Comments on: Friday Bits

by: Spronjulator

Thu, 28 Feb 2008 17:23:37 +0000

Perhaps Glynn made a few mistakes, but the overall outline seems credible. Perhaps a real miscarriage of justice has occurred here and an innocent man is the victim of a political hit job…the likes of which Karl Rove is so famous for.

The bottom line should be about justice, not who you agree with or disagree with politically.

by: Glyn Has Lost It

Mon, 29 Oct 2007 18:34:51 +0000

Dan, the thing that strikes me is that that ridiculous overreaching by Glyn Wilson (some of the stuff he presents as fact is so laughable to in-state observers as to induce poop-in-your-pants laughter) and murky motives and murkier “evidence” (11 minute conference calls? get real!) presented by Ms. Simpson may very well in the long term hurt Don Siegelman a LOT more than they might help him - and I will point out once again that I am someone who thinks this prosecution may very well have been political.

by: TryAgain

Mon, 29 Oct 2007 03:24:56 +0000

My apologies…sincerely.

by: Brian

Mon, 29 Oct 2007 02:27:32 +0000

Sarcasm: A form of wit that is marked by the use of sarcastic language and is intended to make its victim the butt of contempt or ridicule.

Simmer down Mr. TryAgain. I assure you that I am under no illusion whatsoever that Glynn Wilson is anything other than a bitter, partisan hack. I’m only mocking Wilson, who once professed to have “more journalism credentials than anyone working in this state.”

by: TryAgain

Sun, 28 Oct 2007 22:40:25 +0000

Glyn is the most credentialed? “Quibble” with a small fact like confirmation vs. Wilson’s statement that he is there without? Just offer a bit of
credibility with your silly statements PLEASE. Glyn Wilson is a joke. He is humourous, yes. He has zero crediblity and if he has credentials
to do anything other than blog on his silly site, I would be shocked. If Glyn Wilson tried to be a real reporter, he would be on the job about 2
days before he was fired for lying.

by: Brian

Sun, 28 Oct 2007 21:16:47 +0000

Danny, you forgot to point out that Glynn is the most credentialed asshole in the state. Pardon my French.

by: Glyn Has Lost It

Sat, 27 Oct 2007 19:26:52 +0000

here are more than a few “mistakes” in Wilson’s article. There are lots and lots of “mistakes” and there are some laughable statements that anyone failiar with Alabama politics will spot immediately.

No publication in this state would have printed this article. As an example (one of very very many in this piece) No journalist in this state would have allowed statements implying that Dana Jill Simpson was a major force in creating Bib Riley’s 2002 run for governor - a statement presented by Wilson as FACT - to ever see the light of day.

The article is ludicrous, and I am NOT saying that the possibility of a political prosecution of Siegelman is ludicrous - I am not sure at all that Siegelman was not singled out. However, this article is just an increddibly bad piece of pseudojournalism. The Nation (the magazine) should be ashamed.

by: Margaret

Sat, 27 Oct 2007 15:14:00 +0000

Hey PtClearer, If you read Simpson’s statements, she does exactly the same thing Rob Riley did. She starts most of her statements with phrases like “I understood” etc.

by: dan t

Sat, 27 Oct 2007 15:03:43 +0000

This Siegelman thing is much ado about nothing. From what I know and have heard about him he’s right where he belongs. His friends though should be applauded for
standing up for him. Also did you notice that the Democrats in Congress are beginning to question the convictions of democrats in the neighboring states? This is where the Democrats are really going to go overboard. Georgia Congressman Hank Johnson said this week that he
believes the former Georgia Senate Majority Leader Charles Walker was framed by the Bush Justice Department. Im up here on the Alabama/Tennessee stateline and I cant wait to hear the excuses Congressional Democrats are going to make for those 15 democrat legislators and lobbyists the FBI caught on videotape taking bribes in Nashville back in 2005.

by: Scotty

Sat, 27 Oct 2007 04:39:35 +0000

Glynn Wilson is not only NOT nuts, his analysis is right on. And his experience is documented all over the Web, including his full cirriculum vita published on his site. Quibble if you will with whether Pryor was, finally, confirmed in a pro forma vote under pressure from Bush in a weak moment for Congress under pressure to “give Bush an up or down vote.” He was appointed without a hearing when Congress was in recess, what is called an “interim appointment,” because if Congress had been in session at that time, there would have been enough opposition at a hearing to kill his nomination.

In any event, he is just another fake conservative Christian Republican who should never have been appointed, and he only was given the plumb seat because he was a loyal Bushie.

Calling people names because you don’t understand how government works contributes nothing to journalism or public understanding of the issue. You only demonstrate your ignorance and partisanship.