After the Kamala Harris campaign named Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as her running mate, PBS News Hour anchor Geoff Bennett conducted a cozy interview on Tuesday evening with his Minnesota pal Sen. Amy Klobuchar — just like NPR did — and quickly transformed himself into a liberal media cliché.
Bennett: The Trump campaign is already pouncing, calling him dangerously liberal and saying that the Harris/Walz ticket is the most left-wing ticket in American history. He has championed progressive causes. How do you expect that he will defend his record?
“Pounces” is a common media trope suggesting Republicans and cynically or unjustly criticizing Democrats.
Klobuchar repeated her already-tired pseudo-folksy anecdote defending Walz’s authenticity by saying “he’s probably the first vice president that has stood in a deer stand in 10-degree Minnesota weather…
