If you would have told me back in June that a candidate for Oklahoma Governor would hop on Facebook in October and issue a statement that KWTV News 9 – Oklahoma's conservative news leader – had it out for them, my response would have been something like this…
"Honestly, Joy can't be very surprised. News 9 is owned by the conservative Griffin family. Their political analyst took payments from Epic Charter School, they partner and accept advertising money from Ryan Walters's shady non-profit, and as we learned back in 2018 when their fact checkers invented new facts in support of Kevin Stitt, they're not shy about letting their personal political beliefs guide and influence News 9 reporting and helicopter news coverage. I mean, they literally just held a Stitt Chum-A-Thon! What does she expect?"
As it turns out, my response would have been way off base!
Yesterday afternoon, Kevin Stitt's campaign team hopped on Facebook and complained to supporters that their former besties at News 9 are planning to issue "negative-toned stories" and "new poll" results out of spite…
That's hysterical, very Trumpian, and brings up a ton of questions…