By Cliff Kincaid
Are you one of those suckers who believed the Republicans had a chance in Virginia and New Jersey? I have seen it all before. Remember the non-existent “Red Wave” election of 2022? The so-called “news” organizations promoting the Red Wave propaganda included the New York Post, Fox News, Fox Business, Mike Lindell’s Frank Speech channel, the Clay & Buck radio show, PJ Media, Townhall, the Daily Caller, and the Real America’s Voice network.
They insisted to their conservative viewers and listeners that the Democrats were in turmoil and headed toward a massive defeat in November.
This time, contrary to the propaganda, Republicans got crushed in Virginia and New Jersey.
Laura Ingraham of Fox News had declared, “Virginia, this is your moment. My friend Winsome Earle-Sears has cut [Abigail] Spanberger’s lead to just 3 points.”
The result: Spanberger 57.14 percent and Earle-Sears 42.66 percent.
Ingraham warned that “Virginians who vote for this phony [Spanberger] are sealing their own fate.”
Based on your misleading coverage, Ms. Ingraham, YOU are the phony.
“The choice in Virginia should be obvious to anyone who doesn’t believe a transgender biological man should be in girls’ or women’s spaces,” said Ingraham. “Vote TODAY for Winsome Sears for Governor and Jason Miyares for Attorney General.”
Miyares also lost, by six points, to a guy who wished death on his Republican opponents.
I hope this shows people that Fox News has very little clout and that its coverage can be seriously misleading. Their shows are more characterized by propaganda than serious news reporting. The hosts want to curry favor with Trump rather than report the news.
This time, the Murdoch conglomerate consisting of the New York Post and Fox News were not only claiming the races in Virginia and New Jersey were tightening but that the only way to defeat Zohran Mamdani in New York City was to get the Republican, Curtis Sliwa, out of the race, so Democrat Andrew Cuomo could beat the Marxist/Muslim.
The results were Mamdani 50.4 percent, Cuomo 41.6 percent, and Sliwa 7.1 percent.
In other words, if Sliwa’s votes had all gone to Cuomo, Mamdani would still have won.
The New York Post/Fox News Axis got it wrong again.
On top of this abysmal display of political expediency and ignorance, the New York Post has run an editorial saying, “NYC Republicans must wake up: They’ve got to become a real alternative, not a joke.”
It is the New York Post that is a joke.
Here is what the stupid editorial people claimed, “Tuesday’s mayoral election should be a wake-up call for New York Republicans. Their candidate, Curtis Sliwa, failed even to break double digits. More than nine out of 10 voters backed either Democratic Socialist Zohran Mamdani or Democrat Andrew Cuomo. That’s a far worse showing than the GOP should’ve gotten based on the Democrats’ 6-1 edge in voter registration.”
Perhaps the explanation is that the New York Post did NOT back the Republican and instead trashed his candidacy, insisting he leave the race and that Republicans vote for Cuomo. That didn’t work out so well.
After having trashed Sliwa, a good man, they trash him again.
This is a warning that you can’t trust the “conservatives” in the media.
Incredibly, they instigated Trump into endorsing Cuomo as well! Trump ended up with egg on his face as Mamdani picked up steam and got just over 50 percent.
Another big lie coming out of the November 4 election was that Virginia and New Jersey were blue states to begin with and so they can be expected to vote Democrat.
In the 2021 Virginia governor race, Republican Glenn Youngkin (50.6%) beat Democrat Terry McAuliffe (48.6%).
Like his cheerleaders on Fox, Trump is getting the election results wrong, especially in New York City, and he is now threatening to slash federal aid to both the city and the State. Such an approach works to the advantage of Mamdani and his backers. They want to run against Trump and will blame the failures of socialism on Trump.
It did not have to turn out this way. Back in July, a poll from HarrisX showed that the NYC mayoral race was a statistical tie between Mamdani, Cuomo, and Sliwa. in a four-way race, Mamdani (26 percent) was tied with Cuomo (23 percent) and Sliwa (22 percent), all within the margin of error. Mayor Adams was at 13 percent and 15 percent of voters were undecided.
That is when the “conservative” attacks on Sliwa began on Fox News and in the New York Post. Adams dropped out and the New York Post started attacking Sliwa and endorsing Cuomo.
The New York Post is sometimes fun to read, and it can provide some interesting news, but it is hardly “conservative” in its editorial policy. They are RINOs.
Curtis Sliwa was correct when he said early in the campaign that “this is the weakest Democratic field we’ve ever seen. They’re either too far left, too corrupt, or too disconnected from the real struggles of working people. I am the only candidate not bought and paid for. I am the only candidate with a platform that puts working people first.”
But when the Murdoch family and its media properties deserted Sliwa to campaign relentlessly for Cuomo, you knew Sliwa did not have a chance.
Now the New York Post blames Sliwa for the outcome. What frauds and liars they are.
- Cliff Kincaid is president of America’s Survival, Inc. www.usasurvival.org
