{"id":1006544,"date":"2021-11-13T07:14:09","date_gmt":"2021-11-13T12:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1006544"},"modified":"2021-11-13T07:14:12","modified_gmt":"2021-11-13T12:14:12","slug":"graham-new-jersey-democracy-died-in-darkness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/graham-new-jersey-democracy-died-in-darkness\/","title":{"rendered":"GRAHAM: New Jersey Democracy Died In Darkness?"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fgraham-new-jersey-democracy-died-in-darkness%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1006544&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>At The Washington Post, when Democrats are kicked unceremoniously out of office, it can only mean one thing: Democracy died in darkness.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Paul Farhi, a veteran media reporter at the Post, diagnosed the problem in a story headlined, \u201cHow the media missed a New Jersey senate candidate\u2019s racist social media posts \u2014 until he\u2019d already won.\u201d A more accurate headline would be, \u201cHow the media failed to help a Democrat win (because no one thought he would lose).\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Farhi insisted Ed Durr \u201chad a history of posting bigoted, misogynistic and derogatory comments on social media.\u201d Like what? None of Durr\u2019s tweets were quoted in full by Farhi, and Durr quickly deleted his Twitter account, so a lot of context is missing.<\/p>\n<p>No. 1: \u201cMohammed was a pedophile!\u201d he tweeted in 2019, and also described Islam as \u201ca false religion\u201d and \u201ca cult of hate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>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 \u201cracist\u201d or \u201cbigoted\u201d to say there\u2019s such a thing as a \u201cfalse religion\u201d? Muslims believe other faiths are false, to put it mildly. Christians believe other faiths are false. That\u2019s why they have their own faiths. \u201cCult of hate\u201d is harsh, but it sounds pretty close to how the Post describes die-hard Trump fans.<\/p>\n<p>No. 2: Durr called the coronavirus \u201cthe China virus.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>So, it\u2019s \u201cracist\u201d to identify the virus from where it originated. Journalists began the pandemic saying \u201cWuhan virus\u201d 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.<\/p>\n<p>No. 3: Durr blamed an \u201cinflux of #illegalAliens\u201d for spreading disease.<\/p>\n<p>The Post thinks it\u2019s racist to be concerned about immigrants flooding across the border with no coronavirus screening. It\u2019s the only time liberals seem to get incredibly cavalier about COVID. It\u2019s also considered \u201cracist\u201d to say \u201cillegal aliens.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>No. 4: This one is both \u201cbigoted\u201d and \u201cmisogynistic,\u201d apparently. Durr \u201cdenigrated Vice President Harris on Facebook, writing she had earned her position only as a result of race and gender.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Everyone with a political pulse knows the leftist base of the Democrat Party demanded Biden nominate<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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, \u201cHow the media missed a New Jersey senate candidate\u2019s racist social media posts \u2014 until he\u2019d already won.\u201d A more accurate headline would be, \u201cHow the media failed to help a Democrat win (because no one thought he would lose).\u201dFarhi insisted Ed Durr \u201chad a history of posting bigoted, misogynistic and derogatory comments on social media.\u201d Like what? None of Durr\u2019s tweets were quoted in full by Farhi, and Durr quickly deleted his Twitter account, so a lot of context is missing.No. 1: \u201cMohammed was a pedophile!\u201d he tweeted in 2019, and also described Islam as \u201ca false religion\u201d and \u201ca cult of hate.\u201dMohammed, 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 \u201cracist\u201d or \u201cbigoted\u201d to say there\u2019s such a thing as a \u201cfalse religion\u201d? Muslims believe other faiths are false, to put it mildly. Christians believe other faiths are false. That\u2019s why they have their own faiths. \u201cCult of hate\u201d is harsh, but it sounds pretty close to how the Post describes die-hard Trump fans.No. 2: Durr called the coronavirus \u201cthe China virus.\u201dSo, it\u2019s \u201cracist\u201d to identify the virus from where it originated. Journalists began the pandemic saying \u201cWuhan virus\u201d 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 \u201cinflux of #illegalAliens\u201d for spreading disease.The Post thinks it\u2019s racist to be concerned about immigrants flooding across the border with no coronavirus screening. It\u2019s the only time liberals seem to get incredibly cavalier about COVID. It\u2019s also considered \u201cracist\u201d to say \u201cillegal aliens.\u201dNo. 4: This one is both \u201cbigoted\u201d and \u201cmisogynistic,\u201d apparently. Durr \u201cdenigrated Vice President Harris on Facebook, writing she had earned her position only as a result of race and gender.\u201dEveryone 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 \u201conly.\u201d But if Harris was a white guy named Karl, the other attributes wouldn\u2019t matter either.Farhi lamented that a database search found that no one reviewed Durr\u2019s 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. \u201cReporters often rely on leaks of damaging information,\u201d he wrote. Yes, especially if both the reporter and the candidate are Democrats, as is often the case.The Post didn\u2019t 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\u2019t 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.The views expressed in this piece are the author\u2019s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.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.The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. 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