It’s kinda cute how the boys at the Media Research Center are getting so annoyed by reports that South Carolina Republican gubernatorial candidate Nikki Haley had an affair. Tim Graham whined that…
Tag: Clay Waters
MRC Blinded By ‘Name That Party’
We’ve previously noted the Media Research Center’s enthusiasm for playing “Name That Party” with the media even when it violates those same rules. The MRC’s Clay Waters reminds us just how anal…
MRC Suddenly Unconcerned About Journalists at Partisan Political Events
In a Oct. 30 MRC TimesWatch item (and Nov. 1 NewsBusters post), Clay Waters defends John Stossel’s speaking at an upcoming “tea party” event in Arkansas because … a New York Times…
Meanwhile…
Media Matters’ Simon Maloy catches Clay Waters making the claim, in a July 27 NewsBusters post and TimesWatch item, that the New York Times had dismissed the birthers as conspiracy theorists, but…
Waters Distorts, Omits Facts on Obama Fundraising
In an Oct. 31 MRC TimesWatch item (and NewsBusters post), Clay Waters referenced “Barack Obama’s sleazy online fundraising, where thanks to purposely lax security measures his site is able to receive untraceable…
CPI Bashed As ‘Left-Wing,’ But …
The Media Research Center has declared war against the Center for Public Integrity over its report stating that the Bush administration made hundreds of false statements regarding Iraq: Which begs the question:…
Getting It Wrong: NY Times and Iraq Nukes
Media Research Center writers were eager to deliberately misinterpret a Nov. 3 New York Times article as claiming that Iraq was close to having a nuclear bomb at the time the Iraq…
NewsBusters’ Ginsburg Distortion
In a Jan. 31 NewsBusters post, Clay Waters peddles a favorite conservative distortion: that Ruth Bader Ginsburg was considered an unrepentant liberal at the time she was nominated for the Supreme Court….
NewsBusters Nonsense
— Lyford Beverage, in a Jan. 25 post, falls for the same fallacy that fellow NewsBuster Michael Rule did — that anything the Bush administration says is automatically true because they’re Republicans….
No Kneejerk Conservatism Here!
In a Jan. 19 NewsBusters post noting that the “ideal slate of Oscar candidates” compiled by New York Times movie critics was heavy on “Brokeback Mountain,” Clay Waters commented: “No liberal conventional…