The media’s endless fawning over Pete Buttigieg won’t end well

Leaving aside this arch proclamation — any notion of morality died in the mid-’90s with Bill Clinton and the Starr Report, and we were all complicit in that — “narrative” is a luxury when your main concern, as a voter, remains jobs and the economy.

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But the media loves narrative, so never mind what they should be doing: conducting a forensic examination of Buttigieg’s background, his time in the service, his record; talking to residents of South Bend about a half-hearted mayor who has left them three times (deployment, a failed run for DNC chair, now this presidential run); what he’s said and done on social media, ever; looking into his big-money donors; and generally putting him under the kind of relentless scrutiny usually reserved for inexperienced Republican candidates like Sarah Palin and Donald Trump.

It’s gotten so bad that NBC News is reporting that campaigns on both sides are frantically digging for “opposition research” — mainly, anything that runs counter to Buttigieg’s narrative — because the media’s done nothing but prop him up.

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