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- From: "Patient Zero 2.0......Still #1 in the hearts of RSPW" <noonan24_7@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 29 Feb 2008 09:42:06 GMT
23 Hours Later: TNGOP Complies With Alexander Request To Remove Website
By Kleinheider
February 28th, 2008 - 4:05 pm
Reading over the coverage from yesterday, I am still struck by the statement
of Senator Lamar Alexander on the much publicized press release from
Tennessee Republican Party Spokesman Bill Hobbs on the antisemitic
associations of Barack Obama.
The statement reads as follows:
"Senator Alexander has talked with Robin Smith, and she is removing the
release and the photo from the website. She and the senator agreed it could
be easily misinterpreted, taken out of context and considered
inappropriate."
All the papers used this statement. Many took it as gospel that the release
would be removed. Now, we here on the internets knew that the the release
was still up today with the clarification we noted yesterday.
Now, I just assumed that discussions subsequent to the statement were had
and that the fact that the release stayed up with adjustments was something
the Senator was kept apprised of.
I put in a call to Lee Pitts, Communications Czar for the Senator, to get
clear on the discrepancy between the statement that an agreement had been
reached to take down the release and the reality that the release still
appeared on the website with clarification.
Reached by phone at around one o'clock today, Mr. Pitts said he was not
aware that the release remained on the website and told me that his
understanding was that the Senator and Robin Smith had spoken and that the
release would come down. He promised to investigate further.
Reached via email, Bill Hobbs reiterated what he had previously stated on
this thread about the discrepancy:
Tom Humphrey's story has the details exactly right of our discussions with
Lamar. There was never any discussion of taking the whole release down. The
release is factual.
The photo and use of Barack Obama's middle name was being used by the
Democrats to divert attention from the issue raised by the release - Barack
Obama's position vis a vis Israel and Farrakhan.
Pitts called back at around 3:45PM and reiterated that it was always the
Senator's understanding based on the conservation he had with Robin Smith
that the release would come down but that when and how that happened was at
the discretion of the TNGOP.
I just checked and as of around 3:50PM today, 23 hours after Senator Lamar
Alexander made his statement yesterday, the release no longer appears.
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