NewsBusters Podcast: Sanitizing the Hateful Mamdani-Endorsed Radicals
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NewsBusters Podcast: Sanitizing the Hateful Mamdani-Endorsed Radicals

When radical socialist nuts endorsed by New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani won their House primaries (in overwhelmingly Democrat districts), the "news" networks responded by sanitizing their extremism. For example, their support for Hamas and for eradicating Israel means believing “the U.S. relationship with Israel needs to be rethought.”   MRC Free Speech America vice president Dan Schneider and NewsBusters contributor Steve Malzberg offered their New Yorker takes. I lost my patience listening to NPR's softball interview with Mamdani, and then a bit later, PBS News Hour had on an New York Public Radio reporter who repeated all the Mamdani talking points as shabby political analysis. Mamdani drew attention for smearing AIPAC: In the wealthiest city, in the wealthiest country in the history of the world, we need not live in fear of monsters any longer." National Review writer Jim Geraghty tweeted: "I would note that Mamdani never called Hamas 'monsters.' As far as I know, he's never called ISIS or al-Qaeda 'monsters'." Mamdani said he was employing a quote from Antonio Gramsci, a founder of the Italian Communist Party in the 1920s. "We're talking about a status quo where children are being killed on a daily basis," Mamdani said to reporters. "I'm speaking about an organization that has been supportive of the status quo, that has fought any attempt to actually deliver safety to people.” Steve pointed out The Five crew on Fox News made big fun of socialist Graham Platner saying he went to Planned Parenthood for sexually-transmitted disease testing. Jessica Tarlov proclaimed “he’s obviously not a Nazi,” despite his tattoo of a symbol used by the SS death camp guards. The View actually had a debate on Mamdani's endorsements. Alyssa Farah warned that the Democrats could become captured by extremists, so she was implying Mamdani was the anti-MAGA. She pointed out Darializa tweeted that 'Obama is evil,' 'Biden is a rapist and a war criminal,' and 'bleep Kamala Harris.' But Joy Behar was comparing socialism to fire trucks and garbage trucks.  Sunny Hostin announced: "New York is the nation's cultural and political capital and that's just a fact. And the Democratic Socialists of America is a force to be reckoned with at this point.” She was furious when Sara Haines noted Darializa Avila Chevalier went to an October 8 rally for Hamas. Then there's all our activity around the FCC and their investigation into The View. On Monday – when the Public Comment period ended at 2 pm – ABC put on a commercial with less than three hours to spare: "’The View has welcomed your favorite guests for nearly 30 years. Now the FCC wants to control who is allowed to appear on the show. Tell the FCC to let the viewers decide. You have until July 6th." It’s especially hilarious to claim the FCC “wants to control who is allowed to appear.” The whole point here is they don’t want to allow any conservatives or Republicans to appear. They like their political guests to be 100 percent Democrats and leftists. That’s what they call “Democracy.” We submitted over 2,400 examples of leftist tilt (including studies) to the FCC. Enjoy the podcast below. The audio is here.