With Iowa Republicans voting tomorrow in the kick-off contest of the 2024 presidential cycle (Iowa Democrats are mailing in their ballots, with results to be announced on March 5), a look back shows the national media have always twisted their caucus coverage to fit their liberal political narrative.
Thus, religious conservatives like Mike Huckabee, Rick Santorum and Ted Cruz have been mocked by the media elites as “creepy” “bigots,” as reporters declare that embracing a conservative agenda would lead to disaster for Republicans in November. Yet the media always seem to be thrilled by their Democratic choices, spinning radicals as “moderates.”
And for all of the media hype leading up to Iowa, the media have also been let down by weirdly inconclusive caucus results several times in the past few years — most spectacularly in 2020, when Democrats…
