On Wednesday night’s The Briefing, MSNBC’s Jen Psaki had on self-proclaimed democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani, following his win in New York City’s Democratic Party mayoral primary race. Psaki used words like “joyful,” “inviting,” and “authentic” all words that downplayed Mamdani’s harmful policies and hateful rhetoric towards Jewish people.
Psaki tried to prep the interview by using selective language and false facts to make it seem like Mamdani was a popular candidate among the Jewish people of New York:
They were joyful, they were authentic and funny, and each and every one of them either explained what he would actually do as mayor, or gave voters practical information about how and where to vote. Which is incredibly important when you’re trying to turn people out who don’t always vote.
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