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Thursday, October 30, 2008
EDITORIAL
Voters’ moods are nasty and people are looking for someone to blame for their woes on Election Day.
Congress shares blame because it hasn’t functioned properly for
a number of years. The Senate and House of Representatives are supposed
to be one of three equal branches of government, but it hasn’t been.
Regardless of who becomes president, that relationship needs to
change if the country is to quickly pull out of the financial mess and
the U.S. is to lead the world out of a looming recession.
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Griffith promotes bipartisan approach to economic crisis |
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
By Evan Belanger
Staff Writer
With the nation’s
financial systems in turmoil, Democratic congressional candidate Parker
Griffith says Democrats and Republicans need to work together to find
lasting solutions to the country’s economic problems.
Parker, seeking Alabama’s 5th District congressional seat, met
Tuesday with members of the Decatur-Morgan County Chamber of Commerce
to discuss his plan for correcting the country’s economic woes.
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Out-of-context quotes distort political truth |
Editorial
October 26, 2008
Did you know that Abraham Lincoln refused to dedicate a battlefield memorial for Civil War soldiers? The outrage!
We have the evidence, a quotation from a speech President Lincoln made: "We cannot dedicate ... we cannot consecrate ... we cannot hallow ... this ground." See?
What's that? You say it's out of context? Well, you're obviously not qualified to write TV commercials for the Republican side in the 5th District congressional race. Too many scruples.
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Monday, October 27, 2008 at 3:30 a.m.
THE ISSUE
The TimesDaily Editorial Board recommends state Sen. Parker Griffith for the 5th Congressional District seat in the U.S. House of Representatives.
For the first time in almost two decades, north Alabama's 5th Congressional District seat is open, with Democrats looking to keep it in their column and Republicans trying to pry it away in a hard-fought election.
U.S. Rep. Bud Cramer is retiring after serving 18 years in the House of Representatives. Democrats have chosen state Sen. Parker Griffith, of Huntsville, as their nominee, while Republicans have chosen Huntsville businessman Wayne Parker to carry their banner. We believe Griffith, a retired physician, is the best choice to represent the Tennessee Valley in Congress.
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WAAY-TV pulls ad about Griffith's 'Islam' remark |
Saturday, October 25, 2008
By NIKI DOYLE
Times Staff Writer
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A local TV station has pulled the latest National Republican Congressional Committee ad in the 5th Congressional District campaign, apparently because of disputes over Democratic candidate Parker Griffith's statements about "radical Islam," according to an NRCC spokesman.
WAAY-TV Channel 31 did not air the ad, which features black-and-white footage of several terrorist bombings and the Sept. 11 attacks before airing audio of Griffith saying, "We have nothing to fear from radical Islam."
NRCC spokesman Brendan Buck said the station told him that some of Griffith's words were taken out of context.
Station mangers at WAAY-TV Channel 31 did not return phone messages left Friday afternoon.
Buck said the NRCC is working with the station to clear up any misunderstandings and hopes to have to the ad back on the air early next week.
"It's just like any other campaign ad where you show video and then take a sentence from a newspaper or other publication and show it," he said. "I don't see a difference between that and this. We're working with the station ... but it's indisputable that Parker Griffith said radical Islam is not a threat to America."
A statement issued from Griffith's campaign accused the NRCC of creating an ad that was "misleading and false."
Griffith, a state senator running against Republican Wayne Parker, told The Times last week that his comment about Islam was meant to address the threat of Islam to America's belief system, not its infrastructure.
The comment was recorded during a question-and-answer session with the Colbert-Lauderdale Baptist Association inSeptember,
"I don't think anyone in the room misunderstood what I was saying," Griffith told The Times. "I was in a room full of Baptist ministers, and we were talking about religion, not matters of national security. The point I was making was that if we are strong in our Christian beliefs, that is stronger than any Islamic threat."
This is the second NRCC ad that WAAY-TV has chosen not to air without modifications. The station and WAFF-TV Channel 48 yanked an ad that attacked Griffith's medical career. The ads were aired a few days later with revisions.
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