By Cliff Kincaid
It is amusing to watch the “journalists” based in New York freaking out over a possible victory by Zohran Mamdani in the mayor’s race. The hosts of CNBC on Wall Street and those in the anchor chairs on the Fox channels are desperately trying to get the conservative Republican in the race, Curtis Sliwa, to drop out.
Their mouthpiece, the New York Post, has run an editorial calling on Sliwa to drop out. He has so far refused.
These “conservatives” in the media concerned about crime and socialism want Sliwa to drop out so that the disgraced former governor, Andrew Cuomo, who lost the primary to Mamdani, can have a chance of being elected. Sliwa points out that Cuomo is the spoiler in the race since he lost the nomination to Mamdani in a free and fair election.
In my column, Communism in New York — the Cuomo Connection, I noted that Zohran Mamdani isn’t the only candidate in the race with a communism problem and that, on his way out the door of the New York governor’s office, Andrew Cuomo gave clemency to a communist terrorist, David Gilbert, an associate of Weather Underground terrorists Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn. The Parole Board then freed him from prison.
It is amusing in a weird sense because these same “journalists” freaking out over Mamdani were excited about the election of Marxist/Muslim Barack Hussein Obama in 2008. Obama and New York City Mayor Bill “Red Bill” de Blasio set the stage for what is happening in New York. De Blasio had traveled to Cuba and Nicaragua, was involved in a communist “solidarity” movement, and embraced Islam as an emerging political force.
On October 24, 2013, my group, America’s Survival, Inc., held a press briefing in New York City on “Red Bill” de Blasio and documented how de Blasio was an Obama-backed “progressive” candidate linked to international communism, terrorism, and global Islam.
Mamdani is another Obama-style candidate.
The difference is that Obama is black (or half-black) and journalists were afraid to come out against him, over fears of being called racist. Mamdani is a different person of color and wears his Marxism and Islam on his sleeve. He is not trying to hide anything. So the “conservatives” in the media feel like they can be openly opposed.
Obama did far more damage to America than Mamdani will do to the nation, since President Trump is in office and can challenge him. Mamdani’s damage will be limited to New York City. This will have national ramifications, to be sure, but New York City will get what it votes for.
Cuomo is now a favorite of the Murdoch family that runs Fox News and the New York Post. They are based in New York City and genuinely fear what Mamdani can or will do to New York. But where were they when Obama was running in the Democratic presidential primary and then won two terms in the White House?
The New York Post endorsed Obama over Hillary Clinton in 2008, saying that “Obama has the ability to inspire.”
Their new mayoral candidate, Andrew Cuomo, was the target of a House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic that investigated state health orders that forced senior care facilities to accept thousands of COVID-infected patients being discharged from hospitals. In New York, for example, then-Governor Cuomo implemented COVID “must-admit” nursing home policies that resulted in more than 15,000 deaths.
Have you ever been in a nursing home and witnessed the slow deaths of our senior citizens? Think about them desperate to breathe and stay alive as the China virus ravaged their bodies.
This is the legacy of Andrew Cuomo and he profited from it.
Cuomo was forced out of office over sexual harassment claims, not the COVID deaths, and he made a COVID-19 book deal worth over $5 million. The subcommittee stated, “Former Governor Cuomo, along with his counterparts in New Jersey and Pennsylvania, engaged in a cover-up to hide the true, nursing-home mortality rates from the public and shift political blame.”
As these senior citizens died, the House subcommittee exposed “his efforts to cover-up the tragic aftermath of his Administration’s deadly decision.” The subcommittee said its hearing “was an opportunity for Mr. Cuomo to take responsibility for this wrongdoing and provide the victims’ families and friends with the answers and honesty they deserve” but instead “continued to deflect any blame and was defensive.”
Cuomo claimed that his March 25 “must-admit” nursing home policies directive followed CDC and CMS (Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services) guidance. But subcommittee Chairman Brad Wenstrup (R-Ohio) elicited a concession from Cuomo “that he did not speak to CDC or CMS before or after mandating New York nursing homes admit COVID-positive patients.”
Cuomo lied and old folks died an agonizing death.
Rather than be in the mayor’s race and treated as a “moderate” by so-called conservatives in the media, Cuomo should be in jail for his lies and serial killings.
Rep. Nicole Malliotakis (R-N.Y.) cited a report issued by New York Attorney General Letitia James “which proved that former Governor Cuomo’s Administration undercounted the total number of nursing home deaths by as much as 50%.” This is the same Letitia James who prosecuted President Trump for business “fraud” in which there were no victims. However, she failed to sue Cuomo and other New York officials over the COVID deaths and cover-up.
New York City will get what its people deserve. With Cuomo or Mamdani, they get policies of death and destruction. Hedge fund titans are on CNBC on a regular basis saying they will flee to Florida.
As a conservative, I am not surprised by those pleas. But I am sickened by the never-ending campaign on Fox News to sell Cuomo as a moderate. Stop trying to fool the American people.
Until they expose and hold Cuomo accountable for helping produce the COVID killing fields in America, they will have no credibility.
In this respect, Fox News and the New York Post constitute the “conservative” side of the fake news media. Do not trust them.
In conclusion, if Mamdani wins the election on November 4 fair and square, the blame will be on the voters and the “conservative” media that refused to be honest about the nature of the Democrat candidates, including Cuomo.
Curtis Sliwa cannot be blamed for fighting the good fight on behalf of conservatives. His policies are far superior to those of serial killer Cuomo or Marxist/Muslim Mamdani.
Let New York City reap what it has sown.
Then perhaps we can have a reckoning from Fox News and the New York Post about how their failures of journalism produced this dangerous outcome.
With Mamdani in the mayor’s seat and Trump in the White House, we can have a fight to the finish over what America will become as the civil war proceeds. Cliff Kincaid is president of America’s Survival, Inc. www.usasurvival.org
