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.
Townhall "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." . . .
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