Conservative Washington Post blogger Jennifer Rubin has regularly been a target of the Media Research Center’s Heathering — its campaign of attacking conservatives it deems insufficiently loyal to right-wing orthodoxy. For example,…
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MRC Goes WND-Style Birther on Hillary’s Health, Thanks to Jeffrey Lord
Two recent trends — the Media Research Center’s embrace of WorldNetDaily-style far-right sensationalism and WND’s obsession with maliciously portraying Hillary Clinton as suffering from myriad health issues as “diagnosed” by right-wing doctors…
The MRC’s Jeffrey Lord Problem
Since April 2014, the American Spectator’s Jeffrey Lord has been a contributing writer to the Media Research Center’s NewsBusters blog, which has resulted in a lot of nonsense and misinformation being contributed…
Jeffrey Lord Flunks School on Cause of 2008 Financial Crisis
The Media Research Center’s Nicholas Fondacaro channels the ghost of Noel Sheppard in a May 25 post headlined “Jeffrey Lord Schools Former Philly Mayor on Origin of Housing Collapse”: NewsBusters contributor Jeffrey…
History Doesn’t Matter To The MRC’s Jeffrey Lord
We’ve documented how Ben Carson is completely wrong about the idea that gun control laws enabled the Nazis and the Holocaust — turns out that unless you were a Jew or another…
NewsBusters Writer Bashes ‘Liberal Media Narrative’ With False Conservative Media Narrative
Jeffrey Lord — who thinks it’s a “legitimate conservative” tactic to smear people as Nazis — spends his Sept. 12 NewsBusters column complaining about the purportedly dishonesty-laden “Liberal Media Narrative.” He explains:…
NewsBusters Blogger, Newly Hired CNN Commentator Goes Godwin
Jeffrey Lord spent his Aug. 8 NewsBusters post bragging about how CNN just hired him as an analyst and that is happy to promote his “legitimate conservative” views on the network. Apparently,…
How The MRC Defends Trump’s Smears of Mexicans
From the beginning, the Media Research Center has worked to downplay Donald Trump’s smears of Mexican immigrants. In a June 18 NewsBusters post, Ken Oliver-Mendez spun hard by insisting that Trump’s characterization…
MRC Denied Pro-Life Link To Tiller Murder, Blames Sharpton for NYC Police Deaths
Whenever anyone in the media sought to link the murder of abortion doctor George Tiller to the anti-abortion movement — a link that’s not unreasonable to make, given killer Scott Roeder’s ties…
The MRC’s War On (And Jealousy Of) Jon Stewart
The Media Research Center has been focusing its ire on “Daily Show” host Jon Stewart in recent days. MRC officials Brent Bozell and Tim Graham devoted their Nov. 21 column to bashing…