My fave search of the day
Like most bloggers, I generally take a look each day at what search terms people are using to end up on my blog.
My very favorite today (and I believe Terry will get a kick out of this one) was - I kid you not: “Is Terry Frank a Republican or a Democrat?”
Heh.
Maybe next week, someone [...]
TNGOP’s Bill Hobbs is the master of the blogstorm
Hobbs is profiled in The Tennessean today:
Twice this year, blogstorms have roared out of Tennessee, capturing national headlines and forcing presidential candidates to drop everything and respond. Behind both those storms were the Tennessee GOP and its blogger-turned-spokesman Bill Hobbs.
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UPDATED: Do Senators Alexander and Corker have much say in how the TNGOP is run?
Sharon Cobb asks why the infamous Michelle Obama video is still posted to the Tennessee GOP’s You Tube account, even after Senator Corker made it clear he doesn’t like it one bit.
UPDATE: Mr. Kleinheider explains it all to you (and I think he’s right).
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One of those proud Americans in TNGOP video was strip club investor
Andy Sher reports that one of the “proud Americans” featured in the TNGOP’s controversial You Tube video “welcoming” Michelle Obama to Nashville has a less-than-squeaky-clean business background.
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Told ya
Kleinheider says Bob Corker’s folks are not kidding around in their irritation with Bill Hobb’s latest project as the TNGOP’s state communications director.
And I’ll repeat what I said last week: there’s clearly a role for the type of work Hobbs does within the American political apparatus. However, when both your state’s Republican senators have [...]
Karl Rove helps Tennessee Democratic Party makes its case
A PRESS RELEASE TODAY:
TNDP Chairman Gray Sasser calls on TNGOP to cease “grotesque” campaign tactics
National Republicans ashamed of Tennessee brand
Nashville- Sen. Bob Corker today dubbed his own 2006 campaign advertisements against U.S. Rep. Harold Ford, Jr. “grotesque.” Now, do the junior and senior senators from Tennessee have the courage to [...]
UPDATED: Whither Bill Hobbs?
Well, the Tennessee GOP’s tactics in campaigning against Barack Obama have once again garnered national headlines.
There’s no doubt about it: TNGOP Communications Director Bill Hobbs knows how to get some attention for the Republicans of the Volunteer State.
But my guess is that state GOP insiders are getting increasingly uncomfortable with this stuff. After all, everyone [...]
The Tennessee Republican Party wishes you a joyous Cinco de Mayo!
No, seriously.
Bill Hobbs wants you to know he and Robin Smith are all about “ethnic pride” ‘n’ stuff.
“Celebrating ethnic and cultural pride within the context of the American story is as American as baseball, apple pie - and tacos - and Cinco de Mayo has grown in popularity here as more Mexicans have decided [...]
What was Briley thinking?
Bill Hobbs, in typically blunt and not particularly sympathetic language, points out that Rob Briley opened himself to some very uncomfortable return-fire questions when he had his “Ophelia Ford moment” this week.
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An unusual choice of words
Bill Hobbs makes an unusual choice of words in the title of this blog entry about Barack Obama:
“The Natural Order of Things”
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TN GOP weighs in on Obama’s “bitterness”
The inevitable press release is now available:
Perhaps Sen. Obama’s bitter view of religion flows from the 20 years he spent soaking up the racist, hateful bigotry of his pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, a narrow religious experience which blinded him to the grace and love that is the more common faith experience in churches across small-town [...]
Read More..>>“The worst public information officer in state government”
Bill Hobbs offers his opinion that “the worst public information officer in state government” is Lola Potter, at the Department of Finance & Administration.
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Bottle battle brewing
I think it’s safe to say that Bill Hobbs is an aginner on this one:
If you think Tennesseans ought to pay a new tax, er, “fee” of about 8 cents per bottle or can of juice, cola or water, and the state ought to force retailers to set up bottle deposit-and-return programs, and the state [...]
Read More..>>Tennessee blogger deployed
Bob Krumm is heading to Iraq
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Tennesseans funding terror?
Bill Hobbs asks whether Tennessee’s state pension plan may be invested in companies doing business with terrorist states.
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She agrees with Bill Hobbs
A few weeks ago, Bill Hobbs blogged his opinion on the idea of Harvard’s plan to segregate gym time by gender, in order to accomodate Muslim women’s desire for complete separation from men. Today, via Instapundit, I ran across this essay on the same topic. The author agrees with Hobbs on this one (and so [...]
Read More..>>A bad record on open records
Apparently Bill Hobbs has also had some difficulty getting records from Lola Potter with the state’s Department of Finance and Administration:
I have my own story about Lola Potter and an open records request. A few weeks ago I requested a copy of video tape that the agency had made of construction blasting at the governor’s [...]
The Newseum
Bill Hobbs has a very positive review. I can’t wait to visit.
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Bill Hobbs weighs in on Kleinheider
I agree with Hobbs, when he says (scroll down to bottom of the comments):
It’s been a week, and I’ve come to a conclusion about the demise of VolunteerVoters.com. It’s not a big loss. It’s a MAMMOTHLY HUGE loss. There is a giant hole in the media fabric in Tennessee when it comes to political news. [...]
A Knoxville mystery in the new National Enquirer
Wow, it’s been a big month for Tennesseans. Twice now, our fellow Vols have ended up in the pages of the National Enquirer (as an aside, my father used to do some freelancing for the National Enquirer. He once penned an article for them titled - I kid you not - “Perry Como tells you [...]
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