While social media and cable news have been abuzz about Democrat Jay Jones’ text messages, the corporate national networks have largely ignored the story.
If Jones were a Republican candidate for attorney general, it’s hard to imagine ABC, CBS, or PBS giving it the same silence — or NBC News devoting only 66 seconds of coverage. For comparison, NBC literally spent more airtime on my own resignation from the Republican Attorneys General Association years ago than they did on a candidate fantasizing about political violence.
For those who missed it — because of a lack of legacy media attention — Jones, the Democrat nominee for Virginia Attorney General, was so enraged about a Republican eulogizing a Democrat that he wanted to “piss on graves” and put bullets into Republicans heads — going so far as to wish his Republican opponent would be forced to watch their children, who he called “little fascists,” die.
