Hey Joe, maybe you don’t go back far enough, but The N&O’s eyes always well up when a fellow Democrat falls, whereas a Republican’s transgressions merely merit “troubling” sentiments. And the system is pretty powerful, ya know.
Meanwhile, here’s an oldie but goodie — a Wilmington Star-News classic — from back in the days when at least a few of the papers weren’t so compassionate:
Clean-government proposals from Jim Black are like safe-hunting
proposals from Dick Cheney: ideas to take seriously after you?ve
stopped laughing.Black
has come up with a spring cleaning list for only one reason, of course:
Voters have noticed that the N.C. House under him looks like a
teenager?s bedroom and smells like rotting shrimp in a sun-baked
dumpster.
