The Media Research Center, it seems, still can’t stop lapsing back to flip-flopping over Donald Trump’s coverage in the media, which it did for much of the primary season before mostly getting in line after Trump won the Republican presidential nomination.
A July 13 post by Sam Dorman — who has apparently parlayed his baiting of Nancy Pelosi into responding to a gotcha question while an MRC intern into a full-time gig there — recounts how a NBC producer says that prior to running for president “Trump campaigned years beforehand on the network,” even dinging usual right-wing fave Jay Leno for calling Trump “the next president of the United States” in 1999.
Five days later, a July 18 post by Sarah Stites went the opposite way, complaining that how in Hollywood “movers and shakers have taken to movies, shows and music to revile Donald Trump in whatever way possible,” noting that “more than 20 TV shows have targeted him.”
This means in the space of five days, the MRC has changed from criticizing the media for building up Trump to criticizing the media for bashing him. So much for consistency in messaging.