It’s utterly unsurprising that the Media Research Center’s first mentions of (now former) Heritage Foundation researcher Jason Richwine’s work bolstering white nationalists’ views of the diminished IQ of Hispanics and other minorities…
Tag: Mark Finkelstein
NewsBusters Whines That Woody Guthrie Isn’t Described As A Dirty Commie
The headline on a Feb. 22 NewsBusters post by Mark Finkelstein screams, “Mika Giggles Like Schoolgirl Over Sex In Woody Guthrie Book—Ignores His Communist Ties.” What do the two have to do…
NewsBusters’ Finkelstein Doesn’t Know What Amnesty Means
Mark Finkelstein writes in his Jan. 29 NewsBusters post of “the current proposals on ‘the pathway to citizenship’—AKA amnesty—being floated.” Hate to break it to you, Mark, but creating a path to…
NewsBusters Embraces Unemployment Trutherism
In an Oct. 5 NewsBusters post, Mark Finkelstein approvingly quotes CNBC’s Rick Santelli casting doubt on newly released unemployment numbers, adding: “The Obama campaign is sure to jump on the news today–but…
NewsBusters Unhappy A Manufactured Controversy Is Identified As Such
Mark Finkelstein complains in an April 13 NewsBusters post that “Chuck Todd used variations on the phrase ‘manufactured controversy’ no fewer than eight times in dismissing the controversy around [Hilary] Rosen’s ‘Ann…
NewsBusters Unhappy That Reality Has Liberal Bias
Mark Finkelstein complains in a Dec. 8 NewsBusters post: All of those stories, of course, are legitimate news, whether Finkelstein wants to admit it or not. So, once again, NewsBusters has proven…
NewsBusters Thinks Coulter’s Foul-Mouthed Insults Are ‘Irrepressible’
NewsBusters regularly excoriates people in the media for saying unpleasant things about conservatives, but when right-wingers say vile things about liberals, it’s either ignored or encouraged. One beneficiary of this blatant double…
NewsBusters Criticizes Politico — But Not Cain — About Vagueness of Cain Allegations
NewsBusters’ Mark Finkelstein has been working his little corner of the Media Research Center’s defense strategy on behalf of Brent Bozell’s personal friend, Herman Cain: monitoring MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” and pushing a…
At NewsBusters, Life Continues to Imitate Stephen Colbert
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…
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…