On the afternoon of July 5, the Scott Pruitt voodoo doll that took up residence in Chicken-Fried News World Headquarters on February 17, 2017, started smoking. No, not cigarettes or blunts, but the kind of radiant heat-related smoking that suggests an impending explosion. The CFN team all turned to their smartphones and laptops, furiously checking […]
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Chicken-Fried News: Goon squad
This year, the worldwide journalism advocacy group Reporters Without Borders ranked the United States 45th in the world for press freedom. This puts the “land of the free and the home of the brave” just behind Romania, a country still trying to claw its way to political sanity nearly 30 years after the execution of […]
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Chicken-Fried News: No protection
With all the awful stories about Scott Pruitt’s paranoia, venality and extravagance, sometimes his horrible polices get swept aside. To paint a proper picture of just how terrible the current Environmental “Protection” Agency’s administrator is at actually protecting the environment, let Chicken-Fried News take you back five years to an awful day in a little […]
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Chicken-Fried News: Residence evil
An April 5 New York Times article detailed Environmental “Protection” Agency administrator Scott Pruitt’s bonkers expenditures and ethical lapses. Nothing to see here! The article outlined how Pruitt spent the first half of 2017 living in a toney D.C. townhouse owned by lobbyist Vicki Hart. Hart’s husband, Steven Hart, works for the D.C. lobbying firm […]
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CFN: Air con
Scott Pruitt recently said he flies first-class because people in other parts of planes have been mean to him.
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Cover Story: Chicken-Fried News predictions for 2018
CFN looks back on 2017 and makes predictions about what Okies will get up to in 2018.
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Chicken-Fried News: Quiet, please
One of the most recent questionable changes at the Pruitt-led EPA includes removing the word ‘climate’ from a website.
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Chicken-Fried News: When pigs fly
Scott Pruitt is racking up some frequent flyer miles.
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Chicken-Fried News: Email lies
Former Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt has joined the ranks of government officials who have been accused of using private email servers for government business.