Over the past week or so, Oklahoma Senator James Lankford has received more fawning attention from the national press than a young, nubile virgin at the Falls Creek Church Camp.
Mainstream media outlets from The New York Times to CNN to The AP and so on have portrayed him as an innocent bipartisan victim in today’s vitriolic political age – a noble man who’s been eaten alive and bullied by the uncompromising, obstruction-at-all-cost political vultures in the ultra-right wing political party and MAGA movement he’s enabled and helped create.
The New York Times really played up the victim treatment.