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Thinks Being Utahn of the Year is an
Honor
Unlike most Republican conservatives,
at one time in history Utah Senator Orrin Hatch actually had a few, a
very few but a few, moments of contribution to the national welfare.
No more, his rants on t he tax bill showed he has been divorced from
reality. But
he was just named Person of the Year in Utah by its flagship
newspaper.
Utah's
biggest newspaper anointed the state's longtime Republican senator,
Orrin G. Hatch, as its “Utahn of the year,” a distinction that
came with a nearly full-page photo on the paper's front
page on Christmas Day.
The
senator seemed to appreciate the recognition, tweeting an image of
the front page and thanking the Salt Lake Tribune for “this
great Christmas honor.”
'But wait, thinks are not what they
seem to be.
Along
with a news
article and
the photo, the newspaper published a scathing
editorial that
took aim at the senator's recent record, most notably his part in the
Trump administration's decision to shrink two national monuments
in the state, and said that the designation was meant to anoint
the Utahn who had had the most impact, “for good or for ill.”
Hatch
had earned the title because of his part in the “dramatic
dismantling” of the Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante
national monuments, his role in helping to pass the recent tax
code overhaul,
and his “utter lack of integrity that rises from his unquenchable
thirst for power,” the editorial board wrote.
Gosh Orrin, maybe you want to go back
and read what they actually wrote about you.
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