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…
Tag: Mark Finkelstein
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…
NewsBusters’ Double Standard on Juvenile Taunts
Mark Finkelstein devotes a Sept. 7 NewsBusters post to complaining that MSNBC’s Ed Schultz “no fewer than four times referred to FNC host Steve Doocy as Steve ‘Douche-y.’” Finkelstein — who headlined…
ConWeb Hypocrisy: Bashing Helen Thomas, Silence on Buchanan
When Helen Thomas made a very stupid statement regarding Jews and Israel, the ConWeb was quick to pounce. The Media Research Center slapped together a compilation of “liberal eruptions” from Thomas, as…
MRC Silent on Study Documenting Negative Obama Media Coverage
A study on media bias issued by the Center for Media and Public Affairs should be a big deal for the Media Research Center. After all, as we’ve noted, the CMPA is…
NewsBusters’ Double Standard on Poll Methodology
The Media Research Center in general, and NewsBusters in particular, have been quick to attack the methodology of polls that don’t mesh with its conservative viewpoint — witness last year’s attack on…
Another Selectively Edited Finkelstein Transcript
Noel Sheppard apparently hasn’t had that talk we recommended he have with Mark Finkelstein — you know, about selectively editing the transcripts he posts on NewsBusters. Because Finkelstein has done it again….