A Stopped Clock

Posted on December 27, 2009 by Matt Osborne
Remember Dale Jackson, the Rush Limbaugh of Huntsville of whom I have not spoken since the Huntsville Tea Party? I’d hoped to ignore him forever, but Parker Griffith’s Christmas present to Alabama Democrats has caused a furor in the state party system — and suddenly forced me to pay attention:

I love the fact that Parker Griffith conservative Democrat got nonegative press but now that he is a Republican the Huntsville Times feels free to finally start covering how inconsitent he is.

After saying he wouldn’t necessarily lose his committee assignments because Democrats wouldn’t want to appear “small and punitive,” he officially resigned and was removed from the Small Business, Transportation and Infracture, and Science and Technology committees, read by the clerk on the floor of Congress.

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Meanwhile, the question of whether polling data swayed Griffith’s decision was also muddled. Griffith said Wednesday that his office hadn’t sponsored a poll to gauge his electability as a Democrat, nor did he commission anyone else.

“I didn’t see any numbers,” Griffith said.

That contradicts a report in Congressional Quarterly that said Griffith’s office confirmed Wednesday that he did comission a poll, though “he declined to release the specific polling questions or the restults of the survey.”

This just in: Parker Griffith has no integrity.

This just in: Dale Jackson is a talk radio personality cut from the Alex Jones mold, just like Glenn Beck. His site, http://theattackmachine.com, advertises paranoid fantasies and promotes conspiratorial hogwash on every imaginable topic. His show is a constant stream of wingnutia: Teh Mexicans R Coming™, The Librul Media™, Teh Death Panels™, you name it. Whether he is smart enough to realize it or not, his entire shtick was born in the racist John Bircher insanity of yesteryear. Listening to him, it is clear that his entire mental map of the universe consists of paranoid authoritarian talking points.

And this is the man telling the new Republican base to vote for a “real” conservative.




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  • Clay Barham

    WHERE DO WE GO NOW?
    What is our mission in 2010? It should be to teach ourselves why America’s political tradition worked and what will happen if we change it. Obama wants us to change. He wants us to become like the Old World America left in the 18th century. He wants us to forget what the libertarian 19th century Democrats provided that gave us so much prosperity when compared to the stagnation of the Old World. He wants the American society well-oiled and ordered so the few elite can rule the many, for our own good, of course. America’s individual freedom has never been tried elsewhere, though partially approached in some more modern nations. Yet, 80% of the world’s people are struggling to exist, many starving, all under one dictatorship or another. Not so in America, unless deciding to be struggling and unhappy. We need to teach ourselves the difference so we can make the best decision of whether America will fall in line, get on its knees and be ruled by the few, or renew its pledge to individual freedom. That’s our task! Find help on claysamerica.com.

  • Matt Osborne

    Obama wants us to change. He wants us to become like the Old World America left in the 18th century.

    Really? A black man wants to return to the past? The GOP is constantly living in the past, imagining a golden era that never actually existed. But it's Obama who wants the past back?

    Look, I perused your site, Clay. Your libertarian patriotism is admirable but grounded in imaginary good times.

    What is this dictatorship you speak of? I keep waiting for Teh Obamanon™ to lurch through my TV set and whip off his Sccooby-Doo mask, but it never seems to happen.

  • Dale Jackson

    You know what's great?

    1. You believe you are amusing.
    2. You never have listened to my show because I have called BS on the "death panel" crap from day 1…. oh sorry "teh death panels"… ahahahah I puth the "e" before the "h" holy crap that is hysterical.

    You had the oppurtunity to be the "Henry Rollins" of Florence or whatever the hell you call yourself and you ran off because you culdn't afford the gas or some crap to actually cover "teh whacky" tea party.

    Next time try having a clue about the subject matter you write about.

  • http://www.osborneink.com Matt Osborne

    Mr. Jackson, I couldn’t attend your tea party because I had a job. A real one. Not one where I get paid big bucks to be a “personality.” The kind of job where opportunities come when they come, and you have to follow through when you’d rather be taking video in Huntsville.

    And that’s all I ever wanted to do, Dale. I wanted to take video. It’s what I did at Sarahpalooza, and you’d know that if you’d ever watched my videos.

    I have, in fact, listened to your show. All of liberalism is a giant conspiracy aimed directly at our God-given freedoms, according to you. We can only trust our guns and gold. You’re shoveling the same shit as Beck, and your immigration hysteria is disgusting and dangerous.

    The “Henry Rollins of Florence” statement came from the most respectable Republican I’ve ever known — the only politician who ever impressed me enough to volunteer for his campaign.

    Which you would know if you kept up with this blog.

    So..which of us is the one with assumptions?