The Media Research Center went ballistic on Brian Williams’ exaggerations — not because it cares about journalistic integrity so much, but because it saw an opportunity to further the personal destruction of a despised target.
But now that questions have been raised about beloved conservative-leaning personality Bill O’Reilly’s exaggerations about being in a war zone during the Falklands conflict, what do we hear from the MRC now?
Crickets, essentially.
The story has been out for a good three days now, and the the only thing to appear on any MRC outlet about O’Reilly is a Feb. 20 NewsBusters post by Matthew Balan promoting former CNN newsman Frank Sesno’s claim that O’Reilly’s exaggerations aren’t as severe as Williams’.
Well, right-wing liars have to stick together — after all, MRC chief Brent Bozell spent 15 years lying that he wrote his syndicated column.