Jeb hires as staff writer a fired edtor accused of plagiarism, porn....

[madfloridian]

He hires on the Jax Times Union editor who was fired for allegedly watching porn on the job plus plagiarism. Where are your "values", Jeb?

http://www.theledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050107/NEWS/501070381/1134

SNIP..."TALLAHASSEE -- The day after Gov. Jeb Bush fired a top official because of sexual harassment allegations, Bush's office confirmed the hiring of a controversial former journalist who resigned last November after public allegations of plagiarism and sexual harassment.

Lloyd Brown, 65, resigned his position as editorial page editor of the Florida Times-Union in Jacksonville on Nov. 2 after a newspaper review found instances of plagiarism in some of the editorials Brown had written.

The plagiarism review was sparked after a former TimesUnion editorial writer, Billee Bussard, wrote a lengthy article in Folio Weekly, a Jacksonville weekly newspaper. In the article, titled "Porn, Hypocrisy, Plagiarism: The Dark Side of Jacksonville's Daily," Bussard wrote about Brown's alleged viewing of Internet pornography in the paper's office, claiming he also held sexual conversations on the telephone while viewing the pornography.

Bush spokesman Jacob DiPietre said Thursday that Brown was hired Dec. 20 at an annual salary of $80,000 as a staff writer. In the position, Brown writes speeches, letters to the editor and other material for Bush...."END SNIP

[fertilizeonarbusto]

1. Well, I think that is the

perfect person to write Jebbie's speeches.

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

2. Hey Jeb,

I hear Bernie Kerik's looking for a new job.

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

3. Preview of the next Jeb Bush speech...

"...and then I want you to take the...ah...falafel thing, and you know, hold it down there, while I loofah your..."

OOOPS, sorry, that's O'Reilly.

I always get them confused...and now, it will be even worse.

:evilgrin:

[underpants]

4. Really close to Lloyd Braun from "Seinfeld"

huh?

[Kansas Wyatt]

5. Should be brought to attention....

And dropped, so Jeb keeps him writing for him. When Jeb is about ready to throw his hat in the ring for the Bush Dynasty bid for pResident, pull it back out and beat him over the head with it in the name of 'moral' and 'family' values.

[Synnical]

6. Times Union endorsed Shrub

In one of the most offensive and ridiculous pieces ever written.

It's still online here:

http://www.jacksonville.com/tu-online/stories/103104/opi_17052984.shtml

And was discussed in the Florida forum during the election cycle:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=145x2461#2556

[Synnical]

7. The article

"Porn, Hypocrisy, Plagiarism: The Dark Side of Jacksonville's Daily,"

Is quite the read:

http://www.altweeklies.com/gyrobase/AltWeeklies/Story?oid=oid%3A139917

[madfloridian]

8. This part just jumped out at me.

"If only Lloyd Brown and his boss, publisher Carl Cannon, practiced what is preached by the T-U’s owner, William S. "Billy" Morris III. Morris, who professes to run his privately held media conglomerate according to Christian principles, laid out his corporate philosophy at a July 1995 management meeting of the Augusta, Ga.-based Morris Communications Company:

"My father told me many times when I was growing up: ‘Son, a community is never any better than its local newspaper.’