Cranky ol’ Robert Murray, head of Murray Energy and enthusiastic Obama basher (“Barack Obama and his Democrat followers are destroying entire segments of America”), had a party for Mitt Romney last week. At a rally in Beallsville, Ohio, the candidate appeared in front of a phalanx of coal miners.

The mine workers didn’t show up entirely out of enthusiasm for Romney. WTRF explained some of the rally preparations, including this detail:

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Murray will be bussing in employees and their families for the rally in support of Romney.

Here’s how Fox Nation — the unabashedly biased “community” arm of Fox News — described the scene.

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“Ohio Miners Turn on Obama.” Fox Nation labels the post “inspiring.”

Fox Nation failed to mention how all of those “coal miners and their families” got to that rally, perhaps due to some lamentable oversight in its reporting process.

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