Union-Leader backs Biden -- its first Democratic endorsement in 100 years

[friendly_iconoclast]

That whirring sound you hear is Bill and Nackey Loeb turning over in their graves...

https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/25/media/new-hampshire-union-leader-democrat-endorsement-joe-biden/index.html

Conservative New Hampshire paper backs Biden -- its first Democratic endorsement in 100 years

..."Building this country up sits squarely within the skill set of Joseph Biden. We have found Mr. Biden to be a caring, compassionate and professional public servant," the Union Leader editorial board wrote on Sunday. "He has repeatedly expressed his desire to be a president for all of America, and we take him at his word."

The paper's editorial board did however highlight what it calls "significant" policy disagreements with Biden, which the board says it expects to spend a "portion of the next four years disagreeing with."

"Joe Biden may not be the president we want, but in 2020 he is the president we desperately need," the editorial continued. "He will be a president to bring people together and right the ship of state."...

I'd pay good cash money to see Donnie's reaction to this bit:

...Despite the board's policy disagreements with Biden, it wasn't enough to endorse President Donald Trump, who is scheduled to visit New Hampshire on Sunday. The newspaper's board wrote that Trump is "not always 100% wrong, but he is 100% wrong for America."...

[mikeargo]

1. Wow

I'm surprised that rag is still in business.

[regnaD kciN]

2. It was always the only morning paper in N.H....

...and that gave it enormous influences. When William Loeb (the Rupert Murdoch of the mid-20th century) bought the paper and started printing his own editorials on the front page, people in the Granite State laughed at him. After years of a virutal newspaper monopoly, his word became "conventional wisdom" up there. It's not unlike the midwestern red states where you go into any restaurant or store, and Fox News is playing non-stop.

[friendly_iconoclast]

3. The Murdochs look like hippies compared to the Loebs. Bill and Nackey L. were uber-reactionaries

[mikeargo]

4. And racist, too

Their anointed governor governor, Meldrim Thomson, was the only governor with a foreign policy--supporting the apartheid regeim in South Africa.