In addition to the specific defenses of Trump cabinet nominees like Matt Gaetz, Pete Hegseth, Tulsi Gabbard and Robert Kennedy Jr. that it’s mandated to do to remain a part of the Trump Regime Media, the Media Research Center also served up generalized defenses of the nominees and attacks on those who criticize them.Mark Finkelstein huffed in a Nov. 17 post:
For a network that can barely breathe the name Donald Trump without calling him a “convicted felon,” you’d think MSNBC might be careful about having convicted felons as honored guests on their shows!
And yet . . .
In a segment devoted to commenting on Trump nominees, Sunday’s edition of MSNBC’s The Weekend had on Democrat strategist Chuck Rocha.
Co-host Symone Sanders expressed concern over the implications for the “rule of law” of Trump’s nominations.
Rocha certainly has experience in problems with the rule of law. In his previous position as a senior union official with authority over a $30 million budget, Rocha was convicted of one count of felony embezzlement, and “acknowledged responsibility for the other 17 counts.”
Shouldn’t the ethical bar to be a Cabinet nominee be higher than that of a TV commentator?
Jorge Bonilla grumbled in a post the same day:
The 2024 presidential election has left the media reeling and plunged into a period of self-doubt and introspection. But for a few fleeting moments on NBC’s Meet the Depressed, the media forgot that they got shellacked.
Watch as the Regime journalists (including former Obama and Biden spokesmouth Jen Psaki and taxpayer-funded Amna Nawaz of PBS) on the show’s panel plot a pressure campaign against Republicans considering confirmation of President Elect Donald Trump’s Cabinet picks:
[…]The most telling part of the exchange? When Psaki interjects to caution the panel that they should “pick one” Trump nominee to pick off via the pressure campaign, followed by Daniels’ agreement that “we can’t do all of them.” A literal Alynskyite (13th Rule for Radicals) strategy session, live on NBC air.
This exchange may lead reasonable individuals to imagine that there is zero daylight between Democrat communications types and their pals in the media. There certainly can’t be, when they feel comfortable laying out a pressure campaign against Republican Cabinet nominees on the air.
Clay Waters fretted over another show’s criticism in yet another post that day:
PBS’s weekly political roundtable Washington Week with the Atlantic gathered for the second time since Donald Trump’s reelection and showed revulsion to his proposed cabinet picks. Particularly put out was veteran liberal New York Times Washington Bureau Chief Elisabeth Bumiller, who used aggressively antagonistic language to describe two picks. It’s a “rogues’ gallery,” including Tulsi Gabbard, a “girlfriend” of the Russians.
The dictionary defines “rogues’ gallery” as “a collection of pictures of persons arrested as criminals.” Which of the cabinet picks are criminals?
Well, Matt Gaetz certainly seems to be one, what with his predeliction for underage girls.
Finkelstein returned to grumble in a Nov. 20 post:
[CNN host Kasie] Hunt promptly segued into calling Trump’s nominees a “made-for-TV cast of characters,” and rolled video clips of a number of them (some of them quite dated) making unusual, shall we say, statements! She also quoted liberal Rep. Jim Himes (D-Conn.) quipping “we’re becoming the world’s first nuclear-armed reality television show.”Hunt began the segment by saying “it’s increasingly clear it is Donald Trump’s world, and we’re just living in it.”
That’s a far cry from what you might have imagined an MSM host saying just a few weeks ago. Something along the lines: “We risk being plunged into a Trumpian hellscape in which neither we as individuals, nor the republic itself, are likely to survive!”
And, of course, Rich Noyes served up a biased “flashback” item on the subject:
It’s been less than two weeks since former President Donald Trump vanquished Vice President Kamala Harris, setting the stage for his return to the White House in January. Yet even though their preferred candidate lost both the popular vote and the Electoral College, the liberal media are already taking swipes at Trump’s initial Cabinet picks, an early indication that the press plans to hound the new President’s every move.
And if you’re feeling a little deja vu, it’s because we saw the exact same thing eight years ago, after Trump beat Hillary Clinton in 2016. As NewsBusters carefully documented at the time, liberal reporters and commentators savaged Trump’s first group of appointees as “radical” and “racist” “ignoramuses” who “disdain the missions of their assigned agencies.”
Noyes didn’t dispute the accuracy of any of those assessments. Instead, he made sure to stay on his assigned message: ” It suggests we’re in for another four years of hyper-drama, with the media elite once again engaged in daily fistfights with a White House aiming to bust up the old establishment’s grip on power.”