The Wheeling Alternative
Documenting the locals' anti-Clinton agenda 13
Page 5 of this morning's "newspaper" carried part of an AP story that examined how candidates' Clinton and Trump responded to the recent police shootings of black men. The Intelligencer headline reads:
Clinton, Trump Decry Latest Cop Shootings
Unfortunately for those interested in how both . . .
Posted in: anti-clinton biasdonald trumphillary clinton
Covering/not covering Mylan's EpiPen controversy
Intelligencer uses AG office's press release as news
On page 7 of this morning's Intelligencer, the reader can find the following story (no link found) about our attorney general and his investigation into the cost of Mylan's EpiPen:
W.Va. Attorney General Seeks Enforcement of Subpoena
Other . . .
Explaining the Republican attacks on Hillary
Newsweek examines the Right's strategy in attacking Clinton's "deplorables" and "putting coal miners out of work" speeches
Neil Buchanan writing in Newsweek on Saturday:
Trump and his people are now rolling out the oldest of Republican campaign themes: Find a statement by a Democrat that can be taken out of context, repeat it endlessly and claim to be horrified that Democrats could be so unfeeling, callous, or unpatriotic. Trump is, finally, a true . . .
Posted in: hillary clintonwar on coal
Documenting the locals' anti-Clinton agenda 12 (with 9/19 update)
Ignoring another Trump 2nd Amendment solution for Hillary Clinton
On Friday Donald Trump suggested another 2nd Amendment solution for Hillary Clinton. Here is how the New York Times described it that night:
MIAMI — Donald J. Trump once again raised the specter of violence against Hillary Clinton, suggesting Friday that the Secret Service agents who guard her voluntarily disarm to “see what . . .
Myer lectures us on the Constitution
Yes, this material will be on the next test
Most of today's Mike Myer column, "Celebrate, Defend Constitution," is a Myer civics lesson on the Constitution which he calls "a virtual blueprint for our government." Along the way he knocks liberals (it's required in all Myer columns) for suggesting that the document needs to adapt to a changing world. No, as a . . .
Posted in: gun controlmike myer
Documenting the locals' anti-Clinton agenda 11
"Fair and balanced" coverage of the health issue
Here are six paragraphs from today's balanced AP story on the candidates' health: the first two paragraphs summarize their health, the next two describe Trump's "swipe" at Clinton for her brief absence, and the last two feature Clinton's . . .
Finding "deplorable" columnists to support Wednesday's editorial
Yesterday, I commented on the Intelligencer editorial that attacked Hillary Clinton's for her assertion that half of Donald Trump's followers were racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, and Islamophobic ("deplorables"). The paper's defense was that she was attacking them because they disagreed with her; Trump's own . . .