Here is Steve Hemmingsen’s email response I received yesterday morning:
Man, gimme a break. Readers aren't editors and in the case of many bloggers, they become victims. Who verfies your (generic reference) stuff? Nobody. Want an example of one too few editors? Dan Rather's mess. No I don't think the rest of you are stupid. In fact I think some may be too smart for the public good. You know the old saying: "Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely." Enjoy your power...and use it wisely instead of vicariously. Steve H.
Here is the email response I sent back this morning.
Another open email to Steve Hemmingsen:
To be sure, readers have emailed about problems in my post. I have reacted by adding updates at the bottom of the posts if the issue warrants it.
Your blogger opera column had missing spaces between some words. I suppose an editor would have pointed this out to you. As a reader of your web site, I am pointing them out to you now. Correct them if you want.
That column also brought up the issue of David Kranz and Tom Daschle while attending SDSU in 1976 [correction: they were at SDSU during the 60's, it was 1976 when Kranz wrote about it in the MDR]. Instead of responding to my position on that issue, you bring up Thomas Paine. Then you mentioned "generic reference" in regard to the stuff I post. Do you consider a 1976 David Kranz column published by the Mitchell Daily Republic to be "generic reference"?
Here is the portion of that column that does not support your belief that Kranx "barely knew" Tom Daschle:
More familiar faces are returning from other parts of the country to South Dakota. Tom and Laurie Daschle, aides to Sen. James Abourezk in Washington have been reassigned to Abourezk’s Sioux Falls office.
Daschle is formerly of Aberdeen and his wife is the daughter of PUC commissioner Mrs. Norma Klinkel. We went to college with Daschle at South Dakota State University and worked together on a mock political convention.
Daschle masterminded one of the most successful participation events by students of an unrequired nature when he headed the political science department’s convention project. Well over 650 students got involved in the event which was patterned after the Democratic convention that year because of the general interest.
I remember our tireless search to find a renowned public speaker to address the convention such as McGovern, McCarthy, Humphrey or some other prominent Democrat. With no takers, we finally found a popular young state senator from Salem to address the group. His name was Richard Kneip
(End of column)
During the same 1976 time period, Jason Van Beek found documents in the James Abourezk archive at the I.D. Weeks library in Vermillion that also showed strong ties to Abourezk’s Mitchell office. He has them on the South Dakota Politics blog on the left sidebar [correction: right sidebar] under "The Kranz Bombshell Memos".
These are not "generic references", but documents that Randell Beck refuses to provide to its readers. In fact my attempts to reference them in my letters to the Argus Leader have been met with removal by the "editors" of that paper. Is that what you mean by editing?
Hope you can respond to the facts I have brought to your attention.
Regards,
Steve Sibson
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