Scared of the black guy getting elected president?

Or maybe you are trying to get a job as a GOP hacker and blogger for Karl Rove’s new political/media firm?

I mean, I don’t have any idea what your agenda is, but if you could just provide one good thing George Bush has done for this country, maybe we can talk about it…

Not sure to what you are referring exactly, but in fact, as it states on my curriculum vitae and professional linkedin profile linked all over this site, I worked as THE free-lance reporter for the Dallas Morning News out of New Orleans from the fall of 2000 until the winter of 2004, when I moved back to Alabama briefly and then to DC for awhile. The last story I did for them was on global warming and “the big one.” You can check that in any news database, such as Lexis/Nexis.

The Dallas Morning News, while one of the top 10 circulation newspapers in the country at least back then, putting it way ahead of any Alabama newspaper in any hierarchy I can think of, was about as cheap as many corporate newspapers today. Too cheap to fund a full-time staff bureau, in fact, although they did send a couple of staffers down for awhile after Katrina. But you can ask anyone else in the New Orleans press corps or the New Orleans press club, including a couple of Alabama grads who worked for AP who lived across the street from me Uptown, I ran it like a bureau and we never missed a major story in all that time, with the slight exception being the New Orleans school shooting. Me and RB were both out running errands that day. I also helped the New York Times on their coverage of that story, and have the pay stubs to prove it, buddy : )

I was also called a “Correspondent” on the byline stories I did for the Christian Science Monitor, but of course that was also a free-lance position. Not sure what problems people seem to have with free-lancers in Alabama. Stringer is the technical journalism jargon for it, but since the masses have no idea what that is, and since people who do not understand the business use it as a derogatory term, free-lance reporter and writer will do, don’t you think?

Now, since you asked, where is your journalism resume and professional linkedin profile for people to judge your blogging credentials vs. mine?

Oh, that’s right, you don’t even claim to be a journalist. Nuff said…