Gov Jazz Hands McSnitchLine: Maybe We Should Have Done More Media

Tim Walz’ post-mortem on his own campaign reminds me of a joke, which is hardly surprising, given the joke his nomination and Kamala Harris’ turned out to be. The governor of Minnesota took an opportunity to talk with former Montana senator Jon Tester on his podcast, part of the Democrat effort to find the next Joe Rogan among the leadership clique of the party, to discuss what went wrong in 2024’s presidential campaign. 

Rather than admit the obvious — that voters saw through the four-year fraud that was the Joe Biden presidency — Walz instead has decided that they needed to rearrange the media deck chairs on their sinking ship. Walz lamented the decision to refrain from engaging the media at all levels:

As podcast host and former Montana Sen. Jon Tester argued that the campaign didn’t use Walz effectively, Walz said his argument spoke to a broader point about the Democratic Party not entering “every media environment,” including podcasts and local media. He said, “My God, they’re not watching ‘Meet the Press,’ they’re listening to you guys, as they’re going somewhere, listening.” …

“I think you got to flood the zone,” Walz said. “And I would argue we didn’t see, you know, the vice president when she got in front of people, and I watch her talking to young people, she was magnetic with them. She was optimistic. She was hopeful. But in today’s world, you got to have a lot of that, or it gets lost in the noise. And if you think you’re just going to do a, you know, a ’60 Minutes’ interview, and that’s going to get across, boy, that’s not it.”

Ahem. So the joke goes: An actor collapses on stage in the middle of a sold-out performance. His castmates gather around him and then solemnly announce that the actor has passed away. Amid the shocked gasps from the audience, a little old lady yells, “Give him an enema!” When the other actors repeat that their colleague has died, the old lady yells again, “Give him an enema!” Finally, one of the distraught castmates scolds the woman by saying, “Lady, he’s dead! An enema is not going to help!” To which the old lady replies: “Well, it couldn’t hurt!”

Only in this case, a legitimate media enema would definitely have made things worse. Harris’ handlers knew it, based not just on the moment at hand but five years of incompetent media appearances and public engagements. For that matter, they probably figured more media exposure of Walz would have done damage too, an impression that got reinforced every time Walz cosplayed a Democrat idea of masculinity in public.

Using the 60 Minutes interview to make this point reveals Walz’ continuing cluelessness. Harris did so badly that the CBS show was forced to recut her answers to make her sound coherent, a point that is currently roiling CBS News and Paramount C-suites. On the rare occasions that Harris engaged media, she performed so terribly that it became clear she had no idea what she was talking about, not even from the start of a sentence to its end. Harris’ labyrinthine word salads had already become legendary for their utter lack of substance, and were bad enough for her one-heartbeat-away status as VP. 

Walz hardly did any better. For one thing, he was clearly the He’s Not a Jew choice by Harris, who was widely expected to pick Josh Shapiro to bolster her strength in Pennsylvania, but that isn’t Walz’ fault. Instead, Walz tried to make a campaign slogan out of calling Republicans “weird” while strutting across stages like Freddie Mercury on a coke binge. Walz also talked a lot about “freedom” and “Mind Your Own Damn Business” from a governor who established a literal snitch line for Minnesotans to rat out family and friends for supposed pandemic sins — a Stasi-esque operation that ran for more than two years in Minnesota. Harris supposedly picked Walz as a masculine role model to attract younger male voters, which speaks largely to Harris’ lack of intellectual capacity.

But the media-strategy excuse is a sideshow. Voters rejected Harris and Walz not because of their media strategy, but because of their fraud strategy. Harris knew that Biden was too cognitively incapacitated to be president, and yet not only didn’t take any action (as the Constitution required) but went along with the shocking fraud of having Biden on the ticket for another four years. Walz also participated in that fraud, both before and during the campaign, by pretending that Biden was fully competent and in charge. Had the Protection Racket Media not tried so hard to kneecap Donald Trump in favor of first Biden and then Harris, voters might have given Trump a ten-point and forty-state win. 

Walz is still attempting to distract from the real defeat for Democrats in 2024 — the exposure of their corruption and perversion of the Constitution. Governor Jazz Hands McSnitchline is perhaps the real poster boy for Democrats in 2024.