Apr 3, 2010

Nitwit Tidbits

Posted by Gus Pillsbury at 10:44 AM
Philip's hysteria is showing:
Stevens Judgeship - The only way to solve it. Stevens stays in his seat. Rumors he will be blessed in two weeks may be a little overreaching - but what the h*** do we know?
Indeed, what does Klein know?  Very little:
If -  So if Judge Stevens does go - and a democrat goes on to the race through the executive committee and that person wins - it means? Lawsuit. You cannot have an elected judge that has not been nominated and duly elected by the people. Watch for a constitutional lawsuit. Oh wait? This is Jefferson County. Never mind.
According to the Texas Election Code, § 145.036:
FILLING VACANCY IN NOMINATION. (a) Except as provided by Subsection (b), if a candidate's name is to be omitted from the ballot under Section 145.035, the political party's state, district, county, or precinct executive committee, as appropriate for the particular office, may nominate a replacement candidate to fill the vacancy in the nomination.
(b) An executive committee may make a replacement nomination following a withdrawal only if:
(3) the candidate has been elected or appointed to fill a vacancy in another elective office or has become the nominee for another office.
I wonder whether Philip has filed his complaint over those purported campaign violations by Tom Maness,  and his complaint regarding the Hatch Act yet?
Food Fight - Numbers? How about this. Marsha Normand's camp says she has 2,171 criminal cases disposed of in her time as a lawyer and then they tout only 276 for Walston. So we call Walston's supporters and told that those numbers are not true. So a food fight over numbers is to start?
All based on Philip's unsubstantiated anonymous sources.  Readers may remember Klein's invented investigation into 27,000 cases to be "refilled" in Hardin County by David Sheffield. According to PRK, his sources claimed that national news organizations were investigating, but perhaps I missed that scandal on Fox News.
Jack Brooks - We are getting hit hard with comments and emails. From how much it will cost to change the name of the airport to ........ South County folks not happy with the name change idea. And then we get some that are really happy we came out in favor of changing the name of the airport? And then we poll it and it is 30-70 negative? Confusion?
If true, I wonder why only one letter made it to Klein's Reader Mail page on the SET Political Review?  Reader comments left on the Beaumont Enterprise story provide a more accurate representation of public sentiment.
Media Talk - Does anyone notice that if you click on the Enterprise web site it looks more like the Houston Chronicle web site? Content the same? Has it begun?
Since they're both Hearst properties, one would expect similarities in the Beaumont Enterprise and Houston Chronicle website.  As an example, compare these websites, owned by Nexstar Broadcasting:
Of course, only the station formerly known as KJAC features Philip R. Klein as a guest commentator. Perhaps Philip will comment on the ratings of the Wednesday morning edition of Channel 4's morning show? Klein is apparently so appallingly bad as a TV personality that the station doesn't post his commentary (I use the word loosely) on their website.

Klein claimed that the Beaumont Enterprise would be sold last year:
Backroom sources say that Hearst will sell off the paper within the next year after getting their numbers stabilized and at least hitting bottom on the decrease of subscribers.
That clearly wasn't true. Neither is this:
Media Talk II - We understand from two sources in Dallas - KFDM will go through "a major transformation" in the next three months. "I would look for some familiar faces to be leaving."
Since Freedom Broadcasting  has no connections whatsoever to Dallas, one might wonder how credible Klein's two sources are.
Real World - Stewy - we were proven right again. Your company filed for bankruptcy, your news people are getting jobs away from the station as fast as they can and frankly - your "viewership" has left for cable and get their news from secondary sources (like this one giggle) because your news department is hooked up in the system that has brought Jefferson County to its knees. Not to say that there are some at your station that simply want to do news but get stories shot down because....awe stewy let's just let it go? Look - we want you to do good. And we want you to succeed. We want everyone to succeed. Stewy - it is what it is buddy. And by the way - Stewy - cowards look like you. And yes we know - oh Stewy we know. Your secret journey is about to begin. As the song says - "You will make some sense of this." Our bet? You wish you never sent that arrogant email. Key word in that sentence?
Clearly written by someone in love with the sound of their own keyboard. 

As it turns out, people have been leaving Channel 6 for years:

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