Don Blankenship Compares Himself To Nelson Mandela, Among Other Obscenities

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Blankenship has said he was “falsely imprisoned,” and he wrote a 68-page manifesto titled “An American Political Prisoner,” while in prison. Last week, in a USA Today interview, he even compared himself to Nelson Mandela, the former South African president who spent nearly three decades in prison in his fight against apartheid: “There are situations in history where being in prison was an advantage,” Blankenship said.

In a segment Tuesday night on CBS’s Late Show, host Stephen Colbert mocked Blankenship for that comparison: “He truly is the Nelson Mandela of tampering with mine safety equipment.”

Some of McConnell’s most over-the-top statements involve China. In 2009, he was recorded saying, “I’m actually considering moving to China or somewhere and being more like George Washington if I can get citizenship.” The Times reported that in their interview with the former coal baron, “he repeated this sentiment” and went on to praise their dictatorship. “The Chinese are running a dictatorial capitalism and it’s very effective,” he said. “That’s the way corporations are run. Corporations are not a democracy.”

It appears that, if elected, Blankenship might also want to bring this kind of thinking to the U.S. Senate.

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https://thinkprogress.org/colbert-mocks-blankenship-nelson-mandela-of-tampering-with-mine-safety-71eee6cb66b3/

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1. Actual scum spits on Blankenship

Massey Energy was headquartered on N. 4th Street and Main here in Richmond. Mostly nondescript building but they did fly a flag. This was when Blankenship was running it.

People used to regularly protest outside it. These were people from the hills of WV and Kentucky whose entire towns had been wiped out by sludge run off and other Massey mistakes. They'd be reimbursed for their property but we're talking $20k which wasn't enough to buy anything else plus many of their communities were just gone.

I happened to run into a couple of people who worked there at parties and such. It was common and even encouraged for the office to look out from the second floor windows (lean out them actually) and mock the "hillbillies" on the street protesting. I mean they were close to throwing things down at the protesters.

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2. Fucking murderer n/t

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3. Didn't his Composition instructor ever teach him to compare AND CONTRAST ??

Compare: Both Mandela and Blankenship went to jail.

Contrast: Mandela was fighting for freedom, equality, and justice. Blankenship was fighting for miners to be ruled disposable by law.

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4. Here's the Stephen Colbert video on Blankenship:

Profiles In Discourage: A Disaster Named Don Blankenship

West VIrginia's Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate was criminally charged following an accident in a coal mine of his that didn't meet safety standards. Or, as he puts it, he's a 'political prisoner.'