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Raster

(20,998 posts)
Tue Dec 27, 2016, 10:11 AM Dec 2016

An Oklahoma Newspaper Endorsed Clinton. It Hasnt Been Forgiven.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/26/us/oklahoma-newspaper-hillary-clinton-endorsement.html?&target=comments&hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&modref=HPCommentsRefer&clickSource=story-heading&module=first-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0#commentsContainer

ENID, Okla. — One Sunday after church, Jeff Mullin and his wife were in line at the Western Sizzlin steakhouse here when a man, fists clenched, threatened to beat the hell out of him.

“My first thought was just to kind of try to keep things calm. Otherwise, it was going to be two old guys rolling around on the floor of the steakhouse, and that would be pretty unseemly,” recalled Mr. Mullin, 64, the mustachioed senior writer for Enid’s daily newspaper, The Enid News & Eagle.

The dispute was not personal. It was, of all things, editorial.

Mr. Mullin’s red newspaper in a red county in what is arguably the reddest of states went blue this campaign season and endorsed Hillary Clinton for president. The editorial board, in a gray-shaded column on Page A4 on Oct. 9, wrote that Donald J. Trump lacked “the skills, experience or temperament to hold office.” The headline and subhead read: “For U.S. president: Hillary Clinton is our choice for commander in chief.”

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http://www.enidnews.com/

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An Oklahoma Newspaper Endorsed Clinton. It Hasnt Been Forgiven. (Original Post) Raster Dec 2016 OP
Hang in there Enid News, you will be proven correct in 2017! Dustlawyer Dec 2016 #1
Remember eons ago, during the campaign..... Paladin Dec 2016 #2
A little over 79 million didn't vote for the Cheeto..... Historic NY Dec 2016 #3

Paladin

(28,246 posts)
2. Remember eons ago, during the campaign.....
Tue Dec 27, 2016, 10:48 AM
Dec 2016

when every newspaper of consequence in the whole freaking country---blue states, red states, and every shade in-between--- endorsed Clinton, giving us yet another indication that she'd walk into the White House without even breaking a sweat? And now Trump goons have emerged from under their rocks and are threatening newspaper employees. If you're not outraged, you're not paying attention.

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