Like most liberal media outlets, The New York Times had to be dragged kicking and screaming into noticing the gruesome murder in Charlotte, where 14-time loser Decarlos Brown massacred Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska.  When the so-called ‘newspaper of record’ finally got around to covering the story, it was done in typical Times fashion.  First, the headline:

Ukrainian Refugee Stabbing in North Carolina Ignites a Firestorm on the Right

So the story wasn’t that a 23-year-old woman was slaughtered by a lunatic; it was the reaction by conservatives.  In the bizarre Times world, the only crimes worthy of attention and outrage are ‘hate crimes’ involving a Black victim.  You know the names – Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, Breonna Taylor, Jordan Neely et al.  Their deaths ignited charges of racism, months of articles, and often bloody and destructive riots.  You might call it a ‘firestorm on the left.’

Even worse than the headline was a gem of a paragraph in the body of the piece.  The paper’s writer decided to harken back in time, way back:

“In North Carolina, as in other Southern states, newspapers in the Jim Crow era often egregiously exaggerated stories about Black criminality.”

Talk about gratuitous!  What possible reason can there be for bringing up a dark era in America’s past?  Perhaps it’s to justify the media’s reluctance to cover the murder, perhaps it’s the writer’s attempt to show some virtue.  Admittedly, we can’t peer into the mind of a leftist faced with writing about a crime he’d rather ignore.

Right now, The Times and its allies in the whitewashing business really have their ink-stained hands full.  A Black man named Rashad Dabney is accused of murdering a White female professor in Alabama, and a Black man named Jamel McGriff allegedly killed an elderly White couple in New York City.

What an incredible conundrum for the left-leaning media!  All three killers used knives, so they can’t blame guns.  All were Blacks killing Whites, so out goes the racism angle.  What’s a newspaper to do?  Most likely, they’ll again claim that crime is down and quickly move on.   As the media likes to say about ICE, the stories will soon be ‘disappeared.’

This sordid episode reinforces something you’ve heard often but is worth repeating:  No matter how much you hate the media, it’s just not enough.