When Morning Joe and other MSNBC panelists declared that “misogyny” is the reason Democrat Abigail Spanberger is struggling, they revealed not insight but ignorance — and an embarrassing blind spot. The same panel lecturing about sexism somehow forgot that the Republican contender they’re fretting over is Winsome Earle?Sears, a Black, first?generation American woman who has already won statewide office, which exposes the shallow thinking behind the network’s identity politics.
Lt. Gov. Earle?Sears met the smug media take with the right kind of scorn, tweeting the perfect rhetorical question: “Who wants to tell them?” Her laugh at the cable news script was a small but righteous rebuke to the elites who assume conservative women don’t count as women at all.
This episode is yet another example of how the leftist media treats reality as optional when it serves their narrative. Panelists like Al Sharpton and Mika Brzezinski warned of misogyny in the electorate while failing to acknowledge the very obvious fact that conservative women — and particularly a Black conservative woman like Earle?Sears — are playing and winning in these races.
The reaction from the Washington establishment says more about them than about Virginia voters. Earle?Sears is not some fringe figure; she’s the state’s lieutenant governor and the Republican nominee for governor, a fact that makes the cable hosts’ take look both lazy and partisan rather than journalistic.
Democrats and their media allies are panicking because the race has tightened, and rather than interrogate their own failures, they blame the electorate. Polling has shown Spanberger with a lead in some surveys, but the gap has been narrow enough to spook the left and send them searching for convenient explanations like “sexism” instead of admitting policy and message are driving voters away.
Hardworking Americans aren’t fooled by performative outrage from cable news. Winsome Earle?Sears calling out MSNBC’s sloppy reasoning is exactly the kind of straight talk voters want — an unapologetic rejection of the media’s double standards and a reminder that conservative women and Black conservatives matter in this country.
