Clueless in Wheeling
Representative McKinley comments on Trump's recent WV speech
From Representative David McKinley's Twitter feed:
It was great having @POTUS in West Virginia this afternoon to discuss the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. What a great leader who is keeping his promises to our state. pic.twitter.com/AixNOPSC2T
— David B. McKinley (@RepMcKinley) April 5, 2018
Except that Trump didn't discuss tax . . .
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New Patrick Morrisey ad “blows up” Washington
An instant classic!
I'm running for U.S. Senate not to just change Washington, but to blow it up and reinvent it.
— AG Patrick Morrisey (@MorriseyWV) April 5, 2018
Washington is fundamentally broken. We can fix that with a West Virginia conservative fighter! #wvsen pic.twitter.com/hogbOoYnms
As Splinter describes it:
Then it gets really . . .
Trump in West Virginia
Thursday, April 5
Manchin gets his reward for cozying to Trump
From CNBC:
President Donald Trump quickly turned a tax reform event in West Virginia into a broad political venting session Thursday, including repeated swipes at the state's vulnerable Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin.
Flanked by Rep. Evan Jenkins, R-W.V., and West . . .
Teacher strikes always bring out the best in state officials
Oklahoma governor worries about the influence of “outside groups” like NEA and WV union leaders and ANTIFA
Oklahoma Governor Mary Falin was interviewed by Omar Villafranca from CBS News. From TPM:
“Teachers want more, but it’s kinda like having a teenage kid that wants a better car,” Fallin told CBS correspondent Omar Villafranca.
Villafranca pointed out that “their car has been taken away over the last 10 years.”
“Well, it . . .
Posted in: teacher unions
Cherry-picked statistics and straw-man arguments
Yes, it’s another Ogden editorial on gun control
First, we get the “straw man argument:”
London, England, is reminding Americans that gun control does not translate automatically to reducing violence.
(Is anyone, liberal or otherwise, arguing that it “automatically” translates?)
From there, Monday’s Wheeling News-Register editorial* ignores the . . .
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Additional reaction to Sinclair Broadcasting's "commitment to reporting facts"
Trump, Oliver, Sinclair and Scarborough
The Deadspin videos (see one post down) have gone viral and helped to increase awareness of what Sinclair Broadcasting is trying to do to local TV news. Here are some of the reactions:
From President Trump:
So funny to watch Fake News Networks, among the most dishonest groups of people I have ever dealt with, criticize Sinclair . . .
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Sinclair Broadcasting’s news readers: “This is extremely dangerous to our democracy”
I hope they see the irony
Timothy Burke at Deadspin has put together an excellent compilation of the talking heads (the Sinclair puppets -- not the 80’s band) looking like Sinclair’s “hostages in proof-of-life videos.” (If you watch closely, you'll see two of local channel 9's anchors.)
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