{"id":961585,"date":"2021-11-03T09:14:43","date_gmt":"2021-11-03T13:14:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=961585"},"modified":"2021-11-03T09:14:45","modified_gmt":"2021-11-03T13:14:45","slug":"ben-shapiro-succinctly-mocks-media-racism-gasps-as-parents-stand-up-in-va-to-elect-republicans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ben-shapiro-succinctly-mocks-media-racism-gasps-as-parents-stand-up-in-va-to-elect-republicans\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Shapiro Succinctly Mocks Media \u2018Racism\u2019 Gasps As Parents Stand Up In VA To Elect Republicans"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fben-shapiro-succinctly-mocks-media-racism-gasps-as-parents-stand-up-in-va-to-elect-republicans%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=961585&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The media was shaken on Tuesday night when Blue Virginia flipped red just a year after President Joe Biden won the state by a double-digit margin.<\/p>\n<p>Republican Glenn Youngkin upset Democrat favorite Terry McAuliffe in the gubernatorial race;&nbsp;Republican Winsome Sears defeated Democrat Hala Ayala for lieutenant governor, making her the first black woman to hold office statewide in Virginia; and&nbsp;Republican Jason Miyares defeated sitting Democrat Attorney General Mark Herring to become the state\u2019s first&nbsp;Latino AG.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Virginia meet your new Lieutenant Governor. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/WukS6wlCrm\">pic.twitter.com\/WukS6wlCrm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Daniel Bostic (@debostic) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/debostic\/status\/1455713565722226690?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 3, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Predictably, in their loss, the media let the accusation of racism fly.<\/p>\n<p>MCNBC host Joy Reid, for example, suggested parents in Virginia rejected the Democrat education agenda, which included controversial transgender bathroom policies and concerning potential race-based curriculum, because they are racist.<\/p>\n<p>Education concerns, Reid said referring to exiting polling data, is \u201ccode for white parents who don\u2019t like the idea about teaching about race.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In a viral tweeted posted Tuesday, Daily Wire Editor Emeritus Ben Shapiro succinctly mocked the media panic:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCondolences to VA on becoming radically racist again according to the media\u2026 by electing a black female lieutenant governor and a Cuban-American attorney general, rejecting racial essentialism in schools, and replacing a Dem governor who wore an actual KKK outfit,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Notably, Youngkin is replacing Democrat Gov. Ralph Northam, who was reportedly photographed in his medical school yearbook in either blackface or a KKK outfit. (It was never determined which.)<\/p>\n<p>Last month, McAuliffe shrugged off the Northam photo.&nbsp;\u201cListen, even if it had been him in the blackface. You know,\u201d he said, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2021\/10\/22\/politics\/kfile-mcauliffe-northam-blackface-scandal\/index.html\">according<\/a> to CNN. \u201cIt was a dumb mistake 40 years ago.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph\" data-paragraph-id=\"paragraph_B18451DD-7443-05B0-5AFC-A82D647C0281\" data-act-id=\"paragraph_2\">\u201cI grew up in New York. And in all fairness folks, I didn\u2019t know what blackface was. You know, I had not experienced, we had no racism issues, honestly, growing up in Syracuse,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p data-paragraph-id=\"paragraph_B18451DD-7443-05B0-5AFC-A82D647C0281\" data-act-id=\"paragraph_2\">Shapiro continued to hit the media: \u201cWhy, they [sic] media cried, didn\u2019t McAuliffe win after running on parents losing control of their children\u2019s education, relying on Randi Weingarten for masking advice, and labeling all opponents of CRT racist?\u201d he wrote in another tweet.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Why, they media cried, didn&#8217;t McAuliffe win after running on parents losing control of their children&#8217;s education, relying on Randi Weingarten for masking advice, and labeling all opponents of CRT racist?<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/benshapiro\/status\/1455712933384704006?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 3, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt turns out that \u2018everything I don\u2019t like is white supremacy\u2019 is not a good campaign message,\u201d Shapiro noted, referring to Democrats\u2019 strategy,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The media was shaken on Tuesday night when Blue Virginia flipped red just a year after President Joe Biden won the state by a double-digit margin.Republican Glenn Youngkin upset Democrat favorite Terry McAuliffe in the gubernatorial race;\u00a0Republican Winsome Sears defeated Democrat Hala Ayala for lieutenant governor, making her the first black woman to hold office statewide in Virginia; and\u00a0Republican Jason Miyares defeated sitting Democrat Attorney General Mark Herring to become the state\u2019s first\u00a0Latino AG.Virginia meet your new Lieutenant Governor. pic.twitter.com\/WukS6wlCrm\u2014 Daniel Bostic (@debostic) November 3, 2021Predictably, in their loss, the media let the accusation of racism fly.MCNBC host Joy Reid, for example, suggested parents in Virginia rejected the Democrat education agenda, which included controversial transgender bathroom policies and concerning potential race-based curriculum, because they are racist.Education concerns, Reid said referring to exiting polling data, is \u201ccode for white parents who don\u2019t like the idea about teaching about race.\u201dIn a viral tweeted posted Tuesday, Daily Wire Editor Emeritus Ben Shapiro succinctly mocked the media panic:\u201cCondolences to VA on becoming radically racist again according to the media\u2026 by electing a black female lieutenant governor and a Cuban-American attorney general, rejecting racial essentialism in schools, and replacing a Dem governor who wore an actual KKK outfit,\u201d he wrote.Notably, Youngkin is replacing Democrat Gov. Ralph Northam, who was reportedly photographed in his medical school yearbook in either blackface or a KKK outfit. (It was never determined which.)Last month, McAuliffe shrugged off the Northam photo.\u00a0\u201cListen, even if it had been him in the blackface. You know,\u201d he said, according to CNN. \u201cIt was a dumb mistake 40 years ago.\u201d\u201cI grew up in New York. And in all fairness folks, I didn\u2019t know what blackface was. You know, I had not experienced, we had no racism issues, honestly, growing up in Syracuse,\u201d he added.Shapiro continued to hit the media: \u201cWhy, they [sic] media cried, didn\u2019t McAuliffe win after running on parents losing control of their children\u2019s education, relying on Randi Weingarten for masking advice, and labeling all opponents of CRT racist?\u201d he wrote in another tweet.Why, they media cried, didn&#8217;t McAuliffe win after running on parents losing control of their children&#8217;s education, relying on Randi Weingarten for masking advice, and labeling all opponents of CRT racist?\u2014 Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) November 3, 2021\u201cIt turns out that \u2018everything I don\u2019t like is white supremacy\u2019 is not a good campaign message,\u201d Shapiro noted, referring to Democrats\u2019 strategy, too.It turns out that &#8220;everything I don&#8217;t like is white supremacy&#8221; is not a good campaign message.\u2014 Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) November 3, 2021As highlighted by The Daily Wire, enthusiasm to get to the polls seemed to swing toward Republicans following a sexual assault scandal at a public school.Days before the election, In the waning days of the election, an alleged sexual assault in a school girls bathroom by a male student wearing a skirt \u2014 a story broken by The Daily Wire \u2014\u00a0along with outrage over school boards unilaterally deciding what children will be taught, took center stage. That has reportedly led to high enthusiasm by Republicans to hit the polls.Related:\u00a0Republican Winsome Sears, First Black Woman Elected To Virginia Statewide Office: \u2018The Cavalry Has\u00a0Arrived\u2019Related:\u00a0\u2018It\u2019s A Bloodbath\u2019: GOP Wins Virginia\u2019s Governorship, AG, Lt. Governorship, Leads House Of\u00a0DelegatesThe Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a member.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-961585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/961585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=961585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/961585\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=961585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=961585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=961585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}