Andrea Mitchell of NBC News has apologized for appearing on MSNBC and blubbering about Obama’s visit to Bristol, calling Bristol a real redneck area sort of bordering on Appalachia country… (by Appalachia country, she means on over into Tennessee where us Deliverance type people live.)
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J. Todd Foster called Mitchell on the insulting remark. [...]
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Posted in US on Jun 7th, 2008
You’ve won the Democratic nomination, snubbed officials in the city you just visited, threatened to whup Congress, and are gearing up for the GOP attack, what should you not do?
Get the name of the town you just visited all wrong. Ditch the press corps after they’ve boarded the plane. Consider having Bill jump [...]
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Posted in US on Jun 6th, 2008
After Obama’s advance team annoyed city officials in Bristol, VA, the candidate then threatened Congress with a big stick. (This would be the same Congress, wherein members of his own party think he is setting the bar too high.)
Meanwhile, the local masses don’t care if Obama can actually make good on his campaign promises [...]
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Posted in Local Characters, Tennessee on May 16th, 2008
Brent Rowell, a native of Bristol, Tenn., currently lives in Yangon (formerly Rangoon), Myanmar. He and others knew Cyclone Nargis would hit the Southeast Asia country on May 3, but no one expected the storm to kill more than 43,000 and leave tens of thousands missing and more than a million residents homeless.
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Rowell’s [...]
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Posted in Tragedies on May 14th, 2008
Police say Ivory Black-Clark poisoned her 6-year old daughter, Sydney Black, with medications before she slit her own wrists and hanged herself with a hair-dryer cord from a ceiling fan.
Capt. Charlie Thomas with the Bristol Tennessee Police could not say what medications were with mixed with fruit juice and given to the girl, but he [...]
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