As the Edgewood Lakes development public hearing continued, so did the unceasing barrage of editorial rhetoric from the Livingston Manor Times. Earlier editorials which had earlier promoted to its readers the “us versus them” argument now became fixated with the conjured-up “David against Goliath” approach. Broad, sweeping and unsubstantiated statements became even more pointed and absurd than past editorial commentary. No one was immune to the Times’ editorial venom; wealthy visitors, fishing and hunting clubs, state officials, the DuPont family, Larry Rockefeller, and even the ASPCA.