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COURIER-JOURNAL’S POT CALLS THE KETTLE BLACK

Woody Oakes

David Hawpe’s column of April 3^rd really takes the cake.  It should have been published two days earlier on April Fools Day.  In the article he accuses State Senators Vernie McGaha and Dick Roeding of “pursuing their own agenda” by “RIGGING A SURVEY TO SUGGEST THERE’S A BIG CONSTITUENCY FOR YOUR POSITION ON A CONTROVERSIAL ISSUE.”  If this is not the pot calling the kettle black I don’t know what is. 

He goes on to say “ASK LOADED QUESTIONS, GET THE ANSWERS YOU WANT AND USE THEM TO JUSTIFY WHAT YOU WANT TO DO IN THE FIRST PLACE.”

Isn’t this exactly what Mr. Hawpe and the Courier-Journal did with loaded questions and distorted polls on video slots at the racetracks, false figures on gambling revenue, false data on VET benefits, false scare tactics on the VET in an attempt to save it, and even a headline on the same date stating “AT LEAST ONE SAYS PATTON SHOULD VETO THE (VET) MEASURE.”   Wow! That ONE person really deserved a headline, didn’t he?

Mr. Hawpe’s final sentence in his rant was somewhat true when he says he is a confirmed naysayer.  It would have been more accurate if he had said he was a confirmed naysayer and to hell with what the Kentucky State Legislature and the citizens of Jefferson County want.

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