The Media Research Center takes its unquestioning defense of Ben Carson’s biography — and its hatred of anyone who dares to question it — to a ludicrous extent in a Nov. 6 post by Curtis Houck, whose headline screams that CNN’s Alisyn Camerota engaged in a “verbal assault” on Carson. No, really:
What evidence does Houck have that Camerota engaged in a “verbal assault” on Carson? Not much; he asserts, but doesn’t prove, that it was “an extremely tense and combative interview,” and he calls Camerota a “liberal anchor” and a “liberal co-host,” as if the simple act of questioning a Republican while on a network that isn’t Fox News automatically makes one “liberal.” Houck also complained that Camerota played a Carson video clip “from the far-left site Mother Jones,” but doesn’t deny that Mother Jones got the clip correct.
Houck also gives Carson’s crack to Camerota that “I can’t believe used to work on Fox” a pass, even though it’s probably more of a “verbal assault” than anything Camerota said, as well as an indicator of the kind of softball treatment he’s used to from conservative Fox News.
We somehow doubt Houck — or anyone else at the MRC — was concerned about any bias Camerota expressed while a Fox News employee.