Posted on 12/27/2016 8:01:03 AM PST by usafa92
ENID, Okla. — One Sunday after church, Jeff Mullin and his wife were in line at the Western Sizzlin steakhouse here when a man, fists clenched, threatened to beat the hell out of him.
“My first thought was just to kind of try to keep things calm. Otherwise, it was going to be two old guys rolling around on the floor of the steakhouse, and that would be pretty unseemly,” recalled Mr. Mullin, 64, the mustachioed senior writer for Enid’s daily newspaper, The Enid News & Eagle.
The dispute was not personal. It was, of all things, editorial.
Mr. Mullin’s red newspaper in a red county in what is arguably the reddest of states went blue this campaign season and endorsed Hillary Clinton for president. The editorial board, in a gray-shaded column on Page A4 on Oct. 9, wrote that Donald J. Trump lacked “the skills, experience or temperament to hold office.” The headline and subhead read: “For U.S. president: Hillary Clinton is our choice for commander in chief.”
It was the first Democratic endorsement for president in the modern history of the newspaper, which was founded in 1893. As the man’s reaction at the steakhouse suggested, Enid was stunned, and this slow-paced agricultural town of 52,000 near the Kansas state line has not been the same since.
The News & Eagle, with a circulation of 10,000, lost 162 subscribers who canceled the paper. Eleven advertisers pulled their ads, including a funeral home that had a sizable account. Someone stuck a “Crooked Hillary” bumper sticker on the glass doors of the paper’s downtown office. A man left a late-night message on the publisher’s voice mail, expressing his hope that readers would deliver, to put it delicately, a burning sack of steaming excrement to the paper.
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Mullin deserved his ass kicked. I hope his paper loses all its subscribers and advertisers.
Gotta love that self-pitying spin. The poor man and his wife had just come from church and were minding their own business in the Western Sizzlin and this rabid Trump supporter comes out of nowhere and threatens to beat him up!!!!! First, I wonder if its even true. Second, if you can't stand the heat, get out of the business of writing provocative editorials. If a West Hollywood, CA newspaper wrote a pro-Trump editorial, the threats to that editor would have been a Hell of a lot worse.
The NYT so-called reporters probably need to keep their heads on a swivel themselves...*LOL*
Exactly right, rights to “opinions” go both ways. The paper expressed theirs and the readers expressed theirs. No story here at all, just more opinions being expressed.
I bet they don’t do that again...............
Liberals equate “free speech” with you and my acceptance and approval.
Trump has heard nothing but dis information from the media since day one. They continue to print slanderous and undermining columns including media outlets such as Fox News and NRO.
So, if Trump elects to block their access to him, or avoid speaking with them, as Obama has done, that is his right. It does not violate anyone’s free speech.
Until I see trustworthy corroboration, this is #FAKE_NEWS.
There would be pigs and monkeys flying.............
Did they know what was at staked?
a 5th Conservative Supreme Court Judge!!!!
& probably the END of the Republican Party if Hillary was Elected!!!
Did they know WTF Hillary was going to do with illegal immigrants??!!!
I saw this headline on Drudge and this is how I hoped the story would go.
In the article, the newspapers that supported Hillary were characterized as “brave”. Were there any leftist papers that supported Trump? Doubt it and of course that would be stupid not brave in the NYTimes eyes.
Reminds me of a book I read years ago by Thomas Ricks a former reporter. He excoriated the military for its rigidity to conservatism and argued that it wasn’t healthy for so much of it’s officer corps and enlisted as well to be republicans. No mention of any problem in his profession being overwhelmingly leftist and Democrat....
If this is the best LIBERALS can do to show CONSERVATIVE ‘violence’ against CLINTON supporters, they’d better go back to the drawing board.
LIBERALISM is the conduit for psychologically and physically destroying America.
>>a 5th Conservative Supreme Court Judge!!!!<<
You mean a 4th Conservative Justice, right? Alito, Kennedy and Thomas are the only ones we have now.
I've heard that phrase repeated by so many scribes and media elite that it is like a slogan.
I've never heard one of them say what skills or temperament Hillary Clinton has to hold office. Or even address her supposed experience as a U.S. Senator (from a state where anyone with a "D" after their name is guaranteed election) or as Secretary of State where her "experience" produced disastrous results.
There are plenty of examples where people with stellar careers in private industry produced stellar results in public service.
George P. Schultz (Bechtel) and Ronald Reagan (Hollywood) come immediately to mind.
Can anyone name comparable examples of people in public service who went on to stellar careers in private industry? With the exception of military service, unless less said private industry traded on government contracts and connections, I can't name one.
“You’re kicking me off for expressing my opinion?!!”
A local business man wrote a letter to the editor praising BJ Clinton and bad mouthing W back in 2000. I called him up and told him he’d never see this family spend a dime in any of his stores again. Once on my ban list, always on the ban list. He had 3 stores at the time and closed one a year later.
And its readers are equally free to discontinue their subscriptions.It's all about freedom. See?
“The News & Eagle, with a circulation of 10,000, lost 162 subscribers who canceled the paper”.
They only lost about 1.6% of their subscriptions and they are whining about it. Should have been 50%.
Exactly. One can always predetermined the slant of the formerly great formerly patriotic NYT
Now it’s just a hunt for “stories” to whine like spoiled children and to try to paint Trump and his supporters as deplorables
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