{"id":152420,"date":"2021-02-20T08:37:10","date_gmt":"2021-02-20T13:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=152420"},"modified":"2021-02-20T09:13:16","modified_gmt":"2021-02-20T14:13:16","slug":"we-care-more-about-optics-than-substance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/we-care-more-about-optics-than-substance\/","title":{"rendered":"We Care More About Optics Than Substance"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwe-care-more-about-optics-than-substance%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=152420&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/GettyImages-1231242134-1.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Why do we care more about what we <em>see<\/em> someone doing than what they are actually accomplishing?<\/p>\n<p>Case in point: The media has spent the last week screaming \u201cscandal\u201d because Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) flew with his family to Cancun while millions of Texans lost power due to rare low winter temperatures.<\/p>\n<p>But Cruz isn\u2019t the only one caught in the Left\u2019s optics game. Last year, after Sen. Brian Schatz (D-HI) tweeted about coronavirus deaths, activist Shaun King asked if he supported Medicare for All \u201cright now?\u201d Schatz responded: \u201cI don\u2019t know why you are tweeting this like some sort of gotcha but I am a cosponsor of the bill.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That wasn\u2019t enough for people on the Internet, with one commenter claiming \u201cCosponsoring the bill means nothing\u201d and denouncing Schatz for not <em>tweeting<\/em> about Medicare for All, insisting that cosponsoring the bill is nothing more than \u201cvanity support.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It doesn\u2019t matter that the bill might actually contain the policies these people desire, nor does it matter that Schatz might be personally reaching out to others in Congress to build support for the bill \u2013 all that matters is what people <em>see<\/em> him doing.<\/p>\n<p>I was certainly guilty of this during the Obama years, chastising President Barack Obama for golfing or taking lavish vacations. In reality, since I didn\u2019t agree with his policy proposals, I should have been happy that he wasn\u2019t working. But he also wasn\u2019t really on vacation, and it\u2019s not fair to suggest presidents aren\u2019t allowed to relax or spend time with their families. Obama had young daughters, was he supposed to miss eight years of their lives by working? And as for those expensive destinations, while I don\u2019t like that taxpayers spent so much on them, there was a need for them to be remote and protected.<\/p>\n<p>Much of the same goes for former presidents Donald Trump or George W. Bush, who would \u201cvacation\u201d at their own properties, which still cost taxpayers millions for security. It\u2019s not like these people stopped working completely when they were away from the White House, though maybe some people would prefer they did.<\/p>\n<p>There are times when optics and substance collide, like all the politicians who broke their own coronavirus restrictions. Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) breaking restrictions to have dinner with friends at an expensive restaurant is hypocrisy \u2013 bad optics <em>and<\/em> bad substance. The same goes for the Democrats who traveled against their COVID restrictions to celebrate Joe Biden becoming president. They created the policies, but didn\u2019t follow them. It didn\u2019t just look bad, it told people that the politicians are above the rules.<\/p>\n<p>The media, however, is corrupt, often overcovering minor optics mistakes by Republicans while downplaying the <em>substantive<\/em> mistakes of Democrats.&nbsp;For Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D-NY), the <em>substance<\/em> of his coronavirus response didn\u2019t matter, only the optics \u2013 which is why he won an Emmy for his press briefings. It didn\u2019t matter that he unleashed arguably the worst policy in the country (sending coronavirus-positive patients into the most vulnerable population), all that mattered was that he held press conferences. That kind of focus on optics over substance led to thousands of unnecessary deaths in New York, and the media is only just now turning on Cuomo.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\">member<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why do we care more about what we see someone doing than what they are actually accomplishing? 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