The mainstream media continues to ruthlessly pick apart Terry McAuliffe for being…human

Somewhere along the road of serious news and reporting on the most disconcerning mistakes by political candidates, the mainstream media sold its integrity for almighty ratings. No longer willing to report on serious issues, the mainstream media has become a vital hub for mediocrity that plays to the public’s worst impulses. A good example of the mainstream media’s ‘wrongful pursuits’ is its continuing coverage of Virginia gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe’s “failure,” GreenTech Automotive.

The implications of these negative ‘reports’ seems to be that anyone running for public office who has failed at a business venture is unable of competent public service. That is, if you don’t meet rapid success while undertaking a business venture, you’re suspect as a viable candidate for political office.

The recent Virginian-Pilot report also points out that McAuliffe has campaigned on a platform of business and job-creation experience. According to the author of this report, Fredrick Kunkle, “McAuliffe, a Democrat who has never held elective office, tells voters that they should choose him because of his entrepreneurship and experience creating jobs.” But the author’s focus on GreenTech Automotive disregards McAuliffe’s successful business credentials before he went into the automotive industry.

The stories about GreenTech Automotive have also overlooked, on the whole, the youth of the company itself. Most companies don’t become kingmakers overnight, especially in the automotive industry. As co-founder of GreenTech Automotive, Xiaolin “Charles” Wang, explained, “This is a small, tiny start-up. It is hard to start a business. It is even harder to start a car business, especially in an economic crisis.” GreenTech is still running and still has a chance to be the huge success that so many stories in the mainstream media have claimed it isn’t. Success, however, can take time.

All things considered, the level of negativity that has been directed towards Terry McAuliffe is unusual, and given the Republican Party candidate for governor, it would be logical to conclude that McAuliffe would be the shoe-in favorite for any rational Virginian. For whatever reason or set of reasons, though, McAuliffe has been picked apart ruthlessly for his decision to do what business people do, go where the most money can be made, and this by the very people who claim to love the free market.

The mainstream media also apparently believes that elected representatives should be immune from bad decisions or mistakes. In the real world, the world that is constantly distorted for increased viewership by the mainstream media, we all make mistakes, the rich and the poor, the young and the old, the Democrat and Republican, and so on. This is what being human is all about.