By Tim Graham ~
We know that liberal journalists have descended into a nasty habit of associating the Democrats with democracy and the Republicans with authoritarianism. But Time magazine took it its illogical dead end: Liz Cheney getting trounced in an election was some sort of Stalinist liquidation.
The headline was “The GOP Just Borrowed a Soviet Skill and Disappeared Liz Cheney.” If you’ve been around a while, you know why this spin is funny. Time magazine made Mikhail Gorbachev the “Man of the Decade” and honored him as the “communist Pope and the Soviet Martin Luther.” So maybe Liz Cheney is their Gorbachev now. Don’t send her to Lithuania.
Philip Elliott (once an AP reporter) caustically wrote: “It’s not just the Soviets who are masters of disappearing someone. Just look at Wyoming, where voters this week drubbed a former senior member of the Republican establishment out of office…
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