The Media Research Center’s Tim Graham really did devote an entire post to complaining that NPR had on the founders of the now-defunct satire magazine Spy to talk about their longtime targeting of Donald Trump — Spy invented the term “short-fingered vulgarian” to describe him — but didn’t mention that Spy also targeted Hillary Clinton in the ’90s.
But Graham glosses over the reason why Spy was worth a story: Trump is still mad about Spy’s decades-old mocking of him, and the story came in the wake of the Republican presidential campaign’s descent into the gutter of obliquely discussing the genital size of Trump, to which Spy’s “short-fingered vulgarian” reference even more obliquely addresses.
By contrast, Hillary has apparently not complained, then or now, about Spy’s mocking of her, making any reference to her in this story superfluous.
And despite the fact that Spy devoted three covers (and, presumably, related editorial content) to Hillary-mocking, Graham still insisted on calling Spy a “lefty satire rag.” Gotta keep that “liberal media” meme alive, even if you’ve totally discredited it.
Graham, of course, made sure to include the Spy covers mocking Hillary. He seemingly dismissed them as “juvenile,” adding, “These are not sophisticated covers. They’re low-class enough to make a high-school joke giggle.” And, it would appear, a high-ranking official at a right-wing media-monitoring organization.