Arkansas Blog

If this were a Huckabee guy taking a leave to work for Romney, Bill Simmons would be rushing around doing a piece on what state law says about "leave" and is this appropriate, and he would have Seth giving Democratic legislators free shots in the second paragraph.

But why should that surprise me? The DYS crisis story the other day did not mention Beebe, while every DYS crisis piece for the last ten years has been all about how Huckabee handled it.

If Huckabee had asked for a new $4 million state police airplane Max would have finger cramps from writing about that.

I wonder how long the new ADED Director can get by saying her predecessor was not agressive enough?

I think Beebe is off to a truly great start, but the media is allowing him distance from negative stories that Huckabee never, ever got.

Please don't even try to argue that this is not a different standard. Plus he is dealing with a legislature that bends over backward to see that controversial bills don't land on his desk.

A final example...if the Medicaid finance director had been arrested for fraud during the Huckabee years...that story would have been all about Rex defending the background checks etc....instead it happens now, and not a mention of the administration.

This is not my imagination.

One more thought Max...you mention in your blurb that Wright was "communicating to the last". If that had been a Huckabee guy you would have called him a "flack" or a "hack" about three times in a piece like this.

"Communicating" would not have been in your vocabulary.

PS

Now that you post FOI documents, and immediatly post the news releases, I have just about given up traditional media. Rare is the story nowadays that does not appear here first. This is a great blog.....but you were still way, way wrong about Mitchell.

Don't tell us that the state taxpayers will take it in the shorts for his salary while he is f------ off somewhere on Hillary's campaign...He is making way to much money now...don't let him stay on the state's payroll...NOT one more day. When we all pay our quarterly income tax estimates this coming Friday, let's think about waste like the money we pay a clown like Wright....