NewsBusters has a strange habit of being the embodiment of Stephen Colbert’s declaration that reality has a well-known liberal bias. Mark Finkelstein plays into that again in an Oct. 10 NewsBusters post…
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NewsBusters’ Double Standard on ‘Drive-By’ Rhetoric
In an Oct. 2 NewsBusters post, Mark Finkelstein is verklempt that former car czar Steve Rattner claimed that Ron Suskind’s book critical of the Obama administration “amounts to a drive-by shooting of…
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…
MRC Seems Fine With Calling Obama A Dick (But Can’t Spell It Out)
Writers for the Media Research Center has said a lot of things about Mark Halperin calling President Obama “kind of a dick” on the June 30 edition of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.” None…
NewsBusters Unhappy People Are Saying Nice Things About Obama
At the Media Research Center, saying something nice about President Obama is the same thing as being liberally biased — even when it involves the death of Osama bin Laden. So the…
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CNSNews.com wasn’t the only Media Research Center division more interested in making political attacks on President Obama instead of honoring the victims of the Tuscon massacre. A Jan. 12 NewsBusters post by…
NewsBusters Ratchets Up Heathering of Palin Critics
Mark Finkelstein is emerging as the chief Heatherer of any conservative who commits the offense of criticizing Sarah Palin. On Nov. 30, Finkelstein took offense to Joe Scarborough’s “astonishing” claim that “all”…
NewsBusters Busted By Fellow Right-Winger
You know you’ve screwed up when your fellow ideologues feel moved to correct you. NewsBusters’ Mark Finkelstein, in writing about a discussion on “Morning Joe” of the Delaware Senate debate between Democrat…
NewsBusters Complains Spitzer Sitting Too Close to Parker
Mark Finkelstein has written some of the loopiest, most paranoid posts at NewsBusters, from speculating that Matt Lauer was a Palestinian sympathizer for wearing a checkered scarf to declaring that a soccer…
NewsBusters Heathering Watch
Speaking of party-line enforcers, NewsBusters seems to be full of them, don’t they? Mark Finkelstein tries his hand in a Sept. 20 post, suggesting that Rahm Emanuel wrote Joe Scarborough’s statement on…