Throw-Away News

Since Friday is a "throw-away news day" I thought it appropriate to briefly comment on two stories that will most certain break late on a Friday afternoon . . . when they break.

Folks in my immediate hometown sphere (I believe that Courier Tribune "reporter", J.D. Walker, would call it a "quarter") are taking bets on which story will break first - padlocks on Community One's doors - or the criminal indictment of former N.C. Senator-turned-porn-star John Edwards. 

Both are overdue, IMHO.  And I'm not taking any bets.

I continue to follow the thread at the GSO N&R on its most recent Community One story - you know, the one that had the Courier Tribune (my favorite newspaper - NOT) beat by 5 days.  And, although it's a little late to still be dropping comments on that story, I did post there again today - in response to a comment scolding those of us who are enjoying watching some of Asheboro's mightiest-&-smuggest fall for being "smug":

. . . are you REALLY going to go there?

"Feeling smug"? Really?  I'm FROM Asheboro - and, at one point in time, I did business with FNB.  And I've watched others do business with them.  And I can assure you that over the years, the "right people" of Asheboro - including and especially Mike Miller (I DO blame him) - who ran this bank into the ground with their greed and risky expansionist theories - did not give a rat's tail about the folks who wound up with the smelly end of the stick.  They've sneered and spit for years at the ordinary people of Asheboro . . . used and manipulated them for their purposes . . . they are the DEFINITION of "smug" and "arrogant" and "cliquish".

They're getting a karmic comeuppance now - and the only thing that doesn't make it a beautiful thing to watch is knowing that a whole lot of people who do not deserve it - who TRUSTED this bank - who will be going down with them.

With regards to the Courier Tribune . . . PUHLEASE!!!  Maybe they could get people to go on the record if ANYONE in town trusted them to tell a story - not just fairly - but tell it PERIOD.

http://drjshousecalls.blogspot.com/2011/03/buzz-armfield-on-record-on-community.html


Moving on along, the Greensboro N&R reported yesterday that Edwards' former left-hand man, Andrew Young, was re-interviewed by the Feds yesterday - increasing speculation that the t's are being crossed and i's dotted for an impending indictment.  The story was in the News & Observer today - and was once again shaded towards questioning Young's credibility as a witness for the prosecution (without making any comparison to the wholesale liar who would be sitting in the defendant's chair). 

It makes me sick that North Carolina's big-city newspapers continue to front for their once-favorite-son . . . and attempt to soften the blows deservedly coming his way (much like the Courier Tribune provided a light, fluffy exit for Mike Miller's hop, skip and jump into the President's chair at Pfeiffer College).

You have to wonder who the source for this story is - because it's definitely slanted in favor of Edwards.

I'm thinking that the Edwardian sex tape case was NEVER about getting the sex tape back. That horse is out of the barn - and it will probably be on Pay-Per-View soon. It was primarily about attacking Young's credibility before an indictment - throwing the legal kitchen sink at him INSTEAD of Edwards (where it needs to be thrown) and trying to ward off a criminal case.

I'm also thinking that, in this particular "public integrity" case, the American people are just a little tired of Obama's Justice Department stalling. You also have to wonder about what kind of deals were struck when they were still candidates - before Edwards dropped out of the race.

Edwards' entire second campaign for President was about perpetuating a FRAUD. It's time he paid the Piper.

I'm kinda wondering how different things might have been in both of these cases if our local and state newspapers had taken off the rose-colored glasses, and not thrown away so much of the news coming their way . . .

. . . if they'd actually had a "watchful eye"?

Evening Update

It just gets better and better.  The National Enquirer reports that the Feds were grilling Young in an effort to decide how they might use him.  He could be indicted as a "co-conspirator" (ala John Dean), and (as opposed to just being called as a witness), might be prosecuted on a lesser charge in exchange for his testimony.

Perjury being so important to the Feds and all.