Conyers Demands Immediate Compliance from Rove
August 2nd, 2008Some Alabama Bloggers Waste Bandwidth
House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers, the Michigan Democrat, demanded in a letter this week that Karl Rove, Harriet Miers and other subpoenad White House aides comply with a federal judge’s order and appear “immediately” before the committee to testify under oath – or face criminal contempt charges from the full House.
The “precise legal issue” raised by Mr. Rove’s claim of immunity from our subpoena as a former White House official was before Judge Bates in Committee on the Judiciary v. Miers, Conyers wrote. The decision in that case provides an unequivocal answer. . . In his letter to me of July 29, 2008, Committee Ranking Member Lamar Smith also noted the pendency of the District Court case and stated that ‘Mr. Rove assuredly will abide by the court’s decision when it issues.’ I trust that this is correct and that there will be no further need to enforce the subpoena through contempt proceedings in the full House, and have directed my staff to contact you immediately so that we can make arrangements for Mr. Rove to testify in September.
House Judiciary Committee press release
Letter to Rove’s lawyer Robert Luskin
Meanwhile, there are other Alabama bloggers who are still relying on the Newhouse press view of the world who still can’t get their heads around the FACT that the Bush White House, including disgraced former political aide Karl Rove, manipulated justice for political reasons – even in little old Alabama.
One of the biggest dumbasses of them all has now even questioned the sanity of Roger Shuler, who was fired from his job of 19 years at UAB for blogging about the conflict of interest and incompetence of U.S. Attorney Alice Martin and the Siegelman case.
One of these bloggers, an Auburn engineer, likes to think he is some kind of an authority on blogging. Along with his little friend GOP girl — better known as Flip by her former colleagues at Auburn where she failed to get tenure and doesn’t even teach anymore — they pollute the discussion of substantive issues in this state and waste bandwidth in their attempt to be somebody, even as they mostly blog under anonymous identities and hide from real information.
In the true tradition of the First Amendment, bloggers such as Roger Shuler and myself are trying to get good information out to the good people of Alabama – as well as inform people around the country and the world – about a series of serious injustices that are taking place here.
They would rather call people crazy and attack the credibility of credentialed journalists than to do the heavy reading to find out what’s really going on in the world outside the Heart of Dixie.
For more information, here are a few AP, Washington Post and Locust Fork Journal stories from the past few days if you need to catch up on the action.
Pelosi Says Rove Contempt Citation Possible
Judge Rules Bush Aides Not Immune From Subpoena
WP: Judge Rules Bush Aides Must Obey Subpoenas
NYT: Democrats Call for Contempt Charges Against Rove
Jill Simpson Calls on Pelosi to Find Rove in Contempt
House Judiciary Committee Holds Karl Rove in Contempt
Tags: Dumb Daily Dixie
August 2nd, 2008 at 5:07 pm
Bring on the traffic, dumbasses : )
August 2nd, 2008 at 5:24 pm
Blow your stack, B the Auburn engineer. You are banned from this space, but if anyone wants to read your lies, they know where to go…
As for Mr. Dixie Dan, and the other Danny, why don’t yall write an editorial actually advocating something constructive on your blog, rather than trying to convince others that you are the expert by attacking the real experts. Anybody with a brain can figure it out for themselves. You are the partisan hacks without a clue how to use blogging software effectively. You’ve never written a news story or an editorial column. You just use your bandwidth to bash those of us who are actually working at bringing out information not covered in the corporate press. That’s what a blog is supposed to do, not just link to their BS and worship it like gospel.
Question authority, not expertise…
August 2nd, 2008 at 7:17 pm
Typical drivel from a leftist. Just exactly when will anyone of your ilk come out and state that “Siegelman is innocent.” I’ve yet to see one person defending Dandy Don state such a position. It’s always, “He was prosecuted by those evil Republicans.” He was and is guilty and should rot in prison. Now, would you like a little cheese with your whine? It would certainly fit your cheese eatin’ surrender monkey style.
August 2nd, 2008 at 8:08 pm
You ain’t no rebel, Johnny, or you would oppose the massive intrusion by the Bush federal government on the Fourth Amendment. It takes a fake Reb to call that a whine. My musket’s loaded, loaded for bear, as my grandaddy used to say in St. Clair County…
August 3rd, 2008 at 10:09 am
It doesn’t matter what the author of this blog has to say. When they read his tone in the comments section, they’ll leave and never come back (like me). It seems this guy has a hard time listening to others.
I recommend that the author disables the comments because it’s going to be difficult to have a conversation here.
August 3rd, 2008 at 10:21 am
Who are you and just what do you think you are you talking about? Another right-wing nutjob who thinks a blog and the comments section is designed for bloggers to attack one another as idiots? You call that a conversation?
We’ve had many intelligent conversations here. It’s just that you and your little Alabama Republican blogger buddies don’t get it…
Name one thing you would like to have a conversation about, other than attacking the credibility of credentialed journalists who now happen to run blogs?
Do you have a blog? How many hits and comments do you get? Do tell…
August 3rd, 2008 at 11:48 pm
Zing! That was a lovely read. Go Glynn!
August 4th, 2008 at 12:50 pm
At least I finished my dissertation and received my Ph.D.– something the ABD Wilson was not able to do.
Oh, and just to keep the facts straight, I never sought tenure at Auburn. I noticed that Wilson, who loves to bragg about his professorial prowess never got tenure anywhere either. Hello pot!
August 4th, 2008 at 1:30 pm
I finished a dissertation too, Flip, but did not defend it, for good reasons, since I had the opportunity to work for the New York Times and the Christian Science Monitor and the Dallas Morning News as the New Orleans bureau and get back into the news business full-time free-lancing, which apparently you’ve never done since you show such a lack of respect for it.
Also, while at the University of Tennessee, I started the first online magazine at southerner.net. The dot com bubble burst, but hey, the only thing Flip has published are right-wing Republican nutjob comments on anonymous blogs.
The point is the experience, Flip. Blog comments don’t count.
I was going to save this one for you and invite you to my guest lecture, but since you opened the door, here’s one for you from a real professor at Auburn, via e-mail July 30:
Hi. I am an associate professor of journalism at Auburn University (more importantly, in my mind, also a long-time Alabama newspaper reporter) who probably should have known about the Locust Fork News a long time ago, may have even met Mr. Glynn Wilson at some time in the past, and am writing for a couple of reasons:
1. I’m working on a book to include Gould Beech as one of three or four liberal Alabama journalists, and I stumbled across your recent post of your wonderful 2000 obituary for him. (I didn’t see anyone else put Tim Russert’s and other “heroes’” stature in perspective the way you did, either.)
I’m seeking all the sources I can get on Beech; I interviewed him briefly at Magnolia Springs (he was already suffering from Parkinson’s at the time) in the mid-’90s and have a copy of “Against the Mainstream,” but would love to get a copy of the series you did on him.
Can you give me the dates and publication info so I can track it down? (Of course, I’d accept a photocopy quite gladly …) Do you have contact info, perhaps for his daughter, and any idea if his papers have been archived anywhere?
I would really appreciate a chance to talk to you as a source as well, about him and others I’m researching — Neil O. Davis, Charles Dobbins, Buford Boone and Aubrey Williams, mainly.
2. I teach advanced reporting at Auburn every fall. I’m wondering if you’d be willing to come talk to a class about your work and your site.
I know just about as much as anybody else who reads on-line news and blogs about the art of reporting for the Internet — which means, beyond the way my print journalism experience and values transfer to the field, just about nothing. So my presumption is equaled only by my ignorance
and, maybe, my desire to get students some exposure to something they really need that neither I or anyone in my department is qualified to provide.
At some point soon, perhaps coinciding with the above request, can we discuss what you’re doing? And not to be a flatterer or anything — I’ve already admitted I’m not qualified to judge — I found your site amazing.
Judith Sheppard
Associate Professor, Journalism
317 Tichenor Hall
Auburn University AL 36849-5206
August 4th, 2008 at 1:46 pm
My reply:
Judith,
Your name sounds familiar but I don’t know if we’ve met.
If you have the obit I did on him, you have most of what I know. I also interviewed him in Magnolia Springs and did a two part series for Gulf Coast Newspapers. Not sure the exact date, but around 1990-92, still in the books at the papers. Somewhere I have the audio tape interview.
Unfortunately, in a major renovation project last year, I finally threw out all my old newspapers.
I would love to speak to your class sometime. I talk to Rick Bragg’s class at Alabama every year about Web publishing. Maybe you can invite Susan “GOP Girl” Fillipi, who claims to teach at Auburn and is my number one blog critic : )
August 4th, 2008 at 1:49 pm
Her reply to me:
Glynn:
Thanks so much. Next time I’m down toward the beach, and luckily I have a place to stay there, I’ll ask if I can come browse the back files.
As soon as I get the vaguest idea about what my Advanced Reporting schedule will look like, can we arrange a day for you to speak? The class meets twice a week for about an hour and a half, on Tuesdays and Thursdays; it’s all j majors, most of whom are graduating imminently.
I’d happily plug you in any time between September and Thanksgiving.
I would love content, war stories, etc., concerning not so much technical but journalism “stuff” … your reporting techniques (if any CAR, great; if traditional shoeleather type stuff, well, that’s my area too); adapting good content to a different medium sort of discussion; hefty doses of reporting advice and attitude adjustment, as need be, for
the Web vehicle. I don’t have any ideas about blogs, so that would be great stuff to hear too…
Frankly, if you’re OK with this, I will try to set up something that will span at least two class days … rumor is we sometimes have money for visiting lecturers. Would a gig like that work for you? What if (you are now familiar with my presumption so I ask this up front) we could pay only expenses? We’re not a big deal at AU as, of course, our colleagues at UA (at least not anymore; long story you may know of if you’re familiar with the Curse of Bobby Lowder) so sometimes groveling is required.
BTW, I don’t know “Flip” personally — she left about the time we got merged into our current department; if she’s still teaching here I am unaware of it, but apparently she was here for five years or so, did not get tenure. All I really know of her is a letter she wrote about Joe Turnham to the O-A News some years ago. I did not, um, agree.
Thanks so much for your generosity in responding to all of this and offering to come help out here!
Judy
August 5th, 2008 at 4:23 pm
Glynn: Were you really a New Orleans Bureau Chief for the Dallas Morning News?
August 5th, 2008 at 4:43 pm
Hey Dixie Dan,
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…
August 5th, 2008 at 4:56 pm
Now that my credentials and yours are out of the way, why don’t you tell our readers what the real bee is in your bonnet?
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…