The Media Research Center remained in Trump Regime Media mode in cheerleading for President Trump’s bombing of Iran:
- MS NUTS: Trump’s ‘Blase Attitude’ on War Dead, Biden’s ‘More MAGA Than Trump’
- Psychic Scarborough Predicts Iran War ‘Disaster’—Analysis, or Wishful Thinking?
- CNN Pushes Trump to Negotiate with Powerless Iranian President
- Colbert: Iran’s Response To Unconditional Surrender Demand Was ‘Metal as Hell’
- Morning Joe Panel Dissents After Scarborough Praises ‘Remarkable Military Success’
- Whoopi: Trump Started War With Iran to Distract from Guthrie Search
- Meyers, Wallace Claim Iran War Is ‘A Stab In The Back’ To MAGA
- O’Donnell Attacks Barron For Not Sailing Through the Strait of Hormuz
- CNN’s Cornish Stirs ‘MAGA Divide’ Over Iran War, Fans Draft Fears
The MRC also continued to lash out at non-right-wing media for telling the full story on Iran. Jorge Bonilla grumbled in a March 8 post:
Another Sunday, another softball interview for Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi. With it, more proof that the Elitist Media appear to have sided with Iran in this latest engagement within a conflict that was started by Iran 47 years ago.
[…]The interview goes downhill from there. Welker went on to ask about what terms might Iran accept in order to enter into some form of ceasefire, Iran’s aggression against neighboring countries, the disputed strike against a girls’ school located just 650 yards from an IRGC base, and Iran’s missile capabilities.
At no time did Welker seriously push Aragchi. At no time did she cut him off mid-answer or point her pen at him as she routinely does when interviewing GOP officials. It’s not unreasonable to say that Aragchi got far better treatment than Senator Lindsey Graham, a frequent Meet the Press guest.
In tone and tenor, Araghchi came in with the benefit of the doubt and with all deference. For the most part, he was allowed to speak freely. The follow-up questions were not particularly thorny, and he was never in a situation where he was pressed on anything.
Bonilla didn’t mention how often the MRC complains when Trump or any other administration official are pressed on anything.
Tim Graham joined the grumbling in his March 9 podcast, unironically making that very same complaint:
Kristen Welker’s softball Sunday interview on NBC with the Iranian foreign minister Abbas Araghchi reminded everyone again of an anti-American double standard. The liberals inside newsrooms put enormous pressure on interviewers to question Trump fiercely, while representatives of mass-murdering Islamist regimes get open-ended softballs.
Graham doesn’t explain why Trump should only get softball questions.
Steve Malzberg contributed to the right-wing narrative in a March 11 post:
TDS, or Trump Derangement Syndrome, where one’s hatred for President Trump inhibits one’s ability to think fairly and logically, where every move Donald Trump makes, everything he does, is viewed by the TDS sufferer as evil, has seemingly overwhelmed the liberal media’s coverage of Trump dating back to his first run for the presidency. We shouldn’t be surprised that it has manifested itself stronger than ever in their coverage of the war with Iran, something Fox News’s Laura Ingraham pointed out Tuesday night on The Ingraham Angle
Ingraham, focused her attention on the war coverage of CNN and The New York Times, labeling them The Ayatollah’s Besties, and began by pointing out, “The drumbeat from the U.S. Press corps since Operation Epic Fury began has been relentlessly pessimistic, that despite America’s superior fire power, Iran is grinding down the American military. She then read from an X post from Democrat Strategist Mark Penn.
[…]And Ingraham finished with this likely accurate analysis, “And they wonder why their audience and readership is evaporating.”
Because right-wingers like Malzberg distort and lie about what’s actually happening for partisan purposes?