Former TNGOP Spokesman Bill Hobbs Charged With Assault
Posted on December 11, 2009 at 11:53 amNashville is Talking reports that a domestic assault charge against former TNGOP spokesman Bill Hobbs will be retired if his record stays clean the next three months.
UPDATE: Post Politics spoke with Mrs. Anna Hobbs not long ago. She will not be making any comment on the record but confirms that the following comment left on PP and NIT was left by her in her own words:
If anyone out there cares what I, Bill’s wife, have to say, what Bill posted is true. Bill did not strike me intentionally, I did not want these charges filed, I and the assistant district attorney in charge signed an agreed order prior to the hearing to request bond restrictions be lifted,and after hearing my statement the ADA dismissed the charges.
Counseling is in the paperwork but it is marital counseling which we were already attending with a wonderful counselor in order to enrich our marriage, something many couples should and do engage in. I verbally agreed that I would like to continue so it was put in the agreement.
My husband is not an abuser. We along with many others are working to make our marriage and family as strong as it can be (family values) and I request the courtesy of all of you to do it within the privacy of our family. There is an 11 year old and a 7 year old who do not need to be dragged into this. The case was dismissed 4 days ago. Please leave it there.
Thank you.
Anna Hobbs
UPDATE: Hobbs’ Democratic counterpart makes a statement on the charges.
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The NIT post has several factual errors, and also evidences some bad journalistic ethics on the part of the writer, who says that I could not be reached for comment but posted his article six minutes BEFORE he placed a call to my cell phone.
Here are the facts:
1. No one assaulted anyone. I did not strike my wife intentionally, but accidentally, as she informed the district attorney’s office. She went to the hospital for treatment of a pre-existing migraine headache.
2. My wife did not request police involvement. In fact, after medical center personnel called police she asked the police and magistrate to not file charges. The police officer insisted on her writing a statement, and then filed charges. My wife subsequently asked the district attorney’s office to drop the charges.
3. My wife and the district attorney’s office signed an agreed order releasing me from all of the bond conditions a month ago, because she never wanted me to be arrested, charged or placed under the restrictions in the first place.
4. On Tuesday, the DA’s office asked the judge to retire the charges. The judge signed the order dismissing the charges with zero court costs or plea or finding of any kind.
5. I was not ordered to undergo counseling - the “retirement” of the charges simply indicated an agreement that my wife and I would continue marital counseling which was already under way before this entire incident occurred.
6. That counseling has nothing to do with “domestic violence” at all and violence is not a problem in our marriage and never has been a problem in our marriage.
Conservative Values.
If what Hobbs says is true then the article should be clarified. Not that NIT likely will.
“the dog barks, and the caravan moves on”
Taking Hobbs at his word here, I certainly wish for the best for him and his wife.
C’mon, Hobbs, time stamps reveal next to nothing beyond when someone starts writing a post, unless the blogger changes the stamp upon finishing. He could just as likely be guilty of failing to change the time stamp upon publication, which means he still could have called you before publishing. You know this, after being involved with blogs for so long, and it is dishonest to blow this up into a moral lapse on NiT’s part.
S-town - NIT’s post appeared before he called my cell phone.
Oh my.
Well, then you are disputing the documents of record, I take it? Are the officers who produced the report mistaken?
Just asking, I hope all is indeed well.
I have not received a phone call or email from the defendant William H. Hobbs, and I’m not sure if the “Bill Hobbs” here in comments is the same defendant, but I eagerly await his call or statement via email.
I called Bill at his home and got voicemail. I had no other contact information other than what was provided by the court, I later found his private cell phone and did leave a message there as well.
All the information reported on NIT is directly from attached court documents, and Hobbs has every means to provide his side of the story.
If anyone out there cares what I, Bill’s wife, have to say, what Bill posted is true. Bill did not strike me intentionally, I did not want these charges filed, I and the assistant district attorney in charge signed an agreed order prior to the hearing to request bond restrictions be lifted,and after hearing my statement the ADA dismissed the charges.
Counseling is in the paperwork but it is marital counseling which we were already attending with a wonderful counselor in order to enrich our marriage, something many couples should and do engage in. I verbally agreed that I would like to continue so it was put in the agreement.
My husband is not an abuser. We along with many others are working to make our marriage and family as strong as it can be (family values) and I request the courtesy of all of you to do it within the privacy of our family. There is an 11 year old and a 7 year old who do not need to be dragged into this. The case was dismissed 4 days ago. Please leave it there.
Thank you.
Anna Hobbs
NIT is still up? Who knew? And it hasn’t changed a bit.
I guess this shows us why we should never just take cops at their word. The description Hobbs just gave of the incident is not very consistent with what Office Huddleston wrote and his wife signed…just imagine all the poor black kids who had false statements made against them.
Again, I do not know whether the “Anna Hobbs” in these comments is the same affiant listed in my post’s attached court documents, but I left a message at Anna’s home. If she has a statement other than what she said happened in court documents, I’d be happy to share that if she is reading this. She has my number.
90% of abused women return to their abused husbands, and even make apologies for their husbands and refuse to press charges even if they were nearly beaten to death. Abused wives are the greatest defenders of their abusers. Any domestic abuse counselor will tell you that. Poor Anne. How horrible that Hobbs would force her to make these statements, if they even are her statements and not just Bill posting under a fake name.
So it’s okay if you beat your wife if you do it accidently.
I this had nothing to do with domestic violence, why is Bill Hobbs required to donate $100 to a shelter for battered women as part of the agreement?
I’ll try that again:
If this had nothing to do with domestic violence, why is Bill Hobbs required to donate $100 to a shelter for battered women as part of the agreement?
My unsolicited advice is to honor the request for privacy.
I just want to add that this has been a very tough and stressful year for many people involved in politics.
I just want to add that this has been a very tough and stressful year for many people involved in politics.
Yeeeaaaahhhh…that sorta sounds reminiscent of Dan White’s “twinkie defense”.
Good luck to the both of you Mr and Mrs Hobbs
S-town: The token donation to BRIDGES is a standard part of these kinds of charges being dismissed when the prosecutor and alleged “victim” agree there is no cause to prosecute the case.
They waive court costs but in lieu of court costs they request a donation to BRIDGES so that BRIDGES has sufficient funding to handle its responsibilities in cases of actual domestic violence.
I was happy to make the donation as I have a relative who was victimized for several years by an abusive spouse.
The last time I hit anyone in anger was in the sixth grade, after being backed into a corner by a playground bully.
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A clarification: My wife went to the hospital the next day because of her migraine headache, which she had had for two days prior to the events of that night. Like millions of Americans, she has chronic migraines, and occasionally has to go to a hospital or doctor to get a shot for relief.
Dan T: Thank you for the wishes of “good luck,” but we don’t need luck as we have Christ and a very good marriage counselor.
Bill Hobbs is probably one of the worst people alive. Everything he says makes me want to throw up. I pity your wife as she had nothing to do with this, but you deserve all of the negative attention that comes your way.
Bill,
Sounds like you’ve got one helluva lawsuit on your hand. Between the hospital which called the cops for no apparent reason, to the cop who wrote up some fictitious account of an incident that never happened and then forced your wife to sign it, sounds like you are the victim in all of this.
I wonder if Bredesen was behind this frame job…?
How does one “accidentally” strike one’s spouse? Mr. Hobbs? Mrs. Hobbs? Any explanation?
Whether Hobbs is a beater or not, he’s still an asshole. What comes around, goes around.
Anti-Abuse,
Its really quite simple. You have to be a Republican first though.
I do not know who is posting as me on this blog, but it is not me. I am the REAL Anna Hobbs, and I pressed charges because I was beaten by my husband. Plain and simple. I did not lie to law enforcement and I am not about to be made a liar by some anonymous posting being referenced by the Tennessean on its In Session political blog!
Hobbs
Mr pro family values:
Why don’t you and your Paul Stanley type shit hole party take a hike!
If not I’m accidently going to come to your home and beat your ass
Love
Filo
Bill, I know exactly what you mean. I know you was framed. And even if you wasn’t I know she had it coming.
I DID NOT HAVE IT COMING! HOW INSENSITIVE!
Whether you like Hobbs or not, stop asking stupid questions and thinking you’re clever.
It’s not exactly a state secret that people enter into arrangements like this with prosecutors all of the time because it’s the least worst of the potential outcomes, especially when it comes to charges that have become politicized in nature (such as domestic violence, DUI, etc.). Whatever the real facts of your case might be, you’re pretty much at the mercy of the system with charges like these because no prosecutor wants to face the wrath of certain interest groups by dismissing cases like these (even if the underlying facts are extremely sketchy).
Honestly, as any criminal defense lawyer can tell you, unless you’re prepared to pay through the nose and have your name dragged through the mud for months on end, only to probably lose in the end anyway, you may as well just bite the bullet and cut a deal. A lot easier to just nod your head and cut a check for $100 to some place like BRIDGES than deal with all of that.
And, yes, Braisted has a point: this is what criminal defendants have to go through and it’s why the system is so screwed up.
For what it’s worth, no, I don;t know what happened here. Neither do any of you. What I will say is this:
I used to work with Bill Hobbs and I’ve met him, his wife and his children on a number of occasions. While I grant you that spouse abusers don’t wear signs on their chests saying “I’m a spouse abuser,” based on what I know about him, if Bill Hobbs is indeed a spouse abuser, then I’m the King of Sweden.
Just my two cents.
You know what they say….Where there’s smoke…..there’s Bill Hobbs beating up on his wife.
GOP ‘Family Values’ Puh-leeze. I hope that this once and for all discredits this hate spewing, fear-mongering, bigoted, a$$hole.
Does it hurt falling offa that ol soapbox Bill-o?
I love how people are so happy to see a family fall apart.
This is very sad situation. There should be glee from noone even if you dont like the person.
TNVol73: This is very sad situation. There should be glee from noone even if you dont like the person.
THIS.
Until Roger Abramson showed up to pen yet another Post Politics comment-board mini-column (with the usual caveat’s about how Sean Braisted is the only reasonable lib in the lot), I was worried that this was all going to spiral out of control into the pit of stupid questions.
Thank God. We’re saved. Blessed assurance.
“we don’t need luck as we have Christ”
Sounds like BOTH failed you in this incident Mr. Hobbs. Maybe, since Christ is History’s best teacher, maybe you can learn something from this. For starters, be a better Christian or stop beating your wife, or both. Either way you give TN a bad name.
Btw, thanks for answering my question Mr Hobbs. In the time since I posted it I counted all the times I “accidentally” struck someone in my 35 years of life on this planet. I got all the way up to zero.
Anti-abuse and all the other posters here - have you stopped beating your spouses?
This man is a jerk! So he is above the law? The wife doesn’t have to file charges, the State of Tennessee does… If there’s a mark or redness on her and the police sees ,take a pic of it ,he is in jail and if he gets a pass, Women haven’t any protection from Domestic Abuse? So you must be an angry Republican to get a pass. This man is always a bully.
I am a big fan of Roger, but thinking you can recognize an abuser because you “know” him or her is dangerous territory.
poor Mrs. Hobbs. She’s so scared of breaking up the family that she will sacrifice herself and her body to keep it together. This whole situation is a perfect example of how tough it is to combat domestic violence. Spouses protect their husbands in hopes of them changing or just keeping the family together. It is a very sad situation, and I hope the good that comes out of this is that everyone recognizes the pattern.
Tnvolunteer our family is not falling apart. We are growing closer together.
I wish I was gay at this moment. I would elope to Iowa with Bill Hobbs. Then when we both said “I do”, I would beat the shit out of him. However, It would be ok because it would be accidental spousal abuse.
I am already Bill’s lover, so back off! I already beat you to it (no pun intended).
I think I just threw up in my mouth.
Christian Grantham. NIT. Advocacy journalism. Yellow journalism.
Who killed NIT?
Christian Grantham.
Consider the source. Consider the motivation.
Nashville Is Talking? No, Christian Grantham is.
Flashback to Bill Hobbs On December 9th:
“Sorry, Kent, but you have acted like a donkey’s behind for months - not like someone with the heart of an elephant.”
Guess it takes one to know one…….
I actually agree with TNVol73 - there should never be glee in this. I hope it works out, and I’m content with Bill & his wife’s accounts, because there’s no proof of anything else - just a report, and - y’know, I think we all know people who’ve had things blown out of proportion, or misreported. Happened to me on something far and away more trivial than this.
Sorry for the trouble, Hobbs. Seldom agree with you politically, but - contrary to the heated discussions - I wish you and your family the best.
here is a good account to hobbs temperment
Red Meat did him in…From off the internet…
If indeed Hobbs’ over-the-top polemical style figured in his leaving his communications post, it would not be the first time his penchant for extreme statements forced a job change. Before taking the state party job, he had worked at Nashville’s Belmont University as a media relations specialist and blogging coach.
That relationship came to an end in 2006 after Hobbs posted on his personal Web site a cartoon caricaturing the prophet Mohammad and considered inflammatory to Muslims. Hobbs’ cartoon was published in the afermath of worldwide Islamic resentment of a provocative cartoon published in a Danish newspaper.
Hobbs later disavowed his own cartoon, calling it “appalling” and something composed “in a moment of weakness.”
Was the event a moment of weakness also? I hope that Mrs. Hobbs has very close friends and family to be watchful of her and Bill by saying you and your family has grown closer after stating your in therapy sounds like the Honeymoon after an event.
For those of you who are unfamiliar with Spouse Abuse the YWCA can be a big help in learning the signs and its in all levels of society. From The Bellemeads to Settle Court to Grundy county.
“have you stopped beating your spouses?”
Surely, since you are as adept at arithmetic as you are common sense, you can count to zero. So yes. I stopped beating my spouse. At conception. If you get my drift.
Keeping this post at the top when surely there is other news is exploitative.
Please get help Anna. Don’t be bullied by Bill or his desire to salvage his reputation. I am sure he is in the nice phase now showing his best behavior as the cycle usually goes. You are right to think about your children - 70% of children who are abused or witness abuse grow up to be abusers. Domestic violence is the silent epidemic that is killing more and more women in TN.
Why is it exploitative, Donna? Hobbs has made himself a public figure of local, and occasionally national, significance. This is newsworthy, whether it’s embarrassing or not.
But that aside, I personally wish the best for Bill and Anna Hobbs and their children. Reporting on this is important, but taking any pleasure in the pain of the Hobbs family is morally reprehensible, and on that I agree with ‘73.
B-ho
If I ever catch you out I’m going to beat your bigot-wife-beating ass
You stand warned coward
Love
Filo
Donna Locke,
When it’s one of ‘yours’ it doesn’t feel so good to see them bashed does it? Why don’t you think about that before you open your mouth and trash the good people of Carter County again. What comes around, goes around. The Hobb’s isn’t any of our business but when you put yourself so above every one else (I’m a Christian, the rest of you are devils because you don’t agree with me) this is the kind of punishment you get. I’m kind of looking forward to see what happens at your house in the future.
When the shoe is on the other foot… I think there is a word for that. Good luck Hobbs family. I will pray for you.
If Ms. Hobbs says that it was an accident, let it drop. There is no history of similar acts and the hospital may be legally required to report such incidents. Is there a lawyer who does ‘domestic’ out there who would know?
To suggest that she is unable to make an intelligent decision about her safety and that of her children smacks of a certain sexism or even patriarchial view from.
It is loathsome to see cowards writing in anonympisly with the sort of hateful comments that can only worsen the situation for the Hobbs family including the children. Filo is the perfect example of a gutless coward who’s major act of strength is tearing open a bag of Cheetos.
As for some of the real commentors, Donna, Brittney and Sean make good and fair points. Roger is a source of reason as always. And S-town Mike writes with his usual stylish verve unfettered as it is with any sense of consistency or history. But what does one expect of the High Priest of urban hypocrisy?
I find this discussion very interesting considering the other recent high profile incident of suspected domestic violence. In both cases the police were involved and in both cases the potential victim did not want any report filed.
But in the Woods case it seemed everyone was willing to accept the tabloid reports that his wife hit him with a golf club, even though after the police finally got some answers to their questions they did not file any charges. Now even after a legal agreement, some people here are willing to accept this was an accidental spousal hitting incident, claim the police and legal system are just being a pain.
So what explains the difference? Gender is obviously one. Are we so interested in proving that wives do commit domestic as well that we will believe it happened in the Woods case? Is it just the celebrity of Woods? Have we become accustomed to celebrities cheating on wives so this all makes sense? Or are some willing to believe Bill Hobbs because he is on their “side”?
My master Ron Ramsey is displeased, verily, by these scurrilous allegations. Indeed, Hobbs may be a racist, a xenophobe, and a hate-monger. But we, who represent the dull edge of the right wing, are outraged by this other claim.
so much for respect and privacy
Respect and privacy??? Bill Hobbs deserves whatever he gets.
An accident? So… While arguing with his wife, Bill Hobbs took a swing at someone else and missed? Was there a six foot bunny named Harvey standing next to his wife?
I’m sure that by the time he and his apologists are finished, this will all turn out to have been a sinister plot by ACORN.
Money is almost always at the root of every problem. It’s funny that the people who have spent such an inordinate part of their lives trying to deprive Hobbs of a living don’t blame themselves when he snaps. And by funny I mean predictable.
I know how you all like to investigate the “root causes” to problems yet never seem to find them in the mirror.
Thank you for the wishes of “good luck,” but we don’t need luck as we have Christ…
I don’t imagine Christ would ever respond like that to someone who was decent enough to wish good luck.
Being an operative can be a dangerous business for a Christian. So much spinning involved and the focus is entirely on winning in a temporal sense. Of course Christians believe too that it profits a man not at all to gain the whole world but lose his soul.
“It’s funny that the people who have spent such an inordinate part of their lives trying to deprive Hobbs of a living don’t blame themselves when he snaps.”
He plays a contact sport. The same one many of us play without ever physically assaulting our significant others.
It is no one’s fault but Bill’s. I have no sympathy for him in the least.
Martin: You can invoke Christ all you want, but as Jamsey says, Hobbs has been a racist and xenophobe for years. Is it any wonder that people aren’t empathetic to his plight now? Does that make people less filled with The Spirit? And I’m not joking. This is a serious question: At what point do we, as a blogging and commenting community, say, “Bill Hobbs is a virus. Republicans and Democrats denounce him and his political views and his personal actions.” Any Republican who doesn’t agree is a hypocrite.
Harrison, martin’s first sentence is a quote from Hobbs. I don’t think he was sticking up for him.
Filo Betto’s comment posted at 3:51 pm is an explicit threat of pre-meditated felony assault against a specific individual. It should be investigated by local or state law enforcement and SouthComm should cooperate by turning over the IP address of the commented. If LE won’t pursue it, Mr. Hobbs should retain a good lawyer, subpoena the same information and pursue a civil suit against whomever posted that comment.
You’re right Johnny. Upon closer inspection, I see now what Martin’s stating. And I agree.
Thanks Johnny C. for clarifying.
We, or at least I, don’t know if Hobbs is a racist or xenophobe. He is an operative. He uses tactics. I don’t know if he is a Christian or if that is a posture, a kind of branding. Kind of like Hilary Clinton that way… no one knows who the real Hilary Clinton is or was. She is what she needs to be.
If he is a Christian I’d advise him, as a very imperfect follower myself, to get out of the business. It isn’t worth it. Too great a temptation to be a divider, to encourage upset and anxiety in order to win votes. Not worth it.
My wife did not request police involvement.
It’s not up to her or to you. Thankfully, state law requires that medical personnel refer matters such as this to the police (TCA 38-1-101: “All hospitals, clinics, sanitariums, doctors, physicians, surgeons, nurses, pharmacists, undertakers, embalmers, or other persons called upon to tender aid to persons suffering from any wound or other injury inflicted by means of a knife, pistol, gun, or other deadly weapon, or by other means of violence… shall report the same immediately to the chief of police.”), which is how I assume that they got involved in the first place.
Maybe Hobbs does deserve the benefit of the doubt, but there are all too many cases in which the wife pleads “I just fell down the stairs” under extreme emotional and/or physical duress, as you can well imagine. I can hardly fault the doctors and the courts for being vigilant.
Sounds to me like the Brentwood PD, the personnel at VUMC, and the Williamson County DA are being thoroughly professional and deferential, and that they take potential domestic violence cases very seriously.
Bravo for them.
I don’t believe that for one second. Domestic violence does not confine itself by political boundaries and if we were able to examine the criminal histories of the anonymous on this message board we would likely find much worse. A slap by some small-time nobody is a career ender but if you cheat on your wife when she has cancer Democrats will nominate you for President.
As for viruses, Democrats and Republicans could do well to inoculate themselves from Harrison. Anyone who doesn’t agree is a disease-mongering AIDS sore.
“AIDS sore?” Seriously? This conversation is taking a truly Hobbsian turn …
Sounds like Hobb’s wife either filed a false report or or had a change of heart. Just don’t accidentally beat your wife in the future, Hobbs.
“I didn’t mean to hit you. You know I love you baby…”
–Ike Turner
“A slap by some small-time nobody is a career ender but if you cheat on your wife when she has cancer Democrats will nominate you for President.”
Ugly Truth, who won the Democratic nomination? What an idiot… He’ll never be able to do anything significant in politics again. And never will your wife-beating hero. Those of us who do our jobs without taking out the frustrations on wifey will be the better for it.
Hey Hobbs, me and Rhianna are visiting the makeup counter this weekend to stock up on concealer. Come along and we’ll show you some neat tricks.
They suffer the overwhelming number of injuries but the statistic that women violently initiate 60% of the domestic violence incidents is a sobering reminder that only two people here really know what occurred.
Let’s hope the Hobbs’ can heal their marriage.
Leave it to Republicans like Gottlieb to blame the woman.
martin kennedy focuses on the problem that will destroy the GOP.
The difference is being a sincere witness for Christ or marketing yourself for political gain as a witness for Christ.
One tends to bring internal peace, the other tends to bring internal fear and hypersensitivity to criticism.
One tends to bring an admission of imperfectness and of humility before the power of God, the other tends to bring an air of superiority and of being beyond criticism, because after all, in this day and time, humble political leaders have no appeal.
Rick, if you actually cared about the people in Carter County, you’d be listening more carefully to what some of us are trying to tell you. And the only person in Carter County I have ever trashed is Kent. Apparently he did not pay close attention when Romper Room was on. Obviously some of these commenters didn’t either.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0aFlgq48AU&feature=related
Isn’t it part to the TN GOP bylaws that members have to screw around on and beat their wives every five years? Something about romancing a goat as well. Anyway, I’m sure we’ve all heard the last of TN Republicans’ low-life attacks against Muslims, gays, Hispanics and blacks.
Let me refresh your memory Donna:
Donna Locke writes
November 19th, 2009 4:47 pm
“I have to question the character of a district that would send someone like Kent Williams to the legislature and then defend and extol his reprehensible, destructive actions.”
Something to think about next time you call someone a liar.
Mike, or Milk — I don’t know what you were aiming for there — if I decide to trash somebody, I’ll do something more than question character. Yes, I do wonder what the appeal is. Is the county proud of this man? I still believe most of the people who elected him don’t know the details of what he has done. They need to know, because it is going to affect them in the future. This is what we are trying to tell you.
Locke,
Did you realize you cited a hate group, Federation for American Immigration Reform, when you attacked the character of Renata Soto on Stacey Campfield’s blog? Says something about your character, doesn’t it. Remarkable the slime you dredge up in state politics.
I don’t know what to say.
I’m sorry for the Hobbs family. No matter what the truth of the story it’s obvious that there is pain there.
I’m sorry for all the commenters who think that merely because they are on the correct side of an issue they are above reproach. Who think that it is ever justified to speak to another human being with such ridicule and hate.
Abuse is what happens when a bully picks on a weak target. Many of the statements here are in and of themselves abusive.
I truly hope that help will come to all those who need it in this situation and in what ever way is best.
I know that the Hobbs family has a lot to deal with. I can only imagine what their life has been like for the last three years, and this cannot be helping. I think it’s probably better to show Hobbs compassion. At least you’d be acting the way you want him to act, not the way you’ve hated him acting in the past. With sharp words and scorn.
Well, I know what to say.
I’m sorry for those who live under the oppression of racism and discrimination that are so prevalent in this state in part because of the Tennessee Republican Party.
I’m sorry Russell Wiseman said, “you obama people need to move to a muslim country…” and then evoked the name of Christ to emphasize his hatred.
I’m sorry Doug Grindstaff attacked the Kurds in Nashville on the Williamson County GOP website.
I’m sorry Chip Saltsman thinks “Barak The Magic Negro” is a fitting Christmas gift for his Republican cronies.
I’m sorry Hobbs and Smith stooped so low as to attack Obama’s wife and called him a Muslim to invoke Christian hatred.
I’m sorry Sherry Goforth wasn’t sensitive enough or Diane Black or Ron Ramsey brave enough to deal with race in a forthright manner.
And, I’m sorry Anna Hobbs got hit in the head during an argument and I hope the kids are okay, physically and emotionally. I also hope the court order is followed.
There is no excuse for hitting your wife. Violence is never a solution to a problem, in fact, it causes more problems.
Abuse whether mental or physical should never be tolerated. For the sake of yourself and your children, Anna, get away from him. He is a bully in public life. Now we have a glimpse of what goes on in private life, get out now, if you stay, it will only get worse.
Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. 1 John 2:15
The evangelicals think their Christainity is best manifested by how much political power they can accrue on earth.
They’re going to be many in the GOP who will have a helluva time gettin’ in to heavan.
Anna - I hope you get help, and remember the tools of God are the truth, and the Devil is a liar for his own selfish end. Make your choice with whom you walk, and do it for your children.
Bill and any adulterous wife beating friends - You urged voters to consider the private affairs of gays before denying them the right to start families. Now the worst of you can expect your own private affairs to become the face of what’s really destroying the institution of marriage. And each of you and your victims can thank God for making sure the truth of your criminal affairs meets the disinfecting light of day you deserve.
Every time I think Knoxville is screwed up I look West and see it isn’t that bad. The sheer joy some of you have is a reflection of how pitiful you are. Progressives have a lot of hate inside. Someone disagrees with you and you hope for their personal destruction. Nice place you have there. I am sure you are proud of your justice. This has been like listening to Liberadio. You’ve got the hate part down. Is that all you’ve got?
Davy..
Getting into heaven is not what you do, but whom you know.
Hey #9 … Scroll up and read Credo’s post from 1:57a today. It sums up nicely the racism and intolerace that defines the modern Tennessee Republican Party. Bill Hobbs has been a central player in taking the once-moderate party of Baker and Lamar and turning it into a nexus of hate and lies. So yes. I would say people (lots of them, in fact) find a certain pleasure in seeing Hobbs squirm as he is once again revealed as a reptile. Tragic for the family? Yes. Justice for Hobbs? Absolutely.
Well, to paraphrase the pride of Nesbit, MS, Jerry Lee Lewis, there’s a whole lotta schadenfreude goin’ on.
Hey, Hobbs, kharma is bee-yatch, ain’t it?
So when Anita Hill accused Clarence Thomas of sexual harassment with no corroboration of any other ‘victims’, we were told by the Left that ‘women don’t lie about such things.’
When numerous women accused President Clinton of worse behavior including the use of force, the Left said that they were all lying. Apparently women do lie if they are not leftists.
Now we have the minor league leftists making the delightful case that Anna Hobbs is lying about not having been abused, apparently because where leftist women never lie about coke cans, conservative women lie about everything including abuse or non-abuse.
Rather than gloat about any problems that Bill Hobbs may have, you might consider just how low some of you who ought to know better have sunk. Has Hobbs said things that embarrass me as a Republican? Yes. Does that justify calling his wife a liar? Not at all.
What is next, standing outside the school attended by his children with signs to humiliate his children?
Mark, If you had the faintest clue about the cycles of abuse and how women change as they are abused, you wouldn’t have made such an asinine statement. Abused women are the very first to defend their abusers, because they often feel they are at fault.
While I am not judging this case one way or the other, her choice of words sounded hauntingly familiar. THAT has nothing to do with what Bill Hobbs has done in his political life.
LWC,
Of course you are judging.
“If you had the faintest clue about the cycles of abuse and how women change as they are abused” Sound familiar?
If it were demonstrable that she had been abused, I would not have made that point. But if it was an accident, then your argument does not hold.
With no history of other incidents, the way the case was disposed of and Anna’s statement, assuming otherwise seems unfair. Another incident would, of course, change everything.
He who says, “I know him,” and does not keep His commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him. (I John 2:4)
Mark: I never called Anna Hobbs a liar. I called Bill Hobbs an asshole. Check the transcript.
Harrison,
To be honest, I didn’t pay much attention to your comments since you rarely do much beyond subtract from the sum of human knowledge.
Credo, for one, assumes that Anna is lying. RM, Jose’s Mom and TN Observer fall into the same territory.
If I am going to be specific about you, Harrison, you will know it. But then, like so many here, you have nothing to worry about no matter how foolish you look because you hide behind an alias.
I may disagree with LWC and Sean and some others but I deeply respect them because they have the character to stand up for their writings. So does Bill Hobbs. Even S-town Mike deserves respect for owning up to his opinions. You just scurry around in the corners looking to backstab your betters with your trusty spork.
This is way off the original topic here, but in addressing credo who commented on Dec. 12 at 12:49 a.m., I want to add something in regard to attacks on Bill Hobbs, specifically those that call him xenophobic.
Just to respond to credo, here is the piece referenced by credo in regard to Soto:
http://lastcar.blogspot.com/2009/10/when-you-dont-elect-judges.html
Credo, please provide any evidence other than your opinion and the financially convenient opinion of the Southern Poverty Law Center that the highly diverse Federation for American Immigration Reform is a hate group.
In regard to some attacks on Hobbs, I have to tell you that from what I’ve known about his views, Hobbs is far less restriction-minded than I on immigration. The last time I saw him comment about it, he was still in favor of admitting more legal immigrants while cracking down on illegal immigration. He did have reservations about legal chain migration. I, for a number of reasons, believe the United States must drastically cut all legal immigration numbers, cut them back to our much lower traditional levels of immigration that were our policy before changes in our immigration laws in 1965. The problem is not immigration itself but the numbers, the out-of-control numbers.
We — and many of us in this movement are immigrants or spouses or other relatives of immigrants — have made clear our reasons for opposing the consistently high numbers, more than 1 million legal immigrants every year for more than 20 years now, plus a million or so illegal aliens coming in every year — and this does not include guest workers and others coming in on temporary visas.
Spork? I prefer chopsticks. And as I’ve said before: My name … is Harrison.
Mark Rogers,
You are a douchebag.
Love n’ kisses,
The Rest of the Planet
TNVol sez:
“Getting into heaven is not what you do, but whom you know.”
How convenient. It’s this thinking that has allowed conservatives to destroy the economy, the environment, and America’s standing around the world. This is why your worldview is flawed and dangerous.
You so-called “Christians” can refuse to take responsibility for your own actions if you want, but don’t ask to hold political office and ruin everyone else’s lives.
F**king sociopaths.
Locke,
The TN GOP’s smears under Smith and Hobbs against Obama and his family were denounced by both Lamar Alexander and John McCain. Out of all of the state GOP affiliates, the Tennessee GOP is a stand-out as the most unethical and racially charged in the nation. Hard to argue with recorded history.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tennessee_Republican_Party
As far as the claim you made at 12:04am: “if I decide to trash somebody, I’ll do something more than question character.” I believe your own words best describe your ability to objectively judge others with which you disagree.
We’ll let the Southern Poverty Law Center explain why they listed your beloved anti-immigration group as a “hate group.”
http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2007/12/11/fair-crossing-the-rubicon-of-hate&splcnewsletter=panewsgen-121107/
Anonymous,
Now that is funny.
Locke,
The TN GOP’s smears under Smith and Hobbs against Obama and his family were denounced by both Lamar Alexander and John McCain. Out of all of the state GOP affiliates, the Tennessee GOP is a stand-out as the most unethical and racially charged in the nation. Hard to argue with recorded history.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tennessee_Republican_Party
As far as the claim you made at 12:04am: “if I decide to trash somebody, I’ll do something more than question character.” I believe your own words best describe your ability to objectively judge others with which you disagree.
We’ll let the Southern Poverty Law Center explain why they listed your beloved anti-immigration group as a “hate group.”
http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2007/12/11/fair-crossing-the-rubicon-of-hate&splcnewsletter=panewsgen-121107/
“It’s funny that the people who have spent such an inordinate part of their lives trying to deprive Hobbs of a living don’t blame themselves when he snaps. And by funny I mean predictable.”
Why, yes, I suppose it probably is entirely predictable to anyone with the sense God gave a box full of wet hair that Bill Hobbs’ political opposition wouldn’t feel the slightest responsibility for his own personal behavior.
I mean, you’re kidding, right? Did you really just blame liberals for what Bill Hobbs does at home with his wife? I had no idea we had that much power over you.
With my newfound command over the domestic lives of conservatives I’ve never even met, I hereby order all of you to just chill the fuck out for a little while. It’s almost Christmas. Please be civil to one another.
credo,
One of several of FAIR’s responses to such attacks:
http://www.fairus.org/site/PageServer?pagename=about_splcresponse
You still have not provided any evidence of hate activity on the part of FAIR. By the way, questioning and opposing U.S. immigration policy is not hate activity except in your mind when it interferes with a certain agenda made publicly clear by many opponents of immigration control. I have posted some of their public statements a number of times.
And worth reading:
http://www.fairus.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=21611&security=1601&news_iv_ctrl=1741
I apologize for the off-topic comments/responses. It would be good if this blog had an occasional post titled “Open Thread.” Some political blogs have this.
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