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I’m surprised that article is as balanced as it is.

[metaphor alert] But we’re just seeing the tip of the iceberg of Monday morning quarterbacking.

Most everyone has purported to leave politics out of this while there are men trapped, some more effectively than others, FReepers and MSM alike, and if we think Bob Murray was a microphone hog, we ain’t seen nothin yet. Running anyone’s statement through the ‘agenda filter’ to find snippets of truth is going to be more of a full time job than it has been since the start.

I’ll predict a total loss of perspective to the whole picture about the time the results of the fourth hole are announced. At that time, all sources will return to becoming their thinly veiled selves, as the unions already have. The congress will go into ‘it’s fer the chilren’ mode, the MSHA will go into CYA mode, the envirals will go into evil hydrocarbon/windmill mode and on and on... in other words, they’ll shrug off their ‘concern’ for the miners and return to being their predictable selves.

How different it would have been, had the rescue, by a twist of fate, been successful.