{"id":2379572,"date":"2024-12-13T00:22:02","date_gmt":"2024-12-13T05:22:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/not-so-glory-days-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2024-12-13T00:22:38","modified_gmt":"2024-12-13T05:22:38","slug":"not-so-glory-days-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/not-so-glory-days-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Not so \u2018Glory Days\u2019 &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"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%2Fnot-so-glory-days-washington-examiner%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=2379572&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--><p>The article titled &#8220;Not so \u2018Glory Days\u2019&#8221; discusses how <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">political candidates frequently<\/a> enough embellish or misrepresent the truth during their campaigns. It highlights a specific example involving\u2062 Congressman Josh Gottheimer,a Democratic candidate for\u200c the new \u200cJersey governorship,who has taken\u200d this practice to an unusual level by manipulating images with photoshop. Gottheimer, known for\u2062 his admiration of Bruce Springsteen, even walked out to \u2062the \u200csong &#8220;glory Days&#8221; during his campaign proclamation.\u200c To showcase his fandom, he shared his Spotify Wrapped for 2024, aiming to connect with voters through his musical interests. The piece critiques the lengths to which politicians go \u2062to fabricate appealing narratives about \u2064themselves.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Not so &lsquo;Glory Days&rsquo;<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_1908025\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>Lying or making erroneous statements is a time-honored tradition for politicians on the campaign trail, but a member of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/congress\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Congress<\/a> who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/state\/3231520\/gottheimer-announces-bid-new-jersey-governor-2025\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">happens to be a candidate<\/a> for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/new-jersey\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">New Jersey<\/a> governorship is taking his tall tales a step further and taking his misrepresentations to Photoshop.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>Rep. Josh Gottheimer (D-NJ) is such a fan of Bruce Springsteen that he walked out to his campaign announcement to &ldquo;Glory Days.&rdquo; However, to prove himself a true super-fan of &ldquo;The Boss,&rdquo; the aspiring governor had to go a step further: share his 2024 Spotify Wrapped, which listed his most listened-to songs for the year. It was a clean sweep for Springsteen, with his songs earning the top five spots on the list.<\/p>\n<p>However, there was one problem. It <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/saturdays-fun-fraud-facts-seven-unexplainable-results-that-reveal-democrats-didnt-even-try-to-hide-their-fraud\/\" title=\"Saturday&#039;s Fun Fraud Facts: Seven Unexplainable Results that Reveal Democrats Didn&#039;t Even Try to Hide Their Fraud\">wasn&#038;rsquo<\/a>;t actually Gottheimer&rsquo;s Spotify Wrapped. It was a Photoshopped version of it that listed the five Springsteen songs as his most listened-to songs. Enterprising reporters noted that the spacing between the songs on the list was unusual, and the font used in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/house-democrat-demands-resignation-of-secret-service-director\/\" title=\"House Democrat demands resignation of Secret Service director\">congressman&#038;rsquo<\/a>;s list also differed from the one used by Spotify.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&#129300;Lol. h\/t <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/terrencemcd?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@terrencemcd<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/pRh61vRvsO\">pic.twitter.com\/pRh61vRvsO<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Matt Arco (@MatthewArco) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MatthewArco\/status\/1866107207110066386?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 9, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Confronted with the evidence, Gottheimer came clean. According to <em>NJ Advance Media<\/em>, the wannabe governor confirmed that his Photoshopped list was not a genuine screenshot of his Spotify Wrapped because he shares his account with his children, who muddied what would have been a clean sweep for Springsteen with Taylor Swift.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;This would be my Spotify Wrapped if I didn&rsquo;t share my account with my 12 and 15-year-old kids,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;While it&rsquo;s Springsteen all day for me &mdash; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/despite-insistence-by-democrat-politicians-and-medical-elites-empirical-evidence-does-not-conclusively-show-that-masks-reduce-the-spread-of-covid\/\" title=\"Despite Insistence by Democrat Politicians and Medical Elites, Empirical Evidence DOES NOT Conclusively Show that Masks Reduce the Spread of COVID\">don&#038;rsquo<\/a>;t get me wrong, I still love listening to Taylor Swift!&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>As one of New Jersey&rsquo;s favorite native sons, Springsteen enjoys a unique place of honor in Garden State culture. So, it is not hard to see why Gottheimer sought to identify himself as a fan. Seriously, though, how many people was he going to convince to vote for him simply by sharing that Springsteen is his favorite artist?<\/p>\n<p>The congressman is hardly the first politician to pull a stunt like this, and he won&rsquo;t be the last, but honestly, the risks of being exposed as a phony for what was a pretty obvious Photoshop job were much higher than any benefit that would be gained from convincing working-class New Jerseyans that, despite his Ivy League education and years in politics, he is still in touch with his roots.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>One of the many diagnoses of the Democratic Party&rsquo;s failure to connect with voters in this recent election is the fact that they do not act like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/2020-was-the-brian-stelter-of-years\/\" title=\"2020 Was the Brian Stelter of Years\">normal people<\/a>. Normal people don&rsquo;t Photoshop fake Spotify lists to share on social media, even if their Spotify Wrapped is dominated by their child&rsquo;s obsession with Swift. After all, she is the most popular pop singer in the world, and by quite a long shot.<\/p>\n<p>If Gottheimer had really been riding down &ldquo;Thunder Road&rdquo; to live his &ldquo;Glory Days,&rdquo; he wouldn&rsquo;t have had to convince people with a Spotify Wrapped screenshot.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_1908025\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"1908025\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not so \u2018Glory Days\u2019: Politician Josh Gottheimer fakes Spotify Wrapped<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2934,"featured_media":2379573,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/YL.NoSoGlory.121824.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[32133,46700,4902,5894,32076],"class_list":["post-2379572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-current-events","tag-not-so-glory-days","tag-opinion","tag-politics","tag-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/YL.NoSoGlory.121824.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2379572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2934"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2379572"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2379572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2379576,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2379572\/revisions\/2379576"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2379573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2379572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2379572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2379572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}