Hakeem’s Denial
Nazism and racism are rampant in this land only when Republicans challenge elections that Democrats seem to have won, usually with the help of vote harvesters and a noticeable lack of voter ID.
By Paul Gottfried
November 24, 2022
U.S. Representative Hakeem Sekou Jeffries (D-N.Y.), who is about to become the House minority leader, enjoys far more indulgent media coverage than his colleague Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.). The New York Daily News, for example, can’t introduce Boebert, even when she expresses condolences for gay victims of a Colorado shooting, without referring to her as a figure of the “far right.” Needless to say, I’m still waiting for the national press to refer to the “far-left” Hakeem Jeffries.
Despite his immunity to such indignities, the congressman from Brooklyn has voted consistently with the Left, whether in opposing the Keystone XL pipeline, hampering both policing and the maintenance of criminal records, or advancing the LGBT agenda. Jeffries also has repeatedly and emphatically denied that Donald Trump was elected president in 2016, that is legally, and has attributed the election results to Russian interference. Jeffries even refused to attend Trump’s inauguration in January 2017, insisting that Trump had stolen the election with Kremlin support, and he launched a boycott of the event.
Such data makes evident the double standard that even establishment Republicans and Fox News anchors like Bret Baier accept regarding so-called election deniers. Jeffries’ adamant denial that Trump was truly elected president in 2016 has not kept the media from acclaiming him as someone worthy of our respect. Of course, similar acts of denial about Trump’s victory have not brought media harm to Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton, or Kamala Harris. Moreover, cable channels are still slobbering over the twice-defeated Stacey Abrams, who continues to deny that she ever legally lost a gubernatorial race in Georgia.
Election denial does not elicit media disapproval, we have to conclude, when Democrats engage in this action. Democrats, in fact, elicit media approval when they perform it, providing Democratic denials are linked to the customary charges of Russian collusion or, even better, “minority voting suppression.” It seems that the Democrats are not causing trouble when they challenge the election of Republicans to the offices that Democrats are claiming. Supposedly progressive leaders are calling our attention to the telltale heritage of Jim Crow, and/or Vladimir Putin’s alliance with the Republican National Committee.
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