Monday, January 5th, 2009...3:29 pm
Oops
The guys over at Sonoran Alliance have a long (over 1200 words!) defense of Randy Pullen from an attack by lobbyist and blogger Farrell Quinlan. They start the post with a declaration of the purpose of blogs:
But blogs also play a similarly vital role: Correcting other blogs. Every blog makes errors and the more authors and posts, the more likely that errors will be made. Certainly Sonoran Alliance has made its share.
Yep, they make their share. In fact, they made one only two paragraphs later:
Quinlan praises Sen. Jim Waring for trying to crack down on elected public officials who use taxpayer dollars to fund communications to the public that do more to promote themselves than anything else. Think Janet Napolitano on Arizona Department of Tourism signs or Attorney General Terry Goddard talking about our television sets going digital.
Set aside for a minute the tiresome handwringing from Republicans about the Governor appearing on those signs. I can’t think of a Governor in Arizona or anywhere else that hasn’t done something similar. Let’s talk about the silly attack on Goddard’s appearances in the “digital transition” PSAs. Those were, in fact, paid for by Cox Cable. There were no taxpayer dollars spent on those ads.
This is particularly goofy because the fact-free and offhand attack on Goddard didn’t have to be made at all to make their broader point. Now, I get to make fun of their whole darned post.
7 Comments
January 5th, 2009 at 3:46 pm
This, of course, is to say nothing about the television ads run by Andrew Thomas (somewhat hypocritically in English and Spanish), the taxpayer funded narcisism of Sheriff Arpaio, nor the blatantly self-promoting material that comes out of the Secretary of State’s office.
Expect this issue to disappear altogether once Jan Brewer assumes the Governor’s chair.
January 5th, 2009 at 5:47 pm
Cox may have not charged Goddard for the ad segments; that’s common for public officials. But they certainly did not pay to CREATE the ads, those were created by Goddard and had nothing to do with Cox.
January 5th, 2009 at 7:35 pm
and how do you know this? were you there during their creation? I wonder whose cameras filmed them?
January 5th, 2009 at 8:05 pm
Travis-
I have always loved that sort of defense. Let me turn it around, were you there “during their creation”? Just wondering…
January 5th, 2009 at 11:43 pm
um, i was actually addressing Goddard Watch. I work for Cox and I KNOW for a fact that those ads were filmed by a cox camera man I know. So I am asserting that he is in fact wrong. Chill Tedski, sheesh =)
January 6th, 2009 at 3:29 am
Okay…chilled.
January 10th, 2009 at 7:15 am
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