Arkansas Blog

I have come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.
Quick, Cato, who said that?

That was one of the better editorials I've read from the DG. Although thats not saying much.

Okay, Greenberg and Co. bash Huckabee for bashing their reporter, a day after the bashed reporter gets a nice bonus check for a job well done. (Did that check come out of Greenberg's salary? I wish.) But when will Greenberg and soon-to-be-UCA mouthpiece Kane fess up to screwing up by giving The Eternal Huffiness a 1,000-word handjob in the Sunday Perspective section? Criticizing Huckabee now is a day late, a dollar short. They're doing it now only because they've got the attention of Poynter, Romenesko, Editor & Publisher, the American Journalism Review and the Columbia Journalism Review.

Huckabee: "It's not necessary that I raise the money they're attempting to raise because they're spending money that I don't want to spend, either,"

Only because you can't find a deep pocket broGov.
-Campaigning in a mini Van
-residing in Grinnell Days motel
-luncheon of cornbread & soup
-day old newspapers
What happened to the lavish man from Hope? No more public teat and now he's playing the poor kid on the street.
I would say imaginative but somehow...

What I would like to have ARTimes ask or if you already know, then advise us is.

1). Who paid for the office furniture that Huckabee took?

If the state did, call the cops and get it back!

If Huckabee did, then say ok it is all on the up and up and we go on to other items.

If someone donated it, who did they donate it too? If they donated too the state then call the cops. If they donated it too Huckabee, make sure all the laws for giftgiving were followed.

2) Computer hard drives. Were the computers already being surplussed out immediately? If so, ok. If not Why did you destroy the hard drives if we will need to do it again when we surpluss them out? And why did you do it early if there was still useful life left on them so we don't need to buy new ones sooner.

3) Why is Huckabe comparing his departure to the clusterf%*k that was Tucker's. If how a convicted felon acts that is being threatened with recall and renigs on resignation is your standard of excellence, then we need to know that.

I am so damn tired of all these politicians claiming so and so did it too. My mother would have said " I don't care, if everyone jumped off a cliff, would you?"

I guess it's a fine editorial.....but it makes me think maybe someone's putting some Valium in the LR water supply. If I worked at the Arkansas Democrat Gazette I would be too damn mad to write an aw shucks editorial like this. I didn't see much Seth defending going on here. I didn't hear any HOW DARE YOU SIRs going on.

I would have torn Huck a new ass if he had used my pages for his self-glorifying coverup of gubernatorial maleficence and then turned around and called my reporter a fabricating hack. And screw the quote about picking on an underdog.....when is the largest newspaper in a state considered an underdog?

I would have used the old line about never getting into a pissing match with a guy who owns a barrel of ink. And then I would have used that barrel of ink to bury this egotistical con-man once and for all.

Oh but wait....I'm forgetting that Huckabuck and the home newspaper of the new Jason Blair are both members of Team Bush. No wonder the Arkansas Democrat Gazette hits Huckablackberry like a girl. Must have orders from the home office in DC OK-ing a tap, but not the blood drawing sock in the teeth that is so richly deserved.

A tap is as good as a slug to a Bush blind press, I guess.

The Demazette's web redesign was a much needed upgrade, but their online philosophy has several fatal flaws that doomed the redesign from the start. You can read my whole review at http://www.lanniebyrd.com/2007/02/arkansas-democrat-gazette-launches.html.

Everyone needs to go and read this diary over at dKos.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/2/2/114933/5072

It is a diary about the Conservative Summit written by an undercover Liberal.

In it, he reports that the Huckster tells the audience:

"Finally he tells us the story of Martha, a school teacher in Little Rock, who took all the desks away from her students one morning and said she wouldn't give them back until they figured out how they'd earned them. Nobody could come up with the answer, and the story grew throughout the day, until by the afternoon the news media were camped out in the classroom with the puzzled students, and Martha opened the door and in walked 27 veterans, each one carrying a desk, and Martha says this is how you earned them; never forget those who were willing to shed their blood for you. And here Huckabee's voice cracks a little and a shiver runs down my spine. "We must never forget," he says. "We must never forget how we got here."

Has anyone ever heard of Martha and her 27 desks before?

ARK. BLOG: No.