Like CNSNews.com, Newsmax got quite a kick of Tulsi Gabbard ceasing her charade of being a Democrat and officially quitting the party. For months, of course, Newsmax had been promoting Gabbard’s attacks on her purportedly fellow Democrats for months now, so this was less news and more right-wing propaganda.
The uniroinically named Charlie McCarthy used an Oct. 11 article to parrot her words in quitting, but didn’t mention she hadn’t acted like a real Democrat for years. This was followed by an article the next day by Solange Reyner featuring Gabbard being transphobic on Joe Rogan’s podcast — followed by an article by Luca Cacciatore that effectively blew up any claim that Gabbard was a real Democrat by gushing that “Onetime Rep. Tulsi Gabbard has backed a Donald Trump-endorsed House Republican candidate just one day after leaving the Democratic Party.” Another article that day by Eric Mack blew that up even further by touting how Gabbard would be going on “a barnstorming campaign tour” for Republican election-denier Senate candidate Don Bolduc.
Meanwhile, Dick Morris tried to ride Gabbard’s DINO coattails for his own benefit in an Oct. 11 Newsmax TV appearance:
Dick Morris can relate to former Hawaii congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard’s high-profile defection from the Democratic Party, since he made a similar exodus from the Democrats a number of years ago.
“[Nearly] all of us were ‘boat’ people,” Morris told Newsmax’s “The Chris Salcedo Show” on Tuesday, relaying how the vast majority of American citizens have roots and heritage stories outside the United States. “And very few of us were originally Republicans.”
Morris, a best-selling author, TV host, and former adviser to Presidents Bill Clinton and Donald Trump, says that disenchanted Democrats “didn’t shift [their ideals]. The party shifted under our feet. … The party of [President John F. Kennedy] and Bill Clinton” now aligns with the modern-day Republican agenda.
As for Gabbard’s next political move, Morris — the author of “The Return: Trump’s Big 2024 Comeback” — says, “I’d love her on [the Republicans’] side. I thought she was very good” as a politician.
Morris did more self-aggrandizing exploitation of Gabbard in a TV hit the next day:
Former presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard’s decision to resign from the Democratic Party is further proof that President Joe Biden has “made America unrecognizable,” political strategist Dick Morris, the author of “The Return: Donald Trump’s Big 2024 Comeback,” said on Newsmax Wednesday.
“It’s a phrase I use in my book,” the host said on “John Bachman Now.” “You wouldn’t recognize it if told you this is a country where the government goes after political opponents and baits them and searches their homes.
“Children are told that we are in favor of racism, not against racism, where you look at gender-change surgery for children in the fourth grade … you would say I have no idea what country you’re talking about,” Morris added. “But you’re talking about America, and I think Tulsi is really onto something when she says, ‘Look, I haven’t changed; the Democratic Party has changed underneath me.'”
An Oct. 18 article by Marisa Herman, hidden behind a paywall for its “Platinum” subscribers, purported to offer “5 Big Reasons Tulsi Gabbard Left the Democrats.” An Oct. 26 column by Kenny Cody tried to pretend Gabbard was a real Democrat even as he admitted that she’s “a constant on conservative news networks”:
While Gabbard has been a constant on conservative news networks, podcasts and media shows, analyzing her background makes it all the more surprising that she left the Democratic Party. Gabbard endorsed Bernie Sanders for president in 2016, was the former vice chair of the Democratic National Committee, and resides in one of the most Democratic states in Hawaii.
From her stances on foreign policy, criminal justice reform, and populism in Congress, Gabbard was often regarded as a future star who rose from Bernie Sanders’ party shift after his candidacies in both 2016 and 2020.
However, for reasons that can only be attributed to Gabbard’s bucking of the establishment shills in the Democratic Party, she has been ostracized, mocked, and even called a Russian agent by the party’s former nominee, all because she was willing to call out warmongering tyrants like Hillary Clinton and fake progressives such as Kamala Harris.
Cody didn’t mention that the whole “Russian agent” thing is not entirely out of line, given how she sided with Putin and against Ukraine, as even Newsmax documented (though Newsmax also pointed out that Gabbard spread falsehoods about purported biological labs in Ukraine). Instead, Cody framer her odious pro-Putin sentiments as being against “interventionist foreign policy” and insisted the Republicans should embrace her because the “national conservative movement within the party” embraces being “anti-war.”
A couple days later, though Newsmax was touting how Gabbard was endorsing right-wing Republicans like Adam Laxalt and Mike Lee.
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