Manchin becomes first senator in US history to vote down **a nominee from own party for being too partisan,** and Beltway press nods like it makes total sense
“But the Beltway press doesn't want to dwell on prejudice. Anxious to turn the Tanden story into a process one, the news media stress the Biden White House is to blame for the possibly failed nominee; for “miscalculating.””
“Why play dumb? Because if you ignore or downplay sexism — if you ignore the ugly whiff of misogyny and white privilege in the air — you can treat the Tanden story as a procedural one.”
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