Having just spent a few days in West Virginia, I can tell you that the coal industry is fighting back.
The people can see that the emperor has no clothes.
I just another comment at the hotair article:
In a truly Orwellian sense the Obama campaign is like a Ministry of Mistruth. Starting with energy, despite O’s desire to see energy prices skyrocket, and his Secretary of (Anti-) Energy Stephen Chu’s stated goal of $10 a gallon gas, their opposition to the XL Pipeline, to fracking, to coal, to offshore drilling or drilling in Alaska, to new federal drilling permits anywhere, despite this O maintains that they have an “all of the above” energy policy when it’s actually “none of the above” except for fanciful green energy that is little more than a costly pointless boondoggle that is feathering the nest of O’s campaign cronies!
On coal, of course it’s Orwellian, to run ads saying Romney is against coal and O is in favor of coal, when O explicitly said that his policies will bankrupt coal, and coal plants are now shutting down en masse thanks to O. Fortunately, thanks to these coal miners, O’s lying ads are not going to go unchallenged.