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Ellmers gets McClatchy Treatment (Update)

Posted on August 22, 2012 by A.P. Dillon

Imagine if this was a Democrat Female Representative? Likely that you wouldn’t have even heard of the story.

Via Agent Pierce Said:

August 21; ’12: News & Observer Publisher Orage Quarles was not arrested Tuesday on charges of trafficking in child pornography and white slavery. As to whether Quarles or N&O Editor John Drescher routinely expose themselves to pedestrians in Nash Square, FBI officials have not returned our calls…..

Does that headline “grab you”? Not a single word of the above is untrue nor would Quarles nor Drescher deny one bit of it.

Welcome to the dumpster diving world of McClatchy Corporation. McClatchy owns North Carolina’s two largest daily newspapers – Raleigh’s News & Observer and the Charlotte Observer.

Tuesday morning readers of both papers were greeted with the headline:

“Renee Ellmers (R-NC) Went To Israel But Did Not Go Skinny Dipping”

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