Fox News Uses Unemployed Coal Miner To Knock Hillary Clinton In WV
Just in time to start knocking down Hillary Clinton in the important state of West Virginia, which just happens to have a primary next week, Fox News has been trotting out an unemployed coal minor to distort her position on putting coal companies out of business.
Think Progress had the back story on Monday:
Democratic presidential frontrunner Hillary Clinton said it in March, as part of longer remarks on how to create jobs in perpetually struggling coal country. The plan she outlined was to essentially allow Appalachia’s already-dying coal industry to perish, but to replace it with a thriving renewable energy businesses. Job training would then be provided to people who lost their jobs in the coal bust. “We’re going to make it clear that we don’t want to forget these people,” Clinton said at the time, referring to former coal miners.
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