The New York Times simply hates that the news retains proving Rep. Lee Zeldin proper to focus on the state’s crime disaster — so it bashes him for highlighting it.
“Zeldin Seizes on Safety After Shooting at Home,” reads Wednesday’s snarky print-edition headline atop the paper’s latest Zeldin hit job. Note the wording: He “seizes” (a favourite media slur of Republicans) on the problem, as if he in some way acted immorally for being outraged by a capturing that befell proper exterior his house whereas his daughters have been inside doing homework.
The paper rips him for “quickly” assembling a news convention, doing a Fox News interview and utilizing “an appearance at the Columbus Day Parade to imbue his political messaging with a new personal, if frightening, outlook.”
Gee, what gall.
Never thoughts that this was the second time violence has personally affected the Zeldins simply this yr: In July, a person bodily attacked Zeldin with a sharp weapon and needed to be wrestled to the bottom. The Times then disgustingly instructed, with zero proof, that the attacker had been freed on no bail as half of a conspiracy to spice up Zeldin’s drive to repair state bail legal guidelines.
Never thoughts, too, that violence occurs to be Zeldin’s high precedence and the assaults present vividly why he’s chosen to focus on it, so it’d be political malpractice not to spotlight them.
Of course, the Times resorted to no such snark — no “Hochul seizes” — when Gov. Kathy Hochul used a May mass capturing in her hometown, Buffalo, to fundraise.
Zeldin is lifeless proper to make crime a high challenge. And that it’s affected him so personally does illustrate how out-of-control Hochul and her fellow Democrats have let violence spiral.
Voters must be grateful somebody’s “seizing on safety,” regardless of how inconvenient for his opponent. If solely she and the Times would “seize” on it, too.