The Media Research Center’s frequent meltdowns over Zohran Mamdani continued with a major one from Nicholas Fondacaro in his Nov. 14 hate-watch of “The View”:
Despite the fact that the Democratic Party had more in common with the Mad Titan Thanos, who wanted to wipe out half of all life in the universe to protect the environment, the loony liberal ladies of ABC’s The View spent part of Friday’s show praising New York Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani for seeking advice from “the Democratic Avengers” for how to oppose President Trump’s illegal immigration crackdown.
After spending the first few minutes of the show recounting how she dropped an iPad and broke her foot, fill-in moderator Joy Behar kicked off their “Hot Topics” segment by celebrating Mamdani’s first great feat as mayor-elect, speaking to other Democratic politicians for anti-Trump advice:
Fondacaro failed to explain how, exactly, Democrats planned to kill people.
Jorge Bonilla used a Nov. 16 post to rage at a longtime punching bag for the sin of not hating Mamdani:
In what is the least surprising turn of events, former Univision anchor Jorge Ramos has once again devoted column space to the promotion of the false religion known as “democratic socialism”, and of its loudest proponents. In this instance, of course, the column is in promotion of New York City’s flashy new Mayor-elect: Zohran Mamdani.
The first giveaway is the column’s title: “Mamdani, the Anti-Trump.” So advanced is Ramos’s Trump Derangement Syndrome that he is now promoting communists on the basis of their opposition to Donald Trump. He smiles! He eats! He dances!
[…]There is only the contrast with Trump. This is all that matters for Ramos.
Bonilla concluded with one more rant: “Unfettered from corporate restraint, Ramos is now free to be as openly leftist as he wants to be. He has proven his viewers right for ultimately distrusting him, and proven Univision right for cutting him loose.”
Alex Christy whined about Mamdani in a Nov. 21 post:
CBS’s Stephen Colbert welcomed Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren to the Thursday taping of The Late Show for a three-segment-long interview that included an attempt to push New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani on the rest of the country by reducing his radical leftism to mere concerns about affordability.
[…]Colbert wanted to define Mamdani-ism as a focus on affordability and not any set of actual policies, such as his flat earth theory-like embrace of things like rent control. He also omitted that earlier in the week, Mamdani didn’t exactly allay concerns about his anti-Semitism when he both sides-ed an anti-Semitic mob outside a synagogue. According to Mamdani, the event—which simply promoted immigration to Israel—violated “international law,” which is not true, but even if it was, it would be irrelevant considering that the event would still be protected by the First Amendment.
For her part, Warren took the opportunity to further hype the man she campaigned for by also reducing him to a cliché about the cost of living:
[…]Literally no one is against improving the cost of living. What many people object to is an economically illiterate socialist who attacks his city’s Jewish population.
Christy is too stuck in his right-wing talking points to offer any evidence Mamdani is either of those things.
The next day, Christy melted down over Jon Stewart saying nice things about Mamdani, and also how he dropped a few F-bombs on the way:
Jon Stewart went on an F-bomb-laden rant on Thursday’s episode of Comedy Central’s The Weekly Show podcast as he told conservative critics of New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani to “look in the mirror, fuck face.” According to Stewart, they are allegedly being hypocrites for not applying their same logic to President Trump amid his recent state dinner with the Saudi crown prince.
[…]As it was, Stewart continued apace, “How—one guy came after me. ‘Has Jon Stewart, he’s talking pleasantly with Mamdani, you know, this is a guy, has he forgotten 9/11?’ First of all, fuck you. Fuck you to the highest order of fucking you that you can be fucked. Don’t you ever ask me about that, you fuck.”
Fact-check #2: Stewart compared Mamdani to Jackie Robinson, which is outrageously stupid. Additionally, while Stewart wants to focus on “one guy” for suggesting he forgot 9/11 despite all his work to advocate for 9/11 first responders, it was not too much to ask that Stewart actually ask Mamdani some difficult questions.
Christy then groused that Stewart brought up President Trump’s state dinner with Saudi crown prince (who is also in charge of rival golf league LIV Golf), offering his own sad whataboutism in response:
The American people have no power to determine who governs Saudi Arabia. By contrast, New Yorkers do have the power to determine who they install as their mayor.
If Stewart wants to get on his high horse and denounce LIV Golf, he is free to do so, but that should not be equated with official presidential business, nor should it mean that Mamdani is above criticism for associating with Islamic radicals.
Why does Christy think the existence of Mamdani exempts Trump from criticism over his palling around with the Saudi crown prince, who has been implicated in the death of journalist Jamal Khashoggi (and whom Trump tried to defend during that same dinner when asked about Khashoggi)? He didn’t explain.