Hypocrite Herschel Walker gets caught in more lies
I don’t know how he does it, but every time the sun comes up, Herschel Walker has discovered he’s a father to yet another kid he initially left out of his campaign bio as he attempts to become the next U.S. senator from the great state of Georgia. It’s not Walker’s, um, extracurriculars that’s at issue. It’s the rank hypocrisy, just the thing that will likely convince white Republicans and maybe a few black hip hop artists to rally around him the way they did an even more duplicitous Donald Trump.
When Walker began his run for Senate, the public thought he had one kid, an outspoken college-age son who loves doing social media videos about liberal tears. In one such video, 22-year-old Christian Walker screamed this into the camera: “Stay home and raise your freakin’ kids. Your kids need a father. Get back home! Get back home!”
No word on whether he was directing that diatribe towards his dad or the black fathers Herschel Walker has been excoriating for being absentee, like he did during a 2021 interview with media personalities Diamond and Silk (whose stars rose because they embraced Trump and he embraced them right back). Walker compared the state of absentee black fathers in the 21st century to family separations during slavery, said it was a “major, major problem,” that “the father leaves in the black family” for black boys to be raised by their moms.
That’s grist for the kind of voter Walker hopes will usher him to victory, a way to look down on black people while pretending to be looking out for them, the damaging racist stereotypes be damned.
He told fathers “you don’t leave that child” even if you have to leave their mother. He didn’t take his own advice. According to The Daily Beast, the first outlet to break the news about Walker’s family relations, he had a “secret 10-year-old son” out of wedlock, just confirmed another son by a different woman, as well as a daughter he fathered while he was winning the Heisman Trophy and scoring touchdowns for the University of Georgia. He wasn’t very active in the life of his 10-year-old son, and it’s unclear how active he was in the lives of his other now known kids.
And he has a history of threatening women, including to blow their heads off.
And lying about being a police officer.
And lying about being in the FBI.
And lying about owning a business.
And lying about graduating from college and in the top 1 percent of his class.
And he’s associated with a therapist who believes Walker has dissociative identity disorder caused by demons.
Never mind that he has yet to clearly articulate his qualifications to hold a post as important and powerful as a U.S. senate seat. Who cares about any of that? After all, Walker helped the Dallas Cowboys establish a three-championship dynasty in the ‘90s by being shipped to the Minnesota Vikings in a lopsided trade after leading Georgia to a national title in 1980, a feat the Bulldogs wouldn’t duplicate for decades. What more do you need to know about him?
His lies, his hypocrisy, his history of ugly-dangerous behavior directed towards women, who cares? Certainly not Georgia voters who helped make Trump the 2016 Republican presidential nominee. They will care about those things as much as they cared that Trump was caught on video saying he routinely sexually assaulted women by grabbing them by the private parts. It might make them love him more. To hell with being “family values party.” Republicans in Georgia and elsewhere gave up the ghost on that long ago.