by Brad Slager, Townhall:
The Arizona gubernatorial race has been one of mounting import for the coming midterms, as it is becoming reflective of all the problems the Democrats are facing and the growing tide of Republican support. Add to the fact that the GOP nominee, Kari Lake, is an unapologetic Trump acolyte, and you have a referendum in play on one of the key issues Democrats have attempted to leverage.
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Once thought of as a secure win for the Democrat Katie Hobbs, polls now show Lake in the lead, as Hobbs has been shown to be a weak campaigner, one who has consistently refused to debate Lake. This has proven to sway impressions of Hobbs and might also have been the wiser move.
Her avoidance of Lake is understandable, as she would be dealing with someone with years of media knowledge and savvy on the microphone. The longtime news reporter has also shown she is more than just comfortable on camera. Lake is adept at handling the press. When faced with numerous biased questions, she has displayed her ability to parry and turn the tables on the reporters challenging her. This media dexterity brought out a compelling point when she made an appearance with Tucker Carlson on his Monday evening broadcast.
Carlson introduced their segment by noting a recent endorsement of Hobbs by onetime Republican stalwart Liz Cheney and how that campaign tout has ended up paying dividends for Lake instead. But then the gubernatorial candidate segued to a broader point about the media, and it is a salient message. Lake noted that our current media complex is not exploring and exposing truisms but is instead in the process of telling us what we are forbidden to mention.
This is the state of our current media complex that they are in need of dictating not just what they will cover as essential news, but they work to limit what topics are to be discussed.
Kari Lake makes some trenchant comments about the state of our media complex and how those who subsist on the 1st Amendment are keen to stifle subjects from being discussed.https://t.co/T2JvmVjvkh
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She is exactly on point with this matter because we have seen repeated examples of those in the business of delivering information seeking to silence the spread of “disapproved” information. The Hunter Biden laptop story is a shining beacon of the press working diligently to kill off a legitimate story they collectively deemed unfit to cover. It is a practice we have seen repeatedly.
On the Paul Pelosi story, I was in an argument with Max Boot over that issue as he strained to make the attack a political hit on Republican messaging. As Boot attempted to make it evident of political violence from the GOP leaders, I gave him a truncated list of violence from the political left that went unrecognized. There have been dozens of pregnancy centers targeted and numerous individuals on the receiving end of political violence – just this year alone.
