The Media Research Center continued its nastiness against Scott MacFarlane in a Sept. 14 post by Jorge Bonilla:
The left have been furiously spinning narrative in the wake of the horrific assassination of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk. Much of this spin is dedicated to the negation of a transgender motive behind the shooting. In service of that narrative, CBS’s Scott MacFarlane completely misrepresented statements by Utah Governor Spencer Cox.
[…]Sounds definitive. But that’s not at all what Gov. Cox said on any of his Sunday show interviews on CNN, ABC and NBC. The most extensive exchange was on CNN, where State of the Union host Dana Bash grilled Cox as if he were an unindicted coconspirator in the shooting:
[…]There is nothing in Cox’s responses to Bash’s badgering that is consistent with an admission that transgenderism is not relevant to motive, as reported by MacFarlane. If anything, Cox was intent in protecting the integrity of the investigation, ahead of Tuesday’s filing of formal charging documents.
[…]Nowhere where motive was discussed across the Sunday dial did Cox rule out transgenderism as a motive. In fact, Cox repeatedly hinted that more was coming down the pike when formal charges are filed on Tuesday.
But Scottie Mac needed to keep the narrative alive, at least for another day or two. To that end, the truth seems secondary. Perhaps irrelevant, in the face of a story that is increasingly uncomfortable for the legacy media to cover.
Tim Graham similarly groused on his podcast the next day:
The liberal hosts also wanted to dismiss the notion that the shooter was inspired by a transgender roommate. They don’t want their side of the debate to be blamed for this assassination. On Face The Nation, CBS’s Scott MacFarlane completely misrepresented statements by Utah Governor Spencer Cox, who was trying not to get ahead of the official investigation.
Curtis Houck got mad that MacFarlane repeated claims linking President Trump to Jeffrey Epstein in a Dec. 22 post:
Justice correspondent Scott MacFarlane gleefully shared on the December 12 Evening News that the “nearly 100 newly released photos from” Epstein’s estate by Democrats showed him “side-by-side with Donald Trump and another with Trump flanked by a group of women.”
In the case of MacFarlane and the others from that dump, the networks held up a photo of Trump and six woman with their faces blacked out and accepted Democrats’ explanation it was done to protect their identities.
Houck went on to huff: “If they were interested in transparency instead of implicating Trump in unspeakable crimes, they would have told viewers the six women were overage and models appearing at Mar-a-Lago to promote Hawaiian Tropic, a brand of sunscreen.”
Houck returned in a Jan. 23 post to whine that MacFarlane said nice things about former special counsel Jack Smith:
CBS’s Scott MacFarlane — who eats, sleeps, and breathes anything January 6 — was on the case for Thursday’s CBS Evening News:
[…]“With four police officers who helped stop the attack in the front row, Smith and Democrats blasted what they call a whitewashing of history by Trump and Republicans,” MacFarlane gushed.
And, on Smith’s mass seizure of years worth of Republican phone records under the guise of wanting to find communications about challenging the 2020 election results, MacFarlane leapt to his defense:
[…]MacFarlane returned for Friday’s CBS Mornings with a nearly identical piece except for the part about the White House website on January 6, thus leaving zero doubt he included it as a jab at Dokoupil (or was given the clear to appease the liberal media meltdowns about how the newscast handled the anniversary).
Houck offered no evidence that MacFarlane is particularly obsessed with the Capitol riot, let alone explain why that’s apparently a bad thing.
Bonilla spent a Feb. 24 post whining that MacFarlane made a big deal out of FB I director Kash Patel drinking enthusiastically with the U.S. Olympic hockey team:
CBS’s Scott MacFarlane followed a similar track: Kash pounded beers with the hockey team, Kash flew the G5, Kash will reimburse personal expenses. Wash, rinse, repeat. Scottie Mac tried to stick in a Wray whataboutism, though:
bonilla didn’t explain why he dismisses MacFarlane as “Scotty Mac.”