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3 weeks ago
in HRC pens letter to Obama over hate brief on AMERICAblog
Can you add spying, torture,, civil rights of detainees..
Telling the justice depatment who and who cannot be investigated... in a number of different areas???
Telling the justice depatment who and who cannot be investigated... in a number of different areas???
4 weeks ago
in Obama Justice Department defends DOMA in lawsuit on AMERICAblog
Why is this a surprise at all. Look at the defense of all of Pres. Bush's view of the PResidentail powers. The spying. The torture. The directing the AG to not go after crimes of the lawyers and others.. including most likely the Pres, VP and their cabinet.
It looks like a bold face yyyyyy.
It looks like a bold face yyyyyy.
1 month ago
in Dozier's SAT Situation: Georgia Said No, Memphis Said Yes | AHN | June 5, 2009 on All Headline News
Hi --
I saw your Dozier article. I think Parrish started the Dozier stuff without doing any real backup. Here's some interesting information.
Gary Parrish of CBSsports started the attack on Dozier and Memphis. To say the news on ESPN is not complete is an understatement. Now reporters are repeating it on the web. Here's a good reply from thememphisedge.com
Don't be fooled by those who try to pretend that Georgia or other schools were "better" by passing on Dozier. That angle on the story is a fabrication and is designed to dig at Memphis.
First of all, Georgia was in the midst of recieving penalties for academic fraud at the time. And bear in mind that the administration let an assistant coach teach a class for credit with players enrolled, and no one in the department checked on their attendance. Come on people!
Secondly, Dozier's 2nd score was not good enough for the sliding scale, so he had to do another year to raise his gpa. In other words, GA didn't pass on him because of morality - they passed on him because he wasn't eligible that year anyway. Why do you think they didn't comment further? To protect Robert? No, it was to keep from answering that question, so they can pretend to take the high road.
Robert didn't end up at Memphis after his prep year because no one else would take him after that. We had a previous commitment from him before he decomitted around the time of the test and committed to GA. He committed back to us shortly after he began his year of prep school. It wasn't a last resort in either case. After he finished his year and the NCAA cleared him, he enrolled at Memphis.
Also, I'm sure Gary knew the story since he was covering the Tigers for the CA at the time, and the rumor was out there then. There is no way a beat writer doesn't hear that kind of stuff. It wasn't really much of a story really, but now he brought it up as if he just heard it because it makes him look like he is breaking news. What I'm saying is that rather than reporters telling a story that reveals a pattern, they are telling only the parts of stories that seem to imply a pattern, because they have to write stories, and recycling old news in this way is easy.
I saw your Dozier article. I think Parrish started the Dozier stuff without doing any real backup. Here's some interesting information.
Gary Parrish of CBSsports started the attack on Dozier and Memphis. To say the news on ESPN is not complete is an understatement. Now reporters are repeating it on the web. Here's a good reply from thememphisedge.com
Don't be fooled by those who try to pretend that Georgia or other schools were "better" by passing on Dozier. That angle on the story is a fabrication and is designed to dig at Memphis.
First of all, Georgia was in the midst of recieving penalties for academic fraud at the time. And bear in mind that the administration let an assistant coach teach a class for credit with players enrolled, and no one in the department checked on their attendance. Come on people!
Secondly, Dozier's 2nd score was not good enough for the sliding scale, so he had to do another year to raise his gpa. In other words, GA didn't pass on him because of morality - they passed on him because he wasn't eligible that year anyway. Why do you think they didn't comment further? To protect Robert? No, it was to keep from answering that question, so they can pretend to take the high road.
Robert didn't end up at Memphis after his prep year because no one else would take him after that. We had a previous commitment from him before he decomitted around the time of the test and committed to GA. He committed back to us shortly after he began his year of prep school. It wasn't a last resort in either case. After he finished his year and the NCAA cleared him, he enrolled at Memphis.
Also, I'm sure Gary knew the story since he was covering the Tigers for the CA at the time, and the rumor was out there then. There is no way a beat writer doesn't hear that kind of stuff. It wasn't really much of a story really, but now he brought it up as if he just heard it because it makes him look like he is breaking news. What I'm saying is that rather than reporters telling a story that reveals a pattern, they are telling only the parts of stories that seem to imply a pattern, because they have to write stories, and recycling old news in this way is easy.
1 month ago
in Memphis Conducts Internal Investigation On Derrick Rose SAT Exam Cheating Scandal | AHN | June 2, 2009 on All Headline News
Memphis does not know what it does not know. It also looks like Memphis is not willing ot trash a person w/o certain evidence. It indicated that it could not respond to some of what the NCAA claimed cause it cannot find clear evidence. Note: that Rose had been accused of cheating on the ACT and Memphis checked that out it was a false rumor.
It is ashame that the NCAA has allowed an ex-student to be trashed in public. It surely knew that a public university would be forced to release the complaint.
The NCAA even brought in a hand writing expert that they could not say w/ certainty that Rose did not take the SAT. But it all depends on the NCAA's level of certainty required to trash and maybe ruin a young man's reputation. We have seen how the press has doen this in mass this week, why wouldn't the NCAA. HOw many article have you heard say that Cal was invoveld everyone else must be guilty. This is dispite that fact that Cal has never been found to be anything but clean by the NCAA. But evidence is not really needed is it in the reporter community.
It is ashame that the NCAA has allowed an ex-student to be trashed in public. It surely knew that a public university would be forced to release the complaint.
The NCAA even brought in a hand writing expert that they could not say w/ certainty that Rose did not take the SAT. But it all depends on the NCAA's level of certainty required to trash and maybe ruin a young man's reputation. We have seen how the press has doen this in mass this week, why wouldn't the NCAA. HOw many article have you heard say that Cal was invoveld everyone else must be guilty. This is dispite that fact that Cal has never been found to be anything but clean by the NCAA. But evidence is not really needed is it in the reporter community.
