TNGOP Adds Their Two Cents On Kurita Attack

6 Responses to “TNGOP Adds Their Two Cents On Kurita Attack”

1. Ducet writes
   October 1st, 2008 5:58 pm

   I’ll ask it again. Isn’t this the point? Kurita is now getting in bed with all of these people that she disagres with. Or disagreed with at one time. Lawyers for the national pro-life groups. Income tax Republicans. She’ll do anything to get some campaign help.

2. Sorry Politics writes
   October 1st, 2008 7:20 pm

   Either you win or you lose. That’s the way it works and she wants to win. If you lose, you are not at the table and you have no vote. She’s quite an independent person and the Republicans won’t be able to control her decisions/votes anymore than the Democrats have.

3. T, Sorensen writes
   October 1st, 2008 8:16 pm

   Well, I guess it was inevitable. After a couple of years at this, the Volunteer Voters/Post politics blog has imploded. While it is common knowledge that the writer of Post Politics is a Republican, he has to his credit, generally done a decent job at hiding his right leaning tendencies. Today, though, it just became sickeningly transparent that Post Politics is nothing more than an extension of the TN GOP.

   Look back over the posts. In recent months it looks like Post Politics publishes whatever insanely ridiculous garbage Bill Hobbs has vomited onto a computer that day without any comment or editorial notes, merely releasing it as a TN GOP statement.

   But when the TNDP does THE SAME THING, the same exact thing….we get a repetitive and droning screed from Post Politics, spanning several paragraphs that aside from being incoherent at times, seems to have nothing to do with the actual press release in question (how someone goes from liberal Democrat to begging at the hands of Republicans in one month flat).

   In the end, this has nothing to do with what ACK thinks is right or wrong with this specific situation…anyone who has gone near this blog knows of Post Poltics’ Kurita sympathies.

   No, what was posted today has to do with what happens when a news outlet (the Nashville Post) becomes tainted by partisan politics. When that happens, the news outlet loses its credibility. People prejudge it and discredit its reporting. For a journalist, it is the ultimate failure. But it is apparently a failure that Post Politics is comfortable with.

4. Donna Locke writes
   October 1st, 2008 8:51 pm

   A blog is not pure journalism. No one would read it. It has to be personality-driven commentary to some or great extent. Blogging for news outlets is a field in the process of being plowed. An uneasy alliance of sorts, but everybody can get their shot.

   When any TNGOP press-release bit is posted, one hardly needs to provide commentary, as the sharks immediately move in and attack Hobbs. That’s what I’ve seen so far.

5. Joe writes
   October 2nd, 2008 6:57 am

   That Hobbs quote is priceless especially since Hobbs has made national news for that very same thing.

   Other than that, the TNGOP is right. Kurita won a primary election and the Democrats overturned it for no good reason.

6. Repbulican Cons writes
   October 2nd, 2008 9:58 am

   T. Sorenson - Too close to the truth for you…..