Fact-checking Binky’s fact-checking
Late last week, WRAL wonderboy — and Miss Leslie’s coffee fetcher — Mark “Binky” Binker got rather apoplectic over a mailer sent out by the state Senate Republican political group:
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WRAL’s Binker: Trade Gaston County to SC for Myrtle “Beech”
Everyone is trying to make a deal. North Carolina State Board of Elections Chairman Josh Howard wants to send Watauga County to Tennessee. Democrat consultant Perry Woods took to Twitter
Continue readingWRAL’s chief news fabricator sinks his teeth into Greg Brannon
Binky & The Shi-Tzu are the two primary cartoon characters responsible for providing us our statewide political coverage in the mainstream media. We gave mad props to the shih-tzu earlier
Continue readingBinky & The Shih-Tzu: Keepin’ it (Un) Real
There have been some great comedic pairings throughout history — Laurel & Hardy, Abbot & Costello, The Smothers Brothers, and now John Frank & Mark Binker. There is one real
Continue readingState Rep. Larry Pittman gets ‘binkered’
DC has ‘borking’. Raleigh has ‘binkering.’ Both terms relate to especially sleazy forms of smearing political opponents. The latter is named for WRAL’s Mark “Binky” Binker — the station’s alleged
Continue readingMcClatchy Rob BINKERS the Tea Party
Saddam Hussein had Baghdad Bob to disseminate his bullshit. The Chapel Hill-Carrboro crowd has McClatchy and WRAL to do their, um, dirty work. In the 1980s, the verb “to bork”
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