The Media Research Center knew exactly what it needed to do in order to deflect from questions about President Trump’s firing of FBI director James Comey: portray anyone who questioned the decision as deranged. And “unhinged” — one of the MRC’s favorite attack words — was far from the only description used.
Count the derogatory name-calling, complete with added bolding:
- “CNN’s Jeffrey Toobin Loses His Mind Over Comey Being Fired”
- “CNN political commentator David Gregory was in a visible rage over the whole ordeal.”
- “ABC and CBS on Wednesday went into full panic mode on Wednesday, seeing Donald Trump’s firing of FBI Director James Comey as a crisis comparable to Richard Nixon during the darkest days of Watergate. … Co-host Robin Roberts turned to liberal journalist Cokie Roberts to push this hyperbolic narrative[.]”
- “Melber chimed back in by wildly speculating that the President had opened himself up to ‘criminal liability'[.]”
- “The New York Times went into full apocalypse mode on Wednesday…”
- “Dilbert cartoon creator, Scott Adams, had a good laugh over Olbermann’s profanely unhinged tweet over the Comey firing.”
- The firing of FBI Director James Comey has pushed the deranged, bloodthirsty media over the edge. Rather than reporting the facts, the media rushed to breathlessly pushing Democratic talking points and conspiracy theories untethered to reason or reality.”
- “Slate may win the award for most hyperbolic reaction to the firing of FBI Director James Comey.”
- “In a hyperbolic segment for MSNBC’s Morning Joe on Wednesday, co-host Joe Scarborough went all in comparing President Trump’s firing of FBI Director James Comey to the firing of U.S. Attorneys by Richard Nixon at the height of the Watergate scandal.”
- Appearing on CNN Wednesday afternoon to participate in the network-wide meltdown over James Comey’s ouster as FBI Director, longtime liberal journalist and CNN political analyst Carl Bernstein invoked Watergate but went further, fretting that ‘this is terribly dangerous moment in American history.’ … Perhaps most unglued was former FBI official and CNN law enforcement analyst Philip Mudd…”
- “Leave it to MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow to beclown herself right out of the gate last night in describing President Trump’s firing of FBI Director James Comey.”
- “You can find countless examples of lunatic reactions to the Trump move.”
- “After initially refraining from making irresponsible comparisons between President Trump’s firing of FBI Director James Comey to the Watergate scandal, on Wednesday’s NBC Nightly News and Thursday’s Today, the network could no longer resist its liberal instincts, joining ABC and CBS in labeling Trump the new Richard Nixon.”
- Appearing as a panel member on Thursday’s New Day to discuss the firing of former FBI director James Comey, regular CNN guest Jason Johnson of The Root hyperbolically fretted that “this is how democracy dies” and worried that it was a “constitutional and a sovereignty crisis.”
- “All night on Tuesday, journalists obsessively compared Trump’s move to Richard Nixon’s “Saturday night massacre” of special prosecutor Archibald Cox during the Watergate scandal.”
- “The journalists at MSNBC’s Morning Joe on Thursday were in full freak out mode over the firing of James Comey.”
- “As the Media Research Center has documented since FBI Director James Comey’s firing on Tuesday, the liberal media have been in a rage and desperately trying to tie the firing to Russia.”
If you can’t beat ’em with the facts, start hurling insults. Right, MRC?