Eighth-district congressman Robin Hayes, warming up the crowd for John McCain, said "liberals hate real Americans that work and accomplish and achieve and believe in God."
Then his campaign denied that he'd said it, and then denied it again.
Then the tape turned up.
Bonus: "His remarks came shortly after he had said he would 'make sure we don’t say something stupid.'"
Double bonus: Hayes used the phrase "Git r done" in the same speech.
(Thnx to alert reader PJ for the link.)
I'm sure the organizers of Thursday's fundraiser for Larry Kissell appreciate all this.
I guess I'm the comment equivalent of chopped liver. First Sam, now Ed. Granted, I cited McHenry instead of Hayes, but I mean comon! :-)
Posted by: Ged | Oct 21, 2008 at 05:20 PM
Patrick Henry, Robin McHayes -- close enough.
Posted by: Roch101 | Oct 21, 2008 at 05:28 PM
Ain't video great?
Posted by: Sue | Oct 21, 2008 at 05:51 PM
YEAH, BUT WHAT ABOUT WHEN JOE BIDEN SAID BLAHBLAHBLAHBLAH BLATHERBLATHERBLATHERBLATHER...
Posted by: Britt Whitmire | Oct 21, 2008 at 07:10 PM
AND WHAT ABOUT WHEN JOHN MURTHA SAID BLAHBLAHBLAHBLAHBLAHBLAH....
Posted by: Britt Whitmire | Oct 21, 2008 at 07:11 PM
Yeah, Britt what about it? Blah, blah, blah. That explains a lot about your thinking process. If you were smart and honest you would explain the difference because I guaran-fing-tee that you and your hypocritical counterpart will waste an hour on Hayes tomorrow while writing of Biden etc as mere "blah blah blah" and then have the balls to tell your audience just how fair you are. You don't even have the decency to be honest about that.
In any case, here's a blah, blah, blah. You forgot to mention that McCain and Palin are racists inciting hate and violence, blah, blah, blah.
Ed, who do you think Hayes was talking about since, you know, labels are meaningless...
Ah, the comic relief at this site. There isn't a damn one of you that can be taken seriously, nor should you be the way you flip and flop and apply double standards. Really, are any of you honest about anything or is everything relative?
Posted by: Spag | Oct 21, 2008 at 08:34 PM
Ed, I love that you have a pro-Hayes banner ad on your anti-Hayes blog post. Brilliant.
Posted by: Steve K. | Oct 21, 2008 at 08:49 PM
Credit Google's ad server for that irony. The internet works in mysterious ways.
Posted by: Ed Cone | Oct 21, 2008 at 08:55 PM
Us, and them
And after all were only ordinary men.
Me, and you.
God only knows its not what real Americans would choose to do.
Posted by: Roch101 | Oct 22, 2008 at 12:32 AM
Remarks like this, the Palin selection, and the whole tone of McCain's campaign are obviously intended to galvanize the GOP base.
A lot of people certainly seem galvanized, but I suspect that McCain's approach has actually begun to make the GOP base smaller. The more we see people at McCain /Palin rallies behaving as just so many Freepers, the more we are going to see non-movement conservatives taking offense.
And it's certainly galvanized folks on the Dem side. In her N&O column this morning, Ruth Sheehan reports another example: A few folks reaction to Palin has led to a 300-strong organization -- Girlfriends Against Sarah Palin -- helping the Raleigh Obama effort: http://www.newsobserver.com/news/story/1264001.html.
Posted by: justcorbly | Oct 22, 2008 at 11:14 AM
Spag, Brad and Britt covered Biden's latest gaffe and as I recall both of them suggested that Biden shut the hell up.
Jeez, go have a creme soda or something, and relax.
Posted by: John The Catholic | Oct 22, 2008 at 09:36 PM