Media Research Center executive Tim Graham complained in his July 7 podcast:
On Sunday, ABC featured a Democrat citing an estimate from the “Yale Policy Lab” that Trump’s “big beautiful bill” would kill 100,000 people over ten years. Last week, NBC promoted a report claiming 14 million people would die from Trump’s cuts to the U.S. Agency for International Development. Reporters hinted that adorable little girls drowned in a Texas flood because of Trump’s cuts to the National Weather Service. But the media claim they are “fact-based.”
When news is breaking on a tragic natural disaster, there is great uncertainty in the first few days on how government performed in life-and-death matters. It should be a time for sensitivity, neutrality, and humility. It should not be a time where liberal journalists quickly start ginning up a conspiracy theory that DOGE-squad cuts in government may have led to little girls dying needlessly.
[…]It’s just sad that every disaster threatens to devolve into a squabble over which politicians are guilty of manslaughter. I’d at least want to wait a week or two or three for congressional hearings or something. To pounce on this, to seize on it, in the first few days, it’s just gross.
Graham didn’t mention that his writers have regularly accused others of mass murder. For instance:
- Tierin-Rose Mandelburg said of the abortion pill: “That’s not reproduction, it’s murder.”
- Al;ex Christy depicted a woman’s choice to have an abortion as “murdering her innocent child.”
- The MRC’s former “news” division, CNSNews.com, published a column by anti-abortion activist Judie Brown that started this way: “She has five children and nine grandchildren, but her real devotion is to the practice of killing babies before they are born. Who is this woman? Her name is House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, and her game is murder.”
- MRC writers used the occasion of abortion doctor George Tiller to paint him and other abortion doctors as “murderers” — but wouldn’t admit that Tiller himself was the victim of a murder or call his killer, Scott Roeder, a murderer.
MRC writers have, in effect, accused the women of America and abortion doctors — and, by extension, anyone who supports legal abortion — of mass murder. Why doesn’t Graham find that “gross”?