It was a Democratic wave election, and the journalists went surfing. The amount of TV coverage of off-year elections in New Jersey, Virginia, and New York City was minimal this fall, perhaps because Democrats were feeling good about their chances and didn’t want to give publicity to their opponents. Negative angles on Zohran Mamdani in New York or Jay Jones in Virginia were ignored or downplayed. Who’s too inexperience and radical? No one.
MRCTV’s Brittany Hughes and Nick Kangadis analyze the results. In New Jersey, polls suggested it was gonna be tight, and it wasn’t. In Virginia, polls suggested it wasn’t going to be tight, and it wasn’t. They flipped 13 seats in the House of Delegates to gain a supermajority. But the most demoralizing result was Jay Jones winning in Virginia after these nasty texts about killing a Republican and his children. We counted about nine minutes on the networks, and that mostly came because Politico dug up a nasty Young Republicans group chat, as if to say “two can play that game.”
The Left was enthralled with Mamdani’s win, as you could see in an X video showing a woman saying “Islamic caliphate of New York starts today, baby!” and another woman saying “When the day starts with Dick Cheney being dead and it ends with Mamdani winning!” Yes!” The same people that constantly warn of Christian nationalism think you’re paranoid about sharia law, but most Christians believe in religious liberty.
The networks ignored a kooky Mamdani clip that surfaced from way back in December 2023, when he said “We have to make clear that when the boot of the NYPD is on your neck, it’s been laced by the IDF [the Israel Defense Forces].” Mamdani’s associations with radical imams were not news.
Then we look at the latest slobbery Michelle Obama book tour — for her coffee table book The Look, all about her fashion choices. She was with Stephen Colbert on CBS and Jenna Bush on NBC, but before all that, there was the Sunday night special on ABC with Robin Roberts. Michelle complained about the “white-hot glare” the first black couple in the White House received, that “we didn’t get the grace that I think some other families have gotten.” Which TV network were they watching? They were adored on every liberal channel.
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