As we’ve documented, the Media Research Center’s Tim Graham is a terrible media critic because his goal is to destroy the media in the name of right-wing orthodoxy. This tendency pops up again in a Feb. 27 post ranting about his apparent nemesis, CNN “Reliable Sources” host Brian Stelter.
Stelter had as his guest New York Times executive editor Dean Baquet, and Graham complained that Stelter “counted that Trump has called the paper “the failing New York Times” in 53 tweets.” Graham, by the way, a few days later counted that “Obama referred to himself 119 times” in one speech in a laughable attempt to portray Obama, and not Donald Trump, as the real narcissist.
Most of Graham’s post, however, was largely devoted to whining that Stelter didn’t go all right-wing on Baquet and complaining that Stelter “set him up to boast that the Times has never been hotter and that President Trump hates them because he has this ‘dangerous’ tendency to hate newspapers who hold him accountable.”
Graham concluded his column with this note: “Earlier on CNN: I told Stelter the Times has ‘all the restraint of a pack of flesh-eating zombies.'” One: Graham is proud of spewing this juvenile insult? Two: Graham said this on the same episode of “Reliable Sources” in which the Daily Beast’s John Avlon exposed Graham’s obsession with promoting the right-wing anti-media narrative over any genuine concern with journalism, and the MRC will never post the full video of that.