Posted on 05/20/2020 8:29:47 AM PDT by Kaslin
The Washington Post's glowing profile of Stacey Abrams last week is just the latest effort of legacy media lionizing failed Democratic candidates.
The Washington Post ran a glowing profile of failed Democrat Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams Thursday that better fits a paid campaign advertisement than a close and critical look at a potential vice president.
In the Post’s cheerleading piece aptly headlined, “The Power of Stacey Abrams,” the legacy outlet paints a gallant portrait of a woman who has never won a statewide election as a progressive superhero ready to heed her own calls to serve in the nation’s highest office during a time of global peril.
Here’s how the paper introduced Abrams in just the fourth paragraph of the more than 6,000-profile article accompanied by this picture of Abrams in a cape:
Pandemonium ensues as she walks to the far left of the stage, like a runway supermodel, stops on a dime, poses, tilts her head slightly and smiles. Camera flashes explode. She next pivots and walks slowly to the center of the stage, freezes there and repeats the pose. Again, the flashes explode.Abrams is summoning her inner actress, and she is both enjoying the moment and getting through it to get to the conversation. She then pivots and walks to the far right of the stage, same. You wonder whether she has done this before, because it is not necessarily what one would expect from a 46-year-old politician who was nearly elected the first black female governor in U.S. history.
She lost by fewer than 2 percentage points in the 2018 Georgia race riddled with allegations of voter suppression. Before that, she was a state legislator who had served as a leader in the Georgia General Assembly for a decade. Now her name is on political pundits’ shortlists of potential running mates for Joe Biden. She also happens to have predicted that she’ll be elected president by 2040.
The Post profile is just the latest media tribute to the former state legislator now inserting herself into the presidential veepstakes as she breaks tradition to actively campaign for a place on the ticket.
As CBS’s Gayle King lamented to Abrams in April, “everyone knows you’re extremely qualified” to be vice president. King made no mention of the romance novelist’s lack of foreign policy credentials or any experience holding high office.
In an effort to sell herself on Biden’s veep-list, Abrams told Elle Magazine last month that her “25 years in independent study of foreign policy” was ample evidence she could broker global affairs. In fact, former Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura is more qualified to hold power in the Oval Office than the failed candidate for Georgia governor, who has spent the last two years attempting to delegitimize the results of a democratically held election.
In our new culture of absurdity, however, Abrams’ loss was actually triumphant, and now she’s a preeminent political powerhouse who is a force to be reckoned with as allies put pressure on the Biden campaign to maker her the number two pick.
Abrams has become a star in the mainstream media and Democratic Party, as have others in the increasingly bizarre phenomenon of left-wing candidates failing upwards. Former Democratic Texas Rep. Beto O’Rourke lost a Senate bid to unseat Republican incumbent Ted Cruz in the same year that Abrams lost in Georgia in what was supposed to be the year of the great blue wave. Less than 12 months later, O’Rourke leaped into the crowded Democratic presidential race as a woke wonderkid, drawing comparisons to former President Barack Obama. Only one major difference: Obama actually won a Senate seat.
Despite O’Rourke’s similar failure to ever win a statewide race, glowing press coverage following his defeat propelled him into a top-ten contender in the early presidential polls before he even entered the race. Here’s a flashback to the cover of Vanity Fair almost exactly a year ago when O’Rourke made his official debut as a presidential candidate:
O’Rourke lasted in the race through the end of October, dropping out Nov. 1 after participating in four debates.
Former South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg also rode a wave of media praise to the top of the presidential primary and lasted through February after losing an effort to chair the Democratic Party. Buttigieg was even seen at one point in the primary as a viable contender for the nomination by pulling off an upset victory in the Iowa delegate count and coming a close second in New Hampshire.
Buttigieg’s face graced its fair share of glossy magazine covers.
The same story of the media lionizing Democratic losers played out with Florida gubernatorial candidate Andrew Gillum, who became a CNN commentator shortly after his failed election. His political rise eventually collapsed after police found Gillum in a Miami hotel with what authorities suspect was a crystal meth incident.
Wendy Davis, the former Democratic Texas state senator made famous for opposing an abortion bill with a filibuster, also lost her bid for governor but became another Democratic golden girl in the process.
The media’s idolization of failed left-wing heroes is not exclusive to Democrats. Seemingly anyone at odds with President Donald Trump, especially Republicans, have been given exorbitant adoration from media elites propping up “The Resistance.”
Former Arizona Sen. Jeff Flake opted out of seeking re-election after his ardent opposition to the president tanked his home approval ratings. Joe Scarborough on MSNBC called Flake’s retirement the “political suicide” of the GOP.
Former Ohio Gov. John Kasich, who only carried a single state in the 2016 primaries and has similarly enjoyed the praise that comes with opposing Trump at all costs, joined CNN as a senior political commentator after leaving office and is likely preparing a return to the presidential race once Trump leaves office, whether that be in 2024 or 2028.
Bwahahahahahahaha! Not as long as they’re pulling the lamestream strings. Good thing I didn’t have a swig of covfefe in when I read the stacy adman thing yesterday.
I predict in the near future the left will move to do away with pre election debates. This will protect certain candidates from being exposed for lack of intellect and knowledge.
The tokenism tail is wagging the political dog.
And I much prefer ‘tokenism’ to ‘identity politics’ because the token is as fallacious on one side as it real on the reverse side.
In other words, candidate X may be black or gay or Hispanic but that’s as much as they have in common with the black or gay or Hispanic voter or constituent.
Hell, the Obamaites convinced US blacks that a person who was culturally a Pacific Islander was one of them. Obama himself believed it - or claimed to. But he was a fraud.
Once they become political animals that is their sole identity. Power by any means.
A fairly high percentage of people who identify as democrats - if you bother to ask them why are they a democrat and not a republican will simply say they don't want to be like those other homophobic/mean/bad/racist/{insert inaccurate negative characterization here}. Yet these same people have no real perception of what the modern democratic party is all about - just how far left and how fascist they really are. The democrats are not the "good guys" here, now. The democrats are currently in the larval form of brown-shirts and are pushing down a very dangerous path.
If you’re selling something, you usually talk your book... that is, sell what’s in stock, rather than complain to the customer that your product sucks and you’ll have a better one real soon.
Some will argue with me that she lost by 60k votes and that Kemp whooper her fata$$. For what she was spewing during her campaign, she should have lost by double that or more. It was too close for me and the ones that are running for Senator this year are just as bad as she is.
But, that’s what happens when you have Governor’s that have done their level best to recruit and import Northern and West Coast Liberals to come to the state, bringing “high paying tech jobs”[because those jobs are the only ones that matter .... the ones that few of the locals ever get] to the cities and start the steady shift in voting demographics. As has been done in pretty much every single state in the country, California, Washington, Oregon, Colorado, Montana, Idaho, Arizona, New York, Illinois, Nevada, Virginia, North Carolina .... coming to a state near you .... Georgia, Texas, Florida, Tennessee ... although Cali’s turn was as much about immigration as anything.
You’d think the GOPe would catch a clue. But no — it appoints proven loser McSally to a Senate seat virtually guaranteeing a second loss...
You lionize what you've got, I guess.
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Oh my! that pic of Abrams is something else.
It will never end because Americans, in general, let the media be their guide.
“Pandemonium ensues as she walks to the far left of the stage...”
they were afraid the weight imbalance was going to cause it to collapse
Not as long as the Democrat Party remains thoroughly corrupt and half of America remains apathetic about it.
Rat candidates (and truth be told, many R candidates) do not want to serve, they want to rule.
We should be reminding our public "servants" of their station in life!
Technically no barf alert was called for but it’s in the gray area.
Propaganda like this is believed in by the large sheep herd of Dems who compulsively vote Dem. So incredibly naive.
May God prevent the Dems from winning and a new Prez putting these unqualified publicity hounds into cabinet and government positions. If there’s room after the many re-tread Obama ones.
Go Trump.
Pandemonium ensues as she walks to the far left of the stage, like a runway supermodel,
Great image....
“A city in terror. A creature too big for an army to stop. Or to be held to only one film without a string of sequels.”
Let’s get groups of little Japanese girls to play flutes and sing in unison for an opposing giant to battle her and save the city.
They got real quiet about Andrew Gillum, and to think he was a close second for FL governor.
Glad we dodged that bullet.
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