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Since you checked my home page you could have checked my recent posts and seen how this came about. I was coming at this from an entirely different side. I got into contact first with Tom Turnipseed, who is an uber Bush basher. He told me Turnipseed was a solid Bush man (much to his disgust).

That started me thinking that something didn't quite sound right, so I called him up. If you want to verify further, you can do your own leg work. It isn't that difficult. I don't want to post Turnipseed's phone number or email address. But you could find them if you wanted to.

And yes, Turnipseed would like his side to get out. He gave me his consent to spread the word and to contact news agencies, such as Fox--which I have done.

The story is so good, I have to wonder too about your bona fides. Don't take this wrong, because I don't know. But the NewsMax Carl thread seems to confirm your narrative.

Time will tell if you are real, but it seems credible, at the least.

Tom Turnipseed, former President of the SC Trial Lawyers Association, is a plaintiff's and civil rights attorney in Columbia, SC. He was co-counsel for the Macedonia Baptist Church, an African American congregation in Clarendon County, SC which won a $37,000,000.00 (Thirty Seven Million Dollar) verdict in 1998 against the Ku Klux Klan for burning their church. A former SC State Senator, he is active in state politics and has been the democratic nominee for state Attorney General and Congress. He now serves on the state Executive Committee of the Democratic Party. Tom is President of the Center for Democratic Renewal (formerly the Anti-Klan Network) a nationally recognized civil rights organization based in Atlanta. In 1998, he received the Holmes-Weatherly Award, the Unitarian-Universalist Association's highest honor for the pursuit of social justice. For many years, Tom has spoken and written on political and human rights; he has hosted radio and television shows in Columbia, SC and recently appeared on CBS-TVs "Life Remembers" on Dec. 30th, 1998 and " Forgotten Fires" on PBS-TV on April 29th,, 1999. His work has been published in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Atlanta Constitution, The Charlotte Observer and other papers.

Muy dumb question: Are the two Turnipseeds related? As a Columbia native I have been tortured with Tom T.'s smarmy drawl on local radio for decades. Fortunately, his show is cancelled with a metronome-like regularity, which he always blames on the local right-wing conspiracy. What must his brother (if it's so) think?

And yes, Turnipseed would like his side to get out.

If Gen. Turnipseed wants his side of the story to get out, he is going to have to do it on broadcast media, either radio or TV. Newspaper reporter interviews by phone or Internet postings are irrelevant for this purpose.