Welcome to your Wednesday open thread. It’s Wednesday of a really crappy week, especially if you’re in Japan. Does anyone have good news to share? I think we could all use some.
Republican-turned-Democrat-turned-Republican Jack Davis is running for Congress again. Jack Davis is the millionaire businessman who came so, so close to defeating Tom Reynolds in NY-26. I guess running for the seat is a hobby of his now. A new report shows why NY-26 is lucky that Davis didn’t squeak through in 2006:
A Republican candidate running for Rep. Chris “Craigslist” Lee’s seat in upstate New York isn’t doing his scandalized party any favors. Jack Davis, a local businessman vying for the seat, shocked local GOP leaders by suggesting that the area’s Hispanic farmworkers should be deported, and that inner city blacks should be bused in to pick the crops instead, as The Buffalo News reports.
Davis made the comments during a February 20 endorsement interview with local Republican Party leaders—and it’s not the first time he’s floated the idea. In 2008, Davis told another local paper: “We have a huge unemployment problem with black youth in our cities. Put them on buses, take them out there [to the farms] and pay them a decent wage; they will work.”
*TWITCH* I think you can see why despite his name recognition and his money, Davis didn’t get the nomination.
I’ve never been a fan of the Huffington Post (too much celebrity gossip and pseudoscience) but they did feature a lot of good political reporters. Arianna Huffington has decided there’s more money on the other side of the aisle I guess.
Bloggers have been coming and going very rapidly over at Huffington Post since Arianna Huffington sold out to AOL last month. There has been mounting speculation about the death of the once liberal-leaning HuffPo in light of editorial changes. Well, we can now confirm that the old HuffPo is dead and something hideous is sprouting in its place. We know this because of the revelation today that right-wing extremist Andrew Breitbart is now blogging for Huffington.
And what has Breitbart chosen to write about in his premiere post? His friend James O’Keefe.
The latest James O’Keefe success story against NPR has taken a predictable pattern — panicked press releases and firings, followed by denunciation of O’Keefe in a belated attempt to discredit him. Naturally, conservatives are crowing about it, but I wanted to give a little perspective to those Huffington Post readers — whatever your political stripe — who share my passion for free speech, honest debate, and fairness in the media.
Fairness? Hahahahahaha. How many of you have a HuffPo habit? Try to break your addiction.