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Still on Team Herschel
My Philly friend Christine Flowers has penned an excellent and insightful Substack post about the single-anonymous-sourced hit piece on Georgia Republican US Senate candidate and football legend Herschel Walker. He has repeatedly and clearly denied these most recent charges, which I won’t repeat here since Christine has mentioned them. Read and subscribe to her work.
I would simply add two points. First, this is not the Daily Beast’s first rodeo at scurrilous tabloid journalism. I respect no one employed there, including the once-respected Matt Lewis. It is a bad place that harms journalism and the body politic.
Second, it is increasingly clear that “October surprises” don’t work as they used to. The Gore campaign and their allies’ dump of an alleged DUI by GOP nominee George W. Bush in late October 2000 suppressed some votes, but the more devastating “Hollywood Access” tape from October 2016 didn’t work against Donald Trump.
Barring confirmation of the accusations, I remain on Team Herschel. He’s been very open (writing a book) about his troubled past, and no one should be distracted by shiny objects in the final month of this campaign season designed to suppress the vote.
No, Herschel Walker doesn’t deserve a “pass” just because he’s overcome mental illness and found faith in Christ. But he also doesn’t deserve this kind of “journalism.” As a former newspaper editor and reporter, discredited organs like the Daily Beast harm my former profession when they issue October surprises based on a single anonymous source. The mainstream media does no better when they repeat it. Barring new information, I hope Walker follows through with suing the Daily Beast for defamation if he can.
He may need to add the discredited New York Times to the list, which now claims, again anonymously, to have “corroborated” the Daily Beast story with new information. Still, it’s the same “he said/she said” paradigm deployed by the Daily Beast. I hold the Times in disrepute after refusing to return its Pulitzer Prize for its debunked Trump-Russia collusion hoax (a prize shared with the Washington Post). Again, facts have a way of becoming known – as do falsehoods.
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And, compared to Warlock…
Raphael Warnock is going to vote with the democrats in the senate on party line votes ( most votes ). Walker will vote with the republicans more often. If I lived in Georgia, that would be enough for me to vote with Walker. I am a lesser evil voter. So many votes are party line, so the R or the D is more important than the individual candidate.
So Hershel had a more dramatic domestic life that Warnock? Says who? Good one Kelly. Hope some military vets can get the Army folks in Georgia to vote in favor of defending the Constitution.
Elections are job interviews. I am more concerned with how you will vote than what mistakes you made in life. If you screwed up somewhere, fess up, be contrite and move along. Obviously, this refers to normal human mistakes and folly, not criminal actions or corruption or putting pineapple on pizza.
Good to know. I don’t read it so I am not familiar with it.
Sadly, it works on too many on our side.
Perhaps they also hate him because he found redemption in religion. The left hates religious people and those better then they are.
Which is why those who repeatedly claim to be Republicans, but vote for Democrats to “save the Party from Trumpism!” are to be shunned and tossed from the GOP tent. They are effectively Democrats anyway.
If I were a pro-life voter living in Georgia and abortion was my number one issue, the choice wouldn’t be a hard one: Warnock wants abortion without restrictions, and taxpayer-funded to boot. That Walker has a messy past doesn’t necessarily mean he will be messy in office. Trump showed that – who would have guessed, based on his past, that Trump would turn out to be as staunchly pro-life in action as he turned out to be? I’d take the chance on Walker.