The Media Research Center’s long, long crusade to boost Pete Hegseth’s nomination as secretary of state continued in a Jan. 17 post by Curtis Houck: Washington Post economics columnist Catherine Rampell lashed out…
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Don’t Trust Your Eyes: MRC Insists That You Didn’t See Elon Musk Do A Nazi Salute
On top of being Trump Regime Media, it looks like we can call the Media Research Center Musk Regime Media as well. After Elon Musk performed a salute that was indistinguishable from…
MRC Continued Partisan Blame Game Over Calif. Wildfires
The Media Research Center continued to play the partisan blame game for the California wildfires. Erick Erickson made sure to blame people who weren’t white or straight for it in his Jan….
MRC’s Incredibly Lame List Of ‘Egregious Fact Checks’ Didn’t Prove Any Of Them Wrong
The Media Research Center has long hated fact-checkers because they demonstrate how little right-wingers care about facts. So it’s not a surprise that one of the entries on the MRC’s space-filling year-end…
MRC Rushed To Blame Liberals For Calif. Wildfires
Given how much the Media Research Center loves to blame liberals for every disaster that strikes the country and exploit them for right-wing gain (i.e., the death of Laken Riley), it’s somewhat…
MRC Went On Defense Blitz After Hegseth’s Confirmation Hearing
As Pete Hegseth’s nomination for secretary of defense remained in the balance, the Media Research Center’s Trump Regime Media marching orders to drag him across the finish line kept it busy. As…
At The MRC, A Tale Of Two New Year’s Day Attacks
The Media Research Center surprisingly didn’t do much to exploit the New Orleans terror attack — perhaps because it happened on New Year’s Day and it didn’t want to be bothered too…
MRC Continued To Rage That People Said Nice Things About Jimmy Carter After His Death
The Media Research Center’s longstanding grudge against Jimmy Carter for, well, existing exploded upon his death, driven by anger that people committed the offense of saying nice things about him. The hatefest…
MRC Cheers ABC’s Capitulation To Trump In Lawsuit
Last year, the Media Research Center heavily hyped the right-wing narrative that ABC’s George Stephanopoulos was “rape-shaming” Republican Rep. Nancy Mace for doggedly supporting the presidential campaign of Donald Trump — who…
The MRC’s War On PolitiFact, 2024 Edition
The Media Research Center’s war on facts continued during the 2024 presidential election, and one of its favorite targets was PolitiFact, whose analysis the MRC constantly nitpicked for deviating from approved right-wing…