by Kerry Dougherty

Chapter 5,978 of “You Don’t Hate The Media Enough.”

Today’s installment features The Virginian-Pilot, Time Magazine and CNN.

Let’s start with the local offender first, shall we?

On Saturday, the editorial board finally weighed in on the Jay Jones scandal by publishing a sniveling piece headlined: “Voters Will Render The Judgment On Jay Jones’ Fitness For Office.”

Here’s how it opened:

Virginians are rightly horrified by the despicable comments Democratic Attorney General candidate Jay Jones made in a handful of 2022 text messages recently released to the public.

In an exchange first reported by the National Review, Jones joked to former Republican Del. Carrie Coyner about murdering then-Speaker of the House Todd Gilbert and, in a follow-up phone call with Coyner, theorized about Gilbert’s wife seeing their children die so Gilbert would reconsider his political views.

There is no defense for Jones using such vile, hateful rhetoric, even in jest. The former delegate from Norfolk did not deny the exchanges and, after they were made public, took “full responsibility” for them and said he reached out directly to Gilbert to apologize to him, his wife Jennifer and their children….

Jones JOKED? What part of the exchange suggested he was just having some fun or that the texts were send “in jest”?

Notice how quickly the editor is to let the Norfolk son of a prominent family off the hook and accept his apology.

After those semi-strong opening sentences came a slew of paragraphs attempting to “other side” the argument, comparing Donald Trump’s bombastic quotes to Jones’ murderous ones, blah, blah, blah. Continue reading.