The Media Research Center’s Clay Waters whines in a May 17 post:
The liberal media will never forgive Tonight Show host Jimmy Fallon for momentarily treating Donald Trump like a normal guest when the then-presidential candidate appeared on the show last September.
In a long profile of Fallon set for the front of next Sunday’s Arts page, New York Times Dave Itzkoff returned to the subject, with particular focus on the crime of Fallon playfully mussing Trump’s hair as a harmful humanization of the man, and implying that fateful incident caused Fallon’s show to be overtaken in the ratings by more left-wing ideological competition like the vulgar Stephen Colbert.
By contrast, the MRC has never forgiven the media for treating Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama like a normal human being.
Under the headline “Nets Embrace ‘Did You Plug the Hole Yet, Daddy?’ Anecdote to Humanize Obama,” Rich Noyes grumbled in 2010 that “The White House press corps just loved President Obama’s press conference anecdote meant to prove the pressure he’s under and responsibility he’s taking (“When I woke up this morning, and I’m shaving and Malia knocks on my bathroom door and she peeks in her head and she says: ‘Did you plug the hole yet, daddy?'”).”
And in September 2016, Tim Graham ranted about media outlets making “desperate attempts to keep trying to portray her as warm and human….just as they tried to convince Americans that in private that cold fish Al Gore and John Kerry were warm in private. ” So convinced is Graham that Clinton is subhuman that he even grumbled about one commentator who referred to Hillary as “a funny, personable human being.”
So it seems it’s perfectly fine at the MRC to treat liberals as less than human.