The 3 Stories The Legacy Media Ignored This Week

The legacy media spent much of the past week consoling itself about the outcome of the Virginia governor’s race, where Republican Glenn Youngkin pulled off an underdog victory over former Democratic governor Terry McAuliffe. Yet even amidst their hand-wringing and mourning, legacy media outlets managed to selectively highlight certain stories and ignore others to promote an alternate reality.

In this special, all-election edition of this weekly feature, here are the top figures the media ignored:

The Rise Of Winsome Sears.

Few people so perfectly shatter the mythology the legacy media have promoted for the last year than Virginia’s new lieutenant governor-elect, Winsome Sears. The black Republican became the first “woman of color” elected to statewide office in the Old Dominion—a feat all the more surprising since her only previous political experience came from a single, two-year term as a member of Virginia’s House of Delegates (2002-2004). Yet cable news networks alternately ignored her or attacked her as “flaky,” while lavishing media attention on other, less important Democrats.

A search of CNN’s prime time transcripts for Tuesday and Wednesday turns up only one mention of Winsome Sears by name — by a Republican. “I was actually stunned as a former Republican congressman, you know, that Glenn Youngkin prevailed and Winsome Sears and Jason Miyares. It was a strong, diverse ticket,” ex-U.S. Rep. Scott Rigell (R-VA), a Republican, told Anderson Cooper on Wednesday. “I was thrilled with it.” To his credit, Jake Tapper said on Tuesday night, “If this holds, we will go down in history as the first woman of color lieutenant governor or elected official statewide in the Commonwealth of Virginia.” Although Don Lemon mentioned the Democratic lieutenant governor of New Jersey (Sheila Oliver) by name on election night, he wouldn’t say the name “Winsome Sears.”

MSNBC proved little better. When Ali Velshi announced Sears’ victory, Velshi said he wanted to touch on the topic “for half-a-second.” (Ari Melber had mentioned Sears along with a list of other successful minority candidates in the previous hour). Former Republican Bill Kristol insulted Sears, telling Brian Williams on Wednesday night that this was a “wave election” that swept away “better candidates that were considered very attractive,” like the “lieutenant governor candidate here in Virginia, Hala Ayala, against, I think a pretty flaky Republican, honestly.”

Later that night, guest host Tiffany Cross took a swipe at “the elected lieutenant governor of Virginia,” who “hates the woman’s right to choose but


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