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Reasonable Doubt Tonight

Todd Dupont, Kelly Siegler, [edit: Har­ris County pros­e­cu­tor Mur­ray New­man, ] and I will be on Rea­son­able Doubt live tonight at 8:00 p.m. Com­cast chan­nel 17.

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Mark Bennett got his letter of marque from the Supreme Court of Texas in May 1995. He is famous for having no sense of humor when it comes to totalitarianism.

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16 Responses to “Reasonable Doubt Tonight”

  1. Matlock says:

    Are you going to post this tomor­row like you did last time?

  2. Mark Bennett says:

    That’s my plan.

  3. Colin says:

    Being as I live in Bal­ti­more, it is a strange thing to find myself cap­ti­vated by what I assume to be a cable-access show on local pol­i­tics in Hous­ton. Maybe I should get out more.

  4. Mark Bennett says:

    Con­trary to pop­u­lar belief, the rev­o­lu­tion will be televised.

  5. virgogirl says:

    For those of us who don’t get Hous­ton Pub­lic Access chan­nel, will you be telling us how the show went last night?

  6. Mark Bennett says:

    It was like being in an hour-long polit­i­cal ad for Kelly Siegler. Todd and I were gen­tle with our guests, there weren’t as many callers as expected, and most of the callers were also gen­tle with our guests.

    The post­ing of the video has been post­poned because of tech­ni­cal dif­fi­cul­ties: the fil­ter between Todd’s brain and his mouth failed, cre­at­ing the need for a lit­tle edit­ing before the video is suit­able for release.

  7. Mark's Dad says:

    Very clever of Kelly Siegler to sched­ule her appear­ance with Mark at a time when every­one in Texas, other than me, was watch­ing the Hillary/Barack debate in Austin.

    She acknowl­edged that she has made mis­takes but did not elaborate.

    Did any of those mis­takes result in an inno­cent man being executed?

  8. virgogirl says:

    I think we would all pre­fer the unedited ver­sion. Who made the deci­sion to go easy on her? Were there any highlights?

  9. virgogirl says:

    Good point about her tim­ing Mark’s Dad. She’s a crafty lit­tle one

  10. A Harris County Lawyer says:

    Nice to see that Vir­goGirl has come over from the Chron­i­cle pages.

    Here’s just a thought for your con­sid­er­a­tion, Mark’s Dad and VirgoGirl:

    If Kelly didn’t want to be seen on the show, it prob­a­bly would have been much eas­ier to not go on it at all rather than be “crafty” and sched­ule her appear­ance on the night of the Obama/Clinton debate.

    Just a thought.

  11. virgogirl says:

    Nope too smart for that. She has said she will try to make her­self more acce­si­ble to defense attor­neys she is not going refuse to go on the show hosted by defense attor­neys or appear to back down from the tough ques­tions posed by them. Not her style but she can con­trol when she does it.

  12. Mark Bennett says:

    Dad, I’ve gotta tell you: not every­one is going to appre­ci­ate your sense of humor. (I’ve been wait­ing 30 years to say that!)

    Good ques­tion on the mis­take. That was one of the ques­tions she dodged at the debate.

    Vir­gogirl, my cohost had an attack of Tourette’s Syn­drome. You won’t miss any­thing impor­tant in the edited ver­sion. Todd was being a good host; he wasn’t going to invite some­one on his show to be skewered.

    I think it would be rea­son­able for Kelly to hope that as many peo­ple as pos­si­ble see the show. This was a much bet­ter for­mat for her than the HCCLA debate. Her min­ions have already been press­ing me to get the video up online.

  13. virgogirl says:

    The same min­ions who solicited each offi­cer for a com­ment that could be placed on her web­site so Kelly could claim she didn’t ask for their sup­port? I guess its tech­ni­cally true but claim­ing they came to her was quite a stretch.

  14. virgogirl says:

    Mark, we must know what your co host said. Did he acci­den­tally curse, did he hol­lar out racial slurs? Did he ask Kelly for another mat­tress reen­act­ment? Do tell.

  15. A Harris County Lawyer says:

    Mark,
    I got your Dad’s sense of humor. He’s proud of his son, as well he should be.

    Vir­goGirl, regard­less of who asked who to do what endorse­ment or who vol­un­teered to do what, I fail to see what dif­fer­ence it makes. It is a cam­paign, after all. I don’t really find it all that hard to believe that homi­cide cops (both retired and active) would come to lend their sup­port to Kelly on their own. She’s been try­ing vio­lent crimes and cap­i­tal mur­ders for two decades now. And she’s been doing it well. Is it really so hard to believe that she earned their respect and admi­ra­tion?
    Lykos cer­tainly doesn’t have their back­ing, and do you really believe that SHE didn’t seek it?

  16. virgogirl says:

    Har­ris County Lawyer it doesn’t mat­ter to me who asks whom for endorse­ments its the dis­hon­esty that both­ers me. Her peo­ple called each cop and asked for them to think of a quote for the web site. Not a huge deal just say that instead of think­ing up some­thing that you think sounds good at the time.

    Mark, I got a chance to lis­ten to you on that drug guy’s radio show. You were pretty elo­quent. kudos.

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