Lee Zeldin

In addition to the closely watched Pennsylvania Senate debate Tuesday night, the debate between New York gubernatorial candidates Kathy Hochul (D) and Lee Zeldin (R) also played out. Their comments on crime drew the attention of ABC’s The View on Wednesday and mentally unstable co-host Sunny Hostin took things to a dangerous place when she tried to justify an attempted assassination…

Tin foil hat time at the New York Times, which gave credence to a left-wing conspiracy theory from the Democratic fever swamps suggesting, without evidence, that Rep. Lee Zeldin, Republican candidate for governor of New York, colluded with a county district attorney to have Zeldin’s attempted assassin released, in order to make political hay out of the state’s soft-on-crime bail laws…

After minimal coverage Friday morning of the violent assassination attempt of New York Republican Congressman Lee Zeldin as he campaigned for governor, ABC’s World News Tonight and CBS Evening News downplayed the attack with the latter calling the weapon just a keychain. And NBC Nightly News ignored the attack altogether to focus on lost luggage at airports.

Apparently some political violence just isn’t that interesting, at least to the journalists at CBS and MSNBC. On Thursday night, a man with a blade rushed the stage as Republican Congressman Lee Zeldin was speaking in Rochester, New York. The assailant attempted to stab the Republican gubernatorial candidate before being wrestled to the ground.