At The Washington Post, when Democrats are kicked unceremoniously out of office, it can only mean one thing: Democracy died in darkness.
Take Sen. Stephen Sweeney, the powerful Democrat leader of the state Senate in New Jersey. Absolutely no one thought he would lose to a Republican who was a trucker and had a tiny campaign treasury.
Paul Farhi, a veteran media reporter at the Post, diagnosed the problem in a story headlined, “How the media missed a New Jersey senate candidate’s racist social media posts — until he’d already won.” A more accurate headline would be, “How the media failed to help a Democrat win (because no one thought he would lose).”
Farhi insisted Ed Durr “had a history of posting bigoted, misogynistic and derogatory comments on social media.” Like what? None of Durr’s tweets were quoted in full by Farhi, and Durr quickly deleted his Twitter account, so a lot of context is missing.
No. 1: “Mohammed was a pedophile!” he tweeted in 2019, and also described Islam as “a false religion” and “a cult of hate.”
Mohammed, according to Islamic writings, married a 6-year-old child bride. But the Post seems upset that Islam is being criticized at all. Is it “racist” or “bigoted” to say there’s such a thing as a “false religion”? Muslims believe other faiths are false, to put it mildly. Christians believe other faiths are false. That’s why they have their own faiths. “Cult of hate” is harsh, but it sounds pretty close to how the Post describes die-hard Trump fans.
No. 2: Durr called the coronavirus “the China virus.”
So, it’s “racist” to identify the virus from where it originated. Journalists began the pandemic saying “Wuhan virus” and so on, until they were told it was racist, and then they became adamant that no one could insult Communist China for letting loose a deadly pandemic on the world.
No. 3: Durr blamed an “influx of #illegalAliens” for spreading disease.
The Post thinks it’s racist to be concerned about immigrants flooding across the border with no coronavirus screening. It’s the only time liberals seem to get incredibly cavalier about COVID. It’s also considered “racist” to say “illegal aliens.”
No. 4: This one is both “bigoted” and “misogynistic,” apparently. Durr “denigrated Vice President Harris on Facebook, writing she had earned her position only as a result of race and gender.”
Everyone with a political pulse knows the leftist base of the Democrat Party demanded Biden nominate a woman of color. So, apparently, the mortal sin here is using the word “only.” But if Harris was a white guy named Karl, the other attributes wouldn’t matter either.
Farhi lamented that a database search found that no one reviewed Durr’s social media statements in any of his campaigns in 2017, 2019 and 2021. He also lamented that the media in southern New Jersey is being eviscerated by economic trends.
But he also notes that powerful Sweeney failed to research his opposition. “Reporters often rely on leaks of damaging information,” he wrote. Yes, especially if both the reporter and the candidate are Democrats, as is often the case.
The Post didn’t seem to think this through the other way. If Sweeney had won easily, they would file no story complaining about the decimated media in south Jersey. They would have never found an objectionable tweet from obscure Durr.
But with this lament, they have told us all they can’t imagine voters making a decision without heavy influence from the media, and the decision to dump a powerful Democrat is somehow a failure of local journalism.
Tim Graham is director of media analysis at the Media Research Center and executive editor of the blog NewsBusters.org. To find out more about Tim Graham, and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate website at www.creators.com.
Exemplifies the old saying: “Pride comes before a fall.”
It also shows just how egotistical the media is, thinking that you are WRONG< IF YOU VOTE for someone THEY DIDN'T tell you to..
Democrats have taken things for granted for far too long, but then the pandemic hit and citizens came face to the political reality around them. With virtual education, parents saw first hand what their children were being taugh. With the pandemic everyone saw how governors and local leaders handled the authority given them by President Trump and could compare the results between Democrat and Republican. The final straw was the election of a President touted as moderate beginning with day one thoughtlessly dismantling everything that was working to thumb noses at the previous administration with disasterous results, to the cheeering of special interests like the ‘woke’ mob and other leftist groups. The elitism of the Democrat party is what will bring it down, it really has no connection to working people any more, they have no clout in the party! Democracy didn’t die in New Jersey, it was revived from its coma!
Though since Citrallei DID have to eventually concede the governors race because of fraud, MAYBE THEY WERE RIGHT< in that in NJ, Democracy HAS DIED to be replaced by the ever working Commucrat voter fraud machine.
Liberal MSM Reporters reveal themselves to be the actual racists when they color the truth using skin color over mind clarity to sell their socialist sausage. When it comes to Islam, they refuse to see the difference in corruption between a Muhammad pedophile or their own smoke screening puerile pettifogging. One molests the innocent body, the other the innocent minds of THE PEOPLE. They put more incorrect words into the mouths of their innocent opponents than Slick Willie Clinton but his Willie into the body of his innocent women, and his socialist sausage into all American’s innocent brains.
The clinton pandemic campaign really backfired on the democratic party. Way to go dems!!!! Keep up the good work. By 2022 you should have pretty much assured a republican win country wide.THANKS!!!