Why the media bury Mamdani's rap

Running interference on his 'love' for convicted terror funders

News agencies routinely dig up controversial things political candidates have said. Actually, it’s often opposing candidates who dig those things up in “oppo” research, and secretly point them out to reporters.

But when the mainstream media supports a candidate, it does the opposite. It ignores controversial statements. And if others manage to bring attention to those things, the news agency runs interference, framing the candidate as a victim — even as damning evidence surfaces.

With the New York City mayoral election just days away, this dangerous double standard is in full view. The media is shielding Democratic frontrunner Zohran Mamdani from his own history.

I’ve previously documented the news media’s silence on Mamdani’s threat to carry out an illegal, unconstitutional arrest. In the new episode, learn about something else legacy media is desperate to hide: he rapped about his ‘love’ for convicted terror funders.

If you care about accuracy and fairness in journalism, you need to hear this. (Scroll down for a cleaned up, annotated, hyperlinked transcript.)

Here are facts the media has been covering up, burying, or downplaying.

“Five former leaders of a U.S.-based Muslim charity were convicted of funneling more than $12 million to the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas,” the FBI announced in 2008. “Guilty verdicts on all 108 counts against the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development were announced in federal court in Dallas, Texas, representing the largest victory against terrorist financing in the U.S. since the 9/11 attacks.”

The media knows this; it covered the verdict at the time. Nearly a decade later, Mamdani