NPR’s home page lit up with an article by digital news desk editor and writer Rachel Treisman, “Why Republicans are calling Walz ‘Tampon Tim.’” She summarized the Republican mockery of Minnesota governor and Democratic VP nominee Tim Walz for signing into law a requirement that public schools provide menstrual products to students in grades 4-12.
In the girls’ and boys’ bathrooms. This “free period products” movement is supposed to help keep female students in school at their difficult times. NPR was pushing this in 2021. [Image via L.A. Johnson for NPR]
Treisman evaded the reason for the Republican mockery, swerving past the ridiculous image of tampon machines in elementary school boys’ bathrooms, to instead insist how proudly Democrats were embracing Gov. Walz’s “Tampon Tim” epithet.
She did a bait and switch, painting Republicans as…
