As rumblings of impeachment of President Trump grew, the Media Research Center — being dedicated Trump loyalists — had to construct a narrative to try and save Trump. One thing it did from the start was to discount the allegations of the whistleblower as non-credible because he has chosen to remain anonymous and over the allegedly vague nature of the allegations:
- It seems every week the media spends day after day obsessing over another anonymously-sourced report that makes claims no one can back up. Thursday, journalists were in a frenzy over a Washington Post report which alleged an anonymous “whistleblower” who formerly worked for an intelligence agency, claimed President Trump had promised something “troubling” to an unnamed foreign leader, earlier this Summer. — Kristine Marsh, Sept. 19
- An anonymous intelligence official has claimed that President Trump said something to someone during a phone call that the unnamed official found troubling. That is a summation of the flimsy reporting in The Washington Post that all three network morning shows seized on Thursday morning. — Kyle Drennen, Sept. 19
- On MSNBC’s Morning Joe on Friday, left-wing regular Donny Deutsch was convinced that vague allegations of someone overhearing President Trump making controversial comments to another world leader during a private phone call would be the commander in chief’s downfall. — Kyle Drennen, Sept. 20
- Despite that there were still few facts known and a whole lot of speculation about the allegations made by the anonymous and so-called “Trump whistleblower,” ABC and NBC were more than willing to throw their weight behind the effort. — Nicholas Fondacaro, Sept. 22
- The liberal media have begun yet another round of frenzied impeachment speculation, this time in reaction to anonymously-sourced media reports about a supposed whistleblower complaint that has not been released. — Bill D’Agostino, Sept. 24
But in the midst of all of these attacks on the Trump whistleblower for being anonymous, the MRC was praising another anonymous whistleblower … who was involved in one of the MRC’s favorite narratives. Alexander Hall wrote in a Sept. 23 post:
Another anonymous Big Tech insider has come forward to take his company to task for election meddling.
Fox News contributor Sara Carter published an exclusive blog article, “Google Insider Turns Over 950 Pages Of Docs And Laptop To DOJ.” According to the whistleblower, Google “created algorithms to hide its political bias within artificial intelligence platforms … targeting particular words, phrases and contexts to promote, alter, reference or manipulate perceptions of Internet content.”
The “former Google insider,” who reportedly has already corresponded with guerrilla journalist organization Project Veritas, met with SaraACarter.com on “several occasions” in early August.
The insider has claimed that this leaked information “will provide proof that Google has been manipulating the algorithms and the evidence of how it was done.”
The MRC won’t whine about anonymous whistleblowers — as long as they are being an anonymous whistleblower for its preferred causes.
(Though we have to wonder: How soon before we discover that the whistleblower is a far-right white nationalist like other Google “whistleblowers”?)
This is just another example of the MRC’s hypocrisy over anonymous sources.