Last year, the Media Research Center had a meltdown over YouTube children’s video host Ms. Rachel for 1) refusing to hate LGBT people, and 2) invoking the Bible to justify not hating them. This year, she has refused to hate Palestinian children, and the MRC is freaking out about that too. Justine Brooke Murray raged in a June 7 post:
Can you spell J-I-H-A-D?
The taxpayer subsidized “journalists” at NPR are propping up Rachel Accurso, a viral children’s “educator,” as the “modern-day” Mr. Rogers.
Except “Ms. Rachel,” his woke re-incarnation, is a sheltered middle aged woman who turned what seems to be a histrionic personality disorder into a $10 million internet grift.
[…]She’s more concerned with turning toddlers into loyal mouthpieces for Jihad, before they even know how to sing their ABCs. That makes her a perfect martyr for the legacy media.
“Ms. Rachel says she’ll keep advocating for children in Gaza, even if it means risking her career,” reads a headline published by NPR’s Boston affiliate, WBUR.
By “advocating” for children in Gaza, they really mean regurgitating anti-Jewish blood libels in a toyish baby voice, and exploiting children caught in the crossfire of war as a prop to virtue signal from behind a screen.
As if Murray is not virtue-signaling by playing the right-wing game of denying the humanity of Palestinian people — even innocent children. Murray then felt the need to play whataboutism:
“I know how deeply and equally I care for all children,” she praised herself during her interview with WBUR.
That must be why she said nothing about the infants who were burned, butchered and kidnapped during the October 7 terrorist attacks, until she made sure to weep for Hamas first.
As expected, our “objective” public media lapped up her self-adulation, without daring to question it in response.
Murray offered no evidence whatsoever that Ms. Rachel is a jihadist or that advocating for Palestinian children equals to “jihad.” Also: Is Murray saying that letting Palestinian children starve and die is just and righteous revenge sanctioned by God? If so, she has a warped view of her religion.
Clay Waters raged only slightly less viciously in an Aug. 11 post:
PBS’s Amanpour & Co. host Christiane Amanpour showed off her anti-Israel bona fides in a novel way on Thursday, inviting on to her international affairs talk show not a foreign diplomat or dignitary, but “Ms. Rachel,” a creator of educational videos for children that include a big helping of Hamas-adjacent propaganda, as tracked by the Jewish civil rights group Stop Antisemitism.
Of course, Amanpour doesn’t portray Ms. Rachel (real name Rachel Griffin Accurso) that way, but as “the kid’s entertainer and internet sensation who refuses to stay silent about the horrors raining down on Gaza’s children.” Hamas was not even mentioned.
Waters did not note that Ms. Rachel mentioned it, so it’s irrelevant. He then huffed that Ms. Rachel engaged in “emotional blackmail” by acknowledging the fact that Palestinian children are suffering — which even Waters doesn’t dispute — and when she said that “I could be there for them during a genocide,” Waters sneered, “‘Genocide’ is the word of a propagandist.” He further huffed:
Amanpour lamented the backlash Ms. Rachel had suffered, and was sad that even her occasional mention (after public pressure) of the suffering of Israeli children “doesn’t seem to satisfy the critics,” who “don’t want to see [empathy] for some children.”
The problem isn’t empathy for children, but the production of propaganda that ultimately benefits the rapist, terrorist hostage-takers of Hamas whose invasion of Israel is getting Gazan children killed in war.
Actually, it is very much a problem of empathy, and Waters clearly has none for these children, effectively suggesting that they deserve to die merely because they are under the governance of Hamas. Seems pretty sick.
Waters similarly whined in an Aug. 15 post bashing PBS again, contrasting a “a hostile profile of controversial Republican activist Laura Loomer” with “a gushfest with controversial pro-Palestinian activist and kid-vid host “Ms. Rachel”:
But another controversial ideological figure, children’s video host “Ms. Rachel,” who has a side gig on social media pushing Hamas-helping propaganda about conditions in Gaza, received a radically different welcome from the News Hour in the next segment, following up on a recent appearance on another PBS show, Amanpour & Co.
Ms. Rachel (real name Rachel Accurso) raised her rhetoric further, making not just one but two more false accusations of “genocide” against Israel, which went unchallenged by PBS journalists.
Co-host Amna Nawaz, a daughter of Pakistani immigrants, blandly noted Ms. Rachel had “been making headlines and facing scrutiny for taking a stand on her social media platforms on current events,” then segued to Ms. Rachel’s interview with co-host Geoff Bennett, who flattered her with a Mister Rogers comparison, just as Amanpour had.
Waters didn’t dispute the accuracy of anything said about Loomer; by contrast, he whined that Ms. Rachel “said the quiet part out loud – that her PBS appearance was a political move” because she told her son that “I’m going on PBS News Hour to try and help the kids in Gaza get food.” When did wanting to feed starving children become a “political move”?
Waters repeated his attack in an Oct. 8 post complaining about “left-wing” guests on PBS, ranting that Ms. Rachel “has a side gig pushing Hamas-helping propaganda about conditions in Gaza on social media. News Hour co-anchor Geoff Bennett flattered her with a Mister Rogers comparison.” Again, Waters did not disprove the accuracy of anything Ms. Rachel said.