Selective media suppresses Walz’s renegade family, amplifies Trump’s
“Nebraska Walz’s For Trump.”
That’s the slogan on the t-shirts worn by eight members of the family of Kamala Harris’ running mate Tim Walz in a photo that lit up social media this week.
The picture was shared by Charles Herbster, a former gubernatorial candidate in Nebraska. The group descends from Francis Walz, the brother of Tim Walz’s grandfather, making them the governor’s second cousins.
Family members denouncing their relatives who run for or serve as president is nothing new in today’s political world.
Barack Obama, for example, has been on the receiving end of some rhetorical haymakers, with half-brother Malik Obama calling the 44th president a “fake a**” while announcing he’s voting for former President Donald Trump.
Several of the Kennedy clan have publicly proclaimed their lack of support for RFK Jr., and even done multiple interviews to express their disdain, calling him “dangerous.”
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</aside>Donald Trump’s niece Mary has built a lucrative career around writing books, hosting podcasts and running to any so-called news outlet who will have her, with the singular focus of bashing the former president in the most personal way, despite not having spoken to him for years.
Yet she’s cast as a “Trump insider.”
But when it comes to any member of the Walz family who opposes Tim Walz’s candidacy while publicly supporting Trump, there’s zero interest by the media in putting any of them on camera to give them the Mary Trump treatment.
This is also true of Jeff Walz, Tim’s older brother, who The Post exclusively reported is “100% opposed to his ideology” and says Tim is not “the type of character” who should make major decisions about the future of the country.
And let’s not forget those members of the Minnesota National Guard who served with Tim Walz — and who absolutely went off on him this week as they described how he “abandoned” them when he learned his unit would be deployed to a war zone in 2004.
“I call him a coward because he is,” one veteran told Megyn Kelly in a group interview.
Another called the governor a “military impersonator” after it was revealed Walz lied repeatedly about his rank.
“If you sold out your Guard unit and abandoned them, what are you going to do at the national level?” one veteran asked in reference to the possibility of Walz becoming vice president.
One would think The New York Times or Washington Post would report on these comments, but each has completely ignored the story.
It should also be noted that each paper has written several glowing features on Mary Trump.
This media selection bias has been patently grotesque this election cycle.
Here’s a big example: When Harris became the de facto nominee after Biden bowed out, conservatives quickly pointed to her record on illegal immigration, backing policies that allowed more than 12 million people to illicitly enter the country, including hundreds of the terror watch list.
But instead of pointing out the myriad of ramifications of this crisis from a humanitarian to national security perspective, many in the media jumped to oddly defend Harris by insisting she was never the “border czar.”
But here’s President Biden declaring just that in 2021:
“I’ve asked her, the VP, today — because she’s the most qualified person to do it — to lead our efforts with Mexico and the Northern Triangle and . . . stemming the migration to our southern border,” he said.
So how has “stemming the migration to our southern border” worked out so far?
And why won’t the media hold Harris accountable on this major campaign issue?
We know the reason: Because doing so might help Donald Trump get elected again.
To many in this business, that’s simply unacceptable.
Just like it’s unacceptable to interview anyone in Tim Walz’s orbit — his family, his former National Guard unit — about just how unfit they believe him to be to get anywhere near the White House.
Joe Concha is the author of “Progressively Worse: Why Today’s Democrats Ain’t Your Daddy’s Donkeys.”
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