The leftist media’s smears towards Georgia Republican Senate candidate Herschel Walker continued this week as MSNBC’s All In host Chris Hayes, and Bulwark editor Tim Miller determined Thursday to accuse him of being mentally unfit for workplace. Whereas a lot of the media this week spent appreciable airtime accusing Walker of being a hypocrite for opposing abortion whereas allegedly paying for a girl’s abortion over a decade in the past, Hayes and Miller took the nasty partisan assaults a step ahead.
Hayes kicked it off throughout the phase discussing the uncorroborated Every day Beast story which claimed Walker paid for a girl’s abortion. “The entire thing, whenever you step again, is so ludicrous,” Hayes claimed.
Letting his elitism present, he lectured Georgians about Walker’s candidacy: “there’s simply no motive for him to be a U.S. Senator,” Hayes preached. Since when is Hayes accountable for deciding who ought to and shouldn’t be in the US Senate?
Hayes then argued that there are “1000’s of individuals within the state of Georgia throughout the ideological spectrum, throughout strains of race and sophistication, no matter, who you may pull out of a hat to be the Senate nominee that are not Herschel Walker.”
One would additionally argue that if Republicans dropped assist for Walker tomorrow and in some way picked one other candidate, Hayes would discover one thing concerning the new candidate to cry about.
Ending his rant, Hayes claimed that Walker is barely the Republican nominee “as a result of because the Lieutenant Governor mentioned, he was a well-known soccer participant and Donald Trump was his buddy.”
Then it was Miller’s flip who in some way managed to be much more patronizing than Hayes.
“Everybody simply wished to go together with what Donald Trump wished and they need to should pay the piper,” Miller mentioned vindictively.
“Herschel Walker ought to be spending time in remedy, not working for Senate,” Miller sneered.
Persevering with to assault Walker, Miller proclaimed that he “obtained pushed into this by Donald Trump and Mitch McConnell. You’ll be able to’t let Mitch McConnell off the hook. And the opposite Republican leaders who did not need to have an actual major struggle.”
He then conveniently predicted that Walker will lose in November: “I do not suppose it ought to be shocking that the exact same voters that mentioned no to Donald Trump in Georgia in 2020 are this and saying, come on, guys, give me a break.”
Paying for a girl’s abortion (if that’s really what Walker did), is clearly improper. However as CNN political analyst Scott Jennings famous on Wednesday, whereas the worst case state of affairs is that Walker did pay for an abortion, “Raphael Warnock desires to pay for all of them, and up-to-the-minute of start.”
Generally elections are a alternative between the lesser of two evils.
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MSNBC’s All In10/6/20228:13:05 p.m. Japanese
CHRIS HAYES: Yeah, to your level, Tim, too that line about basically insane, I’ve tried to seek out the phrases that describe this. The entire thing, whenever you step again, is so ludicrous. I bear Herschel Walker no private animus. He looks like somebody whose religion is extraordinarily real and has had troubles and does really feel like he is come round. There’s simply no motive for him to be a U.S. Senator. I imply there’s 1000’s and 1000’s of individuals within the state of Georgia throughout the ideological spectrum, throughout strains of race and sophistication, no matter, who you may pull out of a hat to be the Senate nominee that are not Herschel Walker, who’s actually simply there as a result of because the Lieutenant Governor mentioned, he was a well-known soccer participant and Donald Trump was his buddy. A part of that’s like at a sure level, you may need to pay the piper for that.
TIM MILLER: And they need to pay the piper. That Lieutenant Governor, Jeff Duncan, who did the correct factor throughout Donald Trump’s try and steal the final election has been solid apart due to the GOP cult. Everybody simply wished to go together with what Donald Trump wished and they need to should pay the piper and sure Herschel Walker ought to be spending time in remedy, not working for Senate. I’ve to really feel sort of unhealthy for his household, proper? His son is a far-right MAGA TikTok influencer. That’s who’s talking out. It isn’t a Ron Reagan Jr. liberal child state of affairs.
They went on Fox Information collectively to argue for cease the steal again in December of 2020. And so it’s a must to really feel unhealthy for this household. Herschel Walker revealing secret youngsters, that MAGA son is studying about secret siblings he didn’t know. No marvel he’s mad. No marvel he is offended at his father. He obtained pushed into this by Donald Trump and Mitch McConnell. You’ll be able to’t let Mitch McConnell off the hook. And the opposite Republican leaders who did not need to have an actual major struggle. And so I do not suppose it ought to be shocking that the exact same voters that mentioned no to Donald Trump in Georgia in 2020 are this and saying, come on, guys, give me a break.