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Blaming the victims and Obama for what's happened in Flint
An ugly News-Register editorial
This afternoon's News-Register editorial tells us that "Political Stunt Stalls Flood Aid." The editorial blames "ultra-liberals" and Democrats for holding up flood aid to West Virginia. Their crime was that they wanted Flint, Michigan to be part of the aid package. The editorial explains to us that the Republicans . . .
"It's like déjà vu all over again."
- Yogi Berra
Okay, today's Intelligencer editorial page looks like most Intelligencer editorial pages: it has two anti-Clinton columns, an editorial praising Shelley Moore Capito, and an op-ed piece by Intelligencer favorite Patrick Morrisey. If it looks a bit too familiar, however, there's a reason -- it's the exact same page as . . .
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Morrisey watch 20
Another op-ed piece
This morning's Intelligencer published an op-ed piece by Attorney General Morrisey which explains his justification for today's appearance before the U.S. Court of Appeals to fight the Clean Power Plan. (Note -- Morrisey op-ed is not on the Intelligencer site. Link is to the Daily Mail editorial page.) A . . .
Empty promises?
Some additional coverage of Trump's Pittsburgh energy speech
Of course, there were no discouraging words to be found in local reporter and fossil fuel propagandist Casey Junkins' coverage of Donald Trump's speech to the energy conference in Pittsburgh last Thursday. (I wrote about it here.) There were certainly some in the national media, however. Here's a summary of some of those reports.
. . .Odds and ends on a Monday morning
Candidate Doug Reynolds finally gets some local coverage
This morning's Intelligencer had a page 1 story on the Democratic candidate for Attorney General, Doug Reynolds. The article mentioned his background and explained some of his positions. The piece marks the first time this election year that Reynolds has been mentioned, let . . .
Documenting the locals' anti-Clinton agenda 14
Weekend edition
Saturday
After Friday's "Trump: Hillary Waging Costly 'War on Energy' " (see below), Saturday became "attack Hillary/ignore Donald" day. A Google search of potential Clinton and Trump news stories yields numerous AP reports (see the polls below, for instance) that might have been used in Saturday's . . .
Friday's Intelligencer goes into full-propaganda mode for the Republican Party
Trump, Cole and Morrisey -- did they miss anyone?
"Trump: Hillary Waging Costly 'War on Energy' "
This headline in a large font accompanied by a 4" x 6" picture of Donald Trump, dominates the top half of this morning's Intelligencer front page. The article, by Intelligencer reporter and propagandist for the fossil fuel industry Casey Junkins, covers . . .