Election Day is almost here, and there are three high-profile races involving Democratic candidates who have made shocking statements in their past, but if you get your news from ABC, CBS, NBC, or PBS, you have heard very little to nothing about them.
With early voting already underway, these are stories that could impact their races — if the elitist media didn’t tilt to one side.
- In resurfaced texts from 2022 that were released on October 3, Jay Jones (who is running for Virginia attorney general) suggested he would shoot then-Virginia House Speaker Todd Gilbert over Adolf Hitler and declared that Gilbert’s wife should be forced to watch his “fascist” children be killed.
- On October 16, it was reported that Democratic Senate candidate for Maine Graham Platner had made past comments where he called “all” cops bastards, said rural white people were “actually” racist and stupid, and described himself as a communist. He also wrote posts where he asked, “Why don’t black people tip?” It was also revealed that Platner had a tattoo that was linked to a Nazi symbol.
- On October 28, a resurfaced video from a 2023 conference showed Democratic New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani making anti-semitic and anti-police statements: “We have to make clear that when the boot of the NYPD is on your neck, it’s been laced by the IDF.”
How much time have the broadcast networks devoted to these controversial statements on their evening and morning news shows and Sunday roundtable programs?
In the cases of Platner and Mamdani? Zero seconds!
Jones did garner some coverage, but not much. Since the story first broke on October 3, Jones’s heinous remarks have gotten a total of just 9 minutes and 8 seconds in 28 days. This is even after the remarks were highlighted in the Virginia gubernatorial debate and by President Donald Trump himself.
It should be noted that some of the coverage of the Jones’s texts came because either a Republican analyst like Marc Short brought it up, or it was intertwined with the Politico story about Republican non-candidates saying awful things in a group chat.
Just imagine if any of the above offensive statements were made by a Republican candidate running this year? It’s unlikely that stories would garner such little coverage. There’s no question whose side the elitist media are on during this campaign. I firmly on the pro-Democratic, leftist one.
For this study MRC analysts looked at the broadcast evening (ABC World News Tonight, CBS Evening News, NBC Nightly News), morning news shows (ABC’s Good Morning America, CBS Mornings, CBS Saturday Morning, CBS Sunday Morning, NBC Today, NBC Sunday Today), Sunday roundtable shows (ABC’s This Week, NBC’s Meet the Press, CBS’s Face the Nation), and PBS’s NewsHour from October 3 through the morning of October 31.
