Our favorite squishy ex-Attorney General and onetime radio talk show host, Grant Woods is a showboater extraordinaire. Last week we caught him as he appeared on CBS’s 60 Minutes, with his shorts in a knot over what he declared the “mistreatment” of former Alabama governor, Democrat Don Siegelman. The governor was convicted in federal court of bribery and is serving a seven year prison sentence.
Woods, a RINO, who has threatened to reregister as a Democrat, would have us believe Siegelman was unfairly targeted by Republicans since he was the “one Democrat they could never get rid of.”
Turns out Woods’ statements have been scrutinized and found wanting by the very reporter who worked for the Mobile Press Register and exposed Siegelman’s wrongdoings through a series of articles.
Eddie Curran, no longer with the paper, is now writing a book about the administration, the trial and the aftermath. He contacted the producers at CBS to set the record straight on numerous factual errors. Here is the disapproving and clarifying letter Curran sent.
Curran questions why Woods’ longtime friendship with the former governor, which would render him unreliable as the independent voice of reason he portrayed, was not disclosed during his appearance on the reliably left-wing program.
In fact it was Woods who gathered the signatures of 52 former attorneys general in defense of his friend, Don Siegelman—another fact conveniently undisclosed by interviewer Scott Pelley.
Watch the skewed 60 Minutes segment Did Ex-Alabama Governor Get A Raw Deal?
March 2, 2008 at 5:52 pm
Woods is angling for a spot in what he hopes will be a McCain administration. Good luck. It ain’t gonna happen.
March 2, 2008 at 6:21 pm
Grant Woods? Look in the dictionary under slickster. His picture is there.
March 2, 2008 at 7:01 pm
When Grant Woods and his former newcaster wife, Marlene Galan, were married, it was at the McCain ‘cabin’ in Cornville. I put quotes around the word, because that cabin far supasses the primary residences of most Arizonans. Cindy McCain wants only the best…and can well afford to supply it.
March 2, 2008 at 7:19 pm
Not even a NEW car!!
March 3, 2008 at 8:00 am
Woods has long been known as a media junkie. He is drawn to a camera and microphone the way moths are lured to a flame.
March 3, 2008 at 2:12 pm
Just read today’s Hugh Hewitt’s blog. He covers this from the same angle as Seeing Red. CBS appears not to have many takers. Hewitt directs readers to the Powerline blog coverage. It is more lengthy and in-depth.
Thought you might find it interesting. They dissect the so-called “scandal” and put it in perspective, also.
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives2/2008/03/019926.php
August 3, 2008 at 10:39 am
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