They can’t help themselves.
Even on the 25th anniversary of 9/11, the leftist media mob reached into its bags of dirty tricks to smear New York and the White House.
In a day that reeked of fact-free coverage, politicians with press passes discovered rampant hate and prejudice against Muslims in Gotham.
They also accused President Trump of using the day of infamy as a flimsy excuse for the war against Iran.
My only surprise is that I am still surprised by the shoddy tricks.
Long before the latest dive into the sewer, it was clear that facts don’t matter when left-wing outfits have a narrative to sell.
Naturally, the culprits peddling these lies are led by The New York Times.
In a special section of Friday’s edition supposedly devoted to the 25th anniversary of the deadliest day in American history, the wizards running the outlet thought it was a good time to announce a long story under a single word: “Islamophobia.”
The bizarre concoction involves two writers twisting reality beyond recognition to reach a blatantly false conclusion.
Namely, that despite the election of the city’s first Muslim mayor last year, Zohran Mamdani, “anti Muslim prejudice endures, echoing the Islamophobia that arose in the earliest days after Sept. 11.”
The claim is so far off the mark that it should be flagged as fiction.
There was no wave of Islamophobia after Sept. 11th, nor is there one now.
Yet the story insists that, without facts or statistics, that the Sept. 11 attacks “left many Muslims scarred by heavy-handed law enforcement tactics and the suspicion if not outright hostility of classmates, co-workers, elected officials and cable news commentators.”
Ignoring facts
In other words, New York is chock-full of bigots.
The broadside recalls Hillary Clinton’s smear about the nation brimming with “deplorables.”
It’s all wishful thinking by the Democratic Party and race-baiters who have destroyed the credibility of the once-great Times.
Here are the key numbers the story ignores.
Jews, who make up about 9 percent of % of the city’s population, were targeted in 181 hate crimes in the first half of 2026, or about 56% of all such crimes reported by the NYPD.
Although Muslims make up about 12 percent% of people in the five boroughs, they were the reported targets in just 17 hate crimes during the first half of this year, according to the NYPD, or less than 1 percent%.
The choice to ignore inconvenient facts illustrates how the Times shapes the news to fit its opinions. Its turn against Israel was apparent in the false charges that the Jewish state was committing genocide and starving children during the war in Gaza — a war started by Hamas.
And the paper, in defending an indefensible Nicholas Kristof column, embraced the nutty idea that Israel trained dogs to rape Palestinian prisoners.
Scientific researchers scoffed, but the paper doesn’t trust science when it undercuts the preferred narrative that Muslims are perpetual victims.
Then again, perhaps somebody in the chain of command was embarrassed by the Friday travesty.
That’s because Saturday’s edition carried an article that, without saying so directly, neutered the claim of rampant Islamophobia.
The Saturday headline declared that “As Antisemitism Rises, Jewish Institutions Strengthen Security.”
It recounts how Jewish institutions have spent “millions on additional security protections in recent years amid a rise in antisemitic incidents.”
It quotes NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch saying “antisemitic hate crimes are up 9 percent so far this year,” and adds that “more than half of confirmed hate crimes this year have targeted Jewish New Yorkers.”
It cites no numbers or examples of anti-Muslim hate crimes.
It does however acknowledge two recent examples of antisemitic crimes: One in August when a man was charged after he barged into services at Central Synagogue in midtown and hit two people before he was arrested.
The second crime involved “a handful of synagogues and Jewish community centers in Forest Hills, Queens, [that] were vandalized with antisemitic graffiti.”
Violence vs. suspicion
The article makes no mention of the supposed wave of Islamophobia after 9/11 or now, as if the accusations in Friday’s paper didn’t exist — or no longer mattered.
Additionally, it’s noteworthy that the Times employed a double standard of reporting in its contrasting articles.
The anti-Jewish acts involved actual violence and vandalism.
On the other hand, the supposed flood of Islamophobia is centered on the feelings and suspicions of Muslims but not criminal incidents.
If it weren’t for double standards, the Gray Lady wouldn’t have any standards at all.
Another media concocted charge that surfaced over the 25th anniversary involves the assertion that Trump and his team are falsely linking the war in Iran to the 9/11 attacks.
This one is the brainchild of the Democratic shills at Politico, The Washington Post, The Hill and others.
As Politico put it, Trump and Secretary of War Pete Hegseth “used remarks commemorating the 25th anniversary of Sept. 11 to draw a parallel between the terror attacks that killed nearly 3,000 Americans and the ongoing U.S. war with Iran.”
After noting that 184 people were killed at the Pentagon on 9/11, it reports that Hegseth said the US “still faces enemies seeking to inflict harm on Americans, and portrayed the Iran war as part of the continued U.S. fight against terrorism.”
Well, he’s right on both cases!
The Hill struck a similarly hostile tone, saying Trump and Hegseth “tied the Iran war to the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks . . . suggesting the conflict is a continuation of the war on terror.”
The navel gazers’ insinuation that there is no actual relationship is absurd.
Trump has said since his 2016 campaign that Iran must not be allowed to have a nuclear weapon because it has threatened to use it against America and Israel.
Especially in his second term, he stressed his desire for a negotiated settlement, but reluctantly turned to the military after the mullahs’ negotiators declared they had enough enriched uranium to make 11 weapons.
As Trump envoy Steve Witkoff said publicly, those Iranian officials told him and Jared Kushner that enriching uranium was an international right they would never give up.
Trump clearly was reluctant to go to war but did so as a last resort, making the Iran conflict a clear continuation of the war on terror that started after 9/11.
The only way to explain the media failure to see the connection is that it’s intentional.
The Washington gatekeepers are among the millions of people who don’t like the war, but by injecting their opinion into their coverage, they are distorting that coverage.
And yet they wonder why so few people still trust them.
This story originally appeared on NYPost
