Why is the press rooting for a Democratic loss in Virginia? Thumbs on the scale.
Sticking close to the media’s preferred script, Axios this week reported that the walls were caving in on Democrat Terry McAuliffe, who’s caught in a surprisingly close race in Virginia’s governor’s race. “It was clear the McAuliffe campaign has taken on an air of tension — bordering on panic,” Axios announced.
Proof of the “panic” attack? “McAuliffe cut off one television interview last week,” the outlet claimed. That seems like thin confirmation, considering candidates juggle media interviews all the time. Plus, the Democratic did no such thing — he agreed to a 10-minute interview with a local Sinclair TV station and actually gave them 11 minutes.
Is McAuliffe’s campaign in a state of “panic”? Axios provided no tangible evidence that it is. But the press seems to be rooting for a Democratic loss in Virginia, so the “panic” claim gets widely aired. Eager to portray Joe Biden’s presidency as on the verge of collapse, the press is excitedly pushing the governor’s race across the Potomac as a potentially cataclysmic event for the entire Democratic Party.
“Virginia’s gubernatorial election is more important than ever as a national barometer” a CNN headline announced this month. What CNN and everyone else covering the race means is that if Democrats lose, the Virginia race will function as a national barometer. If Republicans lose, it won’t mean a thing. Note there’s a governor’s race in New Jersey this year as well, and a Democrat is expected to win with ease. For some reason, that’s not a “barometer” of anything.
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lawless incompetence is more profitable for corporate media and investors?
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on ratings and links to power. I've seen more strong McAuliffe ads recently while Youngkin looks sweatier and less confident in his which is encouraging. And GOTV in the state. My money's on the Democrat keeping Virginia Blue!
This 6 corporations own 90 % of the "news media" and they see their job as to prop up the wealthy and the republicans
by selling "both sides do it" crap and that liberals and dem's ideas are not what America really wants even though those
ideas are what the vast majority of Americans want.
BTW Joe is doing a great job and despite the ignorant crap on Morning Ho this AM about McAuliffe's misstep on
talking about the vaccine has his campaign in a panic (he spoke the truth and if some mouth breather anti vax
person is upset ... oh well they were not going to vote for him anyway) he should win VA easily.
* https://www.democraticunderground.com/100215969015
For the same reason many were rooting for Black tRump twin Larry Elder to win California. But they didn't get what they wanted. Gov. Newsom smoked the clown like a ham, and then some. The NY Times said that Gavin Newsom 'survived' recall. Survived? Then I saw another headline along the lines of "But now comes the hard part, governing." 
I mean damn, DeathSentence has effectively been murdering people in Florida with his NO mask Mandates, and now he's wanting to hire police who don't believe in vaccinating, and police are dropping like flies from covid-19. DeathSentence whose effectively murdering people with his no mask mandates, and the press is only NOW really starting to go after him? I mean damn, these corporate, money-grubbing media hacks on television and in the newspaper are so full of shit. Most almost never mention how polarizing and un-American the GQP Party is, and most never mention how much the GQP/US Taliban party is obstructing justice. Most of these newspapers were harping and fomenting about how BIDEN mission in leaving Afghanistan was a disaster, and even going back further than Afghanistan, i remember one headline along the lines of Can Biden reach out and work with Republicans? I don't recalling many headlines asking if tRump will reach out and work with Dems when he was president. It's sickening.
Most in the corporate press, and in online papers want tRump or someone like him back as president so that they can make more monies in ad revenues, because if you remember, during the early months of the Biden Administration, you had clowns actually saying that Joe Biden's administration is too boring/vanilla. Most of the corporate media loved the fat, rolling train wreck that IS tRump, and lest we not forget that famous sentiment echoed by Les Monvees about Donald Trump: “It May Not Be Good for America, but It’s Damn Good for CBS.” So, tearing up the country and world is a good thing, even though tRump/GQP US/Taliban Party is destroying our country and world? I'm so sick of most of these corporate shills and un-American assholes.
