Sam Adams has given an in-depth interview to Hollie Teal, the blogger who organized the rally outside city hall last month. Teal admits that she doesn’t exactly consider herself an objective journalist:
I received warnings that he was a cutthroat politician, that he was arrogant, and that he might be trying to manipulate me. It’s fair to say that amidst my excitement, I was also cautious.
The big hug he gave me melted my caution a bit. I wasn’t expecting him to be so warm, engaging and sincere.
Nevertheless, Adams did speak out more to her than he has to anyone else in town, journalists included, since the scandal broke:
I asked him how Ron Wyden’s snub affected him: “It hurt,” he said. He reiterated what he’s said in the past: people need to go through their own response to what’s happened. He added that the press had last month made it difficult for Sen. Wyden to speak about the economic stimulus plan because they were focused instead on Sam. For this reason, he felt it wasn’t an unreasonable response for Wyden not to invite Sam to Monday’s meeting, but it was more about the press causing a distraction than about Wyden not taking Sam seriously as a peer.
Check out more over at Teal’s blog.
Did the jump.
Good read.
She did a good job, it took a lot of guts to do the interview and publish it.
Sam still comes off as a text book narcissist.
If people are focused on Sam’s sex life instead of the economy, then they have nothing to blame but themselves and their own warped priorities.
This thing has reached beyond the point of ridiculousness. It’s like some collective insanity has hit about half the people here, and I’m really ashamed that this is happening in Portland.
SERIOUSLY, get the fuck over this already and let’s move on with things that actually MATTER.
It’s Hollie, but whatever.
Corrected. Thanks.
“text book narcissist” = “career politician”
not that theres anything wrong with that
“Teal admits that she doesn’t exactly consider herself an objective journalist” – Matt what do you consider yourself? Im curious.
“I received warnings that he was a cutthroat politician, that he was arrogant, and that he might be trying to manipulate me. It’s fair to say that amidst my excitement, I was also cautious.” Any ‘journalist’ about to interview Adams for first time would get same warnings & have same reactions. Trick is to GET the interview. And I wonder how come hollie got this nice long sit down interveiw & the mercury didnt.
http://www.mcafee.cc/Bin/sb.html + Teal’s article = Case study.
Okay, Vert. You’re welcome to cast whatever tainted light you want on my article, but I was there and the person I had brunch with was not sociopathic. That is, of course, unless he was so incredibly brilliant that he was able to fake being kind, engaged, warm and, believe it or not, remorseful.
I’m growing incredibly weary of asking people over and over to stop judging based on speculation, rumor or conjecture. Having an opinion that Adams shouldn’t be mayor is fine– I respect that opinion. Where I start to get irked is when folks try to present their opinions as fact, and then start with these screechy smear campaigns that divert the public’s attention away from the actual work the mayor is doing.
The truth is that our city, along with the rest of our country, is not in great financial shape. What’s best for the city at this time is to focus on doing what we can to get through it. How does calling the mayor a sociopath based on my one blog post contribute in any constructive way?
Vert, that is dead on.
Hollie, take off the rose colored glasses.
Hollie,
What you describe is what a victim of a narcissist says.
“…victim of a narcissist…”
what is that?