ANOTHER DISHONEST SMEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST

Powerline ^ | April 14, 2020 | John Hinderaker

[CheshireTheCat]

Yesterday’s Washington Post carried an attack on South Dakota and its governor, Kristi Noem, under the headline South Dakota’s Governor resisted ordering people to stay home. Now it has one of the nation’s largest coronavirus hot spots...The entire point of the article is that the Smithfield experience proves Governor Noem was wrong not to order a mass closure of businesses.

But wait! It is obvious even to a casual reader that the Post’s attack makes no sense. The article acknowledges that the Smithfield plant had already “been deemed essential by the federal government,” so no order Noem might have issued would have applied to it in any case.

[Chickensoup]

we buy locally processed bacon.

[ptsal]

China bought Smithfield. $4.72 B in 2013
Who was president back?
DDG search

<>https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2013/05/29/187029237/smithfield-foods-to-be-sold-to-chinese-firm-for-4-72-billion

[oldtech]

With a very low incidence of covid-19, I’d think people should be eternally grateful that SD has a Republican governor.