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Trump didn’t offer tweets on Weinstein; Oren M. Spiegler (OMS); Beaver County Times; October 13, 2017.
Mr. Spiegler is such a prolific letter writer the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review gave him a little tribute back in 2003. Google “Oren M. Spiegler” and you’ll get more hits than you know what to do with. Unfortunately, prolific is not a synonym for competent. Mr. Spiegler claims to be a Republican. In my critique of “Breathing more freely,” I cited reasons why I was “beginning to believe Mr. Spiegler is simply another Republican impersonator,” but he sealed the deal with “Greatest foreign policy debacle.” Subsequent letters provided more confirmation. The group of local Republican impersonators also includes Messrs. William A. Alexander, Arthur Brown, Edward J. Hum, Bill Ralston, and George Reese, all claiming to be disgruntled Republicans. While he has previously claimed to be a Republican, this appears to be the first time Mr. Spiegler claimed to be a registered Republican in a BCT letter. If true, Mr. Spiegler joins Mr. Hum in going the extra mile to further his impersonation of a Republican.
ALERT! Though I missed it by several months, Mr. Spiegler finally did the honorable thing and ended his charade and deregistered as a Republican.
You can find links to previous critiques of Spiegler letters I critiqued here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here.
The BCT has or had a limit of 12 letters per writer per year. In 2014, the BCT either ditched that limit or made a huge exception for Mr. Spiegler. By my count, the BCT published at least 25 Spiegler letters in 2014. Mr. Spiegler and/or the BCT dialed things back a bit in 2015; the BCT published only 15 Spiegler letters in 2015 and 10 in 2016. This letter puts OMS’ 2017 letters at 16 with two-and-one-half four months to go.
Below is a detailed critique of the subject letter.
“One would think that the loathsome, disgraced film mogul Harvey Weinstein would make a tempting target for the Twitterer in Chief.
“Weinstein has been accused by one woman after another of being a lecherous creep and by some of having committed rape. He has been a huge funder of liberal Democrats, including Trump nemesis, ‘Crooked Hillary.’ Where there is smoke there is fire as Weinstein has apologized for his conduct.
“Trump’s silence is deafening. Birds of a feather, Mr. President?”
[RWC] OMS clearly wants readers to believe, incorrectly, President Trump (DT) didn’t comment on the Weinstein scandal. That’s why OMS was careful to specify Twitter.
The truth is, DT commented on the scandal to reporters at the White House on 10/7/17, six days before the BCT published this letter. According to Reuters and any number of other news sources, DT said, “I’ve known Harvey Weinstein for a long time. I’m not at all surprised to see it.”
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