The Media Research Center’s Scott Whitlock complained in a Jan. 14 item (boldface in original):
Apparently, cynicism is warranted for congressional leaders. Well, some of the time anyway. Nancy Pelosi fan Andrea Mitchell on Tuesday scoffed and laughed at Kevin McCarthy as the House Minority Leader suggested that Pelosi’s delaying of impeachment articles is nothing more than a transparent attempt at helping Joe Biden.
Mitchell contemptuously explained, “The House Republican leader, Kevin McCarthy, kind of trolling, created some problems this morning — or tried to create some problems this morning — by suggesting that maybe Joe Biden should suspend his campaign in fairness to his Senate colleagues.”
So, Kevin McCarthy is a troll now? Mitchell certainly doesn’t use that kind of language about Pelosi.
Whitlock seems a bit put out that trolling gets criticized — at least when those trolls advance the MRC’s agenda. Indeed, it was just a year ago that Whitlock’s MRC colleague Curtis Houck gushed over how President Trump unleashed “a trollish tweet for the ages that united people across the right side of the aisle against the media for a day-long dunk squad session” by attacking CNN’s Jim Acosta (a frequent target of Houck’s CNN Derangement Syndrome).
Whitlock also failed to name any examples of trolling by Pelosi along the lines of anything McCarthy has said. Instead, he complained that “Mitchell rarely shows such skepticism about Pelosi’s motives. In December, she ‘attested’ to the ‘deep faith’ of the House Speaker.” Who was being trolled in that Pelosi claim? Whitlock doesn’t say, nor did he explain why Pelosi must be challenged about the sincerity of her religious faith.