From article Mike Pence Pandering To D.C. Media Is Pathetic And Disqualifying. Mollie Hemingway. March 14, 2023.
Any candidate who is playing footsie with the propaganda press, in an incomprehensible ploy to curry favor with them, disqualifies himself from contention.On Saturday night, former Vice President Mike Pence addressed the annual Gridiron Club dinner, a white-tie gathering of Beltway media and political insiders.
PENCE TOOK THE OPPORTUNITY TO PRAISE THE D.C. MEDIA, ATTACK TUCKER CARLSON, AND CONDEMN DONALD TRUMP.
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“History will hold Donald Trump accountable for Jan. 6,” Pence said. “Make no mistake about it: What happened that day was a disgrace, and it mocks decency to portray it in any other way,” Pence said of Tucker Carlson’s journalism, which is at odds with the official narrative.
PENCE PRAISED THE CORPORATE MEDIA AS WELL, SAYING, “WE WERE ABLE TO STAY AT OUR POST IN PART BECAUSE YOU STAYED AT YOUR POST.
The American people know what happened that day because you never stopped reporting.”
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As if Pence’s views on the virtues of the propaganda press weren’t disappointing enough, his handlers bragged to the same media he had lavished them with praise and attacked Trump and Carlson as part of his long-shot campaign to win the Republican nomination for president.
According to a new Politico article, THE PENCE TEAM INTENTIONALLY CRAFTED THEIR REMARKS BECAUSE THEY “BELIEVED IT WOULD HELP PENCE WIN OVER HIS MOST SKEPTICAL AUDIENCE these days: Washington insiders and journalists.”
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No offense, but how are these people political professionals?
How many decades of political history have taught everyone with a pulse that REPUBLICAN PANDERING TO THE MEDIA IS A FOOL’S ERRAND?
In what world does this strategy make sense?
The strategy has never worked and will never work.
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Consider the media’s most beloved Republican presidential contender, 2008 nominee Sen. John McCain.
The Arizona senator was treated so well by the media for his self-styled “straight-talk” and attacks on fellow Republicans he used to refer to them jokingly as his “base.”
It’s true their support of him did help him obtain the nomination.
But THE MOMENT MCCAIN POSED EVEN A TINY THREAT TO SEN. BARACK OBAMA, THE TRUE OBJECT OF THEIR DEVOTION AND AFFECTION, THEY TURNED ON HIM in a heartbeat.
He might as well have been Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush, Bob Dole, or Mitt Romney.
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Nothing about Pence suggests he would receive even a short honeymoon of the type McCain benefited from.
He should have learned this lesson when, as governor of Indiana, he caved to media demands that he decrease religious freedom in his state.
PENCE’S COWARDICE DID NOT RESULT IN FAVORABLE MEDIA COVERAGE THEN OR WHILE HE WAS VICE PRESIDENT.
They loathe every single thing about him.
They even mock him for how he and his wife protect their marriage!
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It’s true ATTACKING FELLOW CONSERVATIVES OR REPUBLICANS WILL ALWAYS GENERATE SOME FAVORABLE MEDIA COVERAGE.
It’s the only way a non-leftist can be published in The New York Times, for instance.
It’s the primary way to get airtime on NBC or CNN.
It’s self-abasing and a dereliction of duty to your voters, but, hey, a fleeting moment of non-hostility from the corporate press is worth it, right?
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Contrast Pence’s effort with how Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis handles corporate media.
He treats them as if he understands they are Republicans’ most steadfast political opponents.
In press conferences, DESANTIS POINTS OUT THE FLAWS IN THE MEDIA’S ASSUMPTIONS AND LIES IN THEIR QUESTIONS.
He does not give them breaking news in the futile hope they will be nicer to him later.
The only thing worse than a Republican who impotently complains about “media bias” instead of understanding the country is in the midst of an all-out information war is a Republican who actually praises the press for its war on Republican voters.
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Pence was wrong to effusively praise the corporate press for its behavior in the aftermath of Jan. 6.
THE MEDIA NEVER “REPORTED” OR COVERED THE JAN. 6 EVENT OR ITS CIRCUMSTANCES SO MUCH AS IT EXPLOITED THEM FOR POLITICAL PURPOSES.
The same media that excused and vociferously defended the violent and deadly Black Lives Matter riots that besieged the White House, a federal courthouse, and police precincts, turned on a dime to treat the Jan. 6 riot as a literal insurrection, an absolutely absurd claim.
No American should praise such behavior from the propaganda press.
And no man seeking the votes of Republicans should pander to the propaganda press for political reasons, even if it weren’t delusional to think it would work.
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The country is in the midst of an information war.
THE CORPORATE MEDIA ARE A MORE FORMIDABLE POLITICAL OPPONENT OF REPUBLICANS THAN ANY DEMOCRAT RUNNING FOR OFFICE.
Any candidate for the Republican nomination had better have a plan to protect and defend Republican voters and their goals.
Any candidate who is playing footsie with these political opponents, in an incomprehensible ploy to curry favor with them, disqualifies himself from contention.
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(own comments)
“Pence praised the corporate media as well, saying, “We were able to stay at our post in part because you stayed at your post.”
“The Pence team intentionally crafted their remarks because they ‘believed it would help Pence win over his most skeptical audience these days: Washington insiders and journalists.’”
Pence is smart, wily and understanding with his seeming Dem side appeasement.
Praising Democrats and their supporting mass media in talk and speeches is fine and encouraged, on face-to-face surface We really should be friends with Dems, must soften not harden dem.
Action traction be much better when the other side loves not hates you.
We must love Dems, zei provide inspiring fire, zei must grow stronger so We can grow even stronger.
Simply, with words We must act and let Dems feel We could maybe agree, but then with actions show dem We don’t.
Easier to move the scale center point way to our love’s sweet plan song side when the weights are far apart.
(Byrds song All I Really Want To Do, Change Is Now)
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