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 [...]
Read More..>>Bill Hobbs was wrong
A week or two ago, TNGOP spokesman Bill Hobbs offered his rather anecdotal assessment of the economy:
Take a look around you. Most people have not lost their homes or their jobs. Most businesses are still open, still doing business. Yes, there are problems - high fuel prices, rising food costs, a housing sector that’s taken [...]
Read More..>>Bill Hobbs is right
Hobbs on WKRN’s decision to let Volunteer Voters go: Not all old media gets the new media or knows what to do with it.
(An aside: my dad was a reporter at WKRN while I was growing up….)
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Bill Hobbs responds to National Enquirer article
RESPONSE FROM BILL HOBBS (via e-mail to me):
I read my “quotes” in the Enquirer. I don’t believe they are verbatim accurate, although we did discuss both Barack Obama’s controversial anti-Israel foreign policy adviser, Robert Malley, who has suggested that we do business with the terrorist group Hamas. Also, in that interview, I did question why [...]
Read More..>>UPDATED: TNGOP spokesman on Obama in the National Enquirer
UPDATE: Here’s a PDF scan of the whole article
I haven’t seen a hard copy of the publication yet (I don’t subscribe, although I do admit to a certain guilty pleasure in reading it), but according to Sharon Cobb, TNGOP Spokesman and conservative blogger Bill Hobbs is now fanning the flames of the alleged Obama-Muslim connection [...]
Blogs remain the best social networking tool
I agree wholeheartedly with Bill Hobbs on this:
Not a week goes by that I don’t get invited to join some new social network - most of which I’ve never heard of. I decline pretty much all of them. There are simply too many of them and not enough hours in the day to maintain one’s [...]
UPDATED: Straight-men-only workout hours
UPDATED: Hobbs clarifies that he was engaging in satire with his post, which wasn’t clear to me
Bill Hobbs blogs about what he calls “soft bigotry” at Harvard:
Harvard University has announced that it will close its gyms to openly gay men at certain hours each day so that straight men who are uncomfortable around gays can [...]
TNGOP crusaders
There’s an interesting piece in the Nashville Scene looking at the issues raised by the Tennessee Republican Party leadership’s recent and infamous “Barack Hussein Obama” press release. In the story, Jeff Woods conjectures that despite public denials, there’s grumbling within the GOP ranks about the way the party’s state office is being run and represented [...]
Read More..>>Bill Hobbs won’t be voting for Obama
Nor will he be resigning at Communications Director for the state GOP, he wants us to know:
The chances of me resigning from the TN GOP are lower than the chances of me voting for Barack Obama. Which is to see less than nil.
I fully expect to be working for the TN GOP on Monday the [...]
Tennessee GOP goes on about its business
Despite the fact that they took quite a beating in the state and national press & blogosphere during the preceding week, TN GOP leaders apparently went on about their business Saturday with nary a mention of the “Husseining of Obama” press release flap:
The Tennessee Republican Executive Committee met in Legislative Plaza at the State Capitol [...]
Prediction: no changes in state GOP over Obama flap
Rob Huddleston, who will be attending today’s state GOP leadership meeting, thinks Bill Hobbs’ job is safe:
There is also speculation that there may be staff changes due to the recent Obama flap that caused John McCain to notice that Tennessee still exists. I wouldn’t hold your breath. Short of Bill Hobbs just saying that he [...]
Read More..>>Will heads roll at state GOP meeting?
The Nashville Post conjectures that Saturday’s get-together of the TN GOP Executive Committee may result in at least one firing:
Since the story broke on Wednesday drawing attention to a press release issued by the Tennessee Republican Party titled “Anti-Semites for Obama,” the state party has been either publicly chastised or rebuked by the Republican National [...]
Bill Hobbs: Middle Easterners feel connected to Obama
Hobbs continues speaking out on the TN GOP/Obama flap, this time to CNN
Hobbs told CNN the party will no longer use Obama’s middle name in forthcoming press releases.
“We’re not going to be using the middle name now because apparently it’s become a distraction,” he said. “But I would note not too long ago I saw [...]
Sen. Alexander takes TN GOP to the woodshed
Apparently, Tennessee’s moderate GOP senator wasn’t real happy with the TN GOP leadership’s approach to campaigning against Obama.
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FYI: It’s not all about Israel
Blogger Silence Isn’t Golden says Bill Hobbs has it wrong in figuring out whether Jews should or will support Obama:
It is not enough, when you’re talking about Jewish voters, to just brag about your record on Israel. That might be good enough for the single-digit percentage of Jewish Republicans who have a vested interest in [...]
What’s in a name?
A Monday press release from the Tennessee GOP detailing Obama’s alleged anti-semitic background and support took pains to include the candidate’s middle name:
NASHVILLE, TN - The Tennessee Republican Party today joins a growing chorus of Americans concerned about the future of the nation of Israel, the only stable democracy in the Middle East, if Sen. [...]
Read More..>>Claiming JFK and MLK as Republicans
There’s an interesting discussion going on over at Volunteer Voters between Bill Hobbs and A.C. Kleinheider over whether MLK would be a Republican if he were alive today. In the comments, Bill Hobbs further asserts that JFK would go GOP circa 2008.
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TN Republicans don’t like “Mike”
Apparently the TN Democratic Party Communications Director, Wade Munday, was in East Tennessee this week doing some political reconnaissance. Republicans say he introduced himself as “Mike,” while Munday denies it.
Bill Hobbs of the state GOP blogged about it (including photo):
This is “Mike.” Mike showed up at a kickoff event at the Campbell County Courthouse for [...]
Read More..>>Terry Frank’s favorite Democrat
Yes, there are apparently a few Dems Frank likes okay, but this particular one is actually retiring:
Well, I have to say that I like a lot of things Representative (Frank) Buck stood for. If we’re going to have Democrats in Nashville, I wish there were more like him. Heck, it’s pretty bad to say it, [...]
