Tim Graham’s July 6 NewsBusters post carries the headline “Obama, Top Aide Jarrett Reflexively Bash Fox News,” touting how “President Obama drew ‘Turn Off Fox News’ headlines on the Drudge Report” and how “Drudge also highlighted that top Obama aide Valerie Jarrett blamed Fox News for the impression that’s developed that Team Obama is waging a class war on the wealthy” (an accusation, by the way, that’s entirely backed up by facts).
It’s hilarious that Graham would be looking down on “reflexive bashing,” because that’s what he and the rest of the MRC crew do all the time. So much so, in fact, that they invoke the same tropes.
For instance, a July 5 NewsBusters post by MRC researcher Matt Hadro dismisses Vanity Fair as a “liberal rag.” The same day, Graham denounced the Guardian newspaper as a “leftist U.K. rag.”
That’s the epitome of reflexive bashing. But Graham is apparently so self-unaware that he attacks others for doing exactly what he does.