WASHINGTON — The Sept. 8 headline in The New York Times said it all: “A Gruesome Murder in North Carolina Ignites a Firestorm on the Right.”

The Gray Lady leaped over the warm body of victim Iryna Zarutska, a 23-year-old immigrant from Ukraine, and led with its usual blame-the-Right politics.

The story’s subhead: “Security footage capturing the unprovoked stabbing in Charlotte became an accelerant for conservative arguments about the perceived failings of Democratic policies.”

The Wall Street Journal was like-minded: “Woman’s Stabbing Death Becomes MAGA Talking Point.”

Sadly, the headline writers missed the story: Zarutska was riding Charlotte’s light rail system after her shift at a pizzeria on Aug. 22, shortly before 10 p.m., when an apparent stranger stabbed her in the neck and kill

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