The Media Research Center’s Brad Wilmouth complained in an Oct. 22 post:
On Wednesday morning, there was night a day difference in the way MSNBC and Fox News covered the gubernatorial race in Virginia as Morning Joe bolstered Democratic candidate and ex-Governor Terry McAuliffe as he attacked Republican Glenn Youngkin. Joe Scarborough even went so far as to compare the GOP nominee to an “illiberal tyrant” who is using “anti-Semitism” in his campaign.
[…]After McAuliffe accused Youngkin of having a “tinfoil hat” for invoking wealthy liberal activist George Soros, it was Scarborough who went even further than his Democratic guest in accusing the Virginia Republican of anti-Semitism:
If he’s talking about George Soros, that’s the sort of anti-Semitism we see in the United States and across the world. That’s what — that’s what illiberal tyrants like (Viktor) Orban do in Hungary. They just lie about a Jew — they pick a Jew out — George Soros is that Jew — and so he’s — he’s — he’s playing that old anti-Semitic trope as well.
Wilmouth didn’t respond to Scarborough’s criticism — he simply complained that it was said. But he also didn’t mention that the MRC itself has attacked Soros by invoking anti-Semitic tropes like “puppet master” — which follows in the footsteps of the overall conservative movement in doing the same — and has even gone through great pains to establish that Soros is a Jew that conservatives are permitted to hate.
The MRC has previously praised Orban for supporting “free speech” in the form of criticizing “big tech” over purported “censorship” of right-wingers, even though Orban has a history of suppressing free speech by cracking down on dissent of his regime.