NewsBusters associate editor Noel Sheppard is a fine–tuned machine of hypocrisy.
The latest example comes in a Jan. 18 NewsBusters post approvingly quoting Rush Limbaugh’s manufactured outrage that CBS host Bob Schieffer’s comparison of “President Obama taking on the gun lobby to America defeating the Nazis in World War II” isn’t the target of more outrage.
Of course, Schieffer didn’t actually do that — as the MRC itself transcribed it, Schieffer said a long list of things, including “defeating the Nazis,” were “a much more formidable task than taking on the gun lobby.”
But why quibble with facts when Sheppard has a political enemy to attack? He called Schieffer’s statement an “absurd tirade.” Well, Sheppard does know from absurd tirades, having defended the honor of Richard Nixon just a couple of weeks ago.
As far as media outrage of absurd tirades go: Where was Sheppard when his boss, Brent Bozell, called President Obama a “skinny ghetto crackhead“? To our knowledge, Sheppard is not on the record denouncing this vicious insult, even as he decries the lack of civility in political discourse.
Does the Media Research Center keep Sheppard employed despite regularly exhibiting such utterly blatant double standards, or because of them?