THE RIGHT-WING POLITBURO HASN'T SETTLED ON A PARTY LINE REGARDING ERIC ADAMS, BUT IT'S CLEAR WHAT CORRECT THINKING WILL BE

The commissars who tell the Republican rank-and-file what to believe about everything don't seem quite sure what to say about the indictment of New York mayor Eric Adams. Rupert Murdoch's Fox News is going with "he's a corrupt Democrat":

"Another NY Democrat clouded in scandal. Time and again, they have proved they only care about their personal power and scoring political points, not what’s best for New York’s taxpayers. It’s time for people to send a message that they aren’t going to take it anymore," said New York Congressman Nick Langworthy.

"We can add another name to the list of high-ranking Democrats in Albany and New York City tarnished by scandal, including Governors Andrew Cuomo and Eliot Spitzer, who both resigned in disgrace," said New York GOP Chair Ed Cox. "One-party Democrat rule in New York City and New York State is not serving the best interests of our citizens, who continue to flee New York for states with lower taxes, more freedom and less corruption. It is highly likely that Mayor Adams will have to resign following the revelation of the specific charges against him."

But Murdoch's New York Post is going with a different approach:

In a statement, Adams implied exactly what's in this headline -- that the feds indicted him because he angered the Biden administration:

If I'm charged, I know I am innocent. I will request immediate trials so the New Yorkers can hear the truth. New Yorkers know my story. They know where I come from. I have been fighting injustice my entire life. That fight has continued as your mayor. Despite our pleas when the federal government did nothing as its broken immigration policies overloaded our shelter system with no relief, I put the people of New York before party and politics.

The Post approach to this story is clearly the one that's preferred by right-wing base. From the comments to a Breitbart story about the indictment:

Many understood that corruption charges, sexual harassment allegations or child porn found on his computer would be levelled against Adams when he kept saying illegals will "destroy" the city. He got rid of NYC's right to shelter which caused some illegals to move on to other US cities offering free beds. He made democrat Biden/Harris look bad and hurt their plans for NYC and thats something democrats dont forget.

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When he started tellin the truth about all the illegals and how the city couldnt handle it he was doomed. When you join up with them to get you installed you had better do what they tell you or stuff like this happens.

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He also told to the potato to not send more illegals to NYC!!

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The entire DOJ is now a political instrument. They destroy enemies of the regime. This is the same BS that Trump faces

And at Fox:

Funny how all this started after he criticized Biden for immigration policies. Is it real, or lawfare. The sad part is that the question has to be asked.

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He was "falling out of line" with Biden and Kamalas rules of survival. To many questions about border security and breaking points for NY citizens. I'm not fan of Adams, but this was a clear mow down.

Adams is an ex-Republican and has frequently consorted with Trump supporters:

Eric Adams dined this evening at Rao’s with John Catsimatidis and Bo Dietl pic.twitter.com/bV0LPiPQc5

— David Freedlander (@freedlander) July 9, 2021

That's not why he's been indicted, but it's why I'm not surprised that he's feeding the Murdoch media a storyline. (Catsimatidis is a billionaire Trump donor, though he's also given to Democrats, and Dietl is a former New York City police detective and former Fox on-air personality who says he was once hired by Fox to spy on women who said they'd been victims of sexual harassment at the channel.)

At this point, I assume the Murdoch press and the rest of the right-wing media will drop the corrupt-Democrat approach to this story and go all in on the narrative that Eric Adams is being persecuted by the Democratic Deep State. And, like Chris Hayes, I also assume that Adams will successfully appeal his likely guilty verdict:

The Supreme Court will be Republican even if Kamala Harris wins. Adams is corrupt and can't win on the merits, so he might as well lay the groundwork for a successful appeal to the Court's ideologues by positioning himself as an enemy of Democrats.