He gets no respect
Published December 18, 2014
by Carter Wrenn, Talking About Politics, December 17, 2014.
He’d been through, he said, the ordeal of sitting for a whole hour and fifteen minutes under hot lights, sweating, answering questions but then, he added, when he saw the interview on TV he had been shocked.
He sounded – not in the TV interview but, later, when he described the interview to a reporter – like a well-meaning boy saying, I was good, I behaved, and I got punched.
Wondering, What did he expect? next I watched the 60 Minutes program about Duke Energy’s coal ash spill – and he was hardly in it:
Leslie Stahl asked: Tell us how much the fine was?
Pat McCrory said: I don’t have the list but…
Stahl interrupted: It was $99,111.
And McCrory said: That’s correct. It wasn’t a big fine.
That was the only tough question Leslie Stahl asked Pat McCrory.
Still boyish at fifty-eight, Pat McCrory’s run head on into a mountain of coal ash, a posse of reporters and a battalion of cold-hearted lobbyists with no respect for boyish charm.
