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Hoffman Takes Back His Concession Speech In NY-23
NY-23 Candidate Doug Hoffman (Conservative) and Glenn Beck
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Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman tried to reopen the NY-23 race this afternoon. Two weeks after he conceded defeat to Rep. Bill Owens (D), Hoffman attempted to take it all back in an interview with Glenn Beck.
Beck who championed Hoffman during the race, asked Hoffman if he regretted conceding in the wake of new poll results that show him losing to Owens by a narrower margin than was projected on election night. Some Hoffman supporters have held out hope that the 10,000 absentee ballots currently being counted by election officials in New York could reverse the election night result, which saw Owens become the first Democratic representative from the district in over a century.
Today, Hoffman seemed willing to oblige their fantasies.
From Hoffman's appearance on Beck's radio show today (h/t ThinkProgress):
BECK: Alright, so let me ask you two questions. Are you currently bowing to me at the waist? (LAUGHTER) Have you bowed, or will you bow, to anyone, at the waist? No? Okay, good. Second question for you, are you officially un-conceding at this moment?HOFFMAN: Yes, if I knew this information at the election night, I would not have conceded.
BECK: So are you un-conceding?
HOFFMAN: If that's possible, yes.
BECK: If the President can bow to an emperor and nobody says anything, yeah, I think you can unconcede.
Here's the audio:
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Michael A
November 16, 2009 5:24 PM
Nah, he isn't currently bowing. He is french kissing train wreck beck's a**. I'd rather see him bow. Disgusting visual.
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CT Voter
November 16, 2009 5:41 PM
Good Christ they are a bunch of trivial yet malevolent buffoons, aren't they?
Glennie? Plenty of people (all of them rightwingers) are apoplectic about this nontroversy that you're trying to generate, and take my advice: don't go there. Otherwise, pictures of W holding hands AND kissing the Saudi prince on the lips are going to be everywhere. You want that? Really?
As for Hoffman? Go ahead and "unconcede". And thanks for the revealing insight into a) how much you understand politics and b) the apparently crappy advice you were getting on election night. . .
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Jaycal
November 16, 2009 6:28 PM
I just knew Hoffman was a Flip-Flopper from the first day I read his name.
I wonder if they play that game when they're off-air? Beck: "Are you bending over?" Hoffman: "If that's possible, yes."
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GTFOOH
November 16, 2009 6:46 PM
We understand Doug...That alternative universe of Glen Beck's can reverse anyone's world view!
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cmpnwtr
November 16, 2009 6:57 PM
How about doing your homework? There are only and est. 5400 ballots returned.
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anelder
November 16, 2009 7:05 PM
Got to mention that bowing thing. Does anyone out there know that bowing upon meeting and greting in Japan is the norm. It's not considered a greeting reserved for Kings, Emporers, etc. It certainly isn't a lowering of the flag to another nation's glag.
This whole fiasco speaks loudly about the ignorance of americans. We so loudly proclaim that we are superior mortals that to learn what is a standard culture in other countries is beneath us. Dumb, dumb, dumb.
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Schmed
November 16, 2009 7:19 PM in reply to anelder
Please don't smear us with Beck's stupidity. Many of us actually have an education and/or worldly experience. And a lot of us didn't even vote for Bush one time, let alone twice.
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jenesq
November 17, 2009 10:01 AM in reply to anelder
Any non-worldly moron who has taken (or watched) a karate class knows that. I guess that doesn't apply to conservative gnomes living in their parents' basements. Or Glenn Beck, not that there is much difference.
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Viva!America!
November 16, 2009 7:16 PM
So technically, you asshole, Hoffman can't "unconcede" because the press IS getting all wee-wee'd up over his bowing. Does this ignoramus think that O's bowing should be investigated? How can anyone have any trust in this moron?!?
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semiotix
November 16, 2009 7:31 PM
Poor Hoffman... too little, too late. He has only himself to blame for conceding.
Not because the votes were ever going to come back his way--after all, if they did, he could present his credentials to the House and it wouldn't matter what he'd "conceded."
But since the whole idea behind the race was to advance a PR strategy for a movement, specifically one based on delegitimizing the right of anyone not in the movement to govern, it's kind of a dumb move to voluntarily step out of the spotlight.
Sarah Palin would have been screeching "voter fraud" at full volume from noon on election day until Easter of next year. Dog-whistling to your local base on Beck's radio show two weeks after the fact isn't going to cut it. They've already forgotten your name.
Oh well... the teabaggers will probably find a better candidate next time.
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LuxVeritas
November 16, 2009 7:48 PM
Yay! We get to hear this nut surrender twice! I hope Beck will have him on his show when he re-concedes.
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Peter Principle
November 16, 2009 8:51 PM
BECK: If the President can bow to an emperor and nobody says anything, yeah, I think you can unconcede.
BECK: Since I have the ability to pull any ol' thing out of my rectum and connect it to any other thing in the entire universe, yeah, I think you can unconcede.
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acf_ma
November 16, 2009 11:27 PM
If absentee ballots, still being counted at this late date, result in a switch in winner and loser, what difference would a concession make? I don't see a concession as any more than a "Gee, I guess I lost, or congratulations to the winner", it shouldn't excuse election officials from completing their job to count the votes cast. The only change I could see in that scenario is that the new loser would likely be requesting a recount.
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commie atheist
November 17, 2009 1:19 AM in reply to acf_ma
No, no, you see, in wingnutland, once you concede, there are double-no-takebacks-forever, so the winner wins and takes all the candy and the loser just goes home and cries to his mommy about how mean that other guy was, especially since he really didn't win fair and square, and wah-wah-wah-wah.
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