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[-] Coelacanth@feddit.nu 125 points 3 months ago

In the end this won't matter because Fox viewers are not going to listen to anything that's being said beyond superficial positive/negative framing. So since the anchor said he is bad they'll think he's bad.

Objectively though yes, the video is funny and Walz does come out looking good and not bad despite it being a "hit piece".

[-] Nougat@fedia.io 82 points 3 months ago

If that's what Fox News is going to roll out as a hit piece, Tim Walz is unassailable.

[-] kata1yst@sh.itjust.works 69 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I think it's very telling that through his tenure in office here in Minnesota, the local QGOP's best attack against him is that he spends money (on good things) and his tax policy produced a surplus (because he fixed the deficit).

He is a vet, a devoted family man, and an avid fisherman and hunter.

He's exactly what they fear most. A blue collar progressive.

So he's not unassailable. You can attack his policies. But the problem is, they're fairly popular and have made Minnesota safer and more prosperous than all our red and purple neighbors.

I will add that the local media in MN has cast Minneapolis/STPL downtowns as a horrifying, unsafe, ruinous hellscape following the riots that followed the murder of George Floyd. This has in the last year or so become less impactful as rural folk have started coming to the city again for sports games, etc. But that is another attack vector I've seen them get some mileage out of.

[-] samus12345@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

Of course they'll hate him no matter what for being a Democrat. But if the best they can do is a "hit piece" that could only cause him to gain support, not lose any, they shouldn't be doing them at all.

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