Reveille should check who they question
Last week, the Reveille featured an article about LSU students involved in modeling. Joshua Holmes is a good friend of mine and I wanted to add a few things that were left unmentioned.
I understand that Ms. Batts is the woman who sent in the pictures and gave Josh the opportunity to be in Cosmo, but she is hardly someone who knows him on a personal level.
In the short time that they were “friends”, Julie pretended to be about 4 different people, hacked into his e-mail accounts, and forced him to change his phone number.
He and I are frankly both disturbed that the Reveille interviewed someone who knows so little about him. She was right that Josh is like no one else – he is an amazing person with a beautiful spirit.
He goes out of his way for anyone who needs him. He has been there for me on more than one occasion.
Ms. Batts is also correct that he doesn’t drink or smoke, and he is a devout Christian.
However, she cannot possibly know what his life is like now, as he has been gone for five months, back to Tennessee working on his dream of being a sports agent.
Josh is the most down-to-earth person you will ever meet, despite the fact that he has traveled all over the world modeling, worked with superstars, excelled in law school and made a name for himself as an attorney at such a young age.
I just wanted to make sure he was represented fairly by someone who actually KNOWS him, respects him and loves him as a person.
I talked to Josh before writing this letter, and he told me to do what I felt is right … I knew this was right when I saw how upset and ticked off he was by Ms. Batts’ interview.
She was not “part of the deal.”
Meg Kinney
senior
criminology
Where did all the trash talk go?
Recently the gubernatorial race has become a bit of a “he said, she said” affair, with candidates Bobby Jindal and Kathleen Blanco kicking dirt on each other faster than you can say “runoff.”
Both sides are attacking the other’s qualifications, and accusing each other of not caring about the voters.
The two pledged to stop negative campaigning but Jindal kept that promise about as long as one of his TV spots.
Now they’re even attacking each other over the attacks, with Blanco complaining about Jindal attack commercials that don’t even exist.
Whenever campaigns get ugly like this, people often reminisce about a time when “the issues mattered,” and politics were more civilized.
These people have absolutely no clue what they’re talking about.
Today’s mud slinging is nothing compared to the great debates our founding fathers used to engage in.
Back in the early nineteenth century it was all fair game.
You had men attacking the sobriety of their opponents, even the virtue of their wives and mothers.
I say we need to get back to our roots.
If Blanco and Jindal are going to take shots at each other, they should swing for the fence.
Let’s hear a “yo’ mama” every now and then.
Perhaps one of the candidates has an affinity for farm animals.
For Pete’s sake, Jindal changed his name to match a “Brady Bunch” character; if that’s not cause for a good joke, then what is?
Let’s hear some real name-calling, folks.
If these two want to be governor, shouldn’t we hold them to the standards of our great political past?
Billy Gomila
senior
mass communication