This deserves much more attention than it’s getting.
Congressman Steve Cohen is Jewish. He represents the majority-black district in Memphis, Tennessee, vacated by Harold Ford in 2006. Cohen is among the House’s most liberal members, and he recently gained some notoriety for getting Congress to apologize for slavery and Jim Crow.
Cohen is being challenged in the Democratic primary by Nikki Tinker, a young African-American attorney whom Cohen defeated in 2006. Tinker has been endorsed by the Congressional Black Caucus and Emily’s List.
Tinker’s campaign has now descended into full-on Jew baiting.
Just days after airing a racially charged ad connecting Cohen with the Ku Klux Klan, the Tinker campaign is up with the vilest ad of the campaign season yet.
“Who is the real Steve Cohen, anyway?” a narrator says as a child is heard praying in the background . “While he’s in our churches clapping his hands and tapping his feet, he’s the only senator who thought our kids shouldn’t be allowed to pray in school. Congressman, sometimes apologies just aren’t enough.”
Tinker’s campaign has removed the ad from YouTube since the story broke yesterday afternoon. Emily’s List has issued a statement condemning the ad but stopping short of withdrawing its endorsement. No word yet from the CBC.
More on this here, here, here, and here.
Spread the word.
Has anyone heard anything from the Obama Campaign?
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