AP Foresees GOP Doom in Virginia: 'Extremists' vs. 'Moderates'

Tim Graham
February 8th, 2021 1:22 PM

Virginia is one of two states with a governor's race in 2021, and the Associated Press is already off to the races in seeing doom and gloom for the Republican Party. AP chief political writer Steve Peoples and his colleague Sarah Rankin foresee internal and bitter war (which makes Democrats giddy…

 

AP Won't Quote Opponents of Removing Robert E. Lee Statue

Tim Graham
August 26th, 2020 12:11 PM

When it comes to debating the removal of  statues of Confederate generals, it’s clear Associated Press thinks one side doesn’t have “very fine people” on it. AP reporter Sarah Rankin explained the legal tussles over the (now-vandalized) Robert E. Lee statue on Richmond’s Monument Avenue, and only one side was quoted.

 
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Fox Highlights Virginia Democrats Targeting Gun Rights

Brad Wilmouth
January 11th, 2020 2:44 PM
On Thursday morning, Fox News Channel highlighted efforts by Democrats to impose more gun control in Virginia as gun rights activist Dana Loesch appeared as a guest on Fox and Friends. Loesch not only discussed efforts to push back against the Democratic legislature which is trying to pass new gun laws, but she also correctly pointed out that crime increased in Colorado and Maryland after those…
 

Virginia’s Second Amendment Attack

Walter E. Williams
December 26th, 2019 11:11 AM
Virginia Governor Ralph Northam apologized for his medical school blackface stunt, but he will have much more to apologize for if he signs into law a bill that attacks Virginia citizens' Second Amendment rights. The measure is Senate Bill 16, which would ban “assault” firearms and certain firearm magazines. Since Democrats have seized control of Virginia's General Assembly, they are likely to…
 

Virginia Dem Sues CBS Over Interviews With Sexual Assault Accusers

Randy Hall
September 13th, 2019 6:30 PM

Earlier this year, Virginia was rocked by scandals involving the top two Democratic officials in the state. First was Governor Ralph Northam, who was criticized for appearing in blackface in an old yearbook, and soon after, Lieutenant Governor Justin Fairfax faced accusations of sexual assault. While the controversies have not resulted in either Democrat stepping down, Fairfax brought the…

 

#Resistance Restaurant Owner Defends Spitting on Trump Son in WashPost

Tim Graham
July 1st, 2019 11:52 AM
Stephanie Wilkinson, the Virginia restaurant owner that threw Sarah Huckabee Sanders and her friends out of her restaurant, is taking another turn writing a #Resistance article for The Washington Post, this time sticking up for a server in a Chicago eatery allegedly spitting on the president's son, Eric Trump.  Wilkinson boasted there are "new rules" and "restaurants are now part of the…
 
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CBS Fears Hearing With Dem’s Accusers Would Be ‘Political Stunt’

Kyle Drennen
April 4th, 2019 4:12 PM
Despite interviews earlier in the week with two women accusing Virginia’s Democratic Lieutenant Governor Justin Fairfax of sexual assault, on Thursday, CBS This Morning worried that holding a public hearing on allegations would “just be a political stunt” by state Republicans. The report also took time to tout Fairfax passing polygraph tests when asked about the claims.
 

NY Times Can't Figure Out Why Va. Scandals Faded: It Starts With (D)

Clay Waters
April 3rd, 2019 10:17 PM
New York Times reporter Campbell Robertson was puzzled, wondering how the February scandals of Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam, accused of posing either in a Klan hood or blackface, and Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax, accused by two women of sexual assault, somehow faded into the ether. Actually there’s no mystery: It’s because the politicians are Democrats, and Republicans threaten to take over the…
 
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ABC, NBC Silent as CBS Spotlights Sex Abuse Accusers of VA Dem

Scott Whitlock
April 2nd, 2019 2:14 PM
It is possible to devote extensive coverage to a major Democratic scandal. CBS proved it over the last three days. Since Sunday morning, Gayle King on various programs interviewed the two women accusing Virginia’s Lieutenant Governor for over 33 minutes. In the same span of time, ABC and NBC offered no coverage to the claims of sexual abuse and rape against the politician. 
 
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After Six Weeks of Silence, CBS Rediscovers Sex Claims Against VA Dem

Scott Whitlock
April 1st, 2019 4:40 PM
After six weeks of ignoring the story, CBS on Sunday and Monday suddenly began to cover the women speaking out and accusing Virginia Democratic Lieutenant Governor Justin Fairfax of sexual abuse. On Monday, CBS This Morning offered a surprising 12 minutes to the harrowing recounting of Vanessa Tyson. Although, other than an onscreen graphic in small letters, co-host Gayle King never verbally…
 
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Media Meltdown: VA Dem Debacle Could Lead to ‘Conservative Republican’

Scott Whitlock
February 7th, 2019 12:34 PM

As Virginia Democrats are imploding, the journalists on NBC, MSNBC, ABC and CBS have found the real disaster: It might result in a Republican governor. Scandals involving blackface, the KKK, and sexual assault have engulfed the Democratic Governor, Lieutenant Governor, and Attorney General. On NBC’s Today, reporter Geoff Bennett fretted, “If the governor, lieutenant governor, and Attorney…

 

Slaughter of the Innocents Reaches New Depths

Cal Thomas
February 6th, 2019 6:18 PM
The uproar over New York State's Reproductive Health Act, which allows late-term abortions performed by “health-care practitioners” when the “patient is within 24 weeks from the commencement of pregnancy, or there is an absence of fetal viability or the abortion is necessary to protect the patient's life or health” should come as no surprise. These and similar efforts in other states are the…
 

NYT Laments on Front Page: Democrats Just Too Tough on Themselves

Clay Waters
February 5th, 2019 5:23 PM
The front page of Monday’s New York Times featured national political correspondent Jonathan Martin’s “news analysis” on the Democratic meltdown in Virginia, now involving both Gov. Ralph Northam and Lt. Gov Justin Fairfax: "Trump Behaves One Way on Race. Democrats Demand Better From Their Own.” Martin rather desperately tried to change the subject from damaging stories about a racist Democratic…
 
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CNN Panel Shuts Down GOP Guest for Bringing Up Extreme Abortion Bill

Brad Wilmouth
February 2nd, 2019 5:01 PM
On Friday's Erin Burnett Outfront on CNN, during a discussion of revelations that Virginia Democratic Governor Ralph Northam included a racist photograph in his portion of his medical school's yearbook, frequent Republican guest Stephen Moore was lambasted and cut off by other panel members when he brought up the other controversy involving Northam from this week -- that he defended an extreme…