To The Washington PostWhen Democrats are removed from office without warning, there is only one meaning. Democracy was destroyed in the darkness.
Stephen Sweeney was the formidable Democrat leader for the New Jersey State Senate. No one expected him to lose against a Republican who was just a trucker and had very little campaign treasury.
Paul Farhi is a veteran reporter for the media 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.” The headline should be: “How media failed to assist a Democrat win” (because it was impossible for anyone to believe 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.
1. “Mohammed was a pedophile!” He tweeted 2019 from a Twitter and described Islam as “a false religion” “a cult of hate.”
According to Islamic texts, Mohammed married an infant bride six years ago. The Post is upset at Islam being criticised. Are you racist, or just bigoted when you say that there is a “false faith”? Muslims are adamant that other faiths and beliefs are false. Christians consider other religions false. They believe that other faiths are false. That is why they have their own religions. “Cult of hate” is harsh, but it sounds pretty close to how the Post describes die-hard Trump fans.
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 loosing a deadly pandemic on the world.
3. Durr blamed an “Invasion of illegal aliens” for spreading disease.
It 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.”
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.”
Everybody with a political pulse understands that Biden was required to nominate a Woman of Color by the leftist base of Democrat Party. So apparently the mortal sin here is using the word “only.” But if Kamala Harris was a white guy named Karl, the other attributes wouldn’t matter, either.
Farhi explained that a database search found that no one reviewed Durr’s social-media statements in any of his campaigns in 2017, 2019, and 2021. Farhi also complained that economic trends are erasing the media in New Jersey.
But he also noted that powerful Senator Sweeney failed to research his opposition. “Reporters often rely on leaks of damaging information,” he wrote. It is true, particularly if the candidate and reporter are Democrats.
It Post didn’t seem to think this through the other way. Sweeney would have won easily. They wouldn’t file any story about south Jersey’s decimated media. They wouldn’t have found any objectionable tweets from Ed 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.
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