Slavishly toeing the conservative line, the Media Research Center has embraced the erroneous idea that Social Security is a Ponzi scheme — so much so that it lashes out anyone who proves…
Tag: Clay Waters
MRC Has Trouble Admitting Conservative Website Broke Bachmann Story
The story of Michele Bachmann’s migraines has been the sensation of the week in the political world, but the Media Research Center has had trouble dealing with one inconvenient fact: The story…
Flashback: When The MRC Whitewashed News of the World Scandal
Over the past week, the Media Research Center has been utterly silent about the planet’s biggest journalism scandal: the widespread phone-hacking conducted by the British newspaper News of the World, a scandal…
MRC Loves Conservatives’ Insults Hurled At NY Times Editor
In a July 6 MRC TimesWatch post, Clay Waters reveled in the insults heaped upon New York Times editor Bill Keller in a recent letters section, touting how “The latest edition of…
MRC Unhappy That NY Times Reported The Truth
Clay Waters uses a May 23 MRC TimesWatch post to complain that the New York Times “did its best to paint Israel’s conservative, pro-security prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu as being disingenuous and…
Waters’ Slobbering Review of Anti-NY Times Book
In a Feb. 11 MRC TimesWatch post, Clay Waters serves up a laughably fawning review of William McGowan’s anti-New York Times book, “Gray Lady Down.” Waters hyperbolically calls it “a carefully researched…
Clay Waters Doesn’t Know What Amnesty Means
Clay Waters asserts in a Feb. 9 MRC TimesWatch item that the New York Times is on an “Amnesty-for-Illegals Hobby Horse,” claiming that the DREAM Act “would have granted amnesty to hundreds…
MRC’s Double Standard on Moral Equivalency
In a Jan. 7 TimesWatch item, Clay Waters asserted that a New York Times reporter “betrayed a moral equivalence” in a story on on the bombing of a Christian church in Egypt…
MRC Tries, Fails to Conflate Non-Equivalent Remarks
A report that an unidentified Democratic member of Congress saying “f— the president” has the Media Research Center all a-titter and determined to make false comparisons that even they admit are stretching…
MRC Offended That NY Times Published Criticism of Geller
An Oct. 11 MRC TimesWatch post by Clay Waters critiques the New York Times’ profile of anti-Islam blogger (and former Newsmax columnist) Pam Geller by complaining that the article quoted a former…