The Media Research Center has never thought that its “Tell the Truth!” campaign should apply to fact-checks of conservatives, and it’s proven that yet again.
Clay Waters complains in a Sept. 7 MRC TimesWatch item that the New York Times “devoted a full story to probing” Paul Ryan’s “claim to have run a super-fast marathon,” dismissing it as a “silly athletic-related controversy” and “partisan-slanted ‘fact-checking.'” In Waters’ mind, it seems, only “partisan” fact-checkers hold conservatives accountable.
Noel Sheppard brought his hackishness to the issue in a Sept. 9 NewsBusters post, declaring that the marathon in question happened “22 years ago,” huffily adding: “Our nation is struggling with stubbornly high unemployment and spiraling budget deficits that threaten our very existence, and O’Donnell spent time quizzing the Republican vice presidential nominee about his marathon time when he was in college.”