{"id":537258,"date":"2021-05-22T13:05:49","date_gmt":"2021-05-22T17:05:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=537258"},"modified":"2021-05-22T13:05:51","modified_gmt":"2021-05-22T17:05:51","slug":"graham-manchin-is-not-the-medias-mccain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/graham-manchin-is-not-the-medias-mccain\/","title":{"rendered":"GRAHAM: Manchin Is Not The Media\u2019s McCain"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><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%2Fgraham-manchin-is-not-the-medias-mccain%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=537258&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\/05\/5FB76CF1-7A77-4A82-8EE8-6F4FDE7DA6CB-1200x800-1.jpeg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>The bad news for liberals arrived on the front page of the May 18 Washington Post under the mild-mannered headline \u201cHopes dim for Democrats\u2019 bills on election oversight.\u201d That\u2019s a nicer headline than \u201cIt\u2019s Toast.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mike DeBonis began by reporting that Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer has approached the For the People Act that would federalize elections with the motto \u201cFailure is not an option.\u201d DeBonis wasn\u2019t as dainty as the headline writer: \u201cBut failure is very much an option \u2014 it is, in fact, the most likely one.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>There is one central figure in this bill\u2019s demise. Inside, the Post headline was \u201cManchin seen as key to election bill\u2019s passage.\u201d Sen. Joe Manchin is the only Senate Democrat who has not co-sponsored the bill and \u201chas expressed serious misgivings\u201d about it. One part of that is Manchin doesn\u2019t want \u201cany type of voting legislation without Republican buy-in.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Naturally, that night, all the network evening-news programs avoided this front-page Washington Post death notice \u2014 and the dissenting voice at the story\u2019s heart. It\u2019s not like they ignored Congress. ABC, CBS and NBC all found time to report on how radical Rep. Rashida Tlaib, speaking to President Biden on the tarmac of the Detroit airport, pressed Biden to stick it to Israel. On CBS, Ed O\u2019Keefe relayed that \u201cone of the biggest critics of his response, Michigan Democratic Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib, who has family in the West Bank, told the president that Palestinian human rights are not a bargaining chip and must be protected.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This is where you can sense that the only dissent liberal media outlets seem to enjoy comes from the left of their so-called \u201cmainstream.\u201d Manchin isn\u2019t their idea of a hero. They also don\u2019t want to disparage him as a villain \u2026 since he could always switch parties and upset their whole 50-50 apple cart.<\/p>\n<p>Consider a contrast. In July 2017, then-ailing Sen. John McCain was glorified by journalists for walking onto the Senate floor and dramatically putting a thumbs-down on repealing Obamacare. \u201cHe had just derailed the fevered Republican effort to undo the Obama-era health care law,\u201d wrote New York Times reporter Carl Hulse. \u201cIt was a stunning moment that will be long remembered in the Senate, a flash of the maverick John McCain, unafraid of going his own way despite the pleas of his fellow Republicans.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>How they love \u201cmaverick\u201d Republicans! On MSNBC, disgraced anchor Brian Williams gushed: \u201cMuch was made of that moment, a moment of moral courage, a man staring down his own mortality yet again, not the first time in his life. But let\u2019s also talk about the courage of Murkowski of Alaska and Collins of Maine, because without those two women, there is no moment like that for John McCain. My question to you: Is that kind of courage, for people cheering them on, going to be contagious?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Two months ago, The New York Times disparaged Sen. Kyrsten Sinema for giving the same thumbs-down gesture on a Democratic bill that would hike the minimum wage.<\/p>\n<p>Williams disdained Sinema as a flip-flopper, saying: \u201cseven years ago, she posted this on social media: \u2018A full- time minimum wage earner makes less than $16,000 a year. This one\u2019s a no-brainer, tell Congress to raise the wage.\u2019 That\u2019s proof that the view is different from the cheap seats.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>McCain ran his last Senate race, in 2016, on a promise to repeal and replace Obamacare, but that flop didn\u2019t dampen Bri-Wi\u2019s enthusiasm.<\/p>\n<p>Like most Democrats, journalists aren\u2019t happy when their \u201cblue wave\u201d doesn\u2019t crest. Their grand power grabs are failing, from voting laws to Supreme Court expansion. Republicans should be pleased as much as the media are disappointed.<\/p>\n<p><i>The views expressed in this piece are the author\u2019s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Tim Graham is director of media analysis at the Media Research Center and executive editor of the blog NewsBusters.org. To find out more about Tim Graham, and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate website at www.creators.com.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The bad news for liberals arrived on the front page of the May 18 Washington Post under the mild-mannered headline \u201cHopes dim for Democrats\u2019 bills on election oversight.\u201d That\u2019s a &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2312698,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/5FB76CF1-7A77-4A82-8EE8-6F4FDE7DA6CB-1200x800-1.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"GRAHAM: Manchin Is Not The Media\u2019s McCain","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-537258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/5FB76CF1-7A77-4A82-8EE8-6F4FDE7DA6CB-1200x800-1.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"GRAHAM: Manchin Is Not The Media\u2019s McCain","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537258","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=537258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537258\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2312698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=537258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=537258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=537258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}