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« WKRN To Accept Bloggers' Video Stories For Air | Main | I Blame the Bush Tax Cuts » July 7, 2006Positively FlatteringAll I have to say is, if this is true, I'm flattered and I want the audio of that show. Oh, and yes, the audio mentioned in the blog post is indeed archived at BillHobbs.com. You can find it here. (Editor's note: To fill you in, apparently Harold Ford. Jr., on a Knoxville-based radio show, denied ever calling the Supreme Court's Kelo ruling a "positive" ruling. Kelo empowers government to take private property and give it to another owner for virtually any reason the government deems necessary. If Harold Ford Jr. is denying he called it a "positive" ruling, then Harold Ford Jr. is a liar. Rep. Ford indeed did praise Kelo - an absolute disaster for private property rights in America - a "positive" ruling. I have the audio, Harold.) Update: I'm told the audio of the Knoxville radio show will be made available online in the next few days. Updated Update: The Harold Ford Jr. interview from yesterday is now on the radio show's web archive page. It's a large (2 hours - 5.3mb) Mp3 file you can download by clicking here. I haven't listened to it yet. Update 3: At 1:44 into the 2-hour show, a called named David says of Ford, "Mr. Ford did not tell the truth about his Kelo comment. You can go to Bill Hobbs online and actually listen to the audio clip..." At about 1:54, Ford calls back in and, after a few other comments, at about 1:55 says this: "There was another caller that called in about the Kelo decision and something on BillHobbs. Bill Hobbs, if I'm not mistaken, he's been one of my biggest opponents and has personally attacked me. I don't know what he has on his website, but we had a vote in the Congress on the Kelo decision where I laid out pretty clearly where I stood on it."Ford's initial praise of the Kelo decision was reported at the time to have "stunned" his Congressional colleagues. Mark Rose had a great blog post awhile back documenting Ford's rapid backflips away from his initial praise of the Kelo decision, which I blogged here. The legislation Ford voted was a token bill that had no chance of becoming law. He voted against legislation that would have actually done something to address the disaster known as Kelo I find it funny that Ford says he doesn't know what I had on my website about him and the Kelo decision, but says I've "personally attacked" him (I haven't) and have been "one of his biggest opponents." If Congressman Ford wants to see what I've written about Kelo, he can just click here and read all of it. He'll find no personal attacks, just serious discussion of the issue, proof that he praised Kelo and is now lying about it, and a thorough exposing of Ford's less-than-stellar record on private property rights.
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I talked to Kelvin Moxley ,the show's co-host, and he said he should have the show up on Wikipedia by Monday. Posted by: the Rep at July 7, 2006 10:26 AMRep- The time stamp reads 10:26 am on your post. Why aren't you knocking on doors? Get back to work. Posted by: Terry Frank at July 7, 2006 7:33 PMYou're overstating the Kelo decision a bit. Governments already had the power before Kelo to take property. In Kelo, SCOTUS didn't say "You can keep doing it", they simply said "it's not a federal matter". The result may seem to be the same, but it's nice to see someone finally put a limit on the federal government. I actually agree with that to some extent, but given the extremely poor record of the states in fixing the problem, I really wish that SCOTUS would have ruled the other way. Posted by: Michael Chaney at July 8, 2006 10:24 AMFord has so many critics online that he probably has a hard time keeping track of them all. If he hears of a Tennessee website that isn't one of his supporters, he can assume it's one of his critics and he'll be correct more than half the time. Additionally, Ford tends to take things personally. When he was confronted by a gay activist who had run against him as a write-in in one of the congressional primaries, Ford said to him, regarding his campaign, "You disrespected me." Political opposition apparently equates to disrespect for him. Posted by: autoegocrat at July 10, 2006 8:06 AMthe recording of the Ford interview can be found in the show archives at www.southernrootsradio.com Posted by: kelvin at August 12, 2006 11:59 PMPost a comment
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