The Media Research Center’s campaign of hate against New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani continued in a Nov. 4 post by intern Isaac White:
On Election Day, MSNBC’s Morning Joe spent over 17 minutes of airtime with the Democratic Nominee for New York City mayor, Zohran Mamdani, and even gave him 30 uninterrupted seconds towards the end to make his case to voters. The puff-piece interview came across like a last-minute attempt to make sure he got across the finish line instead of a legitimate inquiry into his positions.
Mamdani was asked “real” questions about his policy proposals and campaign promises, but most were soft-ball toss-ups. Where Mamdani may have looked weak or like he failed to answer the question, the co-hosts gave him backup. Only once was he slightly pushed on a topic, only to back down when Mamdani signaled displeasure at the question.
Co-host Joe Scarborough first joked about the nominee being tagged as a “communist.” But instead of asking Mamdani any probing question that would reveal his true colors, Scarborough gave him ample space to define his leanings on his own terms[.]
White failed to explain why Mamdani should not been allowed to define such words on his own terms.
The day after Mamdani won his election, Curtis Houck whined that he and other winning Democratic candidates were given a chance to speak:
On Wednesday, ABC’s Good Morning America was ebullient over the blue wave Tuesday night in four blue states (California, New Jersey, New York, and Virginia) and predictably making long-reaching proclamations about 2026 as nationwide blue tsunami against President Trump and the GOP, including supposed popularity of democratic socialism.
As part of their morning-after celebrations, the show interviewed communist New York City Mayor-Elect Zohran Mamdani and Governor-Elects Mikie Sherrill (NJ) and Abigail Spanberger (VA).
Mamdani was greeted as a conquering hero by co-host and former Clinton official George Stephanopoulos, in contrast to how he’s spoken this fall to two leading Republicans, Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) and Secretary of State Marco Rubio:
[…]The closest Stephanopoulos came to firing adversarial questions at Mamdani was a simple wonderment of whether he’s “worried that could drive a lot of job creators of New York” and if the “kind of tax increase” he’s hoping for to fund his agenda will have the support of the state government.
The Trump-hating ABC host shifted to President Trump, asking Mamdani “how do you respond to” Republicans “trying to make you the poster boy of the Democratic Party” and Speaker Johnson “call[ing] you a true extremist and Marxist.”
[…]Given Mamdani’s hatred for the wealthy, Mamdani tried to grin and bear in stating he “appreciated his — his words,” but argued the onus should be on those like [billionaire Bill] Ackman to come to his side on white reissues of “lowering the costs of living in this city.”
White returned to grouse in his own Nov. 5 post:
During post-election coverage on Tuesday night, CNN contributors Van Jones and Scott Jennings didn’t seem particularly happy with mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani’s (D) angry victory speech. They found it a significant tone-shift from his campaign and believed it would only further divide New Yorkers and the “large tent” Democratic Party.
[…]Republican Scott Jennings, who was less surprised by Mamdani’s real sympathies, pointed out the obvious Marxism that loomed over the Big Apple:
[…]He believed the message was both a warning and a rallying cry, saying it “… was a divisive speech, and he clearly sees the world in terms of the people who are oppressing you and the oppressed. And he said, ‘The oppressed are now in City Hall.’”
And Democrats didn’t beat the TDS allegations during the off-year election cycle: “This guy did not sound like a mayor. […] Half the speech was talking to Donald Trump.”
White failed to disclose the Trump threatened to cut off funding for New York City if Mamdani was elected, which might explain why Mamdani felt the need to address the president directly. White also engaged in labeling bias, benignly calling Jennings a “Republian” but baselessly insisting that Jones is “left-wing.” He concluded by huffingL “Well, that’s New York’s new era. Far-far-left populism has demanded everything be free, and that which wasn’t earned can only be taken by force.”
Comedy cop Alex Christy used a Nov. 6 post to complain that late-night hosts were bashing Mamdani the way right-wing activists him were:
While all the late night hosts rejoiced on their Wednesday shows over Democrats’ Tuesday election victories, the eponymous hosts of ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live, CBS’s The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, and NBC’s Late Night with Seth Meyers were especially eager to promote socialist Zohran Mamdani’s New York City mayoral victory.
Colbert began his ode to Mamdani by hyping the defeat of his billionaire critics, “If you’ve been following the election, the billionaires had the knives out for Zohran, pumping massive amounts of cash into anti-Mamdani groups. I’m talking big-roll high rollers like cosmetics heir Ron Lauder, who donated $2.16 million to stop him; hedge fund investor Bill Ackman, who donated $1.75 million against them; and co-founder of Airbnb Joe Gebbia, who donated $2 million to defeat Mamdani. So it’s a bad day for billionaires or, as it’s also known, still a pretty good day. They’re still billionaires. Things don’t really go bad for them.”
Well, not all billionaires.
Christy linked to a July post by Soros-hater extraordinaire Joseph Vazquez whining that “the political machine of America’s most notorious billionaire,” George Soros, was backing Mamdani. It was not explained how a single man outweighed all those deep-pocketed anti-Mamdani folks.