NY Senate Wannabe Can’t Handle His Truth
The New York Times today does a fairly lengthy profile on the “new” Harold Ford, now a Manhattan resident who makes over a million dollars as a vice chairman at Bank Of America, teaches at NYU, and gets pedicures — not that there’s anything wrong with pedicures.
“He has breakfast most mornings at the Regency Hotel on Park Avenue, and he receives regular pedicures. (He described them as treatment for a foot condition.)
“On many days, he is driven to an NBC television studio in a chauffeured car. He and his wife, Emily, a 29-year-old fashion executive, live a few blocks from the Lexington Avenue subway line in the Flatiron district. But Mr. Ford said he takes the subway only occasionally in the winter, to avoid the cold when he cannot hail a cab.”
The Times says Ford is a member of the NRA.
This is, by the way, the same Harold Ford who was a Tennessee Congressman, has time and again voted against gay marriage, wants to enshrine DOMA into the Constitution, and is on record as being “pro-life.”
But now Ford claims he is pro-gay marriage and pro-choice.
Bull.
Then there’s this transcript, via Media Matters:
Alan Colmes: You were pro-choice at one time, what happened?
Harold Ford: No, No. Â I was not pro-choice at one time, we don’t have votes like that in the Congress.
[…]
Harold Ford: [To Tucker Carlson] I’m pro-life, I’m pro-life Tucker. So I mean, I don’t run from that.
Bull.
There were two things in the Times piece that just gnawed at my insides.
First, this, which is tantamount to re-writing the dictionary. (Shame on you, Mr. Ford!)
“Explaining the previous remarks, he said he refused to cede “the language of life†to the political right. Mr. Ford said that he had always supported abortion rights, but that when he campaigned in Tennessee, he used the phrase “pro-life†more broadly to highlight what he saw as the hypocrisy of Republican policies that denied benefits to returning war veterans, or equal pay to National Guardsmen.”
Bull.
And then the last straw. No one who is a true friend to the LGBTQ community would be caught dead doing this:
“[Ford] readily mentioned names of New York lawmakers, like Rubén DÃaz Jr., the Bronx borough president, with whom he played in a charity basketball game…”
Ruben Diaz? The son of rabidly anti-gay New York State Senator – whose own brother is gay and yet refuses to vote for gay marriage because he is an ordained minister and has said you should ever leave God or religion out of the Senate Chamber? That Ruben Diaz, Jr.? Sins of the father..? To be fair, Ruben Diaz, Jr., himself, has voted against same-sex marriage.
So, I rest my case.
Note: This post originally misidentified Ruben Diaz, Jr., for his father, Ruben Diaz. Correction has been made.