{"id":63236,"date":"2024-10-08T13:05:42","date_gmt":"2024-10-08T20:05:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=63236"},"modified":"2024-10-08T13:05:42","modified_gmt":"2024-10-08T20:05:42","slug":"jimmy-kimmel-and-tim-walz-make-it-abundantly-clear-who-the-weird-ones-are-in-this-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=63236","title":{"rendered":"Jimmy Kimmel and Tim Walz Make it Abundantly Clear Who the Weird Ones Are in This Election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When Kamala Harris chose Gov. Tim Walz to be her running mate, she was impressed with his record as a progressive leader who made great strides in his state, and whose experience as a legislator, a veteran, a teacher, and a football coach, appealed to a broad swath of middle America.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=Jimmy Kimmel and Tim Walz Make it Abundantly Clear Who the Weird Ones Are in This Election%0D&#038;url=https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=63236\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to Tweet this article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/Pix\/Trump\/foxnews-harris-walz-fake.jpg\" alt=\"Fox News, Kamala Harris, Tim Walz\" width=\"550\" height=\"296\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-63045\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In addition to those assets, Walz had a way of speaking that average folks could relate to. For example, his off the cuff observation that Donald Trump and JD Vance were <em>&#8220;weird&#8221;<\/em> connected so authentically with millions of people that it instantly became the most vivid descriptor of the MAGA party&#8217;s presidential ticket. It was such a apt epigram that Fox News and the GOP had to invent a contrary, albeit lame and baseless, comeback&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>SEE THIS: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=63044\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">WTF? Fox News and GOP Clown Comer Launch a Gross Attack on Tim Walz and His \u2018Scary Family\u2019<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On Monday night Walz was a guest on <em>&#8220;Jimmy Kimmel Live&#8221;<\/em> where he had another opportunity to display his homespun relatability. During the course of the conversation, Kimmel played a montage of Trump responding on several occasions to the charge that he and Vance are weird. Clearly he was disturbed by it. But it was impossible to see his responses as anything but&#8230;well, weird. Which Walz himself noticed and had the perfect reaction&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;If you have to tell people numerous times you&#8217;re not weird, you might be weird.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Gov. Walz: Trump keeps saying he&#39;s not weird. If you have to tell people numerous times you&#39;re not weird, you might be weird <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/mCD92JtU7M\">pic.twitter.com\/mCD92JtU7M<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Kamala HQ (@KamalaHQ) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KamalaHQ\/status\/1843656256290013671?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 8, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Indeed. In just the same way that Trump has to repeatedly tell people that he isn&#8217;t racist, or stupid, or greedy, or sexually abusive, or afraid, or lying, he finds it necessary to try to convince people that he isn&#8217;t weird. That&#8217;s a hard case to make when the evidence of all of the above is so abundant.<\/p>\n<p>Later in the interview, Kimmel gave Walz an opportunity to address the weirdness issue in a more serious way&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Kimmel:<\/strong> Why do you think the \u2018weird\u2019 label stuck to Republicans?<br \/>\n<strong>Walz:<\/strong> I was talking about the behaviors of being obsessed with people&#8217;s personal lives in their bedrooms and their reproductive rights. Making up stories about folks legally here eating cats and dogs. They&#8217;re dehumanizing. They go beyond weird. Let\u2019s debate policy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Q: Why do you think the \u2018weird\u2019 label stuck to Republicans?<\/p>\n<p>Gov. Walz: I was talking about the behaviors of being obsessed with people&#39;s personal lives in their bedrooms and their reproductive rights. Making up stories about folks legally here eating cats and dogs. They&#39;re\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/JB0w8C1AC2\">pic.twitter.com\/JB0w8C1AC2<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Kamala HQ (@KamalaHQ) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KamalaHQ\/status\/1843451943244435776?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 8, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Walz barely scraped the surface of Trump&#8217;s weirdness. He left out Trump&#8217;s obsession with Hannibal Lecter, his fear of batteries and sharks, his belief that windmills cause cancer, his suggestion to nuke hurricanes, his bleach injection cure for COVID, his insistence that he won in 2020 and is ahead by far in all the polls now (<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=63021\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">he&#8217;s definitely not<\/a><\/strong>), his narcissistic delusion that he is everyone&#8217;s favorite president, and so much more.<\/p>\n<p>When considered in its entirety, <em>&#8220;weird&#8221;<\/em> seems hardly sufficient to describe what Trump is.<\/p>\n<p><strong>RELATED STORIES:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=63228\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Master Racist Trump Attacks America: \u2018We\u2019ve Got a Lot of Bad Genes in Our Country Right Now\u2019<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=63219\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kamala Harris is Blitzing Media that Donald Trump is Too Afraid of To Do<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=63056\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Trump Rants Hysterically that Women are \u2018Poor\u2019 and \u2018Depressed\u2019 But that He Will Fix Everything<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote>\n<div>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong>Be sure to visit and follow News Corpse<br \/>\non <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NewsCorpse\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/NewsCorpse\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/newscorpse\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Instagram<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.threads.net\/@newscorpse\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Threads<\/a>.<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong>And check out my books on Amazon:<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2aOYFpM\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">Fox Nation vs. Reality:<br \/>\nThe Fox News Cult of Ignorance.<\/a><\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong>Thanks so much for your support.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Kamala Harris chose Gov. Tim Walz to be her running mate, she was impressed with his record as a progressive leader who made great strides in his state, and whose experience as a legislator, a veteran, a teacher, and a football coach, appealed to a broad swath of middle America. Click here to Tweet [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":63045,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[152,1,15],"tags":[554,1468,1461,1219,1357,1523],"class_list":["post-63236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-election","category-general","category-humor","tag-donald-trump","tag-humor","tag-j-d-vance","tag-jimmy-kimmel","tag-kamala-harris","tag-tim-walz"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-grW","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":63457,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=63457","url_meta":{"origin":63236,"position":0},"title":"Tim Walz Schools Jon Stewart on Why Liz and Dick Cheney Supporting Kamala Harris is Important","author":"Mark NC","date":"10\/22\/2024","format":false,"excerpt":"There is an old saying about how \"politics makes for strange bedfellows.\" But despite this adage being older than Donald Trump's bone spurs, many people are still surprised by unusual alliances among politicians with divergent views. 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