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These people are certifiable. And to you posters who'll wade in here and screech "how do you know them are McDaniel supporters," the derp y'all spread in social media and comment sections correlates with this conference call.

there there fish, it was a legitimate question, but a MUCH better one would be WHERE THE HELL IS THEIR CANDIDATE? all we ever hear from is one damn barbour after another...screw 'em all!

embarrassed for you....

austin: "we at the COCHRAN CAMPAIGN..."

again, WHERE IS THE DAMN CANDIDATE??

Just when you think McDaniel supporters can't go any lower, they continue to surprise.

Bona fide, typical Jones County well dressed, slicked up trash.

cotton pickers? seriously? harvest?

McDaniel is a poster child of former Jones County defendants...

I found a sandbar in the middle of the MS river. The MS/LA state line moves due to river changes so nobody is quite sure whose jurisdiction it is in. I will be there at dawn to hand out dueling pistols.

McDaniel is on a different show everyday. He is basking in the media attention that feeds is ego.

their trash appearance is out dated by 40 years.

Bona fide, typical Jones County well dressed, slicked up trash.

You can dress them up....you can't take them out.

47 USC S223. "Whoever...utilizes any device or software that can be used to originate telecommunications or other types of communications that are transmitted, in whole or in part, by the Internet... without disclosing his identity and with intent to annoy, abuse, threaten, or harass any person...who receives the communications...shall be fined under title 18 or imprisoned not more than two years, or both."

The tea party's comic appeal has ceased. I am a lifelong Republican who was sympathetic to anti-incumbency. I can tell you now that I will never vote for anyone who self proclaims to have anything to do with the Tea Party. Congratulations. I am not alone.

Sickening! Juvenile! It will backfire immediately.

What is the most humorous part of it -- is that they have no understanding how conference calls work -- that numbers can be traced, that it was recorded, etc. They just sat there and babbled until one voice cautioned the McDaniel supporters they were being recorded to get off the line. Gauche, immature, and unprofessional.

5:55 -- I believe he has a job to do for Mississippi and he is in DC working. Unlike your candidate who is licking his wounds, worried about his hair, attempting to get donations, and concerned that he's not getting enough attention.

Well -- this should do the trick!

I've decided the craziness is actually a clever ploy to get the national tea party groups back into the state to pay McDaniel to shut the hell up. He'll then use those funds to produce "Brokebackbench," a movie chronicling the lives of two irrelevant STATE senators -- McDaniel & Watson -- whose love for each other is surpassed only by each man's love of himself.

In the audio around 4:05-4:16... I want to know how in the HELL does Austing know this? "We have 1,000s of Mississippians that voted for Thad on the 24th who ALWAYS voted for Thad.......many that voted for THad just sat at home....." . How in the HELL does Cochran's office KNOW who we voted for when two names are on the ballot? This is a significant statement. They should NOT know which voter has "ALWAYS' voted for THAD? I do they know that exactly????

6:44p....y'all must have been scared as hell of Jim Hood to vomit out this "Cochran Campaign" sans cochran....l sure hope the "CochranCampaign" keeps flopping around like this...and also, IF he is in DC working, it is for his master's lobby-clients (like Mexico) and NOT Mississippi...

peace and goodwill

p.s. why is it that the "CochranCampaign" insists on relying on ad hominem arguments and will not respond o the questions but instead attack he questioner?

6:28 pm More threats from the Tea Party?

Sorry but not going to work.

You need to know more than the one passage of law you just mangled.

Hope you aren't an attorney as an attorney should know better!

Austin Barbour is now over his head. GOTV... whiskey..tango..foxtrot

"I am a lifelong Republican who was sympathetic to anti-incumbency. I can tell you now that I will never vote for anyone who self proclaims to have anything to do with the Tea Party. Congratulations. I am not alone."

Will this guy get ripped the way TP's got ripped for saying they will not vote for Cochran?

It was a very unprofessional call all the way around. Most conference calls are set up through another source and the listeners are muted by the conference party then... it opens for questions when the conference party request it to be done. Someone did not know HOW to handle the call, set it up, and it should have disconnected the recording when the conference caller hung up ... but it kept going and going...? Very unprofessional. Also, Austin took up the first quarter or so of the call stating what we have already read - we already know numbers - that's already been stated, we wanted to hear something NEW. And...how do we know he was not going to talk the call out and leave little room for questions like Greg Harper does on his townhall calls.

After I thought about how this call... this was just too strange. Surely, folks know how to initiate a conference call (technical perspective). He kept asking people to mute, etc. just does not look good for Cochran Campaign. If they are going to have someone in charge of their campaign, then he needs to know how to handle the media and a conference call. This is embarrassing.

No one knows who the call came from so don't speculate "yet". Let's wait and see. Cock folks speculate quite often. Wonder why?

This call sounded so crazy.. .this just can't be real. Surely Mississippi folks can't be this stupid... I mean, please, leaving the recording on? Is this his first conference call? And...Mississippi idiots will hit the news again - both sides of this call made an idiot out of themselves. He handled it very well... just hung up "NOT". You have to be trained on how to handle such as well as knowing what the hell you are doing when you arrange a telecom.

I have said before that it will hurt the republican party in the short term but long term it will be good because the tea party will destroy itself in Mississippi. Democrats win either way in the General.

Austin Barber is not the right guy that Thad needs out front. He comes across as if he is looking for a fight. He needs to go.

I did not know it was possible to screw up a conference call, have done many over the years, all services have a mute button.

A day that made both Cochran and McDaniel look bad once again

7:05 -- Simple -- in the last general election Cochran ran in 2008, 766,111 people voted for him. Only 300,000 give or take showed up in the primary on 3 June. The Cochran camp felt there were 400,000+ people that they needed to bring out to vote on June 24th, for him.

One other little item to note -- that was the year Barack Obama was running for the first time, so it appears that there was cross over voting in the black community that year also -- hmmmmmmm -- guess it's not anything new and many in the black community have previously supported Senator Cochran.

Simple, simple -- people were sitting at home, who had been supporters in the past, they just needed to get them to the polls on June 24th. The Cochran camp recognized that fact on June 4th, and instead of doing a victory lap at Jones County Community College the Cochran campaign, rolled up their sleeves and went to work.

No great conspiracy theory here --- sorry!

"I've decided the craziness is actually a clever ploy to get the national tea party groups back into the state to pay McDaniel to shut the hell up. He'll then use those funds to produce "Brokebackbench," a movie chronicling the lives of two irrelevant STATE senators -- McDaniel & Watson -- whose love for each other is surpassed only by each man's love of himself." 6:59

We have a winner, I spit my cocktail through my nose. I think you need to make sure it is in production in time to qualify for the next Oscar hand out. I insist you include me on the casting call.

7:32 -- Easy to check -- all they have to do, is look at the numbers calling into the conference and check against, who they sent the conference call information out to originally. That's why you have specified numbers, pins, etc. You KNOW who has an invitation, and they are normally recorded via their phone number.

If I were the McDaniel people who called in, I"d be quite worried now since the press will go after this with a vengeance. It's just too juicy, and that's what is so sad -- these people had no clue how conference calling works, just called in per Chuck Johnson's direction, proudly pounded each other on the back when they felt they'd scored points or won. Not until someone told "All McDaniel people to hang up the call was being recorded" did we start to see the backtracking and exiting from the line.

Sophistication is not their strength.

Omg!! Seriously... In the audio 1:23 to 1:29 there is a dog barking in the background. What the????? Ahahahah... A guilty dog always barks.!!!!

7:32 I don't see any "Cock" folks hanging on every word of some pseudo-journalist cashing in on speculation and pumping rubes for money. "I've got exclusive information! But be sure to check out my gofundme page if you like what you see."

Omg!! Seriously... In the audio 1:23 to 1:29 there is a dog barking in the background. What the????? Ahahahah... A guilty dog always barks.!!!!

Where was Cochran? McDaniel is available for all interviews. I hear him every day.

Mississippi Democrats and Republicans who are made up of historically you're typical political stereotypes...... but that actually have Black votes included for Republicans voted Thad in. Because Chris McDaniel scared the be-Jesus out of people with his weird vocal tone that sounds like a bad Baptist Evangelist meets Jimmy Swaggert. He scared black folks and they supported Thad. This is no surprise. Chris was Scary and he didn't get the votes. Get some better photos next time that don't show you snarling like Eddie Munster at the crowd quoting fire and brimstone. You are weird Dude.

8:15 -- It was probably tied up to Honey Boo Boo McDaniel's trailer.

7:57 -- I'm in full agreement -- 6:59 had the best post!!! TOO FUNNY!

Good luck Tea Party. Your spokesman is now a checkbook/gofundme blogger who tweets every 60 seconds from a state that could care less what happens here once the train wreck is over.

The more the CM kooks talk, the more solid TC looks.

As bad as the TP has acted, we would not even be here if TC had used a professional campaign director instead of amateur family members. This call is embarrassing for both CM and TC. Glad to see real media folks calling out the McDaniel kooky kook.

"Where was Cochran? McDaniel is available for all interviews. I hear him every day. "

Like me, Cochran was probably busy at work all day.

The other guy - he'll talk to anyone who will listen, trying to convince suckers to send him money.

The funniest thing of all is the dialogue after the call ended. Were any of them actual media members? Hard not to laugh at the whole thing. "Could have been a plant". Ha!

Are there any McDaniel supporters on here? Redneck lady says "yeap!" Well that guy made McDaniel look like an ass!

8:35 - It is probably the mascot waiting on its dinner of pork belly scraps.

At the very end you can hear Chris' girlfriend sternly say "if there are any McDaniel supporters still on the phone hang up the phone now!" That's like saying mission accomplished!

"Surely Mississippi folks can't be that stupid"


Wanna bet?

Just go ahead and announce this has been a KF production of Trollfest '14 operating under cover of the night. Any lack of resemblance to a Republican primary is solely the responsibility of the participants, and NOT the responsibility of the blog operator.

And the Prince of Darkness at the Madison Journal says,"Can someone PLEASE get me a cosmopolitan, I am having cramps!"

The whole call just did not seem real. They just can't be that ignorant. Was that really Austin B.? I was expecting someone more experienced in speaking the "P.R." talk and knowing how to appropriately respond to reporters. How do we know it was the media--thought strange they did not have any introductions for "reporters" if they actually were reporters. . Yep, ya'll are right-- I mean really.... the dog barking? It could have been Austins?

Way to go. Way to show the rest of the country of how you are supposed to act. Adults acting like children. You really believe what you did today helped whatever cause you have/had. If anything you made it worse. McDaniel needs to come out and make a statement against these loons because all it's going do is lead to more defectors. There are plenty of smart reputable people who voted for McDaniel and from the reaction that's on display will most likely distance themselves from these acts of buffoonery. It's time for both to shut the hell up and move on. I along with about 90% of the state am sick of it. The Dems.......Loving it, and all those who will vote with them out of spite and bitterness will show how truly ignorant they really are.

11:10 These folks aren't showing the nation anything. They just reaffirmed stereotypes today. That conference call was some next-level derp. Jeebus, these folks need to crawl out from under that bridge and into a library--or a kindergarten class if a school would allow it.

It's fascinating to see a bunch of ignorant hicks (I'm calling them that because that's how they're acting) hanging on to every word of some creepo blogger whose got very little credibility at best. On the plus side, the past month has been a great way to weed out the idiots from my Facebook feed.

Really 9:05? Cochran busy at work all day?

Bwahahahahaha...

Is Austin Barbour old enough to drink beer at Haley's annual Coon-Hunters' Association meeting?

This morning (Thursday) on MSNBC's Way to Early, the show played the recording and then reported that the McDaniel campaign is laiming the caller was a Cochran plant trying to discredit McDaniel.

Someone please tell me what McDaniel's end game is. Surely he must know he will never be the next U.S. Senator from Mississippi, not now or ever. He is tearing down the tremendous strides the state republican party has made over the last two decades.

I hope our lieutenant governor strips this clown of every senate chairmanship he holds. The irony in all of this is that McDaniel is the chair of the state senate's election committee. Apparently, he was fine with open primaries until he was out maneuvered by the Cochran campaign, or he would have sponsored legislation in the past to change the party primary system.

5:47 your concluding statement is boring, old, tired, ineffective and way off base. McDaniel nor anyone else has filed a challenge of 'open primaries'.

if you bothered to understand the argument juxtaposed against current law, you'd know what this is about. What you Gallo-ninnies cannot understand is there is still a law that must be followed under the open primary system.

Please turn your cap around and quit listening to that babbling Supertalk clown.

753/812----austin? If you are going to write in as anonymous, try using different verbiage than your speeches it will help disguise yourself.

After reading the posts and immediate reports stating this was Mcdaniel or his staff, along with this call just being plain crazzyyyy and unbelievable..makes me believe this whole call was intentionally setup....just my opinion. the media was too fast responding along with these bloggers with a lot of the comments probably originating from the same person to place blame on McDaniel. Too many wild things have happened too fast with the responses blamed immediately on McDaniel. It's called reverse marketing. But just my opinion as an observer. (Republicans just ain't what they used to be --what they they depict has changed--oh the good ole' Reagan years they don't make 'em like him no more)

was it even really the media on the call or a buncha' hired actors? Austin sounded like he was playing his own part? this whole thing could not be real! just cannot be real! and so dramatic when Austin hangs up and they leave us with the climax about the McDaniel callers to hang up. With that many people on the call and hopefully being told they were recorded at the beginning ......most experienced know you do not continue speaking even if a third party drops from a three-way call and especially if it is a recorded conference call. This is what makes me think this is not genuine as too many people participated in ignorance.

Austin Barbour is a joke.

7:05 -- Good try -- no cigar -- just listen to the entire recording.........they talk about McDaniel throughout it, and in addition, realize at the end, they're being recorded......."All McDaniel people hang up"....and leave the Titanic immediately.

Also--- Reagan as in "REAGAN DEMOCRATS"???? He used cross over very effectively.

As a gesture of good faith and to show that there is no animosity toward the McDaniel campaign who has made it publicly known that they are in need of money to help fund their legal battles, let's all come up with ideas for fundraisers.

As the McDaniel campaign harped on conservative principles, I will start out with some suggestions. Old fashioned bake sale, car wash, dunking booth, kissing booth are some that have worked in the past. One has to wonder if Palin, Santorum or Woolery have sent in their $50. If they have not, maybe Woolery can come back to host some bingo games, or Palin can return for a kissing booth and Santorum for the dunking booth.

Let's all be good neighbors here and help our misguided with some more novel fundraising ideas.

7:05

You're argument might hold water if Chuck Johnson hadn't tweeted out the conference call number 15 minutes before telling his followers to "crash the call." Regardless of who it was, that call to action (along with everything else that Chuck Johnson has done over the past week) makes it easy to point the finger at the McDaniel camp.

At first I wondered if Chuck Johnson was sincerely trying to help McDaniel and just doing a terrible job, but the more he tweets, the more I realize that he is simply trolling for notoriety and cash. He found a group of crazies that are willing to listen to him, and he's using it for all of the publicity he can get. He doesn't give a flip about Mississippi or the election, he's just trying to promote himself.

Easy solution. Legislature kicks out Jones County. They become the "Free State" again. McDaniel declares himself Grand Poobah for life. Everyone is happy.

747 No, Reagan as in his Demeanor with a capital D. . These young frat boys just ain't got it. When Reagan walked into the room, there was a respectful "presence". These green eared cocky kids exude none these days. He needs some help in that department. Even when he speaks, he comes across as a smarty pants spoiled rich kid and not polished. They do have personal services to help with this and he should not have any problem hiring a good one at least for Thad's sake. ....... Now that's what I meant when I said they don't make them like Reagan anymore. Thanks for letting me explain it further. ......It was just embarrassing the way he acted and then hung up like a child.

it just doesn't make sense! if I was running for office I would not send a staffer to a nursing home and I would not send a staffer to crash a call and I would not have a staffer say something about harvesting people.......you don't hurt yourself when you are running for election. you are more careful since you have more eyes on you. so just because someone supports McDaniel this means that McDaniel is responsible? that is ridiculous! does this mean if a cochran voter committed a terrible crime that Cochran is responsible? that is ridiculous too! why not just run background reports on every voter (white collar crime versus blue collar crime) you cannot blame these things on the candidate if he did not set it up. ........ by the way, background check--- last time I checked Mississippi was the most corrupted in white collar crime- hhhmmmmm

Republicans didn't win for Thad. Democrats did. I want you to stay this three times. got it? Republicans wake up!

Jones County kicked out? Who is going to get more Federal highway funds to build and repair the roads around McDenial's alma mater? (Oppo researchers miss that stuff) The funds that helped pay his Dad as an educator? Who will pay their Medicare, Social Security, Medicaid, SNAP, veteran's pensions, Federal pensions, and keep the schools afloat? I know, they did it ALL on their own with no help from other states, other taxpayers, or most of all the Big Bad GubMint. I reckon it's a time to secede, they are saying. Again. Except they couldn't even get along with that! Funny how paranoid schiz with a persecution complex turns into a campaign and Twitter career.

8:44 -- Climate of command. Old military term which translates to the troops follow the lead of the leader. If McDaniel had set a tone that these things were UNACCEPTABLE, then no one would be doing them. I think he benignly winks, nods, and says "I don't want to know" as he walks out of the room, leaving the "troops" to wreck havoc.

Blame him -- yes. These are his supporters and he has made NO active move to reign them in as of today.

Everyone is screaming about purchased votes. No one is discussing the fact that those selling their votes are the most upstanding either. It is not racial if you actively participate by taking the money and spending it.

DEES CRACRAN BOYS IS MESEGENATED!!!

Really good overview

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/chris-mcdaniel-s-election-tantrum-is-more-than-sore-loserdom

The train wreck in Laurel was nothing compared to the one in Ellisville.

8:24 pm and others crying: where is Cochran? I hear McDaniel everyday.
Thad is probably working. Yes we hear McDaniel everyday (exhausting), he has a lot of time on his hands now that he is back to passing important legislation like car tags for taekwondo and practicing the Gettysburg Address in his bathroom mirror.

Best comment so far: "I've decided the craziness is actually a clever ploy to get the national tea party groups back into the state to pay McDaniel to shut the hell up. He'll then use those funds to produce "Brokebackbench," a movie chronicling the lives of two irrelevant STATE senators -- McDaniel & Watson -- whose love for each other is surpassed only by each man's love of himself." 6:59
I'd add that I don't think these two lads will be recognized to speak in the Senate anytime soon about anything.

Cochran understands that the primary campaign is over and he won it. There is no reason for him to be campaigning now or to be personally responding to every stupid thing that the McDaniel people do and say.

One thing Chuckie sneaked by everyone is that the media keeps referring to Stevie Fielder as a pastor even though the deacon of the church says he is not an associate pastor and the church leaders all know better than to do any business with him. This episode shows that Republicans really do not know how to do GOTV in the black community because they believe all the stereotypes and think they have to enlist hustlers. Meridian has two black city council members who are educated professionals. A Democratic campaign would have the good sense to go to them and ask them to recommend a few reliable campaign workers that they trust and then hire those people and let them hire the drivers and door knockers and sign wavers that they know will do the job and not just take the money and do nothing and then ask for more.

So, as 11:44 explains, Cackrun understands he won the primary and, therefore, has no reason to appear or speak publicly. That may be true; however, how do you explain him taking the same position prior to the runoff? Or was he still working on Katrina?

McDenial and the TP need to keep fighting like Oprah needs more donuts. Hot mess of the Millenium. Double down, Chris. Charge the windmill. It's Hot Messissippi on the 4th of July.

I think this shows the stae and nation that atleast these tea partiers ar racist. They don't want blacks in the party and find ways to insult them. It is why most of them like Kim Wade. He says what they want to say themselves but cant. He calls blacks names that would get a white guy put in jail and they all gather round him and pat him on the back.

My question is: who is overall the bigger idiot?

Austin Barbour or Chris McDaniel?

I thought Austin did a great job. There is no playbook for this - never heard of a candidate's supporters crashing a call like this (what reasonable people would?). He was thrown a major curve and did well.

7/3@1008... it is taking advantage of poorer people that really needed the $15.00. Why not go after the dems in the well-to-do neighborhoods, the dems that have cars, the ones that have jobs? No, go after the ones that will take a pitiful $15.00 and a bus or car ride to the voting booth. It is principle and ethics.