Tag: The Pilot

Ugly Power Grabs vs. PRETTY ONES

Posted on February 9, 2013February 12, 2013 by Brant Clifton

Our local paper — the first and only lesbian-owned and -operated thrice weekly Nobel Prize-nominated community paper in The Carolinas — is beside itself about those dastardly Republicans

Lefty media moaning about constitutional “clutter”

Posted on February 7, 2013 by Brant Clifton

The editorial page of our multiple Hershel Walker Peace & Justice Award-winning local newspaper is apparently NOT a big fan of amendments to

Renee Ellmers’s Moore County problem

Posted on October 28, 2012 by Brant Clifton

The Second Congressional District’s incumbent representative seems to be doing her best to ruin the gift horse delivered to her during redistricting. The “honorables” on Jones Street handed Renee Ellmers

EVEN MORE STUFF Timmy and John Lentz won’t tell you …

Posted on September 26, 2012 by Brant Clifton

If you count on The Pilot as your main source of news in Moore County, I truly feel sorry for you. For the most part, the newsroom’s modus operandi has

Guzzling Timmy’s kool-aid in The Pilot’s newsroom

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

Very few people outside of The Pilot’s newsroom take county commissioner Tim Lea seriously. That became crystal clear in the 2008 GOP primaries, when Lea barely eked

The Pilot’s county government coverage goes from BAD to WORSE

Posted on August 24, 2012August 24, 2012 by Brant Clifton

I thought it would be hard for The Pilot to put someone worse than Florence Gilkeson on the county government beat. But there is a new

MOORE County GOP CHAIRMAN: Dining out — and selling out — at the liberal trough

Posted on August 17, 2012 by Brant Clifton

In North Carolina, Unaffiliated is the fastest growing voter classification. In Moore County, Unaffiliated voters are about to overtake Democrats and knock them into third place. It appears

Newspaper work is HARD

Posted on August 15, 2012 by Brant Clifton

I think we’ve established that our local Oscar-winning thrice-weekly newspaper has some real difficulty with reporting the facts. Now, it appears that they’re challenged by things like

The Pilot’s op-ed page keeps the false statements / lefty propaganda coming

Posted on August 15, 2012 by Brant Clifton

Our thrice-weekly Pulitzer Prize winning, Nobel Prize-nominated local paper here in Moore County is at it AGAIN. (The good thing about it is that Congressman Joe Wilson gets to pay

The Pilot ignores facts, accepts leftist spin on poverty

Posted on July 27, 2012 by Brant Clifton

Our thrice weekly local newspaper here in Moore County — which some say was first brought down the mountain on stone tablets by Moses — is no stranger