It’s time for the Media Research Center to throw a fit about Oliver Darcy again, and it did so twice in a three-day span. Curtis Houck — following up on his previous attack on Darcy just a couple days earlier — lashed out at Darcy again in an Oct. 13 post:
In his podcast Power Lines posted on Friday, Status founder, former CNN media reporter, and far-left defender Oliver Darcy and sidekick Jon Passantino descended into some cartoonish smears of Bari Weiss taking over as CBS News editor-in-chief, casting doubt on The Free Press’s success and arguing they have not seen any evidence to support Weiss’s claim the far-left hates America.
Passantino went first with the no evidence claim, reading Weiss’s announcement last week in a condescending tone:
[…]Like a jealous middle schooler, Passantino scoffed Weiss fired off this letter from her “tiny Substack with a few dozen staffers” and believes she can now run “one of the oldest, one of the most established, one of the biggest news organizations in the country by going after the far left and far right.”
Even though Darcy and Passantino would, if they had the chance to run a TV network, make the Jeff Zucker days running CNN seem sleep-inducing, Darcy bashed Paramount SkyDance boss David Ellison for having “put in a very polarizing figure as head of CBS News” despite having “said repeatedly he did not want to politicize the company.”
Darcy then obviously agreed with Passantino, explaining his argument for why, if anyone in our current political climate were to be accused of hating America, it should be President Trump[.]
As usual, Houck made no efort to prove Darcy or Passantino wrong, demonstrating that he, not them, is the one acting like a jealous middle schooler. He continued to whine
Passantino wasn’t done fomenting Weiss hate, whining Weiss has, “in many ways stak[ed] out positions that align with Donald Trump and — and Republicans by going after supposed, you know, enemies or positions on the left…inflaming or hyperventilating about an issue…coming from…the farthest fringe…by just basically making a mountain out of a molehill[.]”
Darcy pulled on this thread, bellyaching that Weiss and her team at The Free Press have, while not being part of MAGA media” chosen to affirm certain beliefs of those pesky right-wingers:
[…]Following a Passantino diss of Weiss for “paint[ing] herself as a victim” at The New York Times, the two argued The Free Press has not been all that popular with their numbers artificially inflated by “wealthy white men who feel like they’re oppressed a reason to feel like they’re oppressed,” so “they fund her”[.]
Houck petulantly concluded: “Both Darcy and Passantino cut their teeth in conservative media to have only turned their backs on the industry. Now, they act like we’re dangerous baboons, so they clearly have some things to work through.” As if Houck doesn’t have stuff to work through regarding his Olivr Darcy Derangement Syndrome.
Two days later, it was Alex Christy’s turn to have a Darcy meltdown:
Having former CNN media reporter-turned Substacker Oliver Darcy on once to freak out about Bari Weiss taking over CBS News was not good enough for PBS. It just had to do it again. On Tuesday, Darcy joined Amanpour and Company, where he had an epic meltdown over Weiss, the Trump administration, and conservative critiques of the news media.
Anchor Michel Martin wondered if Weiss has “given any indication of how she plans to proceed?”
Darcy freaked out that the left might not get a pass under a Weiss-led CBS:
[…]Later, Martin recalled Darcy’s recent congressional testimony, “You said the chilling of speech is one of the first signs a democracy is beginning to decay, which are pretty strong words if you think about it. So, what led you to that conclusion? Why do you say that?”
There is no evidence that Stephen Colbert was cancelled because of Trump, and Jimmy Kimmel recently said his suspension was probably a good thing, but that didn’t stop Darcy from repeating the idea that Trump was behind both:
Actually, there’s plenty of evidence to support the claim that the resolution of a lawsuit filed by Trump against CBS’ parent was directly linked to Colbert’s cancellation, starting with the fact that CBS’ parent company got federal approval for a merger shortly after the cancellation.
Like Houck, Christy still wasn’t done ranting:
Next, Martin moved on to trust in media, “Only 28 percent of Americans expressed a great deal or fair amount of trust in newspapers, television, and radio to report the news fully, accurately, and fairly… I mean, conservatives say it’s that– because, you know, the media is too liberal, and it doesn’t really paint a fair picture, and it’s not fair. What do you say?”
Darcy didn’t see what the big deal was, “I think what’s caused the drop in confidence amongst, really, Republicans, has been the war that Donald Trump and his allies have waged against the truth for the past 10 years. And it’s actually gone longer than that. It’s been basically since Rush Limbaugh, you know, rose to power on radio, and there has been this relentless attack against mainstream outlets, saying to a large part of the country that journalists are lying to you, they are misleading you, and you should not trust the, quote, ‘experts.’”
That poll showed independents’ trust in the media is at 27 percent, an all-time low. Nevertheless, Darcy huffed, “The group of people that do not trust the media the most according to this Gallup poll, are Republicans. I think they have, like, eight percent trust of media. And that is a stark difference compared to Democrats.”
Based on everything Darcy just said, it is no wonder why Democrats still trust the media because Darcy just told them everything they want to hear.
Christy seems to have ignored the fact that he jus told his fellow right-wingers everything they want to hear.