As the media's preferred candidate in the 2020 Democratic...

  1. 16,642 Posts.

    As the media's preferred candidate in the 2020 Democratic primary, Sen. Elizabeth Warren has enjoyed an enormous amount of softball coverage.


    Yet, the harder journalists work to win her the nomination, the worse her chances seem to become.


    Warren launched her 2020 candidacy amid what should have been a much bigger scandal. Her false claim of Native American heritage only received the coverage it deserved after she announced a DNA test showing she was somewhere between 1/64th and 1/1,024th Native American. Until then, this whiter-than-bleached-clothes-in-a-snowstorm politician had been given a pass for her lie.


    Warren claimed later, in April 2019, that Republicans win elections only when they cheat, an outrageous and conspiratorial allegation much like the ones for which President Trump is so often pilloried. Yet, because it came from Warren, it, too, went largely unreported. The senator then declined an invitation to appear on Fox News, calling the network a “hate-for-profit racket.” The press, which has spent the entirety of the Trump presidency warning about “chilling” attacks on the free press from elected officials, had nothing to say about this. Later, when Warren suggested the same cable news network inspired a mass shooting in El Paso, Texas, members of the media were, again, silent.


    CNN and others have instead focused much of their 2020 coverage on Warren-friendly stories. For example, who could forget when the obscure Democratic strategist Danny Barefoot announced to his 5,738 Twitter followers that he was endorsing the senator’s candidacy? The Washington Post published a news report later comparing Warren's campaign “selfies” to Frederick Douglass’s portraits. Later, the Washington Post also went to bat for Warren after her claim to being fired from her job as a teacher in the 1970s for being “visibly pregnant” was proven false by a written record showing that she had actually been asked to stay on in the position.


    Reporters have also worked hard to shield Warren from similarly legitimate questions about whether her astronomically expensive Medicare for Allproposal would raise taxes on the middle class. MSNBC daytime host Hallie Jackson cheered Warren’s absurd white paper explaining how the senator plans to fund the $34 trillion Medicare for All proposal, calling it the “ultimate clapback to her critics.”




    click to play

    Hashing it Out: Tom Rogan on Megxit, Brexit, and turmoil in the UK


    Meanwhile, both the Washington Post and MSNBC declined to cover the moment in November when Warren was confronted by black supporters of school choice at a campaign rally in Atlanta. The media took no interest in Warren’s lie of omission when she shot back at one of the protesters, claiming, “My children went to public schools," when in fact they also went to private schools.

    https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/editorials/the-more-the-media-try-to-help-elizabeth-warren-the-more-voters-reject-her

 
arrow-down-2 Created with Sketch. arrow-down-2 Created with Sketch.