“the networks hyped Texas Democratic state senator Wendy Davis in her pro-abortion filibuster back in June, calling her a “folk hero” and her performance “epic.”
“They focused on her shoes; they did a lot of coverage about that – all the sort of juicy little angles,” he describes, adding the media reports were “very supportive of what she was doing.”
“[They] called her ‘a political star.’ CBS said ‘a national political star is born.’ CNN asked: ‘A Democrat in the governor’s mansion? Unthinkable a week ago, a ‘maybe’ today.’”
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