In his rejection of the media, our governor, with straight face, informed us: "You should know that I don't read newspapers in the State of Ohio" because one doesn't need to be "aggravated by what I read in newspapers." This is spoken in a town where the daily newspaper, the Dispatch, helped him get elected by endorsing him, thus aggravating to this day a whole lot of other folks who have a dismal view of him.
He also complained that he doesn't find newspapers to be "uplifting". Uplifting?
Here's one former newspaperman who will tell you that I never once heard that word applied to a newspaper's mission, which is to be "informative". However, sadly I do find that to be less so today. So go ahead, governor, read the papers. You might help somebody in the newsroom save his or her job.
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Had Wall Street Johnny read this mornings Columbus Dispatch, he'd have caught the story that details his offer of $400 million in taxpayer money (that's you and me, folks) to Sears in order to lure them into moving their corporate headquarters to Ohio. The same Sears that has been financially tanking for years and is probably not long for this world.
I wonder how many of Ohio's editorial writers would like to cancel their votes for this guy?
Whoooa...How many editorial pages have you ever read that reversed their earlier endorsements?
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