WTOK, Channel 11 of Meridian, Mississippi, ran a short profile of Judge Marcus Gordon, the judge for the murder trial of Edgar Ray Killen, which is slated to start June 13. The print version on the news story has a link that allows you to view the news segment on your Windows Media Player.
Meridian, Mississippi is the city where James Chaney was born and where Michael Schwerner had been doing civil rights work for four months before Klansmen murdered the two young men, along with Andrew Goodman. Killen is accused of having been the ringleader of the murder plot.
Apparently, reporter Wade Phillips did a quick google search to gauge the opinions of Judge Gordon from people "on the fringes of both sides." They mention me as the counterpoint to the Nationalist Movement (sorry, no link: you can google 'em if you're really curious). Here's the passage where HungryBlues makes its television debut:
"I've always been impressed with his fairness and unbiased conduct of trial," said Stanley Dearman, the former editor of the Neshoba Democrat newspaper.
But not everyone agrees with Dearman. A quick Google search of his name brings up more than a hundred references. People on the fringes of both sides have less than kind things to say about Gordon.
The white supremacist Nationalist organization has called him the self-proclaimed embodiment of communist agitators, and branded him the re-incarnation of Michael Schwerner, one of the three civil rights workers killed in 1964.
On the other side, the liberal website, Hungry Blues, questioned how badly Gordon wanted to try the case after he delayed it when Killen was hurt in a tree cutting accident. That kind of criticism doesn't seem to faze the judge.
"I have a job to do and I recognize the law, and in doing so I think sometimes people don't understand fairness," Gordon said.
This is the post they refer to, complete with a quick camera pan of a computer monitor while my post is on screen (screenshot above).
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