Sid Salter: Sloppy or Biased?

In his campaign to tear down the Democratic Party Sid Salter has joined in on a game we'll call "Sloppy or Biased?"

Writing on his blog today he stated that:

My Sunday, July 8 column — written on Friday, July 6 — blasted the state Democratic Party for failing to denounce the Ike Brown debacle in Noxubee County.

By Sunday, Democratic Party Chairman Wayne Dowdy told one of our reporters that he wants Brown to resign as chairman of Noxubee County's executive committee because of the ruling by U.S. District Judge Tom Lee that Brown and the Noxubee County Democratic Executive Committee discriminated against white voters and white candidates.

There are several things wrong with this.

1. Democratic State party officals have denounced Ike Brown and even called for his removal.

2. Wayne Dowdy did not wait to respond "by Sunday," he actually called for his removal 2 days earlier. Ike Brown responds Friday to Dowdy's statement which means that Dowdy's statement had to have been before the response. (Anyone in there Sid?)

3. Salter's column Sunday (two days AFTER Democratic State Party Chair Wayne Dowdy called for Ike Brown's removal) wrote that no prominent state Democrats had denounced him. How much more prominent of a Democrat do you want Mr. Salter, really?

Salter states in his defense that he wrote the column Friday for the Sunday edition of the Clarion Ledger, therefore before he knew of Dowdy's statement. Two full days lapsed between the statement and publication though and the Clarion Ledger's own Perspectives Editor didn't know. You'd think he would read his own paper where political reporter Natalie Chandler mentioned Dowdy's comment in an article published in the Saturday edition. In an era of computers and easy corrections all he had to do was a quick re-write or make a phone call. Instead he chose to attack the Democratic party with a charge that is and remains without merit.

In covering up his partisan tracks Sid Salter leaves the question: Is he simply biased against the state Democratic Party or is he also sloppy?

Update 7/11/2007:
Sid Salter responds to some of my concerns here in the comments of his blog. Here is his strongest excerpt in his defense: (It's actually quite reasonable)

But a few facts. The C-L Sunday "Perspective" section containing my column, along with the "Southern Style" section, are preprint sections with a deadline of Thursday at 6 p.m. The section actually prints in the wee hours on Friday morning and then awaits insertion into the Sunday C-L. That's necessary because of the sheer size of the Sunday paper. It's a common practice at large daily
newspapers.

This answers point three and maybe point one.