Spitball Army

I would enjoy the job of synthesizing topical news articles in the manner that newsy.com does it; their work and website were unknown to me until recently.

Never having heard of the website previously, today I received an e-mail from a member of the ‘Newsy Community Team’ asking me to consider embedding their take on the debate surrounding the Tim James ‘Language’ ad.  The note describing their video presentation read partially thus:

The video includes most of the television ad and shows a few different opinions on the ad, James and whether it will win him much popularity for governor amongst right-wing voters. Some think the ad is quite offensive and misleading. Others agree with the Republican candidate and want to see such an English-only law passed. Then are those who simply think the message and directness of James’ ad will attract a good number of conservative Alabamans.

My Newsy correspondent also said that ‘In your post, you point out that James nearly seems to be “switching his party affiliation from Republican to Tea.” ‘  While I didn’t say that (I actually said this: “Has Tim James switched his party affiliation from Republican to Tea?  No (not yet anyway).”), the Tim James platform, as it appears to be taking shape, does seem more slanted toward the conservative activism that is representative of the Tea Party movement than toward traditional Republicanism.

Herewith the newsy.com take on the Tim James brouhaha: