We found a few more things that the Media Research Center complained about regarding the Iowa caucuses. Nicholas Fondacaro spent a Jan. 15 post whining that Iowa was called irrelevant and that right-wing narratives weren’t advanced:
Hours before the doors to the Iowa Caucus closed for their proceedings on Monday, ABC’s World News Tonight teamed up with the Biden White House to write off any results to come and to paint any eventual GOP nominee as equally terrible as any other. It was a sign that ABC was itching to just move past the Republican nomination process, so they could focus on helping with the Democratic general election message.
“Tonight, the White House with an eye on Iowa. Vice President Kamala Harris telling me they are ready to take on whomever emerges the winner,” chief White House correspondent and President Biden’s chief apple polisher Mary Bruce boasted.
[…]Of course, at no point did Bruce press Harris on her unpopularity, Biden’s sagging head-to-head poll numbers against every major GOP candidate (Trump, former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley, and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis), nor the Democratic Party’s discontent with Biden heading their ticket.
Fondacaro isn’t going to mention that he and his fellow MRC co-workers are among Donald Trump’s chief apple-polishers.
Tim Graham tried to serve up isolated, cherry-picked examples to insist that the right-wing narrative of rampant Christian persecution in the U.S. has been debunked, as claimed by a Washington Post writer reporting from Iowa:
Several Washington Post stories reported from Iowa this week by staff writer Meryl Kornfield displayed an interesting double standard in proof. Republican concerns have been “debunked” that Christians have been persecuted like never before, but Republicans say “without evidence, that transgender people are a threat to children or have a mental health disorder.”
The first was a story on Christian Republicans headlined ‘Ordained by God’: Trump’s legal problems galvanize Iowa evangelicals.
Kornfield and several other reporters linked to a New York Times fact-check we challenged on Christian persecution, which means both papers ignored (as usual) the frightening FBI raid on pro-life Catholic Mark Houck’s home with his children at home, and the FBI field office in Richmond targeting traditional Catholics:
[…]Religious freedom has won some court victories, but that’s separate from what the Biden administration and blue states are doing.
When baseless right-wing attacks on transgender people was pointed out, Graham desperately resorted to justifying them by citing a hypothetical: “Couldn’t someone believe that some transgender people could be a threat to children?” Well, the MRC’s agenda is to make people believe that all transgender people are indisputably a threat to children — something it has never justified with evidence.
After the New Hampshire caucuses (non-right-wing coverage of which the MRC also complained about), Geoffrey Dickens wrote a Jan. 27 wrap-up post summarizing the MRC’s whining about coverage of the primaries:
Donald Trump’s big victories in Iowa and New Hampshire sucked a lot of the suspense and drama out of those contests.
However those wins did give leftist media hacks a chance to insult Trump-supporting voters in Iowa and New Hampshire as fans of a racist who likes to “break the law and rape women.”
The departure of Ron DeSantis from the race gave leftist journalists one final opportunity to take swipes at the Florida Governor as a “spectacular failure” who deserved to lose because he “targeted” women, blacks and LGBTQ+ Americans.
Meanwhile, the liberal ladies of ABC’s The View called Senator Tim Scott’s endorsement of the “Grand Wizard” Trump, “cringe-worthy.”
Dickens, of course, had nothing bad whatsoever to say about Fox News’ coverage of the primaries — a reminder that the MRC is a partisan political organization that has nothing at all to do with “media research.”