. Whatever. Trust your nose, then.
Sorry about the back-and-forth today (never mind, folks). And sorry you missed some of the chronology of that tawdry post-debate event.
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Um, no. I began a post, and aborted it long before I heard the first peep from you.
Yessir.
Just peepin' along.
Eatin' my weenies.
Sometimes I wonder if you two are really an old married couple. 
No. I'm much older. He's much smarter. Out of my league.
Yes, much, much smarter. If only because I've had an extraordinary teacher and role model.
And what have I learned most recently? Sometimes, when presented with a choice beteween popcorn and frankfurters, it's better to choose the popcorn as there are (to my knowledge) no whimsical synonyms for nature's snack food.
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