When Davidson County General Sessions Court Judge Dan Eisenstein spent most of last Wednesday morning on the bench
over a police effort to fix a parking ticket for NewsChannel5 investigative reporter Phil Williams, Williams himself — winner of
for exposés of local ticket-fixing — was
. And testimony from a series of police functionaries hauled before the court made clear Williams had not asked for any favors.
Still, past targets of the crusading journo's stories — including Eisenstein — find the whole situation pretty rich. After the jump: a few choice audio excerpts from the judge's rant last week.
