Tupelo Celebration of Cultures ‘08

The Tupelo Celebration of Cultures ‘08 was this Saturday. Check out this video by Daily Journal photographer Deste Lee did a great job of capturing the event. Daily Journal crime reporter (food critic) Danza Johnson and Lee County Neighbors editor Bobby Pepper join in. Thanks for watching.

Fact checking the presidential debates

By CALVIN WOODWARD and JIM KUHNHENN
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON – Some facts got lost when Democrat Barack Obama and Republican John McCain confronted each other over the financial crisis, Iraq, the oil industry and more in the first presidential debate of the 2008 general election.
Here are examples:

Who won, who lost, or was it a tie?

What did you think of the debate? Did you watch? Did it change your position? Post any thoughts here.

Debate photos

Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., left, shakes hands with Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama prior to the start of the presidential debate, Friday, Sept. 26, 2008, at the University of Mississippi in Oxford, Miss.. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill. left, and Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain, [...]

Goodnight From Oxford

It was an amazing night. We got to hear Jim Lehrer tear the audience a new one when explaining the rules of a debate – his debates, anyway. The Square was absolutely packed with the young, old and inbetween. It made me proud to be both a Mississippian and an American.
Here are some scenes form [...]

Obama, McCain argue over war, taxes in 1st debate

By BETH FOUHY
The Associated Press
OXFORD – John McCain accused Barack Obama of compiling “the most liberal voting record in the United States Senate” Friday night in their first debate of a close campaign for the White House. The Democrat shot back, “Mostly that’s just me opposing George Bush’s wrong-headed policies.”
Obama said his Republican rival has [...]

Food tent update

6:13 P.M. – Just got back from the Food Tent with chief photog Thomas Wells. It was great – ribs, backed beans and some kind of corn casserole from The Rendezvous in Memphis.
We actually heard from Emily Wagster-Pettus that she saw somebody trying to eat the ribs with a knife and fork.Whooooooa! Serious Southern social [...]

Another update from Patsy …

5:12 p.m. – Yipes, for all the NPR eggheads out there, myself included, Mara Liasson is sitting right down from me at Table F. What a charge!
She also doubles as a semi-liberal on Fox, but it’s good to see her at our table.
Sen. Lindsay Graham of South Carolina just came strolling him.

John Kerry …

I just walked out of the media center to see if the ribs had arrived, when I looked up and John Kerry was sitting on the curb under a tree, talking to a reporter.
See my photo.
More soon on the goodie bag.

More celebrity sightings:

Gov. Bill Richardson in the Obama media corner.
Sen. Carl Levin getting makeup to go into the Obama corner.
Greta Van Sustrand with Fox.
Just talked to Peter Mayer with CBS Radio News and he explained to me what was going to happen to us tonight, when the debate starts.
He says, even as Obama and McCain are talking, [...]