Wednesday, February 29, 2012

Sellout (video)

While waiting to enter the room for the charter school hearings at the Legislature, I happened to be standing next to Father Jerry Tobin, local advocate for the poor. He called Rep. Espy a sellout for supporting charter schools. I asked him again, he repeated it for me. Nice. Also badly needed a bath as he reeked.

Here is a video of Representative Chuck Espy defending himself against such charges. The hearing was supposed to start at 1:30 took place at 3:30. Mr. Espy sponsored HB# 888, which was the House "charter school bill.



27 comments:

Anonymous said...

Your last sentence literally made me laugh out loud!!!!

Anonymous said...

Tobin is only voicing what the rest of the white yellerdawg race whores say in private.

Wait until they see the redistricting plans. Oorah!!

Anonymous said...

Maybe he had never heard my grandmother state, "Cleanliness is next to godliness", or something to that effect. Or, maybe, just maybe he had been ministering to the sick and the poor and had it in and on his clothing. Just sayin'...

Anonymous said...

Maybe he had never heard my grandmother state, "Cleanliness is next to godliness", or something to that effect. Or, maybe, just maybe he had been ministering to the sick and the poor and had it in and on his clothing. Just sayin'...

Curt Crowley said...

New Rule: People who work for proven Nazi collaborators don't get to call other people "sellouts."

Anonymous said...

Curt, that never gets talked about enough

Kingfish said...

Um, this smell was from not bathing or using old spice. Insert Occupy joke here.

Anonymous said...

Curt - is there a short recap you could provide for those of us who blissfully ignorant of the Reekin' Reverand? Denomination, anyone? Or is he a mail-order preacher a la the "Rev." Barry Lynn?

Anonymous said...

KF, again thanks for enlightening me.
I had never heard of this guy until your post.

Is this "Father" of "Saint Moses the Black Priory "
an official part of the Catholic Diocese of Jackson ?

According to their website, this group , ...
..."Saint Moses the Black Priory " champions
the UAW and Jeremiah Wright ???

Just curious about this social Justice UAW " Priory"
down in Raymond.

Anonymous said...

Ambulance chasers don't get to knock on Catholics. You're maybe half a notch above pederasts yourselves.

Anonymous said...

10:11
You are botherd by history huh?

KaptKangaroo said...

What is with all the orange shirts? Is Syracuse playing JSU?

Curt Crowley said...

10:24, based on 10:11's comment, his/her problem with history stems from a complete ignorance of it.

10:11, If the best defense you can come up with to the most horrible crimes ever perpetuated against humanity is "ambulance chaser," then it may be best to just remain silent.

Anonymous said...

"white yellerdawg race whores"," Saint Moses of the Black Priory"

Does sound Neo Nazi , Curt...right out of Goebbels playbook. But, I don't think you meant the bloggers here. I expect you were referring to the Catholic Church's collaboration with the Nazis.

We shouldn't hold slavery or the excesses of the Civil Rights Era against whites who weren't born then but we should hold the past history of the Catholic Church against today's Catholics? Do I have that right?

And, to think, there's a Catholic and the Morman leading in delegates to the GOP .

Some people must put venom in their morning coffee .

l'osservatrice said...

"Reeked." Priceless. I am not acquainted with this Tobin fellow, but I wonder if he might retort that Jesus himself probably worked up a good pungent dander, b.o., etc. while walking about doing good in a hot Middle Eastern climate. The virtues never change, but times do. While caring for the poor will never go out of style, there WAS such a thing as soap and deodorant invented sometime within the last couple of millenia. And Rev. Tobin must surely realize that it's hard to influence people when smelling like Moonbeam McSwine.

Anonymous said...

Saw Espy on local news last night. He did a good job.

Anonymous said...

And, to think, there's a Catholic and the Morman leading in delegates to the GOP.

With the winner advancing to face off against the Muslim in our White House.

Not a Robot said...

"O brave new world, that has such people in it!"

Anonymous said...

As far as I can tell, Crowley, the catholic church has acknowledged its complicity and asked forgiveness. You can pitch a bitch about it, but I assure you, the catholic church has done far more for the poor and the persecuted than just about any other institution on the planet.
Now don't you have the corner of Roach and Capitol to go hold down? Club goers to photograph? Move along, little man.

Anonymous said...

As far as I can tell, Crowley, the catholic church has acknowledged its complicity and asked forgiveness

Source?

Anonymous said...

I keep scrolling up to look at the subject of the blog entry, trying to figure out how this went from charter school discussion to where it currently resides...

Curt Crowley said...

1:07, it got here because I noted the hypocrisy of Tobin's latest outlandish comment, "sellout," in light of the fact that his employer is a proven Nazi collaborator. Then the Papists got all pissy and defensive as they always do when someone calls them on their bullshit.

As it stands right now, they are at the "How dare you say that? We kinda said we might be kinda sorry for _____________ (insert atrocity)" point in the argument.

Anonymous said...

Thanks for that recap. So odd to me that this thread has turned into one that is thrashing about on religion, nazi, some people’s distaste for certain religions, and some guy who some folks say needs to take a bath.

Here’s my observations
-Personally, I’m interested in the charter school discussions because I find it interesting to hear what different sides are saying. I think it’s an important issue and should be discussed.
-Whether some guy needs to take a bath is kind of irrelevant to the charter school discussion. (no disrespect to KF intended. His statement was simply a human reaction to a situation he was in. If you smell something, you usually say, dang, what’s that.)
-Charter schools jump to Nazis?
-All people have the right to choose whichever religion they may choose and they have the right to not choose a religion so the whole religion-bashing thing is so strange. Personally, I chose Christianity a long time ago and I make no apologies because, as a Christian, it makes absolutely no sense to apologize for choosing Christ. Quite the opposite because I’m humbled at His glory.
-KK, I watched it again, and I still have no idea what’s up with all the orange shirts. Tried to read the words on them but who knows. Does kind of get your attention, doesn’t it.

I would like to know that the man meant by sellout. The obvious implication is that if you support charter schools, you have sold out someone or something. What or who does he think has been sold out? Anyone can make an assumption as to what he was referring to, but I wish KF would give him a call and simply ask, the other day, you were shouting that Espy was a sellout. Can you explain what/who has been sold out? What he said was a sound bite, a generalization. But if he says---so-n-so sold out the public school system---then the argument can be made---KF has looked at the success rate of the current system and its failing, so what is more important, ‘selling out’ the public school system or ‘selling out’ the children. If he says----so-n-so sold out the children, same argument applies—the goal is to educate the kids with a measurable success rate.

Its like screaming---'it' hurts the children! Well, WHAT hurts the children? If you think a quality education hurts the children, then we will disagree. If you think a house burning down around a family hurts them, then we agree. WHO/WHAT was sold out?

Anonymous said...

Anyone can make an assumption as to what he was referring to, but I wish KF would give him a call and simply ask, the other day, you were shouting that Espy was a sellout. Can you explain what/who has been sold out?

If it means that much to you to understand the nuance of "sellout" why don't you call him.

Kingfish said...

I asked him face to face. He said Espy sold out on charter schools.

Anonymous said...

Thanks, KF. Glad you asked him, figured you had. I find the arguments from the different sides interesting. Sounds like this guy really was closer to the rhetoric type arguement.

KF, the numbers you showed the other day were so sad to me. It would be nice if the objective was to educate and challenge a kid so that kid can grow and advance down whatever path he/she takes.

Also can't be blind to what some teachers may be dealing with in the classrooms. Things are different because what I remember as being normal (raise your hand, obey the teacher, yes mam/no sir) doesn't seem to be the norm now.

I don't know what the solution is to those sad statistics. But I'm happy that options are being discussed. Hope a solution is found.

KaptKangaroo said...

I watched a couple of this guys videos.

I wondered why he wasn't down on the steps of the capitol today.

Then I realized, he would have be discriminated against due to lack of hygiene.

However, I personally would have let him speak because i always remember, "Can't we all just get along?"



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