A key organizer of John McCain’s meeting Saturday with former supporters of Hillary Clinton is best known for her role in another bitter American fight: The effort by some white descendants of Thomas Jefferson to keep his possible African-American descendants out of family gatherings.
Paula Abeles emailed Politico yesterday to complain that her group had gotten short shrift in a blog item, writing, “I initiated the teleconference with McCain on Saturday and was solely responsible for the guest list.” Another Clinton backer at the event, Will Bower, confirmed that she was “integral” to assembling the group.
But Abeles first made the news in 2003, when she and her husband, then-Monticello Association President Nat Abeles, led the fight to keep members of the Hemings family—descendants of Jefferson slave and, some historians believe, mistress Sally Hemmings [sic]—out of a gathering of the Monticello Association, which is made up of lineal descendants of the third president.
Abeles drew national attention for her role in an episode of online espionage.
The wife of a Thomas Jefferson family association official said Friday that she masqueraded as a 67-year-old black woman on an Internet chat room in a bid to keep descendants of a reputed Jefferson mistress out of this weekend’s family reunion.
“It might have been somewhat unethical,” said Paulie Abeles of Washington, D.C., who participated for eight months in the Yahoo! message board created for relatives of Jefferson slave Sally Hemings.
“It might have been childish, but I really think I was working in the best interest of the majority of the family members to make the reunion a calm and civilized gathering,” she said.
Charming. I’d love to see some of those chat transcripts.
Kinda makes you wonder if all of those African Americans (or “AA’s,” as I’ve seen used a lot this primary season) you see turning up in waves on the anti-Obama blogs are the real deal, don’t it?
MORE: Here’s a copy of the WaPo article about the 2003 incident hosted, oddly enough, at the Monticello site.
The blogosphere and the media are buzzing about John McSame’s push to lure disenfranchised Hillary supporters, assumed to be mostly women, via his “Citizens for McCain” program, hosted by Democratic turncoat and muttering pile of mush Joe Lieberman. I’d like to point out something no one else has mentioned in regards to the program. Currently the front page of his official campaign site showcases the program using this graphic. I decided to work the curves a bit via Photoshop to enhance the left side of the image that was darkened. Here are the results:
By my count (I’m excluding two people I’m not sure about) that’s 22 men and 3 women. 22 men. 3 women. If a picture paints a thousand words, I’m guessing at least seven of them would be “iron my shirt” and “get me a beer.”
Early this morning No Quarter (aka Flowbee‘s Fortress of Fucknuttery) decided to hold a late night quiz called “Which woman has the appearance of a First Lady?”:
MORE: Larry Johnson has now removed both pictures and posted a disclaimer. He also appears to have deleted a post that was published at 8 this morning. It was written by “Reverend Jeremiah God Damn AmeriKKA Wright” and titled “A FRACTURED FAIRY TALE FOR FIGHT THE SMEARS TROLLS”. Here’s a screen cap of some of it:
Judging from Google’s cache, PNAC’s site, which was online last time I checked but had tumbleweeds rolling through it, has been down for a while, too. Now if we could only figure out a way to get this “account suspended” message to appear in place of Bill Kristol’s editorials.
Rep. Rahm Emanuel of Illinois, a Democratic House leader who helped orchestrate the party’s strategy for winning control of Congress in 2006, argues against reading too much into the holdouts. He said most of them always stay out of national politics and that the party is generally unified around Obama.
“They’re just going to stick to their knitting,” he said. “It’s not that they’re anti-Obama.”
On another note, I’ve received zero reach out from the Obama team, which is their prerogative to do or not, but it’s a mistake. I can only hope this isn’t a signal of the way Obama and his team will treat Clinton’s supporters on the whole. It would be a disaster of election shifting proportions; one that the country can ill afford.
Hmmm, geez, I wonder why the Obama team hasn’t attempted to reach out to Taylor Marsh. It couldn’t be because she threw on her little red, white & blue Shirley Temple get-up and questioned Michelle’s patriotism (something even Laura Bush wouldn’t do). It couldn’t be because after the Rev. Wright controversy broke Taylor was blowing her dog whistle so hard she got a brain aneurysm. It couldn’t be that “video wall” of hers, now scrubbed, that featured nothing but news stories about Rezko and clips of Wright or the reams of rightwing style oppo research posts she’s left behind in her archives for wingnuts to use against Obama. And there’s no way it could be because she’s still running that ad for a book comparing Obama to Mussolini, even though she’s now trying to hide it at the bottom of her blog.
Finally, it can’t be because that sad pack of easily-manipulated lunatics Taylor fed a steady diet of anti-Obama gruel for months and months has now abruptly turned on her due to Operation Career Rescue and Marsh’s influence over how they’ll vote in November is virtually non-existent.
The Obama team shouldn’t reach out to Taylor Marsh, they should just point at her sorry ass and laugh.
Taylor Mush: Now that the primaries are over I can finally say it…
...I friggin hate Taylor Marsh. She is a namby pamby self promoting fraud. That lame pod cast she calls a radio show is just sad.
I expected the teeth-gnashing dead-enders* mad scientist Marsh helped, ahem, “nurture” to eventually turn on her, but I didn’t expect them to start sounding like, well, me this quickly. WTF? Just when you thought this primary season couldn’t get any weirder…
90-year-old Grandma Cracker lost her hearing several years ago, which freed my sprig of the family tree to swear like drunken sailors. But it made non-swearing communications difficult. Hearing aids didn’t make much of a difference. Even less so after my dog swallowed one of them after Grandma deposited them on the nightstand while dog-sitting. Damn. So I taught her to use the emails. And she promptly made me regret it.
Two PUMA (Party Unity My Ass) pity party poopers, Thuc Nguyen and Harriet Christian’s BFF Will Bower, recently made an appearance on Fox with Neil Cavuto to explain why they will not, will not, WILL NOT vote for Barack Obama in November. This exchange had me rolling on the floor:
NEIL CAVUTO: How many do you think share your views? I know there are eighteen million—
THUC NGUYEN: Right now?
CAVUTO:—Hillary Clinton supporters, mug’s game though it might be. How many do you think will jump to John McCain?
NGUYEN: Well, over this weekend we had a big conference call with a bunch of groups and formed a coalition. It’s justsaynodeal.com. And right now we have millions and millions. They’re all coming together.
CAVUTO: Wait a minute, how many? Millions and millions couldn’t have been on the conference call, so Will, how many do you think—
NGUYEN: No, but there were about fifty.
CAVUTO: But fifty. Alright. Eighteen million. Fifty. Alright.
And this quote from Cavuto was pretty funny, too:
CAVUTO: Wow, you guys are very angry, aren’t you?
BOWER: I don’t think “angry” is a fair word. I think I’m approaching this calmly and coolly. It’s not anger. It’s indignation, but not anger.
CAVUTO: When you put “ass” in, like, your logo, you’re angry.
Watch it:
MORE: Behold the “millions.” Hmmm, what does this remind me of? This, too. I’m obviously not a fan of Cavuto, but I applaud his attempt to call them on their “millions” claim. CNN’s Veronica De La Cruz just took the owner of the laughably awful and amateur hcsfjm.com site at his word.
When I was interviewed last month by a writer for the The New Republic, I noted with amazement that the commenters at allegedly Democratic blogs like No Quarter were far more vicious in their attacks on Barack Obama than the denizens of rightwing blogs like Little Green Footballs. And now, via Instaputz, comes this post at LGF:
The ‘noquarter’ blog run by Larry Johnson has been added to the blacklist for spinoff links; I won’t allow any more links to that site because it’s been proven many times over to be dishonest and untrustworthy. Unfortunately there are quite a few people who apparently have not gotten the message (I just had to delete 13 links to that pit), so it’s being automatically blocked now.
I’m not going to let LGF be used to disseminate dirty tricks and misinformation, for either side of this misbegotten election.
Not only does Charles Johnson (yes, that Charles Johnson) have more integrity than Larry Johnson, but I think he may have just outclassed Peter Daou, too.
p.s. I was kinda joking about Daou, but it always crawled up my ass that he allowed frequent links to No Quarter on HillaryHub long after NQ had devolved into a straight-up, ratfucking hate site.
From Secret Agent Flowbee’s Fortress of Fucknuttery (no linky for the stinky):
SusanUnPC’s foreword: I asked you to send in rants. I am publishing them now. If you don’t see your rant published, please yank my chain at susanunpc at gmail dot com (it probably got overlooked in my 968+ entries in my Inbox). I want to publish all of your rants.
Yeah, because lord knows there’s been a shortage of rants at No Quarter lately. Seriously, when was the last time they didn’t publish something you could classify as a rant? It’s just been one, long horrible Ralph Steadman illustration over there for months now.
OH WHAT THE HELL: I was just looking through some old posts that never got published and figured this line was too good (and, admittedly, tasteless) to keep hidden away…
If Secret Agent Flowbee is considered to be one of the best and brightest counterterrorism experts in the country, it’s pretty fucking amazing Al Qaeda wasn’t able to crash the USS Cole into the World Trade Center.
Most are too far right for me. Redstate? Looks like it doesn’t get
many hits. I want a place I can complain about Obama and praise McCain
without getting censored.
These poor bastards really haven’t thought this through. Here’s more evidence:
Why I left the party
It’s not just the Obamanation that has made me leave my party of 25 odd years.
It’s Nancy Pelosi saying immediately on being named Speaker that Impeachment was off the table. Who cares about the constitution?
It’s about the Democrats not having the guts to stand up to Bush on war funding
It’s about Nancy Pelosi picking Hoyer over Murtha
It’s about the Democrats caving on the Patriot Act
It’s about the Democrats caving on the NSA spying on us
It’s about the Democrats not filibustering Alito (Thanks Senator Obama!)
Call me a sore loser. Guess what? I am. I am not only sore, I’m angry, I’m frosted like a cake, I’m disgusted. Telling me I want to take my ball and go home because I can’t have my way. You betcha. My ball (vote) isn’t just going home with me it will be going to the polls in November and pulling the lever for Senator McCain.
