I am reminded of Bibi again.
Faced with this sort of media whining, he addressed a hall full of his supporters once, and said: "And do you know why the media, and the leftists, say these things? Because they afraid of us!" At the time, he whipped the Likud up into a frenzy and thousands of people turned up to vote because they saw him on TV and smelled delicious, delicious fear o the other side of the aisle.
This is occurring here, I think.