A July 6 NewsBusters post by Aubrey Vaughan regurgitates a Dally Caller article claiming that White House director of progressive media and online response Jesse Lee is “bullying” conservatives by responding to them on Twitter. Unlike the Daily Caller, Vaughan did disclose that a target of the so-called bullying, Kevin Eder, is a former MRC employee, which would seem to run counter to Eder’s claim that he’s “quite literally…a nobody.” (The Daily Caller article was written by the Heritage Foundation’s Rob Bluey, who himself is as former MRC employee.)
Disclosure aside, Vaughan is in regurgitation mode, so no actual “bullying” is identified. As Huffington Post’s Jason Linkins points out, Lee is simply responding to comments Eder directed to him, and Eder himself is quoted as saying he enjoys the “back and forth” with Lee. Linkins adds: “No need to cut any ‘It Gets Better’ videos over this, I suppose.”
Nevertheless, Vaughan portrayed this as an example of Lee “pick[ing] fights” with conservative bloggers. Go figure.