The Media Research Center’s continuing Zohran Mamdani meltdown over non-right-wing media failing to have similar meltdowns continued in a July 5 post by Tim Graham:
Last week, we reported on how PolitiFact threw a “False” flag at President Trump for calling New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani a “communist lunatic,” despite contrary evidence, like his 2020 tweet in support of a communist mayor in India, suggesting that’s the kind of mayor New York needs. On Thursday, in reaction to a White House spokesperson, PolitiFact doubled down on its ruling, dismissing Mamdani’s clearly Marxist talk of seizing the means of production.
Originally, PolitiFact’s Amy Sherman and intern Ella Moore insisted the the “fact” was Mamdani, was socialist, not communist:
[…]Sherman acknowledged this passage in a 2021 speech by Mamdani: “But then there are also other issues that we firmly believe in, whether it’s BDS (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions of Israel), right, or whether it’s the end goal of seizing the means of production, where we do not have the same level of support at this very moment.”
But she refused to budge: “After reviewing the tape and re-interviewing experts, we decided not to change our False rating. Mamdani’s views in the mayoral race do not reflect communism,and experts found his 2021 remark too brief to reach detailed conclusions.”
By that standard, if a Republican endorsed Nazism as the “end goal” four years before he ran for office, you couldn’t call him a “Nazi” if he wasn’t explicitly proposing Nazism in his current campaign speeches. Does anyone believe these liberals would desperately streeeeeeeeeeetch the facts in that case?
As if the MRC has never stretched the facts about anything. Alex Christy whined the same day:
Key to the MSNBC critique of the Republican Party in the Trump Era has been the implication that if Democrats ever nominated an insane person, they would stand on principle and put country over party. On Friday’s edition of All In, Chris Hayes proved that to be a pack of lies as he demanded Democrats who have “said really vile things” about New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani fall in line because all Mamdani wants is to make life more affordable.
While most people were having fun with their 4th of July celebrations, Hayes was doing stand-up comedy by pretending Mamdani’s bumper sticker slogans about affordability should be treated the same as his actual policy proposals of high and racially-motivated taxes, rent control, government-run grocery stores, or his history of wanting to seize the means of production:
[…]The truth is New York City is the biggest city in the country, so what goes on there matters, and Democrats just nominated an anti-Semitic Marxist to be their nominee, and now MSNBC faces a choice: they can either do what they’ve demanded Republicans do for years and stand up to him or insist he’s a lovely guy who just wants to give out free bus rides. So far, they’ve failed spectacularly.
Graham returned to rant more in a July 6 post:
The New York Times is getting slammed from the left for a story reporting that New York Democrat mayoral nominee Zohran Momdani that in 2009, as part of a college application to Columbia, Mamdani checked boxes indicating that he was both “Asian” and “Black or African American.” The story is accurate, but lefties don’t want anything damaging published! It’s a “hit piece”! One Times editor, Patrick Healy, made a long X thread defending this story exposing a racial lie:
But it’s not until the final part of his post that Graham gets around to fully noting the problem non- right-wingers have with the story: the Times’ anonymous source, an X/Twitter poster named Crémieux, turned out to be a white supremacist. Graham had no opinion about that. He continued to have nothing to say about the Times’ racist source in a July 9 column continuing to rail at Mamdani:
On June 25, 33-year-old Democrat Zohran Mamdani became a new socialist sensation in the media when he won the Democratic primary for mayor of New York City. But when Republicans pounced on his radicalism, their journalistic instinct was to back away from the story.
In the seven days after his victory, ABC, CBS, NBC and PBS combined for 56 minutes and 26 seconds of air time discussing Mamdani — but only 85 seconds on any of his woke policy prescriptions. NBC spent 85 seconds on just one idea, taxing “whiter” neighborhoods. Instead, they presented him as a “charming” political upstart with fresh economic ideas about “affordability,” as if there’s anything fresh about socialism.
The surprise within the liberal media came on July 3, when The New York Times published a story revealing that when Mamdani was a high school senior in 2009, he applied to Columbia University and checked identity boxes for “Asian” – true, since his family is from India – and “Black,” which is a lie. Just like that Cherokee, Elizabeth Warren. When The Times asked him about it, Mamdani said he didn’t consider himself either Black or African American, but rather “an American who was born in Africa.”
[…]The Times took so much heat from their leftist base that their “standards” editor Patrick Healy published a Twitter thread explaining how and why they reported what the Left called a “hit piece.” It underlined what the Left expects of their media outlets: blind partisan loyalty.
Inconvenient truths about Democrats should be buried. Facts that help Republicans should be dismissed. Lies about race aren’t really lies, they’re just “complexity.”
Graham censored the inconvenient truth that the Times’ source is a racist — and that another alleged participant in the hacking of records has proclaimed himself to be “violently racist” — and that this was the source of the “heat” from readers.