Any day now, we’ll learn who Vice President Kamala Harris has chosen as her 2024 running mate. But there’s no suspense about how the media will react, since liberal journalists have consistently praised and promoted every Democratic vice presidential nominee since the early 1990s.
One constant feature of the media’s fawning coverage has been to insist that all of these candidates — even the most left-wing nominees — are actually “moderate,” or even “conservative.” CBS’s Richard Threlkeld, for example, claimed after Senator Al Gore’s selection in 1992 that “both Gore and [Bill] Clinton are centrist, some would say conservative, Democrats…” Yet in the last full legislative year before Gore was selected (1991), he received an approval rating of just 14% from the American Conservative Union (ACU); that fell to zero in 1992.
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