When Tim Walz surfaced on the campaign trail by himself, the networks glossed over or buried the VP nominee's false claims that he served in war zones. Several showed again a clip of Walz claiming he carried a gun in war, which is not true. But there are many other "stolen valor" clips they could be playing. It's not a one-time offense.
Most networks buried the Washington Examiner scoop on Walz's meetings with a pro-Hamas, Hitler-admiring imam in Minnesota who he lauded as a "master teacher." Imam Asad Zaman has touted a documentary about Adolf Hitler called The Greatest Story Never Told. Is that some "master teaching?"
Managing Editor Curtis Houck joins the show to explain the Walz coverage (and non-coverage). We also discuss his wildly successful video tweet of Washington Post reporter Cleve Wootson turning up at the White House briefing to ask if the federal government will "intervene" in Elon Musk's planned conversation with Donald Trump. Who needs free speech in America?
Now that Joe Biden isn't running for president anymore, we witness The New York Times filing a story on how Hunter Biden tried to use State Department contacts in Italy to build his Ukrainian lobbying client Burisma. Even that paper's unearned prestige spurred just a story and a half across the broadcast networks.
CNN contributor David Frum is creating a ruckus by wackily comparing Donald Trump to Charles Manson, and by claiming J.D. Vance somehow wants to expose Tim Walz as a semen-drinking pervert. Frum said "what he’s trying to suggest is that Tim Walz is a sexual deviant of some kind.”
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