MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
A reminder how Hillary gets smeared time and again:
So for example, I'm the only candidate which has a policy about how to bring economic opportunity using clean renewable energy as the key into coal country. Because we're going to put a lot of coal miners and coal companies out of business, right?
And we're going to make it clear that we don't want to forget those people. Those people labored in those mines for generations, losing their health, often losing their lives to turn on our lights and power our factories.
Now we've got to move away from coal and all the other fossil fuels, but I don't want to move away from the people who did the best they could to produce the energy that we relied on.
So rather than the media and opposition claiming Hillary's bragging about shutting down coal miners, she's actually talking about supporting these people during the difficult transition.
But that's not what the papers will say, and the conversation about losing West Virginia ignores this and the big inroads she made into Appalachia in 2008 (when she was accused of being racist for focusing on whites).
We'll see whether she regains control of the message.