New Blog Update: Left in Alabama
July 25th, 2007Hey Y’all,
I know it may sound strange to some that there is a such thing as a political left in Alabama, but there’s a fairly new blog you should check out called Left in Alabama. It lays claim to the task of “connecting progressive voices in Alabama.”
And they are now blogging about who might run to unseat that little right-wing scoundrel Jeff Sessions in the U.S. Senate.
Agriculture Commissioner Ron Sparks is on the list, as is state Senator Vivian Figures, although she seems to be in no hurry to make a decision.
Supposedly Rep. Artur Davis of Birmingham is off the list, since he would have to give up his House seat to run, although what the heck? Can he beat Sessions?
What about Joe Turnham, the party chair, or why not draft Charles Barkley? Maybe he could be convinced to go to the U.S. Senate BEFORE running for governor in 2014.
It might just take celebrity power to beat corrupt money these days, which is why we’ve already bet the Yuenglings on a Thompson v. Gore race for president in 2008. Not many people have taken that bet yet, btw, so it’s still open : )
And see, even our evil Repub state Attorney General Troy King had to deny he was for Thompson today in Mountain Brook - at a successful fund raiser for Thompson.
Thompson Draws Crowd in Alabama
He is committed to McCain, but everybody who is anybody knows McCain is dead in this race - and that Karl Rove and the Bush family are already lining up behind Tompson. It won’t take King long to follow…
It may take Al Gore’s celebrity power to trump the other candidate from Tennessee in ‘08. I know, I hate to see an all Tennessee race too - considering what I learned about that state’s politics while living in Knoxville for four years.
But that’s what it still looks like from Locust Forkland, where the river runs cold and true, the great blue herons dance like elvis and the people like to shoot the breeze (and they are usually right).
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July 28th, 2007 at 11:07 pm
Glynn, don’t you feel just a wee bit hypocritical? I bear no ill will against Left in Alabama and I comment there from time to time. But I seem to recall that you derided one of the better known Alabama blogs that is widely regarded as being as close to impartial as possible. Among your complaints were the numerous anonymous commenters as well as the hidden identity of the domain registrant. And now you’re pointing your readers to another Alabama blog that commits the same offenses that you saw as tearing asunder the credibility of the aforementioned site.
Left in Alabama’s posts are often penned anonymously by individuals with screen names such as “mooncat” and “herding old cats.” Commenters are also allowed to remain anonymous. The leftinalabama.com domain is registered by proxy.
Again, I don’t have a problem with Left in Alabama. They admit to being partisan and they do their thing. They don’t pretend to be some “new media” construct that just happens to look a lot like a regular old partisan spin shop. So, how do you justify blasting one blog for certain practices and shilling for another that does the same?
August 2nd, 2007 at 5:31 pm
First of all, I don’t have to justify anything to you. You have no peer review power over me.
Second, I could just delete your posts too, and may decide to do just that, since it is obvious that nothing I say, no argument I make, is going to matter one whit to you.
You like pissing in the wind. It is your passtime.
This is just a crass attempt to get a few little hits on your own pathetic attempt at publishing a blog, so it would be best just to ignore you.
So that’s what I’m going to do.