An Oct. 12 NewsBusters post by Tom Blumer asserts that a Chicago Tribune article “demonstrates that for all these years a large plurality, if not a majority, of Democrats who hold the levers of power … really haven’t had a problem welcoming [William] Ayers, [Bernardine] Dohrn, and their unrepentant views of their violent pasts.”
What Blumer doesn’t mention: His NewsBusters publisher has no problem welcoming its own unrepentant terrorist and convicted felon into the mainstream.
G. Gordon Liddy was a featured “accepter” at the Media Research Center’s 2008 Gala. As we’ve detailed, Liddy is the unrepentant Watergate felon who plotted to kill numerous people and plotted to bomb a liberal-leaning think tank. Liddy appeared in 2007 as well, in which he “accepted” an award for Katie Couric. An April 2005 CyberAlert reprinted a Washington Times article noting that Liddy was among the guests that “roared at the assembled clips and commentary” during the 2005 awards gala.
Liddy also served as a judge for the MRC’s year-end Notable Quotables awards in 1992, 1995 and 1997.
The MRC further sought to whitewash Liddy’s 1994 statement on his radio show that “if the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms comes to disarm you and they are bearing arms, resist them with arms. Go for a head shot; they’re going to be wearing bulletproof vests” by insisting in a November 1995 MediaWatch that “Liddy meant shooting in self-defense.”
The MRC and its writers and bloggers might want to keep their employer’s unwavering, uncritical support of Liddy in mind the next time they want to distort Obama’s relationship with Ayers.