Melton Presents New D.A., Kept Distance During Campaign

Here is the link to WJTV. I think it will work.

The other video of Melton is there too, but they edited it down some.

Won't work for me.

Already starting off on a lie. Way to go, Rob.

Here's photo with Hickingbottom. Click on image to make it bigger.

It takes me to their video page, then you have to click on the Melton part. Or it's under Local Video now.

My guess is none of the other media outlets will show the whole Melton introduction.

Page won't load. TV sites are the worst.

Well, hopefully this WLBT video will work. It shows Hickingbottom ushering in Smith and working the cameras out of the way.

I don't know how the NJammer's rationalize this out? How many times does one have to get fooled before they stop repeating their mistakes.

Ha! WJTV has already deleted their video of Melton and trimmed out the Smith interview! LOL! Here is the home page link.

Why are they hiding the truth? I shoulda taken screen shots. Oh well.

I love blogging here! We have a huge audience that just reacts and reacts and reacts to everything we say over here. I love it! Obsessed with bloggers like they are obsessed with crime! When you have a web site (maybe two now!) almost wholly dedicated to bashing the editor of the JFP, you have to be doing something right!

Never mind... It is back... My last paragraph still stands! ;-)

Old Chinese Proverb - sleep with dogs >> wake up with fleas. Start scratching Mr. DA!

you have to be doing something right!

Indeed. Making the status quo react is part of the plan. It builds readership and exposes their real priorities. If you can't shine line where it needs to go, you can never effect change.

They stoned us when we reported facts about Melton, and they stoned us when we reported facts about Bush. When we turned out to be right, they just stopped talking about those things. If we're proved right about Smith being a mistake, they'll look for something different to stone us for. It's utterly predictable.

More than any of the others, we want to be wrong about Smith, by the way. I hope and pray that he comes in as a strong and independent D.A. who continues the good stuff Peterson started, with a determination to root out corruption at all levels of government. One delightful scenario would be if he is the one fooling Peters and Melton. Let's all pray for that scenario to be true and that he's strong enough to stand up to them as needed. I want him to show us all that he is his grandfather's grandson by standing up to the machine, not bowing before it. I'm rooting for it.

Unlike some other ugly folks, I never want my concerns to prove true in order to be right. And I don't want idiots in office in order to be entertained (that one's for a particular editor in town).

Last night was not a good sign, but maybe Smith will continue to fool them until he gets into office. That's a plot line I could really dig.

...Making the status quo react is part of the plan. It builds readership and exposes their real priorities. If you can't shine line where it needs to go, you can never effect change.
That is true Donna. Making them react is part of the plan, but it appears WJTV's hasty reaction to take down FM's introduction of Smith---on such a BIG news day of a story so germane to yesterday's events--further promotes their effort to control and shape what we see, hear, think, and even how some of us may vote. Sadly, it appears to have worked in this case. Our so called mainstream media here is a disgrace. If it were not for the JFP, many of us would be totally lost. []Thank you[i/] seems so empty, but I THANK YOU Donna, and the rest of the JFP staff for keeping us informed.

OK, So now we will have DA Smith. Nothing to do but hope he does well and that Faye will heal rapidly from the pain of losing and find herself in better circumstances with plenty of less stressful work!

BUT, Is Higginbottom being paid through or by the City of Jackson? We must know this ASAP. He worked on the Tyrone Lewis campaign and he worked on the Smith campaign and I, for one, am opposed to paying him to do these things. The Administrative Budget is not a place to hide people who are not working on City business. In some people's twisted minds electing sycophants might be considered City business. Certainly not in this citizen's scope of what is right!

Well, remember that the mainstream media would not report that Bluntson made a deal with D.A. Peters to step down during the juvenile detention center scandal, and then went to work for him.

You'd think that would have been relevant during his campaign. His opponent, Bo Brown, tried to get the media to look at it, but they wouldn't.

As for Hickingbottom (note spelling), is he listed in the campaign finance reports as being paid by the campaigns? Can y'all check it out?

And I agree about the media: Why isn't a photo of Melton and Smith together ont he front page of the Ledger today? Is it that Grace Simmons, once again, does not think that it's news that the person Smith tried to distance himself from then introduced him for his acceptance speech?

What is news? Folks, I keep saying it: The media coverage here is damn close to our biggest problem. THE PEOPLE can, and must, change it.

I'm not in the activism business, but if I were a non-media person who cares about the c ity, I would seriously consider starting a media watchdog group and Web site.

The misinformation Jackson has been fed over the years has made the city ripe for corruption. I mean, come on. How many people don't even know how the criminal-justice system WORKS? I'm even talking ATTORNEYS. Or, they're l ying and taking advantage of other people's ignorance.

My point is that the Internet is the great equalizer and anti-gatekeeper. We are doing our job as a media outlet, but we can't do it all. I urge citizens who care about this city and county to take the media problem into your own hands.

BUT, Is Higginbottom being paid through or by the City of Jackson?

Supposedly, he was hired through a temp agency some time ago to work for the city. I don't know if he's still with the temp agency.

How can any one actually agree to, and be, Melton's "do boy"? I mean, all these people running for office because Melton wants them to, so he can control everything, do they not have a brain of their own and realize they are his puppet and will be even more so if they win an office? Melton now owns the positions of mayor, police chief, fire chief, district attorney.. what else? It's crazy and even crazier is the people voting for what Melton wants! Is there something in the water??

Even if Hickingbottom is employed by a temp agency, thus a contract employee of the city, city funds are being used to pay him. Therefore, he should be scrutinized as a representative of the city.

Stephanie Parker-Weaver called Higgingbottom "a legend in his own mind, a self-described political spin doctor, gutless, a lunitic, a flunky and a gofer." She had the right discription; however, it sounds like a self portriat to me. ...and for damn sure it sounds like a melton group photo-op.

I wonder what happened to make SPW turn on Bob. Turning on a fellow Meltonite doesn't just happen.