Posts tagged “Don Blankenship”
Fast And Loose Times At ThinkProgress
Suppose you read a post titled “Dick Armey Lays Out Proposal To End Social Security And Medicare ‘As You Know It’”. And let’s suppose — purely for the sake of argument — that you read it in a blog you know and trust. For example, it might be a blog whose name consists entirely of [...]
ThinkProgress Embraces The Fox News Style Of Reporting
Why would ThinkProgress deliberately misrepresent the words of Massey Energy CEO Don Blankenshit? (Oh, dear me, I seem to have a typo in the last word there.) Here’s what they quote him as saying: But I also know — I also know Washington and state politicians have no idea how to improve miner safety. The [...]
Environmental Disasters In The Time Of Bush (And Their Legacy)
Steve Benen relates a little story from Massey Energy’s murky past that could stand as the dictionary definition of the word “impunity”: Ten years ago, the Big Branch Refuse Impoundment, a giant coal-waste reservoir owned by Massey in Inez, Kentucky, sprung a leak that flooded nearby waterways with so much sludge that it was declared [...]