MRC: Mocking Someone’s Looks Is Off Limits — Unless It’s A Liberal

When Michelle Wolf made a joke about White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders burning facts to make a “perfect smoky eye” at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, the Media Research Center did its best to make it about Sanders’ looks: Scott Whitlock, for instance, asserted that Wolf “Wolf made jokes at the expense of Sarah Sanders’s looks,” and “made jokes many saw as attacks on the physical appearance of Sarah Huckabee Sanders,” and P.J. Gladnick declared that it “sure sounds like a slam on her appearance.”

OK, so attacks on the looks of the people you’re attacking are out of bounds. So how does the MRC explain this May 27 tweet from its NewsBusters Twitter account which unambiguously mocks commentator Mark Shields as having “JOWLS A FLAPPING!”?

Must be nice to never have to live up to the standards you demand others follow.