The Media Research Center’s meltdown over Zohran Mamdani winning the primary for New York City mayor continued into its second day with a June 26 post by Alex Christy:
CBS’s Stephen Colbert and NBC’s Seth Meyers both hailed socialist and anti-Semite Zohran Mamdani’s New York City mayoral primary victory on their Wednesday editions of The Late Show and Late Night respectively. Meyers was especially excited, as he claimed it proved that the “conventional wisdom” of Democrats having to move to the center to win elections “is a load of crap.”
Meyers concluded his “Closer Look” segment by coupling Sen. Bernie Sanders’s recent appearance on The Joe Rogan Experience with Mamdani’s win, “The point is, Bernie’s right. Bernie’s right. All we have is each other. And to the liberals who are always saying we need a liberal Joe Rogan. Are you seeing this? It turns out all you need to do is be more like Bernie Sanders. There’s no secret trick. You just need to be genuine. You need to run on ideas that will improve people’s lives.”
[…]First of all, you could argue that Joe Rogan was the liberal Joe Rogan because the man actually endorsed Sanders in 2020. But, Rogan aside, Meyers continued, “That explains Zohran Mamdani’s historic victory in the New York City mayoral primary last night. Voters just want authentic politicians who will tackle the cost of living crisis with simple, straightforward, broadly popular ideas. It turns out the conventional wisdom that Democrats need to move to the center in order to win elections is a load of crap.”
Progressives like Meyers might roll their eyes at a conservative claiming a Democratic politician is a communist, so let’s let Mamdani’s own social media posts speak for themselves.
None of those posts, however, proved Christy’s assertion that Mamdani is an anti-Semite. Still he huffed that “Mamdani’s anti-Semitism will push people off the metaphorical door, and his socialism will ruin the city.”
Intern Matthew Seck whined the same day:
On Wednesday night’s The Briefing, MSNBC’s Jen Psaki had on self-proclaimed democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani, following his win in New York City’s Democratic Party mayoral primary race. Psaki used words like “joyful,” “inviting,” and “authentic” all words that downplayed Mamdani’s harmful policies and hateful rhetoric towards Jewish people.
Psaki tried to prep the interview by using selective language and false facts to make it seem like Mamdani was a popular candidate among the Jewish people of New York:
[…]Psaki also claimed that Mamdani won by “speaking to the core economic struggles of millions of people in the city.” She said this despite [Andrew] Cuomo winning a 49 percent majority of low income voters, while failing to note Mamdani’s disastrous policies like freezing rent and creating government owned grocery stores.
Hate to break this to you, Matthew, but 49 percent is not a “majority.” Still, he further ranted that “To describe a man who called for, and still refused to denounce the term ‘globalize the intifada,’ as having a ‘gift’ for ‘inviting people in’ can only be described as insane.”
Tim Graham followed with a fact-checking meltdown:
PolitiFact exists to defend Democrats against Republican attacks. In 2020, they threw their “Pants On Fire” label at Sen. David Perdue for describing his opponent Jon Ossoff as a “socialist.” So it’s unsurprising that PolitiFact would object to Donald Trump and other conservatives online for mocking New York’s new Democrat nominee for mayor, Zohran Mamdani, as a “communist.” This time, it was only “False” on their “Truth-O-Meter.”
Trump drew a “Pants On Fire” last year for calling Kamala Harris a “communist.” But dig into their search engine, and try to locate any time they’ve ever thrown a flag at a Democrat describing Trump or Trump backers as “fascist.” You won’t find one. Right before the 2024 election, CNN’s Anderson Cooper goaded Harris into agreeing Trump was a “fascist.” Nothing happened.
Yet Graham offered no evidence that Trump is not a “fascist.” He further whined that his red-baiting was called out for what it was, then played whataboutism:
On his Instagram, Mamdani celebrated his victory by quoting Nelson Mandela — who was at one time an armed communist guerrilla with the African National Congress, but why would the liberals remember that against the legend? The words “red scare” were no surprise here:
[…]And accusing Republicans of being neo-Nazis is what color of scare? They find an expert professor to call this an “absurd slander,” but never object to Republicans being slandered as fascist democracy-murderers. That’s because all of their liberal media allies throw that slander routinely.
Again, Graham did not offer any evidence to dispute that “slander.” He concluded with one final whine:
Journalists on the left see all of the socialist goals as wonderful and necessary, but they know that “communism” is too scary a word, and they only use “socialist” when politicans like Mamdani proudly brandish it. But right now, liberal journalists are warming up to promoting the party building a following among young voters by tilting further out to the “extreme left” — although they’ll call you “Pants On Fire” if you call them that.
Says the guy who can’t be bothered to disprove the obvious fact that he and his fellow Republicans are tilting to the far right.