Comments on: Just asking some questions

By: Harry Douglas/Car Concerns

Harry Douglas/Car Concerns — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 01:20:28 +0000

Terry, Thanks for allowing me some time on “LET’s Talk Frank” this evening. I would also like to invite you and Lee to call into Car Concerns anytime you think that my audience will be interested.

I am very passionate about pulling the Ameican Motorist together to create one of the strongest consumer voting groups in America.

That is why I have created the “AMERICAN MOTORIST VOTE CAMPAIGN” which can empower and give the millions upon millions of American Motorist an undeniable voice.

If you can offer any assistence in this mission, it would be appreciated. I know how well connected you are in Political Circles.

Please read my Mission Statement for the AMERICAN MOTORIST VOTE CAMPAIGN at: http://www.carconcerns.com

Thanks For All That You Do!

Harry
Car Concerns

By: terryfrank.net » National Geographic: the official magazine of the Bredesen administration?

Thu, 22 Feb 2007 11:09:52 +0000

[...] (National Geographic photo reversed on left, Governor’s “original” on right. Background on card here.) [...]

By: Malcolm Tent

Malcolm Tent — Mon, 25 Dec 2006 01:44:05 +0000

Terry-
You might not want to call in a professional art critic on this one. Napoleon Dynamite might be a better judge of this pathetic attempt at “art”. Perhaps for Easter the governor will send out his picture of a “liger”. It’s fair to say my two-year old has better efforts hanging on the fridge.

My two cents
Malcolm

By: Terry

Terry — Fri, 22 Dec 2006 00:43:32 +0000

Brittney, a lot of people are remarking on the similarities. I think we already get by the number of your comments that you don’t agree. Try playing the flip side of your record.

By: Tennessean.com Blogs » Blog Archive » All in the (Christmas) cards

Tennessean.com Blogs » Blog Archive » All in the (Christmas) cards — Fri, 22 Dec 2006 00:02:34 +0000

[...] Conservative Nashville blogger Bill Hobbs mentions it and points his readers toward the commentary over at Captain’s Quarters. You can also read about it on Ramblings, on Brian Hornback’s blog and that of Terry Frank, who talks about the resemblance of the painting to that of a famous National Geographic cover shot from many years ago. [...]

By: brittney

brittney — Thu, 21 Dec 2006 22:48:22 +0000

Yes! A professional art critic should definitely be called in to be sure that the Governor’s personal Christmas card came about precisely as he said it did.

By: John Stuart

John Stuart — Thu, 21 Dec 2006 22:01:00 +0000

Hi Darrin,

I just ‘reversed” the image using Microsoft Paint. I didn’t touch any of the colors – I wouldn’t know where to begin with that. Perhaps someone should get a professional art critic to look at the card and the painting. The shading and highlighting on both is very similar.

By: Todd Mecklem

Todd Mecklem — Thu, 21 Dec 2006 21:12:40 +0000

Oh, and WATE in Knoxville had a story about the controversy on their TV news broadcast yesterday. The governor's staff says he has a photo of the woman he met, but they can't produce it at the moment. We'll see...

By: Todd Mecklem

Todd Mecklem — Thu, 21 Dec 2006 19:10:10 +0000

Sorry. Click HERE for an article about the photo and the search for the woman.

By: Todd Mecklem

Todd Mecklem — Thu, 21 Dec 2006 19:06:06 +0000

I knew as soon as I saw that painting that it was ripped off from the Nat. Geo. cover. The photo was also on the cover of the 1994 coffee-table book National Geographic: The Photographs and the recently published National Geographic: 100 Best Pictures. There was a special on MSNBC about "Finding the Afghan Girl" in 2003; click for an article about the photo and the search for the woman.

By: Terry

Terry — Thu, 21 Dec 2006 12:20:19 +0000

Good question, Donna. Steve Gill made a reference to it.

By: Donna Locke

Donna Locke — Thu, 21 Dec 2006 04:22:53 +0000

Were any tax dollars spent to make and mail the governor’s Christmas card?

By: Darrin

Darrin — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 16:36:20 +0000

I’m glad someone posted the link to the original National Geographic picture, because it shows that Rev. Stuart altered the color of her scarf so it more closely matches the Governors picture.

Anyway… worst “controversy” ever.

By: Bill Hobbs

Bill Hobbs — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 16:02:24 +0000

As for the gov’s painting, I’m guessing he met some Afghani girl with long dark hair and a scarve, and that his painting was influenced by subconscious memory of the National Geo painting.

If he lied, well, it wouldn’t be the first time – and the republic won’t fall.

By: Bill Hobbs

Bill Hobbs — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 16:00:53 +0000

Jackson – You need to learn the difference between “factualness” and “objectivity.”

Objectivity and factual accuracy are not the same thing. I can write factually about the state budget, for example, and make the case than an income tax would be bad for the state’s economy, or that it violates the state constitution. I can write factually about the state budget and still make the case that the sales tax is not the cause of the state’s occasional revenue deficits.

If I wrote a story saying the violent crime rate is “UP 10 percent” in the city and used that “fact” to suggest the solution was to fire the police chief, the “fact” is either true or false, regardless of the non-objectivity of the piece.

What I have always tried to do with my blog on public policy questions is to dig for and publicize facts to buttress my commentary.

The problem with Big Journalism today is that it pretends to be objective even at times when it isn’t being very factual.