The Media Research Center just loves to portray the media as “censoring” a given pet conservative cause, so you’d think they’d oppose any form of censorship. Not so.
In a Nov. 20 tweet, CNSNews.com reporter Penny Starr demanded that an activist with whom she disagreed be prohibited from expressing his views: “This anti-Christian man should not be a witness at Congressional hearings. Why should he be given credibility?”
Starr is referring to Michael Weinstein, head of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, which opposes religious extremism in the military.
Starr is so committed to shutting Weinstein up that she devoted an entire Nov. 20 CNS article to repeating Republican Rep. Randy Forbes’ ad hominem attacks on Weinstein simply for showing up to testify at a congressional hearing on religious freedom in the military.
Starr is so determined to bash Weinstein that she never explains why the hearing was held in the first place.
Apparently, at the MRC freedom of speech is granted only when the MRC agrees with that speech.