Tim Graham: Zohran Mamdani has the left giddy

Zohran Mamdani surged to an easy preeminence as the democratic socialist mayor of New York City complete with media enthusiasm that carried echoes of silly Obama love songs The badly named mainstream media earnestly promoted the largest part extreme candidate After Mamdani won New York Times media reporter Michael Grynbaum warned about the opposition of reprehensible right-wing media outlets The New York Post puckishly called New York The Red Apple with the subhead On your Marx get set Zo Socialist Mamdani wins race for mayor Grynbaum summarized As is often the episode in these matters the screaming front page of The New York Post the city s mischievous tabloid that like Fox News is controlled by Rupert Murdoch summed up the conservative id It s the conservative id is it Would Grynbaum be able to locate a leftist id at his own newspaper For example on the front page of the Times on Jan they compared Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin These slanderous citations are repetitively spewed in the leftist press Grynbaum added this warning Specific of the harsher right-wing attacks on Mr Mamdani have been marked by Islamophobia Steve Bannon the right-wing podcaster and provocateur has called Mr Mamdani a neo-Marxist jihadist ' At the end of his article he noted Small Business Administration leader Kelly Loeffler referred to Mamdani talking about seizing the means of production At a February meeting of the Democratic Socialists of America Mamdani proclaimed But then there are also other issues that we firmly believe in whether it s BDS Boycott Divestment and Sanctions of Israel right or whether it s the end goal of seizing the means of production The Left energetically maintains it means nothing When Trump called Mamdani a commie in June PolitiFact typically went expert-shopping to move the goalposts Multiple political scientists and communism experts narrated us Mamdani s mayoral race positions did not amount to communism They doubled down on this in July Their funniest expert was Geoffrey Kurtz I had the impression that Mamdani intended that phrase as lighthearted hyperbole What about jihad At a December DSA meeting Mamdani talked up the loathing of Israel For anyone to care about these issues we have to make them hyper-local he declared We have to make clear that when the boot of the NYPD is on your neck it s been laced by the IDF PolitiFact won t be evaluating that metaphor They haven t fact-checked a single Mamdani announcement In October he praised Imam Siraj Wahhaj an unindicted co-conspirator in the World Agreement Center bombing as a pillar of the Bed-Stuy population The leftist media that dismiss the conservative id aren t coming to grips with Mamdani s actual citizens record Tim Graham is director of media analysis at the Media Research Center and executive editor of the blog NewsBusters org