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It’s hard to believe it’s barely been a week, but over the past few days, we’ve seen a remarkable, concerted effort from the left to whitewash Gov. Tim Walz (D-Minn.) from a devastating radical to an all-American man who is the most brilliant choice ever for vice president. The whole sanitizing of Walz has been a sight to behold.
We’ve written a lot here at PJ Media about Walz’s stolen valor and the attempts to portray him as a combat veteran. Leftists are trying to paint him as a paternal figure in the ickiest of ways, calling him “America’s Dad” and going on about whatever the heck “dad energy” is. Even the efforts to highlight his Christian faith fall apart when you discover how progressive and heretical his church is.
Obviously, the left means for all of these efforts to detract from Walz’s radicalism. There’s nothing normal or “middle America” about the policies Walz has promoted throughout his political career.
Even sports media is getting in on the whitewashing. My favorite sports news site The Athletic published an article on Monday morning that consisted mostly of quotes from Walz’s former high school football players about how great a coach he was. The notification I received was cringeworthy enough:
The headlines tried to obfuscate the narrative behind the piece. The main headline on the article itself read, “Tim Walz’s former football players think back on glory days: ‘We were so bad before his era,’” while the headline on the home page tried to make it look like the article was about the players: “’Am I getting pranked?‘ Former football players of Tim Walz in spotlight amid VP candidacy.”
Falling in line with the whitewashing of a radical, the article gives a “Friday Night Lights” patina to Walz’s pre-political career:
Before he was elected governor of Minnesota, before he represented the state’s first district in Congress, and long before he became a candidate for vice president, Walz was a coach and social studies teacher in the Midwest, first in Nebraska and then in Minnesota.
