AL-02: Bobby Bright on the Presidential Candidates
The Jay Love campaign has a commercial featuring a snippet of a video clip of his Democratic opponent Bobby Bright answering the question of who he supports for President. Here is video from the event that allows you to hear that quote in its larger context.
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Comment by Common Sense — October 24, 2008 @ 9:58 am
I am glad this entire video is up. This DOES NOT help Bright. Support Obama - YES! And, IF McCain is elected President I will support him. That IF makes a huge difference.
Comment by Anonymous — October 24, 2008 @ 10:03 am
I am glad this happened. It is time people are held acountable for their political ads
Comment by Anonymous — October 24, 2008 @ 10:08 am
After Bright says “I support America” someone next to this camera says starting at 2:06 “He doesn’t support America”…wonder if they are a fan of Michelle Bachmann?
Comment by JJ — October 24, 2008 @ 10:14 am
Who in the world would think that that video would help Bright’s case?
Comment by Anonymous — October 24, 2008 @ 10:15 am
The Love people will eventually understand that this shows the blatant DELIBERATE dishonesty of Jay Love. The Liar Love Label is starting to stick to Jay like napalm.
The furor here is not over Bright and Obama or McCain or waffling, although the incredibly shortsighted Love consultants who pushed this ad are focused on that like horny geeks at a locker room peephole.
This is cold hard evidence of deliberate dishonesty by Love. In the past Jay’s dishonesty has been alleged, it has been supported by documentation - but here is viseo proof of Jay Love lying. It is a campaign breaker.
Comment by Anonymous — October 24, 2008 @ 10:17 am
Again, he is trying to jerk us around. Can we really send someone to congress that is going to distort facts to US!!!! His constituents!!! The people he is suppose to represent!!! The people that would give him his job!!!
I am sorry, but when I hire people for my company I don’t hire people that have lied to me.
Comment by Anonymous — October 24, 2008 @ 10:22 am
Amen to post 6!
Comment by Anonymous — October 24, 2008 @ 10:23 am
One would think that lying is the hallmark of a campaign in trouble (but I have no idea about this AL 2 situation) - yet AL 5 proves to us that repeated bold faced lies of Parker Griffith have not swayed many votes.
The factors at work are far bigger than this, DCCC outspending candidates 2 to 1, a bad economy always hurts the party in the white house, etc. etc.
Good luck to all the candidates.
Comment by Anonymous — October 24, 2008 @ 10:27 am
I wonder if all the campaign staffers of both campaigns (aka anonymous) were getting blue balls when they could only see the videos and not blow their loads of b.s. all over the message boards
Comment by Common Sense — October 24, 2008 @ 10:30 am
Can Bright’s campaign tell me exactly where Love lied? Looks to me he just put up exactly what Bright said. If Bright doesn’t support Obama he is free to put up an ad that says that.
Comment by Anonymous — October 24, 2008 @ 10:41 am
Post 10 cracks me up. And it is true. I liked being able to read the posts from Danny with no comments! It was a great change.
Comment by Anonymous — October 24, 2008 @ 10:47 am
#6 and #7
Thanks Brother Gilley, you should really change your style once and awhile. You are the only one obsessed with Jay Love, and you are the only one saying “lies” incessantly. Speaking of lies, one only has to look closely at HAS’s connection to you.
Comment by anonymous — October 24, 2008 @ 11:08 am
#11 are you mentally retarded or insane? It would have to be one of the other.
Love dleiberately altered a video to change the meaning - THAT IS HOW HE LIED. PERIOD.
Here is an example a 3-year-old (and hopefully YOU) can understand: it’s like I wrote “I like killing a Dr. Pepper in one swig” and you cut the sentence off at “I like killing.” It is a deliberate lie - and Jay Love did it.
His lie is documented right there in video, and STILL you deny it. Now YOU are a liar also, post # 11. Congrats - are you Jay?
Comment by Anonymous — October 24, 2008 @ 11:11 am
I have to say that it is amazing that every time Jay gets caught in a lie (”I cut taxes” “It’s OK for me to take video out of context” etc.) his people say “Where did he lie?”
Hmmm . . .what an idea: just lie and when the lie is proven, ask “When did I lie?” Just ignore the proof of your lies piling up like the excrement at Love HQ. . .
Why didn’t Nixon think of that?????
Comment by Anonymous — October 24, 2008 @ 11:15 am
It is unworthy of being made a dishonest ad due to the nature of which LOVE distorted it so badly in his sneaky effort to make himself look better. What a shame by a shameful character such as LOVE. Bright will get the last laugh off of this one come November 4 I can assure you.
Comment by 02 Voter — October 24, 2008 @ 11:16 am
6&7/14&15
Impressive rebound time. Be careful though, you don’t want to go blind…
Comment by Common Sense — October 24, 2008 @ 11:18 am
#11 I am going to tell you how dangerous your “reasoniong” is. Several years ago Randolph County High School in Alabama burned. It burned after weeks of racial tension, and the black community blamed Principal Hulond Humphries. However, there was absolutely ZERO evidence Humphries started the fire. In fact, forensic physical evidence cleared Humphries conclusively.
When Humphries gave a video deposition, he meant to say “When I started from home to fight the fire.” Instead, he misspoke and said “When I started the fire.” He immediately corrected his misstatement. Howvere, someone SNIPPED A BIT OF THE VIDEO - OUT OF CONTEXT - and circulated it in the black community. Tensions escalated quickly and many wanted an innocent man arrested and put into prison - BASED ON A VIDEO SNIPPED SO IT WAS OUT OF CONTEXT.
What Jay did is wrong.
Comment by Anonymous — October 24, 2008 @ 11:21 am
I know Bright’s campaign team, and they are not allowed to post on here - they have work to do, and they do it well by the looks of that most recent poll.
Interesting that Love has never released ANY numbers. The poster that said desperate campaigns resort to these types of tactics is right - Love is getting whupped like a rented mule - and they know it!
Comment by Anonymous — October 24, 2008 @ 11:23 am
I did hear that Jay Love will FINALLY say something positive after a completely negative campaign on November 4th.
That positive thing Love is going to say? “I concede.”
Comment by Anonymous — October 24, 2008 @ 11:30 am
to get away from my string of inuendo…
#18 your comparison is a little off. Bright meant to say that he will support Obama. I understand this does not mean that he will vote for Obama, he probably won’t, but it does mean he will support Obama. It was not a slip of the tongue as was the case in the example you mentioned.
Supporting the policies of the most liberal member of the senate, I want a rep who will be the “biggest pain in the ass” to the liberal move on establishment. That is why I am voting for Love. Brights purse strings, committee assignments office space and staff will all be under the control of Nancy Pelosi. At any point she can pull anything she has given Bright away wither forcing him to change a vote or making him completely ineffective as a congressman. Neither of these are good solutions. Bright is a good man and under other circumstances would make a good congressman. With Pelosi in control he will merely be a puppet as other younger Blue Dogs have become
Comment by Common Sense — October 24, 2008 @ 11:32 am
Bright supports Obama plain and simple. Truth hurts even though Bright supporters scream to the top of their lungs they are lies. Well, reality bites.
Comment by Anonymous — October 24, 2008 @ 11:39 am
WSFA said the AL GOP is voting right now on whether to dismiss Harri Anne Smith or not?
Does anyone know anything about this????????????
Comment by Anonymous — October 24, 2008 @ 11:39 am
#22 you are so completely missing the point that I think now you are deliberately refusing to deal in truth. Just like Jay.
It’s about HONESTY. CHRISTIAN VALUES. TRUTH.
Does Jay know what “blasphemy” means?
Comment by Anonymous — October 24, 2008 @ 11:48 am
#24 I do, are you trying to say that Bright is God?
Comment by Common Sense — October 24, 2008 @ 11:50 am
# 23–It wouldn’t be the first time WSFA has been wrong.
Comment by Susan Fillippeli — October 24, 2008 @ 11:51 am
#21 I understand your point but think you are missing my main one. That point is this: in the same way the black community in Randolph County circulated a video they KNEW not to be the “whole truth” to gain a political advantage, Love’s campaign is doing now. It is a dishonest method and is dangerous. They should be ashamed.
I don’t think Bright’s actual intent is really pertinent here. This video was deliberately cut to present a distrorted view of what he said. The INTENT TO DECEIVE is what is important and outrageous - not the substance of the comments.
Comment by Anonymous — October 24, 2008 @ 11:52 am
Here is a similar thing to what Jay did: the CNN reporter who ambushed Sarah Palin stated something along the lines of “Governor, “National Review” ridiculed you by saying you were stupid, incompetent, etc.” What “National Review” ACTUALLY said was “Listening to the media, you’d think that Sarah Palin is stupid, incompetent, etc.”
The WORDS used by the CNN reporter were DIRECT QUOTES form “National Review” - HOWEVER he CUT OFF THE FIRST FEW WORDS - just like Love cut off a large portion of Bright’s response. IN BOTH CASES the actual intent of what was said was DISTORTED DELIBERATELY.
It isn’t about what Bright said or did not say - it is the deliberate intent to mislead that is very disturbing. That is simply indefensible - by CNN or Jay Love.
Comment by Anonymous — October 24, 2008 @ 11:58 am
bright intended to answer the yes or no question, he did that, he said yes he supports barack obama. no further explanaion needed. thanks. just go with it, hell everyone in the world supports obama, so bobby should be proud to be in such great company.
Comment by Anonymous — October 24, 2008 @ 12:08 pm
Nice try there 29. Yopu have convinced everyone you are really really a Bright siupporter. And I’ll bet you have taken the focus off dishonest campaigns and put it on Obama in this Alabama district. Good going!
Comment by Anonymous — October 24, 2008 @ 12:13 pm
For what it is worth, here is proof that CNN has more integrity than the Jay Love campaign (but then again, doesn’t everyone?):
CNN investigative correspondent Drew Griffin appeared on Thursday’s Newsroom and Situation Room programs to explain how “in no way did I intend to misquote” from a recent article by National Review’s Byron York: “This exchange aired just once in the 6 pm hour, and as soon as the National Review brought it to our attention at 7:05, we immediately realized the context could be misconstrued. We cut that portion of the interview. It never aired again.”
Comment by Anonymous — October 24, 2008 @ 12:17 pm
The video speaks for itself. Bright supports Obama and only supports McCain IF he is elected President. End of story.
Comment by Anonymous — October 24, 2008 @ 12:21 pm
They did vote on Smith. She will remain in the GOP with a 19 -11 vote. Hubbard just does nto have the pull he use too.
Comment by Anonymous — October 24, 2008 @ 12:22 pm
#32 it is just so sad how you don’t get that lying for political advantage outweighs any benefit of tying Bright to dsliked Demos.
This was a major campaign blunder.
Comment by Anonymous — October 24, 2008 @ 12:24 pm
You think Hubbard has lost pull now, wait and see what happens to him if Jay loses after all the strings he pulled to get him the nomination.
That is where all this bad blood between Jay and Harri Anne started - with Hubbard and party favoritism.
Comment by Anonymous — October 24, 2008 @ 12:25 pm
33 you have no idea what you are talking about. that was the geneva county executive committee that met last night. good lord bright folks have a fun time attempting to point out distortions but ignoring facts when convenient. no one in the algop has any say in county matters.
Comment by Anonymous — October 24, 2008 @ 12:28 pm
Leave it to Eileen “I lean left” Jones of WSFA (that was her voice asking the question) to stack the question and ask Love if the supported the policies of George Bush and Bright if he supported Obama.
To frame the question more fairly she should have asked Love if he supported the policies of George Bush and asked Bright if he supported the policies of Bill Ayres!
Comment by Therm — October 24, 2008 @ 1:00 pm
If the truth hurts, Jay Love is Dr. Feelgood . . .
Comment by Anonymous — October 24, 2008 @ 1:15 pm
That was a weird question. It should have been do you support John McCain or do you support Barack Obama. The whole things was biased in that regard. Nevertheless, the video is not favorable to Bright.
Comment by Anonymous — October 24, 2008 @ 2:07 pm
http://www.wsfa.com/global/video/flash/popupplayer.asp?vt1=v&clipFormat=flv&clipId1=3060009&at1=Political&h1=Love%20ad%20featuring%20WSFA%20reporter%20question%20generates%20controversy&rnd=98536831
Comment by Anonymous — October 24, 2008 @ 3:18 pm
As if any of us have to wonder who eileen jones supports…………….
Comment by Anonymous — October 24, 2008 @ 4:31 pm
Eileen Jones is a sorry excuse for a reporter. I’ve had the experience of dealing with her in the past and she will not allow her interviewing subjects to rest until she gets an answer out of them that is favorable to her. This clip is a prime example of her behavior- she is definitely the lowest point of WSFA’s news staff.
Comment by Terry — October 24, 2008 @ 5:10 pm
I’ve been interviewed before by Eileen. I found her to be very open and fair.
Comment by Anonymous — October 24, 2008 @ 7:04 pm
#39 - asking Love if he supports Bush was a very good question, since Love’s answer would reveal where he stands. Love said he would never run from his party, but he sure was dodging the Bush question.
#42 - killing the messenger won’t work. Love and his thugs got caught deceiving the voters. Now every voter knows that they cannot trust ANYTHING Jay Love says in his ads. Face it, Jay made a very poor decision when he folded to RNCC pressure to take his campaign negative.
You better believe that Bright was pressured and is probably still being pressured by the DCCC to go negative. But Bright stayed positive - so, in effect, he has already stood up to Pelosi and the DCCC. That tells me that he’ll do just fine in Washington. We need a lot more like him, in both parties.
Comment by RRabton — October 24, 2008 @ 10:44 pm
rabton, so funny. it is obviously good cop/bad cop. bright knows he can be positive, act like he is above every one else and he has the dccc money that he “despises” that will go negative and his hands are clean. what a load of crap. but the real polls show that the people are not buying bobby’s joke of a campaign.
as for eileen jones, she asked 2 tough questions, of love “do you support bush” that is tough because of the president’s low approval rating, love answered correctly. and for bobby, “do you support obama” that is tough because the majority in alabama do not support obama, bright screwed up and put himself in a bind by answering “yes” - don’t shoot the messenger on this, it is not eileen’s fault that bobby doesn’t have a damn clue who he is or what he stands for.
Comment by Anonymous — October 24, 2008 @ 11:09 pm
POST # 45. Where are your POLLS ? You have no poll that shows Jay Love ahead or you would spread it to the world immediately. By the way, your own camp is falling apart. One of your staff, while enjoying the nightlife a little too much told folks that the Love campaign knows its over for them. They are soon without jobs and they are planning their departure.
Comment by Anonymous — October 24, 2008 @ 11:32 pm
# 45 - still trying to keep the dream alive huh? DCCC vs Freedom’s Watch and RNC/RNCC? Love’s promoters outspent Bright’s promoters and still can’t move Love up in the polls. Love could have resisted the pressure and stayed positive and ran a campaign that promoted Jay Love, but he did not. Now he’s stuck in negative and can’t go positive because it will make him look like he is pandering to the voters. I told you guys in another thread that the Obama Yes ad would ruin your campaign. Your really stepped on your pud airing that one. Your NEVER air any ad that your opponent can respond to in 60 seconds or less. Not only did he respond, he got the media to do it for him. He and his staff have stomped you at every turn, it’s as if he’s got a mole in the Love camp, like he knows what you’ll do next and already has the response ready. In addition, you failed in every effort to force Bright to go negative. He’s a lot tougher and smarter than you presumed. He has PROVED that he is the right man for the job.
#46 - I heard that too, from a friend that frequents the club where one of Love’s primary staff members likes to have a few too many before turning in.
Comment by RRabton — October 25, 2008 @ 12:21 am
Oh yeah, I almost forgot:
McCain (Probably)/Sessions/Bright.
Also, Senator Smith, if you’re tuned in to all this nonsense, please keep fighting the state republican party. We have to get rid of these ultra-right wing thugs and take back our party. I want the Ronald Reagan Republican Party back, and I believe that you may be the person that can move us back to where we should be. Your victory in Geneva county is just what we needed. A 19-11 win indicates that the ultra-right is losing ground. Stay in the fray, there are a lot of true Republicans counting on you.
Comment by RRabton — October 25, 2008 @ 12:36 am
the dccc has outspent everyone in this race moron, they will be bumping close to 1million in negative dollars on behalf of bobby. looks like at 12:36am, you had had one too many. oh, and your a fool if you think the geneva county republican club vote is even a discussion point, but i’m sure you would like for that to be the talking points, because your buddy supports obama and can’t figure out how to shake free of all those taxes he has raised and will continue to raise in washington. bright/obama 08
Comment by Anonymous — October 25, 2008 @ 9:39 am
#49 - Check the FEC records for Freedom’s Watch, RNCC, and Love’s media buys. Over $1,000,000.00 and climbing. But, in typical Repubathug fashion it’s much easier to deny the truth and keep sending out alternate propoganda.
The Geneva county results are extremely important because it shows that the county committees are not in lock-step with the Hubbard placed cronies. If Hubbard presses too hard the party will splinter and crumble. I can live with that if it means we return to the Republican Party we used to be. I’m fed up with dictatorial leadership and threats of expulsion if I think for myself. Heck bub, Ill go back to being a dues paying Democrat if they continue to move more to center. We, the people, are fed up with the extreme fringes running our government and our lives.
Regarding raised taxes - check the record bub, the Republican controlled Mountgomery County Commission raised Montgomery’s sales tax to 10%, not Bright. The state legislature, you know the same elected body that Jay Love is a member of, raised property taxes, not Bright.
I’ll end by saying McCain (probably)/Sessions/Bright.
PS - did I leav any “e” s. off?
Comment by RRabton — October 25, 2008 @ 11:11 am
whatever bub.
Comment by Anonymous — October 25, 2008 @ 11:28 am
51 - Is that Love’s concession speech?
Comment by RRabton — October 25, 2008 @ 1:06 pm
You know what Love’s major problem is? He let his campaign staff convince him that the district voters are stupid enough to believe his ads. Someone smart enought to put together good sandwiches should have known better. Even worse, he is paying his staff to make him look bad.
Comment by Anonymous — October 25, 2008 @ 3:39 pm
Yeah 53, I guess voters in the Wiregrass are also so stupid that they believe Harri Anne endorsed Bright out of sincerity and not bitterness. Or, shall we talk about the 150,000 ????????
Comment by Anonymous — October 25, 2008 @ 4:01 pm
RRabton, I don’t know who you are but I couldn’t agree with you more. Keep preaching.
Comment by Anonymous — October 25, 2008 @ 4:02 pm
Endorsements mean little. Riley endorsed Love after Riley creamed Love for voting against Riley’s oil and gas recommendation. Riley was right in his criticism of Love — but Riley chose to put party ahead of Alabama when he endorsed Love. Too much partisan politics, not enought independent thinking.
Comment by Anonymous — October 25, 2008 @ 4:50 pm
54, I don’t know much about the Wiregrass. Visit there occasionally, but don’t live there. I understand that Bobby was born in the Wiregrass where he learned early how to use a sharecropper’s farming tools. I don’t know where Jay was born, but I do know it was with a silver foot in his mouth.
Comment by Anonymous — October 25, 2008 @ 4:55 pm
yeah, i wouldn’t want governor riley’s endorsement. umm, you’re an idiot. governor riley is the best governor this state has ever seen, if he supports jay love, then i do too. bobby bright supports barack obama, i’ll take riley/love over obama/bright any day of the week 56. thanks for bringing that up. bobby has probably already punched you, after he threw a couple of things with that temper of his, but hope you recover. thanks - riley/love beats obama/bright all day long.
Comment by Anonymous — October 25, 2008 @ 8:44 pm
58, I think your brain is getting tired. You’re making no sense at all. If you are going to take up space here, at least make an effort to be coherent.
Comment by Anonymous — October 25, 2008 @ 9:37 pm
# 59 Don’t forget the little Youtube that Todd Stacy posted for the Governor when he worked there. Hint: Involves Exxon and shows the Governor saying that what Jay Love and troops did was “unconscionable” regarding taxes.
Comment by sick of half truths & lies — October 26, 2008 @ 7:48 am
MCCAIN–SESSIONS–BRIGHT—IN 2008!!!
Comment by Anonymous — October 26, 2008 @ 10:51 am
#54 - Apparently you have not been paying attention to the news. Hubbard and the party have backed off of that ridiculous pay-off accusation. It was just a news stunt to distract the public from Smith’s endorsement of Bright. Bright denied it, Smith denied it, Harris suddenly has “no comment”, and the party dropped the issue - pure news stunt.
#55 - Thanks for the support.
PS Did anyone watch Meet the Press this morning? I found it interesting, well actually I was dumbfounded, when McCain blamed Bush for the present economic crisis.
For months all we’ve heard is how the Dem Congress has got us into this mess. Since that didn’t move voters to abandon Obama, I guess the next tactic is to blame Bush and promise to fix the Rep party. Ain’t politics fun??
Comment by RRabton — October 26, 2008 @ 3:17 pm
RRabton,
You make excellent posts. I always enjoy reading them because you tell it just like it is! You make No bones about it, just present true facts! I did see Meet The Press and thought the same thing about McCains statement that you do. How can Obama or the Dems be blamed for the ridiculus mess he has put the country in when it takes 2/3 votes by Congress to pass any resolution and this required Repubs votes to do so, Right? Now, who is at blame other than the Bush Administration itself. This is a true statement if I have ever spoken it. Bush and his cronies have completely destroyed this country’s economy period. We definitely need change for any hope period!
Comment by Love to lose it — October 27, 2008 @ 9:28 am