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Who is closer to the truth? “14 New York Times columnists and contributors” or Guy Benson?

Sep 11, 2024

By Dave Andrusko

For the last post of this Wednesday, I’ll briefly discuss what 14 New York Times columnists and contributors had to say about last night’s presidential debate and then take a much longer look at a terrific piece by Guy Benson.

When I say briefly, I do mean to be short and sour. The headline tells it all: “Trump Brought Darkness; Harris Brought Light’: 14 Writers on Who Won the Presidential Debate.” Before I could stand it no longer, I counted one out of “14 New York Times columnists and contributors” who had anything even remotely positive to say about former President Donald Trump. The crew was even more one-sided than the moderators of last night’s debate: ABC News’s David Muir and Linsey Davis.

Benson, as always, offered astute analysis.  He begins with insights from Tom Bevan and Byron York:

On my radio show this week, RealClearPolitics founder Tom Bevan made an insightful point about the three-pronged deception at the heart of the Democrat-media propaganda push on behalf of Kamala Harris.  It was true before the debate, and it remains true after it.  In some ways, the debate accentuated it. They have made the calculation that maximizing her chances of winning requires a dramatic image facelift, in which she is presented to voters as a policy moderate, the personification of change, and a hype-worthy political talent.  She is none of those things.  Working backward, Byron York tackles the fresh Harris persona by reviewing the startlingly-recent record of how she has long been viewed by members of her own party.  As they try to transform her into some badass, lady boss second-coming of Barack Obama, recall what many within the adulation committee were saying about her not long ago.

He then goes through the many recent posts from the Democrats and the Legacy Media bemoaning how awful a Vice President Harris is. There’s “quiet panic,” in addition to aides [meaning those close to President Biden] who were “worn out by what they see as entrenched dysfunction and lack of focus” from Harris. Also, they snipped at her for being an awful boss. And that’s just a sample of the backstabbing.

Benson adds, “As for this absurd transmogrification of the most left-wing Senator into a ‘moderate,’ without explanation, Kamala Harris keeps running into the problem of things Kamala Harris has said and explicitly endorsed.  In some ways, she’s running against herself.  And herself has had quite a lot to say, and not in the distant past, either.”

It’s impossible just one day out to know if the debate will move the polls. We’ll keep an eye out for you.

See you tomorrow.

Categories: Politics