The Media Research Center’s extended meltdown over Zohran Mamdani winning the primary for New York City mayor continued in a June 28 post by Alex Christy complaining that the right-wing meltdown was accurately called what it is:
Friday’s weekly news recap featuring PBS News Hour host Amna Nawaz, Washington Post associate editor Jonathan Capehart, and New York Times columnist David Brooks preferred to talk about the conservative reaction—or more accurately, Nawaz’s cherry-picked conservative reactions—to socialist Zohran Mamdani’s New York City mayoral primary win than Mamdani’s actual positions and history.
Nawaz began, “Mamdani’s 33 years-old, he’s a self-described democratic socialist, and his win, we should point out, has fueled a hateful response from some on the right. There’s a major MAGA voice named Charlie Kirk, who posted this: ‘24 years ago a group of Muslims killed 2,753 people on 9/11. Now a Muslim Socialist is on pace to run New York City.’
Shockingly, Christy conceded the point that extreme right-wing reactions to Mamdani, such as demanding that he be deported and his citizenship revoked, were indeed hateful, though he went on to cite attack lines he approved of:
Mamdani should not have his citizenship revoked, and Republicans should not help him develop a reputation as a persecuted victim who uses that status to avoid talking about his actual beliefs. Republicans must be able to, however, simply tell the truth about him. The truth is Mamdani pals around with 9/11 sympathizers, seeks to “globalize the intifada,” and posted on his own Twitter account that New York City needed a communist mayor.
[…]Mamdani is more of a Marxist than a jihadi, and while Republicans should be clear about that, the media should report on Mamdani’s actual history because behind the smiley-faced promises of free bus rides is a guy who clearly does not know how economics works or who history’s bad guys are.
Jorge Bonilla whined the same day:
Univision’s midday newscast could not conceal its gleeful squeeing over Zohran Mamdani’s win in New York City’s Democratic mayoral primary. And some of the coverage the next day was so over-the-top that Mamdani should consider disclosing it on his campaign finance forms as an in-kind donation.
[…]It’s the hammering home of “YOUR VOTE WILL DECIDE” for me. Such gushing for socialists is not out of place at Univision, which rendered similar worship to Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez when she burst upon the national scene. They now go all out, as does the legacy media, to squeal over the new socialist on the block.
The warm biography gives way to the least damaging description of Mamdani’s policy proposals, which includes zero pushback on any idea. We’ll be watching to see how they cover Mamdani’s proposal to institute city-run stores, which would likely decimate neighborhood bodegas.
Bonilla whined further in a June 29 post:
Democratic Socialist New York mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani took a national media victory lap of sorts by appearing on NBC’s Meet the Press. The interview amounted to little more than the gentlest of tongue baths for Mamdani, in stark contrast for the hectoring treatment afforded to conservatives by host Kristen Welker.
After initial gushing and pleasantries, Welker asks Mamdani about his tax increase proposal. Here you will find an early trend. Zero interruptions on the tax question, Mamdani gets to make his points unabated.
[…]There is no pointing at Mamdani with her ubiquitous pen, no “but what do you say to New Yorkers who are concerned about tax increases”, no “let me put a fine point on that.” The socialist gets calm dialogue, as opposed to constant hectoring and interruption.
So, like how Bonilla’s fellow conservatives get treated on Fox News? We don’t recall him ever complaining about that. He concluded by whining even more:
Whatever you want to call this, and especially given Welker’s comportment with Republican guest, don’t call it an interview. This exercise in campaign propaganda was designed to introduce Zohran Mamdani to the nation under soft lights, and allow him to make his proposals palatable to a skeptical general public. Journalism, this is not.
Again, like Fox News, whose bias Bonilla is not on record as ever having complained about?
In another post that day, Bonilla claimed that “House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries came on ABC’s This Week hoping to talk about the Big, Beautiful Bill and the current events of the day. Instead, he was made to squirm over not yet bending the knee to socialist Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani.” He went on to declare that “What the interview made very clear is that the left is in disarray as a result of the NYC mayoral primary, and the media has no clue how to address it.”