publicity

At Nashville is Talking Christian Grantham asks:

Sir,

I know you are out there advising John McCain and stuff, but I don’t think you and he are saying the same thing. Just a few days ago, McCain said the economy was in shambles.

No, really. That’s what he said.

Kenneth Eaton, the Nashville used car salesman and Harold Stassen of Tennessee politics, is a little irked that two of his rivals in the Democratic Senate primary won’t go on television with him. Bob Tuke and Mike Padgett both ducked out of an appearance on a Sunday morning public affairs program on Knoxville’s WBIR-TV.

This Los Angeles Times article about pay-what-you-want release of Girl Talk's new album has a few things to note.

The Huffington Post poses the question today, "What's in the Water in Anti-Obama Tennessee?" and concludes that (a) there's a publicity craving nutjob occupying the position of state GOP communications director and (b) a fair number of ignorant rubes reside in the Tennessee ba

Facing South reminds us that today is Juneteenth, a celebration of the day in 1865 when Union troops rode into Galveston, TX bringing with them news that the Texas slaves had been free for 2 years (a fact that white Texan slaveowners kept secret, along with news of Lee's surrender two months before).

If the goal of a communications shop is to get publicity for its organization, then the TNGOP has no equal. They did it once.

A few interesting things:

A major victory for our newspaper for people experiencing homelessness today, when a vendor who'd received what can only be described as a bogus citation for "solicitation for business and obstructing a roadway" was dismissed after the police officer who wrote the citation left the courtroom rather than testify and the assistant DA decided she didn't want to deal with the publicity persecuting a