You could almost set your watch by it. A Democrat says or does something outrageous — something that would spark wall-to-wall outrage if a Republican so much as sneezed in the same direction — and suddenly, the entire mainstream media develops a severe case of collective amnesia.
This weekend was no exception. The national Sunday talk shows — the ones that pride themselves on being the “guardians of democracy” — somehow managed to breeze right past one of the ugliest political scandals in recent memory. You’d think a Democratic candidate for state attorney general joking about assassinating a Republican lawmaker and his family would be front-page material. You’d think producers would be tripping over themselves to ask, “Hey, is this okay now?”
Apparently not.
Jay Jones, the Democratic nominee for Virginia attorney general, sent text messages back in 2022 that read like something out of a political thriller — if the villain didn’t have an editor. In one message, Jones said, “Three people, two bullets. Gilbert, Hitler, and Pol Pot. Gilbert gets two bullets to the head.” The “Gilbert” in question? Then–Virginia House Speaker Todd Gilbert.
In another message, he mused that Gilbert wouldn’t change his views “unless he and his wife watched one of their children die.” He even said he’d show up to Republican funerals to “piss on their graves.”
If this sounds like deranged, violent rhetoric that deserves universal condemnation — congratulations, you still have common sense.
But for the legacy media? For the most part- Crickets.
And when it did get mentioned — briefly — on Meet the Press, former Biden adviser Neera Tanden did what Democrats always do when cornered: muttered a half-hearted “of course it’s bad,” and then instantly pivoted to Donald Trump. Because naturally, the only way to justify a Democrat fantasizing about murdering a Republican’s family is to say, “Well, Trump once said something mean on Truth Social.”
It’s the same tired playbook. A Democrat crosses the line — the press looks the other way — and Republicans are told to “calm down” and “not politicize” it.
Jay Jones “wished Gilbert’s wife could watch her own child die in her arms so that Gilbert might reconsider his political views.”
This isn’t the fringe left. This is now the mainstream Democratic Party.pic.twitter.com/8sUc3QXw6E
— Kyle Becker (@kylenabecker) October 5, 2025
But if a Republican candidate had sent those texts? There would be 24-hour breaking coverage, think pieces about “threats to democracy,” and every Democrat from Joe Biden down to the local dogcatcher would be publicly condemning it by breakfast.
After Charlie Kirk and Donald Trump were both shot in the head by Democrats you probably don’t need *more* proof that Democrats want to kill you…
But if you do, boy do I have a story for you.
Meet Jay Jones. Jay is the Democrat candidate for Attorney General of Virginia.
Jay… pic.twitter.com/vrn9waHURc
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) October 6, 2025
Instead, what do we get? Silence.
Even worse, some Virginia Democrats are actually defending Jones — or at least trying to minimize it. State Senator Louise Lucas, for example, admitted his rhetoric was wrong but then said Democrats shouldn’t let it “overshadow the stakes of this election.” Translation: Yes, he talked about shooting Republicans, but let’s not lose sight of what really matters — keeping Republicans out of power.
Meanwhile, President Donald Trump didn’t hold back. He called Jones a “radical left lunatic” and demanded he drop out immediately, while reaffirming his support for current GOP Attorney General Jason Miyares. Vice President JD Vance chimed in too, pointing out the stunning hypocrisy: the same Democrats who melt down over a meme are shrugging off actual threats of political violence from one of their own.
And still — silence from Spanberger, silence from the DNC, silence from nearly every blue-check journalist who claims to care about “the dangers of extremist rhetoric.”
Here’s the uncomfortable truth: if Jay Jones had an (R) next to his name, this would already be a national crisis. Instead, it’s just another story quietly buried under the weight of partisan media bias.
Every day Abigail Spanberger stays silent, she legitimizes Jay Jones’ fantasy about murdering a father and his two children.
Her rage politics are dangerous, cowardly, and everything Virginia isn’t. pic.twitter.com/rIfqLXIELW
— Winsome Earle-Sears (@winwithwinsome) October 6, 2025
So, while Democrats preach “unity” and “decency,” their silence says it all. The message is simple: threats are only bad when they come from the other side.
And for the press that loves to call itself brave? The only thing they seem willing to confront these days is their own reflection — as long as it doesn’t show a Democrat holding the smoking gun.
