AP Cheerleads for Mamdani, Lies About His Record

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It is hard to believe at this late date, but there are still people out there who trust the establishment media and rely on it for accurate news. Yet the establishment media continues to go from bad to worse, becoming ever more obviously a propaganda organ for the hard left. Now the Associated Press (AP), which like so many others was once a reliable news source and today is a source for little, if anything more than Democrat Party talking points, has published a lengthy defense of Zohran Mamdani, the Twelver Shi’ite Marxist who is very likely the next mayor of New York. He really isn’t as bad as Orange Man Bad and the other evil right-wingers say, you see.

The fact that the AP article even exists is astounding in itself. For how many candidates does AP provide this service, of reassuring jittery supporters and answering objections, so as to make it easier for those who read the article to vote for the candidate in question? It has likely done this sort of thing for all manner of leftists, but has AP ever provided a helpful explainer detailing how, say, Donald Trump is not really a fascist dictator in the making, or a pawn of Vladimir Putin, or the leader of an “insurrection”? To ask the question is to answer it.

Regarding Mamdani, however, AP pulled out all the stops on Saturday, assuring those hapless few who still take it seriously that poor little Mamdani is really not all that bad: “President Donald Trump calls him a ‘communist.’ His critics say he wants to defund the police. Zohran Mamdani insists he’s just a guy trying to make New York City more affordable.” Aw, the poor guy! What could be wrong with that?

AP gives us the truth behind those nasty attacks from patriots, explaining that “while Trump and other opponents keep calling Mamdani a communist, he identifies as something different: a democratic socialist. He believes government should play a role in reducing economic disparity, but he doesn’t advocate for a communist system where property is collectively owned.”

Is that so, now? In late Feb. 2021, Mamdani was a featured speaker at the online Winter Outreach Conference of the Young Democratic Socialists of America, which on its logo featured three primary slogans: “Cancel Student Debt,” “Defund the Police,” and “Covid-19 Relief.” Mamdani, who had been a member of the New York State Assembly for a few days shy of two months, spoke about some of the left’s pet issues of the day and then told attendees: “there are also other issues that we firmly believe in, whether it’s BDS or whether it is the end goal of seizing the means of production, where we do not have the same level of support at this very moment.”

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