Editors ignore Obama's victory over racism

Unsuccessful Republican candidate Mitt Romney waves to the crowd before conceding the presidency in Boston. (Getty Images via @daylife)

President Obama is back, thanks to a clear victory over Republican Mitt Romney, who appealed almost exclusively to white conservatives.

You won't find any mention of the Republican Party's stubborn racism in The Record today, especially in the editorial on A-18.

Republicans just can't get over a black man in the White House.

Blaming the victim 

In fact, Editorial Page Editor Alfred P. Doblin has started to blame Obama for not bridging the partisan divide created by no-compromise Tea Party members who have paralyzed Congress.

"Obama failed to jump into the breach and use the power of the presidency to end congressional gridlock," the editorial claims.

That sounds good, but is Doblin suggesting Obama use drones to take out Tea Party members?

It's so typical of Doblin and other journalists to write nonsense and assign blame without backing that up with even an explanation of what they mean.

Dissing another Democrat

Before Tuesday's election, Doblin endorsed Teaneck Deputy Mayor Adam Gussen, but that came too late after weeks of slanted news coverage favoring Rep. Scott Garrett, R-Wantage, one of the most regressive forces in Congress. 

Today's A-3 story on Garrett holding onto his seat in the newly configured 5th Congressional District says "Gussen struggled for name recognition."

What a joke. The Record ran a long, flattering profile of Garrett on the cover of the Signature section, complete with three large photos, but never profiled Gussen, a Democrat.

And Washington Correspondent Herb Jackson rolled over and played dead every time Garrett declined interviews that would have exposed his radicalism.

Boteach complains

Also on A-3 today, get a load of the photo showing Rabbi Shmuley Boteach of Englewood complaining he is the latest Jew to have been crucified. 

Boteach, a Republican, ran unsuccessfully against Rep. Bill Pascrell Jr., D-Paterson. 

Back to Sandy

Coverage of the presidential election pushed stories on Hurricane Sandy off of the front page for the first time in about 10 days

The A-6 story on who still doesn't have power is long on quotes from Governor Christie and the head of Public Service Electric and Gas Co.,  but short on details, especially about Hackensack and many other towns.

There is no mention that 24 Hour Fitness in Paramus, one of the biggest gyms in North Jersey, remains closed.

Trainers and members have been consoling themselves with beer at the adjacent Miller's N.J. Ale House, which is operating on generator power.  

Christie doesn't have "a problem" with the pace of power restoration, but who is surprised about that?

Look how the GOP bully folded when the Port Authority raised tolls 50% more than a year ago, knowing full well he was in the process of packing the bistate agency with his cronies. 

Confused Road Warrior

The Record continues to publish misleading and inaccurate information in the Road Warrior column (A-8).

Staff Writer John Cichowski has made numerous errors, but rarely does the paper run corrections, despite complaints from readers.

Today, Cichowski offers a confused anecdote about a Teaneck man who lost his electricity and then plugged his Chevy Volt hybrid "into his home charging station." 

Apparently, all the man is saying is that he never drives beyond the 35-mile range of the Volt's electric motor and batteries, and never has to fill up his tank with gasoline, because he recharges the batteries every night with his $8,000 home generator, which uses natural gas.

The 300 reserve miles he refers to is the car's range on gasoline, which powers the Volt's generator. 

What's the big deal?

Promoting bad food

Food Editor Susan Leigh Sherrill's weekly recipe is a godsend to cardiac-surgery units at local hospitals (BL-1).

Sherrill must have been affected by fumes from a gasoline-powered generator to dust off a cookbook with a recipe for homemade bacon jam.

Yes. An entire pound of fatty, artery clogging cured bacon -- raised on harmful antibiotics and growth hormones, and filled with preservatives -- goes into the stomach-turning jam (B-2). 

I guess that is what she is recommending for the next blackout.