After fishing around for ways to attack Tim Walz, the Media Research Center — and the larger right-wing pro-Trump oppo research apparatus the MRC is a part of — finally landed on…
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MRC (Mostly) Tries To Distance Trump From Project 2025
As July continued, the Media Research Center continued to be in defend-and-deflect mode over the Heritage Foundation’s right-wing Project 2025 blueprint for Republican power in the wake of Donald Trump himself triying…
MRC Weirds Out Over People Calling Republicans Weird
In his July 29 podcast, Tim Graham was dismissive of Kamala Harris calling Republicans “weird,” largely because he had to handwave a more concerning statement by Donald Trump: On Monday morning, NBC’s…
MRC Continued Its Defense Of Project 2025 (And The Right-Wing Group That Devised It)
The Media Research Center was in the middle of trying to defend the Heritage Foundation’s right-wing Project 2025 blueprint for a second Trump presidential term when it had to spend some time…
MRC Writer Clung To Mysterious ‘Gender Test’ To Claim Olympic Boxer Wasn’t A Real Woman
The Media Research Center’s Alex Christy weirdly had transgender people on the brain during the Olympics. In a July 26 post, he groused that a PBS Olympics preview showed that other people…
MRC Tried To Downplay Project 2025 As It Faced More Criticism
Early this year, the Media Research Center’s Tim Graham tried to downplay the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 plan to deconstruct the federal government into a right-wing fantasy, cheering its principles even as…
MRC Rages That Harris Was Praised After Biden Withdrawal
Just as the Media Research Center was angry that nice things were said about President Biden after he withdrew from the presidential race, it was even more outraged that people said nice…
MRC Griped As Usual About Non-Right-Wing Media Coverage Of RNC
Every four years, the Media Research Center’s coverage of the Republican National Convention is dominated by complaints that non-right-wing networks don’t give the RNC the fawning Fox News treatment, and this year…
MRC Plays Up Biden ‘Bullseye’ Statement To Cynically Exploit Trump Shooting
In addition to its usual dishonest media criticism and liberal-blaming, the Media Research Center latched onto a certain word immediately after the assassination attempt on Donald Trump: If you know your recent…
MRC Thinks Cancer Is A ‘Niche Lefty Issue,’ Discrimination Doesn’t Cause Illness
The Media Research Center’s Clay Waters spent a June 18 post complaining it was pointed out that discrimination can cause illnesses in the targets of that discrimination, calling it a “niche lefty…