One manifestation of the Media Research Center’s CNN Derangement Syndrome is to assume that every single story CNN airs or publishes has some secret “liberal bias” that must be called out. Hence,…
Tag: Matt Philbin
MRC’s Double Standard On Referring To Women As ‘Gals’
Mark Finkelstein ranted in a July 1 NewsBusters post: On her MSNBC show this afternoon, the sexist Nicolle Wallace slighted Kayleigh McEnany, President Trump’s spokesperson, as a “spokesgal.” It actually got worse….
MRC Defends Right-Wing Channel Its Employees Appear On
The Media Research Center’s Matt Philbin got all huffy in a June 16 post: The left’s fit of insensate rage keeps turning this way and that, smashing whatever comes to hand —…
MRC Learns To Love ‘Harry Potter’ Series Author After They Share Hatred For Transgenders
We’ve documented how the Media Research Center stopping hating Ricky Gervais once he starting mocking transgender people. Now the MRC has flip-flopped on another pop-culture figure — ironically, for similarly going anti-trans. The MRC…
MRC Transgender Freakout, Coronavirus Edition
At the Media Research Center, it’s not enough to merely criticize transgendered people — they must be mocked and shamed for being who they are and for thinking they have any inherent…
MRC’s Philbin Thinks Criticizing A Conservative Athlete’s Death Threat Is ‘Cancel Culture’
Oh, those wacky death threats. Aren’t they just silly and unserious? The Media Research Center’s Matt Philbin thinks so. He spent a Feb. 18 post complaining that former San Francisco Giants player…
MRC’s Philbin Plays Sorry/Not Sorry Over AOC Insult, Suggests She Deserves Hate
When a minor-league baseball team showed a video during a Memorial Day game that showed Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez among the “enemies of freedom,” most people cried foul. The Media Research Center’s Matt…
MRC’s Philbin Is Mad Right-Wing Double Standard Called Out on Massacre Motivation
Matt Philbin — apparently weary of complaining about coverage of massacred Muslims — began his May 2 Media Research Center post complaining that “To be a Washington Post staffer is to simultaneously…
MRC Tired Of Hearing About Mosque Massacre, Demands Coverage of Dead Christians Instead
A mere four days after the mosque massacre in New Zealand, MRC Culture managing editor Matt Philbin had had enough. He was clearly tired of hearing about murdered Muslims, and he wanted…
MRC Mad Anti-Muslim Hate Group Accurately Identified
The Media Research Center is strangely sensitive to anti-Muslim group ACT for America being described as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center — perhaps because group leader Brigitte Gabriel…