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Audience Participation

By Kleinheider Posted on July 14, 2008 at 1:36 pm

TNGOP Communications Director Bill Hobbs weighs in on his estimation of the good, the bad and the ugly that came from the public release of his chairwoman’s email to the Governor of Tennessee:

But at least now we know where the Bredesen administration stands on whether personal emails on state computers are to be released or not. If it might make the administration or especially the governor’s wife look bad, it’s personal and not subject to the state’s open records laws. But if the administration thinks releasing the document will hurt a political rival, the personal is made political - and public.

That’s what happened last week. The administration released a political opponent’s personal email in order to participate in a Nashville media outlet’s baseless smear of one of the administration’s political opponents, a smear based on a fallacious linking of two unconnected events and a deliberate misrepresentation of the content of the email - reporting the email said one thing when it clearly said the opposite.

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4 Responses to “Audience Participation”

  1. X writes
    July 14th, 2008 2:12 pm

    Oh, my lord! The humor is too much. Bill “Hussein” Hobbs - Mr. “Muhammed Blows” - declares that Robin Smith is not a racist. It’s just that mean ol’ Phil Bredesen running a smear campaign . . .

    Yeah, just like Belmont University ran a smear campaign when it fire your racist ass.

  2. Sean Braisted writes
    July 14th, 2008 2:17 pm

    How is releasing the letter a smear? What did Robin Smith have to be ashamed of? That she had black friends when she was a kid?

  3. Joe writes
    July 14th, 2008 3:41 pm

    Evel Knievel Hobbs is making huge leaps again.

    If Robin wrote “Hey Phil, Hobbsie and I are going to get a drink. Wanna join us?”, that’d be a personal communication. Writing to him about her service on the TN HRC is not a personal communication, regardless of how whiny and poorly-written it is.

  4. Pigs That Don’t Fly Straight : Post Politics: Political News and Views in Tennessee writes
    July 15th, 2008 10:47 am

    [...] The release The reaction A comedic performance An accusation An [...]

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