Another 'evil Trump' CNN smear(enviro screed)

wnd.com ^ | 10/18/2017 | John Stossel

[rktman]

Did you happen to catch CNN’s latest smear?

Anderson Cooper’s show recently featured a “two-part exclusive” that claims Donald Trump’s EPA director had conspired with the CEO of a mining company to “withdraw environmental restrictions” so the company could dig “the largest open pit mine in the world in an extremely sensitive watershed in wild Alaska.”

The report was enough to horrify any caring person. CNN showed beautiful pictures of colorful salmon swimming in Bristol Bay, and the reporter intoned dramatically, “EPA staffers were shocked to receive this email obtained exclusively by CNN which says ‘we have been directed by the administrator to withdraw restrictions.’ … (P)rotection of that pristine area was being removed.”

No! A “pristine” area and gorgeous salmon were about to be obliterated by a mine!

I would have believed it, except I happened to report on that mine a couple years ago.

I knew that the real scandal was not EPA Director Scott Pruitt’s decision to “withdraw the restrictions”; it was what President Obama’s EPA did to the company’s mining proposal in the first place.

Zealots at the EPA had conspired with rich environmental activists to kill the mine before its environmental impact statement could even be submitted. This was unprecedented.

The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform later concluded: “EPA employees had inappropriate contact with outside groups and failed to conduct an impartial, fact-based review.”

Now, appropriately, Pruitt undid that censorship of science.

[rktman]

As to the first sentence------no John, if it was on cnn hardly anyone saw the newest/latest smear in a YUGE string of them. As to the mine, may be that some of remember reading your piece a while back and found your report to be damming of the ecowanker crowd. WINNING!

[rktman]

NON print version:

http://www.wnd.com/2017/10/another-evil-trump-cnn-smear/

[dp0622]

What did the six people who watched it think?

[rktman]

I see this posted from another source a little while ago with a different header so if the MOD wants to pull this one, that’s fine.

[Rapscallion]

I hope Anderson Cooper realizes that we will hold his partisanship and disrespect of President Trump against him in the future...probably forever.

[Texas Eagle]

“EPA staffers were shocked to receive this email obtained exclusively by CNN which says ‘we have been directed by the administrator to withdraw restrictions.’ … (P)rotection of that pristine area was being removed.”

Yeah? More shocked than when EPA employees dumped millions of gallons of toxic waste into the Animas River in Colorado?

[rktman]

Obviously needed some more OJT on a D-9 Cat.

[NormsRevenge]

The FCC should start pulling some broadcasting licenses..

[JimRed]

CNN lies. What’s new about that?