Power of the Blog
Ken Ward, Jr is an environmentalist who poses as a journalist for the liberal Charleston Gazette. For years, Ken has chased around the coal industry and its various supporters.
You can find out more about Ken here
Earlier this week, Ken Ward was finally called out for being a less than honest reporter. A poster was made for the public hearing in Charleston by the US Corps of Army Engineers that Ken did not like. We tried to find a picture of Ken smiling, but that was about easy to find as an Indiana bat.
So for the last few days, Ken has been on the hunt for this vicious poster maker. Who dare question his authority. Unlike his news-reporting, he has been on a search for the truth.
While asking around, Ken has also been threatening people. Waving around his keyboard and ready to use his blog against those who do not give into his wishes. Beware of the “power of the blog.”
Ken even went as far as to offer up an “anonymous” blog post on his very own Coal Tattoo here.
How generous of you, Ken. Well thanks, but no thanks. You do not have a monopoly on blogging.
And you can keep telling everyone you know who it is, but you don’t. The list of people who know how dishonest you are is as wide as a valley fill.
So the power of the blog that Ken likes to threaten people with will be used here. Ken thinks he wields a lot of power, because there are a few thousand people who still read the Gazette. He does have a lot of enviro email pals (mostly from out of state) and we are sure they will rush to his defense, as always.
Go ahead and threaten us. What are you going to do?: write a negative article, blog about the big, bad coal industry, coordinate your attacks with the enviros. You have been doing that for years.
We would like for this forum to be a place where people can comment about Ken Ward and his half-truths and outright lies. Enjoy!
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Nice blog, jusy one comment. Have you ever noticed that Ken Ward’s articles are about one new paragraph and 4 paragraphs of things he wrote years ago.
I am sure Mr. Ward will like this. Thanks for calling this guy out for what he is: environmental whacko!
Ever notice that Ken Wards articles start with a new paragraph and the rest is nothing but what he has written for the last 10 years.
Ken has written exactly five articles in the last few years and he just copies paragraphs from those five articles. The Charleston Gazette can only make up some much, so they have to reuse old lies.
I tried to submit a comment to Ward’s blog about “Coal’s Hidden Cost” & got back a message full of gobblety gook that basically said my message had been flagged by the spam filter & would have to be reviewed. I tried again & got message that I’d already said that & it was a duplicate post. Who knows if it will ever show up – so I’ll post it here.
I said, in response to Ward’s op-ed of coal’s hidden cost — – What’s the economic value of coal for WV? Professors from WVU & Marshall have a study coming out next month addressing that issue & “how cap and trade will impact West Virginia if implemented.”
The professors point out that this is not a pro-coal paper, nor does it address the social costs but is
“definitive numbers with all the citations from the federal and state statistic sources and the research methodology laid out.”
Sowards points out that is a huge chunk of money for the state. “Without this income, they would not be able to perform some of the constitutionally required functions of government.”..
and Professor Witt says:
“So when you get a drop of $17-$18-million of coal production, that is going to be monies that are going to be taken out of both the state and local government coffers. And either that tax liability is going to be shifted to another sector of the economy or there are going to be significant cuts in state expenditures.”
I’m looking forward to hearing more about this paper that purports to answer the question of what information is necessary for policy makers to make sound economic decisions.
The article mentioning this study is at:
http://www.wvmetronews.com/index.cfm?func=displayfullstory&storyid=33016
Dear administrator – Gazette Tattoo – I do apologize for posting so much on your blog – but thanks for giving me a place to rant —
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Ken just posted
“Friends of Coal: Manchin sets big meeting with industry”
by Ken Ward Jr.
and at the end he asks a couple of questions:
“You think anyone at the meeting will bring up the fact that the cap-and-trade bill is estimated to cost the average American household less than 50 cents a day? Will they talk about how the costs of inaction on climate change outweigh the costs of trying to fix the problem?”
and guess what?
5:49 pm November 6, 2009
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Guess he got too many on
Coal Tattoo investigates: Is there a MTR permit crisis?
Over 50 (is that a record before he cut off comments because the comments challenged his opinion & slanted information?)
Oh well – no use trying to add my 2 cents – I can’t get past his spamonator blocker anyway.
Way to Go Mr. Ward – I guess as King Louis XVI (Mel Brooks would say) “It’s good to be the King”