Gov McCrory calls journalists dumb--N&O editor's blistering response: [View all]

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Drescher: Gov. McCrory says journalists are dumb

Editorial Published: August 30, 2013 Updated 18 hours ago
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"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:

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