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2.26.08 @ 12:01AM

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Another odd little person solemnly and earnestly entreating someone else to forego $150 million because (1) he thinks that person already has "enough" money; (2) contracts? We don't honor no stinkin' contracts!; and (3) after all, the important thing is that HE gets to see "The Hobbit"!

My youngest sister used to be a Fundamentalist Christian and repeat such twaddle sanctimoniously and sincerely...until she reaped the whirlwind of a bad marriage and heard that same sanctimonious twaddle directed at her instead of from her. She admitted that she did not realize how it sounded until it hit her right in the face.

Hal G. P. Colebatch might want to think about how he'd feel if it was HIS $150 million and HIS dishonored contract.
-- Kate Shaw
Hobbit Fan
Toronto, Ontario

PANTS ON FIRE?
Re: Quin Hillyer's The False and the Absurd:

If Mr. Hillyer thinks this is false, he should urge the Alabama GOP to sue CBS. If he does not, Mr. Hillyer is the liar, which would not be very surprising. Don't compare McCain with the commie scumbag, Karl Rove.
-- Chell

Why on earth should anyone question Karl Rove's integrity? And who would think that Rove would tell a fellow GOP to try and catch Mr. Siegelman in a compromising position - after all, this is the same Karl Rove who was behind the smear of John McCain in 2000 and the implication that he fathered an illegitimate black child! In all seriousness, let's please at least acknowledge that there was nothing honorable about Mr. Rove's ideological and hyper-partisan goal of winning at all costs. He is renowned for his infamous treachery that fed into criminal behavior (namely that of outing a CIA spy) -- and the Siegelman saga which bears his rather odious 'mark'.

I'm sorry that your article would decide to claim that Rove was not asked for a rebuttal to the 60 Minutes story, for as it would seem Rove and his team of enablers had just that opportunity to do so in the months leading up to the show. The fact that he chose not to speak out on his own behalf, and then claim otherwise, would indicate a man capable of what we already know about him - dishonorable, undignified, lacking integrity and criminally dishonest.

Karl Rove is a political sociopath, and when one reads the highly researched, documented investigative reports that have been written on the Siegelman case, there is no question who was behind the treachery, and for what goal. I just thank goodness that there are those journalists out there still who are interested in justice and holding the rot inside the GOP accountable.

Score one for those Republicans and Democrats alike who at least acknowledge ruthlessness when it steps over the line into Soviet-style persecution, and are willing to stand up against it.

The only thing "false and absurd" in this piece is the lame projection of Rove's famed thuggery onto those who would dare expose the creepiness of how the conservative rightwing of the political sphere will stop at nearly nothing to win at all costs. Disturbing stuff, plain and simple.
-- Kimberly Meuse

I couldn't help notice a glaring omission in this article, specifically: "THE TRUTH IS that the entire Siegelman investigation stemmed from a series of articles in the Mobile Register (my former newspaper) by ace investigative reporter Eddie Curran, a winner of numerous journalism awards who is anything but a Republican."

What "Journalism Awards" are being referenced? There's no awards mentioned in the article and I'm sorry, I no longer trust anything a conservative says, unless I dig up background and confirm it on my own (deceived too many times)! My problem is that I've Googled Eddie Curran and can find nothing. There's no Bio on him at AL.COM and Wikipedia has nothing on him.

I've posted this question on several sites, have yet to get an answer and would like to know what awards Hillyer is talking about?
-- Ron Russell
San Francisco, California

The editors reply:
Here is a link to a webpage that lists a few of Eddie Curran's journalism awards. It's also an archive of his reporting on the Siegelman scandal.

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