| I think Vic Sprouse unveils a little too much from the shadowy recesses of his mind that he should really try harder to keep hidden.
Writing (yet again - it's so meta) about Charleston Gazette columnist Phil Kabler mentioning Sprouse in a column, Sprouse revealed:
It's just... weird (1). He's like my own mini-stalker.(2)
I'm guessing that Kabler has one of those rooms like Mel Gibson had on Conspiracy Theory where Julia Roberts happened upon it and it was filled with a whole wall full of photos of her. That's what I'm guessing is in Kabler's apartment. (3)
Otherwise, I can't account for the obsession.(4) The dude literally writes something about me every week. It cracks me up.(5)
Emphasis mine. OK, let's parse this.
1. It's "weird." He's using that word a lot lately. This is coming from the man with 22 marriages and abandoned his own child and he's passing judgment on someone for being weird?
2. He thinks being mentioned in the press is akin to "stalking."
3. Sprouse has a fantasy - I can't think of another term for it - of Kabler having photos of Sprouse all over Kabler's apartment. Like Vegas, what happens in Sprouse's imagination ought to stay in his imagination.
4. "I can't account for the obsession." See 3.
5. In all seriousness, this one is really interesting. Sprouse thinks Kabler is a stalker. Sprouse finds that "cracks me up." Logically doesn't that mean Sprouse thinks stalking is funny?
I know, I know, I referred to logic and a Republican in the same sentence, which makes the question a non sequitur.
Still, some will find it worth noting that Sprouse never offered any defense of the accusation that he's "out of touch" with rural voters. He simply attacked Kabler.
Sprouse also claims that Kabler has written more about him than any other West Virginia figure. Considering how scandalous Sprouse's behavior has been in West Virginia, it's not surprising that Kabler has written about Sprouse a lot. But it's rather narcissistic of the former Senate Minority Leader and "family values" Republican to think he's been written about the most.
But Sprouse doesn't dislike all media attention. He gave lots of praise to Scott Sabatini writing for something called LegalNewsLine for Sabatini's story on Attorney General Darrell McGraw (D) and his GOP challenger Dan Grar.
...the author is Scott Sabatini who does a great job with it.
But why does Sprouse think Sabatini did a great job writing about the McGraw-Grar race?
He quotes Sprouse at length criticizing McGraw.
McGraw's critics, of which there are many, sing in harmony, though fail to force him to in any way to change his tune.
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Republican State Sen. Vic Sprouse, who served on the Joint Committee on Government Operations, called the issue the largest concern facing the West Virginia Legislature in regards to the Attorney General's office. Sprouse admits that, to date, the Legislature has been ineffective. Looking back to the recommendations of the joint committee, Sprouse says they went unheeded.
"I don't know that any of them have been enacted," he said. "It's a case where Darrell McGraw is going to do what he wants to do. He thumbs his nose at the Democratic leadership in the Legislature, and they curl up and let him do what he's going to do."
See what Sabatini didn't include? Sprouse isn't some disinterested, objective observer. Grar has paid Sprouse money to say nice things about him and help elect him. But Sabatini never mentioned that in the article. Either Sprouse failed to mention it to Sabatini or Sabatini deliberately chose not to include in an effort to make McGraw look bad.
How much do you want to bet Sprouse even billed Grar for his services after doing the interview? |
