Category: Moore County

Clarifying and Correcting The Pilot

Posted on June 24, 2012 by Brant Clifton

It appears our local Pulitzer Prize-winning paper is throwing up its hands and giving up on Lame Duck Bev. Today’s op-ed focused on the current McScandal in Raleigh —

Another Great Moment in Local Government: Tim Lea vs. The Airport

Posted on June 22, 2012 by Brant Clifton

Judging from the coverage in our local Pulitzer Prize-nominated paper of this week’s Moore County board of commissioners meeting — and input from my sources present at

Trickle-down bias: NPR & our local media

Posted on June 21, 2012June 21, 2012 by Brant Clifton

Steve Bouser, the op-ed page editor at the Southern Pines Pilot, has been listening to NPR again (and the kookiness is a-flowing from the pages of

A few things you might have missed if The Pilot is your primary news source

Posted on June 19, 2012June 19, 2012 by Brant Clifton

If you depend on The Southern Pines Pilot to keep you informed on Moore County government, you MIGHT think commissioner Tim Lea is the ONLY one who ever

The Pilot: $pend more money! Who care$ if you actually HAVE it?

Posted on June 17, 2012 by Brant Clifton

News flash! The management at the Southern Pines Pilot is outraged — OUTRAGED — by the GOP led General Assembly in Raleigh: It is unconscionable

The Pilot sings Tammy Wynette’s greatest hit

Posted on June 15, 2012 by Brant Clifton

Sometimes its hard to be a woman Giving all your love to just one man You’ll have bad times And he’ll have good times Doing things that you don’t understand

Tim Lea, The Pilot, and Larry Caddell’s evil plot to team up with Bojangles’ and rule the world

Posted on June 11, 2012 by Brant Clifton

You would think — after having ridden with Tim Lea’s story about Bojangles, only to have it blow up in their faces — The Pilot would be working hard to

The Pilot: pushing far-left talking points, telling half of the story, and mocking the few readers it has left

Posted on June 10, 2012 by Brant Clifton

You have to just LOVE Yankees who move down here and chastise us for not being more like the morally and fiscally-bankrupt blue states they fled. Steve Bouser, The Pilot’s

IS Tim Lea actually the editor of The Pilot? (Inquiring minds want to know)

Posted on June 8, 2012June 8, 2012 by Brant Clifton

THAT is a question being asked by many people — who attend Moore County government meetings and then compare what they witnessed to The Pilot’s coverage. I

Facebook: the new battleground for GOP nod in Insurance Commissioner race

Posted on June 4, 2012June 4, 2012 by Brant Clifton

I know it’s tough to evaluate candidates for down-ballot races. Sure, it’s pretty easy to separate the wheat from the chaff in the governor and presidential fields. But when