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Honor Among Thieves

By Kleinheider Posted on January 19, 2009 at 1:47 pm

Tim Chavez didn’t appreciate a front page treatment of the new state house speaker he believes was designed to rehabilitate the speaker’s image:

The apologist story Sunday focused on how the puppet speaker had been mistreated by his fellow Republicans.

What it did not mention was one important thing that is paramount in the lives of every Tennessean, except those at the Statehouse who are Democrats and those who lead the newspaper.

Honor.

When you sign a piece of paper pledging support, then four hours before a vote, you give your word eye to eye that you’ll abide that pledge, then you are bound by honor.

But the puppet speaker broke that value most important to every Tennessean. The newspaper has never honored that value, either, during my tenure there and after.

Yet its Sunday front page tried to provide a sense of honor to a man who did not deserve it, and a newspaper that lost it long ago.

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4 Responses to “Honor Among Thieves”

  1. Tom Paine writes
    January 19th, 2009 5:06 pm

    That’s rich! Chavez claims time and time again that he’s not Republican nor Democrat, he’s a dedicated independent.

    But his sense of outrage blows a big, gaping hole right through that pretense. Chavez has his nose so far up the TNGOP’s butt that when Bill Hobbs farts it makes Chavez sneeze.

    Again and again, Williams repeats that he pledged to support a Republican for speaker and HE DID THAT. Chavez didn’t seem to be quite so outraged when Rosalind Kurita broke ranks and voted for Rapid Ron Ramsey instead of John Wilder.

    Hey, Timmy…why the double standard?

  2. Paine in the Butt writes
    January 20th, 2009 7:30 am

    Tom, there is plenty of proof - including audio from a recent radio show - that Williams pledged publicly to vote for Mumpower for speaker.

    It is now clear that Williams was lying all along, to cover his intention to make himself the speaker.

  3. Tom Paine writes
    January 20th, 2009 8:20 am

    And the radio show would be…..?

  4. Tom Jefferson writes
    July 15th, 2009 10:52 pm

    Tom Pain: Crawl back into your hole and hid your face. You are a troll and a disgrace to the human race.

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