I & I Editorial BoardWhen Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz decided not to run for reelection amid the massive Minnesota fraud scandal, Fox News said that his political demise “puts the Harris campaign judgment under scrutiny.”
But that misses the bigger and more troubling issue. Namely, the media’s culpability in letting Walz get so close to being a heartbeat away from the presidency.
Instead of due diligence, the press went into spasms of joy about Walz’s supposed appeal to Middle America. He was an “authentic guy,” “folksy,” with a “great record.” He had “psyched up the Democratic base,” and has “been inundated with supporters professing their love for him.”
AP gushed that “It would be hard to find a more vivid representative of the American heartland than Walz.”
The New York Times said “Walz’s political origin story appears ripped from a Hollywood movie script.”
His “masculinity” was “terrifying to Republicans.”
On and on – ad nauseam – it went for months.
Even as the legacy media were showering Walz with praise, there was clear and convincing evidence that he had been overseeing one of the largest fraud schemes in the nation’s history.
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After all, it was two years earlier that the FBI had filed indictments against 47 people for the $250 million “Feeding our Future” fraud, calling it “a brazen scheme of staggering proportions” and the “largest pandemic relief fraud scheme charged to date.”
If that wasn’t enough to whet journalists’ appetites, a 2024 state audit – released before Walz was tapped for the VP spot – revealed that Minnesota government officials had “failed to act on warning signs” about the scheme.
There was, as National Review put it, “a trove of publicly available information surrounding a vast array of waste, fraud, and mismanagement” during Walz’s leadership.
You can bet the farm that had Walz been a Republican, these scandals would have been front-page news, day after day, until everyone on planet Earth knew about it.
But, because Walz is a Democrat, and because reporting on this fraud would have hurt the Harris campaign, it was all buried. The mainstream press is our version of Pravda.
So, the next time the legacy media talk about how it’s their duty to “vet” candidates for high office, remember Tim Walz.
— Written by the I&I Editorial Board
Frankly speaking, what could it hurt our nation if there was no “MSM” in the form we know it today? Twitter (before Elon) was a fraudulent puppet of the deep state as were others including Facebook, etc. etc. A change of ownership will likely work for X but the jury is out on CBS. If Bari Weiss actually makes a substantive and lasting change in that fraudulent culture, that may give us hope for the truth to come. So far, CBS’s white blood cells are attacking Bari like she was a Diffuse Large B Cell Lymphoma.
The simple fact is Walz was more a media narrative than someone who had been “really, honestly!” vetted by the Democrats and the media. This alone gives credence to the “fact checked” lie so often used by the media to discredit anything that wasn’t part of their leftist Democratic narrative.
I suppose it began with the John Kennedy administration, when the White House was used as a brothel. This priapic Kennedy clan was never reported as such and so these Democratic worthies were voted into the White House.
However, the media’s truncating “All The News Fit To Print” could have begun with the FDR administration, where it was verboten to photograph FDR in a wheelchair-and so many who voted for him didn’t know that he was crippled.
This would have been a nice fact to know-especially in 1940 when the Second World War began and Presidential energy was needed. However, as it did with Walz, the media printed Democratic legends rather than the truth.
The media continued on it’s destruction of the truth (or at least part of the truth) in the era of COVID, when everything was “fact checked” by those on the Left and-wonders of wonders-the only things that were not true (like the so-called safety and effectiveness of the so-called COVID vax) were the media’s interpretation of which facts were important and which facts were unimportant.
Russian Collusion had to be true because there was no proof that it wasn’t-thus, Donald Trump was guilty because he couldn’t prove a negative.
Tim Walz-as I&I points out-was genuine, folksy and worthy of trust and admiration, according to the legacy media.
I think we ought to fact-check that!