There’s always been a streak of unprofessionalism running through the Media Research Center — remember when MRC chief Brent Bozell called President Obama a “skinny ghetto crackhead“? — most recently reveling in the personal issues of people it hates.
That snide unprofessionalism pops up again in a Jan. 3 post by the MRC’s Scott Whitlock in which he rants about the new movie “The Post” for being positive about the power of journalism. The headline on his post actually starts out with the word “Barf.”
Yep, crude insults are a surefire way to argue a point about “media bias.”
Whitlock doesn’t do much in the way of fact-checking in his post — indeed, he challenges none of the history in “The Post” movie — but does a bit of lame whataboutism in whining that “there’s no film exposing actions such as Barack Obama spying on Fox News reporter James Rosen or how the ex-president derailed a government effort to stop Hezbollah’s trafficking of cocaine. But, then, Obama is a Democrat.”
Whitlock also whined that “there are almost NO Republicans in The Post and the film is mostly a conversation between the left and the center-left.” As if it mattered what political persuasion one was during the Pentagon Papers incident, which is what “The Post” is about.
The “barf” comment, besides being unprofessional, shows just how little the MRC cares for the media, and its desire to silence any voice that does not spout pro-Trump talking points 24-7.