The Wheeling Alternative
An open question for the Wheeling Intelligencer: What is the limit -- what does Donald Trump need to do or say before you will criticize him?
Quite to the contrary, today’s Wheeling Intelligencer editorial page demonstrates its support for his antisemitism
My previous post pointed to the racism and antisemitism that some of the leaders of the WV Republican Party have not-too-subtly embraced. Today, the Wheeling Intelligencer’s editorial page endorsed the antisemitism part by publishing this editorial cartoon by Gary Varvel:
Follow the Money: by Gary Varvel at CDN -
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Let the pandering begin: the leaders of the WV Trump Party get out their dog whistles to defend their party’s namesake
It’s all there: Soros-backed prosecutors, Stalin’s secret police, third world banana republic stuff, violent thugs roaming the streets, weaponizing the criminal code for political purposes, anarchy and corruption, political prosecution, a leftist Manhattan DA, and obviously, a gross miscarriage of justice
From WV District 2 Representative, Alex Mooney:
This is outrageous if true. The leftist Manhattan DA resembles Stalin’s secret police attacking only Republicans and letting crime explode. Harassing President Trump to distract from their own failures is the left’s plan. https://t.co/WYYZpFA9C9
— Rep. Alex Mooney (@RepAlexMooney) March 18, . . .
Senator Capito responds to the bankruptcy crisis: “Where were the regulators?”
You wonder where the regulators were, Senator? Haven’t you worked most of your career to get rid of them?
Here is WV Senator Shelley Moore Capito on WV Metro’s Talkline discussing the recent bank failures:
“Where were the regulators? The regulators had to be looking at the SVB bank and saying to themselves the average amount of insured depositors at that bank was less than 10 percent,” she said, contending that percentage should . . .
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Child marriages in West Virginia
Our Republican legislature just voted to keep them legal
From the Associated Press, we learn that yesterday a West Virginia Senate committee rejected a bill that would have ended child marriages in West Virginia. From the article:
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A bill that would have prohibited minors from getting married in West Virginia was defeated Wednesday night in a legislative committee.
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The Office of West Virginia Secretary of State should be the least political of all state offices
Unfortunately for the state's citizenry, a highly-partisan politician, Mac Warner, occupies that office (with 3/8 update)
From the Associated Press:
. . .A bipartisan, multistate effort set up to thwart potential cases of voter fraud is under attack after conspiracy theory-driven claims questioned its funding and purpose. Some Republican-led states are considering pulling out of the group. https://t.co/flh50rvWHW
— The Associated Press (@AP) March 4, 2023
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What has Senator Joe been doing?
For starters, he’s been sounding a lot like a Republican
Today
West Virginia’s Democratic senator, Jo Manchin, was on CBS Face the Nation earlier today. Among other questions, he was asked about his own personal aspirations and whether he would endorse Biden:
Asked if he would endorse President Biden for reelection, @Sen_JoeManchin says, "Let's see who all the players are."
And on his . . .
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Good-bye, Dilbert
Has our local Ogden newspaper done the right thing, has it joined “cancel culture”, or is there another reason why the strip is not in this morning’s newspaper?
After reading about Scott Adams’ racist outburst this weekend, I looked for his comic strip, Dilbert, in the morning Wheeling Intelligencer. There was no Dilbert. The comic strip is no longer on the comic page of the Wheeling Intelligencer or any other Ogden newspapers. The chain, like hundreds of newspapers nationwide, no longer carries . . .
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