Thursday, October 19th, 2006...7:03 am
Maybe He Thinks He Is Because He Votes to Cut Pork
I was going to try to not write anything this morning. But, darnit, that J. D. Hayworth, he just won’t stop!
Okay, here is the precis for those of you who have spent your last few weeks checking out bad commercials on YouTube. Hayworth was brought up for ctiticism for quoting from an anti-Semetic rant from Henry Ford in his book What It Takes. Later, Hayworth cut ties with Russell Pearce, who managed to find an even more despicable piece to quote from in an e-mail to supporters.
Hayworth’s quoting Ford caused some bleeding; the imbroglio even made the national Jewish media. The Pearce “double-plus suspension” was clearly done to undo the damage from this, since Hayworth’s press release on the matter only addressed the anti-Semitism in the article that Pearce quoted from (published at the neo-Nazi site Storm Front), but not the shots taken at blacks and gays.
Hayworth was scheduled to speak at Temple Beth Israel in Scottsdale, but bailed. It may have been a good chance to explain himself, but no. He failed to show up, instead he sent some supporters.
This would have been only disappointing to the audience, except Jonathan Tratt, one of the people sent to speak on his behalf, made the ridiculous statement that Hayworth, a Baptist, “is a more observant Jew” than those in the audience.
Um, yeah. How can someone say that and not realize it’s offensive? Especially when you are saying it in a synagogue?
Many audience members walked out at that point. This prompted another Hayworth supporter, Ira Tratt, to say from the bimah, “No wonder there are anti-semites.”
Great.
You’d think that after the Ford flap, Hayworth, who may be a pompous, bloviating, bullying idiot but not an anti-semite, would treat the Jewish community with a bit more sensitivity. To loosely paraphrase Tratt, no wonder why Hayworth will lose.
6 Comments
October 19th, 2006 at 8:32 am
Unbelievable! Where do the Republicans dig up these relics?
Those folks who wrongly declared Arizona the dumbest state must have been taking a hard look at these guys.
October 19th, 2006 at 9:29 am
not surprising, but funny to see Wonkette getting in on this action. (Why should Kitty Harris get all the attention?)
http://www.wonkette.com/politics/jd-hayworth/jd-hayworth-continues-his-christkiller-outreach-program-208736.php
October 19th, 2006 at 5:03 pm
Hayworth is a Baptist? He showed up during a speech by James E. Faust (second counselor in the first Presidency of the LDS church) when the broke the ground for the LDS temple in Snowflake in July of 1999 or maybe it was 2000 (that was when he still represented the area up here) and managed to get recognized and had most of the crowd thinking he was LDS.
That J.D., he’s such a kidder, isn’t he?
October 19th, 2006 at 5:04 pm
kralmajales:
Well, start with the fact that the people in their districts voted for them. So maybe those people are on to something.
October 20th, 2006 at 7:01 am
Hey maybe we could have Mark Foley check just how Jewish and or Mormon he is. But then that would be gay.
October 20th, 2006 at 9:31 am
Can you point to some printed or other MSM report of this incident in the Beth Israel temple? I’m not a doubter, but wonder if it is getting coverage in Arizona.
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