What a great excuse to duck being asked hard questions great show of moral superiority!
From Chris Wade’s article at aol.com:
Democratic nominee for mayor of New York City, Zohran Mamdani, has pulled out of a planned town hall debate by an ABC affiliate over the network’s decision to pull the Jimmy Kimmel Live show.
Mamdani, a Queens assemblyman with a double-digit lead over other competitors in the race, announced Monday that he won’t be participating in Wednesday’s WABC-TV Town Hall “in an act of protest against the Trump administration’s dangerous crackdowns on free expression.”
“I am withdrawing not as an indictment of the local affiliate or the hardworking journalists, but rather in response to the corporate leaders who have put their bottom line ahead of their responsibility in upholding the freedom of the press,” Mamdani said in a statement.
The self-declared Democratic-socialist also criticized what he called “cowardice” by ABC and “so-called leaders like Andrew Cuomo and Eric Adams looking to the White House for their path to their future ambition.” There was no immediate comment from the network or its parent companies, Nexstar Media Group and Sinclair.
See, it isn’t that this would be an opportunity for real people with serious concerns – rather than an all-too-often obeisant, fawning media – to hit mamdani with serious questions and not let him get away with vague non-answers or positions that fly in the face of what he has said in the not-so-distant past.
No, this is a principled stand that, by pure coincidence, enables mamdani to avoid such questions.
What a guy.
And what a disaster his election as New York City’s Mayor would be.
I’ll end with a reminder to voters: you get what you vote for. So if you vote for a socialist, Israel-hater/Jew-hater with not one second of experience running a thing, let alone a major city, you’re going to get….
…I suggest you finish that sentence for yourself, before you impose four years of mamdani on your city….which, as of now, looks virtually unavoidable.
