Tune into WATE “The News Station” tonight at 6:00. You will laugh your ass off. Resident WATE firearms expert Tearsa Smith shows the weapon from the Omaha Mall shooting. She correctly describes the SKS semiautomatic Russian military rifle and it is correctly captioned. But what picture is under the caption? Guess. No, you are mistaken. […]

Indeed. That is the question asked at the end of this piece of investigative journalism by SayUncle’s old friend Tearsa Smith. Tearsa and the WATE news team went to some local hotels on a search for bootie juice (a la an Oprah episode my wife made me watch once). They went to three hotels and, […]

First, Lobbygow reminds us that the Bush administration is considering filing a friend of the court briefing in Kelo v. New London. Next up, my old friend Tearsa Smith has an article on how property is acquired through eminent domain. She left out the phrase usually unconstitutionally. I am a bit annoyed that Wally, the […]

I received and responded to what I’m pretty certain will be the last correspondence I ever get from Tearsa Smith (you can read about our past adventures regarding some misleading statements she made about what was banned by the assault weapons ban here). It seems she, instead of actually dealing with the issue I raised, […]

Regarding the gun bias I mentioned here, I am currently involved in an Email exchange with Tearsa Smith, the reporter. As of now, she is seriously looking at it. I’ll let you know how it ends. She referred to me as Uncle Sam and not SayUncle. Not looking good in the attention to detail department.

Tearsa Smith writes: Military-style weapons are now legal on the streets of East Tennessee after a 10-year federal ban on certain types of weapons expired at midnight. No they are not. Military style weapons (AKA machine guns) have been regulated since 1934 and will continue to be regulated. The assault weapons ban does not affect […]

Local TeeVee news WATE now has a blog, with comments even. Good for them. I’ve gone a few rounds with some of them and, overall, they’re some nice folks despite my issues with some of their reporting.