Arkansas Blog

Nothing new there for us in the know. Glad a "notable" got noticed though.

Hulk? " Max angry Max crush arrrrrgggg"

" don't make me angry, you wouldn't like me when I'm angry" -Max

Way to go, Max and the rest of the AT staff! Wear your expulsion from the "approved" list as a badge of honor. Those with integrity have nothing to fear from objective journalism.

The NYT piece was interesting and informative. It confirmed my belief that blog sites are like an uncensored OpEd page where both sides have already made up their minds and are just dueling it out for points and counterpoints.
It classified us as political junkies who need to do more than just grumble at the TV and radio.
My concern is this: are blogs just as guilty as political parties in focusing on hot button issues rather than on local needs and concerns? We seem to be presented with an array of issues but very little on policies and programs.
I certainly like the analogy to Thomas Paine's pamphleteering. Quite an honor to be associated with such a great patriot.
So, Max....keep on serving up your daily dose of "common sense." Good readers will filter out the name-calling and trivial rejoinders.

Jake

Just an inkling of the media scrutiny that's headed Huck's way...can't wait.

Perfect description of Max.

Glad to see the attention that AT blog. It's important, what with Huckabee trying to establish himself nationally. The reason why Whitewater was the $80 million snipe hunt it was was because the Gazette was dead amd Max and Ernie Dumas and others were virtually silenced when the Jeff Gertz and Stephen Labaton and those other jackasses from the national media parachuted into Little Rock to dissect the local political culture. The out-of-towners then turned to known Clinton haters and Republican syphophant Paul Greenberg.

Now there's another generation of national reporters who could soon be parachuting into Little Rock to dissect another Arkansas governor from Hope. They'd be wise to spend some time talking to Max.

Yep, earning praise from such a respected rag like the "Independent Weekly" would definitely make me proud.

I hear you guys also won a special award for the escort ad section, as well.

anon 10:54, clearly you haven't ever picked up a print addition of the arkansas times. max will not accept any escort ads, so before you spout your stupid lies, get your facts straight.

Hey, Warwick. To be fair, you really should identify the other Arkansas blogs that have received recognition outside the state.

staffer -

yes. they do. and ads for "paper moon" gentlemen's club too

"I hear you guys also won a special award for the escort ad section, as well."

I hear The Ark Fam blog won the triple crown for bigotry, racism and intolerace, Anonya$$...

Your drivel is tired...

AT, quite an accomplishment. I hear that you beat out such illuminaries as CodePink, Moveon.org and the Cindy Sheehan travellogue.

My guess is that you won hands down because of your insightful and thoughtful analysis. Things like 'dumbass, troll, etc. I have really enjoyed your 'progressive'(aka, liberal) drivel. And the collection of contributors to your journalistic epic are noteable. Contributors like Zelda, Bluetick and, of course, the ever insightful DBI. What else can I say.

Keep up the insightful drivel. And, hey, I really like the inside info about your physical properties of tall and gray hair. It just goes to show that idiocy can come in tall and old packages.

You really showed your journalistic maturity by calling the governor a "dick" in your current printed edition.

Arkansas Times = Idiots, Communisum, Liberals & Comrads, Socialism, Class Envy, Lazy, Welfare cheats, Boring, a total street of broken dreams.....Old Brantley needs to find work in Greenberg's Department...taking Gene Lyons' place...couldn't be worse....Hussman is wasting his money on Lyons.

Anon Anon,
If this blog is so damn worthless, what are you doing paying such close attention? Surely you have something better to do with your time than muck around in a bunch of liberal "drivel"?

Other Anonymous:
You're confusing the Times with the Free Press. Tell us what page you see escort ads on, if you're so sure they're in the Times.

Sometimes I love to mingle with the moron elements of society. It is a weakness I admit. I tell myself that I want to keep informed as to what the other side is thinking. However, I haven't discovered any thinking going on yet so there has been nothing to learn. Also, you are so unique in a place like Arkansas. So many people here have at least a level of common sense that precludes them from embracing your nonsense so I can find an appropriate level of entertainment except for here at the AT.

I was just rereading a piece on the Plame outing in the April issue of Vanity Fair. I nearly fell off the throne when I got to this quote. It was made by Robert Bennett, U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, on July 6, 2005.

"I mean, Your Honor, if I were doing a blueprint for a corrupt country, the first thing I would do is to say reporters cannot have confidential sources, and those who do, must reveal them."

I think this shows the Bush administration is at war with the news media. I wouldn't be surprised if Huckabee got a direct order from Rove to cut out the AT. Just step one in an effort to silence all criticism of the Republican Party in Arkansas and the world.

I've also noticed that nothing has come from the inquiry into Larry Zeno, there appears to be no investigation into the use of the state airplane or the Lord's Ranch jet. We have a Lt. Gov. missing in action for months and now sadly fighting for his life and yet Huckabee spends less time in the Governor's office than I do reading Vanity Fair in the bathroom.

Forget Judith Miller, the press is apparently neutered in Arkansas already and nothing can be done about it. I'm glad Max is mad and I hope he gets madder. The is something rotten in Denmark, but the stink is coming from LR all the way up to DC.

The blueprint for a corrupt country is in place and being followed and appears to be working. What are we gonna do?

anon 11:11, again, please refer to the paper addition of the arkansas times.

You better watch out Max. 6-5 "Hulk" doesn't really fit the Liberal mousey stereotype. This revelation might scare the REpugs into recruiting big Austrians or something and challenging us to wrestling matches. Personally, I think you can take Arnold. He's old, and he talks funny.

With apologies to Jimmy Dean

Big Bad Max

Every morning at the blog his first posts will arrive.
He stands 6 foot 6, weighs 255.
Kind of broad at the shoulders, narrow at the hip.
And everybody knows you don't give no lip to Big Max.

Big Max
Big Max
Big Bad Max....Big Max

Nobody seems to know why Max settled here
He just drifted into town, stayed many a year.
He has much to say, not quiet or shy
So if you speak at all, better just say hi to Big Max.
Somebody said he came from New Orleans,
Where he got into a fight over a Cajun Queen.
And a crash and a blow from a huge right hand,
sent a Louisiana fella to the promise land.

Big Max
Big Max
Big bad Max....Big Max

Then came the day that the Huck cut him off
Dismissing Max's Times with a huff and a scoff.
And tempers were flaring, and hearts beat fast
And everybody thought that the Times might breathe their last
cept' Max.
Through the dust and the smoke of this Gov. made hell,
Walked a giant of a man that the bloggers knew well.
Grabbed a pen and a page and a good headline
and this giant oak tree answered line-by-line, Big Max.

Big Max
Big Max
Big Bad Max....Big Max

And with the power of the press, he gave a mighty shove
Till the national media saw we have a childish, petty Gov.
And as the Huck stood his ground and that ground began to sink
His own staffers saw that they can't out think Big Max.

Big Max
Big Max
Big Bad Max...Big Max

So when you see him eating large at his favorite restaurant,
Remember all the sparring, all the battles he has fought.
And hug your dear sons tightly, tell how Max got the ban,
And pray they'll be just like him, be a big, big man.

Big Max
Big Max
Big Bad Max

Nicely done, Spirit.

Very well done!

Keep up the good work, AT.

among the many things interesting
about the AT is that it has let
the world know that,weight loss
aside, there is less to Huckabee
than meets the eye.

Congratulations, Max and Warwick and the rest of the staff.
You get a little deserved attention for your democratic and free press efforts...and what do you get? The slithering NeoCons who prefer personal, nasty attacks rather than contributing a sane comment or opinion.
It amazes me how immature and utterly ridiculous these pathetic little men are.
It would not surprise me that at some point, and they may already have - that the AT is a threat to America! Because everything they can't control or can't answer...always comes down to a threat to America.
Anything these cowards...and they are cowards, because they wake up every morning scared shitless of losing their power or money or self declared righteous postions that they find no problem in the tatics of personal destruction.
Well, looks like the other 1/2 and growing of America has had just enough of them...and with every gallon of $4.00 gas they must pump into their cars...the luster of the Thuglican's governing loses it's shine. Watch the poll numbers drop for 'em - not a Republican on the ticket that isn't in danger - they had their chance and blew it - and they'll be again relagated to the party of insignifigance once again. GOD DON'T LIKE UGLY.

I'm BlueTicker

Keep up the good work AT.

You're willing to be criticized, yet prepared to continue expressing your views.

--Onus Probandi.

Spirit. Excellent. Displays much talent. Except...I'm still a little put off by Jimmy Dean. Once, many, many moons ago, he was interviewing a Batesville singer named Sammi Jo (had a hit song called "Tell Me a Lie"). When Jimmy AXed her where she was from, and she replied "Arkansas". He said, "Well, we've all got our crosses to bear". Pissed me off then, and I never got over it. What if the Dixie Chicks said something like that??

That's some apt visual you've created, spirit! Big bad max and small petty huck..ha, I love it!

Except...I'm still a little put off by Jimmy Dean. ...
Posted by: RickBaber

Yes, I was a little hesitant to mention him. I like his song, but he's a Republican from way back. I won't even buy his sausage.

Is this newspaper a weekly that was at the weekly newspaper convention in Little Rock? If it was, this really isn't that big a deal. Otherwise, congratulations.

Picturing MB, duffel-bag slung over his shoulder, trudging off wearily into the sunset, thumb out for a ride, to that Sad Walking-Away Music a la David Banner.

The thread is about the Arkansas Times blog and how effective it is. Tell me again about those other Arkansas-based blogs getting attention in other states.

Speaking of the Dixie Chicks, Jimmy Dean, etc.
Jimmy Dean food products...ugh.
Bless Merle Haggard, an icon. He defends the Dixie Chicks and the Bill of Rights. A once-staunch Republican, he is a 69 year old music legend who is wise enough to oppose the current administration and the invasion of Iraq.
And I hear from people who know that he and Toby Keith had a pretty good talk about it.

Kudos to AT, as always. Your work obviously irks rethuglicans, so keep it up.

Good for Merle. I heard he recently toured with the Stones. Can't really see any Repugnikunt hanging with Keith and Mick. Making atonement for Okie from Muskogee.

As Merle has said many times before, "Muskogee is probably the only place I didn't smoke pot."
Toured with the Stones and Bob Dylan. Great shows!
I applaud him for speaking up for the Chicks.
Isn't freedom what we are supposed to be fighting for?
Do people know that after 9/11 many country music stations banned at least 150 songs?
Or that ClearChannel recently conducted a poll asking whether they should play the Chick's music again? (The results probably surprised the hell out of them - the fans said YES.)
Yeah, Merle, tell it like it is!

>> calling the governor a "dick" in your current printed edition.>>d

hahahahahaha.

On my way to the paper box and to the dollar store to buy a frame.

At least you aren't going to Wal*Mart for the frame.