2022 Election Results Thread

[BengalYankee]

(11-10-2022, 05:17 PM)Nately120 Wrote: Dubya played up the goofy persona to soften the nepotistic war criminal he really was.  Palin and Trump are legitimately media personalities who took a stab at politics and fizzled out relatively quickly. 

Comparing Palin and Trump, despite their short-lived political successes, to long-term politicians like Quayle, Biden, and Bush is a bit off.  The media ran every president in the television era starting with Nixon's unsuccessful 1960 bid vs JFK through the ringer.  

Nixon was ugly
LBJ was ugly and offputtingly imposing
Ford was a dumbass who fell down a lot
Carter was a southern dumbass because he had a southern accent even though he was almost Rhodes scholar
Reagan was a senile and his wife fell down enough that the media loved to speculate that she was "against drugs but clearly a chronic alcoholic"
Clinton was a legit Rhodes scholar but he was a dumbass because he was from Arkansas
Gore was a boring robot and Bush...well, see above



and so on


The media has been out to get politicians since 1960 when everyone on the radio thought Nixon trounced JFK but the TV people said the opposite....damn you television.

You conveniently are leaving out two. One President and one Vice President that have a shield against the Media and Hollywood from attacking.

 I also disagree with most of the folks you mentioned. I remember the Carter years as well as Gore and they were not attacked in intensity like the folks  I indicated. I can think of one Democrat candidate that was attacked rather unfairly.