Liberal Washington Post political reporter Ben Terris on Thursday offered a sneering article on Rick Perry, deriding the presidential candidate as a "zombie" "specimen." The story mocked Texas's longest-serving governor for having trouble raising money: "Due to a relatively recent political experiment known as super PACs, Perry’s zombie campaign lurches forward."
Terris insulted, "The Perry specimen ambles in behind, wearing a natty black suit and belt buckle with his initial on it... The specimen does not seem to realize that he has been infected."
The obvious contempt continued with a recap of Perry's Iowa appearances:
Perry walks out of radio interview and ambles in a pack of people through the crowd. Takes many selfies with fans. One father yanks his young daughter away from specimen: “Let’s get out of the way of this f---ing politician.” (Researcher cannot say for certain whether this man thought Perry contagious. Should be noted that there is no evidence to suggest the disease is communicable between zombie politicians and normal human beings.)
In January, the Post journalist slammed Senator James Inhofe as a "climate-change denier." Terris regurgitated the official liberal line on the conservative:
This is how Democratic activists like to think of Inhofe: as a doddering caricature of conservative values who, given a platform such as the chairmanship of the Environment and Public Works Committee, will regularly supply punch lines to the opposition. They see him as an untethered radical off in a world apart even from his conservative colleagues; a Don Quixote with Jesus as Sancho Panza, on a quest to rein in overzealous lefties.
For a 2014 piece on the Tea Party's fifth birthday, Terris wondered "whether the movement will ever turn ten."
In contrast, the same reporter fawned over the liberal John and Debbie Dingell as the wife prepared to take over for her husband.
