A sealed indictment is "private, confidential, non-public"
So how does the Wheeling News-Register get a 1300 word article that features mostly Republican attacks?
The indictment against former president Donald Trump is sealed but that doesn’t prevent today’s Wheeling News-Register from giving local Republicans free reign to attack the prosecutor and Democrats. The top-of-the-front-page headline on this morning’s Wheeling News-Register reads:
Local, State Leaders Sound Off On Trump . . .
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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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West Virginia odds and ends
Last month, I wrote about WV Senator Shelley Capito Moore’s backing of proposed legislation that would protect interracial and same-sex marriages. In the post, I noted how Capito’s support for the bill brought her a lot of angry online criticism. This morning, the Wheeling News-Register carried an Associated Press article about Republican . . .
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Delegate Pat McGeehan on guns and abortion
He’s not quite the constitutional conservative that he thinks he is
Last Tuesday, Bishop Mark Brennen of the Diocese of Wheeling-Charleston issued a statement calling for more action on gun violence. (The Wheeling Intelligencer carried it here.) From that statement:
“We have put our heads in the sand so that we don’t have to face the truth: the proliferation of guns is a strong contributing . . .
Is Trump done?
Maybe not, but it would appear that Trump has lost the Wheeling Intelligencer
I’m trying not to make too big of a deal out of it (I realize that it’s not quite at the level of Lyndon Johnson losing Walter Cronkite in 1968), but today, Donald Trump appears to have lost the Wheeling Intelligencer. This morning, not one, but two of the Intelligencer’s syndicated columnists suggested that it’s time for Trump to leave . . .
Reading the local Ogden papers on the day after election day
Four Republican constitutional amendments lose and this is their top story?
What was today’s top story in Wheeling, West Virginia? I think most readers who follow local and state politics would quickly answer “the defeat of all four proposed amendments to the West Virginia Constitution.” Why? For starters, the amendments were the handiwork of the West Virginia GOP which pitched hard for their adoption:
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Yesterday and today, the Wheeling Intelligencer devoted almost 5,000 words to cover two important elections
Unfortunately for West Virginians, the races are in Ohio
Today’s Wheeling (West Virginia) Intelligencer dedicated over 1800 words to the Ohio governor’s race and almost 800 words to the battle for Ohio’s senate seat. This was in addition to the 2000 words on the governor’s race in yesterday’s paper in which, like today, the candidates for Ohio governor answered questions submitted by the Sandusky . . .
