For six weeks Rob Portman refused to call Biden president-elect, pushing the Big Lie that led to the Jan. 6 riot

Today @DanaBashCNN didn't bring that up once. She read praise of Portman as a "sensible Republican"

The history of Republicans who pushed the Big Lie is being erased

Live interviewing is a specific skill and in no way am I suggesting I’d be good at it but at some point the absence of obvious topics and events that were widely reported become noteworthy especially after Portman said they’ve known each other for 30 years https://twitter.com/emptywheel/status/1355888464500318208

Seems to be a theme among a certain set of people that Portman was some sort of ethereal beacon of elderly wisdom whose history as an election denier (who also voted against *hearing impeachment witnesses*!) should be supplanted by an alternative timeline https://twitter.com/kasie/status/1354027275071741952?s=20