The Media Research Center kept up its Mamdani meltdowns in a Dec. 17 post by Tim Graham:
National “Public” Radio loves the radical socialist Mamdanis. This is an easy exhibit in their dramatic ideological bias. On Tuesday’s Morning Edition, co-host Leila Fadel offered a seven-minute softball interview with Mahmood Mamdani, including his new book Slow Poison, which argues Idi Amin wasn’t such a bad dictator — because he was against the evil Western colonizers and allied with the Soviets.
[…]Fadel referred to Zohran Mamdani as a “political superstar”….twice. He’s just becoming a mayor, but NPR sounds like they’re putting him on an Obama track.
But that interferes with Graham and the MRC’s constant demonization of Mamdani, so of course he would complain about that. P.J. Gladnick made his own contribution to that partisan narrative in a Dec. 30 post:
The doubts about New York City Mayor-Elect Zohran Mamdani are already creeping in at the Intelligencer section of New York magazine. In fact those nagging doubts about Mamdani are more than just creeping. As the realization sets in that their hero Mamdani actually has little to no administrative experience, very noticeable flop sweat began streaming in the form of this story on Monday by David Freedlander, “The Making of Mayor Mamdani.”
Before you even read the body of the article you can detect the first drippings of the flop sweat in the subtitle: “He is a brilliant political talent with dizzying ambitions to change the city. Is he ready for the actual job, though?”
The story itself is quite lengthy as a result of Freedlander seemingly reassuring both himself and the New York readers that Mamdani will be able to govern as mayor despite the many gnawing doubts presented.
[…]The rest of Freedlander’s overlong article continues to follow this basic pattern; strong doubts about Mamdani’s ability to achieve his leftist goals followed by Freedlander trying to convince himself and the readers that Mamdani will somehow, despite his administrative flaws, be successful as mayor.
Clay Waters whined some more the next day, which he really did headline “Mamdani or Man Candy?”:
The show PBS News Weekend is nearly at an end, but no one will miss it if they were looking for hard-hitting journalism.
As the start of New York City mayor-in waiting Zohran Mamdani’s term looms, there are plenty of stories to cover, with concerns about the viability of his left-wing policy promises and his propensity to surround himself with anti-semites, as well as his own related controversies. Sunday evening’s segment on PBS wasn’t one of those.
Attaining a level of journalistic integrity perhaps only previously reached by Teen Beat magazine, Sunday’s PBS News Weekend gushed over man-candy Mamdani’s “remarkable rise” to mayor with his campaign photographer, Kara McCurdy. It wasn’t exactly a segment designed to quiet the complaints of ideological bias at PBS or win its public funding back.
The main thing that the MRC got out of Mamdani’s inauguration speech was hat he said that We will replace the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism” Run that through the dubious interpretation by partisan hack Craig Bannister in a CNS “news” article, and it was translated to “Democrat Socialist” Mamdani declaring that “Individualism will be replaced with conformity, and strength with dependence on others.”
Nicholas Fondacaro whined some more about that in a Jan. 2 post:
On Friday, ABC’s Good Morning Americacelebrated a new chapter in their hometown politics of New York City: the inauguration of far-left extremist Mayor Zohran Mamdani. The network couldn’t hide their excitement as fill-in anchor and chief White house correspondent Mary Bruce pivoted away from a deadly Swiss night club fire, with a huge smile on her face to talk about the communist mayor. Of course, there was also mention of his controversial comment.
[…]While ABC had called President Trump’s plans ‘controversial,’ that wasn’t tone given to Mamdani’s despite widespread concern. “The new mayor’s first act involved affordable housing, just part of an ambitious progressive agenda that Mamdani insists will set an example for the world,” touted correspondent Aaron Katersky.
“Mamdani takes up the progressive mantle from two of its champions who were there in the audience: Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Senator Bernie Sanders,” Katersky went on to tout. “Now, Mamdani is out to show an affordability agenda focusing on the working-class can thrive in America’s wealthiest city.”
[…]Despite using four soundbites of Mamdani from the event, there was no mention of his controversial comment proclaiming he was going to force communist collectivism down everyone’s throat. “We will replace the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism,” he said, touting an idea that had killed tens of millions of people in communist countries around the globe for decades.
Speaking of communism, ABC also failed to mention that Mamdani failed to provide food and restrooms for the “block party” organized to celebrate.
Fondacaro didn’t mention that the source of this claim, the New York Post, is a right-wing anti-Mamdani rag.