Jeffrey Lord
Jeffrey Lord is a Contributing Writer for NewsBusters. Lord is a former White House political director in the Reagan White House.
Well of course.
So Vice President and Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris plucks a heretofore unknown Governor of Minnesota Tim Walz to be her running mate – and the liberal media rallies.
Some sample headlines:
The florid New York Times:
Tim Walz Is the Veep’s Pick for Veep
Many Democrats see Tim Walz as the hottest Minnesota export since Scotch tape.
LGBTQ rights groups celebrate Walz as Harris VP pickABC News:
In Tim Walz, Harris tries to check all the boxes in a running mate: ANALYSIS
Walz is like “Bernie Sanders in hunting gear,” said one Republican.
Iowa Democrats celebrate Harris’ running mate choice of Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz
Taylor Swift fans are celebrating Kamala Harris’ running mate, Tim Walz, as a certified ‘Swiftie VP’
And on and on goes the media celebration that a thorough-going progressive who can out-progressive Bernie Sanders is in line to be next-in-line if – and only if – Americans veer sharply left and elect Kamala Harris to the White House.The real issue now is whether American voters will awake and realize that the business of Walz being your grandfatherly old neighbor from the state of Minnesota nice is in fact a liberal media sales job that will, of necessity, spend its time hiding the basics of just how far left Walz actually is.
Walz is now out there saying this:
One person’s socialism is another person’s neighborliness.
Really? Really?
Where in the liberal media is the challenge to this “wisdom” from, say, the famous economist Thomas Sowell, who says:
The strongest argument for socialism is that it sounds good. The strongest argument against socialism is that it doesn’t work. But those who live by words will always have a soft spot in their hearts for socialism because it sounds so good.
And Sowell also points out:
Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.
Thomas Sowell may never have met Governor Tim Walz, but he knows the Walz type exactly.
One would think that after a century plus of the dismal reality of socialism’s failures that the media in 21st century America would understand exactly why it has repeatedly failed – and why Walz is a serious problem for American economic prosperity.
But alas, no.
In any event, it’s safe to say the lines of the 2024 presidential campaign have now been drawn in the media. There are two distinct sides.
On the one side is conservative media – Fox, Newsmax, internet sites like this one here at NewsBusters, and talk radio – national and local. On the other side are the “mainstream” pro-socialism outlets that would include the MSNBCs and CNNs of the world, plus the three broadcast networks, and the left’s favorite print journalists in places like the New York Times and Washington Post.
From now until election day it may look like this election is between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris. It isn’t. In fact, while the liberal media will try to pretend otherwise, this election is really about two very different systems of government: Trump’s free market capitalism versus the liberal media’s rallying for Harris’s decidedly anti-freedom socialism. Which her pick of the openly socialist Governor Tim Walz personifies.
Right now, they’re trying to run a race on personalities and tone... and refusing to grant interviews or press conferences. The campaign has to turn to policy differences, and how radical the Harris-Walz policies will be. Buckle in.
This article was originally published by MRC NewsBusters.
