"More than 300 union members and their families from Ohio, Pennsylvania and West Virginia gathered at the Environmental Protection Agency's headquarters Tuesday to protest a proposal to limit carbon emissions from coal-fired power plants that they said would kill jobs in Appalachia," the Washington Examiner's Zack Colman reported today. Colman also noted, that "Many of the protesters were reliable Democratic voters who said they were venting frustration not with their party, but rather with an Obama administration that they say is pummeling their communities with too-stringent regulations."
Keep in mind this protest occurred as we head into the home stretch in a crucial midterm election season where control of the U.S. Senate hangs in the balance. Also keep in mind one of the hottest and closely-watched races in that race is in the heart of coal country in the state of Kentucky, pitting Minority Leader Mitch McConnell against Democratic challenger Alison Lundergan Grimes.
Given these stakes, the liberal broadcast networks did what they do best with inconvenient stories. They ignored this one.
Neither the October 7 editions of the broadcast network evening newscasts nor the October 8 morning news programs had so much as a passing mention of this protest.
Of course, all this being said, as Colman made clear, most protesters made clear they are pretty staunch Democrats and plan on continuing to vote for other Democrats, even as they retain their beef with Obama. You may recall that the Democratic challenger in Kentucky, Ms. Grimes, insists she is pro-coal and opposes the president's EPA on greenhouse emissions regulations.
That, however, has been called into question thanks to a hidden-camera video released earlier this week by Project Veritas Action Fund. You can read my post on that here.
