Gov McCrory calls journalists dumb--N&O editor's blistering response:

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Drescher: Gov. McCrory says journalists are dumb

Editorial Published: August 30, 2013 Updated 18 hours ago
Read more here: http://www.newsobserver.com/2013/08/30/3151156/drescher-gov-mccrory-says-were.html#storylink=cpy

"When a bank robber was on the loose and headed to Mayberry, the State Bureau of Investigation followed. The state agent looked down on the local sheriff and his deputy, thinking them incapable of understanding complex police methods.

We felt like Sheriff Andy Taylor and Deputy Barney Fife this week after Gov. Pat McCrory said we were not capable of understanding his economic plan. “This is too complex for the journalists,” McCrory said to businessmen during a speech Monday in Asheville, according to the Mountain Xpress. “They don’t have economics degrees; they’ve not been in business. I respect them greatly, but you get it.”

Well, sir.

Confidence is not a bad thing. But might McCrory, like the agent in Mayberry long ago, have overestimated hisself a bit?

He’s no Ben Bernanke

Based on his news conferences and public comments, McCrory is not exactly a Ben Bernanke-level economic thinker. McCrory’s degrees from Catawba College are in political science and education. As for business experience, he was a mid-level manager at a regulated utility (Duke Energy), never making corporate-level decisions. That’s what prompted a member of his own party, Sen. Bob Rucho of Mecklenburg County, to once say, “If Pat had any real business experience, he would not make such a poor policy decision.”

--It's worth reading the whole smackdown:

Read more here: http://www.newsobserver.com/2013/08/30/3151156/drescher-gov-mccrory-says-were.html#storylink=cpy

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1. Excellent

this gov is a pos

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2. I am truly loving the N&O war on McCrookie.

Especially using a quote from Rucho, one of the biggest pricks in all the legislature.

"Hisself." LOL

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3. McCrookie has the hackles of the N&O up now...

they've been doing a good job and their scrutiny will only improve...bring it on, McCrookie.

N&O

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6. Yep! And I imagine it will go well beyond the N&O...

we *know* the NYT is watching.

I want laser-like focus on this state with regard to Obamacare and the NC GOP refusal to expand Medicaid. Especially compared to other states, particularly those in the Mid-Atlantic region. Our unemployment is now 3rd worst in the nation, and we're supposedly losing out on 23,000 jobs because of no expansion. WakeMed will be taking huge hits, too.

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4. Poor us -stuck with this buffon. I thought our state was overcoming being a bunch

of rednecks - then they vote this joker into office

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5. I wouldn't blame it all on rednecks--

--there were a lot of "fiscal conservatives" in on this hijacking. They engineered it and took advantage of the lo-info voters.

I blame the leaders and the Masterminds--more than the stupid.

But yeah, that's the impression now--a bunch of hicks took over.

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7. McCrookie beat Dalton 55% to 43%...

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even though Dems pulled in more straight-party votes than Republicans. It wasn't just rednecks. It was many Democrats who believed McCrory a moderate mayor from a large city who would be good for the economy. And many minorities in poor counties with double-digit unemployment who thought the same.