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« Sharp Pencils 2 | Main | In Touch With Real People » October 26, 2006Ford-Corker in the WSJKimberly Strassel, a member of the Wall Street Journal editorial board, summarizes the Ford-Corker race in a piece posted online at OpinionJournal.com. Ms. Strassel interviewed me at length by phone last week for background for the column - another example of the national media reaching out to local bloggers as part of their election coverage. I am not quoted in the piece, but my contribution is easy to spot: I filled Ms. Strassel in on Harold Ford Jr.'s flip-flop on the much-despised Kelo ruling last year from the U.S. Supreme Court. You hear "closet liberal" intimations that his votes in recent years were planned with an eye for a Senate run, as well as examples of flip-floppery on issues like partial birth abortion (he voted against a ban in 1997) and the Kelo property rights decision. Tennesseans have seen this before, and are wary: They elected Jim Sasser as a conservative Democrat and watched him vote liberal. Ditto Al Gore.Just a reminder: Shortly after the court issued the Kelo ruling, which eviscerated private property rights and gave state and local governments virtually unlimited authority to seize private property for any reason it decided was a "public benefit," Ford called Kelo a "positive" ruling. Posted in 2006 TN Senate Race
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Are you telling us you spoke to the WSJ because it's an example of blogger influence? Or is it because you want to puff up your own ego? And is it possible that the only reason they called you is because you are the unofficial flack (and leading online shill) for the Tennessee Republican Party? Does that make you proud? Or are you still operating under the illusion that people think you're some kind of independent-minded soul as opposed to a partisan parrot? Posted by: terry j. at October 26, 2006 4:22 PMYes to the first sentence, and the second. Oh, and because I always mention on my blog when I've been interviewed by the media, and also I often blog about the intersection of traditional media and the blogosphere. Oh, scratch all that. I really mentioned it just specifically to irritate you. I actually wrote very little about the Corker-Ford race, in case you haven't noticed. Most of my political writing since the primary has been on a key state senate race, with some stuff on the governor's race. Posted by: Bill Hobbs at October 26, 2006 4:42 PMIt's worth knowing they used a blogger as a background source. They should have quoted you, though. When I read local news stories, frequently I can tell the reporter or commentator has read one or more local political blogs I've read. I'd like to see credit given sometimes. Some of these ideas and phrasings didn't spring from seafoam but from a local blogger's brain. Posted by: Donna Locke at October 26, 2006 10:59 PMBill, The WSJ knows where I'm at on the Corker/Ford analysis, along with a few other items including foreign policy. As for the person panning Patriotism: "Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism"--George Washington Sound advice from our main MAN Revolutionary. Posted by: David W. Moon at October 29, 2006 10:32 AMPost a comment
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