A Sept. 18 Media Research Center item (and NewsBusters post) by Brent Baker goes the shoot-the-messenger route in its continued protection of Republican Delaware Senate candidate Christine O’Donnell. In it, Baker dismisses Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington — which has called for an investigation of O’Donnell for alleged “chronic abuse of campaign funds” — as an “obviously liberal outfit” and “a left-wing organization staffed by veterans of Democratic congressional offices.” Baker went on to huff that CREW’s “Crooked Candidates 2010” list “features nine Republicans and just three Democrats, which suggests they are cover for the group’s real agenda.”
At no point does Baker make any effort to counter the charges CREW makes. This suggests once again that the MRC — contrary to its demand for the media to “tell the truth” — is much more interested in intimidating people from telling the truth when that truth is unfavorable to conservative candidates like O’Donnell.