Virtually all leftist candidates are media creations. Don’t believe me? Think of the most successful leftist politician of our age, Barack Hussein Obama. Here was someone with an extremely sketchy background, scant legislative experience, and an abject inability to function in public without a teleprompter, and the adoring leftist media elevated him into the second coming of Martin Luther King Jr., Thurgood Marshall, and FDR rolled into one and greater than all three.
Remember also Kamala Harris, an embarrassingly inarticulate and awkward character who dissembled almost as much about her background as Obama did about his own and failed at the easiest job in the universe, vice president of the United States. Once she was called upon to step in as Democrat presidential candidate after the coup against Old Joe Biden, the left’s propaganda machine cranked into high gear.
Time Magazine depicted her in a pose reminiscent of Soviet propaganda posters, gazing fearlessly ahead, showing the world that she was strong, heroic, and resolute, ready to lead the masses against the capitalists. New York magazine harked back to the most golden of the Democrat Party’s golden ages, at least according to its own mythology, proclaiming on its cover: “Welcome to Kamalot.” The same cover stated happily (and improbably): “In a matter of days, the Democratic Party discovered its future was actually in the White House all along.”
It was all nonsense, and it didn’t even work, but this is how the left creates viable candidates, and so its media arm is hard at work again. This time, it is creating the myth of Zohran Mamdani, and batting back dastardly attacks upon the new anointed one from the evil Orange Man and other forces of reactionary capitalism. CNN was the most eager to assume the role of Mamdani’s PR firm, publishing such dreck as “Zohran Mamdani has big housing plans. Here’s what stands in his way.” His housing plans are pure Communism, and what stands in his way is even the most rudimentary idea of individual liberty and the dignity of every human being, but remember, this is CNN.
That means that we also get Mamdani vs. Trump, which for CNN is like Superman vs. Lex Luthor: “Mamdani clinches Democratic primary while Trump threatens arrest if he resists ICE as mayor.” And there is a heaping helping of one of CNN’s favorite themes, “Patriots Are Stupid,” this time in the form of informing us that one of Mamdani’s Communist schemes is not radical at all! Why, it’s something we’ve had for years, and see, no gulags! That one is entitled “Zohran Mamdani wants to build government supermarkets. America already has them.” See, you silly patriots? This earnest young man is nothing to be concerned about at all!
The New York Times, meanwhile, was ready to exalt Mamdani as the savior of the Democratic Party — that’s right, nothing less than the new Obama. On Thursday, it published an article entitled “The Real Meaning of Mamdani’s Stunning Victory: His approach is a blueprint for the party’s campaigners everywhere.” It also offered its own version of the Mamdani vs. Godzilla, er, that is, the Mamdani vs. Trump battle: “Mamdani, Trump, and the End of the Old Politics.”
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MSNBC, as usual, was angrier and stupider, falling back on some old familiar themes for the left to the degree that their Friday article on Mamdani, “I know exactly what the vicious racist attacks on Zohran Mamdani are meant to do,” reads like an AI parody of self-righteous leftist rage. Poor Mamdani, you see, “has made the mistake of being an immigrant Muslim, a charismatic leftist and an unapologetic critic of Israel all at the same time,” and even worse, that time is the time of Trump’s fascist Amerikkka.
Oh, brother. It must be so hard for Zeeshan Aleem, the author of this twaddle, to get through the day, with every rude grocery clerk and thoughtless Door Dash delivery guy being for him another example of America’s intrinsic, nay, inherent, nay, indelible racism. If this guy ever lost his leftist blinkers even for a moment, he might discover that suddenly the gray skies that forever torment him have parted and the sun he never noticed is shining brightly, but rest assured, that isn’t going to happen.
Mamdani’s self-serving appropriation of the term “African-American” for himself could torpedo all this, but that seems unlikely at the moment. The establishment has already invested far too much in this dangerous clown. And it stands ready to invest much more.
