The Media Research Center never stopped lashing out at Rob Reiner for the sin of not liking Donald Trump. But when Reiner and his wife were killed in December, apparently by their son, the MRC wouldn’t do the proper thing and apologize for all the hate it spewed at him over the years — instead, it took a couple of parting shots while trying to protect Trump from the consequences of his nasty comments that his death was “reportedly due to the anger he caused others through… a mind crippling disease known as TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME,” which caused even right-wingers to denounce him.
Nicholas Fondacaro used part of his Dec. 15 hate-watch of “The View” to dismiss Trump’s hateful attack as merely “unnecessary” while caring more that one-co-host had to read a correction:
Moderator Whoopi Goldberg was understandably irritated by Trump’s unnecessary comments directed at left-wing director and activist Rob Reiner after news broke of his murder. But her hate of Trump took over and she made up lies about him not sharing condolences for the shooting victims in Australia and Brown University:
[…]“You ain’t my president, man,” she bitterly declared as they went to a break.
Upon returning from the break, Goldberg was made to issue a “correction.” “As it turns out, yesterday apparently, You Know Who put his condolences out to the people who are looking down at us from Heaven and the folks at Brown,” she huffed, refusing to say Trump’s name. “So my bad, you did say something. Not what I would liked to have heard from you, but you did do it, so there you go.”
Jorge Bonilla groused about Reiner being brought up in a Dec. 16 post:
As certain as the Sun rising in the East and as inevitable as death and taxes is the likelihood of ABC’s The View commentator Ana Navarro coming on CNN air and endumbening our political discourse with a galaxy-brain take on any of the issues of the day. Last night’s “Thunderdome” appearance was no exception, as Navarro delivered a mind-melting theory on why THREE narcovessels were hit in the Eastern Pacific last night.
Watch Scott Jennings turn away in exhaustion as Navarro proceeds to claim the boat strikes were…intended to distract from fallout over President Trump’s reaction to the horrendous murders of film director Rob Reiner and his wife.
[…]Navarro’s theory of distraction is, of course, peak TDS brain worms. Unfortunately, peak TDS brain worms is what passes, with few notable exceptions, for news analysis and debate at CNN.
When Nancy Pelosi brought up Trump’s reaction to Reiner, Bonilla felt the need to lash out at her and her interviewer, ABC’s Jonathan Karl, in a Dec. 21 post:
Ridiculousness is Pelosi’s bar for mental incapacity. Karl just sat there, like a bump on a log, as Pelosi went on about “ridiculousness.” These same people surrounded Joe Biden like a Roman phalanx and shielded him from similar scrutiny.
Tim Graham used his Dec. 30 podcast to complain about Reiner (while simultaneously complaining that his films didn’t receive awards):
Finally, after President Trump trashed Rob Reiner after he was violently murdered, the media coverage seemed to skip over Reiner’s sometimes ranty leftist politics. Even hour-long specials on CBS and CNN never mentioned Reiner’s war on Trump. It remains fascinating that Reiner never got a Best Director Oscar nomination. His work wasn’t arty enough. This again underlines that Oscar hates commercially successful films, especially comedies and rom-coms. It’s little shocking he didn’t get one for A Few Good Men, which matched Hollywood’s political bias.
That’s pretty much it. Reiner’s “ranty leftist politics” mattered more to Graham and the rest of the MRC than the fact that he was murdered.