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New York Times obliterates Ryan Zinke as ‘not the sharpest knife in the drawer’ in brutal farewell editorial

As for the man himself, the NYT was left unimpressed.

“Mr. Zinke had a Western swagger to him that some found appealing, but on matters of public relations he was not the sharpest knife in the drawer,” the editorial continued. “When promoting various policies, he often referred to himself as a professional ‘geologist,’ when in fact he had received only a long-ago undergraduate degree in geology before joining the military.”

“On his first day in office, Mr. Zinke rode a horse to work, in plain imitation of Teddy Roosevelt. As president, Mr. Roosevelt protected 230 million acres of American wilderness, including 18 national monuments,” the piece stated. “Ten months into his tenure as Interior Secretary, Mr. Zinke recommended the withdrawal of some two million acres from two national monuments in Utah established by Mr. Obama and Bill Clinton, the largest shrinkage of public land protection in history.”

“He has not greatly improved on this record since,” they concluded
 
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