Democrat Adam Hamawy just won the New Jersey congressional primary to replace retiring Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman — and his résumé includes an internship with a group the 9/11 Commission tied directly to Osama bin Laden's terror network. The Squad endorsed him. The broadcast networks said absolutely nothing.
Because of course they didn't.
Let's play a fun game. Imagine — just for thirty seconds — that a Republican primary winner had interned with an organization that federal courts described as an al-Qaeda operational base in Europe. Imagine the chyrons. Imagine the breathless Anderson Cooper monologues. Imagine the Rachel Maddow corkboard. Now snap back to reality, where a Democrat does it and the networks can't even be bothered to Google the guy.
Here's what they're ignoring, as reported by Breitbart and NewsBusters. In 1994, Hamawy interned with the Benevolence International Foundation in Bosnia. That's the same organization the 9/11 Commission Report described as maintaining an "impressive array of offices" that "covertly provided financial and other support for terrorist activities" by bin Laden throughout the 1990s. The foundation was raided by federal authorities in December 2001, and a 2003 court filing alleged al-Qaeda used the foundation as its European operational base.
Not a great look on the old résumé.
Hamawy's campaign dismissed the scrutiny as "absurd" and "bigoted." Naturally. That's the Democrat playbook — any question about associating with a terror-linked organization is just bigotry. Meanwhile, they'll spend three news cycles dissecting whether a Republican once liked an edgy tweet in 2014.
The Squad's endorsement tells you everything you need to know about where the Democratic Party is headed. These are the same people who can't bring themselves to condemn Hamas without adding seventeen qualifiers. Of course they rallied behind a candidate whose background includes working with an outfit tied to al-Qaeda. It's not a bug — it's a feature.
And the media blackout? That's the real story. The broadcast networks covered every Republican primary candidate's parking tickets and college yearbook photos. But a Squad-endorsed Democrat who interned with a group the 9/11 Commission connected to bin Laden's financial network? Crickets. Not five seconds. Not a crawl at the bottom of the screen. Nothing.
We keep saying the double standard is the point, and they keep proving us right. If Adam Hamawy had an R next to his name, his Benevolence International Foundation internship would be the only thing anyone talked about for the next six months. Instead, he's cruising toward Congress with the full blessing of the Squad and the full protection of a media establishment that has completely abandoned even the pretense of fairness.
Remember this the next time they lecture us about "threats to democracy."
