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.
MRC senior research analyst Bill D'Agostino and our evening and Sunday news analyst Jorge Bonilla joined the show to discuss giving a platform to our enemies and other issues.
Last May, the Meet the Press host asked President Trump: “People who have lived in countries like the Philippines, Hungary, Russia, they look at some of your actions, going after civil service, going after universities, law firms, the media. They say it’s out of an authoritarian playbook. What do you say to those who believe you are taking the country down an authoritarian path?”
In November, Welker felt it was important to nudge Zohran Mamdani to call Trump a fascist: “So, Mr. Mayor-Elect, just to be very clear, do you think that President Trump is a fascist?” That’s Mamdani, the guy who thinks Israel commits "genocide," but Hamas terrorists did not.
On January 25, Welker harshly grilled Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche about the shooting of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis: “But let me ask, just big picture, Mr. Blanche, is the death of U.S. citizens a price the Trump administration is willing to pay to carry out its immigration policies?”
But bring on the Iranian foreign minister, and the host can only offer Hostess Cupcake questions. She can't even ask "How many thousands of protesters has your government killed in recent weeks"? That might make him look authoritarian.
We also discuss CNN getting into Iran and performing with "government permission," MS NOW's bizarre comparisons of our military action with 9/11 and the Nazis (or we're worse than the Nazis), and The New York Times doing damage control for Mayor Zohran Mamdani's wife, who put "Likes" on a bunch of social-media posts celebrating the massacre of Jews (and dogs) on October 7.
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