Cenk Uygur
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Red State Newspaper Faces EXTREME Backlash After 2016 Endorsement
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December 28, 2016
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9:36Now PlayingLocal newspapers across the country took a stand during the 2016 election and made controversial endorsements, an Oklahoma newspaper is facing an extreme backlash after endorsing Hillary Clinton. Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian of The Young Turks discuss. Tell us what you think in the comment section below.
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"One Sunday after church, Jeff Mullin and his wife were in line at the Western Sizzlin steakhouse here when a man, fists clenched, threatened to beat the hell out of him.
“My first thought was just to kind of try to keep things calm. Otherwise, it was going to be two old guys rolling around on the floor of the steakhouse, and that would be pretty unseemly,” recalled Mr. Mullin, 64, the mustachioed senior writer for Enid’s daily newspaper, The Enid News & Eagle.
The dispute was not personal. It was, of all things, editorial.
Mr. Mullin’s red newspaper in a red county in what is arguably the reddest of states went blue this campaign season and endorsed Hillary Clinton for president. The editorial board, in a gray-shaded column on Page A4 on Oct. 9, wrote that Donald J. Trump lacked “the skills, experience or temperament to hold office.” The headline and subhead read: “For U.S. president: Hillary Clinton is our choice for commander in chief.”*
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