Fox News didn’t air former President Barack Obama’s stemwinder of a campaign speech for Abigail Spanberger over the weekend. Two days later, they tried to use it to bolster Spanberger’s Black opponent, Winsome Earle-Sears.
They did it the Fox News way: with racial attacks against Obama.
I’ll just pause here and note that it’s a sign of how poorly Earle-Sears is doing that Fox tried to prop up her campaign with racial attacks on Obama instead of focusing on her platform. As I write this, on the morning of Election Day, Spanberger has a healthy lead in the polls in her run to become governor of Virginia. Do they really think there’s a large contingent of voters who will suddenly be motivated to vote for a Black Republican woman just because Obama campaigned for the white woman? And did I mention Earle-Sears is a nut case?
But on Fox News, there’s no excuse too flimsy to race bait, even when it doesn’t make sense.
