The Media Research Center is quite unhappy that the unfairness and bias shown by the trump administration in making white South Africans the only refugees currently allowed to enter the United States was called out. Jorge Bonilla huffed in a May 12 post:
It turns out that there is a group of migrants seeking asylum that will make the left and their enablers in the media say “enough is enough.” That, of course, being the 59 South Africans that made it to the United States today.
MSNBC’s The Weeknight exemplifies the hysterical coverage given to this grant of asylum status.
[…]We got three minutes of barely-strung-together ramblings bordering on incoherent. There was no discussion of the merits of the request, or of the underlying events that led to these Afirkaners seeking asylum.
There was no mention of laws allowing the government to seize Afrikaner farms without compensation, or of the “kill the Boer, kill the farmer” chants led by Economic Freedom Fighters Party head Julius Malema:
[…]There was no indignation or outcry from the media when the previous administration allowed over 20 million illegal migrants to flood into the United States. But allow 59 South Africans into the country and everyone loses their minds.
Especially on MSNBC.
Bonilla offered as evidence of Malema’s chant a tweet from the X/Twitter account Visegrad 24, which is a right-wing website with dubious links to the Polish government. We thought Bonilla and the rest of the MRC hated state-owned media.
Fondadcaro served up his own whine about this in a May 13 post:
ABC News finally found a group of people they didn’t want to let into America: white farmers fleeing from South Africa. That much was clear during Tuesday’s Good morning America when they decried the Trump administration for allowing farmers allegedly being targeted by the South African government to be allowed into the U.S. with refugee status. Interestingly, it was the black journalists who were the most upset.
The media often conflated the crackdown on illegal border crossings and illegal immigration with an opposition to general immigration and legitimate asylum claims. That was the backdrop as senior political correspondent Rachel Scott huffed about the refugees:
[…]Scott whined about the refugees, most of which were families with kids, getting the process expedited and a chartered flight. Becoming a mouthpiece for the South African government, she also tried to downplay the alleged discrimination while admitting it was being done to counter “the legacy of apartheid”:
[…]Interesting how their position on refugees changed depending on race. And of course, they didn’t play any of the videos of rallies in South Africa of people chanting “kill the boer, kill the farmer.”
One can also argue that the MRC’s own position on refugees has changed due to the race of the current crop, but Fondacaro won’t point that out. Fondacaro went on to whine further about this in the May 14 MRC podcast:
Since the election of Pope Leo XIV last week, the liberal media had repeatedly voiced their excitement to use him to browbeat President Trump and Vice President Vance on the issue of immigration. But with the Trump administration’s efforts to resettle South African refugees fleeing retaliatory discrimination this week, the liberal media finally found a group of immigrants they couldn’t stand.
ABC resembled MSNBC as both outlets raged at Trump helping white people. Both praised the Episcopal Church for their politically charged refusal to help the people resettle because they supposedly jumped the line.
Suddenly, the legal immigration system existed in the eyes of the liberal media!
Um, hasn’t Fondacaro’s co-workers repeatedly spewed rage at undocumented (non-white) immigrants for jumping the line? Never mind, he has a narrative to push, which he brought into his daily hate-watch of “The View”:
The View’s racism was on full display during the Thursday edition of the unfortunately popular ABC News program. Staunchly racist Sunny Hostin bitterly lashed out at the white South Africans fleeing persecution and parroted the South African president’s denials. And while they denounced America as a racist and sexist country, moderator Whoopi Goldberg defended her and Hostin’s racism.
Hostin kicked off her racist ranting by whining that they had yet to mention President Trump taking in those South African refugees, getting tired groans from the liberal audience fed up with him. Without going over the evidence, Hostin parroted the denials from President Cyril Ramaphosa:
Yes, Fondacaro repeated his libelous smear of Hostin as “staunchly racist.” He did, however, have to add a disclaimer at the end of his post: “The Founder and President of the Media Research Center, L. Brent Bozell III was nominated by the Trump administration to be the ambassador to South Africa.”
In his May 22 hate-watch of “The View,” Fondacaro raged that an inconvenient fact had been pointed out, this time slurring another co-host as “racist”:
Despite admitting that white people were having their land taken by the South African government as racial retribution, the leftist extremists of ABC’s The View opened Thursday’s show by arguing that not enough white people had been killed fast enough for it to be considered a “genocide” as President Trump said. According to their ghoulish hate, any suggestion otherwise was “false conspiracy theory.”
“THERE IS NO GENOCIDE!” moderator and racist, Whoopi Goldberg yelled as co-host Sara Haines suggested that over 1,300 targeted killings of white farmers were not enough to care about:
[…]She followed up by admitting that the lands owned by whites was indeed being taken away from them as a form of racial retribution, but it supposedly didn’t happen often and they were supposedly offered money.
“The government will occasionally come to remedy some of the problems with apartheid that happened for 50 years in that country, they will come and with compensation,” she argued. “They will take the land occasionally back. So, what he did was took two little seeds and just like did his own thing with that. He was completely false and wrong!”
Haines never addressed the question of ‘what if the farmer didn’t accept the compensation and didn’t want to leave?’ And despite showing clips of Trump interacting with South African president Cyril Ramaphosa, they never showed the video Trump played of rally goers chanting “kill the boer, killer the farmer.”
Indeed, we’ve documented that even Genocide Watch admits that alleged deaths of white farmers in South Africa does not constitute “genocide.” Even white farmers in South Africa have disputed claims of a “genocide” there. Still, Fondacaro is duty-bound to peddle his assigned narrative:
Perhaps The View should be confronted with the fact that they’re trying to make a distinction that didn’t really have a difference. Taking the lands from one ethnic group to give to another actually had a definition: ethnic cleansing.
Encyclopedia Britannica’s definition of ethnic cleansing, which it notes as a war crime: “the attempt to create ethnically homogeneous geographic areas through the deportation or forcible displacement of persons belonging to particular ethnic groups.”
Fondacaro had to admit once again that his boss “was nominated by the Trump administration to be the ambassador to South Africa.”