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Beauty is only skin deep. And to the Democratic Party and the liberal media, that appears to be as deep as they go for selecting their candidates. That much was demonstrated during Sunday’s This Week on ABC when fill-in host Martha Raddatz, who is supposed to be an objective journalist, flashed her partisan side by bragging to former New Jersey governor Chris Christie about how diverse the income class of newly elected Democrats was.
Openly declaring her goal was to “rub it in” (an odd sentiment for a journalist who wasn’t supposed to take sides), she showed Christie a collection of pictures of the newly elected GOP and Democratic candidates and paid particular attention to their race and gender.
One of the people displayed was Texas Congressman-elect and former Navy SEAL Dan Crenshaw, who already had to deal with liberal attacks against his appearance when NBC’s Saturday Night Live mocked his missing right eye, which lost to an IED in Afghanistan.
“A little bit different,” Raddatz mocked, effectively reducing the backgrounds, policy positions, and life experiences of the GOP class to their skin color and gender. “Should that lack of racial and gender diversity be cause for concern among Republicans, especially when you look at the midterms,” she demanded to know.
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