John Kasich: “I don’t read newspapers in the State of Ohio.”

[RandySF]

Seriously folks. The guy running the state of Ohio proudly declared today: “I don’t read newspapers in the State of Ohio.” His reason? Because it doesn’t give him “an uplifting experience.”

Ugh.

He claims his disdain for print journalism and his lack of interest in important, current events is not that new, and it’s “just like presidents have done in the past.” The only President I know of that has ever publicly admitted to not reading newspapers was George W. Bush. Enough said.

The fact that Kasich doesn’t read about state or local news certainly does explain a lot about his policies and his general lack of interest and concern for what Ohioans want, need and expect from his administration. When you have absolutely no clue what is going on in the state, and have no idea how Ohioans are reacting to your policies, it’s much easier to believe all those yes-men you’ve surrounded yourself with.

http://www.plunderbund.com/2011/11/28/john-kasich-i-dont-read-newspapers-in-the-state-of-ohio/

[Ninga]

1. Seriously Randy, those of us living in Ohio are being screwed every day by this joker. *sigh*

[LiberalFighter]

2. Will print media give him positive press?

Encourage others to vote for him with their editorial?

[csziggy]

3. It must be an ultra Right Wing Nut trait - pRick Scott (Florida Gov.) doesn't read

Florida newspapers either. He is amazingly ignorant of the state he chose to lead, but he still has no problem looting and pillaging state resources every chance he gets.

It's obvious that these Repugnant governors have absolutely no interest in actually running the states they were elected to lead. They are treating them they way they treated businesses they acquired - take over, fire as many people as possible, transfer as many assets out, and leave them broken shells that can no longer function.

[calimary]

4. Man, this guy is a Class-A JERK.

A for ARROGANT!!!!!!

[Ikonoklast]

5. Kasich answers to New York investment houses.

His job is to privatize as many State of Ohio public assets as he can as quickly as possible; why would he give two shits about what the people who he's trying to steal from say?

He knows it's going to be bad, so he just refuses to read the bad press.

[izquierdista]

6. Maybe he has a crapper in Wheeling.

Or a commode in Covington. :shrug:

[EC]

7. Just tells me

that there hasn't been a day since he was elected, where there wasn't an article about what an ass he is. And it bums him out.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

8. He's proud that he is out of touch with what is going on in the state

in which he is governor?

I would say, :wtf: here but, given that the Republicans have done so many :wtf: things since 2009.................

[ladym55]

9. I'm not surprised

Why clog his greedy little mind with information???

If he read a newspaper in Ohio, he'd know that unemployment is still way too high, public education is starving for lack of funding, and his lame-ass policy decisions are not being warmly received in most places.

[1776Forever]

10. People like Gov. Kasich live in their own private little weird world! They make their own news and

believe what they want. They don't know what true reality is because they don't have to face it! No one is knocking on his door telling him to get out and his bills are all paid nicely by the State and his 1% benefactors. He is a total jerk who still attends a Wednesday "prayer" meeting - right to which God is he praying? Not the one that said:

Matthew 25:34-36 Then the king will say to those at his right hand, "Come, you that are blessed by my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world; for I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me, I was naked and you gave me clothing, I was sick and you took care of me, I was in prison and you visited me."