A drive-by media Panic Attack over the Poet Laureate
Our Medicaid system is trying to break the bank. The board of elections is swamped with vote fraud complaints. An audit of a powerful state senator’s finances has mysteriously disappeared. The Coastal Resources Commission is actively defying the General Assembly and blocking the appointment of some global warming skeptics. And our drive-by media has its collective panties in a wad over the selection process for North Carolina’s new poet laureate.
WRAL, McClatchy — the parent company of The N&O, The Charlotte Observer — and other drive-by media outlets have spit out enough copy on this non-story to fill TEN PAGES of Google search results.
Of course, part of the blame for this nonsense goes to Gov. Pat. It’s fine that he picked this woman. But he should have called for the position to be totally defunded of state revenue. 
Gov. Pat defended himself by saying he wanted to open up the opportunity to “non-elites,’‘ but also promised a full “review” of the poet laureate selection process. SERIOUSLY ????
What is much more important is the selection process of that subcommittee on ”sea level rise” of the Coastal Resources Commission. The governor needs to build a fire under the butt of that obstinate environmentalist he appointed as chairman, Frank Gorham, to do his duty and appoint the rest of those subcommittee members to balance the subcommittee. Otherwise, it will remain dominated by the far left global warmist ideologues, and Governor Pat will have lots of ‘splain’ to do in eastern North Carolina.