The American Spectator Calls George Santos "A Hero"

As some of you may know, I was a regular contributor to The American Spectator from 2009 to 2016 essentially covering most of the Obama Administration. However, I parted company when the magazine's founder Bob Tyrrell, Jr. told me to stop criticizing Donald Trump. 

It was one of the easiest decisions I ever made. As a result of their slavish devotion to Trump and Trumpism, The American Spectator considers lying to be a moral virtue and has declared Republican Congressman-elect George Santos "a hero".

In an article titled, "Here's To You, George Santos!", Scott McKay defends Santos' actions. While acknowledging Santos told "significant lies" McKay rationalizes his behavior:

But is George Santos the scandal? Hardly.

Think of Santos as a performance artist. He’s like the NASCAR driver who, seeing a wreck in front of him as he comes out of a turn and enters the straightaway, follows the old advice: pick a line and drive through it.

Santos picked his line very well, knowing that if he did he would escape any media scrutiny at all. Say you’re a Wall Street whiz, that you’re gay and Jewish and that you come from Holocaust survivors, and that you’re a 9/11 victim, if only by proxy.

Say all of that and nobody in the mainstream media, not even in New York, will bother to challenge any of it.

          And even if they do, so what? None of those lies are fatal. We already know they aren’t. 

The only kind of artistry Santos has produced is bullshit. As the Republican Jewish Coalition aptly pointed out, "George Santos Lied." 

But as far as McKay is concerned this is perfectly fine. McKay writes, "George Santos read the room. He realized that Stupid Woke America values “diversity” over competence or merit, and so he fed Stupid Woke America what it wanted."

In other words, McKay thinks the voters of New York's 3rd Congressional District (who not so long ago regularly elected Republican Peter King to Congress) are Stupid Woke Americans who got what they deserved. Ditto for the Republican Jewish Coalition who hosted Santos at one of their events during the election campaign. 

McKay further rationalizes that Santos is no different than Gisele Fetterman, wife of Pennsylvania Senator-elect John Fetterman whom he describes as "another Brazilian grifter". Mind you, Fetterman has not been accused of lying about her biography much less made fraudulent statements about her finances. But it seems McKay thinks all Brazilians are grifters. Good to know that McKay sees fit to judge people by their national origin. 

If this is the sort of garbage The American Spectator sees fit to publish, then I am glad I stopped writing for them.