Corporate media went berserk on Tuesday night into Wednesday after it was clear that Republican candidate Glenn Youngkin won the Virginia governor’s race and that the GOP also claimed victory in the elections for lieutenant governor, attorney general, and House of Delegates.
Typical meltdown panelists who work for CNN and MSNBC spent most of Tuesday night whining onscreen about how critical race theory is just a ploy or “bogeyman” created by conservatives to trick constituents into voting red, but it didn’t take long for their cronies in the corporate media and on Twitter to join them.
Nicolle Wallace: @GlennYoungkin has “laundered Trump’s really sort of disgusting, flagrant out racism” by “put[ting] it in a disguise” and “wrapp[ing]” his campaign “in two Big Lies” and opposing #CRT when “there isn’t any [CRT} being “taught…in Virginia.” #VAgov pic.twitter.com/59ocLMzVww
— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) November 2, 2021
MSNBC in full meltdown mode. pic.twitter.com/MtBKJjYxC0
— Ian Miles Cheong @ stillgray.substack.com (@stillgray) November 3, 2021
MSNBC’s Joy Reid, with dangerous rhetoric that’ll get Republicans hurt: “Republicans are dangerous…[T]his isn’t a party that’s just another political party that disagrees with us on tax policy. That at this point, they’re dangerous. They’re dangerous to our national security.” pic.twitter.com/5NiWIbn1Qk
— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) November 2, 2021
MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow claims Republicans ran on inventing a “bogeyman about a form of racial hierarchy” that conservatives “fantasized into existence that isn’t actually taught in schools.” pic.twitter.com/t102wC2r6x
— Tristan Justice (@JusticeTristan) November 3, 2021
MSNBC’s Joy Reid says “Education” is “code for white parents don’t like the idea of teaching about race.” pic.twitter.com/Y6QMAnklRy
— Tristan Justice (@JusticeTristan) November 3, 2021
Garbage hot take by racist Nia-Malika Henderson on CNN: “We see the enduring power of the culture wars and the Republicans are better at playing this game because it’s essentially white identity politics.”
This thinking is why Virginia is going so well for Republicans. pic.twitter.com/9YRnpbxlSM
— Jason Rantz on KTTH Radio (@jasonrantz) November 3, 2021
Some of them flat-out repeated the talking points espoused by failed Democrat gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe and his campaign team. Days before the election, McAuliffe repeated the lie that critical race theory is not taught in Virginia schools and called Youngkin’s fight against it a “racist dog whistle.”
After it was clear that McAuliffe would lose, CNN Senior Analyst Kirsten Powers claimed that critical race theory is “not even being taught” in schools in Virginia. Her colleague CNN’s Brianna Keilar agreed and claimed that “some of it was dog-whistle racism.”
CNN’s @brikeilarcnn: Some of @GlennYoungkin’s messaging was “dog whistle racism” @KirstenPowers: “1,000 percent” pic.twitter.com/Taa2RhhMqK
— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) November 3, 2021
Others compared Youngkin to former President Donald Trump, yet another tribute to McAuliffe’s rhetoric and subsequently failed campaign.
Van Jones on CNN calls Glenn Youngkin the “delta variant of Trumpism.”
“Same disease, but spreads a lot faster and can get a lot more places.” pic.twitter.com/8dA9WfTCFC
— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) November 2, 2021
Race-grifters gladly joined the TV media’s chorus and claimed that the same race-obsessed platform McAuliffe just lost on was all true and the reason for the GOP’s victory. Podcast host and contributor for the ever-declining Atlantic Jemele Hill told her Twitter followers that the Republicans’ wins in Virginia are proof that “this country simply loves white supremacy” even though Winsome Sears was elected to the lieutenant governorship as the first black woman elected statewide.
It’s not the messaging, folks. This country simply loves white supremacy.
— Jemele Hill (@jemelehill) November 3, 2021
Daily Beast columnist Wajahat Ali also played the race card and said the GOP victory is evidence that “whiteness remains undefeated.”
“Let’s wait and see who those white suburban voters went for tonight in Virginia,” he tweeted.
Whiteness remains undefeated. Let’s wait and see who those white suburban voters went for tonight in Virginia. Any guesses?
— Wajahat Ali (@WajahatAli) November 3, 2021
One MSNBC guest tried to absolve the media and McAuliffe of any blame in his loss and instead criticized Democrats in Congress for failing to pass President Joe Biden’s “Build Back Better” bill.
MSNBC guest @adrienneelrod: “Perhaps” McAuliffe “would have won” if Biden’s Build Back Better bill had already passed #HotTake pic.twitter.com/EaztkmehQh
— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) November 3, 2021
Even Democrat delegates, who are still reeling from losing their majority in the state House, are going crazy over the strong possibility that their pro-baby killing and high-tax track records could be erased due to the red wave.
Dan Helmer trashes @GlennYoungkin on MSNBC as “a real shame” who will “seek to divide” Virginians “rather than unite us” and will undoubtedly “build a Virginia for some of us, not all of us.”
His proof? Youngkin won’t join him in his idolatrous support for abortion. pic.twitter.com/xhmdHaIEaU
— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) November 3, 2021
House of Delegates Majority Leader Charniele Herring (D) makes clear on MSNBC that Virginia Dems will block all of @GlennYoungkin‘s agenda, saying she’s “concerned with Youngkin’s policies” and “the proposals that he has put out there is very concerning.” #VAgov pic.twitter.com/J4EPNjEBDU
— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) November 3, 2021