The media really wants you to think of Kamala Harris’s running mate, Tim Walz, as your dad. They also want you to think of Kamala’s husband, Doug Emhoff, as your dad. It more than a little creepy, but they just keep pushing this.
Why do they feel a need to put this in people’s minds?
This is from a writer named Lyz Lenz at MSNBC:
Tim Walz exudes Midwestern dad energy in the best wayI like to joke that I’ve only ever lived in the colon of the country. From Texas to South Dakota to Minnesota, now Iowa — the states where people say they are from but rarely ever move to.When I tell people where I live, after getting Iowa confused with Ohio, they ask me why I don’t just move. Why don’t I leave? Why don’t I get the hell out where I could maybe get some reproductive rights? What about my kids?People used to be able to say that Iowa was a good place to raise kids. But with my state’s disinvestment from public schools, the book bans and attacks on trans kids, you can’t say that anymore. The people who love it here tell me to leave, too, because I’ve made a career of writing about the problems with this state.In picking Tim Walz as her running mate, Vice President Kamala Harris seems to be sending a message to flyover places: that we aren’t forgotten.Walz is a man who exudes an authentic Midwestern ethos. His rounded vowels and softened consonants are not a put on. Unlike the thousands of politicians who come to the Midwest to talk agriculture policy, roll up flannel sleeves, stand in front of a hay bale for a picture and then get the hell out, Walz is from places people write off. Having grown up in Nebraska, Walz moved to rural Minnesota and worked as a teacher at Mankato West High School. His wife, Gwen, and I attended the same small rural college that no one outside the twin cities or Lutheran Church culture has ever heard of.
This one is from Politico, which has become indistinguishable from MSNBC:
Meet Doug Emhoff: Dad-in-ChiefThe White House might be getting a wife guy as the country’s first-ever “first gentleman.”Doug Emhoff, husband of Vice President Kamala Harris, took the stage Tuesday night and gave America their first taste of what a first gentleman Emhoff would be like.Speakers throughout the night gave their pitch for Harris with a more serious tone, describing her as someone who will fight against threats to democracy, the increasing costs of living and limited abortion access across the country.Emhoff painted a different picture on the Chicago stage Tuesday night: A dorky dad obsessed with his wife, who just happens to be the vice president. His words aimed to humanize Harris as not just a policymaker, but a successful woman who balances her career and family.
Those are just two examples, but there are others. People have noticed.
People have also noticed a flaw in the narrative.
The simple explanation for this, which you may have noticed, is that Democrats and the media are going into overdrive to make Tim Walz look like a football-loving, beer drinking, regular guy from the Midwest, not the far left governor who allowed radicals to burn down the biggest city in his state during a riot.
With Doug Emhoff, they’re hoping that he can ‘humanize’ his wife.
There may be some deeper, psychological issues for people in our media as well, but I don’t think anyone really cares to know.
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