Posted on 04/06/2014 6:36:24 AM PDT by don-o
As a talk show host, I take plenty of heat from the fans of candidates who don’t think their candidate is getting enough attention, and if they just had more respect from the media, their candidate could win. Ron Paul fans were legendary for such complaints, and I’ve had more than my share.
So, I find it very uncomfortable, and I hope not hypocritical, to write about the dismissive attitude the national political media is displaying toward the Tea Party driven U.S. Senate bid of State Rep. Joe Carr in Tennessee. Politico.com is the worst offender, with a story about the entry of Dr. George Flinn into the race.
The story reads like a love story from an opponent to Sen. Alexander, without even raising the prospect that the wealthy Dr. Flinn, best known for spending millions of his own money to attract 25% of the GOP primary vote in two separate Congressional elections in two different districts, just might be a Lamar plant to try to up-end a significant, Tea Party endorsed candidate who has attracted donations from more than 3,500 donors in the past six months. Instead, they continue to dismiss the viability of the Carr campaign, and the Tea Party influence in Tennessee, with this:
“But tea party forces have been unable to mobilize against him. State Rep. Joe Carr has been in the race against Alexander for months after dropping a bid for the House, but he has yet to gain traction in the polls or in fundraising.”
Carr, and his Tea Party backers, including me, beg to differ.
(Excerpt) Read more at ralphbristol.com ...
And I would immediately surrender, because I am not an English teacher. I don’t know enough to say you’re wrong (there is a discussion of it on the Wiki page I linked, but we know those guys can be dorks).
I’ve seen it AD 2014 in older writings, which tells me the way I prefer it will die in my lifetime, because this is a “living” language. Apparently the form I prefer, the literal translation, is archaic.
Aw gee its six of one and half a dozen’ve a whole nother story!
What difference at this point does or dozen’t make??
Lol just kidding...I’m only glad to know there are even two people who care about such a thing in 2014-—one weigher an udder!
I was taking a contrarian position, because, well, sometimes I just do. Truth be told, I think CL is correct; but I enjoy a bit of a joust with someone who won’t go all outraged to “win” at all costs.
As I say, I was glad you did take up the lance and joust.
I enjoyed it and learned from it too.
I am always glad to see proper writing and accepted style discussed on Free Republic. Can’t read and write right, can’t speak or think right-—thus I’ve always believed.
Want one more hilarious? One woman writer cried, griped, wrote article after article about not having health insurance. Back when the on-line version of the paper was non subscription I'd post comments like but what about the paper you write for ands it's Editor? If the management and you feel so strong health-care insurance is a right how come this paper is not paying at least half of your insurance? LOL
Challenges to the writers propaganda always went ignored especially if they lost the debate. Or there was a Oh those mean spirited type of people disagreed with me answer next week. Then there is a long time writer who IIRC started out as a variety writer of sorts is an ultra left wingbat and her poorly written articles are now featured in the editorials. Don you've likely read that paper LOL.
Years ago it was balanced especially when there were two daily papers. The editor who had been there for years was somewhat conservative and usually both sides got decent coverage. He took another position outside of the paper and an out of town Liberal Metro Denver editor comes in. That paper is no longer worth reading even if it were free.
The area is GOP and it seemed way too many Conservatives were disagreeing with the papers political positions. The answer was to go subscription. Rather than having 200 plus replies to stories from both sides it's now a 5 or 6 reply echo chamber.
To really drive home the point the paper attacks GOP with childish tactics one would expect from a Middle School paper ran by students attacking the lunchroom for charging extra for ice cream or serving peas. For nearly two years the paper attacked a GOP lawmaker for taking a dog briefly into a county court house. It was a front page headline story. Yet the city mayor a DEM has yet to have so much as a negative sentence written against her. If the Paper can't find something to write about to praise her for they don't write nothing at all about her. Last election when a DEM sneaked in and ran against Corker the paper never really said anything until it came out that DEM was a Conservative to the far right of Corker LOL.
Joe Carr is up against this. Our weapon right now is word of mouth, bumper sticker, signs, and the Internet.
I’m afraid I didn’t do a very good job of jousting. If I knew more about the subject (proper English), I would have been a better opponent. Sorry....
(I’ve been wrong about things at the top of my lungs, and it’s pretty embarrassing. I think Ambrose Bierce had a quote about that.)
Only to a certain extent. We elect sorry governors, we elect sorry US Senators as well. But we do well on electing Conservative Congressmen in the eastern end and in the rural areas middle state as well.
You most certainly did, and as FW said, proper usage is important because words are all we have to present our ideas.
Sloppy language is usually indicative of sloppy thinking, and it's in evidence with the poster who just rode the lightning.
I don’t know if Carr can pull this off, but something may be building out there that could send Alexander down the drain come primary time.
Being at 47% in the polls does not bode well for Alexander. And though Alexander has a lot of lobbyist money, you can’t put a dollar amount on all the volunteer doorknockers of BeatLamar. That means a great deal more than a TV spot that lots of people tune out.
I’ve got my fingers crossed on this that Carr will send Alexander packing come January.
I hope that you’re right. I think that it’s an uphill struggle, but I’m not counting him out. I hope that you are right.
Keep in mind that twelve years ago Ed Bryant got 42.6% of the vote. Lamar managed to get 53.8%, with the remainder splitting among minor candidates. One would think that the climate might be more favorable for a challenger now than it was twelve years ago.
Both state and national media seem to think that Lamar has it in the bag, but I don’t think that is the case. It will take some work, but let’s not give up. I think that we have a shot.
If Bryant could get 42.6% twelve years ago, we’ve got a shot.
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