Scott Whitlock complains in a Sept. 10 Media Research Center item: All three morning shows on Monday covered the massive teachers strike in Rahm Emanuel’s Chicago that left 350,000 students in the…
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‘Cocky, Condescending Journalists’ NewsBusters Bashes Aren’t Journalists
The headline for Scott Whitlock’s June 27 NewsBusters post reads, “Cocky Journalists Declared ObamaCare Would Be Upheld, Maybe by a 8-1 Vote.” As the URL indicates, Whitlock started out by referring to…
MRC’s Whitlock Offended By Insult To Nixon, Not His Boss Likening Obama To ‘Skinny Ghetto Crackhead’
You gotta love the wildly off-kilter calibration of the Media Research Center’s outrage meter. MRC researcher Scott Whitlock devotes a June 13 NewsBusters post to foaming at the mouth over MSNBC’s Chris…
NewsBusters: Anyone Who Criticizes Catholic Film Is ‘Elitist’
As part of the Media Research Center’s public relations campaign to promote the new film “For Greater Glory,” about a Catholic martyr in Mexico, Scott Whitlock sneered in a June 1 NewsBusters…
MRC, AIM Endorse Bishop’s Hitler Smear of Obama
When Catholic bishop Daniel Jenky went Godwin and claimed that President Obama “seems intent on following a similar path” as Hitler and Stalin, certain parts of the ConWeb unsurprisingly approved — particularly…
MRC Ignores Evidence of Fox News’ Bias
If there’s one thing the Media Research Center will not do, it’s admit that Fox News is has a right-wing bias perhaps even more pronounced than that of the “liberal media” it…
CNS, MRC Whitewash Koch-Funded Right-Wing Obamacare Analysis
An April 10 CNSNews.com article by Edwin Mora uncritically touts an analysis by Charles Blahous of George Mason University’s Mercatus Center claiming that “President Obama’s health care legislation, contrary to promises made…
NewsBusters Hates the Comedy Defense — Except for Limbaugh
Scott Whitlock uses a March 16 NewsBusters post to complain that Stephen Colbert said that the Taliban “evidently have a better track record on women’s issues” than Rush Limbaugh. Whitlock further complains:…
MRC Keeps Defending Limbaugh’s Sleazy Remarks
The Media Research Center keeps finding new ways to avoid criticizing Rush Limbaugh for his denigrating attacks on contraception hearing witness Sandra Fluke. A March 2 MRC item by Scott Whitlock repeated…
NewsBusters’ Double Standard on Media Outlet Operator Bias
In a Feb. 22 NewsBusters post — headlined “Bias Alert” — Scott Whitlock is upset at the idea that Ed Rendell, former Pennsylvania governor and former head of the Democratic National Committee,…