The Watchdog with David Bozell

Remember how the media sold Abigail Spanberger as a “moderate”? That storyline collapsed almost immediately after she took office. Within weeks, she helped push Virginia back into the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative — a move that forced Virginians to pay higher bills — scrapped ICE partnerships, and supported a redistricting amendment designed to lock in Democratic power.

So much for moderation.

Now the same playbook is being rolled out for James Talarico, the liberal Democrat running for Senate in Texas.

And the stakes are enormous.

Texas has not elected a Democratic senator since the 1990s. Flip that seat, and the entire national political map changes. A Democratic Texas doesn’t just add one Senate vote. It reshapes presidential politics, shifts the balance of Congress, and potentially locks in federal dominance for a generation.

The media know this, which is why they’re working overtime to rebrand a progressive activist as a thoughtful centrist.

Watch how it works.

On CBS Mornings, the hosts treated Talarico less like a candidate and more like a strategic project. They teased his plan to “turn Texas blue,” asked what his victory would “signal,” and never once pressed him on his voting record or his more radical statements. It looked less like journalism and more like a campaign rollout.

Then came The New York Times, portraying Talarico as a kind of spiritual reformer — the man who will supposedly rescue Christianity from conservatives. The paper highlighted his attacks on conservative believers while presenting his own progressive theology as enlightened and compassionate.

Talarico has described conservative Christians as “un-Christian,” “a perversion of faith,” “unbiblical,” and “heretical.” He has defended abortion using language about Jesus and “consent,” suggested God is “non-binary,” and argued that loving your neighbor means embracing progressive politics.

Normally, the secular media treat Christianity with open contempt. But when a liberal politician redefines the faith in ways that align with their politics, suddenly they become its most enthusiastic defenders.

Why? Because it serves a political purpose.

If the media can repackage a liberal candidate as a reasonable moderate — and a religious one at that — they neutralize the cultural arguments that have long helped keep Texas conservative. They’re not trying to inform voters. They’re trying to manufacture a candidate.

They’re not covering a campaign. They’re trying to engineer an outcome.

Their job, as they see it, is to shape the story before voters ever see the facts. Ours is to expose the record they’d rather keep hidden.

Because voters should decide elections — not the press corps.

​​​​​​​Take it easy, 

David Bozell
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