Comments on: Planned Troy King Press Conference Now Off

by: Troy King, Pt. 2 » Doc’s Political Parlor

Mon, 14 Jul 2008 20:29:26 +0000

[…] Below is follow-up to the post, “Planned Troy King Press Conference Now Off,” that I would have included there if I had been able to follow up in time with a source for clarification and for explicit permission to use some comments. […]

by: Anonymous

Mon, 14 Jul 2008 19:41:29 +0000

PeeCan Jim makes being a Dem shameful. I know better that most are smart and credible. It’s those posts that give everyone else a bad name.

by: JD

Mon, 14 Jul 2008 18:51:49 +0000

Since this is only a Blog rumor, it must be true. But a conviction of the Don by 12 of his peers is flase.

I can see the Socialist-Democrat logic in that

by: JD Hogg

Mon, 14 Jul 2008 18:44:23 +0000

I’ve seen several people claim to have high level Republican sources who stand by this story. We all know the highest Republican in Alabama is Jill Simpson, tasked by Rove himself with obtaining compromising photos of Siegelman. I wonder if she is the source of this rumor? After all, wasn’t it first brought out by Alabama’s most trusted news source, the Locust Fork Journal?

by: Anonymous

Mon, 14 Jul 2008 18:24:57 +0000

#19 APCO runs full page ads on the back of the first section of the Birmingham News regularly - often on Sundays.

They are a major advertiser.

by: Anonymous

Mon, 14 Jul 2008 18:22:54 +0000

Politicalnut I don’t agree about media in this instance, especially when you say “not one found anything worthy of print.” I think it is more likely that AT THE PRESENT TIME they are not confident that they have enough concrete fact to go with and I would guess that the balance (printing now vs. waiting) is very close on that point. I certainly don’t think there is nothing here. It’s close enough that it’s a real judgement call as to whether to print or not, and that means that eventually this story will likely break. But it could be several days (although that is unlikely).

by: Roger

Mon, 14 Jul 2008 18:19:13 +0000

Anonymous in 17, do you have a link or something that shows Alabama Power is one of the biggest advertisers of the Birmingham News?

by: politicalnut

Mon, 14 Jul 2008 18:12:22 +0000

There were at least three different daily newspapers working on this story — not one found anything worthy of print. Please keep in mind that the B’ham News has been anti-King since day one. I think that if there were anything to this story, that newspaper would have printed their story and forced King to prove that it was not true.

by: Anonymous

Mon, 14 Jul 2008 18:10:28 +0000

One of the biggest advertisers - if not THE biggest - in the Birmingham News is the Alabama Power Company. Troy King’s biggest political contributor is the Alabama Power Company.

Wanna guess why that story got held?

by: Anonymous

Mon, 14 Jul 2008 18:03:03 +0000

#14 I would refer you to Michale Isikov’s (sp?) book on Clinton (”Uncovering Clinton”). He had the Lewinsky story for months and did not publish due to several factors, and the only reason he went to press was because he was in danger of being scoooped due to the blogs. That is not happening with this story.

News organizations had several other stories about Clinton for months and sometimes years without publishing. Sexual misconduct stories are ticklish for media and the rules are different.

I think this story may be very real and the half-life of this seems to give credence to that. Remember, the Birmingham News has a story written. I don’t think they just waste time up there. There is enough there for them to expend time and effort. That alone implies there is some evidence to support the story. So I don’t think the “no story here” line works.