The Media Research Center’s Tim Graham had yet another fit of Folkenflik Derangement Syndrome in a July 9 post:
It was a little shocking. NPR media reporter David Folkenflik came on Monday night’s All Things Considered to talk about cable news, and it wasn’t about his hate object Fox News, at least not directly. The subject was President Biden’s phone interview with his buddies at MSNBC’s Morning Joe. Even Folkenflik thought Scarborough was well, energetic in his obsequiousness:
[…]But this was the fun part — NPR having to contemplate that Scarborough is so deeply embedded into the Biden camp that it evokes parallels to — oh, God forbid! — Fox News.
JUANA SUMMERS, anchor: You know, some people out there are making the argument that MSNBC and Scarborough are just a mirror image of Fox News for Republicans. Quickly, how fair is that?
FOLKENFLIK: Well, you know, certainly, Joe Scarborough now serves as kind of a outside adviser in much the way that Sean Hannity does for President Trump. I would say two things. First, I would say it’s definitely part of the Democratic firmament, and you had a couple of Biden administration aides who are now hosts on MSNBC. And at the same time, I would argue that perhaps because of NBC News being a corporate sibling, you know, it’s a little bit more rooted in journalism.
SUMMERS: Yeah.
FOLKENFLIK: And it’s more willing to admit interests against its own sympathies and rooting causes.
This is hilarious. NBC, with Lester “Fairness Is Overrated” Holt, is being used to say Scarborough and Maddow and Joy Reid and Jen Psaki are “more rooted in journalism”? NPR liberals should really admit that they can’t attack Fox News as uniquely partisan when the parallels have become unmistakable. Obviously, Fox News is hated because it underlines information that the Left wants to suppress.
Graham can find no fault with the channel, even after it was busted lying to its viewers, and it had no problem with fairness being overrated on that channel. He also refused to put in boldface Folkenflik’s reference to Hannity advising Trump despite his looking askance at Scarborough advising Biden. Can’t bring attention to that!
Graham concluded with an anti-NPR rant:
More “rooted in journalism” sounds like code for more rooted on Our Side, on the Left, and its avowed reverence for “facts,” like the “fact” that America is deeply racist, and that capitalism is inherently unjust. That’s what you get from government-funded radio and TV.
Just what you’d expect from a guy who gets well paid to hate public broadcasting, to the point that as given a platform to spew that hate in front of a Republican House committee. And, yes, he also wants us to believe that he and his MRC actually care about facts despite employing a serial liar like Nicholas Fondacaro. Graham went on to rehash all this on his July 10 podcast.