A couple months back, we highlighted how ridiculous the Media Research Center’s rhetoric has gone off the deep end with overly enthusiastic violent metaphors. It hasn’t really stopped.
A March 13 post by Bill D’Agostino carries the overwrought headline “‘Are You a Goner?’: Craig Melvin Viciously Interrogates Republican Congressman Ryan Costello.” D’Agostino didn’t identify any actual viciousness in the post itself; instead he complained that MSNBC host Melvin “bombarded his guest with a salvo of loaded questions and boilerplate DNC talking points. His only earnest question – which was to ask whether Costello planned to campaign with President Trump – came at the tail end of the conversation.”
Apparently, Melvin’s pointing out that the rapid rate of high-profile departures from the Trump White House was a fact instead of the “narrative” Costello claimed it was was a “vicious” thing to do, according to D’Agostino; instead, he reframed Costello’s words as referring to White House chaos as a “narrative” — even though it’s also a fact.
Referring to something as “vicious” should involve actual viciousness instead of merely a challenging line of inquiry. But that’s not really clickbait, is it?