That's Matt Taibbi, in "Cliché Alert: Return of the 'Beer Test'/The New York Times reverts to old form, thanks to a blue-party schism" (Racket).
Here's the NYT article that set Taibbi off: "He’s Not a Democrat. Democrats Love Him Anyway."
Off the stump, [Nebraska independent Senate candidate Dan] Osborn passes the political test of a guy you’d like to have a beer with. He is loose, chatty, goofy and prone to saying stuff that would give the average campaign consultant a heart attack. Our lunch conversation, joined by several of his campaign staff, began with an explanation of his tattoos — two are of his daughters’ names, none are Nazi-adjacent — before touching on such colorful topics as the “I love Intercourse” T-shirt he bought for his wife while visiting Intercourse, Pa. (she won’t wear it)....
Click through to the Taibbi article. He's saying a lot of stuff. And he has that video of Elizabeth Warren you may be thinking of bringing up.
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So why wasn't Platner the sort of guy you'd love to have a beer with? He certainly seemed "Goofy, chatty, and fun". I guess his positions on Gaza made him impossible to have a beer with.
As for Osborne he just another fake moderate. He's personally against abortion - but supported Roe v. Wade. He's for the little guy. He has a "balanced view" on immigration. He hates both the R's and D's. Gosh darn it.
If you elected him, you'd get someone who voted with Schumer 90 percent of the time, just like Fettermann. Another salt of the earth, puts his boots one day at time, cuts through all the BS, fake.
The D's and R's always have different strategies in getting their candidates elected in states that usually vote the other way. The R's nominate people who are liberal as possible and still be Republicans. Once they get in office, they constantly "go Maverick" to prove they're not one of those icky conservatives, and hope the D's will re-elect them.
The Democrats nominate folksy "Im one of you" types in Red states who emphasize economic populism. Once in office, they vote with their party - and get rewarded after they leave office.
Likeablity is part of politics whether Tabbai likes it or not. Very few liked Hillary or "Kam". They were foisted on the electorate by the Establishment. Hillary was more or less coronated because she was the wife of an ex-POTUS. Kam got selected as diversity hire VP and was handed the Nomination without a vote by the party.
Its hard to think of two people who'd be less "Fun" to have a beer with.
"The beer test has mainly vanishedsince 2016 because beer itself has become a stand-in for unredeeming deplorable values."
Hey!
Well Donald will be drinking Diet Coke, but whatever...
Remember Obama's "beer summit." Imagine having a beer with that phony.
The beer test I remember was when Obama pretended racial healing by inviting a black Boston professor and a white cop for a beer at the White House. The cop had had the audacity to ask the good professor for ID for appearing to break into his house.
So much healing. Those were the days.
Let me guess: Osborne is a big fan of "Science" and Hate has no home" at his place. He attends the local Unitarian church. And I am also guessing the NYT never thought to ask him what his position is regarding the recent surge of DSA candidates in the Democrat party primaries.
*The beer test I remember was when Obama pretended racial healing by inviting a black Boston professor and a white cop for a beer at the White House.*
The lasting image of that moment was afterwards. While Obama was out front prancing for the cameras, behind him was that white cop helping the black professor down a set of stairs.
Obama's beer summit was a model of Diversity, Equivocation, Indoctrination (DEI). When did some, select Black Lives Matter #HateLovesAbortion become a viable choice in the woke of social progress?
FYI, the Taibbi piece doesn't reference the "Beer summit" at all though it made several appearances in the comments.
No the topic of the "Beer summit", IIRC nobody suggested the neighbor who didn't recognize Gates and initially called the cops was not invited to the summit.
NYzis, Dezis, Democrazies, and Hamasidols, too, are the very model of National Socialists in competition with Communists, Marxists, DEIsts left, present, and progressive. Throw another fetus on the barbie, it's over, maybe, baby.
A Blatz from the Pabst.
I've never seen a pol I'd like to have a beer with; in fact I've never seen a pol I even wanted to be in the same room with.
“I've never seen a pol I'd like to have a beer with”
In Arizona: Sam Steiger especially for all the stories he could tell. Barry Goldwater too. Born in 1909, before statehood.
Dan the Scam in the NYT.
NYT writes a puff piece that leaves out much information that is very relevant. No discussion of the winner of the Democrat primary who then got her name removed from the ballot to clear the way for Osborn.
NDC Chair Jane Kleeb has never won a statewide race. She’s desperate to win.
The NYT actually wrote this sentence: Nebraska is a big ag state.
Also omitted is the fact that the Nebraska Farm Bureau has endorsed Sen. Ricketts. The piece leaves the impression that since the Farmers Union endorsed Dan, then organized farming does. And I know John Hansen of the Farmers Union. Total shill for wind and solar energy. Lib.
Dan’s family has been paid $500k by the campaign. Crook.
More Californians than Nebraskans have donated to Osborne.
Dan was the head of the union at the Omaha Kellogg’s plant. It is located at 96th and F streets. My office is at 96th and L streets.
Dan had the workers strike for a long time. Kellogg’s is now leaving Omaha after about 60 years. Heck of a job Dan.
He’s also completely uneducated about economics. And, no, he did not go to my Jesuit high school.
Nebraskans aren’t stupid. They know Dan will vote for the Dems.
"So why wasn't Platner the sort of guy you'd love to have a beer with? He certainly seemed "Goofy, chatty, and fun". I guess his positions on Gaza made him impossible to have a beer with."
Wrong again. He was sold, successfully, as precisely the type of guy you'd "want to have a beer with." Tough guy, oyster farmer, charming. His position on Gaza was a selling point. The fact that he had a major problem with women, of the assault variety, doomed him. The Dems immediately proceeded to replace him with a guy with the same profile, minus the established assaults and the Nazi tattoo.
You just liked him for the jooo hate and the dormroom socialism, though.
Well there’s always that regular ol’ gal, Lizzie Warren. “I think I’m gonna have me a beer.”
Yeah nuthin’ phony about a Harvard professor talkin’ like she just fell off the turnip truck.
I'd want to dump a beer on E. Warren's head.
Reports published by The Daily Wire and The Daily Caller linked Georgia Osborn, daughter of Dan Osborn, to adult webcam profiles on platforms like Stripchat and other "cam-girl" sites under the username "joanniemitchell," rather than OnlyFans.
Joni Mitchell? Help me!
Dave Begley - he just wants you to see Both Sides Now.
Yeah, I’d like to see both sides of Georgia Osborne.
Heck, of a father!
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